Committee to choose a site for the new Municipal Airport included members of Lancaster Chamber of Commerce, American Business Club and Lancaster Aero Club. Pictured left to right are Jesse P. Jones, Sumner L. Brown, George P. Luckey, A.D. Howry, John H. Carter, Charles B. Weise, F.K. Brinkman, W.S. Raub, H.M. Hersh, William D. Grant, S.R. Slaymaker and G.W. Birrell. Photo take December 7, 1929. William Grant, Christiana businessman and president of Lancaster Airways, Inc. was killed in an auto accident three days later.
Pilot Jesse Jones at the controls of Ryan Brougham B-5 airplane owned by Howard M. Hersh at leased to Lancaster Airways, Inc. under an agreement dated November 8, 1929. This was the first enclosed cabin airplane available for passenger service at the Manheim Pike airport which had been established by Jones in 1927.
Lancaster County Gas Division of UGI, Quarter Century Club Banquet at the Hamilton Club. Seated left to right: W. D. McElroy, J. H. Mackenzie, G. M. Jones, Kathryn Gabriel, Helen Martin, W. E. Colvin, K. B. Anderson, F. J. Buttner. Standing front row, left to right: J. L. Harrison, Harry Murr, Paul Kendig, R. L. Yeager, George Groff, Ray Kendig, Andrew J. Leib Sr., George Schanerberger, John Groft Sr., Ralph Potts, John Schweers, Lloyd Ashby, James Cole, B. L. DeVerter. Standing back row, left to right: Barton S. Kent, J. M. Colon, George Myers, Everett Harner, Paul DeVerter, Ivan Campbell, Abraham Johns, Roy Oberlin, John Ursprung, Earl Campbell, Sylvan Gochanauer, Joseph Libus, Arthur Seeley.