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50th ANNIVERSARY OF POWERED FLIGHT
Air travelers nowadays are protected by numeruos
safety devices and flying aids developed by the aviation
industry, but pioneer pilots had only their own ingen
uity to combat the hazards they met on every flight
when aviation was in its infancy.
Wilbur Wright agreed in 1909 to make an exhibi
tion flight in a land plane from Governor’s Island
around the Statue of Liberty and up the Hudson River
to Grant’s Tomb.
It was only a few miles, but Wright was going in
fairly low to give the public a good look at his flying
machine, and he was concerned over even a short over
water hop under the circumstances.
Between the plane’s landing skids he lashed a
canvas-covered canoe so he wouldn’t sink—or at least
wouldn’t sink quite as fast—in the event of a forced
landing in the Hudson.
The flight was completed without incident.
Since early-day “aeronauts” had no safety pre
cautions except those they dreamed up themselves to
fit specific needs, many of them died in accidents that
could not happen today.
Now the nation is celebrating the 50th anniversary
of powered flight since the Wright brothers performed
the miracle of Kitty Hawk in 1903, and those 50 years
are a history of constant emphasis on flying safety by
aviation manufacturers.
More than 1,000 research projects to increase avia
tion safety, costing more than $55,000,000 annually, are
underway in this country. Last year’s, safety record
by U. S. domestic scheduled airlines was three times
better than in 1951. During the 12-month period ending
in February, 1953, the airlines averaged 13,000 take
offs and landings each day and flew 13 billion passen
ger-miles without a fatality.
More passengers travel on trans-oceanic airliners
than on steamships, and domestic airline passenger
miles exceed Pullman passenger-miles, because the
continuing research program makes air travel safer
every year.
Progress is not confined to civilian aviation. Last
year the Air Force reduced its major-accident rate by
more than 12 %.
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Paris Brunette
Wins Title Of
“Miss Universe”
LONG BEACH, Calif., WP)—‘The
new Miss Universe is a little angel
face from France — 18-year-old
Christiane Martel.
The brunette charmer from Par
is defeated a gorgeous galaxy of
contestants from virtually every
corner of the globe to win the
silver and gold crown Friday
night.
Miss Martel, who openly aspires
to a screen career and has had
bit parts in three French films,
edged out blonde Miss United
States, Myrna Hansen of Chicago,
and Japan’s diminutive Kinuko
Ito. They finished second and
third, just ahead of Mexico’s viva
cious Ana Lepe Jimenez and Aus
tralia’s Maxine Morgan.
The French lass became the
| second 18-year-old to win the
Miss Universe crown. The first
winner, in last year’s inaugural
contest, was Armi Kuusela of Fin
land.
Miss Universe wants a movie
career “above all else,” she said.
Her outstanding qualifications are
a beautiful profile, soft, gray-blue
eyes and wavy brown hair. Just
barely 5 feet 6 inches tall, she
weighs 125 pounds. She has a
22-inch waist, with bust and hip
measurements of 33 and 35 inches.
First of the 26 international can
didates to be eliminated were
Misses Alaska, Belgium, Finland,
Greece, Hawaii, Philippine Is
lands, Puerto Rico, Sweden, Switz
erland and Venezuela.
Man Shoots and Kills
Fairbanks Night Club
Hat Check Girl,
FAIRBANKS, MP) — A man
strode into a crowded night club
just before midnight Saturday,
firing a pistol which fatally
wounded a hat check girl and
which less seriously wounded an
off-duty policeman sitting in an
adjacent restaurant.
The victims was Mrs. Annette
May Wood, about 30, the widowed
mother of a five-year-old daugh
ter. Mrs. Wood died later in a
hospital while undergoing sur
gery.
The wounded man was Harlow
Struble, off-duty policeman who
formerly was a Baker, Ore., po
lice officer. He was sipping cof
fee in a nearby resaurant when
one of the bullets fired at Mrs.
Wood creased both his legs.
Police said the gunman, identi
fied as Eor-ald Pratt, a cab driver,
was subdued by the crowd of
more than 100 persons who pin
ned him to the floor and held him
for territorial police.
Pratt was being held in the
Federal jail.
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Senate Appropriations Recommends
Against Ending Living Cost Allowance
For Government Workers In Alaska
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22 Japanese Firms Form
Sitka Lumber & Pulp Co.
TOKYO, —Twenty-two Japa
nese promoters Monday approved
a plan to build a lumber and pulp
mill at Sitka, capable of turning
out 3 billion cubic feet of lum
ber annually.
They formed an investment
company to establish an Ameri
can corporation to be called the
Sitka Lumber and Pulp Co.
The mills will be capable of pro
ducing 100,000 tons of pulp an
nually by the fourth year, they
said.
The new company will start
with capital of 1,500,000,000 yen
(about $4,167,000) of which 80 per
cent will be financed by Japanese
and the rest by Americans.
The 22 Japanese promoters in
clude representatives of the syn
thetic textile industry, lumber
industry, paper manufacturing in
dustry and the council for inte
grated counter-measures for for
est resources.
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No Sabres Lost in Air
Combat in Past 71 Days
SEOUL, UP)—The Air Force an
nounced Saturday U.S. Sabre jets
have shot down 120 Communist
Mig jets in the past 71 days with
out one Sabre being lost in aerial
combat.
The last Sabre was shot down
on May 17, the Air Force said.
The weekly Air Force summary
showed that 15 Migs were shot
down during the past week and
seven more were damaged.
Six Fifth Air Force planes were
lost—nope of them Sabres.
Red ground fire shot down two
F-84 Thunderjets and one Marine
F-9F Panther jet. In addition, one
Thunderjet, one twin engine B-26
and one propeller-driven Corsair
were lost to “other causes,” prob
ably engine failure.
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» WASHINGTON, Iff)—The Senate
Appropriations Committee Friday
recommended against eliminating
cost-of-living allowances for ter
ritorial residents working for the
government.
The committee ^ deleted a pro
vision to eliminate these payments
from the Defense Department ap
propriations bill passed by the
House.
If the Senate approves the com
mittee action, a decision on the
allowances must await confer
ences to adjust differences in the
House and Senate bills.
As approved by the House, the
provision would ban payment of
such allowances to any govern
ment worker employed in the ter
ritory or possession in which he
resides.
Such payments now range up
to the 20 % paid employees in
Hawaii and the 25% paid employ
ees in Alaska, and include lesser
sums for Puerto Rico, Guam and
other off-shore areas.
Although contained in the De
fense appropriations bill approved
by the committee Friday, the ban
would apply to workers in all
branches of government.
Delegates Bartlett (D - Alaska)
and Farrington (R-Hawaii) and
Commissioner Femos - Isern of
Puerto Rico have opposed elimina
tion of the payments.
They argued elimination would
be unfair to residents of territories
who would receive less money for
the same work done by an em
ployee recruited from the contin
ental United States.
Actually, they contended, the
prohibition would increase rather
than lessen government expendi
tures by discouraging residents
from accepting government work,
thereby forcing the government
to recruit workers on the continent
and pay their transportation costs
to the job.
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