Weather Satellite
Ground Station Is
Slated for Fairbanks
WASHINGTON UP) — The Space
Agency announced plans Tuesday
to establish at Fairbanks, Alaska,
its first station to receive, process
and transmit television cloud pic
tures from Nimbus satellites.
The National Aeronautics and
Space Administration’s Goddard
Space Flight Center, Greenbelt,
Md., awarded a $107,000 letter con
tract to the General Electric Co.
Space Technology Center, Valley
Forge, Pa., to manage sub-system
integration, test and installation at
the Alaskan station.
The agency’s Nimbus weather
satellite ground station equipment
is to be located at NASA’s 85-foot
dish tracking station at Fairbanks,
the first station in the proposed
Nimbus network.
A second station is to be install
ed in Nova Scotia next year.
Nimbus satellites will be con
siderably more useful as weather
aids than the current Tiros satel
lites because, constantly oriented
toward the earth, they will pro
vide continuous cloud cover in
formation.
Cameras aboard Tiros satellites
are turned away from the earth
during large portions of their
orbits.
SAN FRANCISCO UP> — Lt.
Charlene Suneson, the first Wave
to serve as a line officer in the
history of the U.S. Navy, has com
pleted her year’s service aboard
the transport Gen. Mann and has
been re-assigned to a job ashore,
a Navy spokesman said Monday.
“Although Miss Suneson per
formed very well,” the spokesman
said, “there are no further plans
to give sea duty to Wave officers.”
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Five Men Die
In Plane Crash
Near Barter Island
FAIRBANKS UP) — Five men
were killed and one seriously in
jured in the crash of a Wien Alaska
Airlines plane Monday night near
Barter Island.
Company headquarters here, re
porting the crash Tuesday, said the
dead included three Air Force of
ficers, a civilian and the pilot.
The lone survivor was a civilian.
The twin-engine plane, under
contract to Federal Electric Corp.,
was on a fi ght in connection with
DEW Line operations.
Federal Electric maintains the
Distant Early Warning radar line
in the far north.
In Anchorage, the Air Force
identified the dead civilian as Wil
son M. Sibley, Portsmouth, Va.,
and the survivor as Edwin R. Rich,
Granite City, 111. Both are em
ployes of Federal Electric.
The airline said the pilot was
A. H. (Tommy) Thompson, 48,
whose wife and two children are
living in Yakima, Wn. A son,
Robert, attends the University of
Alaska. Names of the Air Force
officers were withheld for notifi
cation of relatives.
A. E. Hagberg, Wien vice presi
dent, said the plane crashed at
11:26 p.m. three miles east of the
Barter Island airport near the end
of a 300-mile flight from Cape
Perry, in the Northwest Terri
tories of Canada.
Wreckage of the plane was
sighted from the air at 5:50 a.m.
A ground party reached the scene
a short time later, finding five
bodies and the one survivor.
Hagberg said the cause of the
crash was not known. The plane
went down on fairly flat terrain.
Visibility was one mile and the
ceiling 600 feet.
The temperature was about 22
degrees below zero at the island.
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Congress Senators Propose
Centennial Commission
WASHINGTON UP> — A Centen
nial Commission to plan the 1967
observance of the anniversary of
the purchase of Alaska would be
established under a bill intro
duced in Congress by the state’s
senators.
Sens. Ernest Gruening and E. L.
Bartlett offered the bill Monday.
It is designated “S49,” a number
reserved by Gruening to note the
fact that Alaska is the 49th State.
The bill would provide for the
President to name a three-member
commission to work with the state
and plan federal participation in
the observance.
The commission would report to
the President and Congress by
March 30, 1964.
Alaska was bought from Russ:a
in March, 1867, for $7.2 million.
Gary Powers Granted Divorce
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. ffl —
Francis Gary Powers, former U 2
pilot who served a prison term in
the Soviet Union, was granted a
divorce today.
A Superior Court jury granted
Barbara Powers alimony of $5,000. !
The jury deliberated about half
an Lour.
Powers charged his wife with
habitual intoxication and cruelty.
Mrs. Powers filed a counter-suit
and told the jury that her husband
was “not the same” since his re
turn from a Soviet prison.
Proud Grandparents
Mr. and Mrs. Gus Bjornstad are
the proud grandparents of a girl
born to their daughter, Margaret
Ellis and the late Dr. Robert Ellis
of Phoenix, Ariz. Mrs. Ellis now
has three daughters.
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