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THE DAILY HOME NEWS. NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., FRIDAY, SEP 

Plan Paragraphs

To Montreal in Douglas DC3 Piloted by Mike Gitt Who Once Flew from Hadley and Somerset Hills
BY LARRY WOODRUFF

MONTREAL, Canada—We expected to be writing this piece from St. Louis, but a last minute change in vacation plans sent us to the quaint Canadian city. The trip was made via Canadian Colonial Airways and it was with much pleasure that we learned we'd been assigned a seat on a Douglas DC3 with our former instructor, Michael A. Gitt as first officer. Mike has been with C.C.A. since August 5 after leaving the employ of George A. Viehmann, manager of Somerset Hills Airport at Basking Bridge. Prior to his affiliation with Viehmann, Mike was employed at Hadley Airport as instructor.

If our luck holds we may make the return trip on a flight piloted by Captain Frederick H. Smith, formerly a pilot for Bell Telephone Laboratories at Hadley. And that exhausts our acquaintances on C.C.A.

It may already have been announces, but we learned just before leaving New Brunswick that the Junior Chamber of Commerce is thinking seriously of sponsoring a Civil Aeronautics Board program to train 10 non-college pilots. Ken Unger has agreed to undertake the training should the plan be given Washington approval. Unger also will train 50 Princeton students during the coming training period, and has leased airport space at Princeton.

The fall program scheduled for Somerset Hills will not be restricted to students presently enrolled in colleges. Viehmann announces. An allotment of 50 students has been granted in the program to be sponsored by Newark College of Engineering. Viehmann reports that persons between the ages of 19 and 26 who have had two years of college work are eligible. Ground school will be conducted in Newark and the flight portion of the course will be staged at Basking Ridge. Interested persons may receive further information by contacting Dr. Frank H. Carvin at the Newark school. The program is scheduled to begin October 1. Cost is defrayed by the government.

A proposal which we heartily approve is that of Herman Swerdloff, U. S. Airway communication officer at Newark. He suggests erection of a rotating aviation beacon atop the Thomas A. Edison Memorial Bridge between Keasbey and Sayreville as a permanent memorial to the man who gave the world light. He writes:

"With the opening soon of the Thomas A. Edison Memorial bridge over the Raritan river, the people of New Jersey and the State Highway Department have an opportunity to honor one of New Jersey's foremost citizens and one of America's great men of science.

"What more fitting memorial to Edison, the genius who gave the world light, than a rotating light aviation beacon atop this high level bridge to guide the great airliners on their courses?

"The southwest leg of the Elizlentown, Pa., radio range passes down the Raritan river at Perth Amboy and intersects the southwest leg of the New York radio range over Raritan Bay at at point opposite Keyport and is call the Keyport intersection.

"The southwest lef og the Elizabeth radio range intersects the southwest leg of the Allentown range over Metuchen, serving as a check point for north and southbound air traffic.

"The Edison beacon would serve as an additional check point for ships coming into New York or Newark from the south and west, using the southeast leg of the Allentown range passing over the Edison bridge in clear or contact weather.

"However, in instrument weather conditions, this beacon would not be visible to pilots as they would the be on instruments or flying the radio beams solely. This same type of beacon is in operation atop the George Washington Bridge.

"I believe this would not only be a fitting beacon to mark the point where a great highway and a great airway cross, but would be a perpetual tribute to Thomas Alva Edison, who make it possible in the first place."

Included on the list of faculty member sof Aeronautics, the learn-about-aviation-by - weekly-mail-lectures, are Fred Smith of Canadian Colonial and Al Bennett of Hightstown. Bennett's lecture will deal with the Civilian Pilot Training Program, and it is our guess that Smith will discuss seaplane operation.

Next week we'll be back at the home field and away—we're happy to report—this borrowed forerunner of the modern typewriter. But it's better than using longhand.

3 DRYDOCK PROJECTS FOR NAVY APPROVED
WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 (AP)—President Roosevelt signed yesterday legislation authorizing three large navy drydock projects costing $23m680,000 and capable of handling the largest battleships afloat.

The projects included $10,000,000 for a graving drydock in New York harbor; $7,500,000 for a similar project designated by oCngress as in the "Caribbean area"; and $6,130,000 for improvements of the naval year at South Boston, Mass.

The New oYrk harbor project was the center of a lengthy dispute between Senate and House before final approval.