Air Force KC135
Sets New World’s
Distance Record
OMAHA, UPl — A sleek Air I
Force RC135 jet tanker landed
at Lejes Field in the Azores Tues-:
day after a flight of 10,228 miles.!
a new world distance record for j
jet aircraft.
Strategic Air Command’s oper
ations officers in Omaha said the
official elapsed time of the flight
was '18 hours and 47 minutes.
The huge stratotanker fell
1,259 miles short of its intended
goal—Madrid—and an over-all
world distance record after pre
dicted jet winds failed to mater
ialize.
The jet stream velocity sub
sided nohth of Hawaii and never j
picked up sufficiently again.
Streaking eastward from To- j
kyo, the plane booked a record |
flight of 13 hours and 35 minutes i
for the 7,662-mile flight to Wash-1
ington, first leg of the trip.
A SAC spokesman explained!
that the measurements 'are taken I
from the VOR (visual omni range)!
markers at each point rather !
than from the actual takeoff j
point.
The plane carried fuel for a j
10,000-mile flight and the high j
altitude jet stream winds were
expected to give it enough push |
to carry it on to Madrid. But;
the winds—ranging from more 1
than 100 miles per hour to less j
than 25—lacked 18 miles an hour j
of a velocity sufficient to let thej
tanker make it all the way.
The flight path of the non-re- J
fueled tanker followed the 30 to |
50 mile wide jet stream, cut across j
the Pacific, north of Hawaii, pen- j
etrating the United States at San (
Francisco. It passed over Fresno,
Calif., Albuquerque, N. M., Lex
ington, Ky., and Washington.
King crabs average from 5 to
8 pounds dressed.
John Schaeffer Receives
John R. Noyes Award
ANCHORAGE—Pvt. John W.
Schaeffer, 19, Kotzebue has been
awarded the first John R. Noyes
Award Certificate as the out
standing enlisted man of the 1st
Scout Bn., Alaska National Guard.
The award “was presented by the
combined Elmendorf-Fort Rich
ardson Brig. Gen. John R. Noyes
Veterans of Foreign Wars post.
The award is based on the in
dividual soldiers proficiency in
military subjects including first
aid, military courtesy, individual
appearance, knowledge of mili
tary occupation specialty, know
ledge of individual weapon and
communications.
Pvt. Schaeffer, a member of
the battalion’s Company C, joined
the National Guard in his home
village in February, 1957. Fol
lowing his induction, he served on
active duty for six months at
Fort Ord, California.
He took a series of tests to de
termine his eligibility for the
Officers Candidates School at
Fort Benning, Georgia.
The award is given in memory
of the late Brig. Gen. John R.
Noyes, former adjutant general
of the Alaska National Guard.
He was killed in an airplane ac-,
cident near Nome in January,
1956.
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Ike Challenges
Russia to Accept
Disarmament
WASHINGTON, UP) — Presi
dent Eisenhower Tuesday chal
lenged Khrushchev t<? go beyond
a mere end to nuclear testing and
accent dependable supervised dis
armament “if the Soviet Union is
as peace-loving as it professes.”
That was the essence of Eisen
hower’s reply to an April 4 let
ter from the new Soviet Premier
in which Khrushchev:
1. Called on the United States
to follow the example set by
Moscow March 31 when Foreign
Minister Gromyko announced the
Soviets were suspending tests;
and
2. Emphasized the point, made
by Gromyko, that if the West
does not take that course the So
viets will consider it necessary in
the interest of security to resume
their own tests.
Far from accepting the Krem
lin proposal, Eisenhower made it
clear long-planned U. S. nuclear
trials ’will go ahead in the Pacific
this spring and summer, and
questioned whether it was even
Khrushchev’s real aim to get
testing stopped.
“The timing, wording and man
ner of the Soviet declaration can
not but raise questions as to its
real significance,” Eisenhower
said in his letter.
In effect he was putting into
polite language the propaganda
gimmick label he hung on the
Russian move at a news confer
ence shortly after Gromyko an
nounced it.
Eisenhower said Russia could
prove its peaceful aims by one
or all of these:
1. Accepting the Eisenhower
atoms-for-peace plan to stop mak
ing atomic weapons, create inter
national supervision to prevent
cheating, and drain off existing
atomic weapons for use of their
fissionable materials in peaceful
pursuits.
2. Agreeing as an alternate to
Eisenhower’s “open skies” aerial
inspection and space-for-peace
proposals.
3. Agreeing to “begin the pre-i
liminaries necessary to larger I
things” in the disarmament field j
by starting immediately a joint
study of technical measures for
setting up international atomic
controls.
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Nita Campbell, Ronnie Menade
look, Donald Reader, Violet
Tucker.
Discharged—Little Sister Sol
onge Marie, A. Kahle, Joe Ama
rok, Karon Mclver, Peter Oki
nella.
Transferred to Anchorage—
James Kealiher.
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No. 1091
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the Estate of Peter Curran, deceased,
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said estate may present them, with
proper vouchers attached, to the said
Executor within a period of six (6)
months from the date of this notice.
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