News-Journal from Mansfield, Ohio • 10

News Journal, Mansfield, O. Sunday, May 25,1986 io-a Continued Airports From Page 1-A Ashland County Airport County-owned general aviation airport, 700 County Road 1 102, RD 2, operated by Air Rentals, which offers flight training In aircraft ranging from two-seat single-engine to high perfection. Also provides charter services, light maintenance, hangars and tie-down facilities. Attended 8 a.m. until dark seven days a week.

Port Bucyrus City-owned general aviation airport, 2254 Isaac Beal Road, offering 24-hour charter service, flight instruction, aircraft rentals and maintenance. Operated by DeTray Aviation, provides both hangars and tie-down facilities. Open 8 a.m. until dusk. Galion Municipal City-owned general aviation airport, Ohio 309, which serves as headquarters for Fischer Bros.

Aviation and GCS Air Service, an air freight carrier, A member of Northwest Orient Airlink that provides commercial passenger flights out of Mansfield. Maintenance facilities for their own planes and hangar and tie-down facilities. Attended 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. weekdays, 8 a.m.

to 6 p.m. Saturday and 1 1 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday. Morrow County "The basic difference is (Shelby Community Airport) gets no federal or state funds," Pittenger said.

"Some local corporations that use the airport have contributed for improvements." But even when your airport is eligible, getting federal and state funds isn't easy, according to Arthur Heck, manager of the Willard Airport. Heck is currently involved in a battle with the Federal Aviation Administration over funds for his airport, owned by the city of Willard. "I don't think we should get anymore money than anybody else," Heck said. "But we've never gotten any since I came here (in 1958)." The FAA has demanded that the Willard airport be moved in order to be eligible for a grant. "They've spent all their funds for the next two years," Heck said, "so we'll have to apply in 1988 along with 92 others.

"I doubt we'll get anything," he said. "I guess we don't have the right political connections." According to Ashland County Airport manager Mark Cookson, however, his facility has also gotten very little help from the FAA or the county. "This airport actually supports itself," Cookson said. "We've had no grant money since I've been here in August." He said the airport runs a successful flight training program. Mt.

Vernon Airport manager Fel-ton Hammond said most of his money has come from the state, not the FAA. "The state has been very supportive. We're in contact with the people at ODOT all the time and they have supported us financially." Fischer Brothers' Baker said the people who use the Galion airport are its main supporters. "They pay for fuel and to keep their planes here," he said, adding, "Paying taxes to support the airport is like paying taxes to pave the road on the other side of town even though you're getting no direct benefit." Many of the area airports were started around 1965 under a state program that established one airport per county. According to the Fishers in Mt.

Gilead, this was designed to Hands From Page 1-A said, laughing. "The average person fills up about 4 feet when they stretch their arms out." Organizing an event on such a large scale is no small task, but making sure participants are placed properly and kept safe while they're in line has kept William Denihan, director of the Ohio Department of Highway Safety, on the road for months. The national Hands Across America organization has assumed responsibility for security, Denihan said, but the state isn't taking any chances. He said he has had one staff member working full time on the project for the past six weeks to coordinate police protection and positioning on the roads. "We've had a few problems, but nothing that couldn't be handled," Denihan said.

"We did learn that what looked good on a map when this thing first started didn't look very good in reality." he line will not follow the original path. About four months ago, plans to cross the Thomas Edison Bridge over Sandusky Bay near Port Clinton were scrapped to avoid traffic congestion. Planners say the route will enter Ohio through Cincinnati and snake through Dayton, Springfield, Columbus, Marion, Toledo, Fremont, Sandusky, Cleveland, Akron and Youngs- Safety From Page 1-A rybody is doing business," Moran said. "Industry ultimately will be forced to find ways for making their products without using hazardous chemicals." The regulations require a label on every container on the premises that includes any amount of some 2,300 hazardous substances. OSHA estimates there are 575,000 such chemical products in the workplace with more being introduced every day.

In addition, employers must have material safety data (MSD) sheets or technical bulletins for each product detailing its composition, health and safety hazards and precautions for safe handling and use. The sheets, usually two to four pages in length, must be readily accessible at all times. Dan Ritchey, executive director of the Galion Chamber of Commerce, said he doesn't believe the community minds supporting the airport, despite its business moves outside of Galion. "From our point of view, it's an asset to have the commuter service based out there," Ritchey said. "People are aware of their airport because of the success of Fischer Bros." This visibility isn't enjoyed by all small airports.

Port Bucyrus manager Kevin De-Tray said he believes many local people don't know where their local airport is, although it was built in the 1950s. "Most smaller towns see the airport as a country club for a few elite people," DeTray said, "but that's not true." DeTray has pursued an aggressive public relations effort in his four years as manager, he said, and has met with success mostly in his charter business. Charter service, the mainstay of the Bucyrus and Willard airports, is designed mostly for business representatives. A trained pilot from the airport flies them to their destination, usually somewhere hard to reach by commercial air travel, and brings them back for a standard fee. "I feel this area, in general, is untapped," he said.

"People are doing more driving than they need to." The country-club attitude about smaller airports sometimes causes problems for decision-makers, according to George Fischer, Bucyrus Airport Commission president. "Every time we spend money out there, we get problems from local people," Fischer said. "They say it's for local flyers when actually 99 percent of business people coming to Bucyrus fly in." One way to avoid this tension from the public is to run your own airport, like Cleland Wingart of Shelby. Wingart's airport began as a grass strip next to the company he owns on the property, American Tower, according to an officer of that company, Jerry Pittenger. Pittenger said the general aviation airport is small and has no substantial charter, rental or maintenance.

town before it exits into Pennsylva-nia. Denihan said no highways will be closed to traffic and troopers from the State Highway Patrol will be positioned along the line. "This whole thing was just amazing from the start. A lot of those nay-sayers say it won't work, but I'm sold on it. The only thing I'm worried about is That's the only thing I can't guarantee," Denihan said.

Cull said he is sure that come rain or shine, the people will be there. Ohio promises to have its share of characters in line. Among the more notable participants standing in line in Columbus will be Gov. Richard Celeste and his family, flanked by developmentally disabled children and adults sponsored by the Ohio Department of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities; U.S. Sen.

John Glenn, D-Ohio; Al Oliver of the Toronto Bluejays; and Ohio native Franklin Cover, star of the television show, "The Jeff ersons." Other celebrities tentatively scheduled to appear in line in Cincinnati are magician David Copperfield and actor Willard Pugh, who starred in the film "The Color Purple;" in Springfield, pop singers Billy Davis and Marilyn McCoo; in Cleveland, actress Celeste Holme, singer Telma Hopkins and Dr. Benjamin Spock, noted baby doctor, and in Lorain, comedian Don Novello. And in what has proven to be the most expensive part of the package companies must conduct training programs for all potentially exposed workers. OSHA estimates it is costing manufacturers about $43 per employee to provide that training and meet the other requirements. Just keeping up with new products and new workers is expected to add a cost of $160 million annually, or about $11 per employee.

As part of their routine inspections of manufacturing facilities, OSHA officials this week will start asking workers whether they have received that training. The regulations went into effect six months ago for the chemical industry, which must supply customers with the safety data sheets, and its 1.4 million employes. From November through April, OSHA found 497 violations at 175 of the 762 chemical plants inspected. gifts County-owned general aviation airport, 4679 Township Road 126. operated by Carl Fisher Jr.

Planes can be chartered by those who have flight licenses. Also operates crop-dusting business and has airplane maintenance and painting. Pilot instruction with flight and written tests. Attended 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

weekdays from April to October and until 6 p.m. November to March. Mt. Vernon Airport County-owned general aviation airport, Kinney Road, Mt. Vernon, RD 5, managed by Colonial City Aviation.

Offers complete flying school, excluding written FAA exams. Also provides maintenance on all types of planes, aircraft rentals, hangars and tie-down facilities. Attended from 8 a.m. to dusk weekdays and 10 a.m. to dusk weekends.

Shelby Community Airport Privately owned general aviation airport at Ohio 39 and Ohio 96 West, operated by American Tower Inc. Provides air taxi and charter services and hangar and tie-down facilities. Open 24 hours. Willard Airport City-owned general aviation airport, Box 117, Willard, RD 4, operated by Willard Aviation Corp. Has been involved In debate with FAA over moving airport facilities.

Intends to seek funds for the project in 1988. Offers air freight service and landing area for air ambulance. Also provides crop-dusting, flight instruction and charter service in U.S. and Canada. Tie-down facilities available, Attended 8 a.m until dark.

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