Because of the great esteem in which patients and friends held him in a 100-mile radius of Goodland, Dr. Renner was featured on the cover of the University of Kansas Graduate magazine. He said he couldn't have been able to carry on the work he had been doing for many years, emergency trips of up to 300 miles to isolated ranches, and consultations and operation in other towns, without his plane. He never had problems with money or collection. His system is based on the premise that most people are honest and his fees were not high. No one was refused service because of inability to pay.
People use to pay with vegetables, livestock and even once with moonshine.
He drew the line at chickens. If they wanted to give him poultry, he figured they needed them more than he did. He told them to pay him later. Renner Field also lays claim to being the home of this area's only National Weather Service Office and Federal Aviation facility. Dr. Renner flew the first air mail letters out of Goodland to Norton and Salina in May 1939.