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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-31


weather swirs in from the
plains to the northeast. If the
eastern route to Prince George
is socked in - the safe route
following the Alaska Highway
pilots often duck into the
trench for a sheltered flight
south.
There is only one spot they
have to watch out for. About 70
miles into the mouth Of the
trench a gap in the mountains
lets the weather burst through
like floodwater through a
cracked levee. The sudden gush
can catch an unwary pilot by
surprise.
That's what happened to
Ralph Flores.
In a matter of seconds, his
single engine airplane was a
heap Of brown and white wreck
age on brown and white hill
side and for the next 40 days
he and his passenger, Helen
Klaben were two more victims
Of the cold, cruel, Canadian
northwest.
Mr.. Flores is not a woods
man. Nor is Miss Klaben. Nei-
ther knew the well-known trick
Of sharing a plump rabbit with
a shoelace moose, or how to peel
off the edible inner bark of a
poplar tree or how to brew a
stew Of wild roots or make q
meal of caribou moss.
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rection Of the arrow and soon
spotted the girl, who was partly
obscured by the smoke Of her
campfire.
"At first I thought 1t was an
Indian" Mr.. Hamilton said. II
saw the fire, and what looked
like a tent and toboggan. I
knew there were some Indians
trapping in the area.
II waggled my wings at her,
then headed back down the
creek and spotted the other one.
He was waving, too. I circled
a couple of times, waggled my
wings at him. then left"
Mr.. Hamilton flew on to the
Davidson Ranch. dropped his
supplies and his passenger
and headed back to the SOS
for another look. This time,
when he circled the girl, she
tipped the "toboggan" and
Hamilton made out the por-
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Enough Fuel
For Six Hours

Mr.. Flores planned to follow
the highway to Fort st. John,
flying over Teslin, Watson
Lake, and Fort Nelson. The to-
tai distance is 756 miles and
MIR. Flores estimated it would
take him three and a half
hours. He had fuel for six hours.
A Canadian aviation official
studying the plan weeks later
shook his head and said:
His top speed was about $50
miles an hour under the best
Of conditions. I'm not going to
say at this time that the flight
plan was unrealistic, but figure
it out"
Mr.. Flores and Miss Klaben
climbed into the plane and
TAXED to the head of the north
south runway so they could
take off against an 8 to IL
mile per hour northwest wind.
1t was 20 below zero, q light
snow was falling and visibility
was 20 miles.
When the plane started
down the runway, Mr.. Taylor
and Lloyd Romfo. an expert
enced bush pilot, stepped out
side and watched until the
plane disappeared into the
clouds about a mile away. No
body at the airport had ad-
vised Mr.. Flores against the
flight. but Mr.. Romfo said later
"he was a fool to 60 in weather
like that"
Watson Lake is 228 miles east
and south Of Whitehorse on the
Yukon British Columbia border
The weather there was bad
all day February 4, and at its
worst between 3 and $3.50 pm.
about the time Ralph and
Helen were winging in.
At 2 pm. the visibility at
Watson Lake was down to IA
miles-a half mile less than
the minimum at which Canad-
ian regulations permit a plane
Of this type to take off. By
3 pm. it was even worse, and
Ralph was far off his course.
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Toothp0ste Was
Last Meal

When their food was gone -
they had four cans of sardines,
two cans Of tuna fish, two cans
of fruit cocktail and o few
crackers they ate their tooth
paste. When that was gone they
had nothing.
Yet they survived. Old timers
who have lived In the treach-
erous Yukon all their life still
are wondering how they did it.
Miss Klaben, 81, of Brooklyn,
N. Y, is q girl with a wander
lust. After leaving Brooklyn
College, where she studied en-
cheering she decided to set out
on a world tour.
Her first stop was Fairbanks,
Alaska, where she got a job as
a craftsman in the Bureau of
Land Management. After five
months she decided to go to
Hong Kong.
Mr.. Flores, AZ, is a profess
sional mechanic and an anna
teur pilot. He has six children.
Two years ago he heard how
a fellow could earn much bet
ter pay If he were willing to
sign up for an Is month
stretch at the remote Dewline.
the United States and Canada's
radar warning network in the
far north.
He signed on for $1,000 a
month with Federal Electric
Corp. one of the Dewline con-
tractors. and left San Bruno in
his 1943 model Howard air.
plane. a five scatter, with
an overhead wing and a $50
horsepower engine.
Mr.. Flores finished his 18-
month tour late last January.
and advertised on the radio for
a companion to share expenses
on his return flight to San
Francisco.
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like this and decided to wait
until the last possible moment
to switch to the third tank.
Just as he threw the switch
he glanced up from the gauge.
He saw the tree and at the
same instant felt it ripping
into the right wingtip. His wrist
watch, smashed In the crash,
read $3.50 pm.
Helen Klaben was the first
to regain consciousness. She
looked over at Mr.. Flores and
saw blood flowing in a torrent
from his face and mouth. Her
right foot ached. and her left
arm hung limp. She reached
over and pounded Mr.. Flores
on the back.
Ralph. Ralph, are you all
right?" she screamed.
Mr.. Flores began to stir. He
felt his jaw; it was smashed
badly on the right side. He
also knew Immediately some Of
his ribs were broken.
He unfastened his seat belt
and, tortured with pain,
climbed through the broken
windshield. Then he reached in
and helped Helen struggle out
the same way.
The wind was bowling
through 60-foot pine trees. It
was impossible to see more than
a few feet. The snow was waist
deep and 1t was bitter cold.
At 5 pm. the airport at Fort
st. John sent out q bulletin
saying Mr.. Flores had failed to
report. The Royal Canadian
Air Force i'm m ediately
launched q search. After four
weeks they called off the or
ganized search as hopeless, but
bush pilots continued to keep
an eye out for signs OF the
wreckage.
The camp Ralph and Helen
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ton Of an airplane, N-58S.

ton of an airplane, N-588.
That was when I realized
these might be the people who
went down In the Howard" he
said.
II circled her a couple OF
times, then circled the man,
then landed at Airplane Lake
where the trappers have q
cabin. I was hoping they would
be in it,"
They were - Charlie Porter
and Louis Boya. He told them
where the man was. and sent
them after him with their dog
sleds. Then Mr.. Hamilton
headed back to Watson Lake,
radioing his news to the air.
port as he flew.
On the ground, Helen wasn't
quite sure what to make Of It
When he came by the first
time, I wasn't sure he saw
me-" she said. Then when he
came back, I knew he saw me,
I Just knew 1t. But when he
flew away and It began to get
dark and he didn't come back,
I wasn't so sure"
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RESCUED GIRL
RETURNS TO
BROOKLYN

NEW YORK, (AP).-
Miss Helen Klaben, a.
year-old Brooklyn girl res
cued with q California
pilot seven weeks after q
plane crash in Canada, ar
rived at Idlewild Airport
Saturday with her brother,
Arthur.
The Klabens were aboard
Northwest Airlines flight
80. Arthur had flown to
Whitehorse, Yukon Terri
tory to join his sister for
the trip home.
Ralph Flores, the San
Bruno (Calif.) pilot res
cued with Miss Klaben. re-
manned in q Whitehorse
hospital.
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built alongside the crumpled
fuselage wasn't a bad one con-
sidering the materials they had
to work with.
The pulled the carpeting off
the foor Of the plane for
blankets, and ripped off the
roof insulation. They used the
motor tarp as a tent, and the
customs from the seats as beds.
Canadian law requires pilots
to carry certain survival gear
when flying over the northern
wilderness: five pounds Of con-
centrated food per person, cook
ing, utensils, matches, compass,
a 2a-pound axe with a 90
inch handle, tents, sleeping
bags, 30 feet Of snare wire and
at least two pairs of snow
shoes.
Mr.. Flores had none of these,
except matches.
They had crashed into an
area which once had been
burned by a foerst fire and
there were many long logs ly-
ing beneath the snow. He
poured oil on the logs and
burned them apart In ten foot
lengths for firewood.
He cut some small willow
branches with q hammer and
chisel and wove them into
crude snowshoes. He had O
five-inch knife which he tried
to throw at rabbits, but he
missed. He also tried to shoot
them with q slingshot made
from a piece Of inner tube
and to snare them with some
wire from the engine. But
nothing worked.
When their sparse food sup
ply ran out, they melted snow
in q tin can which had con-
tanned paint thinner.
Wed pretend the melted
snow was SOUP" Helen said.
"One day it would be tomato,
then beef, then all the other
varieties. You know" she said,
"if you think about 1t hard
enough, 1t soon begins to taste
like soup"
Helen's broken left arm be-
gan to mend between the
splints Ralph had put around
them. But her right foot, twist
ed in the crash, still ached.
At night, Ralph would dis
cuss his Mormon faith with
Helen. a Jew. He had q bible
with him. Helen said she read
1t cover to cover. She also read
some works of Robert w. Serv-
ice. the poet Of the Yukon, and
Thoreau's Walden, two books
among her own luggage.
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one. Helen had a small date
book, and each day she would
mark down what the weather
was like and whether they
heard any airplanes. Soon she
tired Of keeping the journal
and put 1t aside.
After four weeks and three
days in the crude mountain
camp, Ralph decided to scout
the area to find a place more
easily visible from the air. He
gathered a supply OF logs for
Helen, strapped on his make
shift snowshoes, and struck
out.
About two miles down the
mountainside he found a small
exposed knoll. When he got
there he heard the distant
drone Of an airplane, then
spied 1t, as he said. way down
on the other side of the noun
tain.
II said to myself, that's IT,
Now they think I'm not here
and they're looking in the high
mountains"
He started back I'D the
mountain to get Helen and
move their camp down to the
knoll. The trip down and back
took the weakened man a week.
When he returned, her supply
Of firewood was exhausted.
They piled their essential be-
longings on a piece Of metal
by the side Of the plane and
used 1t as a sled. The trip was
agonizingly slow. Helen's toes
plainly were frostbitten, and
the tips Of Ralph's fingers also
were beginning to turn black.
The color. however, was badly
noticeable to them, their faces
and hands by now were black
from SCOT and smoke.
After setting up the new
camp. Ralph, figuring correctly
that the air search had ceased
set out again to look for help
He thought he might even fine
the highway II he got to the
base Of the slope.
Three miles down, he came
to a wide opening in the trees
a slough about one-eighth o.
a mile long and 200 yards wide
1t was about sunset, and i'm.
mediately he began tramping q
large SOS in the snow, and q
direction arrow pointing to the
camp on the knoll.
At one END Of the slough
was a creek. He began follow.
ing IL, not knowing 1t led Il
Airplane Lake, q landmark fol
pilots and a favorite spot fol
trappers from the nearby In.
dian community of Lower Post.
The next day. Sunday March
"a, Bush pilot Chuck Hamil.
ton Of Watson Lake, was fly.
ing a load of groceries and 9
passenger, Indian huntinl
guide Jack George, to SCOOP
Davidson's ranch at the be-
ginning Of the Rocky Noun,
tain trench.
He glanced out Of the cock
pit, looked closer, then aske,
George If he saw the sam
thing. They agreed, 1t locke,
like an SOS. Mr.. Hamilton
, banked the plane in the d
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Helen Cove Up
Keeping Journal

They gathered all their
clothing from the wreckage
and wrapped 1t around them
selves. Helen wore five pairs
Of WOODEN Stacks. There also
was q heavy gray blanket
aboard. In the darkness they
heard an occasional wildcat
scream.
During the day they would
listen for the airplanes. some
times catching q glimpse Of
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Flores If he were qualified to
fly on instruments.
mo" was the reply.
The fierce weather had eased
up somewhat Monday morning
but 1t still was far from favor
able for flying.
Arriving at the airport, Mr..
Flores paid his $3.50 hangar
fee for three days Of storage,
and gave Mr.. Hankins another
five dollars to thaw out the
engine with an electric heater.
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1963-05-03
The World Over

the stuaOn and by equitable reconciliation Of differences
"y the natural every human being the right
pct for his his good reputation the right to freedom
opinions and pursuit Of art and every human being has the
science and therefore the right worship God privately and pub
The segregaionss of the American south:
1T is not true that some human beings by nature superior
dignity Hence, racial discrimination
The John Society Daughters
Revolution:
poses problems dimensions
earnest wish that the United Nations Organization its
structure and in its become ever more equal to the
M And all who are concerned with social welfare:
the which necessary suitable for proper
veopment Of life These primarily food clothing shelter
IF Pe e wo i wowo h 5 right o S ss in
which deprived
sstence through no fault of his own"
for the above BY it, he has heart
% ~ h "en a% % OF s He o
and cooperation.
Wall Street know about
this development in American Jewish life
The demand for kosher foods the United
increasing steadily in years the after
products of than available including
fol-wrapped dinners of chicken beef turkey
separate sets of dishes cutlery kosher affairs
to Street providing comprehen-
developing Jews in are
eager reacquire traditional living
The return to Judaism then entirely superficial
expression of the need feel for meanngfu oberv
of us Today
practice it not out of inertia but out of understanding
in Judaism for future generations.
Locally the Jewish Community kitchen
and the Ramads Inn kosher dinners interested
consider using these facilities future occasions
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1963-05-03
ATime To Vote No
Vote "No !"

Vote mo" :,
That's what Phoenix citizens must do May Fl if the
city is to retain the new Housing Code passed ny e
City Council earlier this year.
It is necessary vote mo to keep the Code because
the question being asked is whether repeal OF the OoG
is favored An in the "Yes' box on the ballot Will
mean the vote will be counted in favor OF tne pro-
position and this would repeal. An IN the mo
box will have the opposite effect
Why vote to retain the Code? ,o7
Federal census takers in 1860 found tnaT i,ooI
houses in Phoenix without toilet or Datnlng
facilities Another 18, 119 dwellings were descrloeo as
being either "dilapidated" "deteroratlng
The purpose of the Code is to insure minimum stand
ards of health and safety for existing housing. .
Opponents of the Code argue that 1t is unconsttu-
tonal" When the argument was raised aga1nSt
he original code in 1860, it found wide support Inc
CITY Council needed this outcry and permted tne Oooe
to die This early In 1861.
Later that year. the incumbent mayor and council
men, running under the Charter Government banner
ran for reelection platform that calieo Tor re-
vised Housing Code. They were elected by margin
of 2h to 1. :, -.
work of committee of 20 persons representing all seq
ments of the community. The committee was extremey
careful to draw up code that would not infringe upon
citizens rights but would establish minimum stand
ards of health and safety for existing housing.
Now elements of the same group that was defeateo
in the 1861 municipal election have forced anotner
election. - 90 ooo -,
We submit that our readers will find 10000 gOod
reasons to support the Code by reeadng the NTH
paragraph above Living in these dwellings three years
ago were more than 63 900 residents of Phoenix For
more than two years the city operated without HouS-
ing Code and there is no to suppose that the
conditions that existed in 1860 have improved lndeed
there is reason to suspect that conditions have Worsened
Therefore, we recommend that readers support
the new Housing Code with mo" vote on May Il.
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1963-05-03
The Center Needs You

Nothing endures without the support of the people
That includes the Phoenix Jewish Community Center
In the of the Center the tap roots OF that sup
port are strengthened through memberships. Without
new and continuing memberships, the Center could
Wither.
year ago. when the drive for members began,
A. Alexander Katz chairman of the Center Member
ship Committee, summed it up like this
"With the launching of the new Phoenix jewish
Community Center Membership Drive want to con-
vey to all members of the Community how vital and
significant it is that they respond promptly and in such
numbers it will be testimony to their support OF thls
milestone in the cty's history.
physically, the Center will be civic monument
in which every citizen Jew Gentle, will take Justl-
fable pride
However we are not seeking to create monuments,
but rather living, vibrant institution The facltles
planned will enable the programming of the widest
physical and social development OF our children TREND
ship and companionship for all ages Their footsteps
and voices resoundng through it's halls will be the true
measure of our success
"Sde by side with the Synagogue and Temple, it will
be in the forefront of those Jewish institutions which
preserve that most precious heritage our Jewish soil
darity.
"The eyes of the whole city will be upon The
decision to build Center is a commitment which
involves each and every of us. We have set our
sights high
"Just new member brought in by each of the
present members will put over the top.
The Center is not monument, but rather
living, vibrant institution"
Visit there any morning when the preSchOo children
begin arriving and watch throughout the day boys
and girls and and women of all ages push through
the doors to give the Center the living, breathing
citing atmosphere intended to be there Then imagine
the Railways empty, still. Could this happen?
There is way to keep the Center forever vibrant.
If you not member, BECOME member. If
you member, get someone else to BECOME
member
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1963-05-03
Al4efe1

II believe in the sun even when
it is not shining. believe in love
even when not feeling it. l believe
in God even when he is silent" /"
This was inscribed 20 ye a S
ago in a cellar in Cologne where
Jews hid from the Nazis. T h e
superhuman faith and hope of
these courageous souls and those
behind the walls of the Warsaw
Ghetto who so valiantly fought the
Nazi ruthlessness should never be
forgotten.
President Kennedy proclaimed
the 20th anniversary of the War
saw Ghetto uprising last week and
here in Phoenix, at the Jewish
Community Center, it was mark
ed by an impressive service at
tended by a large segment of our
Community. There were m n y
missing from our younger popula-
ton who need to be a part of this
memorial so that they will better
understand their own identity.
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1963-05-03

person who loves our Jewish
Community and gives of himself
wherever there is a need.
And for all our wonderful wo-
men who have taken of
flee in the many areas of volun.
teer service in our Jewish Com.
munity.
AS a former fastener,
sometimes feel like Marco Polo
when 1 meet people from other
sections of the country and re-
ceive new and interesting ways
of cooking and doing. A pOpu-
lar cake from Mid-western
baIabustas is the "Bund Cake"
This is a delicious Old-fashiOned
coffee cake made in a cast iron
fluted cake mold called "bund
pam" This may be purchased
here in the Valley. A recipe
comes with the pan but here is
a simple recipe made in this
pan that / know you will enjoy:
BUND CAKE
Use any cake mix (preferably
Betty Crocker Lemon Velvet !
pkg. lemon instant pudding, A
eggs separated, 1 cup cold water
and Y cup oil. Beat these ingred-
tents: 4 egg yolks, lemon m i x,
cake mix, water and oil and then
add stiffly b t e egg whites.
Grease bund pan and add the
mixture. Bake for As minutes at
$50 degrees. Let cool for y mr.;
turn over and cool.
Phoenix Notes: The S h n
Hadassah meeting was an en-
chanting afternoon due to the in
spirational talk by Mrs. Sam
(Rose) Landy, attorney and for
mer prominent Philadelphia,
and the sensitive piano rendition
of concert pianist, Flora R a p
hael, a new resident. This w S
preceded by a birthday party for
Gertrude Silverman's 18th birth
day.
Cert Drey and 1 enjoyed the
Mexican Art Exhibit at the jew
ish Center but had great diff
Guilty in selecting three we liked
be st because there were so
many we wanted to choose.
DR.. Sam and Lii Wick are leav-
ing for Tokyo to attend j o n
meeting of the Japanese a n d
American Neurological and Psy-
chiatric Association. DR.. w k
will deliver a paper. They also
will be celebrating their 25th an
niversary. Best wishes.
The Dan Inselbergs have cele-
brated their 25th wedding ami
versary. Mrs. Zena Sobol d
Mr.. and Mrs. Isidor Lesensky are
making plans to visit Israel this
summer. Mrs. Stan Lederman en-
ioyed a visit with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Jake Singer from L o S
Angeles. Mr.. Singer is an author
and lecturer at the Jewish Insti-
tute and the University of Juda-
ism. The publication of his third
book is now in progress and will
be published in Israel.
Shalom,
Lillian Feiler
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1963-05-03

towns and villages side by side
with ruins dating back to Greek,
r o m a n, Byzantine, Crusader,
Turkish, and British periods Of
domination over a land that could
only bloom even as it does now
when in the hands of its loving
owners, the children of Israel.
AND THEN the beautiful Lake
Kinnereth, so named because its
shape resembles the form of a
violin.
We stayed in lovely Haifa, the
triple city on Mt. Carmel, like a
miniature San Francisco overlook
ing its harbor, the biggest now in
the Middle East on the blue
(really blue) Mediterranean. And
now we are in Tel Aviv! Noisy,
sprawling Tel Aviv with its miles
and miles of streets thickly stud
ded with squat dingy-looking cub
ist shaped apartment houses; its
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1963-05-03

Rep. William E. Miller, chair
man of the Republican National
Committee, has issued the follow
ing statement:
"The union between Egypt. Syria
and Iraq under the leadership OF
President Nasser should be the oc-
casion for a critical new look at
the US. foreign aid program in the
Near East
President Eisenhower recently
called for a careful analysis of all
our foreign aid programs. A real
istic appraisal of our many for
eign aid ALLEGATIONS will undoubted-
ly lead to the saving of millions Of
dollars for our hard-pressed tax
payers.
"In our national interest we have
been trying to stabilize the econo-
mics of nations whose impover-
ished masses furnish a fertile field
for Communist penetration and ex-
ploitation. We have the second mo-
tive of humanitarianism.
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1963-05-03
Peter Davidsons Write From Israel

raucous, jockeying taXis and buses,
and endless crowds on sidewalks
lined with hundreds and hundreds
of little shops and open-door cafes,
where patrons sit at little tables
that somehow don't have the
charm one associates with such
things because they don't seem to
belong to the high-pitched tempo
of what, for all the world, looks
like Flatbush on the Mediterran-
can!
Every spare moment we have,
we sit on our private little bal
cony overlooking the water, watch
ing this ancient seat of civilization.
History, going back to hoary an
tiquity, begins to simmer before
our mesmerized eyes as we stare
into its rythmically moving lu e
surface.
Peter and Helen Davidson