61-Year-Old Professionel Hiker
Causes Traffic Jam in Fairbanks
FAIRBANKS UR—Walkin’ John
Frey, a 61-year-old professional
highway hiker, caused a major
traffic jam here Monday night as
he stepped briskly into the city
to complete another lap in a
jaunt from San Francisco to the
Arctic Circle.
Tanned and lean at 130 pounds,
Frey started his latest walking
venture at San Francisco’s Gold
en Gate Bridge on March 1. To
date, some 3,290 miles of ground
are behind him, with about 240
miles yet to go. He turns down
oil offers of rides.
Boyhood Dream
Frey said he planned to walk
162 miles up the Steese Highway
to Circle, then go by boat 75
miles to Ft. Yukon, where he
ENGAGEMENT OF DIANE
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Cadets To Meet Thursday Night
The Civil Air Patrol Cadets will
hold their first regular weekly
meeting tomorrow, Thursday eve
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The Caderts’ monthly dance will
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plans to step across the Arctic
Circle.
Why all the walking?
Frey said he had a boyhood
dream of walking coast to coast
and his experiences pay off in
book writing and lecture tours
between his highway pounding
hikes.
Frey’s first book, called the
“Grand Walk,” is scheduled for
publication in December and is
an account of his 180-day hike in
1954 from New York to San Fran
cisco and south to Mexicali, Mex
ico.
His experiences on this present
trip, he said, will be contained in
a book he plans to entitle “March
in the Arctic.”
The elderly hiker stopped four
miles outside of Fairbanks Mon
day night, munching quite non
chalantly "bn a sandwich as high
way patrolmen broke up a traffic
jam caused by well-wishers greet
ing him on the highway.
Gives Advice
Dusty but neat, Frey gave this
advice to would-be highway hik
ers: Keep up a steady pace, wear
heavy Alpine boots, eat lightly,
and keep clothes and person
clean.
“You can’t let people think
you’re a bum, you know,” he'said.
Fairbanks U.S. Attorney
Named Asst. Director
In Office of Territories
WASHINGTON, (AV-Philip W.
Morgan, 34, who has been assist
ant United States attorney at
Fairbanks, was appointed assist
ant director for Alaskan affairs
in the Office of Territories Tues
day.
The assistant directorship has
been vacant most of the time
since the Office of Territories
was reorganized nearly three
years ago.
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Three-year-old Ray Cox was
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Their car and another collided.
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