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Published March 25, 1936, Nebraska Daily News-Press
Iowa City-U.P.-Transcontinental air mail and passenger service into Iowa City was disrupted Tuesday by erection of a pole 24 feet and 8 inches high on the Fred Tucker farm, opposite the landing runway at Iowa City airport.
The pole, topped by a red flag, was erected by Tucker following a protracted district court fight in which Tucker protested that United Airlines planes, in landing, clipped branches off his trees and frightened his mules.
Tucker, during his district court fight, had been restrained from directing obstructions higher than 25 feet along the boundary line of his farm and the airport. The airline was enjoined from flying lower than 30 feet over Tucker’s farm.
Tucker listened to complaints of Chamber of Commerce officials and informed them the flagpole was erected “as a sort of measuring device to see to it that airlines fellows keep their part of the court order.”
Published March 25, 1936, Nebraska Daily News-Press
Iowa City-U.P.-Transcontinental air mail and passenger service into Iowa City was disrupted Tuesday by erection of a pole 24 feet and 8 inches high on the Fred Tucker farm, opposite the landing runway at Iowa City airport.
The pole, topped by a red flag, was erected by Tucker following a protracted district court fight in which Tucker protested that United Airlines planes, in landing, clipped branches off his trees and frightened his mules.
Tucker, during his district court fight, had been restrained from directing obstructions higher than 25 feet along the boundary line of his farm and the airport. The airline was enjoined from flying lower than 30 feet over Tucker’s farm.
Tucker listened to complaints of Chamber of Commerce officials and informed them the flagpole was erected “as a sort of measuring device to see to it that airlines fellows keep their part of the court order.”
