2THE HOME NUGGETFriday. March 1, 1957
THE NOME NUGGET
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Eastern Passenger
Plane Avoids Crash
With Locked Wheel
DETROIT, (JR — Twenty-six
persons were trapped in the sky
for six hours before one final ef
fort locked a balky landing gear
in place and allowed a Capital
Airlines Constellation to glide in
at dusk for a safe landing.
The four-engine plane’s five
man crew used water, coffee and
milk to build up hydraulic pres
sure to force the Constellation’s
landing gear into place for the
landing.
After the landing, the crew and
21 passengers alighted smiling and
thankful. The passengers appeared
unaware that their plight had
prompted emergency crash rescue
operations at Milwaukee and De
troit airports during the five
liours the plane flew from Gen.
Mitchell Field to Willow Run to
burn up gasoline.
The plane was Flight 930 from
Minneapolis to Philadelphia, via
Detroit and Milwaukee. It touched
•down at 6:05 p. m. (EST) Wed
nesday aind immediately was im
pounded by Civil Aeronautics of
ficials for a thorough inspection.
Capt. William Richie, 38, of
Minneapolis, the plane’s pilot, said
be knew the landing gear had an
air lock moments after takeoff
from Milwaukee when he tried
to raise the nose wheel.
He imediately radioed for aid
and a special plane carrying hy
draulic engineers from Capital’s
Washington headquarters was
rushed to within radio communi
cation. The landing gear was re
paired while engineers gave in
structions to the crew over Lake
Erie.
Fifteen minutes efter the wheel
locked in place the ship touched
ground with its main wheels,
rolled some 50 yards with its nose
high in the air and eased down
on the nose wheel. It held and,
without applying brakes, Richie
coasted up to 10 ambulances, five
fire trucks and scores of police
Sorority Hears Pioneer
Tales, Plans Fairbanks
Convention This Month
■Beta Sigma Phi Sorority held
their meeting in the home of El
len Waldheim last evening. In
continuing on their program ‘Alas
ka,’ Mary Honsberger presented
‘Transportation.’ She told of the
early mode of travel the dog team
now replaced by aircraft. Colorful
historical events as ‘Baldy of
Nome’ and first flights over the
Arctic Circle and highlights from
the lives of the early bush pilots,
heroes of our northland.
The Valentine party was a
grand success in the amusing ex
change of white elephants at
Bingo. Omie McCarthy* passed out
clever cards made by the girls for
their secret sisters at Nancy
Goodrich’s home. Plans are now
being made for the annual con
vention of Beta Sigma Phi to be
held in Fairbanks in March by
the group.
Mrs. McCarthy introduced her
guest, Mrs. Hensern of Kotzebue,
who was welcomed by president
Beverly Morgan, and told of her
early experiences in Alaska to the
Chapter. Following the meeting
refreshments were served by host
ess Ellen Waldheim.
Maj. Houk Named Liaison
Head for Alaska Command
SEATTLE, iff) — Maj. James W.
Houk of the Seattle Army Ter
minal has been named liaison of
ficer for the Army in Alaska, re
sponsible for all liaison between
the Alaska Command and com
mercial and military activities
in the Sixth Army.
cars on the runway.
Telling passengers frankly of
their situation, Richie said he
would attempt to dive the huge
plane “at Ibast 1,000 feet” in a last
effort to snap the gegr into posi
tion before a crash landing. If
that doesn’t work, he told pas
sengers, “we’ll move you to the
back of the plane and land on
our tail. It has been done success
fully.”
Disney Classic
To Be Shown on
KNOM-TV Sunday
Walt Disney presents a tele- j
vision version of his multi-million
dollar cartoon classic, “Alice in
Wonderland,” on Sunday, Mar. 3,
from 7 to 8 p.m. on DISNEYLAND
over KNOM-TV, Channel 4 rad
the ABC Television Network. The
new Fantasyland hour is being
presented in response to the legion
of fans who have requested an
other chance to see the delightful
Lewis Carroll story.
The tale begins in am English
countryside as the heroine receives
a history lesson from her sister
and announces she would like to
live in a world of complete non
sense, whereupon a White Rabbit
suddenly appears running with a
watch. Alice follows him into a
hole in a tree, falls through space
and emerges into Wonderland.
All of the enchanting world
through the looking glass comes
to life in the Disney version of the
literary classic. Nine people, many
of them widely known in the
entertainment world, provide the
off-screen voices for the cartoon
characters. Headed by the British
born Kathy Beaumont as Alice,
the group includes Ed Wynn as
the Mad Hatter and Jerry Colonma
as the March Hare, as well as
, Richard Haydn, Sterling 'Hollo
way, Verna Felton, Bill Thomp
son, Heather Angel and Pat
O'Malley. Special tunes include
“I’m Late,” “Painting the Roses
Red,” “All in the Golden After
noon” and “The Unbirthday
Song.”
Although Lewis Carroll wrote
“Alice in Wonderland” nearly a
century ago, DISNEYLAND view
ers will discover his nonsense
i remains fresh, foolish and de
lightfully funny.
IPET CAT SMOTHERS INFANT
I MATSiUDO, Japan, (£•> — Mrs.
Kikueogawa, wife of an office
I worker, left her 6-month-old baby
asleep at home while she went
shopping.
She returned to find that the
pet cat had gone to sleep across
the baby’s face and smothered the
infant.
U. S. Ship Speeds to
S. Pole Rescue of
Stricken Japanese
MELBOURNE, Australia, OP —
The U. S. Navy’s most powerful
icebreaker headed back to the
Antarctic yesterday to help a
Japanese ship caught in the ice.
But a Soviet vessel likely will get
there first and may already have
arrived.
America’s 8,625-ton, Glacier
started a 4,500-mile race to reach
the 3,656-ton Japanese polar ship
Soya Maru, held in the ice off
Prince Harald coast. Just 40 miles
out of Melbourne, the Glacier
picked up two Australians —
Michael Hassal, 26, and Michael
Savage, 28 — who had drifted
for 15 hours in heavy seas in their
crippled motorboat.
The American ship sent the
two men ashore by a launch, then
resumed her journey to Antarc
tica. She was not expected to
reach the Soya Maru 'before
March 13.
The Soviet icebreaker Ob, al
ready in Antarctic waters, also
went to the aid of the Soya Maru.
The Japanese said she was ex
pected today at Luetzow-Holm
Bay, where the Soya Maru was
icebound.
j All three ships have been in the
J Antarctic as part of the Inter
national Geophysical Year (IGY)
program.
The Glacier was en route to
New Zealand after five months
with the U. S. Deep Freeze opera
tion when she was ordered to
help the trapped Japanese vessel.
Legislature Turns Down Nine More
Appointees Nominated by Hendrickson
JUNEAU, MR — Democratic
leaders of the Territorial Legis
lature and Acting Gov. Waino
Hendrickson exchanged words
Wednesday night over Hendrick
son’s nominations to various
boards and commissions.
Senate resident Victor Rivers
and House Speaker Richard j
Greuel accused Hendrickson of
“a flagrant disregard of the wishes
of an overwhelming preponder
ance of the people of Alaska” in
submitting his nominations.
The acting Governor replied,
“The Democrats forget, though,
that most of those names on the
original list were persons serving
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Baldwin
have left for the States on an ex
tended vacation and expect to be
gone about two months.
CUB SCOUT MEETINGS
Cub Scout Pack No. 363 held
their February meeting Saturday
night, the 23rd. All dens were!
present, with newly organized Den
No. 2 having the most Cubs
present.
Den No. 4 presented “Thi^ is the
Way We Follow Akela” as a skit
Den No. 5 participated in the
■Flag Ceremony with Den No. 1
singing the Star Spangled Banner.
There were no awards pre
sented to Cub Scouts at this meet
ing. The Pack recognized their
den chiefs by presenting them
with the Den Chief’s Shoulder
Tab and Cord. They were Tommy
Boucher of Den No. 1, Fritz
Chambers of Den No. 3, and Tay
lor Moto Jr. of Den No. 5.
Games were played after which
refreshments were served by Den
No. 1. The meeting closed with
the “living circle” and a yell hon
oring our Den Chief.
Following are the meetings
schedules of the Cub dens:
Den No. 1 meets Friday at 4
p. m. at the home of Mrs. Jim
Blanning.
Den No. 2 meets at 2 P- m.
Sunday at the home of Mr. Mike
Vivarius.
Den No. 3 meets Tuesday at 4
p. m. at the home of Mrs. Dewey
Goodrich.
Den No. 4 meets Friday at 4
p. m. at the home of Mrs. Wil
lard Mecklemberg.
Den No. 5 meets Thursday at
6:30 at the home of Mrs. Walter
Friesz.
Next Pack meeting will be Sat
urday, March 30, at 7 p. m.
Theme for the month is “Indian
Trails.” Part of the entertainment
will be the marble tournament
play-off, stated Walter E. Friesz,
„uo-lviaster.
interim appointments.
“In practically all cases,” he
continued, “I named those per
sons who already were serving
on boards or commissions under
interim appointments made by
former Governor Heintzleman.”
Rivers and Gruel issued a writ
ten statement, citing Democratic
election victories last year which
they said showed that the people
wanted Democratic representa
tion on the boards and commis
sions which operate many parts
of the Territorial government.
It disclosed the Democratic ver
sion of the behind-the-scenes ac
tion that preceded Hendrickson’s
two separate lists of nominees.
The Democratic-controlled (Leg
islature on Feb. 4 rejected 36 of
Hendrickson’s first list of 95 pro
posed appointments. Tuesday
night the House and Senate turned
down nine of 33 nominations to
fill the vacancies created by the
first rejections.
Ike and French
| Premier Hope for
‘Free Suez Transit’
WASHINGTON, (51 — Presi
dent Eisenhower and French Pre
mier Guy Mollet yesterday ex
pressed “common conviction”
that a solution in the Middle East
“can be achieved by peaceful
meains, in conformity with the
principles of justice and interna
tional law.”
Ending three days of talks
aimed in large part at repair of
Franco-American relations, Eisen
hower and Mollet in a joint state
ment reaffirmed a United Nations
declaration of last October call
ing for “free and open transit”
through the Suez Canal “with
out discrimination.”
The President and the French
Premier made no reference in
the communique to mounting
hopes for withdrawal of Israeli
forces from the Gaza Strip and
the Gulf of Aqaba area without
resort to U. N. sanctions against
Israel.
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