The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-05-17
Abandon
Airport Suit
Report indicates
Site lmproetieoble

Reports of Detroit commits
sion terming the Warren Town
ship airport site impracticable,
and unofficial comment virtual
ly eliminating the site from ma
jor airline commerce, on We'd
nesday left a Macomb County
Circuit Court jury unperturbed
as it neared the end of its de-
cisions on airport property val
uations.
In court on the case since
August II, 1914, and in secret
session since March 6 Of this
year, the jury is about ready to
pr; norace its findings and stip-
ulate the amounts to be paid to
property owners affected in the
Dequindre-Eight Mile area.
The last of 1873 parcels of
land-ranging in value from
S100 TO more than $4,000
has been surveyed and evaluat-
ed by the jury.
On Tuesday the one juryman
and IL women, attended by
court officers, made what is
believed to have been their last
trip to the proposed airport
property.
1t is generally conceded by
court observers that the airport
has been judged a necessity by
the jury, and most of the leng-
thy studies involved in their
work have been entailed by the
fixing of property values.
NO EFFECT SFEN
The report of a Detroit COM
mission rejecting" the proposed
$2O,0O0,000 Detroit airport site
in Warren Township will have
no effect on the jury condem-
nation proceeding in M oun t
Clemens. a court spokesman said
Wednesday.
1t was pointed out that the
matter of suitability and UNI
suitability of the airport site
was thoroughly thrashed out"
during preliminary sessions of
the court case, when such ex-
perts as Eddie Rickenbacker ap-
peared and gave evidence, most
ly in favor of the site.
Mayor Edward Jefferies him.
self took the witness stand. and
testified in favor of Detroit's
planned airport expension.
The City of Detroit weighed
the pros and cons revealed dur
ing three weeks of such court
testimony, and favored the pro
side of the controversy. It's
legal staff, led by Bert Sogge,
corporation counsel, was ordered
to 60 ahead with the case. Sur
veys, studies and other data
bearing on airport problems.
both present and postwar, were
in the hands of Detroit at the
time the suit was started, OBJ
servors point out.
The belated Metropolitan De-
troit Airport Planning Author
ity report submitted to Mayor
Jeffries this week is said to have
contained nothing that was not
considered when the petition
for condemnation was taken
into court last August.
PREFER WAYNE AIRPORT
The surveying group is work
ing with state funds reported
that the Wayne County Air
port las most practical for serv-
ing the postwar needs of De-
troit 1t was pointed out that
the Warren Township site is too
close to the present airport site
for approval under Civil Aero
nautic Authority regulations.
They claimed that the De-
quindre airport would interfere
seriously with adjacent smaller
flying fields of Importance in
the postwar scheme.
H viewer, Circuit Court
spokesman in Mount Clemens
indicated that the condemnation
case will proceed according to
plan-unless some official ac-
ton OF Detroit, hating it,
should take pla e. This is deem
ed improbable due to the near
conclusive stage that has been
reached,