JETS WITH ATOMIC ROCKETS
BEING DEPLOYED TO ALASKA
(Editor’s Note: U.S. Air Force
transport pilots must fly to re
mote corners of the world where
emergencies often arise swiftly.
Part of their training to cope
with those emergencies includes
actually flying into situations
that at the moment appear hope
less. Elton C. Fay, the AP’s vet
eran military affairs reporter,
flew on one of those training mis
sions the other day. He describes
the flight—“most interesting one
I ever made”—in the following
dispatch.)
By ELTON C. FAY
Elmendorf Air Force Base, Aug.
14 (Delayed), (J*>—Up in the fang
toothed mountains east of here is
one of the world’s toughest train
ing grounds for pilots.
Today, Maj. Leslie J. Green
wood, in charge of flying train
ing at Bolling Air Foce Base, near
Washington, D. C., has brought
three of his instructors to demon
Harry Bridges Willing
For Communists to
Hold Union Office
NEW YORK, (4*)—Harry Bridg
es, West Coast labor leader, says
he would not object if Commu
nists held office in his union.
But, he said, the final decision
would rest with the 'union’s rank
end file. “They have a right to
select anyone they want,” he said.
Interviewed last night on ABC
TV’s “The Mike Wallace Inter
view, Bridges said: “I don’t think
much of (George) Meany.”
He said Meany, president of the
AFL-CIO, “lacks in wanting de
mocracy in labor.”
Of Russian Communism, the
labor leader said he was not sure
what the term means but the So
viet system was better for the
Russian people than was the pre
revolution regime.
New Women’s Dormitory
At University of Alaska
Named Wickersham Hall
JUNEAU—Secretary of the In
terior Fred Seaton has approved
the naming of the new $500,000
women’s dormitory “Wickersham
Hall” at the University of Alaska.
The modem structure has been
named after one of Alaska’s most
prominent citizens, Judge James
Wickersham.
For many years Judge Wicker
sham served as district judge for
the Fairbanks area and later was
delegate to Congress from Alaska.
Wickersham Hall will house 100
women students on the university
campus and is scheduled for com
pletion this October. The rein
forced concrete structure has 38
double dormitory rooms, 19 single
rooms and a proctor’s one-bed
room apartment.
There is also a large lounge,
g laundry and sewing room, a
shower room and other rooms.
strate that even big, lumbering
transports can fly unscathed out
of seemingly impossible places.
“I just want to give them con
fidence in themselves and in their
airplane,” Greenwood says.
Those who rode with today’s
training flight developed, in a
few minutes complete confidence
in the skill of the United States
Air Force’s transport pilots—cod
in an elderly Dpuglas C-54 which
has accumulated something like
22,000 hours of fying time and
three million miles of travel since
it was delivered.
Suppose you were flying low to
keep under weather and found a
wrong turn had headed you up a
canyon. In a like situation today,
Greenwood brings his plane in at
100 feet over the water, points it
up a fjord, turns and twists with
the curving shoreline.
The walls close in gradually on
each side. Ahead lies the end of
the 6,000-foot-deep chasm. It
slopes up and up, to merge with
ice fields above.
More power now. The growl of
the four engine deepens. The
pilot pulls back on the yoke and
the C-54 starts climbing, rock
rubble a few feet below.
The plane’s climb increases as
the ice and crevasses show ahead.
Now it is a thousand feet up and
an ice wall is just off the right
wing tip.
Here Greenwood shows his
pilots how you can turn and go
back if you can’t go ahead.
The right wing comes up in a
bank, higher and higher until it l
is pointing at the blue sky. The
engines roar at full power. Slow- ]
ly the 20-ton airplane tightens its
turn, fighting away from the
mountainside.
The sheer face of a cliff is no
longer ahead. It is 50 feet under
the belly of the plane as the air
craft comes about with its wings
almost vertical. You are around.
What you need is confidence,
repeats Greenwood.
With Greenwood on this train
ing mission to Alaska gre three
of the 30 instructors he directs,
each of them veteran airmen.
Their students include Penta
gon officers, officers assigned to
the War College, the Industrial
College and other defense instal
lations in the Washington area.
Letter-size and legal file folders
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I Use Encouraged of
Milk, Alaska’s Top
Agricultural Product
COLLEGE—Milk should be giv
en special attention during Alas
ka Farm Month as it is Alaska’s
top agricultural product. Alaska’s
milk production is around 6,500,
000 quarts a year.
The availability of this large
supply of fresh milk is very im
portant to each Alaskan family
since milk is of number one im
portance in the daily diet.
When nutrients in American
diets are compared with recom
mended allowances, calcium is
the nutrient most often found to
be deficient. Milk is the best
source of this substance. Three
fourths of the calcium, nearly
half the riboflavin, and a fourth
of the protein in our country’s
food suppy come from milk.
Milk also furnishes about 100
other nutrients—a long list of vi
tamins, minerals, fats and sugars.
WEATHER FORECAST
Partly cloudy tonight and Tues
day with little change in tem
perature.
No Time To Keep Your Shirt On |
CLOVER, S.C., Ml—When the
bees got under 59-year-old Lee j
Henry Minhow’s shirt, he tried !
to take it off.
The trouble was, Minhow was I
driving a two-ton truck loaded I
with oats when the swarm of bees j
flew in the window of thq truck’s j
cab near here yesterday.
While Minhow was disrobing,
the truck crashed. Minhow was j
uninjured but damage was esti- j
mated at $1,500. The bees es- j
caped.
There are nearly 1,000 head of j
hogs in Alaska.
! Plan to Move Alaska Health Service
Going On Despite Opposition
j JUNEAU, —The federal De
partment of Health Education and
Welfare said yesterday it is 'going
ahead with its original plans to
transfer its Alaska Public Health
Service headquarters from Ju
neau to Anchorage. The move is
scheduled to start Sept. 1 and be
completed by June 1, 1958.
The move had been delayed
since the original announcement
in July—a delay brought about
by strong protests filed by terri
torial health agencies, the Alaska
Native Brotherhood, the Juneau
Chamber of Commerce, and by
Governor Stepovich. The Interior
Department also reportedly op
posed the transfer of the Alaska
Native Health Service headquar
ters.
The announcement was made
from Mt. Edgecumbe thru the
acting medical officer in charge,
Dr. C. J. Mankinen. He said an
additional study of the proposed
move since July “indicates the
transfer will be in the best inter
ests of the Indians and Alaska
beneficiaries of the Alaska Native
Health Service.” i
As of Sept. 1, he said, Dr. Jo
seph A. Gallagher would assume
overall responsibility for the
Alaska operations of the Public
! Health Service in its health pro
gram for Indians.
Dr. Mankinen’s announcement
said “improved health services
are expected to result because the
program can be operated more
efficiently from Anchorage.”
This was in contrast to a posi
tion taken earlier this week by
the Alaska Native Brotherhood,
which asked President Eisenhow
er to intervene and stop the pro
posed move. Earlier, protests that
the move would result in less ef
ficiency and economy had been
filed by the Juneau Chamber of
Commerce, the ANS, which is an
agency of the Bureau of Indian
Affairs, and by the acting terri
torial commissioner of health, Dr.
Charles R. Hayman.
Dairying is Alaska’s top agri
cultural industry. Alaska’s milk
production is around 6,500,000
quarts a year. Alaskans consume
over 12,000,000 quarts a year.
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