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j Families of Three Fliers
i Lost In Alaska Sue
For One Million Dollars
SAN FRANCISCO & — The
families of three airmen lost while
doing research in a flying labor
atory near Alaska sued Stanford
Research Institute, Stanford Uni
versity trustees and a business
firm for one million dollars.
The suit alleges the three were
operating a converted Navy PBY
which was “unfit and dangerous
for use” while doing secret radar
research for the Defense Depart
ment.
The plane disappeared off An
nette Island on Dec. 17, 1957.
Aboard were Pilot Phillip Gray,
28, of Mill Valley. Calif.; Co-Pilot
Carl Scott, 26, of San Francisco,
and Flight Engineer Burrass
Smith, 61, of Corte Madera, Calif.
The business firm named in the
suit was Mystrom Aviation Co.
of Hayward, Calif.
Secretary of State Offers Nuclear
Power to Chiefs of NATO
PARIS UP) — U. S. Secretary of
State Christian A. Herter condi
tionally offered today to put five
Polaris-carrying atomic subma
rines and 100 more nuclear mis
siles under the command of mili
tary chiefs of the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization.
Herter’s offer to the 15-nation
NATO was conditioned upon the
Allies beginning a far-reaching
study on how to share political
control of the nuclear force. The
offer also was conditional because
Herter cannot bind the hands of
the incoming President, John F.
Kennedy, who takes office Jan.
20.
Atlas Missile Hits Target
4,384 Miles Distant
In 27-Minute Flight
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE
BASE, Calif, iff) — An Atlas mis
sile fired from this west coast
missile base sped 4,384 miles in
27 minutes and hit a target in
Eniwetok Lagoon.
Gon. Thomas S. Power, head
of the Strategic Air Command,
said Friday’s launching “demon
stra os that in combat ICBMs
would compress to an incredibly
short interval the time necessary
to place nuclear explosives on
target.”
A small charge of TNT was
used in the warhead, instead of
the nuclear weapon Atlas would
use in combat. The Air Force said
the explosive was used to check
out mechanisms which would arm
a nuclear device.
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Plane Full of U.S.
Students Crashes
In Munich Street
MUNICH, GERMANY UP* — A
U. S. Air Force transport plane
carrying American students home
for Christmas plowed into the
heart of ancient Munich today.
Police said 50 to 60 perhaps more,
died a fiery death.
In addition, at least 30 Christ
mas shoppers on the busy streets
of this Bavarian capital were re
ported critically injured.
It was the second airplane dis
aster to affect a great city in two
days.
The crew of seven of the twin
engine Convair and 13 student
passengers from the University
of Maryland’s outpost in Munich
were believed to have perished in
the crash.
The plane sheered off the
steeple of a church and crashed
into a packed streetcar. Police
expressed belief about 35 persons
aboard the streetcar died, as well
as 10 to 15 Christmas shoppers
caught on the street by the crash
ing plane and the flames which
engulfed it.
The American students aboard
the plane were 16 to 21 years old,
most of them children of U. S.
military personnel stationed in
England.
They had boarded the plane at
Munich-Riem Airport a happy,
laughing, kidding lot. They were
to fly to Northolt Airport, Eng
land, there to scatter to their fam
ilies for Christmas.
The transport took off from
Munich-Riems in foggy weather.
Four minutes later, witnesses said
the plane hit the steeple of St.
Paul’s Roman Catholic Church in
the heart of the city. It sheered
off the steeple, flew on another
couple of streets and then, with a
roar, dived into Bayerstrause and
exploded.
A huge area went up in flames
as the plane smashed into the
streetcar and gasoline spewed
over nearby cars and buildings.
Witnesses said people walking
about the streets burst into flames
as the gasoline drenched them.
More than 50 fire engines, Ger
man as well as from the U. S.
Army in Munich, rushed to the
scene.
Germans said it reminded them
of the wartime air raids on the
city.
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Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon at
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Pearse Walsh, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO 1
Order of Eastern Star
Ruth Reed
Y'jafy Worthy Matron
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y Secretary
Meets first and third Mondays
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BYRON O. REED. W.M.
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Robert Grant
President
Dusty Rhode
Secretary
Wednesday .Luncheon
Parent-Teachers Assn.
Meals last Tuesday of ovary
month at School.
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JANE FOSTER. Secretary
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