THE WICHITA EAGLE -BEACON Monday, June 22, 1981 Second Group Joins Push for Wichita Air Museum By ROBBIE CURRY Staff Writer If you believe two is better than one, take heart in knowing that Wichita now has a second organization working to establish that elusive aviation museum so often talked about in recent years. The latest push for an aviation museum in this Capital of the World" comes from group calling itself the AirCraft Enthusiasts Society ACES, for short. The group has organized at a time when the four-year-old Wichita Aeronautical Historical Association is preparing to launch a huge membership drive in August. The association was created in 1977 to establish a museum. Yet initial plans for 1 that museum appear to have Project's Pavement Put on Hold Grant Holds Up Pond, Streets From Page 1B THE $256,000 IN GRANT money that was repaid to HUD from the city treasury was spent to buy land in Sheridan Park.
86 acres bounded by Meridian, 27th Street South, St. Paul, Crawford, Custer and Atlanta. Some of the land that the city bought has since been sold to Wichita developer James Catron, who was selected by the Urban Renewal Agency in March, 1979, to build homes in the area. The rest of the land is still in the city's inventory. Some of it will be sold to Catron for redevelopment and some is to become a 4.5-acre drainage pond.
It's the drainage pond that is holding up the street paving. Until the pond goes in, the city won't pave the streets. been scaled down considerably. Both groups believe that in a city where aviation pioneers like Clyde Cessna. Walter Beech, and Lloyd Stearman have had such a major impact, there should be something to commemorate aviation history.
And both groups need money to make their dreams a reality, and have yet to raise it. Neither of their plans is past the drawing board. But both groups differ on what that museum should be. Because of those differences, neither group feels it is competing with the other, although fund-raising campaigns may hit up the same donors. The ACES are concentrating on combat airplanes, although civilian aircraft may be included, and are wanting to include aviation history in general.
The ACES also want to find a building soon to store the memorabilia they have collected so far. They hope their main thrust eventually will be restoring old planes to flyable condition for the museum and ACES members. We have World War II said LaNell Brown, one of the founders of the ACES. "We have photographs that some guys have taken themselves during the war. We have got instruments from all kinds of aircraft and war planes A committee is looking for a building.
The ACES have 22 members, Brown said, although another 100 people have expressed interest in the organization. The ACES' sister organization in Topeka, the Combat Air Museum, has the planes, although Wichita has the expertise to maintain and restore them. The two groups may work together to put some of Topeka's planes on temporary display here, Brown said The Wichita Aeronautical Historical Association wants to concentrate on Kansas aviation history, and has no special interest in World War II aircraft, according to president Marilyn Copeland. And the association has no desire to be in the business of plane restoration, Copeland said. In fact, the association has changed its goals from its early days when it pushed to acquire the old Wichita Airport terminal and 35 acres of adjacent land at McConnell Air Force Base.
Staff Photo by Jerry Clark CHARLES LEONARD AND ONE OF THE PROBLEMS OF SAND STREETS After two years, And Miller won't even venture a guess at how long that might take. For one thing, only $105,000 of the federal grant money was budgeted for Cross-Country Trek Is Their 'Mount Everest' From Page 1B THEY ARE ATHLETES who became close friends six years ago. Last January, Murray captured the world wheelchair marathon championship at the Orange Bowl Marathon in Miami. Carpenter, who trains more than 100 miles a week, won the Class II World Wheelchair Championship at the same marathon. They have pooled resources for the quest, an educational project of the International Wheelchair Road Racers Club.
"Crossing the country (in a wheelchair) seems a challenge, almost a demand," says Murray. "(That it hadn't been done) was something neither of us could accept. We thought it could be done, and it just took lots of planning and lots of commitment months ago. "It's hard, and we expected it to be hard. For the most part, we've been lucky with the weather.
We've had some bad weather like when we got to Kansas. It was windy. "One of the things that has given me so much satisfaction is how many people we've reached. Able-bodied people have taken us aside and said they were glad and wished us luck. They feel like we're doing something for them.
People relate to what Phil and I are doing: they like to see the country crossed by some men in wheelchairs because of what it means." CARPENTER NODS AND takes a swig of Gatorade. "It's sort of like a square peg in a round hole: If you're going to achieve it people will have to think differently. In Sterling, the roads were flooded and a police officer said 'You can't do that the road's We said, 'That's why we're crossing the U.S., because people feel it's something we could Well, we went across that road, and it was lots of fun, and they're probably thinking differently now." Carpenter and Murray estimate crossing the country will take 2.6 million wheel pushes per athlete. It also takes money. They travel with a traffic-control truck, donated by Restonic, a Kansas mattress company.
Some Kansas companies have donated meals. They also have borrowed money, and used their savings for The Quest. "The biggest booster so far has been Carpenter says. Today, the two will tour the Timbers Residential Complex for the disabled and the Kansas Elks Training Center. On Monday, they'll receive a "letter of appreciation" from Wichita Mayor Bob Brown at a City Commission meeting, and continue their trip east.
And after the trip is over? Says Carpenter: "'We just need a lot of time to visit our families." OTAS CO Auto Air Conditioner Check Recharge 9.95 Cars Most FREON EXTRA Check compressor and hose connections. Leak check entire system. Tighten pulleys, belts and mounts. Recharge system with freon, if needed, extra. AVAILABLE AT MOST STORES OTASCO MasterCard VISA The Air Force planned to vacate the 58.000- square-foot building a and the association wanted it turned over to the organization for a museum that eventually would include static airplane displays set up in hangars on the property, plus a complete exhibit of history and memorabilia inside the terminal.
But what appeared to be a home for the Museum quickly fell through when the Kansas Air National Guard moved in. According to Copeland, the association is looking at other potential sites besides McConnell. But the association does not envision a museum housing many aircraft, either static or flyable, at least in the near future, she said. Airplane models work just as well, and insurance and upkeep is expensive on the real things, Copeland said. "We are thinking more of preserving memorabilia, pictures, collections that people have of heroes and getting a place that will fit the needs of those collections and library type things," she said.
It would be more of an aviation and space education-research center, rather than a museum, she said. Slow progress doesn't bother Copeland. "First we have to have a strong association, have a community-backed project, get our finances in order before we collect these things (artifacts)," she said. "It IS going to be." Wichita Citizens Rate City High on Service, Poll Says From Page 1B "A lot depends on what they want to know, what they are in doubt about," she said. "It's hard to tell what they are concerned about.
that's one of the reasons we wanted to come down." However, she said, she and Davis will work with commissioners if they want to make recommendations based on the survey. In addition to hearing the report Tuesday, commissioners are to consider several other matters including: Setting up a committee to review a report on procedures for drilling oil wells on city property. The procedures have been reviewed by two city boards, both of which recommended that no changes in drilling policy be made until a committee had studied the procedures. Condemning or demolishing 15 structures, mostly houses, if their owners do not begin repair or removal of them within 10 days. Most of the structures violate city codes, are vacant and are being vandalized.
A hearing on the condemnation will begin at 10 a.m. Hearing from the public and setting assessment costs for 40 street paving projects around the city. That hearing is to begin at 2 p.m. Ogallah's Postmaster Does More Than Just Sell Stamps no progress on paving the street the drainage pond, but the pond is estimated to cost $675,000, Miller said. For another thing, "we have to do some re-engineering" on the pond, Miller said.
If the pond is built as it was designed, it would leave one homeowner with only 10 feet of backyard and another homeowner with only 20 feet, she said. RUSSELL BRENNER, THE city's director of administration, said that if additional 1 money can't be obtained from the federal government for the drainage system, the city still could build the system and pay for it with assessments against property owners. Exactly which property owners can be predicted would pay has not been determined, he said. "It's a salvageable project. I think that's what I'm trying to tell you," Brenner said.
Brenner was one of three city officials who authorized the expenditures that later had to be repaid to HUD. The others were Ken Kitchen, former director of the Urban Renewal Agency, and Frank Smith, formerly Kitchen's top assistant. "I don't think there is any danger of losing money on the Brenner said, adding that he expects HUD eventually to let the city draw on the grant money again. "They'd have a tough time revoking it. Hell, they don't have any records either." From Page 1B To many patrons, the grandfatherly Shubert has been more than just the postmaster.
He's been a friend who sent them cards and kept packages for area residents who couldn't be found by other delivery services. And he's always been an open ear. With no home delivery, a trip to the post office might often be the only outing of the day for some of the 30 some residents who get their mail delivered to the boxes that line its walls. "I'm their chaplain, postman, you name it," Shubert said. "They come in and get their mail and tell me their sad stories.
For lots of them, I'm the only place they have to go all day. SoI just listen to all the lastest gossip, and their jokes and all." Shubert grew up on a farm a few miles north of town. The former Army man was appointed to the post in 1956 by Sen. Frank Carlson. Two years ago, the office was moved to the former Ogallah State Bank Bulding, because deterioration of the original post office building was worrying Shubert.
Shubert averages about 455 pieces of mail through his office a day, with one pick-up and delivery, both coming out of Ellis. Most of his customers pick up their mail in the morning. And all of them know that Shubert takes down the flag from the pole outside and locks the office door at 3:30 p.m. Besides the city patrons, he serves 82 rural patrons, with one rural route and one rural letter carrier. Through the years, he's stuck to one philosophy.
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