Measels Epidemic
Threatens Bethel
JUNEAU — Sixty-five cases of
measles were reported in the
Bethel area early this week and
immune globulin was dispatched
there immediateyl from the An
chorage office of the Alaska De'pt.
of Health, according to word re
ceived here.
Between 300 and 400 persons
are known to have been exposed
which may result in a raging epi
demic, Dr. Duncan Chalmers,
Alaska Native Service physician
at the Bethel hospital, told health
department officials in reporting
the measles scourge in the lower
Kuskokwim area.
In addition to the supply of im
mune globulin dispatched to
Bethel by the health department’s
district laboratory in Anchorage,
1,000 vials are being rushed from
San Francisco by the American
Red Cross for free distribution,
the Anchorage message stated.
In an effort to control the meas
les epidemic, two nurses are pre
ceding ahead of the known cases
in the area to give globulin to
susceptible children in other vil
lages of the distritc. The nurses
are Mrs Naomi Talbitzer, Bethel
itinerant nurse for the Alaska de
partment of health, and Mrs. Esf
ther Schaubel, Alaska Native
Service nurse in the Bethel area.
Body Of Jet Crash
Pilot Rescued
By Helicopter
ANCHORAGE, (/P)—A helicop
ter pilot prepared today to bring
the body of a jet fighter pilot
from the isolated shore where he
crashed yesterday after a collision
at 2,000 feet.
The pilot of the other plane, Lt.
Harry S. Hanna, flew safely back
to Elmendorf Field.
The second helicopter to make
the attempt succeeded in landing
late yesterday at the crash scene
at Point Redoubt, southwest of
here. Lt. Donald Griffis, the pilot,
made the landing after a battle
with winds that reached up to 70
miles an hour.
His fuel was exhausted after a
OO-mile flight from Anchorage.
A medical officer, Capt. G. A.
Guinn, was a passenger on the
hazardous landing. A fuel supply
was to be flown to the helicopter
today.
The dead pilot has not been
identified.
The collision has not bee20reu,
The collision occurred during
practice with an aerial target.
Other fliers said the pilot ap
parently tried to get out of his
plummeting plane. They saw the
canopy of the plane released at
about 8,000 feet.
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Sight Oil Slick In
Search For Missing
Ditched B-36
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board would depend on whether
they launched their life rafts in
time.
The RCAF said it planned to
send nine planes into the search
during the forenoon, when the
near-zero visibility in the area is
expected to lift somewhat. Two
Lancasters from Edmonton will
form part of the Canadian effort.
A dozen B-29’s were ready to
take off from Spokane, Wash.,
and Great Falls, Mont. Seven
B-29’s which searched yesterday
bypassed Spokane last night be
cause of fog and continued on to
Great Falls on the return trip.
From over the country came re
ports of search planes preparing
to head into the Pacific ‘North
west. Planes from Maxwell Field,
Ala., Selfridge Field, Mich., Den
ver, and El Paso, Tex., have been
earmarked for the hunt.
Only searching conducted
through the wind and fog last
I night was by Canadian and Amer
ican coast guard surface craft.
The plane was the second south
bound B-36 in as many days to
experience difficulty in the same
rugged Briitsh Columbia coastal
area. A B-36 wobbled in from
there and sat down at McChord
Aii- Force Base near Tacoma
Monday.
A northbound B-36 turned back
to McChord Monday, also.
An accompanying B-36 had re
layed messages from the crippled
plane and flew on instruments to
1 Carswell Air Force Base at Fort
Worth, Tex.
The sister ship reported it was
: “raining, icing and sleeting" when
the B-36 went mute, apparently
! ablaze and coated with ice.
Reports from Southeastern
Alaska last night indicated one or
both of the planes may have cir
i cled over the small fishing vil
! lages of Klawock and Craig, on
j Prince of Wales Island some 60
miles west of Ketchikan. Time of
the labored droning of the plane
or planes was established as
about an hour before the final
distress messages from the miss
ing ship.
Prince of Wales Island is about
100 miles north of the Queen
Charlotte area where the plane is
believed to have ditched.
Capt. Harold L. Barry, 30, of
Hillsboro, 111., was the pilot.
SEATTLE, (/Pi — An ominous
oil slick was sighted today in the
hunt for a missing air force B-36
bomber, just after a search plane
crashed killing eight men in Mon
tana.
Planes and ships sped to inspect
the oil slick, sighted in the Queen
Charlotte Sound area some 400
miles northwest of here, where
the B-36 vanished before mid
night Monday with 17 aboard.
The slick was sighted from the
air, but first reports did not give
its exact position. The armed
services public relations office at
Seattle, which announced the de- j
velopment, said searchers did not
place too much credence in the
report. It was pointed out that!
ships traveling to and from Alas
ka follow that route and might
leave oil traces.
Weather conditions today were
unfavorable in the search for the
B-36, delaying takeoff of many
search planes.
Areas southwest of Nanking,
China, have record farm popula
tions up to 5,000 per square mile.
Temperature Tray Aids
In Children’s Illnesses
When illnesses occur and the
doctor recommends that an in
fant’s temperature he taken sev
eral times a day, there are several
things that make it easi< i for you
It’s a good idea to learn the i
proper routine while Baby is still
well. Ailing and peevish babies of
ten resist this routine unless it has |
become an ordinary nursery prac- ■
tice, and this resistance may make
Mother more nervous, too.
With the routine mastered, an
other helpful step is to set up a [
temperature tray with all the ne
cessary items on it. This is espe
cially wise in Baby’s rase because, i
with everything at hand, he need j
not be left even for a minute while
Mother gets the forgotten item.
Any small tray or cake pan will
do, but preferably one with a
i slight rim to keep the items from
sliding oil On the tray beside the
rectal thermometer you’ll want a
clean glass holder, sterile cotton
balls for cleansing the thermom
eter. a iar of white vaseline for
■ bht n •» ——
lubricating the thermometer, and
toilet tissue and a bottle oi baby
lotion for any necessary diaper
area cleansing. Plan to take the
temperature while Baby is in a
familiar and .sale place.
First cleanse your thermometer
bulb with a sterile absorbent cot
ton ball moistened in rubbing alco
hol. Now place the clean thermom
eter in a clean glass with sterile
cotton balls in the bottom. The
cotton will keep the bulb from
breaking. Now, get the baby ready,
tray within easy reach. Then lub
neate the thermometer by plung
ing it in white vaseline so that its
bulb and an inch of the shaft is
coated. After the temperature is
taken, get the baby wrapped up
again and safely ensconced in high
chair nr crib before attempting to
read the mercury level. Then wipe
off the vaseline with a cotton ball
and read. Before putting the ther
mometer away for further use,
cleanse it well with sterile cotton
ball moistened in rubbing alcohol.
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