Airmen Take Furlough to East Coast
From Anchorage in Small Plane
WESTFIELD, N. J., ffl-Two
young Air Forrce enlisted men ar
rived at Westfield Airport Sunday
after a 12-day flight in a small
J two-seater plane from Anchorage,
Alaska, for a furlough at home.
Michael Amato, 23, of Hillside,
a radar mechanic and airman first
class, stationed in Alaska, bought
the plane there for $1,100 and
talked a friend, Airman First
Class Gerald Wood, 21, of Mon
son, Mass., into accompanying
him on the furlough flight.
Amato soon found that flying
in Alaska, where pilots follow
natural landmarks, was lots easier
than flying over the United States.
He followed the Alcan Highway
into this country, he said, then
began charting with air maps. At
one small airfield, where they
stopped in Missouri, the last air
map had been sold and they had
to use regular automobile road
maps.
Amato said the trip was rugged,
flying through mountains and
driving rainstorms, where only
light rain had been predicted. Ac
tual flying took about a week and
>
the rest of the time was spent
waiting for clear weather.
The young air enthusiast did
not tell his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Anthony Amato, about his plans
to fly home on his first furlough
since he came to Alaska with the
Air Force about two years ago.
At a stopover in Canada, he
wrote a letter home, saying he
was on his way.
His mother said she has hardly
forgiven him for the worry he
caused.. But Amatos father said
it was the same kind of crazy
thing he might have done as a
youngster.
Amato won’t be flying back,
however. His father said he al
ready had a buyer for the son’s
plane and the intrepid airman
agreed he would take a commer
cial airline back to Elmendorf Air
Force Base in Alaska.
Wood, who went along on the
ride, admitted he w,as a little
frightened some of the time, But
Amato said he was confident he
would make it and besides he was
too busy flying to worry.
Family of Rescued
Climber Hears News
With Tears of Joy
NEW YORK, Iff)—The family of
George Argus greeted with tears
of joy the news of his rescue in
a lonely tent on Mt. McKinley.
“We were praying. We were
sure that he would get out of it,”
said Argus’ 20-year-old sister
Joan, a student at Concordia Col
lege, after she learned of the res
cue.
His parents, owners of a bakery
in Brooklyn, wept.
The family had hung tensely on
news reports while the rescue
team struggled up the snow-cov
ered mountain.
“All we could do was to pray
and wait,” said the girl.
France has an average of 14,500
fires a year and for some unex
plained reason more of them occur
on Tuesday than any other day.
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Anchorage High Soph
Elected Queen Of
Chugiak Spring Carnival
CHUGIAK, UP) — Gloria Cress,
blonde sophomore at Anchorage
high school, has been elected
queen of the Chugiak Spring Car
nival, held at Mile 14 on the
Palmer Highway.
All she could say when she
donned royal robes and coronet
was “I can’t believe it.” Then she
wept.
Her biggest prize will be a
round-trip flight to' Seattle, with
a week’s stay in the city. Mrs.
Alton B. Cross, her mother, will
go along but they’ll have to put
it of until the end of the high
school term.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Anowlic
are the parents of a son born
j today and weighing 5 pounds, 15
ounces.
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Need for Basic Changes
Seen in Employment
Security Commission
The Legislative Examination and
Investigating Committee met in
Anchorage on May 28 - 29, 1954.
Chairman Herald E. Stringer
announced that the committee
heard reports from its investiga
tive staff on the organization and
operations of the Employment
Security Commission and the Al
aska Department of Health.
Mr. Stringer stated that the
information which has been de
veloped recently by the commit
tee indicates clearly the need for
substantial changes in the laws
and regulations governing the op
erations of the Employment Se
curity Commission. In comment
ing on public hearings held re
cently in Anchorage by the com
mission, Stringer said:
“The lack of accomplishment
resulting from the public hearings
held by the Employment Security
Commission during the past year
points up clearly one aspect of
this need for certain basic revi
sions of laws and regulations. The
findings of this committee will
form the basis of corrective rec
ommendations to executive offi
cials, where appropriate, and to
the next legislature.”
Mr. Stringer announced that the
committee’s examination of the
Alaska Department of Health is
continuing.
Attending the meeting were:
Senators Howard Lyng, Nome,
and Mike Stepovich, Fairbanks;
Representatives Stringer, Anchor
age; William K. Boardman, of
Ketchikan, and Alden L. Wilbur,
Fairbanks.
Seward, Alaska, Group
Visits Seward, Neb., for
Visit and Basketball
LINCOLN, Neb., UPV—Fifty-three
residents of Seward, Alaska, ar
rived here by chartered plane
Monday to spend four days as
guests of the residents of nearby
Seward, Neb.
A crowd of Seward, Neb., folks
estimated at 300 or more cheered
and shouted greetings as the Al
askans stepped down from their
plane.
A “great” reception, observed
Mayor Russell Paint, of Seward,
Alaska. “I like it,” echoed pretty
16-year-old Mary Walker, beauty
queen of Seward, Alaska, High
School. “Everything is so green
and nice,” she added, with a loo'k
around at the verdant green of
the countryside.
The Alaskans’ visit returns one
made by a bus load of Seward,
Neb., people, including a town
basketball team, last year.
The Seward-Seward get-togeth
ers were conceived as a sort of
inter-city good-will and promo
tional gesture with basketball
rivalry for spice.
The Alaskans used benefits,
dances, amateur shows and raffles
to foot the $11,721 bill for the
chartered flight, said banker
Jacque Roth of the Alaska city.
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