Aviation Brings City Half Million Dollars Yearly
Huron South Dakota experiences rapid aviation growth led by the Dakota Aviation Company and Huron College under CAA War Training Service. The program adds $35,350 monthly to the local economy via payrolls, fuel, and operations, with the CAA employing about 11 at the municipal airport and Mid-Continent Airlines previously serving the Huron to Minot route.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huron
Pioneer Air Transportation Center
South Dakota
Dakota Aviation Company
Kenneth E. Neville
Edward G. Youngs
Huron College
Civil Aeronautics Administration
CAA
Mitchell
Aberdeen
U.S. Army of Corps
W. W. Howes
Minot
Huron Builds Aviation Center From Scrappy Beginnings
A detailed look at Huron’s airport and aviation workers shows 81 payroll employees drawing about 19 300 monthly, plus college, gasoline, and other aviation expenditures totaling roughly 43 350 monthly. The hangar and WPA projects transformed a stalled 1930s effort into a 280 acre aviation center with runways, a stone hangar, and a two story CAA building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hanford Airlines
WPA
Pierce
Huron
CAA
Huron Aids Pilots In Bad Weather Through Beam System
The Huron radio directional system known as the beam assists pilots in instrument flying during thick weather. A CAA training site at the municipal airport uses a five man team plus soon a woman to remotely control signals from the administration building. Dakota Aviation Co trains students in blind flying by cockpit hood tests with instructors guiding solely by radio. H. C. Fath leads the communications section with J. C. Bligh, J. T. Van Camp, R. T. Craig and E. W. Lowrey also on staff. Miss Theresa White from Hay Springs is joining as a communicator after Kansas City training. W Van Alstine oversees airway beacons covering wide western to northern South Dakota.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CAA
Huron
Dakota Aviation Company
Civil Aeronautics Administration
H. C. Fath
J. C. Bligh
J. T. van Camp
Robert T. Craig
E. W. Lowrey
Theresa White
Hay Springs
Neb
Kansas City
South Dakota
W van Alstine
Philip
Mitchell
Watertown
Leola
Wool Fabric Output Jump in 1942 Surpasses Prewar Levels
Production of woolen and worsted fabrics reached about 525 million linear yards in 1942. The figure shows a 5 percent rise from 1941 and nearly a 50 percent increase over 1939.
Huron Airport Seen As Heavy Local Investment
Huron W. W. Hawes Municipal Airport represents about 373 300 in today s terms with 82 500 city funds and 290 810 federal aid. The story credits local leaders and five businessmen plus three banks for early land purchase and runway work, highlighting a 1938 39 000 bond issue and a strong community push to make the hub of South Dakota aviation.
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Huron
W. W. Hawes
H. M. Pierce
M. F. Walt
South Dakota
Huron Airport
Chamber of Commerce Aviation Committee
W. L. Barney” Weir
A. M. Haskell
Carl Weir
Blake Patton
Theodore Smogard
Northwest Security National Bank
National Bank of South Dakota
Farmers & Farmers
Don S. Sears
Paul K. Myers
Chamber of Commerce
Pierre
Lill‘Ankenman
Ben
Crops For Late Spring Seeding In Beadle County
Beadle County agent Leonard L. Ladd recommends forage sorghum and sudan grass as top late season feed choices if planting on or before June 15. Proso and foxtail millets suit later planting, while flint corn rape soybeans for hay and rye for fall pasture are also options. Millets need frequent surface rains. all crops depend on frost dates and July hazards.
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Leonard L. Ladd
Beadle County
Norgaard
State College
South Dakota
Churchill Hemmed By Nazi Prisoners On Transatlantic Voyage
Eastern Canadian port report notes Churchill aboard a ship carrying about 20 German prisoners of war including high ranking officers. The journey to the Washington conference with Roosevelt was kept under censorship until now.
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Churchill
Archibald Wavell
United States
Washington
Roosevelt
North
Africa
Also Mentioned on This Page
Weather Bureau
Inland Airlines
Hubert C. Cansdale
Mary Boyle
Inland
Ed Mathews
Melvin Marts
John Meyers
A. H. Eichmeisr
Harold Carlton
Mid-Continent Airlines
LC. Belk
Mid- Continent
Jim Hleigh
Neville
Ralph Horn
Fred Becchetti
John Hamilton
Ted
The
Nevilles
Haskell
FERA
CWA
Barney” Weir
Weir
Dairy Health Foods
Northwest
Gus Jacobson
Beach & Dickinson Co
Dakota Aviation CO
Peter Mintener
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