Professor Urges Small Fields for Local Airplanes

Speaking before an informal joint meeting of the Cambridge City Council and Planning Commission at the Hotel Commander Monday night, Lynn L. Bollinger, associate professor of Business Administration, claimed that Cambridge should initiate the building of landing strips for small aircraft. The advisability of constructing the fields will be investigated immediately by the Planning Commission.

Bollinger disclosed a plan whereby the construction of a trial field would cost the taxpayers of Cambridge nothing and bring revenue into the city treasury. The federal Civil Aeronautics Authority takes care of 50 percent of building costs, the state supplies another 25 percent, and the city is responsible only for the other 25 percent. The professor expressed his belief that, with the support of interested corporation building small planes, the landing strip would start paying its own way almost immediately, with no burden on the local citizens.