| CHIT IMA, ALASKA- BIG EDlTlQNM j - JANUARY. 17.1952 J
The first issue of this Alaskan newspaper was published January 18,1931.
5 ROUND TRIPS IN l DAY;USED TO SAKE
12 WEEKS to mate ONE ROUND TRIP !
After a delay of 2 days on acc’t of
bad wao,the^Pilot Deiterle ma ie three
round tri^s in One day last week in
to the Klutina Lake couhtryfwith the
Delate Cook partyrvnd a. part of their
supplies .Doing this as he did in a
little more than jr a day, illustrates
again the immense advantage of air
travel in Alaska.Many oldtimers tell
of'making “this'"same'trip "In’ th'e e'afl
ly days over Valdez Glacier.lt war.
an ordeal of indescribable hardship,
fraught with constant danger,and an
outfit of any size took from 2 days
to 6 weeks just to get infdepending
on the condition of the ice and wea
ther .Dieterlc uses the Meals Eagle
rock plane equipped with a Wright225
horse-power mctor.On the return of
the 3rd flight he encountered a hea
vy snowstorm & strong wind,which it
made necessary to circumnavigate 1he
storm area.Thereby losing valuble
flying time .He expects to resume the
freighting as soon as weather permits
as there is more than a ton of sup
plies besides 3 men and their person
al equipment.Deiterle reports 40
.•'-low zero at Klutina,but lie was fort
unate to be able to land only 300yds
. • '.from a cabin which the trappers Ufec
as . a temporary home. The*'Times.**
■ BIG CAUL CARLSON had decided to try
out-his new snow-Pbird on the worst
day of the seas on, s o' hi s chance •• came
the middle of the week when a big
s trong wind- blew- up" -in the n-ight.dr i -
fting the snow all oyer the trail.It
is very seldom there, is a wind in tie
winter here 'in Chitina,so he. got out
his car and started for Tonsina (15)
miles.- It worked fine, till he got n
bout _2 way there when ‘he broke an ax
1c and burned out a1 bearing. It prc*»
bably wouldn'tt' have happened as when
Art Laverty put ,it together he told
Carl that he hadrr*-t greased it, but
Carl had forgotten about it when he
took the Snowrbird out .He must have
gotten excited over the first tryout.
NOTICE - TftE CHI ? INA POVJER PLANT will
shut off the electric lights from 11
Affi-tp r3; PK every day from now until
spring.lt will lengthen out as the
days grow.longeriThis is for the ex
press purpose, of saving water £>r the
hydro; electric plant so that it will
not 'have to shut off all day later
__ on "in the" season.lt is stored here
in Trout Lake & reinforced from Lost
4 Lake up on the Mt.,& Lake -Chen^n out
the -Pairbah^c. Tra i 1.. There a* 3 dams,
LAST TRAIN UNTIL SPRING.The people
of Chitinn have smelt the fuel oil
of the Copper River & Northwestern
locomotives for the last time till
late in April,The last train left
‘Jan. 14, As they pulled out the en
gineer gave two goodhy'toots as he
drove out of the yards,and a fan
fare of*'toots as he whistled round
the curve.This is the first year
the R.R. has deliberately Closed
th-er I in o ' f or i he wi nt e r. Al the there
have ten many tie-ups in the past,
sometimes three months long,with
out ny intention.lt is a hard R .R •
to handle in winter.lt starts in a
mild,wet climate with deep snows &
lets of wind down by the Coast,and
after only about 70 miles is in a
region of snowsheds & gravel slides
after having run on track laid on
solid.ice or glacier for many mile
In the course of six hours it goes
from above zero mildness to some
times 6.0 and even 65 below zero eh
Chitinn,, and on up to Konnecott it
is as cold if not colder. We shai:
miss the train’s coming up twiceon
each week,but- we probably won’t set
it agin till spring,
#*• KENANA,A constituent complains
to the Relegate to Congress that on
3250 lbs of -groceries' amounting to
just $230. in Seattle,the cost of
freight was .or mere than halfl
The ^>**ow'-*biY'^5 A
Gl£CAM FIE'7 OVER TOW on his way
from Copper .Center to'Cordova Fn
His passenger was Mrs,Florence Ban
ncs.'Ve don’t knew if she is going
on Business or joy riding.Gillam
flew so high no one could hardly
see him But we all could hear his
powerful motor’s musicel roar. It
took only 58 minutes from Chitina
to Cordova, A- train takes more th
than half a day from here to Cord-*
ova.tt has to have a diner, it take?
till after lunch t.iaeW'-r is faster