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Show VEWS OF FLIERS AND FLYING AIRPORT CHATTER Jimmy Hays, one of Oklahoma's veteran pilots, and Walt Chambers Cham-bers taught army boys how to fly in 1943. Hays recently visited the Alva, Okla., airport. . . . Edgar Bergen has opened an airport at Montebello, Calif., and hopes to make it popular with radio and movie stars. . . . The Oceana, Mich., supervisors have approved a fund of $4,000 toward the purchase of an airport site. ... Sites are being considered for an airport at Delphi, Ind. . . . The Independent, Elkftorn, Wis., recently published the story of a pilot who flew up from Harvard, Har-vard, 111., to do some shopping. . . . The G.I. Airlines, with headquarters headquar-ters in Milwaukee, is making arrangements ar-rangements with cities to pick up and deliver mail on the wing; that is, without landing. . . . Under Asa Rountree Jr., state director of aeronautics, aero-nautics, Alabama has worked out a program for veterans taking flight training under the G.I. bill of rights. CAA NOTES Approximately $100,000 has been added to the bill sponsored by the CAA for an air marking program. . . . Again: July 1 is the deadline for annual inspection of aircraft. . . . CAA's first consolidated "Airman's "Air-man's Guide," a publication for certified cer-tified airmen actively engaged in flying, is off the presses for distribution. distribu-tion. ... A new edition of "Statistical "Statis-tical Handbook of Civil Aviation" has been published by CAA and is on sale at the superintendent of documents, government printing office, of-fice, Washington, D. C., for 25 cents. QUOTE OF THE WEEK "Ontario airport enthusiasts who have worked for 15 years to attain the development of a modern airport air-port that could be used for industrial indus-trial purposes are coming to realize their plans." Eastern Oregon Observer, Ob-server, Ontario, Ore. LIST OF CONTROL TOWERS Private flyers with very high frequency fre-quency radio equipment can now be assured of widespread airport control con-trol tower service. Towers in the following cities are now standing by on 131.9 mc: Little Rock, Ark.; Oakland and San Francisco, Calif.; Denver, Colo.; Washington, D. C. ; Jacksonville, Miami and Tampa, Fla.; Atlanta and Savannah, Ga. ; Boise, Idaho; Chicago, HI.; Des Moines and Sioux City, Iowa; Kansas Kan-sas City and Wichita, Kans.; Louisville, Louis-ville, Ky.; Shreveport, La.; Bangor, Me.; Boston, Mass.; Jackson, Miss.; Kansas City and St. Louis, Mo.; Omaha, Neb.; Albuquerque, N. M. ; Cincinnati, Columbus and Dayton, Ohio; Tulsa, Okla.; Med-ford Med-ford and Portland, Ore.; Pittsburgh, Penn.; Spartanburg, S. C; Knox-ville, Knox-ville, Memphis and Nashville, Tenn.; Amarillo, Austin, Big Spring, Dallas, El Paso, Fort Worth and Houston, Tex.; Norfolk, Petersburg and Richmond, Va.; Seattle, Wash.; and Cheyenne, Wyo. AVIATION OFFICIALS MEET A meeting of the National Association Asso-ciation of State Aviation officials was held recently in Washington, D. C, to study effects of the passage pas-sage of the federal airport bill and other matters. Those present at the meeting included William L. Anderson, Ander-son, president, Pennsylvania; Leo G. Devaney, vice president, Oregon; Ore-gon; Edward F. Knapp. secretary-treasurer, secretary-treasurer, Vermont; Clarence E. Cornish, Indiana; David Ciltinan, West Virginia; Dexter C. Martin, South Carolina; A. W. Meadows, Texas; Philip E. Tukey, Maine; Russell Halliard, New Hampshire; Floyd E. Evans, Michigan; E. A. Nasset, North Dakota; C. E. A. Brown, Ohio; Crocker Snow, Massachusetts; Mas-sachusetts; E. R. Fenimore, Maryland; Mary-land; L. L. Schroeder, Minnesota; Charles L. Payton, New Jersey; A. W. Hays, Oklahoma; William B. Catchings, New Mexico. |