Soldatna Plane Crashes;
Owners Salvaged Another
Plane Few Days Before
lwo boiuatna men, who last
week assisted in salvaging a
Cessna 170 which crashed last
Monday in Sports Lake (in the
Ridgeway area between Kenai
and Soldatna,) this week had to
salvage their own plane.
A Super Cub, owned jointly
by Burton Carver apd Dan France
and piloted by France, crashed
on takeoff last Wednesday at
about the 3800-ft, level on a
mountainside between Tustumena
and Skilak Lakes, approximately
20 miles south of Kenai.
France was the only occupant
of th£ plane at the time of the
crash. He was uninjured. The
plane, was carrying a load of goat
meat,,shot by Dr. Galvin M. Fair,
Soldatna dentist. Doctor Fair wds
on the ground waiting for the
plane to pick him up on a return
trip. .
The Super Cub, which landed
upside down, was Ideated by Civil
Air Patrol. It was spotted Thurs
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mester academic activities for
new and transfer students will
beginvon-Wednesday, Sept. 6, and
on Monday, Sept. 11, for return
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state»university’s registrar, Mrs.
Laurd Jones, announced today.
Mr* Jones announced the fol
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Sept.*5. 7
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day by Maj. James C. Hankinson
of Elmendorf while he was re
turning to Anchorage in a pri
vate plane.
Due to bad weather it was not
until Firiday that aid came to
France and Fair. The men had
spelled out the letters “OK” with
rocks on the mountainside for
the benefit of searching planes.
Burton Carver, one of the
plane’s co-owners, and Harry
Reger, Soldatna filling station
owner, went in Friday and had
just landed when an Air Force
H21 helicopter from Elmendorf
Air Force Base flew in for the
rescue. The helicopter was pilot
ed by Capt. W. H. Waters, of
the 5040th Air Transport Squad
ron.
The Super Cub, which was ex
tensively damaged, was hauled
Out by helicopter and is now in
the school bus garage at Sofdat
na near the Sky Bowl, which .s
owned by Canter.
Most of the goaf meat .was
saved, Carver said, and added
that the plane will he* repaired
and put back into service.
The Cessna 170 floatplane,
which Carver and France aided
in towing out Of Sports Take last
week, was piloted by Ray lewis.
Neither Lewis nor his tw'o daugh
ters, who were with Mm TEt the
time, were injured.
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FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT
RETURNS AND RETIRES
The Cheechako News’ first and
only “Foreign Correspondent”—
co-owner and sometimes manag
ing editor Dorothy Stewart—has
returned and retired. Looking fit
and tanned after a four week
business trip to the South 48,
Dorothy arrived home and turned
in her foreign correspondent cre
dentials with a sigh of relief and
applied to rejoin the local news
staff.
"It was 118 degrees in the
shade in Washington state,” said
Dorothy. And then smoothing her
new hair-do an<l adjusting her
Capri slacks, she summed up her
trip with . . . “The relatives are
all fine, and some things are
cheaper in the Lower 48. I’m
retiring as foreign correspondent
and am glad to get back to work
on the local staff. I would like
a job with a big title and very
little work.’’
The Cheechako News front of
fice manager is still looking for
such a job. In the meantime
Dorothy’s formal title is Foreign
Correspondent (retired.)
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