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RCAF Planes Break Winter Isolation
! For 32 Men Of Arctic Weather Stations
i RESOLUTE BAY, N.W.T., >iPI— j
! It’s teeth-pulling and horse opera j
j time here in the Arctic Circle—a j
welcome break after the long and j
lonely winter.
Royal Canadian Air Force Fly
ing Boxcars are delivering a mil
lion pounds of supplies from this
base in Canada’s far north to four
joint U.S.-Canadian weather sta
tions on desolate rock and ice is
lands above the American con
tinent.
On their return trips the planes
bring some of the 32 weathermen
from the isolated stations to Reso
lute Bay to see the dentist, have
a sociable beer and watch the
reel-at-a-time movie, usually an
old western.
The population of Resolute Bay
has soared to about 350 with the
spring influx of air crews, visit
ing weatherman, geologists and
U.S. and Canadian government
employes. The rest of the year
only 25 Canadian and American
weathermen and a very small
number of RCAF personnel live
in the wind-bitten metropolis lo
cated on Cornwallis Island, 2,150
miles north of Minneapolis and
800 miles south of the North Pole.
A major reason for the com
munity’s existence is to provide
support for the tiny weather sta
tions lying further out on the
edge of the Arctic Ocean. Diesel
fuel, food, clothing and other sup
plies were brought here by ship
during the brief period of safe
GIRL SCOUT NEWS
TROOP 67
On April 18 we practiced our
skit and sang some songs. After
Wfards we played games.
On Thursday will we hold our
Court of Awards when we will
receive the badges we have
earned.
Pauline Larsen, Scribe
TULIP BROV/NIES
We invested seven Brownies at
our last meeting. Carrie Ann Ull
rich was elected treasurer for
April and Nancy Gray is our new
scribe. We had Koolaid and
cookies.
Myra Takak, Scribe
navigation last summer. Now the}
Flying Boxcars are working 20
hours a day to fly the supplies to
the smaller bases, each manned
by eight weathermen.
It’s still cold here even in the
spring. The other night the tem
perature was 12 below zero and
savage gusts ran the windchill
factor to 62 below on the basis
of its cooling effect on exposed
flesh.
In the smoke-filled canteen, the
pool table is always busy, the
piano tinkles and bearded men
drink pints of beer, play darts or
flip through tattered pocketbooks
and month - old newspapers.
There’s bingo every Saturday
night.
Cost-of-Living
Index Rose In
Marcli to New High
WASHINGTON, UP) — The gov
ernment reported Tuesday that
living costs rose two-tenths of |
one per cent in March to another
new high. It was the seventh
straight month of record costs.
The Labor Department said a
i slight decline in food prices, j
i mainly for dairy and pork pro
! ducts, was more than offset by
increases in all oth£r major
| groups of consumer goods and
I services.
The March living cost hike
1 means wage increases for 1,400,
l 000 workers whose pay rates are
I geared partly to changes in the
! government index.
| This amounts to an annual pay
; roll boost of about 75 million
| dollars for these workers.
The report noted that average
| weekly earnings of factory work
I ers in March, after deduction of
i federal taxes, dropped by a little
| more than 30 cents, to $74.65 for
| a worker with three dependents
and $67.25 for a single worker.
The March living cost index
was 113.9 per cent of the 1947-49
base, up 3.7 per cent over March
last year. The index has risen
steadily, except for a brief mid
summer pause, during the entire
| 12 months beginning last March'
Cactus Spines Found In
DC-3 That Lost 10 Feet
Of Wing In* Downdraft
PHOENIX, Ariz., UP)—Fantas
tic as it sounds, tiny cactus spines
seem to bear out the theory that
a loaded passenger plane actually
scraped against the ground in
losing 10 feet of its left wing. It
landed safely here an hour later.
The twin-engine Frontier Air
lines DC-3 limped into Phoenix
Sunday after diving an estimated
4,000 feet in a severe downdraft.
Twenty-three jittery passengers
and three crewmen climbed out
unhurt after their brush with
death.
Inch-loffg cactus spines were
found embedded in the wing’s
leading edge. Newsmen also not
iced what appeared to be rock
scratches.
Capt. Everett Aden of Denver,
the line’s chief pilot, planned to
fly about 50 miles north of Phoe
nix to hunt for the missing 10
foot piece of wing. “You have
cactus down he're and that seems
to be what was on the wing, so
it looks like the plane made con
tact with the ground,” he said.
Steeplejack Rescued
From Narrow Perch
After Six-Hour Wait
CLEVELAND, UP)—Co-workers
of steeplejack Wallace Kanally
used a black fishing line with a
helium-filled weather balloon as
its float to land him from watery
skies atop a 250-foot steel smoke
stack yesterday.
He was sent to the top of the
new stack above a coke oven bat
tery at the Republic steel plant
to move a steel cable from the
inside of the chimney to the out
side. In this process he accident
ally dropped the cable and the
rope he’d used in his ascent.
They floated the 30-inch obser
vation balloon, borrowed from
the weather bureau, upward in
side the 10-foot-diameter stack.
Kanally, a 54-year-old Buffalo
steeplejack, caught the fishing
line and hauled up a rope. In a
! few minutes he slid down from
! the foot-wide ledge where he had
been marooned for more than six
hours and during a hard thunder
storm.
COMING
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‘THE LONG
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Nome Directory
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon
JIM WALSH, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. 1
Order of Eastern Star
Meets 1st & 3rd Monday of each month
B Lillie Lewis
Worthy Matron
Helen Dunbar
Secretary
ANVIL LODGE
No. 140
Robt. K. Lewis, W.M.
Norvin W. Lewis, Sec.
Meets 1st and 3rd Thursday each month
NOME ROTARY CLUB
Dewey Goodrich
President
W. Mecklenburg
Secretary
Wednesday Luncheon
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