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Show Officials See Bright fruture for Logan-Cache Airport ' New Hanger Will House 'Commercial Planes area on the field east of the of- j fice buildings. About 10,000 feel j cf drains also should be insalled j in a wet orea between the new hangar and the nearest taxi strip. Some gravel and drainage may be j placed by the city and county to provide emergency facilities, but ) federal aid will be required to I bring the work up to standard, j Mr. Bowen said. Floor of the hangar will be i started soon, with a five-inch con- j crete floor to be laid on an 18-inch layer of grave. This floor will support sup-port any type plane likely to be housed in the hangar, Mr. Bowen explained. A 15 by 75 foot parachute para-chute packing room will be constructed con-structed in the west bay of the hangar. The rest of the space will be used during the war period pe-riod for housing army training planes. Civilian planes will be housed in the old hangar to the north. , The hangar will be only one of several projects anticipated for the postwar commercial aviation period, Mr. Bowen- said. The present pre-sent completed control tower, well j equipped for commercial uses, eventually is expected to form one corner of a new postwar administration adminis-tration building planned to be constructed con-structed with two wings extending south and west from the tower. The proposed building would replace re-place the temporary frame structures struc-tures nowis use at the port. The new $23,417 hangar now, f.nder construction at the Logan- j Cache airport will not only be i used to house training planes j during the wjr period but also j n ill have an important part to play in postwar development of i the field, Logan City Commissioner ! George B. Bowen reports. The hangar will e large enough i to accommodate any commercial planes likely to use the port after j the war, Mr. Bowen explained, and the postwar inclusion of Logan in a regular airline route is virtually certain. '"We recently talked with J. W. Charlesville, assistant to the president; pres-ident; Leo Dwerlkotte, executive vice president, and other officials of the Western Air Express company com-pany which has applied for a commercial route to include Logan. Lo-gan. They told us that they intended in-tended to go ahead with development develop-ment of the route just as soon as they were authorized by the government gov-ernment to do so," Mr. Bowen said. Construction of the hangar, which will be the largest and best built of any in Utah not owned by the federal government, may be completed within two or three weeks, Mr. Bowen said, though some delays may be caused by lack of materials. The Walls now have been completed com-pleted and crews of the Aee Raymond Ray-mond construction company are starting the roof work. Priorities still are being sought on some materials to be used in the building, build-ing, but it can be . completed nearly enough for use by army air force training planes this winter win-ter by use of non-strategic ma-, ma-, terials now on hand, Mr. Bowen said. Federal aid also is being sought for the placing of about 12,000 yards of gravel in the area between be-tween present taxi strips and the new building and to fill a low |