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Show Lions Club Guest Tells of Airways Safety Provisions! George S. Morris, operator in charge at the local air-ways radio station, was guest speaker at the Miiford Lions club luncheon meeting meet-ing Wedneday .noon and, in observance obser-vance of Air Navigation week, spoke briefly but interestingly of the work of the four,operators employed' em-ployed' at the station and of its importance im-portance to the steadily growing-traffic growing-traffic by air. He made it plain, too, in the course of his tremarks, that the facilities and servire offered of-fered by the station were equally available to the humblest craft flown by some kid experimenter as to the millionaire sportsman riding his air-minded hobby with deluxe ships. Mr. Morris, in his 'opening remarks, re-marks, state that the airways radio stations serve the same purpose pur-pose on land as do the lighthouses at sea, with safety the prime objective ob-jective in both cases. To this end, in both services, the government is quick to install the latest and best in the ,way of efficient equipment. equip-ment. The local station is what is known as an oral range type, with signals going out automatically on a "range" much as the light beam .goes out from the lighthouse light-house at sea, while flying craft anywhere within the range of the local station may listen 'to the weather and visibility reports sent out at regular intervals while also al-so being able to call on the local station for special information at any time, the only requirement being be-ing that his craft be equipped with radio sending and receiving apparatus. With the present setup set-up of stations, aircraft may "ride the beam" from coast to coast and in any direction of regular air travel, with never a need to be out of touch with some one of the 82 broadcasting stations and 72 radio range stations now operated by the bureau of air commerce, a division of the United States department de-partment of commerce. Captain Gilbert S. Knapp, commanding com-manding officer of the new Mil-ford Mil-ford CC camp DG-35 now waiting wait-ing only for its complement of men from the fifth corps area to begin on a pretentious program of winter range improvement under un-der the provisions of the Taylor grazing act, was present at the meeting as guest of the club. Also L. C. Koch, camp superintendent, who has been busy drawing up the! plans for range improvement and the building of roads and reservoirs reser-voirs which will be worked on by the Miiford camp enrollees on their arrival, now scheduled for next week. |