Air Force C-124
Disappears Near
Homer with 9 Men
ANCHORAGE, M—'The wreck
age of a missing Air Force Globe
master was reached today high
on Petrof glacier, on the southeast
flank of the Kenai mountains,
which the plane was tryipg to
cross in a desperate effort to
reach Homer. There were no sur- *
vivors among the 9 men aboard.
ANCHORAGE, — Two U. S.
Coast Guard cutters were search
ing today for a giant Cl24 Air
Force cargo plane believed down
with 9 men aboard in the vicinity
of the rugged Kenai Peninsula’s
southeastern tip.
A Coast Guard spokesman at
Kodiak said the cutter Storis was
dispatched from Kodiak and the
Sedge was sent out from Cordova, j
The Globemaster was last |
heard from as it approached Ho
mer on the Kenai Peninsula 125
miles southeast of here for an
emergency landing with two of
its four engines out. It never ar
rived at Homer, which is at the
base of a 5,200-foot mountain
range.
The Coast Guard said the plane
had radioed its trouble and an
amphibious plane intercepted it.
The escort plane, however, lost
the Globemaster because of b3d
weather.
The stricken transport, accor
ding to the Coast Guard, was fly
ing at low altitude, barely high !
enough to clear the Peninsula’s
snow-covered peaks before set
ting down at Homer. Officials j
theorized the pilot might have I
turned back to sea and ditched.
The C124 was based at Travis i
Air Force Base in California. It j
took off from McChord AFB in
Washington shortly after noon yes- j
terday bound for Kodiak. It car- I
ried 34,500 pounds of cargo.
It was the second Air Force j
transport to go down in the same
general area recently. A C54 with
15 men aboard crashed last month
against a peak just across Cook
Inlet from Homer. All died.
Mushing Through
Washington . . .
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later lent it to Senator Mike Mans
field (Mont), who was acting Dem
ocratic floor leader during Senate
consideration of the bill.
When Egan filed for Governor,
O’Brien again surrendered the tie
clasp so that Egan could benefit
from its “good luck” qualities.
The new Governor wore it faith
fully throughout his campaign.
Asked recently if he’s gotten the
clasp back, O'Brien said he hadn’f
and added:
“I think I’m going to let Bill
keep it. I’m willing to settle for
Terry’s Lake.”
Terry is O’Brien’s oldest grand
child ana the name has been sug
gested by the New Yorker’s
friends for one of Alaska’s un
named lakes or mountain peaks
as a reward for his part in ad
mission of the 49th State.
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Local Group Meets To Make Initial
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Plans For Nome Historical Museum
j A small but enthusiastic group,
responding to the call for inter
ested residents to form a local
museum society, gathered last
Wednesday evening in the City
Hall. Presiding at the informal
discussion, were John A. McNees
and Carrie McLain, members of
the Chamber of Commerce Com
mittee on “A Museum for Nome.”
Topics of discussion were the pos
sibilities of creating a museum,
interest that might be expected,
and formation of a historical
society.
Mrs. McLain brought out that
there are at present five museums
and historical societies in Alaska:
the Juneau Gastineau Historical
Society, the Cook Inlet Historical
| Society, the College Museum at \
Fairbanks, the recently organized ]
I’Kodiak Museum, and George Bea- I
r corn’s private museum in Sitka.!
She pointed to eight facts which j
prove the need here:
1. Nome is a town of great in- ■
terest historically.
2. A museum would provide the j
means to preserve gold rush days |
Mother of Eight
Booked for Kidnap
Of New Born Baby
NEW YORK, UP — A mother of i
eight children was booked today i
on a kidnap charge, a few hours I
after 10-day-old Lisa Chionchio
was found unharmed and well in
a Brooklyn apartment.
The woman, Jeanne Iavarone,
J 43, protested all night that she
i was innocent. Police said she had
been married twice and had eight
children, seven of them living and
in other homes, including four at
I orphanages or foster homes. The
I youngest is 3, police said. A son,
23, died last summer, according
to police.
“There is no doubt, on the basis
of scientific evidence, that she
took the child,” said Asst. Dist.
Atty. Kenneth McCabe.
He said the infant, snatched
from St. Peter’s Hospital nursery
2Vi> hours after she was born on
January 2, had apparently been
kept in Mrs. Iavarone’s furnished
flat in Brooklyn ever since.
The woman quit her job as cre
dit clerk in a Brooklyn department
store on the day the baby dis
appeared, police said.
Officials said the womar laims
she gave birth to the child lerself
January 2 alone in her second
floor apartnrtent.
“She insists the baby is hers,”
I McCabe said.
| He said footprints of the kid
j naped girl, born to Mr. and Mrs.
I Frank D. Chionchio, and those of
' the recovered baby are identical.
He also said there was a small
mark on the baby’s left eyelid, as
described by the father.
The penalty for kidnaping, when
the child is recovered alive, is
20 years to life in prison.
Reverse the Charges?
j SAL.INA, Kans., — Keith
| Duckers heard a clock on the tel
ephone as he dialed the number
of a Salina clothing store.
A voice answered, but it
wasn’t at the store,
i After an exchange of questions,
Duckers learned he was talking
to a man in Fairbanks, Alaska.
The telephone company said
something had gone wrong with
the complicated new long-distance
dialing system.
objects of interest, pictures, pam
phlets, newspapers, and objects of
the vanished culture and habits
of our ancestors.
3. It would provide a means to
preserve Eskimo artifacts and rel
ics of the unique civilization of
Seward Peninsula.
4. It would stimulate the interest
of tourists visiting in Northwest
I ern Alaska.
5. It would provide an officially
recognized agency for gathering
relics and preserving private col
lections. Heretofore, museums in
other parts of the State and in
other states have received all
bequests from this area.
6. A museum in Nome will be
a tremendous asset for attracting
people to Nome when Highway 97
connects with the Alcan Highway.
7. Other museums in Alaska
possess numerous Eskimo relics
from Seward Peninsula which are
far in excess of their needs, and
these collections could be expected
to be donated to a Nome museum.
8. Now is the time to gather
mementoes of the early gold rush
days, while there are old-timers
around who can tabulate dates and
pinpoint events, and while old
I timers in the States can still be
j contacted for donations of pictures
| and other items of historical in
| terest.
j Mr. McNees assayed the prob
| lem of financing such an organi
I zation, and said he had written to
i the Carnegie, Rockefeller and
j Ford Foundations on this matter.
I Lively discussion was heard on
the matter of a feasible site and
type of building which could be
used for a permanent museum
building.
The feeling prevalent was that
any museum would belong to ev
erybody, and Nome people can
show their interest by donating
private collections, with the as
surance that their goods will be
protected, and individuals and
organizations may have a hand in
the building of a worthwhile mu
seum by donating their time, tal
ents or money to the project.
Those present at the meeting
who offered to help the Chamber
committee: Charlotte Hungerford,
Ruth McLean, Louise Walsh, Bon
Davis and Dick Strom.
Another meeting will be called
in the near future, at which time'
representatives from other local
organizations will be requested to
attend for the organization of the
projected Nome and Seward
Peninsula Historical Association.
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ASTRONOMY NOTES j
By OLAF HALVERSON
Calculations show that Jupiter
would be even more oblate than it
is unless its mass is highly con
centrated towards its center, j
Since the average density .of the
planet is only 1.3 times the density
of water, its outer parts must be
composed of very light material.
The temperature of Jupiter at
the levels we can observe is 103
degrees centigrade, which would
be expected if practically all the
heat comes from the sunshine and
not from the interior. Water is
permanently frozen in all parts of
the planet. The clouds are of sub
stances having low boiling points.
Spectroscopic analysis reveals
the presence of methane and am
monia in Jupiter’s atmosphere.
The carbon and nitrogen have
combined with some of the hy
drogen which is presumably the
chief constituent of the atmos
phere. The atmosphere of Jupiter
has a depth of 8,000 miles.
Jupiter is brilliantly visible in
the east every clear morning.
'Seasonal’ Meteor
Seen In New Mexico
ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., W — A
fireball trailed sparks across west
Texas and New Mexico Friday
night, startling some satellite con
scious residents but drawing a
caustic wisecrack from rancher
Marvin Rivers.
“I thought it was the latest tax
rate, he said in a call from his
ranch west of Roswell.
Dr. Lincoln Lapaz, meteoricist
at the University of New Mexico,
explained:
“This is very probably just an
ordinary meteor shower which
occurs at this time of year. I think
we’re dealing with a meteoric
fireball.
Rivers Appointed
To Advisory Post
WASHINGTON, UPt—Represen
tative Ralph Rivers has been ap
pointed a member of the advisory
committee of the National Rivers
and Harbors Congress. The body
is a non-profit organization in
terested in the development of
water resource projects.
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