Post completes perilous North Pacific flight to Alaska
Reporter details pilot Post finishing a 22 hour 32 minute flight from Bhabaraysk to Alaska. He landed on the Iditarod river near Fairbanks after sighting land and contending with heavy clouds and cross winds. Post praised by Anchorage officials for his landing, spoke of exhaustion and isolation during the flight.
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Post
From
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Gatty
Fairbanks
Ruby
Tanana
Alaska
Iditarod River
Nome
Anchorage
Harry Blunt
Bert
Bering Sea
Bern
Wero
Keupme
Muska
Post Still Expected to Break Record
NEW YORK July 2 Wiley Post has until Sunday to break the existing round the world record with Harold Gatty as co pilot. Post plans takeoff from Floyd Bennett Field Brooklyn in the early hours with a 16 90 mile route and forecasts a 3800 mile flight within about 60 hours, aiming to beat the current mark.
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Post
New York
Wiley Post
Blanchard
Harold Gatly
Bolbee
Rey Weenlative
Enid
bin Smek
Floyd Rennet
Trenholm
Hat Post
Pip
Flights Compare Wiley Post Gatty Globe Dash and Solo Attempt
A detailed time log traces Wiley Post and Harold Gatty’s 1931 globe girdling voyage versus Post’s solo attempt. It lists leg times from New York to Berlin to Koenigsberg and on through Moscow, Novosibirsk, Irkutsk, Alaska, and back to New York, noting elapsed times up to 146 hours and 20 minutes in the Post-Gatty run and stages of the current solo flight. It also reports a separate note on Roman gold coins unearthed at Kustendil Bulgaria, dated July.
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Wiley Post
Harold Gatty
POST
Novosibirsk
Irkutsk
Amved Rukhlovo
Kustendil
Bulgaria
Constantine the Great
Farmer Makes Livestock Pay Midland July 21
Midland farmer Albert Stewart analyzed profits from feeding 123 heifer calves on home grown seeds and cotton seed meal. Calves netted about 17 per head above feeding costs and weighed 833 pounds at purchase in December, 645 pounds at sale after six months. Calves topped the day’s market on every shipment.
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Midland
Texas
Albert Stewart
Stewart
Lions at McAllen Install Officers for Coming Term
McALLEN July 21 New BC Allen Lions club officials installed for the forthcoming term are J Wesley Taylor president Joe J Raidt Dr FG Blirst Howard Fawlker vice presidents G E Stokley secretary E L Caset Lion tamer Maynard Kreidler and Dr W E Whigham retiring president Jimmy Hester and W Nolen directors Also Stewart fed 50 hogs and plans 40 head of 2 year old steers on his farm using Maize and Kegira seeds.
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McAllen
New BC
Allen Lions Club
J. Wesley Taylor
Joe J. Raidt
F. G
Howard Fawlker
G. E. Stokley
E. £. Caset
Maynard Kreidler
W. E. Whigham
Jimmy Hester
W. F. Nolen
Stewart
Fire School to Train Fire Officials at A and M College
About 400 fire fighting officials and firemen from roughly 175 Texas cities are expected to attend the fourth annual training school at Texas A and M College for four days. The event is organized by the college chemistry department with the State Firemen's and Vice Marshals' Association of Texas. The program will run three concurrent sections: a general fire department course, a masters' section, and a first aid segment.
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College Station
Texas
Texas A. and
M. College
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
State Firemen's and Vice Marshals’ Association ‘of Texas
H. R. Brayton
Narning
General Fire Department
A and M to Open 2nd Summer Term
The second term of the annual summer session at Texas A and M college will begin Monday July 17 with registration for new and returning students. Dean O H Winkler announces 46 courses across 18 departments. All undergraduate courses will be open to men and women.
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College Station
Texas A. and
M. College
0. H. Winkler
School of Vocational Teaching
Outlook 600 in West Texas drought amid cotton outlook
West Texas faces a drought similar to 1917 and 1915 with moisture shortages in Northwest Texas. R E Dicks, superintendent of the state experiment sub-station, backs a better than normal cotton season despite surface moisture shortage. A H Conner, director of the experiment station, notes region may fare well.
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Texas
R. E. Dicks
Dickson
D’ Son
A. H. Conner
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