| Show WHY NOT DO SO SOMETHING FOR AVIATION it becomes clearer every day that the airplane will be in the near future the means of tra transportation asportation for the nations and the worlds business as well as for pleasure seekers seeker s already it has outgrown the stage i of being a luxury and has advanced to that of a necessity all over the country cities and towns vie with each other in giving aid to aviation by establishing landing fields marking ing roofs and otherwise providing means for the safety of fliers but nothing has been done in this respect in our city acting upon the recommendation j of charles A lindbergh the daniel daniell guggenheim fund for the protection I 1 of aeronautics began a campaign last fall for thia the identification of towns and cities in the united states by roof mai mal kings as an aid to ariel commerce this project was undertaken with the cooperation of the post office department tind and the department apartment part ment of eoin commerce merce in addition various civic organizations including chambers of commerce american legion posts lions and other clubs have given their support edsel ford le quested the fold foid dealers throughout the country to assist by marking the roofs of their stations station 31 where practicable I 1 to date out of the towns of intermediate size toward which the campaign was directed have either completed identification or are in process of doing so richfield is one of the 2000 that have failed to undertake the ente enterprise cpr ise because of the very great importance of this work we now nov present the matter to our readers the lo 10 cal post office has aheady been le je quested by the postmaster general to initiate the identification and has complete ansti instructions actions cooperation between the newspaper the postmaster and possibly some civic or community organization should make the task easy of accomplishment the ile work and cost involved in roof marking are not large in recognition of its value colonel chaales A lindbergh has agreed to send a certificate of appreciation to group which is responsible for placing the roof marker As a trustee and adviser of the fund colonel lindbergh has repeatedly confirmed the difficulties encountered by all pilots in checking location in cross country flying due to the lack of identification in spite of his experience and skill in cross country flying colonel lindbergh has frequently been unable to establish his exact location on his map because the town over which he was flying was not identified by roof marking he be has therefore been foicey to the hazardous expedient of shooting the station flying low enough to read the railroad station sign for the less experienced pilot roof markim markings S are of course a considerably greater necessity proper identification of all towns and cities is an absolute essential for the development of air lavaga tion with the growth of commercial and private flying a growing amount of air braf traffic fie is being diverted from the regular air air routes route S A nationwide nation wide system of air traffic requires a nationwide nation wide system of roof markings hence it is important that the work of identification should be complete throughout the country including towns on and off the regular air routes as at present constituted we do not believe that our city is unwilling to make this contribution to aviation we feel that the lul importance of roof kaiking has not been adequately presented to our community and for this reason we INT now liow bring bling the matter before our readers assuring them of our hearty cooperation just lecent ly cedar city has PS a fine landing field and made provisions for the safety 0 of fliers smaller cities and towns in utah have aready reaped benefits from the new mode of transportation N now is the time to do things why not stait something in Ri richfield clifield |
