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Middlesex and Somerset Flying Fields Busy With Civil Aeronautics Board Programs
By L. A. WOODRUFF

Middlesex and Somerset County flying fields are assured of plenty of activity during the summer with Civil Aeronautics Board programs being conducted at Hadley Airport near here and Somerset Hills Airport at Basking Ridge. The Rutgers-sponsored program at Hadley will train 40 men between now and September 15, while Newark College of Engineering is sponsoring a program for 45 at Somerset Hills.
The Somerset Hills program includes a young woman electrical engineer, Miss Mildred Preen of Oldwick, who becomes the first woman to be given pilot training under Newark College sponsorship.
Several of the CAB students at Hadley have already been given four and five hours of dual instruction and the first solo flight is expected possibly next week.
At Somerset Hills this week, Dr. Frank D. Carvin, Newark College mechanical engineering department dean, negotiated his first solo flight after eight hours and 20 minutes of dual instruction from Pilot Michael A. Gitt. The dean, 47, served more than 200 hours in the air as observer during the World War. He had no desire to learn to pilot a plane, however, and after the war forgot about active aviation until last winter when he was placed in charge of Newark College students training at Somerset Hills. 
He stayed on the ground watching his students for a time, then decided to take up flying himself. Since soloing, he expects to continue with the rest of the course to obtain a private pilot's rating.
                  
Five privately owned airplanes from Hadley Airport took part in the Plainfield July Fourth parade Thursday by circling the procession in the Union County city. Among the group of pilots, kept smaller than expected because of threatening skies during the morning, were Donald Mackey and Walter Gingrich of Plainfield, Julius Petersen of Hillside, Dr. L. R. Herrington of Westfield, and William Coddington of New Brunswick.
                 
The scheduled flight of a mercy squadron from Wings, Inc., from Philadelphia to Hadley and Long Island Thursday was postponed because of bad weather. The group was to have been one of several flying to Long Island to bring "aid" in a simulated "emergency." Johnson & Johnson of New Brunswick contributed ten cases of sterile gauze and bandages to be picked up by the planes at Hadley and transported to the "emergency."
The experiment designed to determine value of private flying groups in the event of disaster, will be carried on later.
              
Thomas Fulton of Somerville has enrolled in the Hadley Airplane Mechanics School, Thomas W. Robertson, Hadley manager, has announced. George Besler of Plainfield is on a trip to California in his Stinson which he hangars at Hadley. A.S. Wikstrom, Bound Brook "flying contractor," is in Norfolk, Va., where he flew his Howard monoplane this week.
D. H.: The Aeronautical Corporation of America, manufacturer of the Aeronca airplane, built exactly 77 low-wing airplanes while this model was being produced a few years ago.
              
Michael A. Gitt, instructor at Somerset Hills Airport, has received a rating of ground instructor for Civil Air Regulations. Mike is one of the pilots training CAB students at the Somerset County flying field.
Mat E. Gil, S.G.C. Jr., instructor at Hadley, is taking a CAB refresher course offered to instructors. Mat is flying the refresher at Cadwell Airport.
Bertram Cutler of Green Village, a student at Somerset Hills Airport, is on a pleasure trip to Mexico City with a party of friends in a Beechcraft biplane. Cutler, who spends his time on Wall Street when he is not flying, received experience during the trip which should be of value to him when he takes his private rating examinations. He served as navigator during the trip south, and will continue his training on the homeward journey.
             
The glider seen over these parts early in the week was probably that of National Soaring Champion Chester J. Decker of Glen Rock who negotiated favorable air currents betwee nElmira, N. Y., and the Jersey coast before ending a 230-mile six-hour flight to Long Island during the national soaring contest being conducted at Elmira.
 
No Passports Needed For Visits to Cuba
  
NEW YORK, July 6 (AP) - An official of the Cuban consulate general announced today that citizens of the United States would not need passports and consular visas to visit Cuba.
The United States State Department ruled recently that all aliens crossing the borders into this country would require passports, and it was then reported that Cuba had imposed similar requirements on United States visitors to the island.
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