The Humble Echo (Humble, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, December 17, 1943 Page: 4 of 8
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THE RUMBLE ECHO, HUMBLE, TEXAS
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The HUMBLE ECHO
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
TELEPHONE 120
Published in Humble by the E. Beaumont Printing Company,
Corner Ave. D and 4th Street
E. BEAUMONT_________!___________________________ Editor
P. O. DAVANT ________________________ Associate Editor
E. L. BEAUMONT ______________________Business Manager
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Entered as second-class matter July 18, 1942, at the post office
at Humble, Texas, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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Christmas
The Christmas season is with
us again bringing bs usual
flurries around the house—
whispered conversations, furt-
ive hiding of packages and all
of the extra business that goes
with the season.
Christmas this year will not
be the season of joy for many
that it usually is. Loved ones
in the service, o worse yet cis
ualries ot the war. Worry over
the war as it affects all of us
will abo take away much of the
joyousness of the season. How
ever, as the news man in New
York some years ago assured
the little gir'l that there is a
Santa Claus so will there always
be a Christmas. Like so many
other things it will be jus* what
we put in it. We can make k a
season of happiness or head-1
aches.
It seems a trifle incongruous
to tell and sing of th£ Prince of:
Peace, whose coming the angels'
heralded with songs of “Peace
on earth—good will toward
men’4 at a time when men are
killing each other all over the
world, but we must remember
that the spirit of that Prince of
Peace is vitally alive today and
hope that we will emerge from
this chaos a cleaner and better
people.
May the Christmasspiritfand
not spirits) prevail and as we
enjoy that with which we are
so wonderfully blessed may we
try to do something to make
the lot of those less for tunate a
little brighter.
We are in receipt of Christ-
mas greeting from Britain sent
by our friend John Printous
Smith.
Views Sky Filled
By 500,600 Planes
Prediction Is Made for 1950
By Aviation Official.
BALTIMORE. — William A. M.
Burden, special aviation assistant to
the secretary of commerce, told the
Urban Planning conference that 500,-
000 airplanes would be flying the na-
tion’s skyways by 1950. He asked the
immediate planning of huge and
manifold airports which would be re-
quired to handle air cargo and pas-
senger services o:f the future.
He pictured hundreds of new towns
springing up within air commutation
distance of large cities, and heli-
copter bus and taxi service.
He estimated that 441,000 private,
50,000 military, and 9,000 transport
planes would perhaps be. crowding
the airlines within the next decade.
Therefore it became important to
national security, especially from a
military viewpoint, that federal,
state and, local agencies began to
plan airport facilities for the future.
He estimated that airplanes ten
years hence would be carrying 20,-
000,000 passengers a year, five times
the number carried in 1941. New
York airports would have to be
geared to handle 17,300 passengers
a day; Chicago, 11,000; Washington,
8,700, and Cleveland, 5,500.
I With air freight service expanding
comparably and with private flying
developing on a rapid and vast scale,
large communities would have to
have many airports with support-
ing surface communications which
would assure rapid access to indus-
trial and business centers.
Such communities would require
airports, including passenger, cargo
and commuter terminals; miscel-
laneous-service airports for plane re-
pair, sales, charter service and
training, and civilian flying airports.
These would have to be so situated
that they might be expanded.
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TRY Gilbert’s Jumbo Ham-
burgers at Gilbert’s Friendly
Service Cafe on Moonshine Hill.
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Beaumont, E. The Humble Echo (Humble, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, December 17, 1943, newspaper, December 17, 1943; Humble, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth647908/m1/4/?q=+date%3A1941-1945: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Humble Museum.