Seward Seaport Record
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Seward. Alask
John HI. Coleman . Editor and Publisher
Mildred Kirkpatrick .Managing Editor .
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SECOND OF A SERIES ON—
Aviation Safety
Discussions
D. M. Grelzer
for
The Office of Aviation Safely
VALOR V3. DISCRETION
September’s hunting season
was a costly one for aviation.
Many Sunday drivers were
caught short because the moose
weighed so much, or because
air conditions were unusually
unstable and turbulent.
There were accidents attribut
ed to turbulence all over Alaska
excepting Southeast Alaska,
which has frequent turbulent
conditions. i
1. Three seaplanes suffered
4ho indignity of being compelled
to float in an upside down posi
tion without ever having left
the water. Average condition—
30-mile wind with 50-mile gusts.
Average pilot experience more
than 2500 hours. Average Alas
kan experience, over five years.
2. At least three approaches
to a landing field resulted in
landing where no landing strip
existed. Pilots lost control and
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stalled in or hit trees.
3. Several pilots considered
an extra quarter of moose to be
more valuable than the airplane.
Some got off and found they had
no place to go except the trees.
Others got off and after gaining
altitude blamed turbulence or
downdrafts for their downfall.
No less than four accidents were
due to overloads with respect to
existing conditions such as
length of field, wind direction,
and terrain clearance; and sev
eral others fall into this prob
able category.
Mechanical Failure
vs. Pilot Failure
A commercial pilot blamed
this accident on engine failure:
1. He taxied into position to
use two-fifths of a mile long
take-off space, for his take-off.
2. The engine quit at about a
hundred feet, rough ground
ahead.
3. He attempted a 180 degree
turn, airplane stalled before
turn completed.
4. Airplane wound up in a
heap, occupants seriously in
jured.
(To be continued)
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pared to meet violence with
power.
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when father has to buy new ones
for the whole family at the same
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By Mildred Kirkpatrick
I’ve been trying for four years
to decide just what time of year
one can get by with “spring
fever” as an alibi. Guess the
first thing to determine is just
when spring is in this country.
I keep looking for it from
Groundhog Day (today) until
the 4th of July, which, of course,
must be summer, and I haven’t
discovered spring yet. Then,
first thing you know, snow is
flying. This is not a complaint.
Alaska is still the best place in
the world to live, especially Sew
ard, Alaska, but it is confusing,
and the justification for spring
fever as an alibi would be handy.
Did you ever wish you could
fly? Gee—looking across the
Bay to snow covered mountains
against the blue, blue sky, stand
ing out like plaster of paris
statues on a stage—if I could
just peep over the top like a
bird! An airplane w'ould spoil
the effect—it makes too much
noise. But, when obeying an urge
to get out and walk on the snow
white mountains and blue sky,
it quickly dissolves and all I
can think of is cold feet. Oh, this
mundane life that chains us to
the earth with cold feet, instead
of giving us wings!
Yes, it’s spring fever, all right.
My poor brain is about to crack
with pondering all the weighty
questions of the world and Sewr
ard in particular. I’m going to
hang a sign on the door, “Gone
to Fort Rich to see my boy,”
then, maybe next w'cck the old
brain will have recovered from
its lameness. Nothing like a
change of scene ior spring fever
in the winter time.
What this country needs is
more illuminated boulevards and
fewer illuminated drivers.
INFLUENZA NOT EPIDEMIC
IN TERRITORY
Fears expressed in some quar
ters that the epidemic of in
fluenza now widespread in Eng
land might spread in Alaska are
allayed by a report from the
Alaska Department of Health.
" “There is no reason to believe
that the present epidemic . . .
will be a serious or widespread
epidemic in the United States
this year” according to a report
of World Health Organization
studies received here.
The message was sent by the
U. S. Surgeon General to Dr. C.
Earl Albrecht, Alaska commis
sioner of health, who stated that
no unusual outbreaks of influ
enza have been reported in the
territory this year.
Only occasionally do localized
epidemics become widespread.
None has had the characteristics
of the 1918 influenza epidemic
at this time.
Referring to the question of
immunization against this dis
ease, the message stated, “There
is no vaccine that we can ex
pect will protect with certainty.
However, this situation indicates
the necessity for continuing con
trolled studies of the efficacy
of influenza vaccine in man. It
is expected that some influenza
will appear in the United States
but that the disease will be like
our recent experiences with in
fluenza.
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Catholic Information
The voice that c anno! be stilled
From a building surrounded
by the City of Rome is raised
to the world time and time again
the voice of a single man—a
man who is spiritual ruler of
almost 400,000,000 Catholics—,
civil ruler of a few hundred sub
jects in a country of some 160
acres—the Vatican State.
Often his voice is raised in
benediction, in spiritual direc
tion—raised to fulfill the obliga-j
tion imposed upon his predeces
sor. the first pope, by the com-1
mand of our Lord to St. Peter:!
“Feed my lambs! Feed my
sheep!”—raised by authority of ,
Him who said: “Who heareth1
you, heareth me.”
No army or navy or air-fleet
or submarines has the Holy |
Father. No forts or entrench-;
ments or weapons of defense. J
Yet time and again his voice
rings out, rebuking warlords
armed to the teeth—deploring
murder and persecution and the
robbing of man of his innate
right s—censuring those who
deny God, who make a god of
the State, who make of their
own race the elect of mankind.
Again and again without fear
or favor, the Voice of the Vati
can is raised against the enslave
ment of the laboring man
through excessive capitalism,
the slaughter of the innocent
through so-called mercy-killing,
the crime against man’s body
through sterilization, the sin
against God and nature through
contraception, the threat against
civilization through God-less ed
ucation, the ruin to family and
State through divorce.
No matter how popular the
sin or the error—no matter how
threatening he who is rebuked,
the voice of the Vicar of Christ
comes forth that he who has
ears may hear, that the evil may
be made manifest, that men of
good-will may know and act and
be saved.
Peter, the first Pope, and
many other Popes, raised their
voices and were murdered. Our
present Holy Father and his suc
cessors may suffer a like fate;
but the Voice of the Papacy
cannot be stilled; for that voice
is the echo of another which
1900 years ago guaranteed its
own perpetuity by the promise:
“Heaven and earth shall pass
away, but my word shall not
pass away” (Mark 13:31).
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