Civil Air Patrol To Mark Tenth
Birthday, November 25 - December I
Civil Air Patrol will celebrate
its tenth anniversary with Civil
Air Patrol Week from November
25 to December 1, according to a
proclamation issued by Maj. Gen.
Beau, national commander.
The Alaska Wing for CAP is
headquartered at Anchorage with
squadrons at Anchorage, Fair
banks, Nome, Juneau, Ketchikan
and Sitka.
Colonel Jack Carr is command
ing officer of the Alaska Wing,
and Major Lester D. Bronson is
commanding officer of the Nome
Squadron.
The Civil Air Patrol is a na
tionally chartered non-profit cor
poration composed of volunteer
dues-paying members who are or
ganized into wings, groups, squad
rons and flights similar to the
general structure of the Air Force.
These units have no military
status.
Because the services of this or
ganization have contributed sub
stantially to the effectiveness of
the Air Force, and because the in
herent potential of this group is
important to national defense,
Civil Air Patrol has been official
ly designated as the civilian aux
iliary of the Air Forces—this leg
islation was enacted by the U. S.
Congress in 1948.
At present, the Alaska Wing is
engaged in signing up all experi
enced pilots in the territory to as
sist in search and rescue missions
as well as civil defense problems.
Estimates place the number of
private aircraft in the territory
at approximately 1,000 with ap
proximately 1,200 registered
pilots.
The Nome Squadron now has
45 senior members and 24 are
enrolled in the cadet program.
Ranking high in the Civil Air
Patrol program is the fast-grow
ing cadet set-up. The objects of
the CAP cadet program (boys
and girls between 15 and 18) are
to instill in the cadets a sense of
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citizenship responsibility as to
morrow’s leaders; to afford ca
i
dets an opportunity to torn avi
ation in many phases; and to train
cadets as a source of personnel
! procurements for the USAF on a
volunteer basis.
A few activities of this program
! include encampments, drill com
petition, and the international
| cadet exchange program.
In the international cadet ex
change program, the Alaska Wing
was active, sending two cadets
! abroad, Thomas Sullivan to Eng
land and Bob Killen to Mexico'.
Conducted in July and August,
| some 120 cadets from Canada,
England, Portugal, Denmark, Nor
way, Sweden, France, Spain, Bra
zil, Luxembourg, Netherlands,
Mexico, Switzerland and Italy vis
ited the United States and were
guests at the various states and
the nation’s capital. Our own CAP
cadets were guests of those coun
tries.
Civil Air Patrol cooperates with
Air Rescue Service, U. S. Forestry
Service, state forestry officials,
fire departments, state and local
police agencies, United States
Coast Guard veterans’ organiza
tions, American Red Cross, air
lines, U. S. Navy, Community
Chest, and other welfare agen
cies—all types of operations af
fecting public good.
KOREAN SITUATION
SEOUL, Korea, (/P) — Chinese
Reds furiously counterattacked in
central Korea today but couldn’t
budge a dug-in Allied division
which had smashed them back
three miles in a two-day line
straightening offensive.
British forces beat off a 21-hour
communist attack on the western
end of the battle line.
In the east, U. N. command
troops were knocked off two hills,
but recaptured one a few hours
later.
Allied jet fighters sweeping
over North Korea Monday spotted
only eight communist MIG jets
but none of the eight ventured
south of the Yalu river, boundary
of their Manchurian sanctuary.
A pair of daring American
Sabre jet pilots Sunday shot up
eight Red MIG-15 jets on the
ground at an air base in north
western Korea—the first time en
emy jets have been caught on
the ground.
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WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by U.S. Dept, of Commerce.
Weather Bureau
Stormy tonight and Tuesday
with snow turning to rain late to
night. Easterly winds occasionally
over 30 mph. Lowest temperature
expected tonight 30, high tomor
row 33.
Nome data last 24 hours, as of
7:00 a.m. today: Precipitation .07
inches. Month total 1.17 inches.
Temperatures: highest 26, low
est 17. Maximum wind 28 mph
from ENE. Sunrise at 8:48 a.m.,
sunset at 2:46 p.m.
Temperatures a year ago today:
high 27, low 2. Extremes this date
since 1907: high 36 in 1926, low
-9 in 1922.
Data for other selected stations
»s of 7 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow 15 Cloudy
Pt. Hope 16 Cloudy
Kotzebue 3 Blowing snow
Wales 26 Snow
Gambell 30 Snow
Nome 26 Blowing snow
Unalakleet 20 Blowing snow
Bethel 33 Rain
McGrath 14 Snow
Anchorage 8 Clear
Fairbanks 6 Clear
Whitehorse -11 Snow
Juneau 15 Clear
Ketchikan 39 Cloudy
Seattle 49 Cloudy
San Francisco 58 Cloudy
Cold Sweeps Most of U. S.
<By the Associated Press)
Icy air gave most of the nation
; a numbing chill over the weekend
| and some eastern states had
heavy snowfalls to go along with
the freezing weather.
Snow fell for 24 hours without
a letup in some sections of Penn
sylvania, dumping 18 inches at
Kane, in the northwestern part of
I the state. Fifteen inches were re
ported near Cleveland, Ohio.
Florida, in the path of biting
northwest winds, ' reported , the
coldest weather of the .season to
day. Temperatures hovered near
the 32 mark yesterday in south
i ern California.
The icy air responsible for the
big chill flowed into the States |
from Canada. It continued to
I move eastward from the Missis
sippi valley today with little likli
hood that temperatures would
warm up soon.
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TUESDAY, FRIDAY —
Teller, Wales, and Shishmaref
WEDNESDAY — Deering, Candle, and Kotzebue.
MONDAY, THURSDAY, SATURDAY —
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