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Show NEW RADIO AIRLINE PLANT IS COMPLETED Completion of the new radio station sta-tion at Milford to broadcast weather information to airplanes flying between be-tween Los Angeles and Salt Lake is announced by L. H. Simpson, supervisor super-visor of the Salt Lake division of the airways branch department of commerce. com-merce. Mr. Simpson was here Saturday and made an inspection of the new plant. The building, aerial towers, ground-wiring ground-wiring have all been completed under the direction of Don F. Sutton, government gov-ernment engineer. While the complete com-plete equipment has not been installed, install-ed, temporary apparatus for broadcasting broad-casting is being put in under the direction di-rection of E. F. Key, who will be the operator in charge. This week Mr. Simpson will detail an additional operator op-erator to provide 24-hour service. Heretofore broadcasts have been radioed from Salt Lake and Los Angeles. An-geles. The Milford station adds an extra point for the assembly of weather data and will add radio information in-formation from its own vicinity as well as that of Las Vegas, Nev., Mr. Simpson said. If night flying on the Western Air Express should be restored, an additional addi-tional staff will be sent to Milford, Mr. Simpson explained. Mr. Sutton, who has been here since last October supervising (the work .expects to leave the latter part of this week for Springfield, Missouri where he has received order by the U. S. Government to begin the erection erec-tion of a broadcasting station similar simil-ar to the one just completed in Milford. Mil-ford. During his stay here Mr. Sutton Sut-ton has made many friends who regret re-gret that he is not going to be permanently per-manently connected with the new station. o |