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Two Men Rescued
After Adventure In
Arctic Wilderness
FAIRBANKS, UP) — Two Fair
banks businessmen, atfter four
days in the wilderness, told Mon
day how their last flare caught
the eye of a searching pilot on the
same day that one of the pair
reached a down-stream road camp
■by raft.
Marion Horton and Ace Wil
liams, both Fairbanks used car
dealers, said their small plane
crashed on a Tanana River sand
bar last Wednesday night after
they became hopelessly lost.
They were rescued by military
helicopter Sunday and brought
here by a 10 Rescue Squadron
plane.
The men said they arrived over
Fairbanks on a flight from Big
Delta Wednesday night, but could
not land because the field was
“socked in” by a rain storm. They
turned back to Big Delta, about
80 miles to the southeast, but be
came lost and overshot their des
tination.
They crash-landed on a river
sandbar with only gasoline left
for 15 minutes of flying. The plane
overturned and partially sank in
the river.
They built a fire and huddled
near it night and day. They shot
seven flares at intervals but failed
to attract rescuers. They had
emergency rations in the plane
for food.
Finally they built a raft out of
felled trees and control wire from
their plane. When Williams, a 240
pounder, got on it, the raft sank.
Sc Horton set out downstream on
it alone.
Williams fired his last flare Sun
day and a search plane saw it.
A helicopter picked him up.
Horton, meanwhile, had floated
25 miles to an Alaska Road Com
mission camp at Johnson River.
He telephoned to Big Delta and
the helicopter was sent for him,
too.
Personal and Legal Size File
Folders on Sale at the Nugget.
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Chamber Hears Reports
At Tuesday Luncheon
Several interesting reports were
made at the noon luncheon of the
Chamber of Commerce yesterday
at the Polaris Coffee Shop with
Dewey Goodrich presiding.
Boyd Harwood reported on a
recent trip to Anchorage and said
he was pleasantly surprised with
the paved or black-topped streets
which are a great improvement to
the town.
Les Stevens reported on his trip
to Circle Hcrt Springs and said
that there had been some delay
on the Fairbanks paving. Busi
ness indications show things are
getting back to normal although
construction was still very notice
able, he said.
Captain Morgan reported that
his committee had made no plans
to date to clean up the beach. He
also reported that the Barrow
Chamber of Commerce was get
ting organized.
Ralph Lomen reported that the
Northern Tin Company which op
erates at Buck Creek has a ship
ment of 35 tons of tin ore ready
on the dock for fall shipment. He
reported also that Hugo Linsfors
has a shipment of more than a
ton of scheelite ready for ship
ment on the last boat.
Lomen noted a great deal of
prospecting at Candle and Kotze
bue.
Robert Curtiss of Alaska Air
lines reported that the U.S. Bu
reau of Mines has a diamond drill
at Omelak and intensive search
is under way in that area in the
hope of establishing year ’round
employment here.
The Chamber went on record
urging Delegate Bartlett and the
Department of Justice to appoint
a temporary judge for this area
and stating that they found no
fault with the judge appointed re
cently.
S’WIPfe'S SWIPED
SILVER CITY, N.M., UP)—Ab
barendly dere’s a crook rudding
aroud loose here with a co’d.
Somebody broke into a local
woman’s car and swiped a box
of facial tissues but nothing else.
Temperature Near 100°
As Reindeer Arrive
In New Jersey
NEWARK, N.J., (tf)—’Twas 115
days before Christmas, and the
temperature hovered around 100
degrees.
So up pop 11 reindeer—the real,
live Santa Claus type.
Seems these reindeer blew in
from Alaska on a Flying Tiger
Lines freight plane.
Although an airline executive
allowed that this was no day for
anyone to arrive in Newark, not
even a reindeer, he said they were
made comfortable in a hangar
overnight.
Yesterday they left for the San
ta Claus workshop at North Pole,
N.Y., near Plattsburgh. It’s a toy
plant and tourist attraction. The
shipment is part of a New York
department store pre - Christmas
activity, it was explained.
The reindeer were half of a
shipment of 22 brought Saturday
by charter plane from Nome, Al
aska. Those taken east from Seat
tle belonged to Fred J. Fortune,
Lake Placid, N.Y.
The other 11 were trucked to
a Redmond Ore., ranch.
BIRTH RECORDS NEEDED BY
STUDENTS GOING OUTSIDE
JUNEAU — Alaska school and
college students going outside to
school this fall will have to show
proof of their birth upon leaving
the territory. The reminder came
from F. E. Kester, director of the
Bureau of Vital Statistics, who ex
plained that the new regulation is
a provision of the McCarran im
migration act which became ef
fective last December.
Also, he said, most Alaskan
schools require that birth regis
tration records be presented when
a child registers in a school for
the first time.
LWY Community Center
To Be Dedicated Sept. 3rd
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been too small to handle the many
projects efficiently. Last fall ar
rangements were made by the
Woman’s Division of Christian
Service of the Methodist Church
to expand and property was pur
chased from Howard Green across
from the Nome School.
This fall the program will be
carried on from three newly fur
nished buildings and rounded out
to meet the needs of the commu
nity.
A fine program has been pre
pared for tomorrow evening. It
will include special music by
Juanita Fagerstrom and Mrs.
Reeves Havens.
The community has been in
vited to the center for Thursday
at 8 p.m. and at that time they
can show their appreciation of the
good work done by their atten
dance at the dedication.
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$323 Million Cutback
In Civil Works Funds
WASHINGTON, lift—1The chief
of Army Engineers has ordered a
$323 million cutback in expendi
tures for civil works, including
the flood-control and rivers and
harbors programs.
An engineer spokesman said
yesterday Maj. Gen. S. E. Sturgis
Jr. has ordered division engin
eers to reduce expenditures for
the fiscal year ending next June
30 to $500 million — although a
total of 823 million is available in
appropriations and ,unexpended
funds.
Orders have gone out to divi
sion engineers to cut spending to
approximately 65 percent of the
funds available and to limit obli
gations to 90 percent of the avail
able money, the spokesman said.
HOME ARTS CLUB HOLDS
FIRST FALL MEETING
The local Women’s Federation
Club, Home Art Club, held its
first faill meeting last evening at
the home of Mrs. John Cooley at
Satellite Field and enjoyed an in
teresting paper on leather tooling
by Mrs. W. Barber who demon
strated the craft and the use of
special tools.
The organization went on rec
ord endorsing the proposed plan
to have a pioneer locomotive
brought to Nome from Solomon to
be placed on permanent display
as a tourist attraction.
Members of other Federation
Clubs residing in Nome are urged
to contact the president, Mrs.
Pearse Walsh, so they may be*
guests of the local group.
1,000 Guests All That
Came To Period Ball
Staged by Marquis
BIARRITZ, France, (fl)—About
1,000 guests—a few famous, most
of the rest attracted by the possi
bility of rubbing elbows with a
long list of notables who were in
vited but didn’t appear — turned
out Tuesday night for the Marquis
de Cuevas’ big 18th Century ball.
The turnout at the Chiberta
Country Club was about half what
had been expected. Most of thefn
wandered homeward about 1 a.m.,
but the champagne and rum
punch flowed until about 4 a.m.
The host, attired in a gold and
satin Louis XIV costume with a
towering feather headdress, re
ceived guests from a throne. He
was reported to have collapsed
from the excitement about 3 a.m.
The towns along the Basque
coasts of France helped to put
up money for the big affair. The
idea was to attract attention to
the region as a vacation spot.
Elsa Maxwell, in satin breeches,
rode a recalcitrant donkey into
the grounds. A ballet dancer came
in on the neck of a camel
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SUMMER SCHEDULE
DAILY DC-3 FLIGHTS
Fairbanks — Kotzebue — Nome — Fairbanks
leave Fairbanks 8:00 a.m. arrive Kotzebue 10:30 a.m.
j leave Kotzebue 11:15 p.m. arrive Nome 12:50 p.m.
leave Nome 6:00 p.m. arrive Fairbanks 9:30 p.m.
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