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Martin Co. Deliver
| Its Last Plane
To the Navy
BALTIMORE Iff — The Mar'ln
Co. has turned its back on air
planes and its face full to the
missile age.
W. B. Bergen, company presi
dent, last week turned over to the
Navy a seaplane. With it went
one of the pioneer “flying ma
chine” makers.
The plane was the last of 12,
400 to be built during the past 48
years by a company whose found
er made his first one in an
abandoned church in Santa Ana,
Calif.
That young flyer, Glenn L.
Martin, later built the first Army
training plane, bombers for both
world wars, an adaptation for the
the Korean fighting, and the
famous China Clipper that flew
from San Francisco to Manila in
1935.
After Martin’s death in 1955,
the space age began to crowd the
airplane off the company’s draw
ing boards.
Bergen proclaimed the complete
transistion at a ceremony deliver
ing the last Marlin to the Navy
at the plant opened in 1928 by
Martin.
Just as Martin made Baltimore
famous as a center of plane pro
duction in the past,” Bergen said,
“Martin has every expectation
that Baltimore will emerge in the
future as the space capital of the
world.”
Martin made an effort after the
second world war to stay in the
airplane manufacturing end of the
business by building anti-sub
marine warfare craft for the
Navy.
It was given a contract for
$441 million to build 24 Sea
masters, jet powered plane cap
able of flying 600 miles an hour
and hailed as possibly the first
to become nuclear powered.
The Navy called off the pro
gram last year after only nine
Seamasters were built. Two of
the experimental models had
crashed in flight.
CATANIA, Sicily Iff — Mt.
Etna rumbled into activity today
providing a fine display for
Christmas-time tourists, but there
were no signs of imminent dan
ger to property.
Etna has erupted several times
this year, causing little or no
damage to farm lands on the
slopes.
Nome Directory
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon at
North Star Dining Room
Pearse Walsh, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO I
Order of Eastern Star
Ruth Reed
Worthy Matron
• Verna Mlckelson
Secretary
Meets first and third Mondays
ANVIL LODGE
No. 140
BYRON O. REBD, W.M.
Norvln W. Lewie, See.
Meets First and Third Thursday
of Each Month
NOME ROTARY CLU3
Robert Grant
President
Dusty Rhode
Secretary
Wednesday l>uncheoB
Parent-Teachers Assn.
Meets last Tuesday of every
month at School.
MINA BACHELDER, President
JANE FOSTER. Secretary
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