Missing Alaska Pilot
Found After 24 Hours
EDMONTON, tfV-The RCAF re
ported that Nelson Smith, an Al
askan pilot missing nearly 24
hours on a 160-mile flight from
Montana to Alberta, was found
Friday suffering only from a
bruised knee.
The RCAF said another plane
from Havre, Mcfnt., picked up the
Bristol Bay, Ala., pilot and took
him to Havre.
The Seabee amphibian was re
ported to have suffered slight
damage in the forced landing
made on account of “power fail
ure” on a projected flight from
Havre to Lethbridge.
The RCAF reported Smith was
found just north of the U.S. Can
ada boundary.
ALASKA AIRLINES
From Anchorage: Dr. F. M.
Terral, W. H. Crews, Mrs. Alice
Brunlow and infant, James Mills,
Dr. Brian Rothfuss, Dr. C. H.
Rothfuss.
To Anchorage: Dr. F.M. Terrall,
W.H. Crews, Mrs. W. J. Borden
and infant, Stephen Borrden, Sgt.
and Mrs. Charles Sindelar and
three children, Capt. Roy Hop
kins, Burnett Maisel.
To Unalakleet: John Osborn,
Walter Acomen, Barbara Carls
son.
From Unalakleet: Emory Lind
gren.
To Golovin: W. Barber and Ed
Cook.
From Tin City: Lt. Crossman.
Fleas are not found on hoofed
animals.
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Commissions Delayed
For Security Clearance
ANNAPOLIS, UPl—Three young
officers who sweated out their
bars for a full week after the
rest of their class, showed no
rancor today as they prepared to
head for leaves and new duty
stations.
They were commissioned in
quick ceremonies at the naval
academy Friday night, a few
hours afer the Navy in Washing
ton had cleared them of being
possible security risks.
Better Use of Mail Service
Recommended Between
Nome and Fairbanks
FAIRBANKS — The aviation
committee of the Fairbanks
Chamber of Commerce is recom
mending to the Chamber board
that a letter be written to the Post
Office Department to make fuller
use of the available mail service
between Fairbanks and Nome.
It was brought to the attention
of the committee that there is
daily mail service between An
chorage and Nome but that the
post office is not using all the air
service available to carry the mail
from Fairbanks.
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Pilot, Off Course, Dies
In Crash After Acrobatics
ALTADENA, Calif., UP—Auth
orities sought to learn Saturday
why a pilot, supposedly flying
from Los Angeles to Seattle,
crashed into a garage here—far
off course—after frightening the
neighborhood with aeriar acro
batics.
The flier, Clifford Hanson, 32,
of Seattle, was killed in the flam
ing wreckage of his Cessna 170,
which crashed after sheering off
telephone lines at a school a block
away, Hanson was reported to
have been a former Alaska bush
pilot.
The four-place single-engine
plane nearly met with tragedy on
the way down from Seattle. Han
son became lost in clouds over
Oregon on Wednesday and made
a forced landing on a beach near
Reedsport. After refueling he took
off for southern California.
Senate Group Favors
28 New Top-Drawar Posts
In Commerce, State Depts.
WASHINGTON, (JV-Creation of
28 new top-drawer posts in the
Commerce and State Departments
has been recommended to the
Senate by its Appropriations Com
mittee.
The recommendation was in
cluded in a $1,169,000,000 annual
money bill for the State, Com
merce and Justice Departments
for the fiscal year that begins on
July 1. Committee action was tak
en Wednesday; Senate, debate is
scheduled for today.
Twenty of the new jobs, rang
ing from $12,000 to $18,000 a year,
would go to the Commerce De
partment and eight to the State
Department. The salary range is
above that of the normal civil
service scale, but below that of
sub-Cabinet jobs.
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Tragedy Mars Opening
Of Navy Air Show
MEMPHIS UP)—The “show went
on” unofficially at the Memphis
Naval Air Station Saturday,
shrouded in a pall of sadness cast
by the crash of a Jet fighter that
killed five persons.
The faster than sound F7U Cut
lass blazed like a ball at fire
through the station’s • aviation
mechanic’s school Friday, leaving
dead the pilot, three chief petty
officers and a civilian secretary.
The crash came less than an
hour before the station opened its
annual three-day festival and air
show. The Cutlass was flown to
the base from Dallas, Tex., espec
ially for the event.
PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS
Arriving Friday were George
Bayer, Mrs. Mary Ralph, Pember
ton Killeen, Mr. and Mrs. Walter
Sipprell, Roy Burt, Mr. Bailey,
Elberty Walker, M. Sheridan, Mr.
and Mrs. Thomason, Sarah Mc
Donnell.
Departing were Mrs. Everett
Bachelder and daughter, Dick
Lee, Charles Goedde, Ida Watt
and daughter Edith, Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Walker and two children,
Leonard Johnson, Jack Adams.
Passengers for Seattle were
Mrs. Cary Lee, Mrs. Carl Glavino
vich and three children, Mary
Smith and daughter, Lucy Ann
Fagerstrom, Norvin Lewis.
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ATTENTION ROTARIANS . . .
On Monday, June 14, a group of
20 visiting Rotarians will arrive
Nome on a post-Rotary Interna
tional Convention tour of Alaska.
The Board of Directors has de
cided that in order to accommo
date these people the regular
Thursday meeting for next week
will be held Monday evening at
7:30 in the basement of the Bering
Sea Club. The affair will be
strictly informal.
Rotary Anns are cordiallyN in
vited. Guests of the members are
welcome.
You are urged to attend this
meeting in order to keep up our
attendance and this will be count
ed as a regular meeting.
Nome Directory
ROTARY CLUB
OF NOME
James Walsh, Pres.
George Bayer, Secy.
Thursday Luncheon
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
MEETS EVERY TUESDAY NOON
BOYD HARWOOD, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. 1
Order of Eastern Star
Meets the third Monday of each month.
Jana Parkins
Worthy Matron
Evelyn Branson
i?ecr*tary
LESLIE A. STEVENS
PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT
—4M First Ave. West, Nome, Alaska—
10 to 12 a.m. - 1 to 5 p.m.
Phone Main 82 — P.O. Box 208
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No. 146
John Cooley, W.M.
Norvin W. Lewis, Secy.
Meets 1st and 3rd Thursday each month.