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Show Afeiy Frontier Airport To Be Dedicated At Vernal Performing jet planes and sight-seeing trips over Echo Park dam site with Frontier Airlines will be among the various var-ious activities planned for the dedication of the new administration adminis-tration building at the Vernal Airport. The dedicatory ce-emonies will be held between 1 and 2:30 p.m. on the 24th of July at the airport and will be under the direction of the Vernal Junior Chamber of Commerce. - Master of ceremonies for the occasion will be Dr. Ray E. Spendlove. During the program, Mayor Ralph Sidoway will make the presentation of a scroll to Frontier Fron-tier Airlines President C. A. Myhre, commemorating the ded- ication of the administration building and then in turn will receive a scroll from President Myhre in recognition of the 10,000th Frontier flight into Vernal. Coming to cover the event will be newsmen, radio and television tele-vision officials and wire service representatives from Salt Lake and Denver They will arrive Friday evening and Saturday morning, be taken on a tour of the Echo Park Dam Site, before the dedication. Other activities of the day will be a kids day program at the park, aviation exhibits by the Utah National Guard which will also' supply the jets, visits from dignitaries and a special 1 (Continued on page 11) Frontier Airport. . . (Continued from page one) pilots' breakfast for flyers within with-in a 300-mile radius of Vernal. During the evening the Vernal Ver-nal Chamber of Commerce will hold its annual inauguration banquet at Hotel Vernal to which visiting dignitaries will be invited. The week preceding July 24 will be proclaimed Air Week by Mayor Ralph Sidoway who will make the presentation of a scroll to Frontier Airlines commemorating com-memorating the dedication and j in turn will receive a scroll from a Frontier official in observance ob-servance of the 10,000th flight of Frontier Airlines into Vernal. Ver-nal. Gen. Maxwell E. Rich, commander com-mander of the Utah National Guard, has scheduled jet flights over Vernal at 10 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. at which time they will perform at the airport. Frontier's flight-seeing trips over Echo Park Dam site will begin at 9:30 a.m. and continue throughout the day. A minimum price of $2.75 per person must be charged by Frontier under government regulation. As many as 800 persons will be taken on the air trips. Tickets may be purchased in Roosevelt at the City Bakery. The new terminal building which is near completion is of cinder block construction and will be painted white. It measures mea-sures 25 by 30 feet and has all of the front and about a third of its sides glassed for good visibility. vis-ibility. Included in the structure struc-ture are the offices of Frontier, a waiting room and rest rooms. Cost of the building alone will be about $5500. The complete com-plete project, which includes utilities, a new road, parking lot and re-sealing of the runway run-way will cost an estimated $20,000. Offices of Frontier Airlines will move into the structure, which is located near the runway, run-way, as soon as it is completed, probably early next week. |