Show D M eU G rr J 8 Q AVIATION ION N NOTES AIRPORT CHATTER A flying club is being formed at Parowan Utah Uta with membership limited to men or women between the ages of 16 and Lt John Mahoney of Gilman Oilman Ill is doing a up bang-up job dusting DDT powder in an experiment to kill corn borers Flying farmers of Colorado Colorado Colo Colo- Colorado rado landed at field Fort Collins July 16 to attend the first annual rural aviation day at the agricultural college Heres Here's an altitude record not made in a plane Ted Hodges of Laguna Beach Calif Calli who had been paying 35 a month for an apartment was notified that his rent hence henceforth orth would be 10 a day I THUNDERBIRD FIELD The War Var Assets administration has decided to turn over Thunderbird Thunderbird Thunderbird Thunder- Thunder bird auxiliary field No 1 at Glendale Glendale Glendale Glen- Glen dale Ariz to the American Institute of Foreign Trade The institute will use the 25 buildings and acres of land to train veterans and others to represent American business and government agencies in foreign countries particularly in Latin America There was no charge for forthe forthe forthe the field COOLING A CABIN The problem of refrigerating plane cabins has been solved according to Slick Airways Through the use of three and ply four-ply lightweight glass fiber-glass insulation and the installation installation installation lation of an aluminum alloy cooler charged with dry ice sli Slick k engineers engineers engineers engi engi- have succeeded in air conditioning conditioning conditioning condi condi- the interiors of the comp company's company's com com- p pany's nys ny's freighters satisfactorily i WEEKS WEEK'S EDITORIAL Some would argue Why an airport airport airport air air- port No one around here flies any any- way Yes and before we had roads through this parish people didn't drive cars over them remember re re- re- re member member member-Iberville Iberville South Plaquemine Plaquemine Plaquemine Plaque- Plaque mine La C j 5 CRASHES ON TEST FLIGHT Howard Hughes is recovering in ina a Beverly Hills lulls Calif Cant hospital from serious injuries ies incurred when his new plan 11 ll 11 one of the worlds world's fastest range long-range photographic photographic photographic pho pho- airplanes ever built crashed on its test flight PLANT GRASS BY PLANE In Illinois grass seed has been sown successfully successfully- by a small plane on 1200 acres of rough land The plane sowed 40 to 50 feet in a swath and carried pounds per load The cost was an acre compared to 6 per acre for hand seeding Ninety per cent of the rice planted by Cal California ornia growers this year will be sown from planes In Texas small areas of the next rice crop are expect ed cd to be seeded from the a air yo |