Illinois News Index

Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 27 Aug 1931, p. 22

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Dusinsa 15A uto-Gyro Base Sky Hiarbor airport, west of Glen- * coe, famnous as the scene of the Hlunt- er brothers' record-breaking enduranice flight, is soon to have another distinc- tion. It is to becomne,,an auto-gyro S$tenography- Bookkecepuig base for the Chicago* district. Bob Gast, formier pilot of the Untin' Secretarial Training - Al ýthe Bowler.. Chicago Tribune ship.- and for- -Braâhesmer department of comnmerce inspector Commercial Branchesà district, will fly a Kellett auto,. gyro to -Sky Harbor the latterpart of Day,,and, Evenin this %veek. This particular type of auto- gyro is manufactured by the Kellett New School Year Begins Tuesday, Sept.1 ierf corporati~on o Philadeiphia. onstration,.to interested' persons wh9 VANSTON BUSINESS COLLEGE .drmnge ftearrt ttdii uio Building: Evanston 1718 SherIMn Ave. trated with motion pictures, on the op- erationý of the autoa-gyro,. will, be held _______________________________________________at Sky, Harbor. inth near. f uture. F ol-. ___________________________________________________________ lowing the, lectures the at-gyro will Ibe lemnonstrated in flight. These' Iec- Itures are to be given f ree of charge, and %%ith no' obligations to interested a persons who may tare to hear then. apparently look clean, but. in reality, the dirt 'is pushed down in the nap and packed with- soap suds.' This fype af cleaning does more hàrm .ta the rug than good, ind is the cause for the soiled again very quickly. one must rug be'oming ifs con-. Fi sher Will Tell You' How to Play Ba-dmintonl Badminton, the gamne which is ýso popular in Canada at, present1, is f ast making inroads in this coutïry. ;George F. Fisher of Sky Harbor airport, West of, Glencoe, is one of the most recent fans. In fact, Fisher likes the game so well that he hias fitted up a badminton court on the second floor of the Sky Harbor clubhlouse and bas invited. lis f riends to visit the airport and, try their skill at the. game. A net and racquets arc sed, as in tennis, but the balls are oh. so different. 22 Airpianes Stored at Sky Harbor Airport Now Twventy-two airplanes are now stored- at Sky Harbor airport, wýest of Glen- coe. Maj. R. W. Schroeder andiGeorge F. Fisher, co-managers of the- airport, report that there bas been a marked in- crease in business. Three Eaglets were sold at the airport recenitly. The1num ber of planes stored, there nowv i. triple w~hatit, W.as,,eai7.y in the. sum- Mai. R. W * Schroeder Tells Waukegan Business Men Advantages of Munie- ipally 0wnied Air Field Plans for the establishmient of a, mu- nicipally owned airport at WVaukeg'an were discussed at. a meeting of the Wau-' kegan Rotary club Wednesday night, at which Maj. R. W. Schroeder of Sky Harbor airport, west of Glencoe, was the principal speaker. Major Schroeder bas located a.numn- ber of, the country's finest airports, in- cluding Sky Harbor. and Cuùrtiss air- port at Glenview, wvhich he buit, an d was asked to explain :to the ýleading business men of Waukegan the present and, future advantages, to, any city of havifig a municipally Qwnied airport.. The meeting wvas attended flot only by Waukegan Rotarians, but by the mayor and other city officiais and by the president and representati ves o ôf the Waukegan Chamber, of. Commerce. Plans are made to enist the. cooperation, of ail the civic groups of Waukegan .in the -project. I f this cooperation can. be obta'ined, Major Schroeder offered his services free of charge, for the engineering and consulting wvork necessary for the 'es- tablishiment >of a municipal airport at Waukzegan. Airport Operators of State Plan Assoc iation.. Plans are under way for the f orma- tibn of an airport operators'- asscicia-, tion for the state of Illinois. and Maj' R. W. Schroeder of Sky Hiarbor air- port attended meetings in Chicago Iast wveek and this iweek to help formulate plans for sucb an association.. In addition to airport managers, the organization would. include men engaged iin the-usual service facilities at the airports., .'The airport operators, through, their 'association, plan t.o cooperate With'the, newly ôrganized Illinois. Aeronauitics comm ission ,of which Maj.' Reed G. Landis of Glencoe, is chairman. The Aeronautics commission ýwas appoiîted byGov. Emmerson last week. Its duties wiIl include Iicensing of, aîrports and: air schools and the regulation of pilots. Itan who1 for S Grow!l FOIJNTAIN SQUARE Wilmette 3700 BUYS ANOTHER PLAN£ *Not satisfied with one plane,,Dion Owsley of No Man's Land, one of the, niorth shores tmost enthusiastic. pilots, bas purchased aniother, a Stinson. Me also owns a Rýobin. FLIES TO NEW YORK Hl. R. Thaw tootc off f rom Curtiss airport last .Thursday for New York. He was flying a three-place Lockheed sedan owned by William B. Leedsý of Air. Servrice, mc, Roosevelt field, New. Yo&k Stu ,How deep lis, your Oriental Rug, cleaned? a rug -*1

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