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Show LOCAL AIRPORT IS A BUSY PLACE The emergency created by the cancellation can-cellation of air-mail contracts held by commercial flying concerns and the transfer of that duty to the United States, intimated last week by The News as a move that would undoubtedly mean a great deal to Milford and advance by many months intensive development of ouf town as a most important airways center, appears fully borne out by developments develop-ments of the past few days. The establishment of an auxiliary base at the local landing field, to be manned by four officers and as many more enlisted men, is one of the first moves in this development and this is well underway with Lieutenant J. W. Dennison and Corporals G. L. Grady, W. C. Home and W. E. Smith as the nucleus of this setup, which promises to be more or less permanent, perma-nent, depending bn how long the carrying of the mail is in the army's hands. Most of these men are from March flying field, near Riverside, California, and all of them seem to be fine fellows and well worthy of the uniforms they wear. Tents, cots, duffel bags and other camp equipment equip-ment were arriving by plane all Wednesday afternoon with one plane barely in the air before another was landing and in process of unloading. The local landing field has drawn large numbers of townspeople and youngsters with the activities going on there. Almost all day Tuesday there were two large cargo planes and one or more smaller craft moored moor-ed at the field, awaiting better weather at Salt Lake that would permit per-mit them to make the hop to that point. But the most inspiring sight was to view the huge army bombing plane, with a wing-spread of 96 feet, which was moored at the field some three or four hours Wednesday afternoon after-noon awaiting the arrival by train of some 17 full bags of east-bound mail which had been loaded on the train when muggy weather near Las Vegas threatened to hinder air-travel. The huge plane came through with colors flying, however, with Lieutenants Armsti'ong and Schwarz at the controls, con-trols, giving the two officers a nice rest here while waiting for the mail to arrive by the much slower train. The motors became cold during the wait, however, and some difficulty was encountered in getting them started, but it was not long before the big ship was but a speck in the distance, getting off the ground and away to the north seemingly with (Continued on last page) I Airport Busy Place (Continued from first page) more ease and grace than many of the smaller craft. The engines of gasoline heaters which, with other up here Tuesday and Tuesday night, were kept warm by the auxiliary gasoline heaters which with other emergency apparatus, are kept on hand at this and other landing fields under authority of the department of commerce, with I. L. Kelly as local maintenance director. All those officers who have been interviewed have been loud in their praise of the general location and condition of the local landing field, stating that a plane may be grounded ground-ed here with greater ease than anywhere any-where along the route. But there is one glaring handicap and that is the lack of quick communication with town or with the airways radio range station, both of which are necessary if the landing field is to be used to the utmost. While there is a good highway leading from town to the field, C. W. A. improvement of which has been most fortunate, the road is little traveled and there is no road between the field and the radio range, another improvement that is desirable. It must not be forgotten that travelers by air have only their feet to depend upon after making a landing and, if the wellknown hospitality hospi-tality of Milford is to be enjoyed by air travelers, whether they be officials of-ficials or tourists, anything- that will facilitate their getting to town without with-out walking will be- most welcome and will redound to the popularity of our community. The field, as at present constituted, is slightly out of line with the radio "beam" broadcast broad-cast from the range, and this will make impossible a complete "blind" landing by air-craft, but this handicap handi-cap may be alleviated by the extensions exten-sions of the field some six or seven hundred feet further west, thus giving giv-ing the desired alignment. Among the other army personnel who have "dropped in" as Milford visitors for varying periods during the past week, have been Captains R. E. Self and Eaker, Lieutenant R. A. Snavely, Sergeants C. L. Killeffer and A. Hanson, T. H. Smith, M. A. Garrett, Lloyd A. Swenson, Jimmy Erickson, L H. Gilbraith and G. B. Corkran. Most of these men were guests at the Milford hotel during their stay |