Show PLANS BEING MADE FOR BUR BEAR LAKE AIR HELD FIELD PARIS IDAHO one of the biggest projects ever to be undertaken in bear lake county is now underway the the administration of civil aeronautics with the approval of a board composed ot of the secretary of war navy and commerce has designated as necessary for national defense a project for development of an airport in bear laka county and has tentatively allocated tor for this project the sum of as now proposed this project contemplate es the development of two runways approximately feet by the montpelier chamber of commerce for a number of years has haa been working toward securing art an airport for this valley but seemingly no satisfactory site could be agreed upon A short time ago however a government grapher secured pictures of the entire valley and a site selected for an airport proved to be located tw miles east of paris on the dingle road this proposed field comprise acres with the road as the south boutil boundary line and the bear lake canal the west side of the field those owning property in this area area are J R shepherd estate vanneze Van smith hoge mary mumford J R J L dunford Z george nelson A S dimicco Dimic to lv 7 archie spencer rich and lark allred government Engi engineers neeri here monday morning four government engineers from salt lake city met in paris with a delegation from the montpelier chamber of commeree commerce and the board of county commis sio ners to lay plans and explain just what steps are necessary to be taken in order to complete arrangements for the airport officials present were W D jordon abst chief engineer W H stowe chief surveyor lt arthur newton area engineer and aid C it riepe office engin engineer er lt newton will be the man in charge of the project for the govern i ment mr air jordon explained the setup set up and outlined the steps necessary to lo be taken county must purchase site bear lake county must purchase this site of SW acres and show the g government overn ment that the county has a i cle clear ar title to same before work is started in the february meeting of the commissioners a resolution was passed whereby the county would take the necessary steps to secure this property survey to start monday the engineers stated that all preparatory work concerning arrange ments for the land must be made at once as the job of surveying the site is to get underway by monday of next week construction to start may IS 15 the deadline set for starting construction st on the airport is tenta tentatively set as may much work must be accomplished before this date in the way of clearing titles making surveys and advertising and letting of contract to a construction concern mr jordon stated that the construction of the field would require between and days the work will be let to one company stated mr jordon and this company will sublet sub let portions of the contract to other concerns when ever possible local labor will lie be used as well as material in the wa way of sand and gravel pr providing hviding such will meet the specifications when completed the airport is to become the property of bear ladew lakei county as a public airport unless the government deems it necessary to take it over in which case a sata sat is factory arrange arrangement ment will be made the paris post |