Northwest History. Alaska. Mercy Flights.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1936
• Subjects: Mercy flight; nonstop; Juneau; Alaska; Joseph Sheldon; physician; Bristol Bay; typhoid fever; Bering sea; the north Pacific; John W. Troy; Benjamin L. Grimes; Mae Riebette; Thelma Shiriver; M. Oygard; serum; Dillingham; Snag Point; Nushagak; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Bering Sea; Pacific; Snag
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/90391

Mercy Flight To Be Nonstop. MERCY FLIGHT TO BE NONSTOP By Associated Press. JUNEAU, Alaska, July 24.-Another chapter in the northland's famed series of "mercy flights" was begun here today when Pilot Joseph Sheldon took off with a physician, three trained nurses and serum for the northern shores of Bristol bay, where a serious outbreak of typhoid fever, described as of near-epidemic proportions, was raging. The route of the seaplane was 725 miles across the north Pacific and out over portions of the Bering sea. The epidemic reports were made to Governor John W. Troy's office via tion between the Bristol bay sector Sheldon apparently was intent on making a nonstop flight. In the plane were Territorial Sanitary Engineer Dr. Benjamin L. Grimes and Trained Nurses Mae Riebette, Thelma Shiriver and M. Oygard. Dr. Grimes carried the serum and other equipment. Sheldon's destination point was not known, but reports to the governor's office said the epidemic was raging at Dillingham, Snag Point, Nushagak and other outposts.