Two More Wings
Of U.S. Air Force
To Move to Europe
LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE,
Va., UP—Secretary of the Air
Force Harold Talbott announced
that Tactical Air Command’s 21st
and 388th Fighter-Bomber Wings
will leave the United States for
Europe this fall.
Assigned to TAC’s Ninth Air
Force, the two wings use the
North American F-86F Sabrejet
fighter-bomber as their operation
al aircraft. The overseas deploy
ment of these units to France
marks the second time that fully
equipped F-86F wings will join
the United States’ air forces in
Europe for duty with the NATO
defense forces. Last year TAC de
ployed the 50th Fighter-Bomber
Wing to Western Germany.
The overseas movement, part of
the TAC’s continued support of
worldwide employment of tactical
air power, marks the 19th and
20th wings deployed by the com
mand since the start of the Kor
ean War.
The dispatch of the two addi
tional fighter-bomber wings to
Europe will raise to 15 the total
number of U.S. air wings per
manently stationed on that conti
nent.
There will be eight fighter
bomber wings there in all: four in
France, including the two new
ones; and two each in Germany
and England.
Other U.S. air wings in Europe
include two light bomber units,
one in France and one in England;
one troop carrier wing in France
and two in Germany; and two
tactical reconnaissance wings in
Germany.
In addition, the Strategic Air
Command maintains at least one
wing of medium bombers in Eng
land on a rotation basis.
Fighter-bomber wings normally
have 75 aircraft and each is
manned by about 2,000 officers
and men.
Son Born To Oswald Moses
Mr. and Mrs. Oswald Moses are
the parents of a son born Tuesday
June 22 at the hospital. The in
fant weighed 8 pounds and 8
ounces at birth. >•
Air Force Operations at
Shemya I. Air Base
Transferred to Cold Bay
WASHINGTON, UP)—'The A i r
Force plans to close out its last'
operational base in the Aleutian j
Islands next week.
A spokesman said the Air Force j
will pull out of Shemya Island, )
near Attu, July 1 and at the same j
time will transfer operations at!
Cold Bay, Alaska, to the Civil1
Aeronautics Administration “un- j
less the CAA cannot possibly j
make it by then.
Cold Bay is at the western tip !
of the Alaskan Peninsula, the j
point from which the Aleutians
extend outward toward Japan.
Shemya is some 800 miles further ;
out along the island chain.
A CAA spokesman said the |
CAA could not comment because
budget matters still under consid
eration were involved. It is under
stood that some new communica
tions, lighting and navigation
equipment must be installed at
Cold Bay before the CAA can
approve it for airline use.
Northwest Airlines and Cana
dian Pacific Airlines have been
using Shemya as a refueling point
on flights between the Pacific
Northwest and Japan. Although
the substitution of Cold Bay for
Shemya will mean a considerably
longer flight to and from Japan,
airline officials say it will not be
excessive—about the same as for
flights between Seattle and Ha
waii.
Alaskan Airlines Operated
Throughout 1953 Without
Passenger, Crew Fatality
CHICAGO, Iff) — The National
Safety Council named 39 airlines
winners of its aviation safety
award for operating through 1953
without a passenger or crew fatal
ity in air accidents.
The annual safety award goes
only to domestic, territorial and
overseas airlines which fly sched
uled passenger runs.
The award winners include:
Trunk lines — Northwest, Pan
American and United.
Territorial'— Alaska, Northern
Consolidated, Pacific Northern,
Reeve Aleutian and Wien.
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7% Fewer Fires
In ’53 Than in ’52
There were seven percent few
er fires in the United States in
1953 than in 1952—a decrease re
flected also by the following:
1. A IV2 percent decline in
“building fires” as such—the first
since 1949—and a 10l/z percent
decline in the category “other
than building fires” the first since
1951.
2. While fire losses for 1953 in
creased 6.1 percent, or $50 million,
over 1952, it was largely the result
of a single industrial fire.
These facts were reported by
the National Board of Fire Under
writers at its 88th annual meeting
in New York on May 20.
The duel cause “matches-smok
ing” still -continued to be the
largest single cause of claims for
property loss resulting from fire.
Over a 10-year period, 1943
through 1952, it amounted to 26.17
percent as against 25.46 percent
for the period 1942-51. Misuse of
electricity accounted for 12.29
percent as against 12.04 for the
comparable 10-year period.
McCarthy Apostle Gets
Crushing Defeat in Maine
Primary for U.S. Senator
PORTLAND, Maine, GP)—Maine
Republicans overwhelmingly re
nominated Sen. Margaret Chase
Smith in Monday’s primary and
cut down in crushing defeat the
challenger whom she said Sen.
McCarthy (R-Wis) apparently put
up against her.
Throughout a lackluster cam
paign and on through the ballot
ing itself the only question was
how big the landslide would be.
And in the end it was a crush
ing victory, by a margin of more
than 5 to 1, over political novice
Robert L. Jones, McCarthy’s 34
year-old apostle.
GOP nomination is normally
tantamount to victory in Maine.
A nearly complete count showed
96,159 votes for the woman sena
tor, 19,203 for Jones.
Perhaps an even more accurate
gauge of the magnitude of Jone’s
defeat was the fact that he carried
only four of Maine’s 626 precincts,
one of them his home city of Bid
deford. In 19 others he failed to
gather in a single vote and was
almost shut out in many more.
Researchers Find Evidence
Of Syhpilis In America
Before Columbus’ Time
SAN FRANCISCO, UP—A team
of researchers reported Wednes
day it had found strong evidence
that syphilis existed in America
before Columbus.
The disease probably was
spread in America by people who
migrated to the new world from
Asia by way of the frozen Ber
ing Strait and the Aleutian Is
lands, the group told the Ameri
can Medical Association.
Dr. Harold N. Cole of Western
Reserve University, Cleveland,
who made the report, said bones
taken from Indian burial grounds
at Kinishba and Vandal Cave,
Ariz., showed evidence of syph
ilis. The Indians lived before Col
umbus came. Evidence of the dis
ease was found by radiological
and microscopic examination.
Historians and scholars have
argued for years as to whether
Columbus and his sailors brought
syphilis to America, or whether
they contracted it in America and
took it back to Europe.
WEATHER FORECAST
Rain and fog today with S.W.
winds 15-20 mph changing to
W.N.W. 10-15 mph and partly
cloudy tonight. Low temperature
expected tonight 38, high tomor
row 49.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: high temperature 51,
low 40. Maximum wind 28^mph
from the west. Sunrise at 1:18
a.m., sunset at 10:49 p.m.
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Wien Alaska Airlines flights
from Fairbanks to Nome by way
of Kotzebue and back to Fair
banks are bringing mafty visitors
to this far. northern (land,' While
in Nome, they enjoy the special
Q-Bus tour around town and the
surrounding area, and some take
the trip north from Nome on the
Curly-Q Railroad 14 miles out
into the tundra and hills.
Recent visitors to Nome on the
Wien flights were:
JUNE 14-18—
Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Ballentine,
Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Horsley, Mr.
and Mrs. R. R. Van Dusen, Ira C.
Mayes, Ralph Gerganoff, Marilyn
Miller, A. Keller, Mrs. Oliver
Babcock, Mrs. Ann McJunkin,
Mr. and Mrs. Karl S. Norton, Mr.
and Mrs. John H. Bloomdahl, Mr.
and Mrs. Andrew R. Jacoy, Mar
garet L. Frank, Huldah Bequette,
Dr. and Mrs. M. B. Levin, Mr. and
Mrs. A. G. Brush;
JUNE 19—
Mr. and Mrs. Preston Barnes,
Ray G. Hubbard. Mr. and Mrs.
Harry A. Johnston, Dr. and Mrs.
C. Pedick, Casimir Garvin, Dr.
and Mrs. L. C. Northrup, Joseph
C. Kane;
JUNE 20—
Peggy Thompson, Joan Painter,
Harold Thompson, Mr. and Mrs.
E. A. Doane, Dr. John D. Fowler,
Esther Campbell, Frank E. Allen,
Snella B. Allen, Dan and Peg
Chaney.
California Team Failed
To Scale Himalaya Peak
NEW DELHI, India, (£)—A re
port brought by runner from Mt.
Makalu disclosed Tuesday a Cali
fornia expedition failed to scale
the Himalayan peak because of
bad weather conditions and diffi
culties of the steep climb.
The report by Dr. William Siri,
leader of the expedition, was sent
from the foot of Makalu on June
5. A dispatch which reached Jog
bani Monday said the party ex
pected to return to Biratnagar, on
the Nepalese-Indian frontier by
Saturday.
Since 1945 the American Can
cer Society has devoted about
$29,500,000 to cancer research.
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Thursday Luncheon
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
MEETS EVERY TUESDAY NOON
BOYD HARWOOD, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. I
Order of Eastern Star
Meets the third Monday of each month.
Jane Perkins
Worthy Matron
Evelyn Branson
Secretary
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PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT
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