Published In:
Ann Arbor News, March 25, 1948
Caption:
PILOT'S EYE VIEW OF PASSENGERS: This photograph, taken from the window of the pilots' compartment of a DC-3, shows passengers boarding the ramp at the Willow Run terminal. Man at the foot is the ANTSCO agent who meets all arriving and departing planes. Uniformed gentleman to the extreme right is Robert G. Bane, chief plant protection officer and head of the private police force which ANTSCO maintains at the field. He supervises a staff of uniformed police and plainclothesmen.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, March 25, 1948
Caption:
HE MAKES WILLOW RUN RUN: This is the man few passengers know about, although he has a hand in almost every operation and activity at the airport with which a passenger or sightseer comes in contact. He is Harold F. Palmer, manager of the airport and representative of the Airlines National Terminal Service Co., Inc. (ANTSCO). As "boss" of the airport, he has the job of supervising such consolidated services as the joint operations office, which serves the seven airlines at Willow Run, and acting as liaison between the commercial concessions at the field and the University and Kaiser-Frazer. Part of the job of his office is to draw up a monthly payroll of approximately $115,000 for the 445 persons who work for the ANTSCO. Palmer is pictured above as he looks out the window onto the "apron" of the airport.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, March 25, 1948
Caption:
WILLOW RUN - CHICAGO IN 25 MINUTES: Actually this group of passengers waiting for the gates to open for flight 415 to Chicago won't get to the Windy City in that brief period of time, but due to the time zone change will "gain" an hour. Stairs to the left lead to the spectators' ramp where the sightseer, after dropping a coin in the turnstile, can watch the big planes come and go.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, March 25, 1948
Caption:
PLENTY OF ROOM HERE: This is the kind of scene the terminal management likes to see - activity but no lines or bottlenecks. One of the main goals of ANTSCO, the corporation which has leased Willow Run terminal from the University of Michigan, is the development of a satisfactory functional layout here both in the terminal and in other terminals throughout the country. One time and space saver is the elimination of separate ticket offices, baggage handling centers, operations and maintenance offices for each airline flying into the airport. ANTSCO now sells the tickets, schedules operations, weighs the baggage, leases the food service concessions, and provides ground service for each of the seven lines coming into Willow Run.