European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 14, 1963, Darmstadt, Hesse Of Hiway Jun 14, 1963 the stars and stripes Pool. Project completed after Only Fly years Mercury base for advanced space flight Cape canaveral Fla. A in Flea Yean. Project Mercury developed a fund base for future venture into space by american program required Only three Yean to perfect the rockets the spacecraft the tracking communications and recovery forces an the men to do the Job. Then in two action packed years the United states sent six Pioneer pilots into space and returned the safely to Earth. The flight ranged from the 15-Mtnute suborbital trips of Alan Shepard and Virgil Grossom to Las month s 22-orbit, 34-hour Mission by Gordon Washington James e. Webb administrator of the National aeronautics and space administration Nas announced that there will be no additional Mer Mati � drown replace cry of Mush on alaskan mall route Era of Tough sledding ends for . Post office Fairbanks. Alaska a a colourful Era for the . Malta that of the dogsled will end officially Thea week with fanfare. Actually Chester Noongwook made nil last dogsled run in Jan nary when an air plane took Over his route on Remote at Lawrence Island in Alaska s Bering postal old timers decided that there should be More to it than that at the dogsled takes its place to postal history along with the colonial Post rider the Overland mall and the Pony ceremonies were arranged when it became known that As tit Aat postmaster Genera William j. Martgan would be making visit to Fairbanks. Noongwook will be on hand to receive a certificate commending him for exceptional services i carrying the United states malls under difficult conditions in the Lett traditions of the american postal Rutlan will Tell Noong Wook that both he and his dogs will on a standby basis so that the mails will go through As always i for any reason the planes should i is Only 97. But his route is an old one. It has Bee handed Down for generations. Noongwook s own Hustles won to on hand for the fal Banka Cere Monlea but Alaska postal official arranged to have a similar team j present the last of the dogsled mall carriers used 10 or 12 dogs Over his100-mile route from november through May. The rest of the year used boat the dog route followed the North am coastline of by Lawrence is land Between Gambell and Sav Wodonga. The boat route went do Kentucky wreck kills 39 hurts 3 Monroe by. Up three tons were killed and three others injured in a head on collision on Kentucky Highway 881 state police identified the dead Ned Asberry Monroe one of the Drivers and two teen age girl who War Paau Ngen in the Sec Ond car Mantle Lawson 15, can Mer and Judy Tabb 19. Magnolia. Roger at Wall. Is Hardy Lue Driver of the Auto the girls Ware in. We injured critically. Also listed a critical a Melvln Jones 16, Rard Yville a passenger in at Wall s car. Benny Baitcher 19, Hardy Lue passenger in babe rays Auto was injured and lifted in fair condition. Restly Over open sea Between the two Points. Noongwook received about 940for nil weekly trip. The growth in air transportation spelled the end of mall delivery by dogsled in Remote areas of the nation s newest state. Dogsled routes were numerous at the Clos of the last Century and Well into the 1020 s and beyond in som areas. To take note of the Fairbanks ceremonies the Post Ottyce depart ment delved into history and came up with some of those historical titbits it was commonplace in the old Days for the sledges to carry 700 pounds of malt sometimes two sledges were coupled together with As Many a 25 dogs used. A typical d orb let route was Over the Bleak and hazardous Trail Between Kotzebue and Barrow 650miles, where temperatures often reached 60 below Zero. North of the Arctic Circle malls often were carried All year round Over ice. As late As the Imo i about 75per cent of the offices in the Ainsko Interior not nerved by rail Road Hud to be served by Man and dog. The official passing of the dog sled will mean some revision in the speeches of to Atnel Long pointed to he dogsled of a Symbol of postal versatility. Chaplain has soundest body too it. Leavenworth Kan Impi an army chaplain beat the fighting men in the army s physical combat proficiency tests con ducted chaplain capt Wayne g. Shelton. 34, scored 496 out of Apo lbs 500 pal no in the five event test administered to 1,000enlisted men and officers. For a perfect score a Man leu than 40 years old must Complete a 40-Yard Low crawl in 23 seconds tally 76 rungs on a horizontal ladder in 60 seconds score 36 Points to the grenade throw com plete the Dodge run and jump test in 22 seconds and run a mile in Leas than 6 minutes 2 seconds. Shelton assistant protestant chaplain Here Tost two Points on the mile run. The tests were conducted Over the past few weeks and the re sults just made available. A native of it. Airy n.c., Shel ton graduated from Duke univer sity in 1954. Sentence upheld for my. Minister Over draft snub Alexandria a
