Alaska RR
Employe Wins
Tall Tale Contest
(Jessen’s Weekly)
George J. Gale, dispatcher for
the Alaska Railroad at Fairbanks,
is the winner of the Eielson AFB
Tall Tale Contest which high
lighted the Eielson carnival re
cently.
The contest is open for entries
for next year and these may be
sent to Alaska Tall Tale Contest,
Office of Information Services,
5010th Air Base Wing, APO 937,
Seattle.
Here is Gale’s tall tale:
“Private Second Class Siebert
was known to the military by the
nickname of “Ozark,” for he
hailed from the Ozark Mountains
of Missouri and was the only man
who understood livestock in the
outfit. Ozark was detailed to car
ry the mail between Fairbanks
and Nome during the early days
and he drove one of the fastest
reindeers in all Alaska, whom he
called Rambler.
“One bright night in January,
Ozark was on the run across Nor
ton Sound heading toward Nome,
while the great northern lights
were swaying and sweeping
across the frosty sky and casting
eerie shadows upon the cold,
frozen trail. Then far to the west
a pack of fierce Siberian wolves
set up a most savage howling.
This caused Rambler to redouble
his efforts, but Ozark was un
afraid, for he had eight cartridges
in his 30-30 Winchester carbine.
"But the wolf pack took up the
trail and began gaining on them.
The fierce wolves came rjparer
and nearer, and Ozark shot and
killed one of them, but before
that animal even hit the frozen
trail, he was snapped up and eat- j
en by the others.
“Then Ozark began shooting |
wolves in earnest, but after using
his eight cartridges and killing
eight wolves there was one giant
wolf left, for, literally, he had
eaten eight wolves and had grown
accordingly.
“This giant wolf was snarling
and snapping as he came upon
the reindeer sled, and Ozark in
utter fear of his life ducked un
der the mail sacks, hoping it
would give him some protection.
“This it did, for the great wolf
leaped right over him and ate
poor old Rambler up so fast that
he had eaten himself right into
the reindeer’s harness. Ozark
drove the wolf into Nome that
night.”
Twelfth century tribesmen in
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inch-thick iron soles which wore
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passed along for several genera
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45 DIE IN CRASH OF MILITARY
TRANSPORT PLANE IN STORM
FT. DIX, N,J., W'—A military'
transport plane apparently caught
in freakish air currents moments
after takeoff, crashed in a remote,
storm-lashed forest Friday, kill
ing 45 persons.
The 21 others aboard were in
jured. Five were in critical con
dition. Five women and two chil
dren were among the dead. The
plane went down in a storm of
rain, hail, and lightning.
Survivors spoke falteringly of
sudden, violent downdrafts that
shook the plane seconds after it
left McGuire Air Force Base, ad
jacent to this huge Ft. Dix mili
tary reservation.
The plane rocketed to earth in
an isolated, swampy woods, broke
into fragments, and ripped a 300
yard swath through the trees.
“Everything happened so quick,”
said Airman Albert J. Buck, of
Philadelphia, who was knocked
unconscious when the plane hit.
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“We were going along steady, hit
a downdraft, and then she
dropped.” '\.
Pvt, Thomas Kiley, of Law
rence, Mass., who staggered
bleeding and dazed from the
wreckage, said “a tremendous
jarring” hit the giant C-118 be
fore it veered into the boggy for
est of tall pines.
“I saw things flying off to the
side and then tearing and break
ing,” he said.
There were 66 persons aboard
the plane, a 10-man crew, 50 mil
itary and six civilians bound for
Burtonwood Army Base, near
Manchester, England.
Investigators Saturday probed
through the scattered remnants
of the plane.
Its wings were ripped off, its
fuselage broken in parts. Bits of
cloth and equipment hung in the
treetops. One of the four engines
was nearly buried in the mud.
The plane had been in the air
only 90 seconds, a spokesman
said, when it lurched and plum
meted from an altitude of an es
timated 500 to 700 feet. The crash
was about three miles from the
takeoff runway.
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SHAWNEE, Okla., Wi—A group
of canine residents of Shawnee
have solved the problem of how
to escape the 100-degree weather.
Poundmaster Troy Clay says
the pups have been crawling into
the city’s storm sewers where
they open into creek beds at the
edge of the city. Clay said a hu
mane society member called ask
ing him to pick the dogs up, but
decided the pups were smarter
than humans.
"They just want a cool place to
sleep on these hot days,” he said.
“Besides, there are enough dogs
on top of the ground without me
going underground to uick them
up.”
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