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VOL. LX No. 124 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1958 Per Copy—15c*
Pilot Banfe Flying Over Alaska
In Tokyo-to-Miami Non-Stop Flight
SEATTLE, UP) — Pilot Charles
E. Banfe Jr. flew over the Aeu
tian Islands early today and
headed for Alaska on his pro
jected small plane flight from
Tokyo to Miami.
Banfe passed near Shemya Is
land in the Aleutians at 7:20 a.m.,
and radioed the Northwest Air
lines base there that the plane’s
engine was functioning normally
after running rough earlier in the
flight.
The pilot reported he was 2V2
hours behind his flight plan, how
ever, in his attempt to set a non
stop distance record for single
engine planes.
Banfe, flying at 9,000 feet when
he passed Shemya, headed over
St. Paul Island in the Bering Sea,
then planned to fly over McGrath
and Fairbanks, Alaska.
Northwest reported Banfe had
considered landing at Shemya if
his engine trouble persisted.
Banfe took off from Tokyo at
2:31 p.m. Thursday and headed
toward the Aleutians. His Flori
da destination — Miami — was
7,022 miles and an estimated 52
hours away.
The airliner could not determine
his exact position. An hour earlier
Banfe told another plane he was
840 miles northeast of Tokyo and
his speed and the weather were 1
better than expected.
Counting on tailwinds, the 39- J
year-old flier hoped to be in Mi ,
ami Saturday evening with five:
gallons of gas to spare.
The existing record was set
last August 1 by Pat Boling, 43,
who flew a slightly larger plane
6,979 miles from Manila to Pen
dleton, Ore. Both men live in
Palo Alto, Calif., and both are
commercial airline pilots, Banfe
for Pan American, and Boling for
United Air Lines.
Banfe left New York 5Vfc weeks
ago on an attempt to circle the
earth in eight days, starting with
a nonstop flight to Rome. His
Mooney Mark 20A aircraft landed
in a Corsican vineyard when a
fuel line pump clogged.
Public Smorgasbord To
Honor Seattle Visitors
The Nome Chamber of Com
merce has announced that a
Smorgasbord dinner on Wednes
day evening will honor the Se
attle Chamber of Commerce,
whose members are making an
overnight stop here enroute to
the All Alaska Chamber of Com
merce meeting in Anchorage.
The dinner is open to the public
and all interested persons are re
quested to make reservations
soon. There will be special enter
tainment, Eskimo dancing, and
other Alaskan features. Chairman
of the event is Walter Hodge.
WEATHER FORECAST
Light snow today, decreasing
cloudiness, snow flurries and
north winds 15 to 30 miles per
hour, decreasing Saturday. Colder
tonight. Low tonight 15, high to
morrow 25.
Anteaters Club
Salutes Alaska
With Reindeer
JUNEAU, (Jt — Some reindeer
meat is headed for Washington,
D. C., and the next luncheon
meeting of the Anteaters Associa
tion on November 18.
James E. Hawkins, area direc
tor of the Bureau of Indian Af
fairs in Alaska, said the associa
tion of wild game fanciers had
asked for enough meat to feed
350 guests.
The shipment of 50,000 pounds
of frozen reindeer meat from Nu
nivak Island is due at Seward
Monday abord the North Star.
The annual market shipment of
reindeer will arrive by rail two
days later at Anchorage, and three
dressed reindeer will be air ex
pressed collect to the association
at Washington.
Hawkins said the exact cost of
the meat for the organization’s
lunch honoring the 49th State, had
not yet been set. Probably it will
be between 35 and 40 cents a
pound, not counting the shipping
expense.
'JERSEY DOZEN' — POPULAR
AS THE JERSEY* BOUNCE!
NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J„ UD —
Rep. James C. Auchincloss R
N. J.) suggests that all New Jersey
farmers start selling eggs by the
“Jersey Dozen” — giving two
small bonus eggs in each carton.
Aunchincloss, whose district
includes a large poultry area now
in economic difficulties, said no
woman would be hard-boiled
enough to resist such a bargain.
Russ Charge
U. S. Air Violation
Over Diomede
MOSCOW, UP) — The Soviet
Union again has charged U. S.
planes with trespassing on Soviet
territory for reconnaissance pur
poses, this time over the Bering
Strait and Eastern Siberia.
A note handed U. S. Ambas
sador Llewellyn Thompson Jr.
Thursday charged an American
military plane twice deliberately
invaded Soviet air space near
Ratamov (Big Diomede) Island
in the Bering Strait September 30.
Other flights over Kamchatka
Peninsula, the Kurile Islands
and in the area of Chukotsk Pen
insula in July, August and Sep
tember also were charged. The
note said these were a “premedi
tated invasion for the purpose of
reconnaissnce.”
The Kuriles are a chain of is
lands extending northeast of Ja
pan. The Kamchatka and Chu
kotsk Peninsulas jut eastward
from Siberia.
Big Diomede can be seen from
U. S. - owned Little Diomede on
a clear day in the 50-mile-wide
Bering Strait between Alaska and
Siberia. U. S. Air Force weather
observation flights also are made
out of Alaska on the American
side of the international date
linei, which runs through the
Strait.
The Soviet note referred to the
crash of a U. S. military transport
in Soviet Armenia September 2
in which six airmen were killed
and 11 unaccounted for. It said
the Bering Strait violation was
at a time when the United States
was “doing its best to deny the
face of a deliberate violation” of
the Soviet southern frontier.
The Soviet Union concludes
that the United States was sanc
tioning such violations, the note
said.
All-White Private High School
Will Open Monday In Little Rock
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., UP) — The
Little Rock Private Schol Cor
poration announced today it will
open an all-white high school for
senior students only, next Mon
day.
Dr. T. J. Raney, president of
the corporation, signed a lease
agreement this morning for a for
mer University of Arkansas biuld
ing with 32 rooms and said it
would be used for the senior
classes.
High school students have been
handled here since Gov. Orval E.
Faubus closed the four city sec
ondary schools September 3.
About 600 students have found
other schols. Another 3,000 have
been without instruction for
seven weeks.'
Raney also announced for the
first time the total collections
donated to the corporation for the
private schools. He said to date
they totaled $61,841.25.
It has been estimated that it
would require $15,000 weekly to
operate schools for all public
high school students. But a lesser
sum would be required for the
senior class only.
W. C. Brashears, superintendent
of the proposed private schools,
said he had applications from
about 22 teachers — none of the
present Little Rock High School
teachers have applied.
The school is expecting about
500 seniors to enroll.
Raney said the corporation has
no plans at the moment for lower
high school grades which would
number about 2,500 students.
They will remain without instruc
tion pending sqme facilities.
OGDEN, Utah, W) — Chamber
of Commerce manager Bernie Di
amond was almost speechless.
Someone stole two brief cases —
containing all his speechmaking
materials and a portable podium.
— from his parked car. He went
on with the speech anyway.
Restraining Order Sought, To Prevent
‘Improper Territory Ballot Printing’
Bodies Of Six
Airmen Being
Returned To U. S.
WIESBADEN, Germany, W) —
The bodies of six U. S. Airmen
killed when their plane crashed
in Soviet' Armenia, are being
flown to America for identifica
tion.
The bodies have been in Wies
baden since the Soviet Union
handed them over September 24.
Failure to establish identities by
now indicated they were burned
beyond recognition when the C130
Hercules transport plane crashed
and burned.
The Air Force said “additional
facilities to assist in identifica
tion are available” in the United
States. The announcement did not
specify where the bodies would
be taken in America.
The unarmed plane carrying 17
airmen was flying over Turkey
when Soviet fighters forced it
across the Soviet border, the U. S.
government has said. The fate of
the other 11 men has never been
revealed- by Moscow.
Deepfreeze Crash
Survivors Rescued
AUCKLAND, New Zealand, UP)
— The last three survivors of a
U. S. Globemaster crash in the
Antarctic were rescued by heli
copter today.
U. S. Deepfreeze headquarters
at Christchurch reported the men
were flown to McMurdo Sound.
Four others were rescued by
helicopter earlier during a break
in the bad weather that hampered
ground rescue. The plane crashed
near Cape Hallett Thursday, kill
ing six airmen.
Earlier today, a ground party
got within four miles of the
crash scene, but had to turn back
and detour around an impassable
ice field.
The three men had huddled in
the tail of the four-engine plane.
TTiey were in god condition.
Hot Time —
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo., IIP)
— Plans for a homecoming bon
fire got a little out of hand.
Members of the Grand Junc
tion High School junior class
toured service stations, asking for
old tires for fuel.
At one station, an attendant
waved vaguely toward the rear
of the building.
“You might- find some there,”
he said.
The students did — a roof
high pile that took four hours
and three truckloads to haul to
the school.
They set fire to the pile, learn
ing the grim facts from police
too late: The tires they had taken
were stored behind the service
station for recapping. Their es
timated value: $1,800.
ANCHORAGE (Special) — At
torney General Williams, on be
half of the Territory, is seeking a
temporary restraining order, an
injunction to prevent Third Divi
sion District Court Clerk William
Hilton from “improperly printing
and distributing ballots for the
November 25 election.
The suit against Hilton was
filed Thursday afternoon. Judge
McCarey soon thereafter disquali
fied himself from hearing the
case.
The Attorney General is seeking
an immediate restraining order
before the motion for injunction,
and argued on the grounds if
Hilton is allowed to print and' dis
tribute ballots in “improper man
ner, validity of election may be
in doubt.”
Williams also contended that
“If there is any delay in printing
the ballots, the rights of absentee
voters . . . will be adversely af
fected. ...”
At the heart of the matter is
Hilton’s apparent refusal to com
ply with the' Governor’s Execu
tive Order No. 1.
Hilton contends that the ballots
must bear his signature as in past
elections to be valid. The Terri
tory’s suit seeks to prevent Hilton
from signing the ballots. Execu
tive Order No. 1 specifies Election
Commissioner David Free must
sign the ballots.
It is expected the court hearing
on the suit will center on the
validity of the Governor’s order
itself.
Pan American
Jet Passenger
Service Installed
By FRED CHEVAL
BRUSSELS, Belgium, l® — Pan
American World Airways inaug
urated American transatlantic
jet passenger service today with
a Baltimore-Brussels flight that
averaged about 540 miles per
hour.
The Boeing 707 jet airliner with
its crew and 39 guest passengers
landed here at 8:15 a.m., complet
ing a 3,910-mile flight in 7 hours
15 minutes flying time.
Before its takeoff from Balti
more Thursday night, the 165-pas
senger plane was christened Jet
Clipper America by Mrs. Dwight
D. Eisenhower in a Washington
ceremony.
The 707 has a rated cruising
speed of 575 miles an hour, and
Pan American officials had hoped
the trip would take bnly about 6
hours, 15 minutes. Local officials
of the airline requested a later
landing so the official greeters
would not have to get up so early.
Pan American plans to inaug
urate regular transatlntic jet
service October 26.
Basil L. Walters, executive edi
tor of the Chicago Daily News,
commented: “It was amazing to
notice how easily the plane
handles.” _
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