AIRWAYS KEEPERS
Jobs for Lighthouse Mcc
While- lighthouse keepers are being turned out1 of, .work, by automatic'signals, a new positionI—that of- airwaya keeper—'has been established. as ' a re:' suit of modern invention, says' the '' Christian Science' Monitor." .•'..■'■ Airways keepers' of the Department of Commerce ai-e to. gather . weather reports along the civil airways,, .and when .their, carcors; hayo been "firmly established they will have- scarcely a. square mile1 .uncovered' by the radiocast of weather information. : ' ' Weather reports -will-' bo" • collected' along"-tjib' airways -about.sixty/wiles apart, distributed to" tho radio stations' by teletype, telephone, or telegraph, and radiocast 30 minutes after every hour. Last summer 20 radiocasting stations disseminating Weather, information wero'put iii..operation, according to an 'announcement by Clarence. ■ M. Yo.ung,-■ Assistant Secretary. .of : Commerce, for. .Aeronautics. ■. JU'our stations wey.<3' previously in Operation, and 15-are' now. under construction. '." -■:..■ The work of the airways kedper "will not be entirely without the ''thrill" that wont with the-keeping of the light ona rockbouiid coast; Aiiiiouilciug that watch houses aro how being' built'for tho use of airwaya.keepers,in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, the Department of Commerce says that as the normal snowfall is approximately IG-feet and the wind .in. winter ■ assumes ■•hurricane velocities, it is expected that tho airways keepers will be shut in for about six months through the winter period.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 45, 22 February 1930, Page 20
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215AIRWAYS KEEPERS Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 45, 22 February 1930, Page 20
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