Captain of SS
Aleutian Has
Lived Varied Life
Captain Raymond F. Farwell
A professor, author, and USNR
captain are roles in the life of
one of the pilots of the Alaska
Steamship Company steamer i
Aleutian this season.
He is Captain Raymond F. Far
well, USNR Ret., professor of
transportation at the University of
Washington, one of the nation’s
outstanding authorities on pilot
rules, a veteran of 34 years’ active
and reserve service with the U.
S. Navy and 30 years on the Uni
versity faculty.
At least part of Captain Far
well’s experience was gained with
the Alaska line. He started his
maritime career as deck boy on
the steamer Victoria in 1910 un
der the widely-known Captain
Johnnie O’Brien, and so, in fact,
joining the Aleutian this summer
was just like returning home for
him. His last tour with the com
pany was a pilot on the Columbia
during the 1940 season. He has
also served on the Yukon and
Denali.
At tne oeginning ot world war
II, he was assigned as executive
officer of the Naval ROTC at the
University of Washington. He was
later sent to the Walt Disney
Studios to supervise the Navy
training film on collision rules,
and was then transferred to the
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U. S. Coast Guard Headquarters
in Washington, D. C., where his
work from 1943 to 1948 was
chiefly concerned with the pre
vention of marine collisions.
The idea that all men are equal
will be news to the aborigines.
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Flight Test Maneuvers
Effective August 1st
A bulletin from D. M. Gretzer,
CAA office of Aviation Safety, an
nounces the new flight test, ef
fective August 1, 1951, will in
clude the following maneuvers:
Equipment examination (oral),
pre-flight check, taxiing, or sail
and and docking, run-up, take
offs, short or soft field take-off,
climbs and climbing turns, man
euvering at minimum speed, stalls,
turns around pylons;
Airport traffic pattern, accur
acy approaches and spot landings,
landing technique, cross - wind
take-off and landing, cross-coun
try flight planning, cross-country
flying, traffic control procedures,
emergencies, smoothness and co
ordination, judgment.
$5 Bills $10 On Reverse
HIAWATHA, Kas., (IP) — Roy
Ruth, president of the Home State
Bank at nearby Everest, broke
open a bundle of $5 bills and care
fully counted them.
They totaled $500.
Then he turned them over and
recounted. He got $530. On the
next check he studied each bill
carefully and discovered—six of
the notes, fresh from the govern
ment’s presses, were $5 bills on
one side and perfect $10 repro
ductions on the other.
In Washington, officials of the
Bureau of Engraving and Print
ing, which manufactures the na
tion’s currency, conceded it could
happen, but said they had never
heard of anything like it before.
Washout Eklutna River
Bridge Cuts Highway
Link To Anchorage
ANCHORAGE, (fP)—A bridge
i washout over the Eklutna River
cut Anchorage’s highway connec
| tions with the outside Tuesday.
The trouble came from a torrent
i loosed by rapid melting of Eklut
| na Glacier in the current heat
spell.
The Road Commission hopes to
erect a Bailey bridge at the wash
out site. A new bridge had been
planned for completion before the
high water season but construc
tion was delayed by the difficulty
in getting steel.
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Funds given the American Can
cer Society help to train cancer
research scientists. Awards have
been made to 72 young research
| ers this year. /
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Have you noticed that if the
wife insists on wearing the pants
in the family, another woman us
ually gets the fur coat?
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Kansas Under
Greatest Flood
In State’s History
TOPEKA, Kas., {&) — Flood
waters poured over eastern and
central Kansas in the greatest
torrent in the state’s history to
day and lapped over into parts
of Missouri leaving seven dead
and five to eight missing.
At least five persons were dead
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in Kansas, and two in Missouri.
Two more were killed by light
ning at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo.,
which was not affected by floods.
Army engineers estimated damage
from the floods totaled at least
$85,000,000. It likely would go
higher.
Many of the state’s major cities
were deep under the waters of
the swollen Kansas river, includ
ing the North Topeka and Oak
land sections of Topeka, the state
capital.
Hundreds of resident of North
Topeka, who ignored evacuation
orders were trapped by water
that poured through two levee
breaks and covered the area to a
depth of six feet or more.
WARM WEATHER MEANS
BRIGHT SKIES FOR
CRIPPLED CHILDREN
Old Sol, shining steadily for 19
hours a day, is rapidly melting
the glacier ice in the famous self
dumping Lake George, situated
just 50 air miles from Anchorage.
On July 9, Kenneth Westen
barger flew the first of his check
flights, which will be made daily
until Lake George dumps, and re
ported that the water is rapidly
growing higher in the dammed up
lake. He states tha,t “if the wea
ther continues warm, it would ap
pear Lake George will go out in
July.”
The earliest date recorded in
the past six years was July 27. The
Lake George Break-up Ball tick
ets are on sale wherever you see
the posters and the closing date
is shown on them.
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Fleet of 87 B-36
Bombers Already
May Be Obsolete
WASHINGTON, (JP) — Some
House members were reported
greatly surprised yesterday at
testimony that the nation’s fleet
of giant B-36 bombers (a) num
bers only 87 and (b) may already
be obsolete.
Legislators said Air Force of
ficials testified at a closed session
of the Armed Services committee
that it has just 87 of the huge
intercontinental bombers ready to
strike atomic counterblows in
event of war.
The Air Force said it had or
dered or received delivery of a
total of 170 B-36s. Deliveries were
halted for a time ta change over
from all piston type engines to a
combination of four jet and six
piston engines.
Other committee members, also
asking not to be named, 'said cur
rent model atom bcrmbs may be
considerably smaller — although
more powerful — than the bulky
models used in World War II.
If that is true, they speculated,
smaller and less expensive planes
than the $3,500,000 B-36s might
be used to deliver the bombs.
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