Found in grandmother West's scrapbook Barry WEst (Jack mentioned the Leon Airport) Leon Airport Soon Ready Foundations Going in for Part of Hangars The Leon airport, located three miles north of this city and adjoining No. 69, will soon be ready for use. The runways are rapidly being conditioned and foundations are going in for some of the Hangars. Aviation is new to towns such as Leon but the time is coming when every community of any importance will of necessity find that such a facility must be provided. Leon has stepped ahead of many such communities in providing a suitable and well located airport at once. More than five million people, including folks from practically every town and community in the country, have become "inoculated" with the idea of flying. These in turn will probably influence thousands of others within a few years. "There is little time to lose. American communities must get ready and plan now for this coming nation-wide interest in personal flying." Thus warns William A. M. Burden assistant secretary of that the five million estimate of commerce for air. To indicate flying enthusiasts may be conservative Mr. Burden offers the following figures: More than 300,000 pilots in uniform and 150,000 others in civilian life will want to continue to fly. Then there are two and a half million men trained by the armed forces in other aviation skills; two million more-men and women-who are working in the aviation industry; 250,000 youngsters who are taking aerial courses in high schools each year. While there are only approximately 25,000 civilian aircraft in the United States today, he predicts that there will be 400,000 civil airplanes in this country within ten years after the end of the war.