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Proposed Airport Zoning Would Ban
10-Story Buildings In Business Area
All Palmerites interested in the
Palmer Municipal Airport zoning
regulations proposed by the Al
aska Aeronautics Communica
tions Commission should be pres
ent at the hearing scheduled for
10 a.m. Wednesday, November
14, in the Co-Op Club Room «t
Recreation Hall.
Anyone with a few hours to
spare can spend them to good
advantage in the U. S. Commis- I
sioner’s office studying the maps,
plats, and regulations proposed
for adoption.
The approach zones on the four
ends of the two runways flare out
from a width of 400 feet near the
runv.ay ends to a width of 2.40)
feet at a distance of 10,000 feet
away. The grade (elevation) pro
vided for is 40 to one, which is
two and one-half percent, me
flare out ratio is ten to one.
For example. A1 Hagen’s build
ing, which is approximately m
the direct line of the approach
one corridor is approximately
2,800 feet from the end of the
west end runway. At 2,800 feet
in a westerly direction from the
west end of the east-west run
way, the maximum height of any
building or other obstruction
would be 70 feet under the pro
posed zoning regulations. Thus,
for about a half a mile on either
side of A1 Hagen’s building on a
line perpendicular to the center
of the east-west runway, no ten
story building would be permit
ted. It might be possible to have
five, six, or even seven story
buildings provided they were
under 70 feet.
Near the location of the pro
posed MEA building and the city
hall, the two and a half perceni
grade would permit no buildings
over 50 feet high. There is a pos
sibility that the 35-foot, three
phase pow'er line along Springer
road might extend into the pro
hibited approach zone. Richard
Demming, who laid out the air
port and made the above rough
calculations about how the regu
lations would affect the Palmer
business area, believes that th*
maximum height that would be
permitted on Springer Road is
about 30 feet.
Demming was certain that the
ARA and Bureau of Reclamation
houses would be clear of the tran
sitional area hazard zone which
New USAF Aeronautical
Chart and Information
Office at Elmendorf
Elmendorf AFB, Alaska. Nov
3. 1951—Alaska’s first United
States Air Force Aeronautical
Chart and Information Office
(ACIO) will begin operation here
15 November, it was announced
today by Captain William E. Mc
Lendon. officer-in-charge.
The Alaska ACIO will be one
of seven world-wide field instal
lations of the USAF Aeronautic
al Chart and Information Service
in Washington. D. C., command
ed by Colonel Paul C. Schauer.
who headed the air force unit
which charted the wild, enemy
infested Soloman Islands during
World War li.
The mission of these ACIO’s is
to provide current aeronautical
charts and related publications
with the least amount of delay
when requested, and to gather in
formation for use in these charts
and publications.
The term “related publications”
covers many publications of in
terest to all pilots and naviga
tors. The more familiar are the
“radio facility charts” and “pi
lots hand books”.
The ACIO, Alaska, compiles all
information pertaining to aids or
hazards to navigation, and pub
lishes it in the West Canada and
Alaska radio facility charts. These
charts are at present printed ev
ery other month and corrected
each 15 days. It is planned with
in the near future to publish
them monthly. The corrections
will continue to be issued each
15 days.
The pilots handbook contains
all the information necessary for
a pilot to make an instrument ap
proach and landing at airfields
where such procedures have been
established.
By using the radio facility
chart and the Pilots Handbook,
a pilot can, under instrument
conditions, conduct his entire
flight from departure to destina
tion using only the information |
extends 250 feet from each side
of the airport or 350 feet on eith
er side of the runways and up
ward at an angle of one to seven.
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Invitational Cagers*
Tournament To Be
Staged By Kiwanians
At their regular meeting Mon
day noon. Palmer Ki wants heard
a committee report OKAY on
holding the third annual Kiwams
invitational basketball tourna
ment this year.
No definite dates have been set
at this time. President Hugh
Johnson postponed appointment
of the tournament committee
pending discussion of duties with
potential committeemen.
winging into action for its com
ing attraction is the Minstrel
Show committee. Chairman H. J
Hodgson announced an import
ant committee meeting to be held
Thursday evening at 8 p.m. in
the Palmer Drug office.
John Gorsuch’s talk at the Ki
wanis Charter night banquet so
impressed local members that
they would like to circulate its
message widely. Jim Hurley, Tom
Day, and Bill Rempel were as-;
signed to the investigation of
printing and distributing costs,]
with a report expected November
12.
The Maze-Johnson “secret pro
gram” is still a secret because the
necessary materials failed to ap
pear. Maze, Bill Head, and Bill
Rempel took care of the void
with an interesting substitute
proyam.
The annual Kivvanis election
and business meeting will be held
during the regular weekly meet
ing Monday November 19.
contained in these publications.
The two publications may oe I
obtained directly from the'
ACIO’s by USAF organizations
by U.S. Navy organizations thru
the Hydrographic Office, Wash
ington 25, D. C.; by the Royal
Canadian Air Force, through the
RCAF Flight Information Cen
ter, Ottawa, Canada, and by au
thorized civilian agencies by ap
plication direct to the Directoi
of Intelligence USAF, Washing
ton 25, D. C.
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Color Positive Prints—Ansco
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COMM'L. PHOTOGRAPHY
HEAR
A. V. Richey. B.A.. B.D., M.R.E.
Pastor
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
(Meeting in Carpenters* Hall)
Sun„ 11 a.m.—"God's Message
to Tom, Dick and Harry"
7 p.m., "The Holy Spirit"
Chalk Illustration. Mrs. A. V.
Richey
IT MAKES A DIFFERENCE
WHAT YOU BELIEVE.
NOTES FROM YOUR
EXTENSION SERVICE
By RICHARD BLUE
M&lanuska Valley Breeders As
sociation to take grazing lease.
At the regular monthly meet
ing of the MVBA last night the
members of the breeders associate
tion voted without dissent to ac
cept the offer of Vic Falk to sign
over his grazing lease in the lit
tle Susitna area. This action is
one of the first the association
has taken for the benefit of its
members besides the regular
breeding service.
By taking this lease for its
members the association gains
for 20 years with option to re
new one of the choice grazing lo
cations in the Valley. The value
of this lease will be more appar
ent in the future but many dairy
men have already expressed in
terest in placing stock on the
range. Vic Falk, Harold Thuma
and Joe Gisalson constitute the
range committee that will handle
the details of managing the range
for the MVBA.
German Displaced Persons
In March or April 1952, there
will be available 5 000 additional
German expellee farm families.
Necessary forms can be obtained
from the Fairbanks Extension
office. Interested persons should
write to Lynn O. Hollist, Exten
sion Service. College, Alaska, as
soon as possible for forms and
information.
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