Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-09
VALLEY TO HAVE
PLANE SERVICE
TO Los ANGELES

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Air service direct from Los An
geles to Imperial Valley is to be
inaugurated on September 1o. ac-
cording to Ole May, general traf-
fic manager of the California Aer-
fal Transport company, who is in
Imperial Valley to confer with
chamber of commerce officials OF
the various valley cities concerning
schedules. Regular twice a day air
passenger service will be maintained
from Los Angeles through River
side, Banning, and Palm Springs to
Ell Centro, Brawley and CaleSico,
and return, with ships reaching the
Imperial county airport at hours
which will make connections with
the eastbound service of American
Airways now operating from Imper-
ial Valley.
May states that the new service
will be inaugurated on September
19 and will be preceded by inaugur-
al ceremonies at the Imperial coun-
ty airport on Sunday, September 18,
at which time one of the new travel
air cabin planes Of the service will
be christened Miss. Imperial VAL
ley" On this occasion the new
planes of the company will be on
view and business men of the valley
cities will be taken on short flights.
The companys fleet now consists
| of three ships but is to be aug
mented shortly by additional
planes.
Leo Hetzel, director of the Ell
Centre chamber and chairman of
the aviation committee of the As
sociated Chambers of Imperial
county, who with w. A. Tondro,
president of the Ell Centro cham
ber, was in conference with May
and Paul Preston, general passen-
ger agent of the California Aerial
Transport company, yesterday, made
the following statement, "The in
auguration of this service will give
Ell Centro and other Imperial
Valley cities direct route by plane
to Los Angeles, service which we
have not had for a number of
months. 1t will in no wise inter-
fere with the volume of business
now handled by American Airways
to San Diego, and will undoubtedly
increase the business of the Amer
ican AirwayS eastbound, as passen-
gers from Los Angeles, Riverside
and Palm Springs can fly to the
Imperial county air port and there
connect with the eastbound plane
operated by American Airways, and
which in turn connects with lines
leading to all parts of the United
States at Phoenix. There has been
demand for air service direct
from Imperial Valley to Los An
geles and it is this service the CAL
ifornia Aerial Transport company
plans to give"
May is well known in Imperial
Valley, having been connected with
transcontinental and Southern CAL
ifornia air travel for number of
years.
Company Well Backed
He was traffic manager for Gen.
tury Pacific Airlines, formerly op-
Grating from the Imperial county
airport to Los Angeles and Preston
was connected with the same COM
pany. May stated today at the
Ell Centro Chamber of Commerce,
Our company is adequately fin
anced for this project and we have
nothing to sell to the people but
paramount airplane service. We
could operate for a year without
a passenger and still be on sound
footing. Mr.. Talbot, our president,
is widely known as one of the
leaders of the aviation industry in
this country. The equipment which
we will put into service is brand
new and, we feel, is the best suited
for the comfort and safety of our
passengers"
Tentative schedules are for ar
rival of planes from Los Angeles
at the Imperial county airport at
9:20 a. m. and $3.50 p. M, with the
arrivals at Brawley and Calexico 10
minutes earlier and later than
these hours. Flights to Los An
geles will be made from Calexico
at 8:15 a. m. and $3.50 p. m, from
Ell Centro and Imperial at $3.50 a.
m. and 3:45 p. m. and from Braw-
ley at 8:45 a. m. and p. m.
A meeting of chamber of COM
merce representatives and business
men from El Centre, Brawley, I'm
perial and Calexico is to be held
tonight at Ell Centre Chamber of
Commerce headquarters at 7:30
o'clock for the purpose of discuss
ing plans and schedules with May
and Preston. w. A. Tondro, pres
ident of the Ell Centre chamber,
states that any persons interested
in this new passenger service will
be welcome at the meeting and
that any changes which may be
made in schedules, which the COM
pany wants to be as convenient as
possible for Imperial Valley persons,
will be announced tomorrow.