U. S. Flying Weathermen
Log 10 Million Air Miles
Keeping Arctic Watch
FAIRBANKS, UP) — Uncle
Sam’s flying weathermen com
pleted their 3,000th Arctic re
connaissance flight early this
month as they prepared to ob
serve their 13th anniversary of
Operation Ptarmigan.
Since the first flight on St.
Patrick’s Day, March 17, 1947, the
Air Force Weather Service has
logged nearly 10 million miles of
Arctic flying, equivalent to 20
round trips to the moon.
Aboard the historic initial flight
was Maj. Gen. Donald N. Yates,
then commander of the Air Weath
er Service and now commanding
general of the Air Force Missile
Test Center, Patrick AFB, Fla.
Boeing planes have flown all
missions. Piston-engined B-29’s
were used first, then later model
B-50’s. The 15-hour flights fol
lowed a triangular pattern to the
North Pole, Western Alaska and
return to collect weather data for
northern hemisphere forecasts.
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Top U. S. Scientist Is
Teaching at U-A
COLLEGE — One of America’s
outstanding scientists is now on
the University of Alaska faculty,
according to Dr. Ernest Patty,
president of the state university.
He is Dr. John Bowman, who
has doctorates in mathematics and
in biology, and is a registered
civil engineer. Dr. Bowman is on
academic leave from Northwestern
University, Evanston, 111., where
he has been associate dean of en
gineering and professor of engin
eering science for 3 years. Prior
to that, he was director of re
search at Mellon Institute, Pitts
burgh, Penna., and professor of
graduate studies at the University
of Pittsburgh.
During the spring semester, Dr.
Bowman is teaching relativistic
mechanics, advanced calculus and
industrial engineering. His wife,
Carolyn, is an artist, and plans to
study and paint Alaskan scenes
and people. *
PUT THE FIRE OUT
DETROIT, —Eight fire trucks
responded to her false alarm. But
to Bertha Kingny’s way of think
ing it was an emergency situa
tion.
“This drunk was pawing me,”
the 42-year-old woman said. “The
sign on the alarm box said for
emergency use only. My skirt
threatened to come down and I
figured it was an emergency, so
I pulled the lever and the trucks
came.”
The judge convicted her of turn
ing in a false alarm.
MMM HOSPITAL
Discharged: Helen Milligrok,
Gretchen Oyoghok, Ronald Ting
ook, Louis Nashenwing, Pat Ma
loney, Betsy Hall.
HONOR ROLL—7TH GRADE
4th Six Weeks Period
John Amundsen, Margaret Dun
lap, Diana Leight, Linda Lenert,
Kathleen Molver, Richard Young
Mother Shoots Visiting
Alaskan Daughter, Self;
No Motive Apparent
LYNWOOD, Calif., UPi — Police
have found no motive — and per
haps never will — for a strange
tragedy in which a mother shot
her adult daughter then herself
shortly after a re-union.
Officers say Mrs. Dorothy Lun
dak, 30, Anchorage, arrived in
Southern California Saturday
night for a visit at the home of
friends, Mr. and Mrs. John Green.
Sunday morning at 6 a.m. Mrs.
Lundak was found dead in bed
and beside her, wounded, was her
mother, Mrs. Helen Dalyea, 49,
of nearby Hollydale. Mrs. Dalyea
died en route to a hospital.
Detective Chet Surwillow said
the mother entered the Green
home, shot her sleeping daughter
and then killed herslf.
The Greens could give no reason
for the double tragedy, saying the
mother and daughter had em
braced warmly when they were
reunited Saturday night. Mrs. Dal
yea had a note on her person,
but it threw no light on the mo
tive, only listing persons to be
notified.
Police said they understood Mrs.
Dalyea had come to Southern
California from, Alaska about a
year ago.
WEATHER FORECAST
Variable cloudiness with little
change in temperature. Strong
northerly winds diminishing to
night.
In the past 24 hours: highest
temp. 4, lowest -15. Max. wind
8 mph from the north. Sunrise
at 6:17 a.m., sunset at 6:06 p.m.
A year ago today: highest temp.
-3, lowest -26. Extremes on this
date since 1907: high 33 in 1926,
low -26 in 1959.
On Oct. 3, 1921, the USS Olym
pia sailed from Newport, R. I.,
for France, to return the body of
the WWI Unknown Soldier for
burial at Arlington, Va.
WIEN AIRLINE TRAFFIC
Departing was Ash Craft, who
left for his home in the east, due
to the illness of his grandmother,
and another passenger, Newell
Palmer.
Arrivals: Roy Johnson, Mar
garet Russell, Martin Olson, Larry
Galvin, Jim Fisher, J. Kettner,
Red Oaks, "Lester Snoden, Barry
Crestman, Fern Romaine, Robert
Hayme and John Savella.
Arrivals from Kotzebue: Ellen
Soxie, James St. Amour and Gene
Morris.
North Star to Visit Nome
Only Once This Summer
According to the Anica News,
the MS North Star will stop in
Nome only once next summer,
leaving Seattle August 9, to lie
in the local roadstead on Sept.
27, after returning from the Arc
tic, and directly from Nunivak
Island, where it loads deer meat.
Ai Rotary Today—Guests were
Virgil Vochoska, Roscoe Wilke,
and Clifford Steele, as the week
ly high school guest.
Lorene Nershak, Nome’s en
trant in the Junior Miss America
Pageant in Mobile, Ala., per
formed the Eskimo dance she will
do at the pageant.
New officers were elected to
day—Bob Grant, president; Herb
Jenks, vice president; Dusty
Rhode, secretary; Gordon Os
borne, treasurer; and Jack Reed
and Fred Cavota to the board of
directors.
Larry Galvin, retired business
man of Nome, returned yesterday
from his home at Suquamish,
Wash., on a short business trip.
The U. S. Army Corps of En
gineers dates back to a resolution
by the Continental Congress on
June 16, 1775, under which Gen
eral George Washington, later to
become our Engineer First Presi
dent, appointed Col. Richard
Gridley as Chief Engineer of the
Continental Army.
Compatible Group
Jailed in Hollyw’d
Nude Party Raid
HOLLYWOOD, UP) — Singer
Lola Dewitt says it was just a
“compatible group having a so
ciable gathering” the night police
raided a Hollywood party and ar
rested her, TV actor William Tal
man, and six others.
Officers said the merrymakers
had no clothes on.
Miss Dewitt, 31, Monday pleaded
innocent to a morals charge. Tal
man — the district attorney on
the Perfy Mason TV series —
enters his plea Thursday, along
with the other defendants.
All are charged with lewd va
grancy. In addition, the party’s
host, Richard Riebold, 31, faces a
narcotics charge. Detectives said
all were frolicking naked when
the raid occurred. They said mari
juana cigarettes were found.
When asked if, as charged, ev
eryone was stripped, Miss Dewitt
replied: “We were comfortable.”
First Eskimo-Language
Broadcasts Contemplated
By Canadian Station
TORONTO, W> — The Board of
Broadcast Governors heard its
first application this week that
would broadcast part-time in the
Eskimo language.
The station would be set up at
Maguse River, on the western
shore of Hudson Bay 175 miles
northwest of Churchill, Man. It
would be supported by public sub
scription.
The application for a non-com
mercial license was filed by W. B.
Parker, on behalf of a comany
to be incorporated under the
name of the Eskimo Broadcasting
Corp.
He said the listening audience
would be between 5,000 and 7,000
Eskimos, whites at trading and
police posts, nursing stations and
missions, and could include some
4,000 Indians around the southern
area of the bay. Programming —
30 per cent of the time to be
given to religious teaching —
would be in both English and
Eskimo.
Russian radio stations, using a
powerful signal, are beaming pro
grams in English and Eskimo into
the Canadian north.
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Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon at
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Worthy Matron
Verna Mickelson
Secretary
Meets first and third Mondays
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Meets First and Third Thursday
of Each Month
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President
Herb Jenks
Secretary
Wednesday Luncheor
Parent-Teachers Assn.
Meets last Tuesday of every
month at Schoole
WERNER BOHRER, President
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