Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-07-08 | Page 12 | S. L. -to-Alaska Air Trail Flown

S; L.-TO-ALASKA AIR TRAIL FLOVH A. W. 8tephenaon of Salt Lake City, vice president In charge of operations of National Parka Airways, Air-ways, Thursday was near tha end of a trail blazing flight Into tha far north. A Canadian air transport company com-pany ' plans, with Mr, Stephenson as a passenger, left Whitehorse, Yukon territory, late Wednesday for Dawson and was to return Thursday to Edmonton, Alts, starting start-ing point of the northern flight. The craft, piloted by Grant Me-Connachie, Me-Connachie, head of the Canadian firm, which holds a contract to fly mail and passengers between Edmonton Ed-monton and Whitehorse. had left Edmonton earlier in the week. The Edmonton-Whitehorse route will be the northern leg of a southern south-ern California-Yukon-Alaska air route, of which National Parks Airways Air-ways will be the link between Salt Lake City and the Montana-Canada boundary.