THE GHOST TOWN GAZETTE
CHITINa# ALASKA.# * yi\E 10, 1957
HDITOK: Jo Wilson
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June 8, 1957: FLaSHl —-AlKLUTiSK MAKES FIRST LANDING AT CHITINAJ
A grand event tool: place at Chitin&’s new airport today when
Cordova airline’s DC-5 made the first landing. Everything went
just fine :mu the pilot, Or ah an Mower, was hoard to ror.ark thi3
was 11 thio best strip he had over lanced on*'. He said this in face
of the fact that he has landed on r.iany airports (3uch a3 Anchorage
Lir.ni anc New York). tdilch goes to show these other places cant
have everything.
According to Dale Hales, Superintendant of Con3truet.ion, final
inspection of the airport will take place in the near future.
As soon as the final approval is naae, Chit inn will have sclredul^d
Airline service.
The Oaaetto applauds the Construction 0rev/ anu the Territorial
Engineers for their tireless efforts in bringing this important
job to coupletion.
The people of Chitina ana vicinity fully appreciatd the fact
that th!s beautiful 3800 foot airstrip costing something like
#150,000 is about the biggest airfield in the world in propor
tion to the number of people in tho near vicinity. We repeat,
the engineers and Construction men know their stuff, Tex 0rm3
may be a bit difficult to approach for awhile ---
From latest reports we think ’-»es Kennedy will have his very mo
dern anu beautiful hotel ana eating place, known ad the '’Coho
Inn”, in business pretty soon.
It*s time to get ycur gear together ana go fi3hin, folks! Due
to the exceptionally warn weather we have hah this year, TJBaY
LaIGoS and HANaGITa LaKE anu other good fishing spots in this
area have become free of ice ana the fishing is always good in
these nearly untouched lakes. TEBaY L.Jvdo abound with rainbow
trout ana there is more than enough room for everybody who night
like to fish there. K^UGITa L/JCo is full of very large grey
ling anu lake trout with occasional giant rainbow trout thrown in*
It is very easy to go fishing from Chitina. Jack wilsen is
ready with a floatplane to take people wherever they went to go
for a way, a weekend or a iionth. In the case of TYDaY and HAN#
AGITh lakes, a short flight of twenty minutes gets you up there
fron Ghitina. You can fish us long us you like, then the plane
takes you back. Housekeeping cabins are available along with
boats and outboard motors at reasonable rates. For people who
do not wish to do their own cooking, we will uo it for you at
the TdBiiY camp upon prior arrangement and when the party con
sists of four or more people.
Remonber, no one ever went hone 51 skunked "fre® T„3nY--everyone
catches nice rainbow trout there, r.nci lots of then.
It’s nice to see our two £ els, drily -:n«. dvelyn Pirrnesmd back
in town after spending the v;inter ’t schc>1 in Cornova. That
explains the surplus of fellov:s rujhin;_ down to visit Roll lately,
It y^cf^nocessary to hand pick and haul the rocks' and bouluers
c>T iyer''finches diaweter fron the new airfield. Faddy kin^,
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