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is THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 10, 1936. Seeks WPA Cash for $2,235,925 Airport Project Agricultural Meet Seeks To Assure Westerners of Benefit Under New Plan Sentiment Favors Maximum Payment for Those Who Shift to Soil Conserving Crops, but Reap No Economic Advantage Sentiment favoring soil conservation and to soil conserving crops new crops developed conference of agricultural with U. S. department maximum benefit payments under the new domestic allotment act to farmers who shift and obtain no economic benefits from such Tuesday at committee sessions of the regional representatives from 11 western states of agriculture officials in the Hotel Utah. Indicating the trends of livestock growers' fears that the soil conservation program would stimulate excessively the production of livestock was a resolution adopted the boy committee of practices on.

range lands asking that farmers who divert acreage from soil depleting to soil conserving crops should not receive conservation payments if such soil conserving crops are used to feed livestock for commercial purposes. Committee reports Also indicated that livestock growers, sugar beet producers and cotton growers expect special treatment for their commodities which would in some measure replace the A A A benefits under contracts with the department of agriculture declared unconstitutional by the recent supreme court decision. Definite Trends Seen tion program. Beet Aid Asked Meanwhile, department of agriculture officials said definite trends are becoming apparent at the conference which will aid the department in formulating rules for the new administration. M.

L. Wilson, assistant secretary of agriculture, who is condueting the conference, one of four throughout the country, predicted that the program would be in "pretty definite form" within 10 days. "We want to have a plan which is fair, which is simple and easy to understand, and which is flexible. We want a plan which the farmer can study before deciding whether. he wants to adjust his plans so that he can become eligible for a grant or payment this year.

There will be available for payment or grants from $400,000,000 to Mr. Wilson said in a speech from station KDYL at 1:30 p. m. Reports Scheduled Completed committee reports and subcommittee reports will be presented for action of the general assembly at a meeting Wednesday at 9:30 a. m.

on the Hotel Utah roof garden. Mr. Wilson also will address the meeting. An entirely new situation, so far as the other three regional conferences are concerned, developed with findings of the committee on classifications and practices for range lands. Previously all recommendations for benefit payments had been based on acreage of farm lands.

The range committee in a resolution asked that payments be made to users of range grazing land who make such adjustments in their use of these lands as will promote soil fertility conservation protection against erosion. These payments, it was recommended, should be measured by reduction made in the total grazing use of such land, which would be measured by reduction in the number of livestock grazed. The committee also asked that payments be made to stockmen otherwise maintaining fertility of the range, and requested nonuse permits reserving rights in forest or Taylor act lands for growers cooperating in the soil conserva- The committee on special crops asked for continuation of a program broadly similar to that prevailing in 1934 and 1935, and if that could not be done for "some special effort to include a sugar beet program in the soil conservation and domestic allotment plan, seeing to it that the system of import quotas be retained as vital for the sugar beet industry." Members of the committee felt payments to beet growers could be made on the basis that, while beets are not a soil conserving crop, extensive use of fertilizers in connection with the crop could justify payments. The committee members favored continuation of marketing provisions not voided by the supreme court decision on the A A A. Members of a subcommittee on Irrigated lands farming felt that noxious weed control, green manuring, establishment of permanent pasture, planting of biennial or perennial legumes, terracing, cover cropping in orchards and vineyards and windbreaks and shelter belts conservation payments.

Cotton Request The cotton subcommittee asked for base acreage and normal yield standards for the new, program comparable with methods proposed by the A A A program for 1936, and that the rate of payment for diversion from cotton to a soilconserving crop should be around 5 cents pound, with a higher rate for tian diversion from 1 American-Egypvarieties of cotton. State committees and temporary county committees to include growers and representatives of the extension. service, and division of crop and livestock estimates of the bureau of agricultural economics, were recommended by the committee on organization and procedure. Meetings soon of state, district, county and communities to desseminate information were favored by the committee on education and development of country, Health Board Will Pass on Employe List Commission Refuses to Confirm Mayor's Appointees The city commission, by divided vote, Tuesday virtually removed the city health department from polltical control. The appointment of health inspectors and other workers along technical lines in the department was held by the commission be the responsibility of the board of health.

Action on the resulted from efforts of B. Erwin matter, to bring about commission confirmation of eight new proposed health department inspectors. The names were submitted by the mayor last week, but referred to the committee of the whole. The list was resubmitted Tuesday, but was turned over to the board of health for recommendation. Prior to the regular commission meeting.

an executice session offthe, commission was held, which the mayor was informed that city, ordinances -empower the board of health to set up standards for employes, including examination of applicants for appointment. During the regular commission session, Mayor Erwin explained that the board of health has never set up. standards, but that he, instead, had the heads of the various units in the health department set up examinations for applicants. Give Examinations The mayor explained that the persons he was nominating for appointment had successfully passed the examinations. At the request of the mayor, City Attorney Fisher Harris gave commission his opinion that the board of health is empowered to set up the standards and carry out their provisions.

Commissioner George D. Keyser urged that the board of health be permitted to check over the list of proposed appointments. don't a think should ignore the board," the commisisoner said. Commissioner Harold B. Lee then declared: "The board of health should not be a rubber stamp." "Neither should the mayor or city commission," the mayor responded.

Outlines Viwes "I don't want to delegate my power to the board of health," the mayor continued. "I don't see why the board of health should step in now, having taken a back seat before. Personally, I should never agree to a board of health making my appointments. And, for that matter, we are complying now with such standards as have been set up." Commissioner Lee then asked the mayor's attitude concerning the civil service, under which police officers a and firemen are employed. "I'll have something to say about that, too," Mayor Erwin commented.

Commissioner Lee then moved that the matter of appointments be referred to the board. of health. The motion carried, with Republicans Lee, Keyser and P. H. Goggin supporting it, and Democrats Erwin and William Murdoch opposing it.

There was no opposition expressed when Commissioner Lee suggested that the matter of coordinating three units of health department be referred to the board of health for study. The commission last week tentatively approved the merger of the food unit, the sanitary division and the department of weights and measures, with Dr. L. A. Browne as head of the consolidated department.

Name Bookkeeper While the commission refused to confirm the appointments for inspectors, the board approved the employment of Elvera Miller as bookkeeper in the health department at a salary of $100 a month, less per cent. The mayor seeks the following appointments as fourth grade inspectors: George R. Greethan, Jeanette Garner, H. S. Parkinson, Harry Peters, C.

W. Wall, A. Gordon Gibson, Max Guss and T. R. Skidmore.

The board of health, which was reorganized by the city commission, February 27, when Erwin submitted names for membership, includes: Dr. E. L. Skidmore, Dr. Orin A.

Ogilvie, Dr. L. E. Viko, Dr. F.

M. McHugh, Dr. T. J. Howells, city health commissioner; Mayor Erwin, as public safety commissioner, and Dr.

Henry Raile, police surgeon. Mayor Erwin said he planned call the board together "immediately" to go into the matter of pointments. Lumber Firm Official Succumbs to Illness Columbus C. Knowles, 64, Salt Lake City lumberman, died Tuesday at a local hospital from a lingering illness. He had been associated with the Utah Lumber compay for many years.

Surviving are the following sons and a daughter: J. Lynn ad Melba Salt Lake City; Frank B. Knowles, Ogden; and Charles Vernon Knowles, Rolly, E. Hugh and Darwin Knowles of Glendale, Cal. Six grandchildren and five sisters also survive.

Funeral services will be announced by George Jenkins' Jews Resist Dictator, B'nai B'rith Head Says Fair Play Demanded by Americans, Holds Lodge Head The entire history and traditions of Jewry are opposed to any. type of dictatorship or swings either to the right or to the left in U. S. government, P. Allen Rickles, Seattle, grand president of District 4, B'nai B'rith lodge, told more than 300 persons attending a banquet sponsored by the lodge Tuesday night in the Hotel Utah.

Mr. Rickles said the original American government was patterned in a large degree from the Pilgrims' and Puritans' conceptions of the Jewish wealth during the period of the judges in the Old Testament. "I am confident that fascism, naziism and communism never will find a fertile soil in the United States. Bigotry, race or religious hatred never have flourished here, because the sense of good sportsmanship, justice and toleration of the American people are too strong," he said. The regional head told of operations of the anti-defamation league of the lodge organized to combat attacks on Jews or other minority groups, emanating largely, he said, from Germany.

He told also of work of the organization in homes for consumptives Tax Assessment Slash Sought by Coal Operators Commission to Make First Hand Study of Carbon Mine Conditions A request for a reduction in the assessments on the various grades of coal land in amounts averaging about 40 per cent was presented to the state tax commission Tuesday by the Utah Coal Operators' association, representing 16 of the largest coal mines in the state. The request was made at the conclusion of the second conference within a a a month between the commission and coal operators to discuss problems in the coal industry. The commission took request under advisement, announcing that a first hand study will be made in the Carbon county coal fields before any decision is rendered. The commission required by law to fix the assessment for taxation purposes of all mines and utilities on the first Monday in May. Irwin Arnovitz, chairman of the commission, who presided at the conference, said that Commissioners H.

P. Leatham and J. Will Knight will go to Carbon county Wednesday to make the first hand study. Argument Explained The case for the coal operators was presented at Tuesday's meeting by Clair M. Senior, attorney for the association.

His principal argument was that since 1920, when the present tax base was established, coal revenues have steadily declined, with the result that the amount of tax per ton of coal mined has increased. E. H. Burdick, geologist for the Utah Fuel company, estimated that taxes have increased from 6 to 7 cents in per 1935. ton in 1920 to 20 to 21 Mr.

Senior said the tax rates were established in 1920 on the assumption that coal production would continue to increase, but instead there has been a decrease. This has been due to the competition of coal from other states, of oil and gas, and, since 1930, to the depression. He pointed out that the tax rates were put into effect on the further assumption that the coal in class A lands would all be mined and turned into cash in six years, and the coal in class lands in 12 years. On the basis of present production, however, it would take 25 years to exhaust class A coal and 45 years to exhaust class coal. On Rail Proximity Coal lands are classified for taxation purposes largely on a basis of their proximity' to railroad loading stations and mine working stations.

Mr. Senior also contended that the tax commission, in making its assessments, does not make a proper allowance for depreciation of buildings and equipment. Mr. Leatham and Commissioner R. E.

Hammond asked Mr. Senior if it were not true that there have been decreases in the total assessments in the last few years. He replied that there had been some decreases, but to he the believed that they were many coal companies had been unable to pay taxes and had allowed tracts of lands to revert to the counties. S. A.

Ellsworth of Ogden, secretary of the State Tax Reform league, told the commission that the coal industry of the state is paying only 2.77 per cent of all taxes, while farmers and home owners are paying 40 per cent, Arrest Speeder Charged with speeding, Leslie H. Ludwig, 27, of 908 Browning avenue, Tuesday was booked at police headquarters. He was arrested at Fourth South and Ninth East streets. Board Favors Action on New School Office Construction Will Await Better Financial Conditions The Salt Lake City board of education went on record Tuesday night favoring the construction of a building to house the school system's administrative offices. the same time, the board provided for refunding a $2,040,000 issue of 1919 bonds due in 1939 and bearing 5 per cent interest per annum.

The board also tentatively, approved a "slight wage for teachers during the school year of 1936-37. Board's Plan A resolution, offered by the committee of the whole and adopted the board, provided that the "board Pal plan to construct an administration building on the Twelfth school site, First South, between Fourth and Fifth East streets, when and as funds are or can be made available. for this purpose." Dr. L. John Nuttall superintendent of schools, afterwards explained that construction of the administration building will not take precedence over the erection of public school buildings.

Dr. Nuttall said the administration building will be put up when the school system is in a financial position to undertake the project. He indicated A funds might be sought to further the project. Faces Necessity The school board was faced with the necessity for providing new offices for its administrative department as the result of a communication sent to' the board in January by City Commissioner P. H.

Goggin, indicating the board would have to vacate the offices it now occupies in the city and county building "in the near future." The board employed a group of business interests to work out and execute the bond refunding plan. The companies employed were Edward L. Burton the investment department of the Continental Bank and Trust company, A. First Security Trust company, I. Hogle Snow, Bergin Snow, Goodart Ure, Pett Morris, Walker Bank and Trust company and Blythe Inc.

Pact to End The agreement with the companies will terminate December 31, 1936, although the board reserved the right to reconsider the plan within 30 days. The fiscal agents are to trade bonds at par, the new bonds to be dated January 1, 1936, and maturing January 1, 1956. They are to bear 5 per cent interest annum until July 1, 1939, and 3 per cent from then until maturity. The board agreed to pay the agents 11 per cent on the par value of the bonds refunded. C.

O. Jensen, who explained afterward that he regarded it as a venture in which the board is "simply speculating with public funds, which may prove a costly cast. a dissenting vote. He said it was his view the bond brokers probably would prove to be the only beneficiaries. Budget Increase board authorized school officials to prepare the budget for the 1936-37 school year view to slightly increasing teachers' pay.

The amount of the probable increase, it was explained, cannot be determined until the budget for the year is worked out. The teachers also will work under the present contract during the next school year, the board decided. The board voted turn over $1200 to Salt Lake City for the construction of each of two proposed pedestrian underpasses, one at South Temple and streets and the other at First North and Second West streets. Final Rites Conducted For George L. Savage Funeral services for George L.

Savage, 71, manager of the C. R. Savage store at 12 to 14 South Main street for many years, were conducted Tuesday afternoon in the Salt Lake Memorial mausoleum. Mr. Savage died Sunday at his home, 313 Fourth avenue, of a heart ailment.

During his life he had gained recognition for his work on the "Old Folks" committee, of which his father, Charles R. Savage, had been one of the founders. P. Allen Rickles and orphans and homes. for the aged of all religious denominations.

Mr. Rickles spoke also at a luncheon meeting of the lodge. Abe Guss, local president, was in charge of both meetings. Beet Producers Of Utah, Idaho To Get $250,000 Sugar Refiners Announce Additional Payment on April 1 Thousands of dollars in additional payments on the 1935 beet crops in Utah and Idaho will be made by three sugar companies April 1, and two more payments are expected to follow, officials announced Tuesday. The Utah-Idaho Sugar company, largest processor in the two states, will make payments April 1 to farmers totaling $250,000, Willard T.

Cannon, vice president and general manager, reported, In other states, $150,000 more will be distributed. Payments Vary Payments, based on the sugar content of beets, vary slightly. In Idaho, the Utah-Idaho company's additional payment will be 50 cents per ton. In Salt Lake and Utah counties, it will be 40 cents, and in Box Elder county, 45 cents. The April 1 payments will increase total payments to growers to $4.40 in Salt Lake and Utah ties, and to $4.80 a ton in Idaho, Mr.

Cannon said. H. A. Benning, vice president and general manager of the Amalgamated Sugar. company, said the first-of-the-month payment by his firm will be 50 cents per ton to Idaho growers and 45 cents in Utah, bringing the total in the latter state to $4.35 a ton and in Idaho to $4.80.

According to R. T. Harris, president of the Gunnison Sugar company, his concern will pay growers in Sevier and Sanpete counties an additional 50 cents a ton, increasing the total to $4.80. This is to be paid on a basis of 15.58 per cent sugar content, and checks will be sent to growers March 15. Fix Earlier Date "According to the terms of the contract between the growers of Utah and Idaho and the company, a second payment for beets is to De paid April 15, providing such payment is justified by the price received for sugar," explained Mr.

Cannon. "However, in view of the need of funds by the average grower for the planting of his crop, the company has decided to advance the date of payment to April 1." At least one more payment will be made next October, and, it was indicated, another may be forthcoming in July. Failing to reach an agreement with processors for 1936 beet contracts, directors of the Utah Sugar Beet Growers' association, left the city for their homes Tuesday night, the final date for fixing contracts having expired. Education Board Plans Final Drive for Monument Funds Elated at the response of school children so far for voluntary donations for the construction of a patriotic monument on the city and county building grounds, the board of education Tuesday night made plans for a final drive to raise the full amount of the fund necessary for the project. School children have donated $1913.51 toward the project, which has been indorsed by the school board and city and county commissions.

The final drive, which will be conducted soon, will be launched with the view to raising another $1000, necessary to carry out the project. Dr. L. John Nuttall superintendent of schools, lauded the spirit shown by the school children in the matter of the volun- Mayor Erwin Authorized To Present Plan Before Officials at Washington Program Contemplates Extensive Improvement to Field and Buildings; Speed Urged as City Seeks Army Flying Center An extensive improvement modernize the Salt Lake City under a $2,235,925 works progress nounced Tuesday by Mayor E. Irrigation Men Reach S.

L. to Attend Parley Soil Conservation Plans Hold Interest of West Farmers Western farmers and representatives of irrigation and reclamation projects were arriving here Tuesday for the fifth annual Institute of Irrigation Agriculture conference which convenes Wednesday in the Newhouse hotel for three days. Wednesday's program has been SO arranged by Chairman L. E. Freudenthal, Las Cruces, N.

president of the New Mexico Farm bureau, to permit delegates to attend the institute and the regional meeting on the soil conservation act. Unusual Import "Because of importance of both meetings," said Mr. Freudenthal, "which supplement each other, urge attend both sessions. The soil conservation conference necessarily is considering plans of immediate concern and importance to western agriculture and our institute meeting also will evolve around subjects of tremendous importance to western agriculture. "No problem is of greater importance to western agriculture than that of obtaining adequate water supplies.

Necessarily, plans of procedure under the new soil conservation and domestic allotment act, in terms of soil erosion control and conservation of soil fertility, will have to revolve around replacement crops which can be grown under western conditions. That, necessarily, involves questions of adequate water supplies and also involves costs of irrigation and payments on irrigation construction." Bureau Head to Speak Chester H. Gray, Washington representative of the American Farm Bureau federation, will be principal speaker at a banquet at 7 p. Thursday, in the Newhouse, which will be presided over by R. W.

Blackburn, president of the California Farm Bureau federation. Mr. Gray's topic will be "Farm Legislation Affecting the Water User, from the Washington Viewpoint." Wednesday, Dr. Charles A. Lory, president of Colorado State Agricultural college; Dr.

H. L. Kent, president of New Mexico State Agricultural college, and E. O. Larsen, engineer in charge of Utah reclamation projects, will discuss Study of Repayment Policies on Federal Reclamation Projects." "Practical Irrigation Problems on which Farmers need Assistance" will be the topic of an address the opening day by Dr.

William Peterson, of agricultural extension, State Agricultural coldirectors lege. Farmers will be invited to take part in general discussions. Tracy R. Welling, executive secretary of the Farm Bureau federation, who has charge of arrangements for Thursday's dinner, announced that Dr. Walter Lowden Milk, Washington, D.

had accepted an invitation to appear on the program. Latest U. S. Map Easily Obtained Can you name, in their order from north to south, the first tier of states on the west side of the Mississippi river? The tier on the east? How many states are touched by the Great lakes? What state is bounded by the greatest number of states? If you are well grounded in the geography of your country you can answer these questions. If you cannot answer them, you need a copy of the new fivecolor map of the United States so that you can brush up on things that every American should know.

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L. Area A sharp decline in temperatures marked Tuesday's weather report in Salt Lake City; for three days the mercury has hovered between sixand ten degrees above normal, but Tuesday's recordings showed the mean to be seven degrees below the normal of 40. The highest recording was 40 degrees and the lowest 26. Fair conditions with little change in temperatures were forecast for Wednesday and Thursday. A high pressure area, which centered over southeastern Idaho, WAS blamed, for the spring weather setback.

However, an inland advancing low pressure area was to bring a disturbance to the Rockies before the week -end, the weather bureau summary said. Local Chamber's Vote Disagrees With U. S. Poll S. L.

Organization Refuses to Give Decision on Two Questions Disagreement with the United States chamber. of commerce's attitude on federal taxation policies was registered on one major point by the local chamber, it was revealed Tuesday, when results of a nationwide poll of chambers of commerce received here. was, local board of governors voted against the proposition that combined spendings on federal, state and local governments demanded so great proportion the national income that they discouraged business, threatened the security of wages and savings and retarded employment. Only 82 Oppose On the same question the national poll showed 15911 in favor of the proposition and only 82 votes opposed. On a question that after the budget is balanced federal expenditures should be decreased at the earliest possible date in order that taxes might be reduced, the Salt Make City refused to cast any vote.

Nationally the proposition was favored by with two opposed. On Inheritance The local chamber also refused to vote on the question: "Should the federal estate tax be repealed and inheritance taxes avoided in order that these revenue sources may be left to the several states?" Nationally the result was 1314 in favor and 306 against. On other questions, the Salt Lake City organization voted with the majority of other chambers in favoring reduction of federal expenditures to avoid higher taxes, control of unemployment relief by states, and cessation of the extension of governmental activities to compete industry. Church Leader Plans Busy 80th Birthday Rudger Clawson, president of the council of the twelve apostles of the L. D.

S. church, intends to enter his eightieth year Thursday doing a "good day's work," he said Tuesday. Mr. Clawson, who was born March 1857, in Salt Lake City, a son of Hiram B. and Margaret Gay Judd Clawson, will attend the usual meeting of the apostles and members of first presidency Thursday in the temple and will attend to other work later at his desk in the church offices.

Members of his family will honor him with a birthday dinner during the evening. Mr. Clawson was ordained an apostle by Lorenzo Snow, October 10, 1898. Church Head Returns From Coast Vacation Invigorated after playing golf half 8 dozen times near Los Angeles, Heber J. Grant, L.

D. S. church president. returned Tuesday night to Salt Lake City, after a 10-day visit to the coast city. Mrs.

Grant remained at San Bernardino and will come home in several days. program, designed to thoroughly airport, is contemplated administration project anB. Erwin and Commissioner P. H. Goggin, in charge of the airport.

The city commission Tuesday authorized the mayor to make application to the A for a review of the proposed program, and the mayor said immediate steps will be taken in an effort to gain PA approval. The proposal will be broached to PI A officials in Washington as the result of pressing need for extensive improvements at the airport so that it can retain its strategic position as one of the most important air centers in the United States. Larger Plans Plans for the project were developed quietly while the city officials took steps to continue the much smaller development now under way as a A project. Meanwhile, the chamber of commerce has protested the situation at the airport, has urged city officials to attack the problem with vigor. The chamber's position also is reflected in the views of the Salt Lake Real Estate board, expressed in communication to the city commission Tuesday.

Mayor Erwin and Commissioner Goggin explained that the PA will be asked to approve greatly enlarged program, which contemplates the expenditure of $2,199,955 in federal funds and $35,970 in city funds. It is planned to construct runways extending north and south. They would be 300 feet wide and each would be 5300 feet long. They would be constructed of six-inch concrete, with 50-foot oil mulch shoulders. There also extending would east be and a runway, west for 4100 feet, of six-inch concrete, with 50-foot gravel shoulders.

Plan Taxi Strip The program contemplates the building of 11,000 feet of taxi strip, to be of six-inch concrete, 50 feet wide, with a four-inch gravel base under the concrete. of extension strips to the concrete It is planned to build 4100 feet runways, to be of six-inch gravel and 200 feet wide. The program provides for a drainage system along the runways, taxi strip and apron. It is proposed to build a six-inch concrete apron 3000 feet by 300 feet, with four-inch gravel base under the concrete. The plan further calls for the grading and leveling of acquired land, removal of two and a half miles of telephone line and the building of one mile of new telephone line.

The project would involve the laying of 5600 feet of 15-inch concrete pipe line, 2600 feet of 24-inch pipe line and 3900 feet of 30-inch pipe line. A five-mile drainage ditch would be dug. Two and a half miles of field wire fence and .7 mile of cyclone fence would be put up on boundaries. The gun club, to the west, would be removed. Lights and Radio Three miles of boundary lighting and runway marker lighting systems and a radio control system would be installed.

Trees, shrubs and sod would be put in to minimize dust. A hangar, with 90,000 feet of floor space, would be erected, and an addition would be made to the administration building. The total labor cost is estimated at $1,094,010, with the city putting up $2220 and the A the remainder. The total cost for superintendence was fixed at $13,950, of which the city would pay $1350. The cost for materials, equipment and incidentals was estimated at $1,127,965, of which the city would pay $32,400.

It was estimated that relief workers paid from federal funds would work 19,158 man-months, the total of workers paid from federal funds, 19,278 man-months, and the total workers paid by the city, 18 manmonths, or a total of 19,296 manmonths for all workers. To Acquire Land It was explained in the outline prepared for the A that the city. will acquire necessary land for the completion of the project at a cost of approximately $20,000. The outline also points out that the city is prepared to begin work immediately after the project is approved. "The Salt Lake City municipal airport is rapidly becoming one of the most used fields by both government and commercial planes and is badly in need of the improvements set out," the application explains.

The grading and leveling features of the project would cost about $325,815. Trench work would cost about $99,000, The concrete paving is estimated at $1,302,000. A total of $225,000 would be expended for the new hangar, while $40,000 is set up for the proposed administration building addition. The letter received by the city commission Tuesday from the real estate board urged. speedy action on the present airport improvement program.

tary donations, saying that the total received to date was higher than might have been expected. When the final campaign gets under way, children who have not yet contributed will be asked to turn over not more than 15 cents each to their teachers or principals for the monument fund. The entire project is expected to be financed by the 33,000 school children, and will be. brought to completion under the direction of organizations. The monument will consist of a cement base, a granite block fronted by a bronze plaque, displaying the constitution of the United States in relief.

Figures of a boy and a girl will be beside the block. A flagpole will be erected at the rear..