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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 22, 1952)
MOMMY. SEPT. 22, 1052 HKRAI.D AND NKWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OKKdON PAGE SEVKN United States Builds Air Defense Bases One Hour From North Pole rtv I I TOS '. I AV and tha nw svava of nin limn a WAHIilNOTON laV-Wlmt Ik I he t'lnpeiatiira fane, of Blariaih mil- Anile III'.'. wlir-ia 1 1 if IJnHrcl Wale. Hunt nl yrais nlri ami airdrome lias rhnarn lo build urrnt Mr biir.cn runways In wlili li the tonrreia 1 lor Hi pprinirtrr ilrirnr.f Ijmrly harilrnrd. Nnw Hint llif HIT villi lilt )' H I" a Ue hnr plunrn dike lislitfia mill Unlric bmnlirn nil (mm lh ntur mid liuny air liavo lonir. M lv r.t i n nn iiiimurx l''' ai 'llnHa lo wing northward nl Ilia "Id. (' liu net tng far Nnrlh l Hie Pole In frw linur:i llylng . I Hit. And ll la plera where lust e(ios a Ixv limn 1 1 m air h r lne.1 Odaq, lli Ktklinn who wrnl Hh ri-.iry to Hie north pule in JtlllW. Newsmen who vlkllfd "Ihule re lenlly, Inrludiiig Una irpoilrr, went to tall on Ijiliiq at Inn house ,n Hit IHtln K.kiiiin village, lie rame out In Kieet, tlirtu. 11 vriy old man, waring v. lino polar bnir paiiin. (in Inn aliirl was Urn IJiuiimi uovrrnineni's lerorsilnn lemiivu- irnt In Ilia U. H. Dihllngulhhfd Kerv- liii Mrdali lor bring with tha llr.'.t man la reach Ihe ilr. While a Jrt plane warmed up In rrraining errkcrndn ai-rov the bay, llai remeinhrird some ol lh Ihinga about Hie lamous nrsi tup 43 frj ago. Did he see muii same while mi No Disorder At Douglas Kl. HKdUNOO, Calif, il tin medial leaia nl disorder l Ihe aliuik plant ol Ilia Umiglan Air ciall Co., lall'd In mnleilie Monday an aleelhelmeted sheriff fleimlU-K and police watched the Irn.-e alliiatliui. I A group calling ll:.elf Hie Coin iiillife lor Union Democracy and i Uiininj l.Mio in' mbers had an nounced Ihera would ha a bark- In nrk movement, About 17 sherill s deputies, police and plant guard nl it pi .i were on hand. M the resulnr time nr Hip duv r.llilt lo irpnrl, KKI rain went llirnllgll Ihe inaln gale ol Hie plant where Ifi.onil normally are em ploved. (illiirdn l.ald I III-" was lew more Ihnn had hern going ilnnush on previous days o Hip strike. Approximately Urn plrketa yelled ".cub" and panned union iilera lure lo tha car as Ihey went through. A rommlliee apokeainan who de clined ure nt hin name aaylng he leared retaliation bv union nllicmla, iharsrd flov Mow. president ol th AFI. InlPiliattnnal Aiaociallon nl Marhinints Lodge 120 at the planl. had shown bud lallh. -Illow hail rppeaiedly ataled he would recess the air Ike II any re sponsible government agency would intervene," mild the apokea inan In a atntemenl. "I telephoned Dan Kimball, aec. lelary of the Navy, Haturday. He rmphallcally Mated that our Bky raldera and other inodela ailll eo iei, were vitally needed tor Ihe - hnya lighting In Korea and lor our national defense." The I AM la asking wage booM.i of 14 renta on hour. Hourly wagea at Iickheed helnre Ihe atnke tanged Irnm II. 15 to U i'i an hour. At Douglas the range waa 11.31 lo 1 64. and apnke. "Abio polar bear tracks, but no polar beaia." When did he ae near Adm. Robert K. Peary lail? (idaq niiililni put Ihe an. war In daiea. He thought. He pointed to ihe noiih and apoke (tha polei; to the norlhwe-t, iBiah, where Peary leli: to the south (where Peary went I, 'I ne Interview was over. Oriaq hook hmids gravely with hla vim- ti e long Irek from Ihe F. klmo delating. Death Claims Columbus Akin l.AKKVIF.W Coluinbii! n. Akin, W2, lorineiiy of l.aketiew. died Frl ilhy. Kept. IZ, near Bleber, Cal'l. lie hnd been a resident of Bleber Ihe pa t live years. llisveilde aervlcrs were held at 2 p. in, Monday, Sept. 16, at Sunset Turk Cemetery, l.akevlew, with the rtev. Carlton M. Babbidie of- lors. lie turned and made his way. nacic into ine nounr wnnn ne nve.s alone. And the Jet fighter whistled down the runwsy and ln(o the sir lo cover. In the apace of an hour, the miles It had taken Odaq week lo trudge behind a dog sled so very long ago. And what did the airman In the )et plane nee an he climbed above the aluminum building and great runways and radio towers of the military city In the Arctic? For a moment he mum have sighted below from the Eskimo vil lage with Its aled doga roanrnif among the sod houses and liie skin hunting boats upturned on racks. 'then he waa out over the Arctic a 'i Odaq had seen It with Pesry, as II existed then, a thousand, ten thousand, a million years ago. The military builders had made only a tiny dot of atomic age civiliza tion, lost In the vastneas. For a little way (here may have. been overcast tnd the land beneath was the cold white of snow and dull grey of rocks and mountains. But then followed sun snd a brilliant blue Arctic sky and olf lo the aide Ihe coast of Greenland and Ihe blinding white of the ice cap reach ing to we horizon and Deyond. Below were the canyon. like fjordi In deep blue and purple ahariow, penetrating to the edge of the Ice camp, down under Ihe wing, n bay where Icebergs are spawning from the edge of a glacier lo float, while and emerald green, on the grey Arctic water. Now a strslt Is underneath . . . open water for a little wny . , . then floating Ice like greet plates snd sauceis . . . here the edge of the solid Ice field, lis surface laced with the black "leads" of open water where there ire cracks or eerrated by the wandering lines of tlie pressure ridges. It Is fantsstlc, magnificent scen ery. And It a lo Is dangerous to the airman, this arctic. The cliffs thst gleam In reflec tion In the mirror Ire as the sun ehines on them are also there when sudden, fierce Arctic storms close down. The filer lives becaues he has radar to see for him In the murk. Instruments to tell him his location, an engine to pull him up rapidly to safety above the peaks and glaciers. If the engine falters and quits or the home field Is smothered by blinding inn or storm, he can't lly on a dozen or so miles to the next town's airport, like he does In Ihe United States. His alternate Held may be 600, 700, 800 miles away. He can try to reach It. If he can't he looks for a reasonably smooth place on the ice field or the Ire cap to come down and land, wheels up, skidding klrcs on the belly of the plane to a stop. He hss the clothing, the emergency "survival equipment" to live until search planes find him and rescue comes. His chances now art good. village of F.iah. In t noiih of Thule to the pole? 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