The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-06-26
MERCY FLIGHT ACCREDITE ED IN ALASKA ANNALS
Pilot Kirkpatrick M a k e $ Fast Trip South with
 Baby from Cordova

George Wray, Jr., eight months old Alaskan who flew from Cordova to Seattle last week to have an open safety pin removed from his stomach by special instruments not available in the Territory, was the only member of the party aboard the plane making the emergency flight who enjoyed the trip, accord ing to NJ D. Kirkpatrick, Manager of the Cordoya Air Service, who piloted the C3rdova plane.
 T didn't enjoy it" said Kirk patrick Mrs. Wray certainly didn't enjoy it and I know my mechanic didn't enjoy it, but Baoy George seemed to have a fine time. He looked out of the window most of the time when he wasn't sleeping in a special bed VIC had made for him in the cabin of the Bellanca. :" "
 Flies From Seattle
 Kirkpatrick was interviewed at the Gastineau Hotel last night, less than twelve hours after he took his plane off the waters of Lake Union in Seattle. He left Seattle at 10 o'clock yesterday morning and af- ter stopping at Alert Bay, B o., and Ketchikan to service his plane, he arrived in Juneau at o'clock last night. He had intended to fly the entire distance from Seattle to Cordova yesterday but was held in Juneau by adverse weather condl- tions. He left Juneau this morning at 9 o'clock on the last leg of his flight and expected to reach Cor doya shortly after noon.
 The Ccrdova plane passed through Juneau at two o'clock last Friday afternoon on the way to Seattle. While the Bellanca was being serv- iced here, Kirkpatrick was rendered the services of the Gorst float in Lake Union, Seattle, by Vern Gorst. Kirkpatrick went on to Ketchikan that night and from Ketchikan to Seattle the following day, arriving at his destination about noon last Saturday
 Kirkpatrick said that when his plane reached the G3rsL fieas n Lake Union, crow ff including George Wra.. the blDy'J father newspaper repostoss, cr5- toms and immigration officials were assembled to welcome his party, aa the result of telegraphic story of the flight sent by The Empire. e,
 Ininediate1y upon his arriyalTi9 Seattle, little George was taken first to the Marine Hospital and later the same day to the Provi- dence Hospital where he was placed under the care of Dr. J. Webber. At noon last Monday Dr. Webber re- ported that the safety pin had been dislodged and removed by natural processes. George Jr. was still at the Providence hospital under cb- servation by Dr. Webber at the h our of Kirkpatricks denarturc yesterday morning.
 George Wray, one cnnA's father who is Chief Carpenter aboard the Coast Guard cutter Haida, is con- 7ttucting a frame for the safety pin which will be presented to Kirk patrick as souvenir of the flight Kirkpatrick says that Wray de- scribed the pin-with George IT, as the shipping container-as the smallest pay cargo ever carried on special flight of that distance. |"
 Kirkpatrick said that on the out bound trip the United States Weather Observer at Ketchikan, with the cooperation of Unite d States and Canadian Coast Guard and Customs authorities, gave him weather reports over the entire course from Ketchikan to Seattle and expedited customs clearance at Alert Bay
 Jerry Cochran, Kirkpatrick flight mechanic, who made the trir from Cordova, and R. F. Shearman mechanic from Seattle, are pas sengers aboard the Bellanca Pace maker cn the return journey.