Show Q 1 lit J 0 0 G AVIATION AV NOTES AIRPORT CHATTER Rochelle Ill airport has been designated and approved by the state as a Class 1 airport When com com- completed completed completed the field will have two gravel runways 2200 feet long and a third of turf 2600 feet long Mon Mon- Montana's Montana's Montana's tanas tana's first airport to be constructed under the CAA program will be lo located lo- lo located located at Shelby Construction of the two-runway two field estimated cost of which is will start about May 1 Fort Dodge Iowa voters vot vot- voters voters ers approved a airport bond issue by a margin of to at a special election Plans for a country club type airport are be be- being being being ing advanced in Council Bluffs Iowa J. J A. A Fergus of Wichita Kas is promoting prompting the acre airport plan which would be closer to down down- downtown downtown downtown town Omaha than the Omaha air air- port Estimated cost of the project is The latest thing in wolf hunting was staged at Verona Mo by C. C E. E Atterberry and Glen Calhoun They have bagged 18 wolves from an airplane since the first of the year The Flying Ices pioneer South Dakota aviator family lost their first lives to avia avia- aviation aviation aviation tion recently when Jess Randall Ice Inland Western Airlines co pilot since 1943 and his wife crashed to their deaths near the Rapid City air airbase airbase airbase base as they returned from a mail flight to the northern Black Hills Jess Ice was a son of Clyde Ice veteran private pilot When state game wardens ap ap- apprehend apprehend ap- ap apprehend a violator of game gam laws the usual procedure is to con con- confiscate confiscate his gun But they were almost baffled barred when a man near Scottsbluff Neb was charged with hazing birds in an airplane illegal in that state He had no gun Solution They took his airplane FLYING PRIEST Known as the flying priest of the is the Rev Father Blase pastor of the Vernal Colo Catholic church The priest whose parish includes six churches in rugged isolated terrain found transportation facilities inadequate Intent on serving his people he learned to fly and now uses a plane regularly in carrying out his regular parish duties as well as for sick calls death calls or other cies |