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Airport Attendant NamedDonald Savoie, a former United States Air Force crew chief, has been employed as airport attendant at Richard Downing Airport here. Savoie, hired Thursday, will assume his duties Monday.Announcement was made by the Coshocton County Airport Authority. An Authority spokesman today said the contract with Coshocton Aero-Flite as operator of the airport had been terminated.The spokesman said the Authority would be operating the airport facility in 1972, using revenues from the sendees offered, plus some Emergency Manpower Act funds to employ the attendantSavoie will be a county employe but will be under the supervision of the Airport Authority. It was the county that made application for funds under the Emergency Manpower Act ,The Authority spokesman said Coshocton Aero-FlKe will continue to maintain a flight instruction school at the airport. Coshocton Aero-Flite operators are John Porteus and Mike Milarcik, contracted more than two years ago. That contract was for only one year and expired last May but the operatorshave continued to work harmoniously with the Authority since that time.Aero-Flite is a fully recognized and accredited school for flight training but operations were so slow that Porteus has sought full time employment elsewhere and Milarcik part time work. The two have been at the airport only on weekends recently.Airport Authority members in their announcement today said the changes being made at Richard Downing Airport are aimed at improved service for the flying public and for improved service for corporation aircraft using the airport facilities.Artist Matt ChMatt Clark, 68, of 400 E. 55th St., New York City, a w'ell-fcnown magazine illustrator and a native of Coshocton, died Thursday at New York Hospital following a heart attack.Clark specialized in illustrations of historical and adventure stories, especially Westerns. During the 1930s, '40s and ’50s,
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Coshocton Tribune
Coshocton, Ohio, US
Fri, Jan 07, 1972
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