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Show AIRPORT PROVES ASSETTO TOWN The value of Milford's airport as an asset to the town, especially during dur-ing its utilization by the United States army as an airmail pilot relay post during the present emergency, was more forcibly brought to the attention at-tention of local people durjng the past few days with the employment of several .local men in various civilian civil-ian capacities. Vernon Bulrns and George Frazier are employed as civilian clerks on the two night shifts while Frank White and Ray Mills are employed as watchmen on similar shifts. Carpenters and other mechanics me-chanics are being employed from time to time while the supplying, of gasoline alone has led to the employment employ-ment of two extra men by P. W. Bradfield, local distributor for the Standard Oil company of California. Under the present contract Mr. Urad-field Urad-field is delivering t0 army planes an average of 350 gallons of special aviation avi-ation ethyl gasoline daily ni small thing of itself! . During the week an additional telephone tele-phone line was run to town. Attached At-tached to the poles of the Telluride's power line leading to the airport, direct communication between field1 and town is afforded while the field phone line, strung to the- airways radio range, takes care of those needs and the needs for both lines are plenty! . Two army aircraft were grounded Sunday night, one, piloted by Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Trehen', was forced down at Tintic by rain and the plane badly wrecked, while the failure of one of the engines in a plane flown by Lieutenant Lieu-tenant M. J. Smith, necessitated a forced landing at the Delta landing field. The plane was not injured in the last instance and in both the officers of-ficers waie fortunate in escaping injury in-jury of any kind. . A California national na-tional guard plane, being used by the army, came to grief shortly afteU-4 afteU-4 o'clock this (Thursday) morning at the local field. The second of. two planes carrying eastbound mail, on the same schedule, this plane, piloted by Lieutenant Huffman, encountered difficulty in getting into the air af ter being serviced and sideswiped into in-to the west boundary fence, knocking down two posts and finally coming to a stop some fifty yards outside the enclosure. Pilot Huffman was uninjured unin-jured but the chassis section of the plane and one wing were rather badly bad-ly damaged but not to such an extent but what the etraft will be able to get away under its own power with the installation of replacement parts, which should arrive in a few days. The news of Huffman's wreck was immediately radioed to the plane which had just left and it returned to the local field, picking up Huffman and his mail. Lieutenant Larry N. Tindal, officer offi-cer in charge of local army activities, . is everything that could be desired in the way of courtesy and attention to duty. Realizing fully the natural curiosity 0f children and adults alike regarding activities at the local field, he is nevertheless obligated to enforce en-force certain rules and asks that The News advise all visitors to the field to carefully observe a "hands-off" policy as regards even touching any plane or other army equipment. Also that the rule against smoking within 50 feet of any plane be stfrictly observed. ob-served. Curtailment of visitors' privileges privi-leges or absolute withdrawal may become be-come necessary if these rules are violated. |