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May 14, 1968 Aviation DAILY Page 73 CAB HOPES FOR TRANSPACIFIC DECISION THIS YEAR, CROOKER SAYS Hope that the Transpacific air route case would be decided this year was expressed in Seattle yesterday by John H. Crooker Jr., chairman of the CAB. He was interviewed by The DAILY at the spring quarter regional meeting of the Assn. of Local Transport Airlines. Crooker said the Transpacific case is a complex international proceding [[proceeding]] but that he would hope the proceding [[proceeding]] would be completed in calendar year 1968. If Crooker's hopes are realized for a decision by year end, President Johnson, rather than the next president, would make the final decision. Seventeen airlines are seeking expanded authority in the transpacific proceeding. Crooker said it is premature to say whether the nation's airlines might require air fare increases. He noted traffic growth is continuing strongly and that this will help fill up seats made available by airlines' equipment expansion programs. The CAB, Crooker said, is "making deliberate efforts" to strengthen local service carriers with route awards in specific areas. The need for future subsidy reduction is obvious, he added. "I feel we must process applications(of local service airlines for improved routes) most expeditiously," Crooker continued. The Board action would include removing one and two stop restrictions where traffic growth warrants. Crooker said the Board's new Subpart M rule has led to some misunderstanding. It is designed to require as much proof of service needs as full length proceedings, he said. "It simply offers carriers an earlier date to offer proof." The Subpart M rule is aimed at relatively simple proceedings and the processing of cases involving local service airlines in seven to nine months, rather than twelve to eighteen months, Crooker said. * * * AIRPORTS SHOULD LEASE NOISE RIGHTS, HUD OFFICIAL SUGGESTS A federal housing official has proposed that airports "lease the right to make noise for a stated period of time," then settle claims of property owners who can prove they were damaged by the noise. Charles M. Haar, asst. secretary for metropolitan development of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, told the Practicing Law Institute Seminar in New York last week that such a system would encourage efforts to reduce aircraft noise in order to avoid the costs of noise damage claims. Most property owners damaged by noise "have not been afforded adequate relief," he said. "I submit that it is imperative that some system be derived that will place the cost of noise where it should properly fall. The transient nature of airport noise levels suggests that some system for leasing would be a more equitable means of recognizing accurately the extent of damage suffered for a given time." * * * KAMAN SALES RISE IN FIRST QUARTER Kaman Corp., Bloomfield, Conn., has announced sales in the first quarter 1968 of $18,422,688, up from $12,142,613 for the January-March period of 1967. Earnings for the first quarter of 1968 were $380,398, compared with $309,460. First quarter earnings were 60 cents a share on 635,643 average shares outstanding, compared with 54 cents for the year-earlier period, based on average outstanding shares adjusted for a three percent stock dividend. * * * SOUTHERN AIRWAYS ANNOUNCED the promotions of Capt. W. Bayne Grubb to v.p.-flight operations; Albert L. Maxson to treasurer and James R. Price, asst. v.p.-properties. Grubb, veteran pilot, had been serving the carrier as asst. v.p.-flight operations. Maxson was acting treasurer and Price has been director of properties.
