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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.
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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
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