Flyer, Forced to Jump Into Norton
Sound, Tells of In-The-Nude Rescue
FAIRBANKS, Iff)—A Lompoc,'
Calif., Air Force flier told Thurs
day how he and a companion from
Chicago were forced to jump into
the icy waters of Norton Sound
Saturday and of his “in the nude”
rescue the next day.
The story was told by 2nd Lt.
Nicholas Howell, 21, after he was
returned to Eielson Air Force
Base here. His companion on the
ill-fated flight, 2nd Lt. Richard
Lill, 22, of Chicago, has not been
found and may have perished in
the water.
Howell said their jet trainer be
became unmanageable while in
flight and they abandoned ship.
“I dropped from 4,000 to 5,000
feet and when I saw water I
opened the ’chute,” he related. He
landed in freezing water, chest
deep, and after some difficulty
managed to reach chore.
Howell walked some distance
in 14 degree weather before reach
ing an abandoned trapper’s cabin.
His clothes were frozen stiff so he
built a fire on the cabin floor to
thaw his hands enough to remove
his shoes and clothes.
Then he climbed into his sur
vival kit sleeping bag and re
mained there until 10:30 a.m. Sun
day when planes began scouting
the area.
"I ran to the beach,” he related,
and set off a flare. “There I was,
standing there in my birthday j
suit.”
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Two para-rescue men from the
74th Air Rescue Squadron at Ladd
Air Force Base soon joined him
and one of them gave Howell all
of his own clothing except a thin
jacket and pants.
Don Stickman, a bush pilot
from Galena on the Yukon River
about 125 miles east of Norton
Sound, landed his plane on the
beach and flew Howell to nearby
Moses Point. An Air Force plane
brought him to Ladd.
The only trace thus far found of
Lill is his parachute, which had
been unbuckled, and a hat and a
glove. His survival kit was not
found.
The Civil Air Patrol and native
villagers have broken the ice for
three miles on either side of
where the parachute was found,
apparently on the surface ice of
the sound.
Norton Sound is approximately
175 miles south of the Arctic
Circle.
WASHINGTON, l.'Pl—The Fed
eral Communications Commission
Thursday authorized American
Telephone & Telegraph Co. to lay
a new $13,600,000 twin submarine
cable between Port Angeles,
Wash., and Ketchikan, Alaska.
■ The new cables, stretching thru
800 nautical miles, will provide
36 two-way additional telephone
channels.
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