Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 July 1939 — Page 8
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INDIANA HAS 50 AVIATION FIELDS, 0. AA REPORTS
Miele in State Equipped With Night Lighting, Survey Shows.
. ‘ Times Special . ‘ WASHINGTON,:D. C., July 31.—
Of the 2326 airports and landing fields in the United States, Indiana claims 50, of which 19 are equipped
with night lighting, the Civil Aeronautics Authority announced today. » Indiana’ s total includes 14 municipal fields, 19 commercial, six C. A. A. six auxiliary, two Army and
California, which boasts the-larg-est number, has 169 of which 62 are equipped for night landings. The District of Columbia has only three, the smallest number.
Alaska Lists 125
"Alaska has one municipal port, seven commercial Jfglds and 117 auxiliary, landing fields for a total of 125. Of 57 states and “possessions of the United States Indiana has more pilots than 46 of the 517. In Indiana there are. three airline transport pilots, 157 commercial pilots, 31 limited commercial, 327 private, 185 solo for a total of 703. There also are seven glider pilots. Forty states and possessions have none.
State Has 448 Planes
In aircraft, Indiana has 374 certificated and 74 uncertificated for a total of 448 airplanes. Eleven gliders are also listed by the C. A. A. California has 1303 airplanes, the largest number, and Nevada has only 34, the smallest number of aircraft in the United States, according’ to the C. A. A. The total number of planes in the United States is listed at 12,210. Of the 26,144 pilots in the United States 755 are women.
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Local Landing Field to Be Best Equipped in Nation, Claim.
The Municipal Airport's growing
{labyrinth of paved runways will be-
gin to reach out 2000 feet farther today en - workers pour concrete for connecting landing ways to the new CAA testing station.’ While concrete surfaces are laid on these extensions, workers more than a mile distant will be grading what used to be a forest, for the greatest runway extension project ever coniemplated here. The CAA aprons will be finished in a month but the other project will take until next spring for completion. A total of 12,200 feet of landing field, 104 feet wide, is now being graded in a $460,000 project under WPA and City funds. When paved in the spring, according te I. J. Dienhart, airport superintendent, the runways will be the equivalent of 14 miles of average width paved highways. The radio station extensions and the larger preject; when completed, will bring total footage of paved runways at the field to 23,800, or four and 39-100 miles. All the laading
taxi-runway leading from the CAA hangar, which is to be 50 feet, Mr. Dienhart said. . Approximately .$100,000 in materials will be used in the larger project. The. remainder of the alloted funds will be used for labor, he said. The grading on the west section of the field is now being accomplished with a new Diesel-driven road grader capable of leveling and carrying off the surface 13 yards of gravel and dirt in one load. When the huge runway program fis finished the airport facilities for caring for the projected large superliners, 40 and perhaps 60-passenger land planes, will be unsurpassed by any municipal civil aerodrome in the nation, Mr. Dienhart said. The paved landing-ways, when the new projects are finished, will represent an investment of approximately 5, 500,000, Mr. Dienhart declared.
CALL TO ACTION HEARD BY PARTY
State’s Democratic Leaders Plan Meetings to Solidify ‘McNutt Support.
Democratic leaders today laid plans for a series of meetings with county chairmen and vice chairmen to consolidate the State organization behind the McNutt-for-Presi-dent drive. State Committee officers and County leaders convened at the Claypool Hotel yesterday for a precedent-breaking meeting at which tentative organization‘ plans were outlined. It was the first meeting of its kind ever held by the
‘party this far in advance of a Presi-
dential campaign.
Lighter Touch Popular Leaders found that the lighter touch in campaigning, demonstrated yesterday by 11 acts of vaudeville, mixes well with straight political talk. A near 100 per cent attendance was chalked up for the session, according to State Committee officials. All except two County chairmen were present, and the missing officers sent proxies. All vice-chair-men except ome were there.
Several Give Pep Talks The session was off-the-record, with pep talks by Fred F!/ Bays, State chairman; Frank McHale, Mr. McNutt’'s campaign manager; Mrs. Sanford K. Trippett, State vicechairman and Mrs. Samuel Ralston, National Committeewoman. Although no date for future assemblies of the county chairman
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Municipal Airport Pirchire for 60 60-Passenger Pls 12,200 F eet of New Concrete Runways Being Laid
This is an air view of the first stages in the construction of 12,200 additional feet. of runways at the west section of the Municipal Airport landing Bald, the largest runway expansion program yet un- .
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Flood Loan Bids Due Aug. 15.— Bids for the second semiannual temporary loan of $25,000 for the Marion County ~ Flood : Control Board will be received Aug. 15 at the City Controller's office. The loan will finance Flood Control work until November tax collections, James E. Deery, oy Controller, said.
August Parleys—Listed — August conventions announced today by the Indianapolis Convention Bureau include the United National Association of Post Office Clerks and Auxiliary, Aug. 21-24; National Associa-
Sept. 1; Indiana Daughters of America, Aug. 23-25, and the Indiana State Bar Association, Aug. 2426.
Lions to Hear Texan—James Russell, Texas, of the Lions International office for the last 13 years, will speak at the Lions Club 12:15 p. m. luncheon Wednesday at the Hotel Washington. The Board of Directors meeting will be held Aug. 7.
Tucker to Attend Parley—Secretary of State James M. Tucker will represent Indiana at the 22d conference of the National Association of Secretaries of State at Dixville Notch, N. H.; Aug. 16-19. The association is a division of the Council of State Governments. Mr. Tucker will be accompanied: by his wife.
Conductor to Travel—Like a postman who takes a walk on his day off, Fred H. Klepper, a Big Four Railroad conductor for 50 years, who retired yesterday, will take a trip. He plans to leave soon for a Pacific Coast tour and the San Francisco World’s Fair. Mr. Klepper was honored yesterday at Union Station by his fellow workers, including his engineer for the last 14 years, J. I. Al-
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terly of Tampa, Fla., a June graduate - of - Butler University, to the dietetic department of Indiana University Hospitals, was announced today. Miss Shetterly will serve as assistant under Miss Lute Trout, chief dietitian.
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After 33 years on the Indianapolis police force, Oscar A. Merrill, 1218 Woodlawn Ave., is going to turn in his badge and “rest awhile.” Mr. Merrill joined the police force when speeders were confined to buggies, but, according to the retiring policeman, they sped just the same. He has served -as humane sergeant, field sergeant, lieutenant of the uniform division ' and as Municipal ' Court bailiff. Mr. Merrill is a member of the Logan Masonic Lodge and aided in the organization of five Masonic lodges and two chapters of the O. E. S. He is chaplain of the Indianapolis lodge, Fraternal Order of Police.
Townsend Unit to Meet — The Downtown Townsend Club will meet tonight at the Clubrooms, 302. Holliday Building. The Club also plans a card party Saturday.
Friends to Honor Engineer—A party of his friends will meet F. H.
he brings in his Big Four engine for the last time at 3:30 p. m. today at the Harding St. yards. Mr. Foster, an engineer, will retire then after 52 years of service. There will be a party in his honor at his home tonight. Mr. Foster is 69 years
NEW C. M. T.C.
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ARMY ARRIVING
Vanguard of Second Group Checks in for Camp at Ft. Harrison.
While the 2253 members of the st C. M. T. C. were preparing to leave for home tomorrow, enrollees for the second encampment, opening officially Friday, began arriving today. Enrollment in the second encampment has reached 2200. The camp will close Sept. 3, according to Col. L. A. Kunzig, in charge of the C. M. T. C. Departing C. M. T. C youths turned in their uniforms today and will leave for their homes tomorrow morning A stunt program tonight with an impromptu schedule will ‘follow presentation of awards. Four Indiana R. O. T. C. members have been entered in the National Rifle <Asociation matches to be held at Camp Perry, Ohio. : They are Maurice C. Flemming and Robert H. Colwell, Rose Polytechnic Institute, Terre Haute: Her= man R. Schell, Logansport, and Robert Martz, Bloomington, both students at Indiana University. C. M. T. C. members in the August encampment. will be from Indiana, West Virginia and Kentucky.
STRIPPED CAR IN RIVER
ROCHESTER, Ind. July 31 (U. P.)—Sheriff Russell Vorhees of Fulton County today investigated a stripped automobile found half sub--merged in the Tippecanoe River Saturday. : Identification had been removed from the car. It apparently had
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Odds, However, 30 ‘Will Not Open Doors Because of Over-Production.
the Indiana Canners, Association,
: have gone into receivership. : He. said, however, that approximately 30 canning pl ts in the state would not opera e this year,
‘due to economic conditions, an over-| Iproduction the last two years, and
cheap markets. . Mr. Jackson also said that to his
tories which have contracted with growers for acreage and have then decided not to run, leaving the farmer high and dry with his crops.”
Schenck Fears Losses Hassil: Schenck, Indiana Farm Bu-
farmers have contracted with plants that have closed their doors and that they now have no outlet for their crops 1 I think I can stand on my statement that many farmers who are deeply involved financially will lose their farms if they lose this years| crop,” Mr. Schenck said.
farmers with open acreage (uncentracted for crops) will have nop market for their crops this year, because of overproduction in the past two years and a decrease in the number of factories operating, Mr. Jackson said:
Defends Canners’ Group
“The Indiana Canners Association always has been opposed to open, or uncontracted, acreage, because it breeds cheaper prices for raw products and fosters bootlegging, which we do not want.” The Indiana canning industry, which leads the nation amount canned in many foods and
any other state, is nearing its peak season.
to employ between 50,000 and 60,000 persons during the next two months. According to statistics of the State Employment Service 33 ,000 persons were engaged in canning work during this same period last year.
Local Labor Used
The difference between the association’s figures and the employment service's does not. mean an increase for the year because the state service has records of only Indiana persons who were registered with them when they were employed. Local labor is used whenever it is possible and is supplemented by migratory workers, the association
pointed out.
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Times Special FT. WAYNE, ‘Ind, July 31.— Local firemen who don’t know the answers will get the gong Aug. 4. On that day the Fire Department will exhibit the second pumper that has been constructed in its shops and any firemen who is unable tu answer the public's questions about the Department within 10 seconds will be given the gong—on the pumper—by Chief J. C. Stahlhut. The new pumper was built at a saving of between $5000 and $6000, according to officials, by constructing the body and pumper equipment in the department shops.
HOOSIER INJURED IN SIGHTSEEING PLANE
CHICAGO, July 31 (U. P.).—Inspectors for the Civil Aeronautics Authority today examined the wreckage of a tri-motored sightseeing plane which crashed§ at the Municipal Airport Sunday, injuring the pilot and eight of its 12 passengers. The plane crashed a few minutes after it had taken off. Witnesses told police one of the ship's motors stopped at an altitude of about 500 feet. Gilbert Grimm, 33, Chicago, the pilot, attempted to keep the plane level but it lost altitude, crashed on its left wing and nosed over. Mr. Grimm was injured seriously. Among the injured were Martin Was, Gray, Ind. and his mother, IS.
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METHODISTS TO SET UP NEW CONFERENCE
Times Special MARION, Ind. July 31.—A meeting to complete unification of northern Indiana Methodism will be held’ here Aug. 21. Members of the former Methodist Episcopal North Indiana Conference, which included the northeastern quarter of the state, and former Methodist Protestant ministers of the same area will attend the meeting at the First Church. They will
form a northern Indiana Conference of the united church.
POSEY COUNTY PEACH CROP CUT TO 50 PCT.
Times Special MOUNT VERNON, Tol. July 31. —Posey County ¢rchards will harvest less than a 50 per cent crop of peaches this season due to winter and spring kill and the wet spring and summer, according to Dr. J. R. Ranes of Ranebo Fruit'|™ = Farm,
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Times Speciat. 4 KENDALLVILLE, Ind., July
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