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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
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THE SNOW FLOWER
Aerial Mapping
Mission Planned
For U.S., Alaska
WASHINGTON, —The Com
merce Department yesterday an
nounced plans for a summer-long
aerial mapping mission, covering
much of the United States, Alaska
and the Aleutian Islands.
The project is a joint operation
by the Coast and Geodetic Survey
and the Coast Guard, which is
furnishing a converted B-17 and
its flight crew.
Another B-17, scheduled to take
off when loading is completed, is
equipped with a giant nine-lens
camera.
The department said the plan
is to take aerial photographs of
coastal lands, to be used in com
piling nautical charts. Another as
signment will be to photograph
airport obstructions now interfer
ing with landing and takeoff op
erations.
The mission is scheduled to ar
rive in the Aleutians by May 15.
Before the operation is completed
the B-17 may have flown 75,000
miles, the department said.
The 500-pound camera is the
principal item of photographic
equipment. It can photograph a
300 -square-mile area in one shot
from an altitude of 22,000 feet,
the department said.
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Eden Returns to Boston
For Medical Treatment
AUKLAND, New Zealand, WV—
Sir Anthony Eden, facing the
threat of a recurrence of his old
bile duct trouble, decided yester
day to cut short his New Zealand
vacation and leave by plane to
morrow for medical treatment in
Boston.
Prime Minister Sidney Holland
announced the British former
prime minister and Lady Eden
will head for Fiji aboard a Royal
New Zealand Air Force flying
boat on the first leg of their trip
to Boston. In Fiji they will catch
a transpacific airliner for, Hono
lulu and Vancouver.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Reader
are scheduled to leave today for
! a Stateside vacation trip which
i will be spent in the Pacific North
west with friends and relatives.
Jack Blaltler, of the U.S. Merc
meat department, returned yes
terday from a buying trip to the
States and is busy preparing for
new stock soon to arrive.
MMM HOSPITAL
Admitted: Ann Nunuruk, Os
wald Paneok, Robert Soldon, Car
ol Ahnungtuguk, Nancy Hess,
j Discharged: Doris Morris, Janet
Walluk, Evelyn Oxerak.
Filing of Lien Papers
Requires Fee of $2
Among the laws passed by the
23rd session of the Alaska Legis
lature is one which provides for
a filing fee of $2 to accompany
every lien document filed with
the Motor Vehicle Division of the
Dept, of Taxation. This act be
came effective April 1, 1957.
Each application for Motor Ve
hicle Title showing a lien must
j be accompanied by a notarized
copy of the lien document and the
fees amounting to $4.00. Any lien
documents to be filed \yithout the
application for title must be ac
companied by the $2 filing fee.
AT LEAST IT GOT THERE
BINGHAMTON, N.Y., UP—'The
entry that H. S. Payson sent into
the Binghamton Sun, puzzle con
test carried a six-cent air mail
stamp, a 20-cent special delivery
stamp, seven cents regular post
age and was sent by certified mail.
His answer was wrong.
AGA KHAN IS ILL
NICE, France, UP—The Aga
Khan, spiritual ruler of the is
maeli Moslems, is reported to be
in failing health at his villa on
the Riviera.
Friends said the Aga, who will
be 80 in November, is suffering
from a chronic bronchial condi
tion and has not responded well
to treatment.
Navy Bomber
Explodes, Killing
11 Crewmen
CHINCOTEAGUE, Va„ UP—A
Navy Neptune bomber “exploded
in a great ball of fire” shortly
after takeoff yesterday and car
ried its 11 crewmen to death in a
flaming crash on Virginia’s east
ern shore.
The twin-engine long-range air
craft ran into trouble a minute
after it left the strip at the Chin
coteague Naval Air Station. There
was a sputtering noise, a witness
reported, when the plane was only
a couple of hundred feet in the
air, then a window rattling blast
and the plunge to earth in a big
plume of smoke.
It slammed into a plowed field
on the farm of Dennis Hurley, two
miles . south of the air station
which lies on Virginia’s outer
banks along the Atlantic Ocean
near the Maryland line.
The 11 occupants had no oppor
tunity to jump from the faltering
craft at such a low altitude. All
apparently were buried in the
burning fuselage in the 10-foot
hole it made in the sandy soil.
• Earl W. Darby, who runs a
general store in the small town of
Atlantic, was one of the first to
the scene. He described the main
explosion as “a great ball of fire.”
He jumped in a pickup truck
and drove to the field where it
came down,” he said.
“All I could find was a man’s
shoe and a man’s foot.”
Birds Find a Home
In Woman’s Cooler
LOS ANGELES., UP—Spring has
come a little late this year to Mrs.
Lottie Roscoe’s cooler.
Mrs. Roscoe, who lives in a
second floor flat, discovered Mon
day she is sharing her cooler with
a mother bird and five eggs.
The opening, on the outside of
a wall, seemed just the right size
for a pair of linnets. They built
their nest and started housekeep
ing. The red-breasted male flits
about outside, patrolling the area
and taking charge when his mate
gets a coffee—er—seed break.
And, says Mrs. Roscoe, the birds
won’t be billed for their coo-ling.
Cause Sought
For Crash of B-25;
6 Killed, 4 Survive
DICKSON, Tenn., UP—Investi
gators from nearby Sewart Air
Force Base yesterday checked
over scattered wreckage of a
Memphis bound B-25 from Lang
ley Field, Va., which crashed near
this middle Tennessee town Mon
day. Six persons were killed; four
survived.
.Probers said Monday there was
no clue as to why the World War
II bomber suddenly went out of
control and plunged from about
8,000 feet.
The four survivors, three of
them civilians, bailed out. The
plane was enroute to Memphis,
where its occupants were to take
part in a supply conference.
The Air Force listed the dead
as Col. Theodore R. Wright Jr.,
36, instructor-pilot; Lt. Col. Alan
D. Moore, 37, pilot of the plane,
Lt. Col. Jacob R. Hamilton, 38,
co-pilot; Lt. Col. Harlan C. But
trill, 42; Maj. John W. Brpwe, 41;
and Airman 1/C Ernest Chandler,
22, crew chief.
POTTED PLANTS just arrived
_AT U.S. MERC
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Senate Statehood Group
Hears Views of GOP and
Demo Committeemen
WASHINGTON, UB—Chairman
Meade Alcorn of the Republican
National Committee, was invited
today to give his views on state
hood for Hawaii and Alaska to
the Senate Territories Subcom
mittee.
Tre invitation was prompted by
the unscheduled appearance yes
terday of Paul Butler, Democratic
National Committee Chairman, at
the close of a hearing on the Ha
waii statehood bill.
Butler said that in contacts
with thousands of citizens of Ha
waii in two visits to the islands
in the past 15 months he was “tre
mendously and deeply impressed
with their political maturity and
grasp of the democratic process.”
Asked about his position on
statehood for Alaska, Butler said
he favored it “on such a basis as
the executive branch of the gov
ernment, particularly the military,
might deem wise.”
Hatfield Chilson, undersecre
tary of Interior, and Vice Adrri.
George L. Russel, deputy chief of
naval operations, told the commit
AWARDS GIVEN
AT MEETING OF
CUB PACK 363
Cub Scout Pack 363 met Satur
day at the Methodist Social Hall.
There were 48 Cubs and parents
present.
Boys who received awards are:
Ricky Young, Gold and Silver
Arrow on a Wolf Badge; Joel
Craft, Wolf Badge; Ernest Dim
mick, Bobcat Pin; Lance Friesz,
Bobcat Pin; John Morris, Bobcat
Pin; Tommy Okpealuk, Bobcat
Pin.
The pack welcomed Gunnar
Langhus, who will be leader of
the Webelos Den.
The pack also welcomed the
newly appointed den chiefs Rob
ert Esenituk of Den 2 and Charles
Burnett of Den 4.
TIhe pack’s marble tournament
playoff was held with the boys
placing as follows: Willie Hoogen
dom, Steffen Andersen, Andy
Miller, Roy Tobuk, Stephen Ehr
hart.
Refreshments were furnished
by Mrs. Dewey Goodrich of Den 3.
tee that Communist activtiy in
| Hawaii should not be a barrier
I to statehood.
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