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f / ^ - PAQI SIX Let^f Face Facts! ^ Policy Being Developed For Bringing Air Service . To Many Small Town* By lAKftOW LYONS WNU Staff C«f»wp<Mc«Mf Policies that will determine 'whichl of America’s 6,331 towns with popu>l lations between 1,000 and 5,000 willl receive som* type .of airplane serv-J ice after the w^art are now in the! making. As a r^l suit of proceed-l ings before ’the| Civil Aeiprauljcsj board in Wash* ington, just whatl type of service each small town! is likely to re-1 ceive will be de-| cided. ^ Narrow Lyous it would be a| good idea to tell your congressman to keep his eye on this development, which so inti mately concerns your town and your business.' Only lack of planes and pilots is holding back a tremendous expan sion of air traffic, both commercial and private, which will reach every comer of the country when facilities and personnel become available. The rapidity with which pressure for this expansion has developed within the last year is revealed by the number of applications to establish new air services. By the end of last Aligust, 233 such applications had been filed with CAB. By January 15, the number had increased to 435, and by the end of February there were 577 propos als before the board for new and additional air services. Of the 577 there were 469 which related to domestic services involv- ^ ing about 500,000 route miles, com pared with 45,000 route miles now authorized. Outstanding certificates of public necessity and convenience now designate 2M cities and towns which may receive air service, but only 23 are towns of less than 5,000 population. It is clear that the applications before CAB will open a new chapter in air transportation, one that is full of knotty technical and policy prob lems. Various Carriers Interested For instance, some of the existing airlines feel that with their experi ence and equipment they should be permitted to extend services to cover most of the now unserviced towns. But surface carriers, the bus lines and railroads, feel that they should be permitted to protect themselves 'against probable heavy loss of passengers and freight to air transport by establishing lines of their own. And there are hundreds of small, new companies which de sire to service towns too smell to be attractive to the larger companies, but which feel they are entitled Ur assure their existence by entering aome of the larger tenninsds. Already CAB Examiners William J. Madden and Albert E. Beitel have made an investigation of the need for local-feeder and pick-up air serv ices. Oral arguments on this re port were heard beginning on April 8. It has been urged that these should be followed by hearings in regional areas throughout the United States at which local problems could be aired. When the board digests the evidence and gives considera tion to establishing an over-all na tional policy, it will make its rec ommendations for local standards. If congress is satisfied with the policies and procedure established by the CAB, no further legislation, except to implement the plan of the CAB with funds, will be required. But in a new field like this, with large and conflicting interests deei>- ly concerned, it would be rather surprising if congress did not take a part in developing policy. It is virtually certain, however^ that as soon as the war ends "straw berry trains" of the air will be car rying fresh fruits and vegetables long distances across our land, and that as the traffic grows more and more of the products from farms and orchards will move in this fash ion, beating the fast freight and axpriu trains by many hours. One of the organizations giving most thought to this development is the Airlines Committee for United States Air Policy, organized to pro tect the Interests of existing air car riers. A subcommittee on air trans port of the Railroad Committee for the Study of Transportation, Asso ciation of American Railroads,^is an other body deeply concerned.^ The Airlines Committee plans all- cargo services, in addition to haul ing passengers. Aircraft manufac turers are designing refrigerator planes—flying freight cars to carry tremendous loads great distances. A plane flying only 100 miles an hour Could carnr fre|h pork from Iowa to the Pacific coast in 15 hours, as against the present time of near ly two weeks. B B m • Pick-up mail services by which a plane without stopping collects mail atYmall stations along local passen ger routes, is a type of air service receiving consideration. Recently two CAB examiners recommended that passenger air service could well be supplemented by this type of operation. Only one carrier, All- American Aviation, now flies a pickp up mail service, using small, single- motored planes that swoop low over a mailbag rigged between two poles> end with a patented -pibk-up line hook the bag. «s— THE LAST PAGE/OF MEIN KAMPF * r< ‘ ^ (Autographed by the Author ■ Having sought to dominate the world with, an iron hand; having poured all of the resources and life blood of Germany and Nazi-ebslaved nations into •V that ambition, nothing but failure, has resulted. Germany is broken: millions of lives have been sacrificed in vain. Nothing remains for me but the complete destruction of a mind and body which brought only destructive force to the world. ‘ r- A / U We doubt those words will ever be written by on4 Adolph . I Hitler. The cedm intelligence required to lace the trath and' r admit it honestly is not likely to govern his behqviour wheir defeat engulb him. But though he may not write that lost' page, he must live iti It has been said that before he could' countenance failure he would go mad: he himgA|f has said' he would commit suicide. Let us hope that he jwill be sane enough to fully evaluate the justice that w^ be meted when he is judged for the horrors he inflicted on the world.' Let us hope he will not take a life, the manner of whose demise can only be determined properly by. the ©f men. women and children he has crippled and bereavedl Festung Europe? A worthy prison for the man who wrote his pages of history in the blood of the woridl BUY MORE AND MORE WAR BONDS ' - . * f James Leroy Belk Post No. 17 American Legimi . /