Fast Flying Stork
Outruns AF Helicopter
FAIRBANKS UP — A fast fly
ing stork outran an Eielson AFB
helicopter Sunday morning be
tween Nulato and Tanana with
the race ending dramatically a
thousand feet abwe the '/ukon
Valley 4 miles from Tanana. The
stork won.
“Operation Stork” got under
way early Sunday morning when
the FAA radio station at Ga
lena received a message that a
pregnant native woman at Nulato
needed immediate medical at
tention.
The helicopter on detached
duty at Galena took off with Lts.
Hart and Conti at the controls
and with medical technician Sgts.
Allen and Maxwell.
Arriving at Nulato they placed
Mrs. Pauline Stickman aboard
the chopper who was due to have
her second child.
A half hour out oi Nulato the
baby was delivered by Sgt. Allen,
a father of four.
All are reportedly doing well,
the mother, the baby. Leonard
Stickman Jr., and the Air Force
crew.
Reapportionment Board to
Meat in Anchorage Aug. 20-21
JUNEAU UP — Chairman Doug
las Gray advised Gov. Egan yes
terday that the Reapportionment
Advisory Board will hold its sec
ond meeting in Anchorage Aug.
20-21.
Gray said a specific hour and
site for the meeting will be an
nounced later. The board was re
cently named 'by the Governor in
line with constitutional require
ments for reapportionment of the
Alaska House of Representatives
after each decennial census.
Dean of American Sports,
Alonzo Stagg, Celebrates
His 99th Birthday
STOCKTON, Calif, Ub — The
dean of American sports figures,
Amos Alonzo Stagg, celebrates'
his 99th birthday today, fondly
recalling 70 years in football.
His shoulders now stooped, his
eyesight impaired, but his mind
quick, the grand old man agreed
that football had kept him young
and he doubts he could have de
voted the 70 active years to any
other pursuit.
Mr. Stagg, as he was known to
the thousands of athletes who
played for him, was honored at
a civic luncheon Tuesday,
Bom at West Orange, N. J., in
1862, before football was invent
ed, Stagg starred in the game at
Yale and then coached 41 years
at Chicago before retiring at the
mandatory age of 70. He'promptly
came here to continue his head
coaching career at the College
of the Pacific.
He is the only man named to
the Hall of Fame as a player and
as a coach.
PRIVATE BRITISH
AIRLINE GOES BROKE
LONDON Ub — A private British
airline announced it had gone
broke and was suspending opera
tions, leaving 6,000 vacationing
Britons on the continent with
worthless return tickets.
The airline was Overseas Avi
ation. Its chairman, Ronald My
hill, a 42-year-old World War n
pilot, said the firm was nearly
$2 million in the red. Its 20
planes were grounded Monday
after the British Petroleum Co.
cut off gasoline supplies because
of $700,000 in unpaid fuel bills.
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Princess Anne,
The Buckingham
Palace Tomboy
LONDON UP — Her royal high
ness Princess Anne Elizabeth
Alice Louise of the House of
Windsor — the palace tomboy
with the long name and short
hair — was 11 yesterday.
From her mother, Queen Eliza
beth II, she inherited her love
of horses.
From her father, Prince Philip,
she inherited a love of sports.
From her aunt. Princess Mar
garet, a talent for mimicry.
Anne was given a pony at the
age of 4 and learned to ride him
in a very short time.
Before she was 6, she invented
a game of tricycle polo.
She can at times be a bit of a
devil.
Buckingham Palace once had
a very tall footman. Every time
Anne passed him she would stop
and stare up at his face.
One day when she found the
footman standing, lofty and im
passive, beside a door, she pulled
up a chair, mounted it and got
her first close look at his face.
“Thank you,” she said. “I just
wanted to see what you looked
like.”
Her more reserved brother,
Prince Charles, 20 months older,
commented with boyish disgust:
“My sister!”
Until a few years ago Anne
liked to play cowboy. Then some
one gave her a feathered Indian
headdress. That day she went over
to the Indians.
A British fashion writer saluted
the anniversary but criticized
Anne’s “babyish puffed sleeves,
Peter Pan collars and tight
waisted coats . . . what a pity the
Queen’s advisers don’t take a
stroll around some of our big
stores, to see for themselves just
what is available.”
To which the fast-growing
Princess if she were available for
comment would probably say,
“phooey, you ought to see me in
jeans.”
PAN AM SETS FLIGHT RECORD
FROM LONDON TO FRISCO
LONDON — Pan American
World Airways claimed a speed
record yesterday for a 5,650-mile
flight from San Francisco to Lon
don in a time of 10 hours, eight
minutes. -
The airline said one of its
Boeing 707 jet airliners, piloted
by Capt. Scotty Lewis of San
Meteo, Calif., covered the dis
tance at an average speed of 557
miles an hour last Saturday.
Aboard were 53 passengers and a
crew of 11.
The former record of 10 hours
27 minutes last May was also
claimed by Pan Am.
The Big “Bird” Is
Hiding - But Ready
For Its Mission
SPOKANE, Wash. UP — The
big “Bird” is hiding, but ready.
The “Bird”: The U. S. Inter
Continental Ballistic Missile, the
Atlas.
The hideout: Below the rolling
wheatfields of Washington State.
The flayers: A highly trained
group of Air Force personnel.
The game: Deadly.
The Atlas, a blunt-iooking bul
let 85 feet, long and wrapped in
paper-thin stainless steel, rests in
a “coffin,” covered over by steel
reinforced concrete doors weigh
ing 400 tons.
If and when firing becomes
necessary, the huge doors slide
back, a giant boom lifts the Atlas
to upright position, the missile
is “fed’ and “briefed” as to mis
sion and course, then the words
“missile ready” signals the blast
off.
There is more than one hideout,
however. Nine Atlas sites sur
round the Spokane area alone,
with similar installations at
Cheyenne, Wyo., and Topeka,
Kan.
The Atlas, is, to date, the most
reliable missile in the U. S. ar
senal. Past tests have shown the
huge bird can be plummeted with
in two miles of target over a
9,000-mile range — a feat similar
to shooting a rifle bullet into a
barrel a mile away.
The five-man crew, trained to
launch the Atlas, lives under
ground in the complex and vast
site, complete with barracks,
electrical generators large enough
for a city of 30,000, computers,
controls, wires, knobs and a maze
of electronic magic necessary to
set the missile into motion.
To prevent unauthorized firing,
complicated steps have been
taken. The missile is controlled
from a console, resembling an
electric organ, which TWO men
must work together. And they
cannot fire the Atlas without the
proper signal from Washington.
Direct bombing attacks cannot
phase the complex site. More than
9,200 tons of reinforced concrete
see to that. Fire or other disaster
also has been accounted for by
construction engineers.
An official for General Dy
namics-Astronautics Corp., which
turns out the Atlas, estimated a
launching complex Would be born
into the U. S. defense system
every 3Vt days next year.
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German Rocket Expert
Doesn’t Doubt Soviet
Space Probe Claims
INDIANAPOLIS <*> — Dr.
Willy Ley, a pioneer in German
rocket experiments before be
coming an American citizen in
1944, says the Russians have a
long history of sound scientific re
search, and he doesn’t doubt their
space probe claims.
Here to address the first na
tional convention of the . Ama
teur Rocketeers of America, Dr.
Ley said the Russian scientists’
unpronounceable names simply
have been hard to remember.
“Since 1800, about the end of
the Napoleonic wars, you could
compile a table of 200 interna
tionally famous Russian scientists
the public has never heard of,”
he said.
He discussed missile and space
problems with more than 400
young rocket enthusiasts at the
first night session of the conven
tion.
Saturn Rocket
Is on Pad — the
Vehicle for Space
CAPE CANAVERAL Uh — The
first Saturn rocket booster ar
rived here Tuesday after a 2,200
mile barge trip from Huntsville,
Ala.
The barge tied up W k special
dock on the Banana River, near
the towering Saturn service gan
try. Workmen began preparations
to erect the 82-foot, booster on
the pad.
Weeks of extensive checkout
lie ahead before the big first
stage lifts off on its first flight
test, hopefully in October. The in
itial test will carry dummy upper
stages.
After a series cf test firings,
later Saturns are expected to be
ready in about three years to
hurl massive payloads into earth
orbit and to the Moon, Mars and
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Meets Every Monday Noon at
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