Grants Pass daily courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1919-1931, 1919-05-27
COMMITTEE FROM AERO CLUB
OF OREGON VISITS CITY IN
INTEREST OF CARNIVAL
PRONOUNCE SITE AS IDEAL ONE
Iso,iio Not Definitely Settled and
Ayiators Urge Citizens to Prepare
Landing Place

Col. Lewis T.. Campbell special
represontatiye OF the Victory Rose
Festival ut Portland June II, IL and
10, and John r. Rislcy, Lieut.. l.. II.
Mullineaux and Lieut.. $. T. French
were In Grants Pass today In the In
forest OF that event. lieutenants
French and Mullineaux have been In
the service as "blrdmen," therefore
are competent to Judge what would
make a good landing place for air
planes.
These men were appointed as
commlte to locate aviation landings
In Oregon. especially for the air
planes which are TO ny from Mather
Field, Cal, TO Portland during the
Rose Festival. The following letter
from Harry l.. Watson. lieutenant OF
air service. TO Milton II. Rlepper.
president OF the Oregon Aero Club
at Portland. fully explains plans for
taking the airplanes to the Rose Fes-
tivai: ~fsr'-t''-.
Our tentative plans for landings.
ctc., on the flights 20 Portland are
now as follows: First day--stop at
Chico, Redding and Yreka, Cal. Sec
ond day. stop at Medford, Glendale
and Roseburg. Ore. Third day. stop
at Eugene. Salem and Portland. We
shall plan to arrive on the evening
of June 10.
This schedule may be changed on
receipt OF the information as to land
ing fields which is being prepared
by the pilots OF the Aero Club OF
Oregon. The schedule which ! have
outlined Is. as 4 have stated, merely
tentative and has been arranged
from a study OF maps.
Il have your letter Of May i6 sug-
Eesting parachute 40 drop from one
of the planes and also suggesting
that certain civilians be carried dur
Ing the trip. Authrity for such
flights can be obtained only from the
director OF air service at Washington
or higher authority. | suggest that
you take this matter up with the
director OF air service. am not
very desirous OF carrying any civil
ian passengers while actually travel
ing. The machines which we use
have capacity OF only two passen-
gers and they will he pretty well
loaded with the necessary mechanics
and with baggage. spare parts for
the motors. etc. There will be no
objection on our part to carrying
passengers while visiting the towns,
but, as have already stated au-
thority for such flights must be OBJ
tained from the director OF air SER
vice.
ut In now our plan TO bring one
de Haviland to Portland. in addition
TO the six JN4H planes. This will
make total of seven Jpiolets and
five passengers.
After viewing Iiawnridge heights
north OF this city, at the end of the
pavement. the committee stated that
Il would make an ideal landing
place for airplanes and assured the
Courier that they would so recon-
mend 1t. But little work will be re-
quired to put the field In condition
said lieutenant French this morn.
Sns.
While the committee that was
here today could not state positively
that the airplanes from Mather Field
would stop here on their way to
Portland, they gave It as their opin.
ion that II Grants Pass citizens
would prepare the Lawnridge tract
the planes would stop here. But re.
gardless OF this first flight OF planes
rthe airplane has come to stay and 4,
will not be long before a regular air
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