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THURSDAY. JUNE I. 1963 MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOHD. OREGON Help (or Growth Of Nation's Small Airports Stressed -A W 1 1 LAI 1 WAVY LINE-lt isn't certain if the heat or Just bad "dress ing" on the part of these guards causes them to form a wavy line while rehearsing In the Horse Guards Parade at Lon don, England, for the forthcoming Trooping of the Colors ceremony. . (UPI) ; . Br A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Washington Coriaspondani Washington The commer ciat airline industry wants the federal government to 1 .. 1,. hep .timaiate . ! growth of the nation small er city air ports through i more depend- , able ached- i uled air aerv ice. 1 ne Air Transport as s o c i a 1 1 o n, zation of the major airlines, recently convened a sympos ium here to focus attention on their contention that the gov ernment ought to change its policy governing installation of airport safety aids for foul weather flying at "non-hub" airports. Under existing policy, an airport has to be used by' a specified number of paying passengers before it qualifies for various facilities, such as a control tower operated by the Federal Aviation Agency, or Instrument landing devices. ATA advocates a new policy under which each airport would get a minimum pack age of equipment financed by federal funds to minimize GETTING TIRED East St. Louis, 111. - IUPII - Auto parts dealer Mannie Locb, roiled 18 times in as many months, offered to feed any hungry robbers "if they'll just leave me alone." flight cancellations in incle ment weather and thus foster more reliable air service and greater public use. ATA I:tt among the na tion's 395 non-hub airports 13 in Oregon: Astoria, Baker, Bend-Redmond, Burns, Cor- vallis-Albany, Eugene, Klam ath Falls, Lakeview, North Bend-Coos Bay, Ontario-Payette, Pendleton, Roseburg and Salem. Of these, only four have re ceived the Instrument Land ing System (ILS) which per mits flying as long as the ceil ing doesn't drop below 200 feet and visibility is as great as a half mile. Those with ILS are Eugene, Medford, Pendle ton and Klamath. Falls, in ad dition to Portland. Because the other airports lack ILS, flying is curtailed sooner in soupy weather. At Salem the minimum ceiling is 300 feet with three quarters of a rnile visibility. At Cor-vallis-Albany it's 800 feet and one mile. At Bcnd-Kedmond it's 700 feet and one mile. At Roseburg it's 1400 feet and two , miles. At Astoria and North Bend-Coos Bay it's 1200 feet and one mile, and at Baker it's 1700 feet and one mile, ATA reported. Throughout the country ATA said of 493 airports, 184 have ILS; and of these, 120 have a 200 feet and half mile minimum. Over 300 have minimums that are more than 300 feet and three quarters of a mile, and these "are the ones that need help, ATA con tends. Federal aid for airport de velopments falls into two cate gories. Funds for runways and parking aprons and runway lights are provided on a 50-50 matching basis with the local airport operating agency, but funds for safety equipment such as radar, ILS or runway approach lighting are entire ly federal with no matching requirements. Congress has provided $75 million annually in recent years for federal matching funds. The amount for safety devices has run around iil4 million for each of the past two years. "We believe in building up airports," explained a Federal Aviation agency spokesman "We're promoting airports in small communities, but we have about twice as much de mand as we have money each year The Eisenhower administra tion tried to phase out airport aid. In 1954 all aid was elim inatcd from the federal bud get. There was so much unfav orable reaction that it was re sumed the following year. FAA must balance its pro gram to take into account the needs of three elements: the military, with 30,000 planes; the commercial airlines, with 2100 planes and the private operators, with 80,000 planes. Each uses the nation's airways With about equal frequency. ATA and the FAA have a common concern for the av erage citizen who occasionally needs to use a commercial air line for a quick trip, but FAA says it is doing all it can with its budget, which is larger than it used to be. ATA con tends it could do more by pro moting development of less expensive safety devices. . An ILS costs $270,000. A standard approach lighting system costs $175,000. Other devices cost . nearly a half million dollars. FAA figures! show. FAA is trying to bring down these costs and ATA . eauH t. u -m . ijinA thai ih ! ILS cost can be cut in half. ATA didn't offer a cost figure covering its recom mended minimum package for small airports, but it did argue that in the long run greater use of small airports will save ' the government some or all of the $68 million which now goes out in sub sidies to the short haul air lines who are still struggling to reach the break-even point that would end their subsi dized status. DRAMA PARSES MARK New York (UPI "The Blacks," record-holder, for an off-Broadway drama, has passed its 750th performance at the St. Mark's Playhouse." It opened in May, 1961. Complete Visual Cre Contact Lenses DR. DUKE G. ANDERSON OPTOMETRIST . ANNOUNCES THE OPENING OF HIS OFFICE AT 30 CRATER LAKE AVENUE MEDFORD, OREGON Office Hours By Appointment Telephone 779-1392 Group Opposed But there is opposition to the expanded aid program from one influential quarter. The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association recently urged Congress to cut the FAA budget by 37 per cent. 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