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Questions’ Game to Save Downed Fliers
In ten minutes and with twenty
questions, Edward L. Ward, Air
ways Operations Specialist of the
Federal Aviation Agency at Kot
zebue, identified a downed plane,
able only to answer “yes” and
“no” in an improvised code. Pilot
and passenger were rescued.
Late on October 6, Ward, a ■
communicator who has been rec- i
ognized previously for exceptional
work, heard clicks in one of the
receivers he was “guarding” in the
station communications room. No
flight plan on record indicated
that an aircraft was missing. The
signal was too weak to carry a
voice, so Ward, suspecting an
emergency, broadcast on all fre
quencies a request that the the
pilot attempting to transmit on
3023.5 KC identify himself by de
pressing his microphone key three
times. Immediately, three weak
dashes were heard.
Thereupon, Ward, drawing on
his knowledge of the area around
Kotzebue, where he has worked
for 13 years, on his experience
with previous cases of planes in
- trouble, and his intimate know
ledge of flying history north of
the Arctic Circle, carried on the
following inspired game of “twen
ty questions”:
“This is Kotzebue radio — I
have received a series of three
dashes on 3023.5. There is some
interference on your frequency. If
you 'are calling Kotzebue radio,
please repeat wdth three dashes.
(Three dashes).
“Roger. Am I in contact with
the FWS Grumman? (Fish and
Wildlife Service Grumman am
phibian for which a search was
then underway). If so, transmit
three dashes.”
(No response).
“Docs this concern a disabled
or missing aircraft? If so, trans
mit three dashes.”
(Three dashes).
“Roger. A missing aircraft. I
will attempt to locate you. When
I am correct, push your micro
phone buttone one time.”
“North?”
(One dash).
“Roger. You are located north
of Kotzebue. Transmit one dash
for each ten miles that you are
positioned north of Kotzebue.”
(Twelve dashes).
“Roger. You are 120 miles north
of Kotzebue. Confirm with three
dashes.”
(Three dashes).
“Roger. Now I will attempt to
locate you more exactly. Trans
mit three dashes for affirmative.
Are you located near a river ”
(Three dashes).
“Roger. You are located on or
near a river. Is it the Kelly ”
(No response).
“The Noatak?”
(No response).
“The Kougarok?”
(Three dashes).
“Roger. If you can give me dis
tance from the Peterson crash,
transmit one dash for each ten
miles that you are located up river
from that crash.”
(Two dashes).
“Roger. Twenty miles up river
from the scene of the Peterson
crash. Are you located on the
river or within a quarter 6f a mile
of it?”
(Three dashes).
“■Roger. Left side of the river?”
(Three dashes).
“Are there any injuries or fa
talities?”
(No response).
“Roger. No fatalities or injured
persons. Are you requesting first
available aircraft?”
(Three dashes'.
“Roger. Wien Airlines -will send
an aircraft up there tomorrow
morning. Do you have a strip
marked and/or will you conduct
the rescue aircraft to a safe
landing?”
(Three dashes'.
“I still don’t know what air
craft this pertains to. Please
transmit one dash for each nu
meral on a count-up basis. Nine
would be nine dashes.”
(SevefT dashes, eight dashes,
ten dashes, eight dashes'.
“Roger. Seven, eight, zero,
eight.”
(Three dashes).
“Roger. Will leave receiver on
CW in case you desire a further
contact.”
The next morning, a Wien Air
lines plane flew to the vicinity of
the crash, had no trouble locating
the plane, and brought in the
pilot, Bert Beltz, and a passenger,
Fulton C. Robinson, both of Kot
zebue.
Following the crash, which was
caused by a strong wind just after
takeoff, Beltz and Robinson had
salvaged the radio and battery but
had insufficient power for voice
broadcast. They did not know
code, Late in the afternoon Rob
inson tried once more to broad
cast, and that was the time Ward
heard him.
Ark. Senator New Foreign
Relations Committee Head
WASHINGTON, 0?) — Senator
J. William Fulbright (D-Ark) has
taken over as chairman of the Sen
ate Foreign Relations Committee.
He succeeded 91-year-old Senator
Theodore Francis Green (D-RI),
who stepped down because of poor
eyesight and hearing. The Senate
formally elected Fulbright Friday.
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Garments to Admiring
But Rough Brazilians
RIO DE JANEIRO, UP) — Jayne
Mansfield left a carnival ball
Sunday in her undies and her
husband’s dinner jacket after en
thusiastic fans pulled off her
dress.
She and her husband, muscle
man Mickey Hartigay, were danc
ing at a local hotel when some of
her Brazilian fans starting pluck
ing at little flower decorations on
the pink lace dress. Then some
one pulled the zipper in the back
and the souvenir hunters ripped
up the dress as it fell to the floor.
Hartigay said his wife was
bruised slightly and had lost her
earrings.
ALASKA TO BE REPRESENTED
AT SEATTLE WORLD FAIR
JUNEAU, — The Legislative
Council would be directed to de
termine the best manner in which
Alaska might be represented at
the Century 21 Exposition in Se
attle in 1961, under a resolution
submitted to the House Saturday.
Sponsor Robert Giersdorf, Fair
banks Democrat, said the Seattle
World’s Fair would present a rare
opportunity for Alaska to publi
cize its products and its way of
life.
“We could also encourage stop
over visits in Alaska for people
from the Orient and from Europe
over the polar route to Seattle,”
he said.
61/2 MILLIONS WILL BE~LOST
TO ALASKA, IF NOT USED
JUNEAU, MR — A resolution
urging the state administration to
make quick use of 6V2 million
dollars in federal funds earmarked
for Alaska’s mental health facili
ties was introduced in the Sen
ate Saturday by Ralph Moody, An
chorage Democrat.
He said the federal money
would be lost if not put to use
before June 30 next year.
The Legislative Audit Commit
tee recommended earlier that more
consideration be given the hospital
program, even at the risk of los
ing the federal grant.
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GENOA, Italy, UP) — The U. S.
Marines report Slapshot O’Bannon
has been busted from sergeant for
■chasing the skipper’s wife’s cat up
the greased barrel of an eight-inch
gun.
Slapshot is the bulldog mascot
of the Marine detachment on the
American heavy cruiser Macon,
which put into this Italian port
for shore liberty. —
The Navy declines to confirm
the dog’s salty adventures. But
this, Marines tell visitors aboard
the ship, is why Slapshot O’Ban
non now is held in check with a
leash:
First of all, he doesn’t respect
the National Anthem, and barks
at the heels of the Navy musicians
when they play it..
And second. Slapshot can’t stand
other animals.
No others were to be seen on
the deck of the Macon, but the
Marines said that not long ago the
wife of the ship’s captain brought
her cat aboard. Women aren’t per
mitted aboard U. S. Navy ships at
sea, let alone cats, so this must
have happened at some port be
fore the Macon’s latest maneuvers
in the Mediterranean.
Slapshot, the Marines relate
with a touch of pride, took after
the cat in a mad run down deck.
The cat took refuge inside a gun
barrel coated with heavy axle
grease, and wouldn’t come out
until next day.
Then, as the Marines tell it,
the sergeant’s red chevrons were
stripped from Slapshot’s dress
blue dog jacket while the captain’s
wife loked on, holding a trembling
ball of grease in her arms.
Detroit Teamsters Official
Sentenced for Perjury
NEW -YORK, UP) — Benjamin
Franklin Collins, Detroit union
official and close associate of
Teamsters president James R. Hof
fa, was sentenced today by U. S.
District Judge John Cashin to
three years imprisonment for
perjury.
The case developed from a
grand jury investigation of wire
tapping and racketeering in Local
299 of the International Brother
hood of Teamsters. Collins, 48, is
secretary-treasurer of the local.
Hoffa is president of the local as
well as head of the entire union.
Collins was continued in $2,500
bail pending an appeal from the
sentence.
NEW YORKERS WILL DIAL
LONG DISTANCE NUMBERS
NEW YORK, UP) — Starting
this week, almost a half-million
New Yorkers will, be able to dial
long-distance telephone numbers.
The new service will enable us
ers to dial station to station any
where in the nation, the New York
Telephone Company said Friday.
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