ARE YOU DRIVING BLINDFOLDED? j
' Vith/tha coning on of winter, we will |
be driving more .and more in the hours of J
darkness. Night driving is very differ- t
ent.from daytime driving, and far more
dangerous, especially on Adak where "not
many of the. roads., are lighted by street
lights and' road conditions are usually .
much .worse than you would normally expect
them to be,- In the states fewer persons
drive at night but twice as many people
'are killed at night as in daytime accid-.
ents. On Adak, nearly everyone that does’
drive will do a great amount of driving
in darlmess hours during this winter seas-j
on so this means that we must be doubly
careful here on Adak,
Ninety percent of the decisions, that
drivers make and their ensuing actions
are based on what they see. Night driv
ers depend on artificial light, but a 55
year old driver with 20/20 vision needs
twice as much light as a 20 year old with
the sene visual acuity.
When you1re using high beams remember
to dim them when a car approaches you
from in front,. If you approach a car
from the rear dim them also.
Remember that your stopping’ istance
is much longer when the roads are slipp
ery or slick from rain or snow and ice.
. Drive carefully this winter. Your life
depends on it.
REMINDER TO ALIENS :
The Emigration-end Nationality Act
requires all aliens In the United States ,
and its-'possessions,-with few exceptions
to report their-addresses to the Attorn- -
ey General during the month of January,
Aliens temporarily absent from the U.S.’
during the month of January must report
their addresses within ten days of - ret
urn to this country. Cards for making
this report are available at any U. S.
Post Office during January at :at offices'
of the Immigration and Naturalization
Service at any time. The cards should be
filled out and returned to'the clerk from
whom received.f . -.1
Willful failure' to submit the-report
may lead to serious penalties, such as
fine, imprisonment and/or'deportation.
*' PifcU*UB: AID ANSWERED BY NAVNMEN
WASHINGTON —- ;('NAVHEWS) •— The U.S. Navy
recently answered a mercy call that in
volved four continents. As a'result the
daughter of an Argentine, police chief
quickly received desperately needed med
icine. ■
CPO H. Paul King at CBC, Davisville,
H.I., sent a routine call to the Antarc
tic at 11 p.m. The operator at Ellsworth
Station told him the Antarctic ’station
had picked up a message from a station in
Chile, twice relayed-from the town Viejo ‘
Con Constitution, in the province of San
ta Fe. The daughter of police chief Sab
ino Maggi was in critical need of a drug ^
called Crinhenol.
Chief King called the doctors at Davis
ville. None of them had heard of it.
A ham operator in Chicago named Walter
Coogan phoned‘to say that he had also
heard the message, lie had Checked Chie
fs0 pharmaceutical houses and had gotten
the some negative answer. '
Chief King called Ellsworth Station &
asked for more information on Crinhenol.
The answer was not lortg in coming. The
drug was obtainable only in Belgium. CDR
Robert C. Engram, CEC, USN, Chief of
Staff‘of the SeaBee Center foiled the; U.S.
Naval Attache at Brussels, Belgium, ‘CDR
Herbert T* Scott, at 11:30 P.M. (EST);>... A
At 3s30A.M. (EST), CDR Scott‘called ™
CDR Engram back.
rtThe medicine,n he said, "is on its
way by commercial airline to Argentina."
Elasped time—four and one-half hours.
SEND CARDS TO THIS LITTLE LAD
A five year old boy who has*received
third'degree,; burns over the upper half
of his body f?n£ is in the hospital under
going various types of surgery and skin
grafts and has lost the use of his left
am, This little fellow has asked that,
if possible, he would like to receive
.postal cards end Christmas Cards from var
iotls units and places in the world.Addres
is as follows:
Ritchey MUNSCHY •
BLODGETT HOSPITAL Room 205 ; - • ‘
Grrnd Rapids, Michigan.