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Terr. Game Commission |
Records Donated To
University of Alaska
The University of Alaska lib
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rary has just received as a gift
the records of the Territorial
* Game Commission, according to
Dr. Terris Moore, University
president.
The gift was made by Irving
Reed, former member of the
Commission who is remembered
as being instrumental in intro
ducing buffalo into Alaska. The
records give a minute account of
the proceedings of the Commis
sion .since its start in 1925, through
1940.
“These records are a valuable
acquisition to the library,” John
Mehler, University librarian, said
in acknowledging the gift. “We
had nothing of this sort before;
now the material is available for
study by the students in wildlife
management.”
A sounding of 35,640 feet at one
point between the Philippines and
the Caroline Islands is believed to
be the greatest ocean depth ever
recorded.
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CO. of Rescued “Ski Jump” Fliers
Says, “We Just Ran Out of Luck”
BARROW, Alaska, (/P) — Two$
narrow brushes with death mark
ed .the rescue of nine men from
an Arctic ice floe last week-end
—each because of a cracked land
ing ski—but the Navy wrote n
happy “well done” to the finish.
Seven Navy airmen and two
civilian scientists, engaged in po
lar ocean research for the Navy’s
“Operation Ski J u m p,” were
stranded 523 miles from the pole
last Thursday when a ski of their
R4D “Flying Laboratory” buckled
on a takeoff. Almost miraculously
no one was hurt.
Then Sunday the operation’s
leader, Cmdr. V. J. Coley of Oak
land, Calif., and seven crewmen
came within 10 feet of disaster
in landing their P2V rescue plane
on the rough Arctic ice.
A cracked ski sent the 30-ton,
twin-engined Neptune swerving
to the side at the end of the
too-short icy runway and almost
into an eight-foot ice pressure
ridge. The big plane came to rest
a scant 10 feet from the frozen
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wall.
The rest was anti-climactic. The
weakened ski held on the return
takeoff and the rescue of the
marooned party along with 1,000
pounds of scientific equipment
was completed without incident.
Cmdr. E. M. Ward, Philadel
phia, Pa., who headed the nine
man research expedition in its
Arctic work 800 miles beyond
this northern rim of the continent
told of the Thursday crack-up and
the four days awaiting rescue.
“The first intimation we had
that something was wrong on the
takeoff was when a propellor
walked across the snow in front
of the plane,” he said.
“We were about 100 yards down
the runway when the co-pilot, Lt.
R. B. Morgan, Murray, Ky., told
me the prop had cartwheeled
across our nose. I didn’t quite
believe him until the wing went
down and we slid into a snow
covered hummock.
“A strut had given way on the
landing gear, dropping the pro
pellor into the snow and shearing
it of.”
Ward went on to relate that
the nine men suffered no hard
ships, had plenty of food and kept
warm from auxiliary heaters in
the plane’s cabin.
“We almost felt guilty when
we heard commercial radio broad
casts expressing great concern
over our plight.
“We led regular Navy lives,
with watches and reveille at 6:30
each morning. Two shifts were
used between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m.
each day clearing off snow drifts
from the rescue flight strip.
“It was tough to lose the old
bucket that way,” Ward said. “It
had taken us through last year’s
operation here and thus far this
year. We had made 18 Ski Jump
landings out on the ice cap, pro
bably more than any other Am
erican plane.”
“We just ran out of luck, I
guess.”
Mr, William Meals, well known
Alaskan from Valdez and Juneau
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arrived yesterday to be with the
Nome Motor Co.
Ice Pool Dates
Since 1917, when the Pool
| was started, the ice has gone
out at Nenana as follows:
1917— April 30 .11:30 aon.
1918— May 11. 9:33 a.m.
1919— May 3. 2:33 p.m.
1920— May 11.10:45 a.m.
1921— May 11. 6:42 aon.
1922— May 12. 1:20 pan.
1923— May 9. 2:00 pan.
1924— May 11. 3:10 p.m.
1925— May 7. 6:32 pan.
1926— April 26. 4:03 pan.
1927— May 13. 5:42 aon.
1928— May 6. 4:25 pan.
1929— May 5. 3:41 pan.
1930— May 8. 7:03 pan.
1931— May 10. 9:23 aon.
1932— May 1.10:15 aon.
1933— May 8. 7:30 pan.
1934— April 30. 2:07 pan.
1935— May 15. 1:32 p.m.
1936— April 30.12:58 pan.
1937'—May 12. 8:04 pan.
1938— May 6. 8:14 p.m.
1939— April 29. 1:26 p.m«
1940— April 20. 3:27 pan.
1941— May 3. 1:50 a.m.
1942— April 30. 1:28 p.m.
1943— April 28. 7:22 p.m.
1944— May 4. 2:08 pan.
1945— May 16. 9:41 a.m.
1946— May 5. 4:40 p.m.
1947— May 3. 5:53 p.m.
1948— May 13.11:13 pan.
1949— May 14.12:39 pan.
1950— May 6. 4:14 p.m.
1951— April 30 . 5:54 pan.
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