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Show Kiiiuv Funds - WASHINGTON ,ITI Rep Gunn McKay chairman of the House - appropriations military construction subcommittee, ha: refused to okay a presidential request for $10 9 million in emergency funds to implement portions of the Panama Canal treaties I'tah Democrat, whose signature needed is for such funds. Thursday called the re- quest "an afront to riddled with inconsistences " Among Congress the BOB REEVE, the president and founder of Reeve Aleutian Airways, admits to being a bit greedy as far as luck goes. During his Alaska bush pilot career he survived 21 forced Airline President Experienced Lots of Luck Flying in Alaska - ANCHORAGE, Alaska (UPI) Sometimes the price of success in Alaska is high. Bob Reeve's partial payment was a pair of frozen eyeballs. The president and founder of Reeve Aleutian Airways admits to being a bit greedy as far as luck goes. During his Alaska bush pilot career he 16 in one ancient, survived 21 forced landings Fairchild. 'I rebuilt the Fairchild 51 after ditching her in Valdez Bay and nearly drowning myself when the engine quit on me for the 16th time," Reeve said, "and then I got to thinking about it, and decided I'd run out of luck. So i just said the hell with it and walked away and left it. I guess parts of the old girl are still lying around Valdez." Reeve wears a patch over what's left of his left eye which he says was kicked out by a polo pony in Chile when he was flying the mail over the Andes in 1932, and he can't sit too long because of back injuries suffered in the only crash landing of his career a ditching in the surf off the Aleutians on July 5, 1943. which he, his copilot and four passengers escaped with no major injuries. Although his motto has always been "flying sure beats working," the Wisconsin-borairline executive says he never really enjoyed the scenic wonders of Alaska during those early, hazardous years of bush single-engin- e n flying. "I never did see much of the country," he explained with a sly smile. "I had my head stuck out of the cockpit most of the time looking for emergency landing spots," On one of those occasions in 1933 Reeve was flying into Chisana, Alaska, when his goggles fogged over just as he was landing. He tore them off his face and zero wind peered out of the cockpit into the and frosted both eyes. "I barely made it to the ground," he said. "The pain was pretty bad. I cradled my eyes in my warm hands to thaw them out, and after the pain subsided, I was able to see again without any problems." Reeve, who enLsted in the Army at 15 and served in World War I, started his as a machine-gunne- r Alaska flying career 46 years ago, made the first airplane landing on a glacier and is credited with having made more than 2,000 glacier landings when he was flying freight and passengers into the remote mining claims in the rugged interior of Alaska. "And most of those landings were free flight," Reeve added wryly. "I'd ferry the prospectors into their claims by landing them on the glaciers. There wa3 always a promise to pay me when they struck it rich. Few of them did, and the ones who made it sometimes had awful short memories about owing me money." inconsistences. McKay said, was that there was no stated purpose for reprogVaming requested funds and no justification or certification of an emergency 16 in one ancient, single-engin- e landings Fairchild. Reeve is pictured in his office, left, and dressed for a cold weather flight in 1930 s photo, right. (UPI Telephotol Reeve, who still keeps an active hand in the operations of the airline at his picture-cluttere- d downtown office in Anchorage, credits those glaciers with saving his lifp on numerous occasions. "Every glacier produces a sand bar at its base, a sort of alluvial fan," he explained, "and you'll rarely find a better emergency landing site. I know, I've used 'em dozens of times." day-toda- y Reeve was once asked whv he persisted in flying in the single-engin- e open cockpits during the 60 and 70 below zero Alaska weather. "When there are hungry kids at home and cash is being paid, you fly," Reeve said. Reeve is one of the few living aviators ever to have a high school named after him Bob Reeve High School on the Aleutian island of Adak. His love affair with the Aleutians began in World War II and ended in a shotgun marriage that produced Reeve Alputian Airways. The military wedding of Reeve and the most islands in the desolate, isolated, weather-befogge- d world took place in 1942 when he agreed to fly the chain in a single-engin- e Fairchild to supply the Army Signal Corps' new installations being built along the WASHINGTON I PI Levi Strauss wou.d like to build a factory in Russia so the Soviets can make 3 million jeans a year Ma Bell wants to take Big Brother up on a billion-dolla- r offer to modernize the Soviet phone system But those profitable undertakings along with at least 26 others worth a potential $iti billion and 775. iWO jobs, are jeopardized bv the V S insistence on linking trade policy with Soviet human rights policies, savs American industrialist C W Ventv Jr chairman of Armco Steel Corp of the I' S USSR Trade and As Economic Council. Verity told a Senate Banking Committee this week trade should be expanded with the Soviet Union or lucrative contracts will go to other Western nations that don't care as much about trvmg to influence Soviet policy through trade limita- llV PAYMfthKPM tnc into instability v,iW countno '.hi' two rrUti-mhi- He stated luMht-- that it questions of lehabiiiH o! ihe 1 r;ite,i States as raises a trading partner en! said later he was miptes-e- d with Brezhnev s desire to improve i elation with the I nited Slates his clear desire tor peace and his desire to mc lease trade with the I S Hut he made it clear we're becoming an unreliable trading partner Washington regulates exports it they have national security or political implications A law passed in prevents 1' S Export Import Bank credits for trade with Russia and requires presidential approval tor selling certain products to Communist countries As the Cold War eased, fewer and fewer products remained on that list. But as the result of the conviction ol Soviet human rights a c 1 v i s t Anatoly Shcharanskv controversv arose within Congiess and the administration over selling high technology energy products to Russia, although sale of drill bits finally was approved bv the president Verity bolstered his argument by recounting a conversation he had two weeks ago in Moscow with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev "During our conversation, he stated that the attempts of the United States to use trade as a lever for exercising political pressure on the U S S R, in P Big Losses Tired Of Being Framed? Caused by Bank Fraud look SALT LAKE CITY UPI Embezzlement and bank fraud is a much bigger crime problem than bank robberies, says The request last week the special agent in from the Department of charge of the FBI's Salt Defense, with an at- Lake City office. JackN. Egnor said that tached certification signed by President bank fraud and embezzleCarter, said the funds ment accounted for $47 were vital to the security million in losses last year of the United States, compared to $25 million lost through robberies. McKay said. For the duration of the war. Reeve did a modern day version of the old pony express, dodging weather, mountains and Japanese in his Fairchild. "There wasn't much danger in being shot down by the Japanese," he confided. "That Fairchild was too slow to be shot down." And why did he fly the most hazardous route in the Fairchild world for three years in that single-engiwithout radar or any of the other modern aids? navigat.onal and "Cape Horn was a summer breeze compared to flying the chain in those days," he said. "You flew visual most of the time, using the volcanoes for landmarks, looking for holes in the clouds and fog. You do a lot of things that maybe look foolish now, but there was a war to be won and kids to feed." The saucy, pert girl who shared in the production of the five Reeve children was christened Janice Morisette back in Wisconsin where she was born, but is known from one end of Alaska to the other as Tillie Reeve. She got the name when Reeve spotted her pounding a typewriter in Valdez and described her as "Tillie the Toiler" after a comic strip character. During the formative years of the airline, Tillie handled all the communications and did the dispatching until outside help was required. r In 1946, Reeve got a temporary certification for his 1,783 mile route that serves less than IHh Hl.HAl.li Piov.i bTt 1 troduces tions McKay accused the administration of trying "an end run" around Congress. "Before I put out any tax money, I want the taxpayers' representatives in Congress to tell me first whether they want it or not. Until then the answer is a flat 'no.'" chain. 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