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Editorials World Report

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Private Field Here

3d Largest in U.S.

By JIM SMITH EN YEARS AGO two Indianapolis business men had a small cornfield, one building, a rather di-lapidated-airplane and.

a dream.

Today that dream has become Sky. Harbor Airport, the largest privately owned airport in Indiana and the third larg-

est in the United States, covering more than 260 acres Behind realization of the dream of Gordon Lackey and A. D. Schwab is a story of resourcefulness coupled with

plenty of hard work, for this airport at 8500 East 21st St, is completely self-sustaining.

It receives no money from the government federal, state or county. All the improve-

ments have been paid for with money earned by the airport during the last ten years and funds invested by the owners. sS. 858 FROM a lone: building which in its time served as a hangar, operations office and repair plant, the physical structures have grown to include an operations office, restaurant, repair building, and seven hangars. The main hangar houses all the student ships, while six

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others house planes of private owners. A separate hangar houses the shop of Earl Springer, who does the radio repair

work, The single airplane has grown to 16 ships owned by the airport, 12 of which are

used for student flight instruction. In addition to these, there are 48 private Planes housed at the fiéld.

BUT PERHAPS the biggest and most phenomenal improvement has been on the landing field itself. When the men at the field began talking about building runways and leveling off the area; they found themselves involved with astronomical figures, So instead of hiring the job done, they decided to do it themselves. They bought

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SUNDAY,

SEPTEMBER 10, 1950

Editorials ........onses M4 . World Report ...:.... 28 Amusements ....... 26, 27 Sermon of the Week. ...28

HR A e p LHR FOSS RESTATE OY

Today ow AA modern ]

equipment which included a road grader, two big diesel “cats,” three rollers, an asphalt

‘storage tank, and a dirt haul-

er. With this equipment, enough to build and maintain a good

sized. highway, they started building the first runway, extending north and south.

The first gigantic task was removing a forest at the north-

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ern end of the runway. This wooded area was 1300 feet wide and a little more than 300 feet deep and it contained some pretty big * Flicks.” . THE TRE ES were sawed off close to the ground and hauled away. Then the stumps were dynamited and bulldozed away. A drainage ditch had to be dug, tiled and then filled in again.

Symphony Programs ‘Made To Order’

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By HENRY BUTLER ITH THE SYMPHONY season opening a month earlier than usual, ticket-sale drive Thursday. Volunteer workers will gather in L. S. Ayres’ auditorium at 10 a. m. Thursday for coffee and final briefing on their missions. This year's canipalgn will have as one selling point the that Fabien Bevitzky's programs have been especially designed to win. popular approval. . als the orchestra manage revealed

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JASCHA HEIFETZ his coming season’s music cholce nn results of 4 programpreference survey conducted last senson by Dr, Nash of Washington University, St. Louis, Mo.

” - » THE SYMPHONX’S bandsome brochure lists works to be performed this season, Included in Dr. Sevitzky's the “New World” Symphony of Dvorak, the “Pa-

“thetique” of Tchaikovsky, the

Second symphonies of Brahms anid Beethoven and the Firth of Sibelius, 3!

Subszeription - concerts for

Dennison

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mezzo-soprano, soloist; . Nov. 18-19, Guiomar Novaes, pianist; Nov. 26-27, violinist; Dec. 9-10, Ruggiero Ricel, - violinist; Dee. 22-28, Winifred Heldt, Mario Berinl, tenor, Louis Sudler, baritone, and the Indian‘apolis Symphonie Choir in a concert version of “Carmen”;

Jan. 7-8, Claudio ‘Arrau, _planist; Jan. 27-28, Jascha Heilets,

violinist; Feb. 4-5, Bartlétt and

Robertson, duo-pianists; Feb, 24-25, Boris Christoff, basso, and the Symphonie Choir, in-

tle window, Into its

‘Cecilia + Hansen,

contralto;

Photos by Lloyd B.

Finally the whole area -was leveled off. After months of unceasing work, the first runway began to take shape, a strip 60 feet wide and 4000 feet long. Completed only two weeks ago, it Is made of crushed stone and as-

phalt, It is long- enough to handle virtually every size land plane,

The airport staff Is justly

Grows ‘On Its Own Wings’

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proud of its first major achieve ment, and rightiy so. The longest runway at Weir Cook Municipal airport is 5100 feet and the longest at Stout Field 4500 feet and both of these airports receive federal ald. : » », ” KEEPING pace with the growth of the airport has been the sales and service end of the business, headed by Harry Mo-

Hope for the Blind and Deaf . . .No. 1—

Without Vision 10 Years, Boy Receives Sight from Dead Woman He Never Knew

Eyebank Operates On National Scale CHAPTER ONE By KAY BARRINGTON THE ROOM was bril-

~lantly lighted, but to the

boy on the operating table everything looked black.

-His—sight had been

stopped at its source by an infection which scarred the corneas of his eyes. Tom had been blind for ten years, Any second now, the surgeon would. cut. away. . the. clouded cornea and slip a priceless piece of corneal tissue, like a clear lit-

splace, One side of the boy's face was numb from & local anesthetie; ‘but hecould

feel the other side smiling. Miss It had been Barrington

just seventeen minutes since Tom entered the operating room. ‘People said sight was wonderful. You could look at a face and ses it look ing back at you , . . you could

get a job. , Another minute passed. “Doctor!” he cried. "Doctor!

I can SEE!” Tom's operation translated into reality a dream as old as man. He could see again , , , thanks to a dead woman he

“ never knew. His affliction was

not unusual, eye surgeons estimate that the corneal graft operation could restore sight to 10 or 15 thoysand Americans.

» » . . OUR CORNEAS are tiny. pleces of tissue, no longer or thicker than dimes, which curve in front of the irises and pupils of our eyes. Light flashes through thenr, and the swift,

complicated mechanism of our

sight begins, When injury or disease clouds the cornea, blindness results. The clouded portion must be cut away and replaced with a piece of clear, healthy cornea tissue. The new cornea ia taken “from another human eye, usually immediately after death. The Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration, Inc. in New York City, is largely responsible for

bringing sight to people like

Tom. Five years ago, only 15 American surgeons were experienced in corneal grafting. The few eyes then donated by people near to their death could be preserved for only 48 hours. : Patients who need corneas, AR

‘use. “ABG0 eyes Nave heen processed

"EDITOR'S NOTE:

These articles were

authorities,

THE EY E- BANK was foams

ed in 1945. It was sponsored by Dr. R. Townley Paton, surgeon director at the Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, snd

Mrs. Alda de Acosta Breckinridge, its present executive director,

The, trickle of eyes received the first year was enough to serve six. surgeons, Now, only five years later, more than 100 lead! ng hospitals-throughout the country are Eye-Bank depositories. Twenty - four surgeons in every part of America its facilities. More than

450 last year alone. Occasionally, an eye Is removed from a living person for reasons not’ affecting the cornea. - : Usually, however, eyes are removed, by prior agreement, after the donor's death. Many Americans, realizing the im portance of their healthy corneas, provide in their wills or by bequest to a hospital, for their eyes to be removed after death and given to an eyebank,

UPON collecting the eyes, co»

operating hospitals rush them to the nearest Kye-Bank by Red Cross Motor Corps or by alr. Perfect corneas are distributed to qualified surgeons for suitable cases. The surgeon then ‘informs the first patient on his list who, with pounding heart, answers the call to rush to. the “hospital.

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Quin, and flight Instructions, headed by Bob Clay. The repair shops at the fleld contain all the equipment needed to tear down and rebuild a plane and the field boasts the most complete stock of alrplane parts to be found in any airport of comparable size mm the country. Repair work done at the ale port has risen to such a high degree of efficiency that it has been authorized by the Ciel Aeronautics Authority te He ense planes,

” » ~ DURING World War II a mil itary and civil air training

program was conducted im which students learned not enly to fly but were given a through course in theory, night link training and cross work, tudents who learn to fiy -“ the airport today are given virtually the same type of struction which is even to receiving their 1 there, About the future? Well ¥ boys at Sky Harbor quit dreaming or Wokiey 5 “There's still plenty done,” sald Mr. Lackey. have plans to bulld saa west runway and we'd Nee fix up a part of the main with accommodations for who might wish to stay night, sort of a flying “That takes time and,

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“This Is the first article of & They tell in personal, human terms of the rema made recently in the treatment of the blind and deaf. Miss Barrington, a magazine and ne first hand. Her own sight was saved by a recent o read And approved

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A good cornea, a person known. to be free infectious diseases, is and transparent, Age, sex, And blood type make ne ference, nor does any viewal s fect not affecting the x One good cornea can be rs ‘ restore sight to three fy 3 and the preservation period been extended to 72 hows. © “TE 18 “estimated that T blind Americans could be to see again through a graft operation,

wo» THE -EYE-BANK has

butions to our seeing welfare: It supports the Nye Laboratory which, under the rection of Dr. H. M. carries on continuous iii ‘the problems of the operation,

It sponsors the only : Corneal Clinic in. the £ States. This clinfe, held *

Manhattan Eye, Ear and Hospital, draws a capasity ad tendance, not only from all ows the U. 8. but from foveign countries as well. It sponsors & training for doctors anxious to their knowledge and corneal graft surgery. This eon

centrated course makes v sible for doctors oon and perform corneal In the laboratory.

1950. by Unitd Peatuse Syn ndicate. Ine) TOMORROW: Twonly sand Americans will “pe this. year,

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