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Show chieflew in from Provo Saturday m their Ercoupe, to attend the Deseret Rodeo. Tex Searle reports making his lnst night landing Saturday in the Rutherford plane. Tex and Archie did a little practice Sunday Sun-day in their Cessna. Grant Workman and crew have completed the installation of new cables to the LF radio range. ; Improvements currently under way alon gthe airway in this area include a foot path being carved out of the mountain to the beacon bea-con on Packard's Peak, by a crew under foreman West; a new road ! being built to the Milford VOR radiator, and the moving of a small building from Milford airport air-port to Delta airport, where it will be used to store airways maintenance mainten-ance supplies. The Milford work is being done under foreman Dexter. Dex-ter. A two-motor Beech AT-11, owned own-ed by the Aero Service Corp, of Philadelphia, landed here Saturday. Satur-day. The plane, with pilot and two photographers, will work out of Delta for some weeks, taking aerial pictures and mapping the western Utah area. The plane-is a type used in World War II for training bombardiers. The camera is placed in the nose, pointed down, and the photographer rides ahead of the pilot. Pictures are taken from 19,000 feet. "OPERATION EARTHQUAKE" our equipment in operation there was a decided change in the flow ot traffic. We were free with the 'ed light and to right hand pattern pat-tern and cross traffic boys. The whose operation seemed to smooth out immediately". During the emergency operation, I they handled many types of aircraft, air-craft, including eight C-47s, one oi which carried Gov. Warren and his staff. Flying activity ceased at night, and they placed their beds near the hangar to be out of the wind. "Never sleep next to all metal buildings in earthquake country", they said. 'rThe building shook .shuddered and banged all night long." By the afternoon of the second day, the worst of the emergency was past, and the operation was discontinued. Returning to Bakers-field Bakers-field ,they observed that they felt good because they teamed up and did a good job for the community they live in. The report was written writ-ten by C. R. Boughton who I judge is chief of the Bakersfield tower. AERONAUTICS MEETING . . . A state-wide aeronautics meeting meet-ing for all who earn a living with an airplane, or utilize one in business, bus-iness, has been called for September Septem-ber 15, 1952, at Provo, by L. John Forsey, supervising ' agent. The time is 9 a. m. The-meeting will be conducted jointly by the CAA and the Utah Aero Adm. . New Orleans and back to Phila ueipinu ui time lor ms major address ad-dress Sept. 4. TV - QUICK 111 j Denver is one of the big cities that were locked out of the television tele-vision system by the FCC freeze. It was also the first to these to get TV after the freeze was thawed, thaw-ed, and the avidity with which Denverites took to television shows how intense- the appetite for TV when long denied, can get. Station KFEL-TV received its FCC authorization to broadcast on July 11.- The station managers announced an-nounced that they would be on the air within 90 days. This, according ac-cording to the Wall Street Journal, was the understatement of the year. They borrowed a 500 watt transmitter from RCA, strung an antenna between two telephone poles on Lookout Mountain, 7375 feet high, arranged a hook-up with the AT&T system for network broadcasts, and were on the air July 18, exactly one week after getting the FCC go-ahead signal. The ournal's business report noted, not-ed, too, that once broadcasting I was started, Denver, people started star-ted buying TV sets with wild aban ' don. Denver is said to be as full of TV manufacuring vice presidents presi-dents as Chicago was with politicians politic-ians in July. .Some stimate that 50,000 TV sets will be bought in Denver this year, or one for each ten people. This is regarded as an indication of what may be expected to happen hap-pen in the TV business in other cities soon to get their first television. tele-vision. . ... TW News That's Fit To W . From The Delta Airport. frU1 'By Dick Morrison ANDY UP " lnl,v Schlappi took his first air-Vride air-Vride Sunday, In the Aeron-P'"!Lan Aeron-P'"!Lan He says he enjoyed the sensations so often noted by ,lV, me uppers - - first, that of 'S' L motionless in the air once Ifne gained a little altitude second, the appearance of ,tiful clean, orderliness of the teaH pe from the air. ''"a W th Sunday his wife Zerma, their child- Darryl, 14, DeLora, 9, and sC'rvl 8, Zerma's mother, Mrs. l ine effery, and Gary Moore, f, As is often the case, the chil- Lnad all done more flying than fir elders. The occasion was the JSh birthday of little Sheryl. TtfEDFFS AND LANDINGS .. . Td Morrill, owner of Reno Sky ,ncl PPular vacation spot wh" ,h caters to private fliers as well 's non-flyiers, set his AT-6 down 1 Saturday in. flight to Denver Id again Sunday on his return ht His time from Reno to Denver Den-ver was four hours. Garth Manson took off for his home In Provo Sunday evening for the purpose of, first, looking after his family, and second, looking after af-ter his csinchillas. Garth is starting start-ing in the chinchilla business in a small way. To hear him tell it, Hese furry little creatures have many of the attributes of humans . . the better behaved humans, that is. They are more or less monogamous in their mating habits, hab-its, the papa helps take care of the young and keep them clean, and they show traits of temperament tempera-ment quite similar to those of homo-sapiens. At times, a pair will will fight, and when this happens, the male usually gets very much the worst of it. Mr. and. Mrs. Harold Rutherford It seems probable that the safest saf-est place to be during a severe earthquake would be in an airplane. air-plane. However that may be, though, it is beyond question that aircraft and CAA facilities were of great value in bringing aid and comfort to the people of Teha-chapi, Teha-chapi, Calif., after the recent destructive des-tructive temblor. A very interesting interest-ing report of this emergency aid work was run in the August 1 issue is-sue of Region 6 news. The report deals mainly with the work of CAA personnel in bringing order out of chaos at the Tehachapi airstrip.With the SP railroad tracks tied in knots, and highways ruined, ruin-ed, the little airstrip was greatly overtaxed. At first, the only means of communication com-munication between Tehachapi and the outside world was through radio contact of the CAA station at Bakersfield and aircraft at Tehachapi. With hundreds of aircraft trying try-ing to use the small strip, one of the first essentials was the establishment estab-lishment of a means of air traffic control. This was done by setting up a system of light signals. These were powered by a generator which was furnished by the coun- The purpose is to discuss topics having to do with the safe, orderly order-ly progress of aviation in Utah. The sponsors say they are prepared prepar-ed to pull no punches, and no questions will be . deferred. The meeting will provide operators with economic statistics with which to arrive at decisions affecting af-fecting the business.. It will be of importance to all who have a business interested in aviation but it "s not a meeting for pilots-in-training, etc." according to Mr. Forsey. Leo Burraston and Garth Man-son Man-son say they expect to attend. LANDING STRIP TOUH . . . In planning a flying trip through the south, Mr. Eisenhower seems to have conceived a new version of the old "whistle stop" campaign cam-paign tour by train.. The presidential candidate expects ex-pects to cover as much ground in a 2V day flight as a week long train trip. It is believed that people peo-ple will gather at the airports along the line as readily as they always have at the railroad stations, sta-tions, to hear informal campaign talks. " The projected landing strip tour may start at New York, Sept. 2., and take the candidate as far as ty. The traffic control crew, . flying from Bakersfield noted that "the approach to the field for landing was made through aircraft, military mil-itary and civil, flying in very direction, dir-ection, and at every altitude. Right hand patterns, left hand patterns, short approaches, long approaches, high, low, cross traffic and take off turns into . approaching traffic were the order of the day." They placed their equipment at the approach end of the runway, with generator and light gun slight ly to the south side. Nearby, they placed a bright yellow AF communications com-munications vehicle. "No one could miss us if they even glanced at the landing strip. The rat race was still going on", they noted. "Within minutes after we had |