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Show HUMAN REPORTS ON PRICE AIRPORT DISCUSSION MEET Town Trustee Ben Hillman, who with Mrs. Hillman flew to Price last week to attend an aviation lecture, as representative of the Town of Milford, reports that the speaker, Harvey Stowers of Aircraft Air-craft Industries of America, was well versed on aviation and presented pre-sented a clear picture of the future of small towns in the aviation field. Speaking on "The Constructive Use of Air Transport," Mr. Stowers, Stow-ers, after declaring that air power, which demonstrated its terribly destructive de-structive force by winning two widely separated simultaneous wars, is also one of the most effective ef-fective instruments of peace, prosperity pros-perity and international understanding, under-standing, pointed out that the dire necessities of war had brought revolutionary rev-olutionary changes in aeronautical service and in air passenger and air freight techniques, so that man has had to change his entire conception con-ception of time and space, adjusting adjust-ing it to transports that can span the - continent in five hours and oceans in ten. He predicted that adr freight rates, already reduced to one-fourth original rates, will again be quartered as soon as equipment now on aviation industry indus-try drawing boards is put into service. serv-ice. "When that time comes," he said, "and we are rapidly approaching it, millions, 'instead of thousands, of people will be flying from country coun-try to country, generating foreign trade and increasing international understanding to the point where another war will be almost inconceivable." incon-ceivable." Speaking of personal planes, that is, planes used for non-scheduled flights for business and pleasure, Stowers predicted that there would soon be at least 500,000 of them in use in the United States, some of them at prices comparable with automobile prices. In this connection, connec-tion, he advocated immediate development de-velopment of adequate airports, airparks and air harbors, declaring that they will pay for themselves in the air age in the same way that harbor, highway and street improvements im-provements paid for themselves in the automobile age. |