AERONAUTICS: Unwanted Airports

In White Plains, N. Y., last week a grand jury indicted Westchester Airport Corp. of Armonk, N. Y., as a public nuisance, after months of complaint by residents near the field that dust filled their homes, forced them to keep windows shut tight even in hot weather. Authorities lately closed Atlantic Airways' field near Scarsdale, also upon complaints of residents.

In Trenton, N. J. the Board of Education asked a court injunction against the building of Passaic County Airport across the road from a new township school. Board members feared that low flying...

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