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WHEREAS, Southwest Airway8 Company, pursuant to said amended certificate, had slated its program so as to bowfin such service on February 17, 1950, and that thereupon without offering any ser- vice to Orange County Western Airlines requested a stay of the effectiveness of said certificate and asked for a reconsideration, there was granted first a stay for eleven (ll) days to March let, and second a stay for thirty (30) days to Narch 31st, 1950, and that WHEREAS, basically recorde will show that Western Airlines are engaged primarily in trunk line carrier business and it has not been shown, nor ever will be suggested by Western Airlines, that they, propose to offer to Orange County any airline service wh~.tsoever, therefore the action of Western Airlines in requesting stays is delaying, prolonging aud with intention apparently to depTive a very much needed service between Loc Angeles and Phoenix, ~rizona of a local kind so as to connect the local areas lying between said points of connecting service, both to the north and to the east, and that WHEREAS, if the action of Western Airlines has any semblance of public convenience and necessity, let it come forth with an appli- cation to serve said local communities in the manner now proposed by Southwest Airways Company or forever remain silent, and that WHEREAS, the records of th~ Civil Aeronautics Board will zhow that a period of eight (8) ye~re has now expired to this point and yet there is no airline service of a local character in ~he area above referred to. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESPECTFULLY RESOLVED that the Civil Aeronautics Board be requested to earnestly consider the appli- cation of South West Airways'Company for said local service and to clear aside and sweep away those applications of Western Air- lines which have tended to ~nd still continue to place b~rriers in the way of giving to these communities local connecting airline service.