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Show VwiATION NOTES A.RPORT CHATTER Work has been commenced on lighting, seeding and fencing of the new $2,500,000 municipal airport at Dubuque, Iowa. There will be 116 ' contact lights along two runways. ! with 16 cone-mounted range snow j lights. A 51-foot tower will be j equipped with a rotary beacon light ' 36 inches in diameter. . . . The for-; for-; mer naval airfield at Arlington Heights, I1L, has been taken over by Illinois Aircraft Services and Sales company for civilian training purposes. It will be known as the Arlington Flying Center. . . . Colo-i Colo-i rado Flying Farmers and Ranchers held their second annual meeting at j Christman field, the Colorado A. and M. college airport at Fort Collins. Col-lins. Program highlights included discussion of legislation affecting j aviation, survey of uses of airplanes in agriculture and an outline of the purpose and program of the Fly-1 Fly-1 ing Farmers organization, . . . i Mayors, airport managers and aircraft air-craft dealers from 10 midwestern I states gathered at St. Louis for an aviation clinic sponsored by Parks College of Aeronautical Technology, i The clinic was arranged in connection connec-tion with the regional air fair, held , in the St. Louis arena. . . . The Lenox, la., airport, operated by Al Wurster and John Kendall, is being improved to meet government requirements to permit flight instruction in-struction for war veterans. Participating in the first group around-trie-world air tour for business survey and good will building purposes, a group of Indiana In-diana business men left New York June 1 on a globe-encir-J cling tour which embraces stops in 12 countries. The tour is sponsored spon-sored by the Indianapolis Chamber Cham-ber of Commerce. The itinerary calls for stops in England, France, Denmark, Sweden. w i 1 1 c r la n d, Italy, Greece, Egypt. India. Barms, Chins and the Philippines, in addition to Hawaii. DOCS IS DOGS' Ellis Parker Butler's classic, "Pigs Is Pigs," the story of the express ex-press agent who found more pigs in a shipment than he bargained for. was bound to have its modern counterpart, coun-terpart, especially with all the pets and puppies, pedigreed cats, spiny ant-eaters and such traveling in air express service these days. And so it happened one day recently on a Toledo-New Y'ork flight. A valuable valu-able cocker spaniel, en route tram Toledo to Mt, Desert Island. Me., gave birth to a litter of four puppies pup-pies as the plane sped towards New-York. New-York. Upon arrival at LaGuardia field, the sky-born spaniels were pronounced pro-nounced fit to continue to Bangor. pkkdu gum Feeder line operations of Wisconsin Wiscon-sin Central Airlines will be commenced com-menced this summer, the service covering communities in Illinois. Minnesota. Upper Michigan and Wisconsin over a 1.495-mile-route network. The airline recently was certificated by Civil Aeronautics administration to operate the service. serv-ice. Twin-engine. DC -3 type. U passenger Douglas transports are planned for the service. AMONG l in rr vks . . . j. plane of supplies lands on Mul-drow Mul-drow glacier at the foot of Ml McKlnlcy. wh,-re the base csnip for Operation ,,to r, )o I "led rhe expedition will as.-rnd McKlnlcy in the Interests of i encc. fA.cn urn nnna Approximately one out of four employees em-ployees in the aircraft industry are veterans of the army. navy, marines or merchant marine. . . . Aeronautics Aeronau-tics hns been n basic suMect of primary education in Russian schools for many years Rockets Rock-ets were used ns a milltnrv weapon ns enrly ns 1792 In India. . first use of aircraft in active military operations occurred in IP1. ,.. nectlon with General Pershing', nltlve expedition to Mexico Hie K 30 camera weighs S7J pounds. |