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Round-the-World Amphibious Jeep
Arrives in. Seattle From Alaska
SEATTLE, U!)—An adventurer
who sailed an amphibious jeep
4across the Atlantic and Pacific
oceans arrived here yesterday on
the next-to-last leg of a round
the-world land-sea trip.
Australian-born Ben Carlin, 51,
was alone in the jeep, the “Half
Safe,” as he pulled in from Alas
Ita. Boyde De Mente, of Phoenix,
Ariz., the last in a series of part
ners who had accompanied Carlin
at various stages of the trip, was
forced to leave him in the far
north because of illness in his
family.
Carlin said he planned to drive
to San Francisco, then swing back
northeast to Montreal, where he
started seven years ago. He con
ceded that going around the world
in an amphibious jeep might be
fun once, “but I’d shoot myself
before I’d do it again.”
Carlin was held up three days
in northern British Columbia af
ter collapse of a 2,200-foot suspen
sion bridge across the Peace Riv
er. He finally sailed his jeep
across the river rather than make
the crossing by ferry.
“Riding a ferry would have
been cheating,” he said.
Carlin recalled that he actually :
started his adventure with his
wife in 1948 when they set out
from Montreal to try to sail to
Casablanca. After five attempts,
they finally made it in 1950.
Asked if he would consider sail
ing in the jeep from Seattle to
San Francisco, the Australian
said:
“Now why do you think I’d
travel on that pitching sea when
I’ve got tires on this thing that’ll
carry me 40 miles an hour over
dry land.”
BOY MAKES LIKE SPUTNIK.
COMES DOWN HARD
BECKLEY, W.Va., L5P>—Daniel
PaLausky, a satellite enthusiast at
the age of five, got the word on
gravity first hand.
The youngster was explaining
the satellite theory to his 4-year
old sister when he leaped from
his second-deck bunk in an effort
to get himself into an orbit.
He came down fast and wound
up in the hospital with a possible I
fracture of a bone 4'n his foot. .
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Rail & Highway Commission Studies Ways to
Open Wilderness Treasures of Alaska and Canada
By STANTON H. PETTY ‘
SEATTLE, tfV—The dream of
unlocking vast new wilderness
areas of Alaska and Canada
moved a little closer to reality
here yesterday with a roundtable j
meeting conducted by the Alaska
International Rail and Highway
Commission.
Transportation is the key to
the treasure box. That has been
the north country’s No. 1 head
ache since the beginning, the con
ferees agreed.
First, the commissioners are
talking of a new highway slicing
thru British Columbia and Yukon
territory into the heartland of
Alaska.
That artery will augment or re
Among the questions to be an
swered is whether private capital
can build and operate the railroati
profitably. Or will it have to be a
government line?
Louis S. Rothschild, undersec
retary of commerce for transpor
tation, who is commission chair
man, says frankly that “I am a
private-enterprise man.
The 13 commission members
are planning to tour the north
country in the spring to search
for some of the answers to the
highway-rail project.
B. Frank Heintzleman, former
governor of Alaska, appeared at
the hearing as a representative of
the Pacific Northwest Trade As
sociation. He recommended:
1. Surface and improve the
present Alaska Highway.
’ 2. Pave the road from Haines to
the Alaska Highway.
3. Provide right of way along
side any new highway so access
roads can be extended to mineral
rich sections.
4. Co-ordinate highways and
the proposed rail line with water
routes.
5. Extend Canada thd' right to
move its goods to tidewater over
place the present Alaska High
way, which is unpaved most of
the way and can be severed over
night by a sudden change in the
weather.
As tributaries are built to the
new highway, sealed-off coastal
communities will be linked to the
“outside.”
The flow of commerce will
bring new population and new in- j
dustries. Canada and the U.S. will [
have a more reliable lifeline.
Next, the commission will ex- j
plore the economic feasibility of;
a railroad to the north.
American soil in the north.
6. Look forward to the possibil
ity of a single hydroelectric sys- !
tem cn a dozen or more dam sites
from southern B'.C. to the Yukon
in interior Alaska.
American and Canadian leaders
pledged mutual cooperation to
bring the dream into reality.
A1 Anderson, executive director
of the Alaska Resource Develop
ment Board, described the inter
national boundary as “an artifi
cial barrier.” He said Alaskans
are eager to shatter it.
Sen. Magnuson (D-Wash), vice
chairman of the commission, said
highway-rail boosters must do a
“selling job” in the U.S. Congress
and the Canadian Parliament.
E. L. (Bob) Bartlett, Alaska’s
delegate in Congress, summed it
up this way:
“Too little has been done for
too long. We need roads to many
places for many purposes.”
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High School Play
‘Inner Willy’ Was
Big Success
It would be hard to say who
had the most fun, the cast or the
audience, at the High School play
last evening held in the school
auditorium.
“Inner Willy” was thoroughly
enjoyed, well cast, most humor
ous.
Three old-fashioned maiden
aunts were well portrayed by
Bunny Doyle, Mary Jo Swan berg
and Diane Lee, while Willoughby,
played by Donald Munz, the neph- j
ew on whom they doted, gave an j
excellent performance of endur- j
ance.
The main character was Inner j
Willy, played by Ray Arnold,
who held the center of the stage
most of the time.
Two other male character parts
were played by Rod Boucher and
Gerald Trigg. Girl parts were
played by Alice Glavinovich, Har-1
riet Coleman, Alice Scott and
Willy’s girl was Sherry Carter.
Stage manager for the produc
tion was Chuck Snyder, with Al
ice Scott as prompter.
Following the show the cast en
joyed a party at the home of the
director, Mrs. W. Cameron, and
in appreciation for her efforts
they presented her with a gift of
luggage.
The cast wrere guests of Mrs.
Bill Munz for lunch today.
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