From: Joel Bornstein
Sent: Monday, September 22, 1997 9:18 PM
To: Andy Becker; Dave Brewer; Dick Ahrens; Jack Reichel; Joel; Tim
Scully
Subject: Minutes, 9/21/97

Hi,

These are the minutes of the meeting held yesterday.  

Please respond with any additions or comments that you may have.


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Minutes of the Member's Meeting of
LITTLE RIVER AIRPORT PILOTS' ASSOCIATION
a California nonprofit public benefit corporation



A special meeting of the Directors and Members was held on Sept 21,1997,
at one o'clock P.M. at Coast Flyers meeting room, for the purpose of
meeting and interviewing several community residents who lived here
during the early years of the Little River Airport. 

The meeting was called by the President at the last meeting. Written
notice of this meeting was sent to interested parties. Notice was
publicly posted.


There were present, the following persons:

	Joel Bornstein			
	Dave Brewer				
	Judith Barry				
	Grant and Larry Wheeler		
	Andy Becker			
	John Merriman			
	Dick Ahrens			

Our guests for this meeting were:

	Emery Escola			
	Jake Jacobs			
	Bill Wagner			

Tim Scully was unable to attend due to illness in his family.  Joel
Bornstein opened the meeting by introducing our guests.

The purpose of this meeting was to gather information for our new
project: The history of the Little River Airport.

We enjoyed learning much about the Little River Airport during the next
2½ hours. Emery was away during WWII, but Jake was in the area during
the construction period.  Emery is quite knowledgeable on the politics
of the airport; He served as Chair of the committee which worked on the
Little River Airport master plan.  Bill is a retired photographer who
works with the Kelly House Museum and has many airport photographs taken
over the years.

All of those present contributed questions for the guests to answer. 
Dave Brewer assumed the role of primary interviewer with most others
contributing occasional questions.  



A few points of particular interest are:

The entire area was thought of as "Prairie" before the airport
construction.  Now we call it "Pygmy Forest."

The area was burned over every four years to allow the production of a
good huckleberry crop, selling  for $ .05/Lb.

The County acquired the land for the military, which then built the
airport.  The rock used came from a quarry on the coast.

The area was mostly unpopulated at the time of construction; there was
no public input or comment solicited. 

This is the westernmost airport in this part of the U.S.  It's the last
land for westbound flights; the first for eastbound flights.

The runway was built to handle the heaviest loads of any in Northwestern
California..

The extensive drainage system keeps the airport dry in winter; it fills
the ponds which were built by Ole Hervila of the LR Inn.

The wood hangar was built along with the runway, etc.

The office building was built as a ticket office by Southwest Airlines.

The metal buildings were for a flight school and for the resident
manager.

No one ever complained about the airport until the master plan
development was being researched.

The limitation to less than 30 passenger aircraft hurt our movie
industry.  There have been no major motion pictures since.

The Coast Guard wants to see made available: jet fuel for it's aircraft
and housing for it's people.


There were many other topics covered.  The writer makes no attempt to
cover all that was discussed.


After about two hours Jake, Bill, Andy, Grant and Larry had to leave. 
Emery remained to continue discussion with the remaining people.  We
spoke of the politics of the area as well as those of the airport.  When
Emery was invited to apply for membership on the The Little River
Airport Advisory Committee, he politely declined.  


Joel distributed copies of the minutes of the July 27, 1997 meeting.

As the time was nearing four o'clock, we prepared to go to the Woods
Clubhouse for the Ad Hoc committee meeting.

We agreed that the next meeting of the Little River Airport Pilots
Association will be held on Oct 19, 1997 at 2:00 pm at Coast Flyers.

There being no further business to come before the meeting, we adjourned
at 3:45 o'clock pm.,  on motion duly made and carried.



Joel Bornstein, Secretary