Plane Crashes and Burns
Reno Residential District
RENO, Nev., (/P) — A twin
engine plane, one engine conked
out by freezing temperatures,
crashed and burned today in a
residential district. The pilot was
killed but his four passengers es
caped virtually unhurt.
The plane narrowly missed
plowing into a house.
Reserve Army Capt. Clarence
Booth of San Lorenzo, Calif., died
in the flaming wreckage as he
brought his crippled plane down
through a driving snowstorm in
a futile attempt to reach the
Reno airport.
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Shave . 75
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Accuse CAB Planning
Eliminate Independent
Non-Subsidized Carriers
WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
Amos E. Heacock of the Air
Coach Transport Association ac
cused the Civil Aeronautics Board
of secretly planning to “eliminate
all independent, non - subsidized
carriers.”
Heacock sent a telegram to
CAB chairman Donald W. Nyrop
declaring: “I have just been ad
vised of the closed meeting which
the CAB has called with the
presidents of the certificated car
riers for the purpose of discussing
the aircoach problem.
“This step was to be expected
as one completing the board’s
current policy designed to elimi
nate all independent, non-subsi
dized carriers.”
Commenting on Heacock’s
statement, Nyrop told newsmen:
“There wasn’t any secret con
clave.”
Nyrop said the board met with
representatives of the certificated
air lines to discuss policy propos
als concerning aircoach opera
tions by them.
Airplane brashes
Take Heavy Toll
In Two-Day Period
<By the Associated Press*
A two-day toll of airplane fat
alities rose Tuesday with the
crash of a United Air Lines DC-3
training plane near Derby, Colo.
Three persons—a pilot-captain
and two trainees, los^t their lives
in the accident. Monclay, 18 per
sons, 17 of them servicemen, died
in widely separated crashes of
three military planes and a twin
engine private craft.
Eight were killed in the Den
ver crash when a B-29 bomber
slashed through five houses and
set them afire as it came in two
miles short of a Lowry Air Forcfe
base runway.
Six servicemen died at Pensa- |
cola, Fla., when a Navy plane:
plunged to the ground at the edge (
of a residential area.
A C-45 transport with a crew
three crashed north of Evans
ville, Ind., in a snowstorm, kill
ing all three.
In Reno, a private plane -with
four passengers aboard, careened
through a residential district,
killing the pilot.
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DIESEL OIL SALES
Federal Mineral Exploration Program
Lends $295,676 To Three Alaska Firms
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(AP Special Washington Service'
WASHINGTON, (jP) — The
eight-month-old program to spur
the search for domestic sources of
critically short minerals has
brought $295,676 in government
aid to three Alaska mining com
panies.
In addition, if the explorations
prove successful, it may add
thousands of dollars to the terri
tory’s industrial payroll as well
as add to Uncle Sam’s depleted
mineral stocks.
The most recent contract to be
announced is also the largest. It
went to the Alaska Metal Min
ing Co. (no address available) for
tungsten exploration in the terri
tory. The government will stand
75 per cent—or $133,676—of the
$178,234 exploration cost.
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Previously announced were
contracts to the Zenda Gold Min
ing Co., for tin exploration on the
Seward Peninsula and the Admir
alty-Alaska Gold Mining Co., to
seek out deposits of nickel and
cobalt. All three of these minerals
fall in the top bracket of the
critical list and are eligible for
90 per cent participation by the
government.
203 projects have been ap
proved by the Defense Minerals
Exploration Administration at a
total cost of $11,014,517, of which
the government will pay $6,561,
605. They involve 21 states and
Alaska. The government partici
pation is based on a sliding, scale
—50, 75, 90 per cent—depend
ing upon the need, probable
availability and normal demand.
The government gets its money
back only in event that explora
tion proves successful and pro
duction is gotten underway with
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in 10 years. Repayment is on a
sliding royalty scale.
Top participation goes to as
bestos, beryl, cobalt, columbium
Tantulam, Corundum, Cyrolite,
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industrial diamonds, Kyanite,
Mica, Monzaite, Nickel, Platinum
group metals, quartz crystals,
talc, Tin and Uranium.
CUB SCOUT DENS
NOW NUMBER THREE
Much enthusiasm is cub scout
ing was expressed by the parents
and cubs at their regular pack
meeting last Thursday evening, i
with over 20 parents in attend
ance.
Mr. Everett Adams was intro
duced as the new member of the
official cub family, by Cubmaster
Ray Hawks.
The pack has grown to three
dens and all the boys participated
in a short program. Bruce Russell
was welcomed as a new chief of
Den. No. 1.
It was announced that an out
standing feature of the spring
program will be dog races for the
cubs some time in Aprl, and all
the boys will soon start training
(their dogs.
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