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Show AIRPORT DEDICATION PLANS FORMULATED BY COMMITTEE Preliminary plans for dedication on November 11 of the Logan-Cache Logan-Cache airport, were discussed by dedication committee members at a meeting Wednesday night in the Logan chamber of commerce headquarters. head-quarters. , George D. Clyde, dean of the school of engineering at USAC and chairman of the chamber of commerce com-merce airport committee, traced the development of the port, declaring de-claring that the dedication will climax 25 years of effort by air-minded air-minded Cache Valley residents and will celebrate completion of a field which will cost a total of almost $750,000. "We are nearing completion of this stage of the work," he said, "though I am confident that event-! event-! ually the field will be enlarged ! still more." M. R. Hovey, chamber secretary, j reported that Joe Bergin, state ! director of aeronautics, is cooper-: cooper-: ating in efforts to obtain one or more airliners for the dedication. Probably no army planes can be ! obtained, committeemen reported ' unless a training flight can be routed over the field. Postmaster Eugene Yeates, head of the airmail committee, was instructed in-structed to apply to the Postmaster Postmast-er General for a permit to have a private pilot fly a special load of airmail from Logan to Salt Lake City on the celebration day. Other committeemen were requested re-quested to seek immediate action by the state road commission either in building a new highway from U. S. 91 to the field or In improving the present air port road. Chairman of the sub-committees are: N. D. Salisbury, program; City Engineer, Erwin U. Moser, roads and parking; Floyd Hansen, parking and control of airplanes; N. Gunnar Rasmuson, publicity; Mayor William Evans, finance and consessions; City Cornmissioner Vern B. Muir, transportation of airplane guests; Postmaster Eugene Yeates, U. S. Airmail; Perce Smith, photographs; H. C. Maughan, Maugh-an, decorations. Details of the entertainment porgam were left to the general committee which will report with other committees at another meeting meet-ing in about two weeks. |