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(Section Five) THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN MIDWINTER RESOURCE EDITION, PHOENIX, SUNDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 25, 1927 PAGE SIX Tucson Boasts One Of Finest Municipal Airports Created In Western State 8 Tucson Public Library First Plane Visited Gity 17 Years Ago TVCBOy in the proud poaneasor The Question -O of on Of the finest municipal Jrport In fh Wtut, known tb Davia-Moninan ieia. Formally dedicated by th peer nt all birdmen. Col. Charles A.

Un1berh, on September 23, the field already ha gained nationwide recognition and 1 one of the few chartered fielda alone the Southwestern border. The airport takes its name from two of Tucson's hero dead, How- ard Davis and Oscar Monfhan, both of whom served the government ss pilots through the world war. Howard Davis was the son of Sam and Effie Davis and enlifted In the service few days after the war declaration by President Wilson. He concluded his train-Ins; course with the rank of lieutenant and went overseas In that Roofing Should Come Up But Once! Put Johns-Man ville Rigid Asbestos Shingles on right over your old roof capacity. Tucson, one of the oldest cities in Arizona, i known as the "Old Pueblo." It is the home of the University of Arizona and boasts of many fine public buildings.

An example is shown above in the Tucson public library. Nearly 10,000 Students Are Enrolled In Public Schools Of Tucson Area rOLLOW the example of Arizona's largest Copper companies, the Southern Pacific and of those in charge of building Salt River Valley Schools and use Johns-Manville Roofing, the permanent roofing that needs never to be renewed. Let us show you what real roofing economy means. completed three new grammar and legislation. A bill next was introduced into the senate setting aside the two sections for aviation.

The bill further authorized the department of interior to lease to the city of Tucson this tract for a period of 20 years, with an option for renewal, at an annual rental of $1 a year. The bill also provided that in case of a war emergency, the government could take over and operate the field, as well as authorizing any department of the government to erect any structures on the field for air service that It may deem expedient. The tract comprises in all 1.280 acres, of which the city already has cleared and levelled 240 acres. It has erected on the tract, additional to the hangars, a six-room brick cottage for use of the army sergeant and his family. Entire Field Fenced In co-operat'ion with the army, it has fenced the entire field and sunk a well.

A pumping system also has been installed and TTNEXCELLED educational facili-ties are available at Tucson, the center of education in Arizona. Additional to 15 grammar schools with a total valuation in excess ot $3,000,000, and a $750,000 Union high school, Tucson is the home of the University of Arizona, one of the j'oungest of all state universities, yet one of the finest. During the past year, Tucson school structures at a cost of approximately $210,000. Numerous improvements on the older buildings also were made until now Tucson schools ase as splendid as any in the state. The high school structure Itself is new, having been completed only a little more than a year ago.

It is accredited by leading universities of PHOENIX ROOFING SUPPLY COMANY capacity gas tank the nation and its enrollment this year approximates 1,500 students. In the grammar schools of the city, the enrollment this year passed the 8.000 mark for the first time in history, representing an increase of approximately 10 per cent over the enrollment last year, when 7,228 students were enrolled. E. C. Rose is city superintendent of schools and under his guidance their development has been rapid.

Its mining college already has gained recognition as one of the outstanding schools of its kind in the United States, while its agriculture college has contributed notable successes in the way of agriculture experiments. Of course, its work is confined chiefly to experimentations under the conditions present lease, held by the army air service, will be leased by Charles W. Mayse, who is operating a commercial field and training school at Tucson. Kirk Moore, chairman of the aviation committee of the Tucson Chamber of Commerce, said recently. Final work on the new field will be completed with the erection of a beacon light and a flood lighting system, it is expected.

Funds for this work now are being raised and the committee hopes to have the illumination features Installed soon after the first of the year, at a cost of about $5,000. The beacon light, witli a radius of about 150 miles, is to be known as the "Lindbergh Light," after Col. Lindbergh who dedicated the field. After ervinir mroiiKn me war, he continued in the army air service and was so employed when he was killed while flying across the state of Louisiana. Oscar Mnnthan also was a native TucHonian, enlisting in the air service at the outbreak of te war.

Ho met his death in the crash of a Martin bomber while in service in Hawaii in 1824. The Cilv of Tucson in dedicating its first municipal air field on November 1, 1925, save it the name of these two boys and then on the occasion of the dedication of the new field on Hep-tember 23, 1027, by Col. Lindbergh, gave it the same name. In view of the fact that the first field Is soon to be abandoned. First Plane In 1910 The history of aviation in Tucson dates back to February 18, 1910, when ihe city had its first "sir visitor." The pilot was Charles K.

Hamilton nnd he was in a Curtis plane. His appearance In Tucson was sponsored and financed by the Tucson Chamber of Commerce. That was the last Tucson saw of an airplane until Noveraher 11, 1911, when Commander Itogers and Charles Fowler, trans-comin-ental fliers, met there. Commander Roiiers was enroute east from San Jiiepo to New York and l'i-lot Fowler was enroute west, from New York to Iiego. Karly in DeLlnyd Thompson appeared at the old Fairland Acres race tr.uk in a plane and engaged in exhibition races against two high powered automobiles, driven by Barney Oldfield and Eddie Rickenbacker.

In those days, an airplane-automobile race was a spectacle and an evenly contested event. In 1313, Katherine Stinson, one of the first women to fly a plane and probably the most noted of ail women fliers, gave an exhibition at Tucson, delivering airmail and parcels from the Fairland Acres race track to the City of Tucson, a brain postoffice having been established at the race track for the benefit of the exhibition. Four years later, in 1917, when T'nited States army fliers made their first appearance, of consequence, along the border, they began to use Tucson as one of their bases and in 101!) the t'nited Ktates army border air patrol was established and used the old Tucson field as a base for operations. In May, Major William Clemens and his staff of six officers used the old field as a base from which they mapped, by photograph, all of the region east ot Yuma, sotifh of the Gila river, west of meridian 110 degrees, 30 minutes West, and north of the Mexican boundary line. This work occupied a period of several months.

Started Commercial Flying In that same year, the late Col. John C. Greenway, John B. Wright, present United States district attorney for the district of Arizona. John Latz, Harold Stein-field, Monte Mansfield and others foimed the Arizona Aviation company and purchased a Curtiss Oriole and two Curtiss machines in the establishment of the first commercial air fleet in the Southwest.

They operated this fleet for a period of several months, trips being made to Los Angeles, Phoenix, El l'aso, Denver, and other points in the Southwest. During his campaign for United States senator in 1H20, Ralph H. Cameron also frequently emploved one of tire machines "in making hurried flights from one citv to ths other. It is believed that that was the first time an air. plane had been employed for such Phone 6074 435 South Third Avenue has been placed underground.

An electric motor for pumping the gasoline from the storage tank into the airplanes has been a recent improvement, made possible by the construction of a power line to the field by the Tucson Gas, Electric Light and Power com pany. The Southern Pacific railroad also has established an unloading spur on the property so that gasoline can be unloaded by gravity into the field supply tank. The old Davis-Monthan field, i peculiar to this region, so that re-j suits obtained would hardly be ap-I plicable to farm sections the nation over. upon the formal expiration of the Arizona Representatives for the following Well Known Food Items up A Mil DIAMOND Brand Walnuts BLUE DIAMOND Almonds FONTANA'S Macaroni. Products KNOX GELATINE DEL MONTE Canned Goods DUNBAR'S Shrimp SHIELD Brand Pepper Sauce DROMEDARY Dates, etc.

i gills MORTON'S Salt SEA ISLAND Cane Sugars JAP ROSE Soap HONEY DEW Beet Sugar French's Cream Salad Mustard French's Mayonnaise and Bird Seed SKAT Soap KRAFT Cheese nowever, proved head of the times, the fleet operating only a year and the organization then disbanded. During its operation, the company had as pilots Howard Davis, Otto Enderton and Dogie Andrews, the Utter now of Fhoenix. In 1921, Tucson took over the Sixth avenue field and thereafter agreed to erect hangars and quarter buildings, the hangars being furnished by the United States government from Nogales, where they had been erected some time previously. Two uf these hangars were brought to Tucson and were in use there until one of them was moved to the new field. Each has a capacity of about 15 planes, denendinsr.

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Winchester, Mgr. ptanes. Mapped By Air Service It was during and 1924 that the United States army air service mapped out and established its "model army airway" from San Antonio. Texas, to San Diego. California, and included both Tucson and Yuma In its course.

This route is the one constantly flown by army aviators enroute east or west. In 1925. with the advent of the large type of planes, namely the O-J and C-l machines, and the late bomber types, Tucson recognised that its old or original field of SO acres was too small. The Chamber of Commerce aviation committee then began search for a new and larger field and In the course of their Investigations came upon two sections south of the city, previously set aside by the department agriculture for grasing experimental work. The committee learned that this land soon was to be thrown open for general entry and it petitioned President Coolidge to withdraw tor purposes of classification LUMBER CO.

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