C-124 CARGO PLANE CRASHES
KILLING ALL SEVEN ABOARD
Kansas city, mo. w — A
C-124 cargo plane attempting an
emergency landing crashed just
short of the runway at Richards
Gebaur Air Force Base near here
yesterday, killing all seven
aboard.
The four-engine craft, plunged
into a marshy field, missing a
row of suburban residences by a
quarter of a mile.
The dead were all Air Force
reservists recently recalled to ac
tive duty.
GREETINGS I . . .
BLYTHVTLLE, Ark. When
an Alabama sheriff received a
Christmas card from farm laborer
Allen Clup, he reacted by mailing
Blythville police a warrant for
Culp’s arrest.
Officers said sheriff Hug Cham
pion of Chilton County, Ala., re
ported that Culp escaped jail
eight months ago.
WILL SHOOT BACK
WASHINGTON W — U.S.
helicopter crews flying into South
Viet Nam’s guerrilla-infested bat
tle zones will shoot back if Com
munists fire on them, say Penta
gon officials.
The United States has sent 40
helicopters and 400 men to fly
them to South Viet Nam. They
will be used, the sources say, to
- haul supplies and Vietnamese
I troops into isolated areas where
P the soldiers can battle Commu
nist Viet Cong rebels.
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Arctic Ann, owned and oper
ated by Harold Little at Kotze
bue, was burned day before yes
terday with the fire gutting the
interior of this modern little
hotel, it has been reported. The
volunteer fire department was
unable to put out the fire before
the building was completely
burned but the water damage
destroyed most of the interior.
Rotary Xmas Party
The Rotary Club was host to
day to children of the members
in their annual Christmas party.
Thirty-six sons, borrowed sons,
and daughters attended the noon
luncheon and received a Christ
mas gift.
Isadora Mika has been held to
answer to the Grand Jury for
burglary in a dwelling at St.
Marys.
An Assyrian tablet dating from
2,000 BjC. says that Noah carried
a supply of beer on his famous
Ark. So, for that matter, did the
Pilgrims on the Mayflower. Beer
kept better than water in past
times.
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Satellite Tracking
Station Set Up
Near Fairbanks
WASHINGTON UR — The key
station in a new satellite tracking
global network has been built
near Fairbanks and is being test
ed, the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration said Mon
day.
The second of the power sta
tions, each with a saucer-shaped
antenna 85 feet in diameter, will
be at Bosnian, NjC., 40 miles
southwest of Asheville.
The stations, costing more than
$5 million each, are equipped with
“high gain” or ultra sensitive
antenna.
They will form NASA's data
acquisition network, a powerful
receiving system to gather infor
mation sent by a variety of “sec
ond generation” satellites.
From such future spacecraft as
orbiting astronautical observa
and orbiting geophysical observa
tories the stations will record data
on magnetic tape. Computers will
translate this into new informa- |
tion on the nature of other bodies
in space.
The new Alaskan station, at ;
Gilmore Creek 20 miles from
Fairbanks, will operate on a
“X-Y” mount that will provide
full sky coverage except for eight
degrees on the horizon.
The network will be operated
under NASA contract by the Uni
versity of Alaska’s Geophysical
Institute. The stations will con
tain considerable automatic equip
ment so operating crews will be
small.
Also under construction by
NASA near Fairbanks is another
receiving station, with ah 85-foot
dish antenna, designed primarily
for use in tracking and receiving
radio telemetry data from Nim
bus weather satellites of the fu
ture.
The first Nimbus, improved suc
cessor to the Tiros cloud-photo
graphing satellite will be launched
in the latter half of 1962. The
Fairbanks station will command
as well as listen to the new weath
er satellites and will be “our
only source of contact with Nim
bus,” a Goddard spokesman said.
Neither of the huge Fairbanks
installations is to be confused
with, or has any connection with,
the huge Ballistic Missile Early
Warning Station at Clear or the
other BMEWS stations in Green
land and northern England. The
BMEWS stations are Air Force
owned and operated, and are part
of the U.S. military defense sys
tem as contrasted with the civil
ian scientific programs of NASA.
King Island Dancers
To Represent Alaska
At C21 Exposition
Seattle’s World’s Fair officials
have advised Gov. Wm. Egan that
July 7, 1962, has been designated
as Alaska Day at the Century 21
Exposition.
The new date represents a
change from a previous designa
tion of April 26 which had been
tentatively agreed to by the Gov
ernor in correspondence with fair
officials and Gov. A1 Rosellini of
Washington.
Egan said the change was made
at the request of fair officials
to coincide with the planned visit
to the exposition of a group of
King Island Eskimo dancers.
The King Islanders would like
financial support to arrive in Seat
tle under their own power, which
would be in two oomiaks with
outboard motors. They would like
to make the trip from some port
in Southeastern Alaska.
CHRISTMAS
EDITION
of
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A Christmas Greeting
That Will Be
Appreciated
133% of Cancer Patients
I Being Cured Today
I NEW YORK Lfl — The Mem
I orial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Cen
ter says 33 per cent of all can
cer patients are being cured to
day and it's possible that per
centage soon may be increased.
Increased research, new surgi
cal techniques, improved radiation
control and development of chem
ical treatments were cited as im
portant advances in the war on
the disease.
“How far medical science has
moved toward the complete con
trol of cancer can only be esti
mated,” Dr. Henry Randall, Med
ical Director of Memorial Hospi
tal, said Monday.
Randall’s estimate of an actual
33 per cent cure rate refers to
patients who had experienced no
recurrence of the disease, a
spokesman said.
Elsie May Smith, of the BIA
Welfare Department plans to
spend the Christmas holiday with
Mends in Fairbanks.
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