» Cats Inherit
, Large Fortune
CAMDEN, N. J. (/P)—A couple
of tomcats—Pitty Sing and Budgie
—have a life interest in a $32,000
estate.
Their mistress, retired school
teacher Sarah Y. Furber, made
them principal beneficiaries in a
will before her death last year at
the age of 75.
f An accounting filed Friday dis
closed Miss Furber provided that
Pitty Sing, now 12 years old and
of unknown lineage, and Budgie,
five-year-old maltese, are to he
cared for by veterinarian Frank A.
Wright who is to be paid $1 dauy
> for each.
Upon death of the cats remain
der of the estate goes to the First
Presbyterian Church at Manchant
MR. AND MRS. JOHN CROSS TO
MEET DAUGHTER HERE
I Mr. and Mrs. John Cross ar
i rived in town from the north over
the week.end to meet their daugh
ter Patsy, who is due on the de
layed Pan American, who' will
spend the Thanksgiving holiday
with them.
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MRS. D. H. DOWNING
VISITING DAUGHTER HERE
Mrs. D. H. Downing, of Anchor
age made her first airplane flight
to Nome recently to visit with
her daughter Mrs. Carl Newman
and three grandchildren, the
youngest of which she had not
seen. She plans to return to her
home by Christmas unless the
grandchildren can persuade her to
remain.
ville, N. J.
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Three Alaskans To
Attend 4-H Con
gress In Chicago
SEATTLE, (,/p) — Three Alaska
high-school pupils, the Territory’s
delegation to the national 4-H Club
congress in Chicago next week,
stopped off in Seattle looking very
Alaskan in parkas and mukluks—
the first they ever had worn.
Eldest of the three is Flo Alice
Dinkel of Wasilla, 17 years old.
The far north attire she wore was
her own, having been given to her
by an Anchorage fur shop just be
fore she left for “Outside.”
Flo Alice’s boy companions,
Lynn Sandvik • of Palmer and
Richard Dangler of Seward, each
16, .wore borrowed parkas and
mukluks, however.
“They wanted us to wear
them,” Richard explained, a trifle
sheepishly.
“It’s colder here today than it
was when we left Alaska last
night,” Flo Alice said.
The cold-weather clothing prob
ably was welcome, at that, as the
visitors sat in the November chill
at the University of Washington
stadium for the University-Wash-1
ington State college game.
It was the first football game
Flo Alice had seen. She has lived
in Alaska since she was 6 years
old. Richard used to see games be
fore his family moved to Seward
four years ago, and Lynn has seen
Army teams play in Alaska. ' i
Lynn won his Chicago trip as a
member of a garden club, and
Richard belongs to a poultry club
Eight Killed In
Balkan PlaneCrash
JICIN, Czechoslovakia, </P) —
Eight persons were killed and 18
injured, 10 of them seriously,
when a Romanian-Soviet airlines
plane enroute from Bucharest to
Prague crashed and burned on
2,000-foot Tabor peak, six miles
from here, in bad weather last
night. Those reported injured in
cluded Alfred Davidson, identified
as Europeon director of the United
Nations children's fund for Eu
rope, and Horia Grigorescu, Ro
manian ambassador to Prague.
The dead included the pilot,
Georghe Brosen, of Bucharest and
Mr. Rafaey Gross of Temesvar,
Romania, who was enroute to the
United States with her husband
and 10-months-old child. Mr.
Gross ajjd the child,were in Jicin
hospital lor treatment of their in
juries.
A Russian, another Romanian
and a Czech also were killed. The
identities ol the other three were
not determined immediately.
and Flo Alice to a clothing club.
Lynn’s garden was the big money
maker, the youth having cleared
$800 in his products, mostly pota
toes and celery, this year. Rich
ard's pullets just are beginning to
lay—at $1.10 a dozen.
The club members are accom
panied by Mrs. Robinson, home
demonstration agent for South
eastern Alaska.
Airfreight Rates Slashed!
4
Seattle - Nome
%
Effective November 15, 1947
applicable for all foods, vegetables, fruits, milk, meats, construc
tion MATERIALS, AND CONTRACTORS TOOLS. 25 LB. MINIMUM SHIPMENT.
Alaska Airlines ha$ reduced rates on other types of merchandise as follows:
Minimum shipment 15 lbs.
' 15 to 1,000 lbs. — .27
1.001 to 3,000 lbs. — .26
3.001 to 10,000 lbs. — .25
10,001 to 19,999 lbs. — .24
20,000 minimum _ .23
Alaska Airlines Terminal, Boeing Field, Seattle.
DEPENDABLE SERVICE!
ALASKA AIRLINES
Nome Air Base
Sidelights
Tenth Rescue wishes to wel
come to the squadron Cpl. John
W. Lewis and Pic. Howard W.
Jones. Sgt. Shelley last week was
promoted to the grade of S/Sgt.
Instead of the usual coffee in bed,
it is rumored that this will be eggs
and toast along with it. The
squadron suffered a great deal
this week, because Sgt. Dale E.
Adkisson. the lucky boy, went back,
to the good old USA for rotation.
Hq. Det. had some men in front
of the promotion board on Wed
nesday, and did they sweat that
one out! But of course, “All’s well
that ends well.” A third member
has been added to the staff of
WXLN. He is Pfc. Jack Stringer,
who worked in the Service Club
before. The station will be without
the services of Sgt. Roger Munn
for a week, who is in the hospital.
He is being greatly missed, too, for
the station is now on the air six
teen hours a day.
Last week a trouble call came in
to our Signal office that a line was
down out in the QM area and Cpl.
Savignac was assigned to fix it.
Everything went along okay and
the line was fixed, and when Sa
vignac started back to the base he
backed just a little too far and a
snow drift gave way and the back
end of the truck was hanging over
a ledge about 20 feet high. If Cpl.
Savignac had not been on his toes
he would have fallen some twenty
feet to the bottom.
I The 64th Fighter Squadron, a
fairiy recent addition to the base,
is now a part of the post basket
ball league. Or should we say,
three parts of the league? With so
many men wanting to play basket
ball, we have split up into three
teams. On Monday the “Prospec
tors” w’ere beaten by the Hq. Det.
•five, followed by a victory of the
“Scorpions” over the Ordnance
team. On Wednesday night the
64th Officers were finally downed
by the 1883rd Engineers.
The much improved MP-Aid
basketball team got off to a fa^t
start Wednesday night against the
powerful Officers outfit and cre
ated quite a bit of excitement in
running np a 10 point lead at half
time. This lead was short-lived
however as the officers got rolling
during the second half and finish
ed up victorious. Cpl. Rea and Pfc.
Arkoian returned this w'eek after
a brief visit to Anchorage. ”03”
Nixon is much improved now after
his recent contact with a trouble
some M1903 rifle.
Moose To Hold
Memorial Service
For James J. Davis
PITTSBURG, (/P)—Fellow lead
ers of the Loyal Order of Moose
planned a special memorial serv
ice here today for their supreme
organizer and general director,
former Senator James J. Davis,
who died early Saturday at the
age of 74.
Private funeral services for Da
vis, the Welsh immigrant boy who
became secretary of labor in three
cabinets and was thrice elected U.
S. Senator from Pennsylvania,
will be held tomorrow morning.
Burial will be in Union Dale
cemetery.
Since his retirement from poli
tics in 1944 he had remained in
the capital to direct the Moose or