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C. A. A. DRAMATIZATION
TONIGHT AT HIGH SCHOOL
A full house is expected this
evening at the Nome School Aud
! itorium where the C. A. A. are
putting on a dramatization of
what the C. A. A. does in Alaska.
Many residents are looking for
ward to seeing Norman and Ro
mayne Poto’sky, who are taking
1 part in the demonstration.
The show has already been
■ shown at Homer and will go on to
Anchorage, Fairbanks, Juneau,
and other towns after showing
here.
Mr. Bchall, of the Anchorage
office, who wrote the script, and
party arrived yesterday from An
1 choragc.
The afternoon showing was
scheduled for this afternoon at
two o’clock and the evening dem
| oust ration will commence at 8:00
p.m.
' rwor Bronson, head of the
C.A.P. has announced that all
C.A.P. members should attend.
They will have their meeting fol
lowing the show.
Following the prepared pro
gram the audience will be invited
to ask questions.
375th Weather
Recon. Makes 375th
Polar Flight
FAIRBANKS, (/P) —The 375th
marked its 375th milestone over
the week-end.
It was the 376th flight over the
North Pole for the 375th Weather
Reconnaissance squadron.
A feat that once was acclaimed
with world-encirling headlines is
now a routine evcr-other-day task
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for the.U. S. airmen at Eielson Air
Force Base, near here.
The milestone-marking flight
‘ was scheduled for Sunday. The
375th began its Polar flights in
1.947 after about a dozen had been
made by a previous Ladd Field
unit.
The flights are made because of
the important effect the Arctic
“‘weather factory” has on the
world’s weather. The 375th‘s job
is to try to chart the developing
air mas ;es for i. ♦ in diagnoi i
more accurately the forecast of
weather across the United States
It is a 17-hour flight from >iel
son to the Pole and back in the
big Boeing B-29 Superfortresses.
It is a 3,500-mile flight over icy ,
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wastes, with the crew of special
ists transmitting a series of re
ports frm their flying observation
tsatiori. It speeds out toward the
Pole near Point Barrow and re
turns over Alaska near Point
Hope, north of Seward Peninsula,
homeward bound.
It is known as Project “Ptar
migan.”
The flight was made in a spe
cially modified B-29 Superfort
ress, The Lonesome Polecat, was
talked down on the nearby Eiel
! son Air Force Base landing strip
at 10:55 p.m last night when
rough weather made a ground
control approach (GCAt landing
necessary.
The 3.500-mile flight over the
roof of the world required only
10 hours and 5 minutes, an hour
less than normal because Capt.
Edward M. Pollock of Wyoming.
Pa., aircraft commander, by
passed Kotzebue and Point Hope
on the return trip.
Aboard the Lonesome Polecat
was Real* Adm. Clifton Sprague,
commander of the Alaskan Sea
Frontier and deputy commander
in-ebief of the Alaska Unified
command. He is believed to be +ho
.first navy man ever to make the
Polar flight.
“I certainly take my hat off to
those boys,” the admiral comr
mented after the landing. “That’s
real flying.”
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“Just another mission — rout
ine,” was Pollock’s description.
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OF NOME
Thursday Luncheon
Don Lyle, Pres.
Dewey Goodrich, Secy.
ANVIL LODGE
NO. 140
Meets First and
Third Thursday
each month
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NORVIN W. LEWIS# Secy.
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets
EVERY TUESDAY NOON
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