PAN AMERICAN BRINGS IN
LARGE LOAD OF MAIL
The Pan American brought in
over 6,000 pounds of Christmas
mail last Saturday as well as a
shipment of Christmas cheer for
the children of Shishmaref from
the Seattle Chamber of Commerce.
This shipment is scheduled to
leave with Wien Airlines as soon
as weather permits.
Early in December the following
notice appeared in a bookseller’s
window, in Scotland.
“Buy your Christmas books
now, so that you may read them
before posting.”
LT. JACOB KAUFMAN DIES
OF HEART ATTACK
Lt. Jacob Kaufman, age 36, died
suddenly Saturday at 12:40 p.m.,
having suffered a heart attack at
noon.
Lt. Kaufman who was adjutant]
with the Medical Administrative
Corp., at the 202nd Station Hospi-1
tal, and who has been here for
about two years with his wife Syl
via and son Harry, and a baby son
born recently, was well known
and liked in the community, c tmes,
from Babylon, Long Island.
Their many friends extend con
dolence to the bereaved family for
their loss and saddened holiday.
A Christmas Gift for The Baby!
Something they’ll
thank you a million times for
doing!
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Phone Main 113
• • • because we have plenty of it.
Make your wash day a veritable holiday by send
ing your laundry to us. You’ll find that we will be
just as careful with your things as you are, and that
they’ll be returned beautifully laundered.
For cleaner clothes and no water worries, simply
call Main 113.
MODERN LAUNDRY
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and DRY CLEANERS
Arctic Indoctrina
tion School
In Operation
<Second in a series of five arti
cles published on the operations
of the Arctic Indoctrination School
at Nome Air Base).
NOME, Alaska — After a day
with their instructors at the Arc
tic Indoctrination school, a day
filled with instructions and prac
tical demonstrations, the students
returned to Nome Air Base to
spend the last night under perm
anent shelter that they would find
for the next four days. Facing
them was the prospect of two days
and nights on the barren tundra
country . . . country filled with
drifted snow and spasely dotted
with Arctic scrub wilow . . . fol
lowed by two days and nights on
the wind-swept ice pack of the
Bering Sea. Ice that has swept
down from the Polar regions to
throttle the Port of Nome. On
i Tuesday, 16 December 1947, the
1 men returned to the school to
1 gather equipment for their first
1 trek to the tundra. The party set
out for the first site on the plain
, below Anvil Mountain, preceded
by training crews and dog teams.
The students moved on snow
shoes carrying fifty pound packs.
As the men reached the training
areas, the students, with their in
j structors, dropped off at desig
nated spots near their theoretical
| crash sites. As soon as each crew
was isolated, the airplane com
mander, under the supervision of
the instructor, designated one of
the crew as quartermaster officer,
responsible for the storage and
care of all food and equipment
and one man as sanitary officer,
The men were careful to observe
j the cardinal rules laid down . . .
i above all, keep dry and prevent
excess perspiration ... do not
waste energy . . . allow no body
, surface to become exposed. Soon
shelters could be seen rising on
I the slope and before long, small
fires were burning.
Although the students were noi
aware of it, they were under con
i tinual observation. The Command
i ing Officer and key personnel
with the aid of binoculars, were
observing their every movement
As an additional safety precau
tion, each major group was equip
ped with a walkie-talkie to per
mit communication with the con
trol radio at the headquarters in
case of emergency.
By a:00 p.m. on the afternoon of
j December 16th, darkness had
dropped over the country side and
the fires of the “Survivors” could
be seen dotted over the tundra.
The temperature had hovered no; :
zero all day, and with the dark
ness it dropped still further. The
students, however, with shelters
| erected and fires going were en
sconed almost as warmly as in
! their quarters at the home base.
By night they had begun to ac
cept some of the statements thev
had heard in their lectures. Tney
knew the remarkable insulating
properties of snow and that A is
far warmer beneath the surface of
snow than above it. They have,
found that the warmth >f one
small candle inside a snow shelter
will warm the interior enough
that they may remove their outer
garments. They are better able to
realize the value of the rations and ,
equipment carried in their emer
gency kits ... to use sparingly
the limited ammunition they pos- j
sess. By the end of the second day j
of tundra survival the men will
possess a knowledge that may J
some day save their life if forced
down in the Arctic winter . . . the
knowhow that in case of emer-1
Will Ask Opinion
Of People About
European Aid Bill
WASHINGTON, </P>—'The Sen
ate foreign relations committee is 1
planning to ask prominent Ameri- !
cans from all walks of life for
their opinions of the four-year,
$17,000,000,000 Marshall plan fori
European recovery.
Democratic leader Barkley <Ky.>
h committee member, told report
ers this today. He said Secretary
of State Marshall probably will be
the first witness when the com
mittee begins hearings Jan. 7. But
before hearings are concluded, he
said, scores of others will be
heard.
Chairman Vandenberg <R.
Mich.), said no list of prospective
witnesses has been compiled, but
that he wants to obtain “a cross
section” of American views before
I the committee acts.
Already signs are cropping up
that Congress will take lots of time
and write its own European re
covery plan, rather than accepting
the one President Truman has
| Submitted. And indications are
that it will be no where near as
big as $17,000,000,000.
gency will allow them to assume
' command of the crew and prevent
I any possibility of panic. When
’ their one week’s course is over
these men will return to their
bases in Alaska and carry with
them knowledge gained in actual
experience.
NOTICE
Special Christmas Program will
be held at the Assembly of God
Church on Tuesday evening at
7:45 by the children of the Sunday
School. There will be gifts for all
rhildren.
Oh, Deer, Izaak Walton
Never Tried A Lasso
KALISPELL, Mont. UP)—Three
Kalispell fishermen came home
from a fishing trip with a buck
deer—and they didn’t have a gun
along.
DeWitt O’Neill, Shirley Ander
son and Elaine Hoover were troll
ing for trout on Flahead Lake
when they saw a deer swimming.
O’Nejll lassoed the animal after
six tries.
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