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LEAP YEAR IS COMING UP
I
AGE IS CATCHING UP
If President Eisenhower retires after his present
term—and this is not certain yet by any means—he
may be the only one among a number of now-familiar
officials in the nation’s capitol who will step down
before the 85th Congress meets in January 1957.
There is Sam Rayburn, who has been Speaker of
the House longer than any man before him, in either
party, in all the country’s history. His opposite in the
House, Minority Leader Joe Martin, has also been
around a long time.
Rayburn was 74 on the 6th of January. Martin is
already 71. These men cannot stay around forever.
There is speculation that one or both may retire before
much longer.
Some of the 84th Congress senior members and
committee chairmen will step down at the end of this
year without fail, though. Foreign Affairs Committee
chairman James P. Richards will retire at the end of
the present session.
Richards has served in Congress for more than 20
years and has handled many vital foreign aid programs
in recent years in his chairmanship position.
Chances are that a decision by Eisenhower to run
again would tend to keep some Republican legislators
on the job a little longer than otherwise. But one must
always consider—in this great game of politics—that
the man who retires might well be avoiding a heart
attack. They come frequently and suddenly among
the nation’s legislators.
At age 20 we don’t care what the world thinks
of us; at 30 we begin to worry what it thinks of us;
and at 50 we find it wasn’t thinking of us at all.
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Gen. Noyes Dies
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rather hobbled to the top of the
hill again Sunday. It was clear,
and we could see the Nome River
valley and knew where we were.
But it took us two hours to make
our way to Engstrom’s camp,
where we spent the night.
“Monday we built a big out
side fire and burned three rolls
of roofing paper, creating a big
black cloud of smoke but nobody
saw it. So we made an arrow
of lumber, pointing the way we
were walking and we knew we
would get to town eventually.”
It was this arrow which guided
pilot Bruckner and Capt. Eaton
to the two men.
Siegwart also said, “I think
that steps should be taken to
name our mountain after Gen.
Noyes.”
Siegwart has two black eyes,
an injured leg and other bruises.
Sgt. August also has bodily
bruises but both, though hospit
alized are cheerful as usual.
Major Kolb is in a cast with
back injuries but is not consid
ered in a critical condition.
When questioned about the
light which was reported seen
from Nome Field Saturday night,
Sgt. August stated there was a
dangling light from the radio
which they were unable to ex
tinguish before they went down,
which could have been the light
seen.
The four paramedics who para
chuted to the scene of the wreck
Monday spent the night out in
the hills. Due to the falling night
and short field they were not
brought in by the rescue planes.
The four men walked to Eng
strom’s camp and spent the night.
They were picked up Tuesday
morning by "Martin Olson.
The survivors as well as the
searchers have remarked on the
coincidence that Jim Walsh
should have been the one to spot
th(? missing plane as a member of
the searching group when the
same group carried on a similar
search last summer for his small
son Timmy who was lost in the
Snake River area. Walsh stated
that in a very small way it helped
compensate for the generous aid
given him last summer.
Bill Munz, whose name was
omitted from the list of searching
pilot, Monday, was among the
first to volunteers, as he always
does.
The body of Gen. Noyes was
taken to Anchorage by military
aircraft and his wife, who was
reported on her way to Nome,
will return to Juneau.
Major Kell of Nome Field, who
was on duty throughout the two
day search, had words of highest
praise for the bush pilots and
especially singled out Martin
Olson for his part in the rescue.
He was the first to land at the
scene and the last to leave and
he returned again yesterday to
bring in the paramedics.
Many other civilians aided,
each in his own way, and none
seek nor want any special recog
nition but were only too glad
to have been able to help.
Col. W. S. Coleman, Senior
Army Advisor with the A.N.G.,
said:
(“The assistance, enthusiasm,
and intense, sincere desire of the
Civil Air Patrol, composed main
ly of bush pilots, exceeds any
contributions I have even seen in
a civilian volunteer group co
operating with the Alaska Air
National Guard and the 74th Air
Rescue Squadron.”
Brig. Gen. John Noyes, aged
54, was well known to the people
of this area, having first come to
Nome in 1926 as a young lieuten
ant, fresh from West Point, and
during the construction of Nome
Harbor, was on duty with the
Alaska Road Commission.
Gen. Noyes was married in
Juneau a year ago to the former
Lily Erickson of Washington, D.C.
It was his second marriage. His
first wife died in 1951.
He served in Alaska from 1932
to 1934 in charge of the U. S.
Army Engineers district branch.
After a 14-year absence he re
turned to Alaska in 1948 as Com
missioner of Roads under the Sec
retary of Interior. He became the
commander of the A.N.G. in 1953
after retirement from the Army.
Funeral services will be held
on Feb. 4th at Sherrill, N. Y.
Gov. Henitzleman * has said he
will attend.
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Liner None the Worse
For Collision With Whale
NEW YORK Ufi—‘The liner Con
stitution arrived in port today,
none the worse for a collision at
sea with a two-ton whale.
Capt. Ernest H. Nelson, the
skipper, said the ship jarred
slightly when it ran into the ma
rine mammal _off Genoa, appar
ently killing it instantly. The
whale, about 40 feet long, re
mained draped across the ship’s
bow for sevt ral hours.
World’s Scientists
To Make Study of
Northern Lights
COLLEGE—Mankind will start
its greatest collective effort to
probe the mysteries of the aurora
borealis or northern lights during
the International Geophysical
Year 1957-58, Dr. C. T. Elvey,
director of the University of Alas
ka Geophysical Institute, dis
closed recently.
The principal instrument the
scientists will use will be the all
sky camera, the prototype of
which the Institute developed and
has been using for two years.
Dr. Elvey explained that the
all-sky camera is an automatically
operated 16-mm. instrument that
photographs the entire sky as
seen in a spherical mirror. This
method enables scientists to re
cord the auroras on film.
“The camera is made to operate
at approximately one-minute in
tervals and with exposures of
from several seconds up to a min
ute,” Dr. Elvey said.
The U.S. expedition to Antarc
tica will use six of the all-sky
cameras; six more will remain in
Alaska. The remainder will be
used in the northern tier of states
where auroras are most visible.
Many other nations will be
studying the northern lights with
the all-sky camera o.- some form
of it.
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• This mortal life also;
The body they may kill;
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