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PAGE SEVEN Medford Airport Improvement Attests Military Value MEDFORD MAIL TRTBUNT. MEDFORD. OREOON. THURSDAY. AUGUST 15. 1940. JUSTIFIES CITY'S Army and Commercial Planes Use Port Payroll From Various Agen cies at Field Over $50, COO Year; Use Increases Recent war department ap proval of a $120,000 WPA im provement project again cen tered attention on the Medford municipal airport, considered by city and Jackson County Chamber of Commerce officials as one of the community's great est assets. Along with its other uses and values, the airport now is rec ognized as having military im portance. That is how the war department's approval of the improvement project is inter preted1! If the airport, it was pointed out, were of minor or no value as a military field, the war department would not be interested in spending any mon ey on it, for the department is not guided by sentiment in ex pending defense funds. Long Effort The war department's ap proval is viewed as a justifica tion of the contention of the city and the chamber of commerce that the municipal airport is strategically situated from a military point of view. For sev eral years the city administra tion and the chamber of com merce have been trying to bring the war department around to this point of view. The military value, however, is considered only a part of the entire value of the airport. Im portant values, officials empha- I -ri -;, at.., '""j have nothing to do with the de velopment of the airport itself. Self Payment Goal Mr. Scheffel's records show total operating income of $47,- 997. 5S from the time the air port was put into use in Octo ber. J929 to July 1, 1940. Oper ating expense for the same per iod is shown as $4i,3J7. 15, leav- Washington. Ane. IS.- ing a net operating income of Senator Wagner (D-NY). senate $5,660.40. This does not mean. I sponsor of the original social however, Mr. Scheffel pointed I security act. introduced leits- SOCIAL SECURITY I waterlogged 2 miles north of taking off the ferry's crew of Eureka, Calif. The tug Commis- seven and cutting the tow Una sioner was standing by after I last night An important place on the air map of the Pacific Coast is held by Medford with one o! the West's finest municipal airports. Military and commercial planes are accommodated on the spac ious runways. United Air Lines maintains a Medford etfice with dally service employing the latest type passenger equipment. The United States army has established a servicing station in Medford and this city Is the location of Department of Commerce Airways radio, teletype and range beacon, as well as United States weather bureau office and aerological station. out, that the airport is paying for itself, for the figures do not take into account the retirement of the original bond issue, nor do they reflect reserves for de preciation, depletion and obso lescence or other charges. Reve nue comes from rentals, storage and concession fees and a per centage on gasoline sales. A self-paying airport, how ever, gives the city administra tion a goal to strive for. Wheth er that goal is ever attained, city officials are of the belief that the airport has proved a sound investment that amply pays for itself in many ways not shown i in account books. Bed Bugs! Simply sprinkle Bl'H.UH on bd end lied clothing, and dust into cruets and crevices around the room. Bt'HACH acts aa a swift aure re pellent and insecticide. So protect Jour home tliis eny oHorleea wot. n Hand? Sifter Tans 25c up at Prut;, firfrerr. Seed Stores and Pet Shop". PRONOUNCED BVHACK size, are intangible but nonthe less concrete. Of real monetary value is the payroll provided by the various agencies utilizing the airport facilities. It is esti mated that thic payroll aggre gates more than $50,000 a year, practically all of which, except that part put in savings, is spent here for food, clothing, shelter and professional services. Many Agencies This payroll is provided by the U. S. weather bureau, which employs seven men at the air port: U. S. army air corps, nine men; civil aeronautics authority five men in the airport office and one field man who makes his home here; United Air Lines, five men. The city itself employs two men at the airport, the superintendent and a janitor. There soon will be increased employment at the airport, for work is to start in the near fu ture on the army's $13,000 pro ject which includes construction of a radio operations building and the laying of a cable from the building to the transmitter on Crater Lake highway. City officials Rre hopeful also that the $120,000 WPA improvement project will be actually under way before long. Because the war department has sanctioned this project as a defense meas ure, the city will be required to put up only a small propor tion of the cost. Another thing the airport has done for the city is that it has put Medford on the exclusive commercial air transport map, Portland and Pendleton being the only two other Oregon cities so designated. It has made Med ford a center of the most mod ern form of transportation. Uni ted Air Linc3 passengers com ing here to board the big 21 passenger Mainliners from all parts of southern Oregon and northern California. Month af ter month, United has been set ting new traffic records here. Valuable Services The airport has also made airmail and air express avail able to Medford. That this is a valuable service is Indicated by consistent, and substantial in creases in airmail. Useful in the government's civilian pilot training program, the airport is now being used by a class of 30 student pilots en rolled in the course being con ducted here and at the Southern Oregon College of Education in Ashland. One class of ten stu dent pilots has already com pleted the Initial course. Situated three miles north of the center of town and compris ing 288 acres which cost $27, 400, the airport was built in 1929. To finance purchase of the land and development of the field, the citizens voted a $120.- 000 issue of 8 per cent, ten-year lation today to extend benefits of the law to millions of work ers not now covered. Included would be agricultur al and domestic workers, em ployes of state and local gov ernments, non-civil service em ployes of the federal govern ment, and employes of non-profit, religious, charitable and edu cational institutions, except or dained ministers and members of religious orders performing their duties In such orders. JOBLESS BENEFIT El each year, the city has liquidat ed the bonds and there is now no outstanding bonded debt against the airport. As originally developed, the airport was ample for the de mands made upon it until 1933 when larger planes made it necessary to lengthen and wid en the runway and to install a cross runway. Large Investment To keep the airport up to date, the city has invested an additional $26,700, mostly in contributions toward federal grants. Tills additional sum. however, spread over a of years, has come out of the general fund, there having been no further funded debt created since the original bond issue, it was emphasized by Fred W. Scheffel, city superintendent. Thus it will be seen that the city itself has $146,700 invested in the airport. Federal agencies, such as the WPA, have put $188,000 into development of the airport, Mr. Scheffel's rec ords show. If the present army sanctioned WPA project is car ried out, another federal invest ment of $120,000 will be made, bringing the combined city-government total to $454,700 of which the city Itself has put In $146,700. The companies and Berlin, Aug. 15 (PI Motion government agencies using the pitures of Metro-Goldwyn-May- Salem, Aug. 15. TP) The state unemployment compensa tion commission paid out $276, 790 in benefits during July, a drop of $10,000 from the pre vious month, the commission said today. Benefits Daid during the first period Scven months of 1940 totaled $3,093,288, compared with $2, 987,435 and $4,313,614 in the similar periods of 1939 and 1938, respectively. The commission's reserve fund reached $9 520,147, an all time high and almost $3,000,000 more than the fund of a year ago. SAFETY DIRECTOR Portland. Aug. 15. (IP) Sec retary of State Snell appointed Stanley Church. Portland, di rector of traffic safety educa tion today. He succeeds Hugh Rosson. former University of Oregon graduate manager, who resign ed before the primary election to manage Ralph Cake's success ful campaign for Republican national committeeman. Rosson is assistant to Kerr, Crandall, state Republican central com mittee chairman. Church has been associated with radio broadcast activities in Portland. Ferry in Distress Seattle, Aug. 15. (fP) The Pugct Sound tug boat company reported today the storm-bat tercd ferry Lake Tahoe, under tow from San Francisco to Seat tle, was in distress and partly W(VtA) mm rMDL Co mm!' 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