The industrial committee of the Community Trade Association is reviewing area locations of 15,000 acres or more with a view of suggesting one of them as a site for the new Air Force Academy.

The announcement by the CTA follows an earlier announcement from Washington D.C. from Congressman Alvin R. Bush who has been asked to nominate 10 men for the academy.

Spoken of as the Air Force counterpart of the United States Military Academy at West Point and the Naval Academy at Annapolis, the service facility for officers is expected to receive its first class July 1, 1955.

The local interest in the site follows the signing of a bill by President Eisenhower instituting the school at an as yet undetermined site.

The CTA released no further information regarding specific sites which the committee has in mind, but it was pointed out that the Susquehanna Sub Depot that served as World War II ordnance grounds is out of the picture because it was only half the required acreage. The former ordnance site was suggested some time ago as a site for a proposed air force base, but that project did not develop as planned by the Air Force.