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FAIRBANKS DALLY NEWS: MINER - DATE i N 2 fs) 987 wire hop + + By JIM FAIN ’ 7 - WASHINGTON-—Flying saucers ge as pure a blessing as fresh air itd showflakes, but—in our chur- lsh way—we insist on thinking "re out to get us. record proves these celestial never harm a sbul, though & ang do themselves in by jthem tvo far, too high or too ~ fast. Saucers.are friendly, i uit tive, fun-loving. Only: pointy- bureaucrats call them UFOs. Wheh a Japanese cargo pilot Spotted a giant walnut of a saucer, ‘two times bigger than an aircraft ‘cartier,’ flying formation with him over the Arctic recently, he reacted with characteristic humanoid skit- tishness. He got FAA permission to take evasive maneuvers. Silly boy. Nobody evades a sauc- Tough airport marketing efforts By SUE CROSS Associated Press Writer JUNEAU—Alaska officials have been trumpeting stopover - businesss at the Anchorage and Baiehantba fminannéines!t m OTe Se er. To these fun- loving visitors from outer space, a plane’s darting away is an invitation to dance’. °3.. I’ve followed’saucers since their _ debut in 1947. In the late ’50s, as an Air Force reservist, Thad a desk in an intelligence sho next to the Pro- ject Blue Book officer who resear- ched: all saucer sightings.’ He found the anucers cuitotis ab ou everything on earth, es junk food. A gentleman in the Mid- west once came upon several herbed territorials picnicking by & saucer. He seht in a sample iene whit’, they had béen eating. Chemical © analysis showed it to be pancake Any student of psychogr a phics knows flapjack eaters are fiat back and mellow. If saucéricrews were mean-spirited ideologues like Pat- us will be hurt,” says Dale Fox, qrecter of the ae Visitors Association. Fox was in Juneau to- goluti day to ask state officials to boost in wintim en? their airport marketing efforts, D id Alaska UFO just want ple rick Buchanan, they would not eat flapjacks. They would breakfast on All-Bran and fried eggs like other curmudgeons. . Saucers contribute to the gross. national product, providing weekly articles for.the tabloids supermar- kets sell. These ee pee deal. with food, as whena cer several years ago hijacked a rick ldad of tat, A SpE este This “iaay. at: th er ag that " erashed.jn:Braai).last summer, ese. ‘fxom;a.pletention center and may be on her way to the U.S., lnvarably do it pect aoe j it s ates abou harm coming to people = ex- tra-ter: Saucers peanut butter. It wasreturried after. ‘brim with gusto and good humor, tasting, much as a magicianhands not germs. eer ait y nen them. mange Tigh sar ¥/ in Trendacte\ i ay “in ce ao ne si Thc Galseek Weakly V wirld ‘News features a sketch of a female ce" alien under a headline, ‘‘UFO,. Crash Survivors on the Lope: ” other States, Fox said. But acco being feo 8 18 hw devalanmant ib "Why db peuple insist off thinking “saticers‘ate hostile? Probably be- : ‘eausze wé make everything over. in our owh' image: We're too guilt- » ttdden to grasp innocence, too fear- ful'toa teradiance. Because we tack the zest to enjoy the ‘pbeurdity of life; we make every- _ thing out to be. astgrim as we are. i, airports cities as ting into ‘“Ancl nAavontne edi. wien News. -_ ane’ g wine? ‘Saticers are for sieedimant, high jinks, fun. Unlike the bashful Nes- sie of the Scottish loch or Yeti of the high Himalayas, saucers are spi- rited extroverts, sociable as pup- pies. Astronomers say a huge galaxy was born the other day. Small wonder the saucers are out in foree, lighting up the heavens. What better way to mark the birth of new stars?- When thé next flying saucer shimmers up to you, grab on and soar. If peanut butter sticks to your palate, ask for wine. The saucer that glommed onto the Japanese plane the other day knew exactly what it was doing. That 747 was loaded to its gunnels with new Beaujolais. ©1967 Cox News Service re