Visit

Six times Denver airmen flew at Monarch Pass in the continental divide. Six times they were flung back by a raging blizzard. On the seventh try, Lieut. Dan Kearns and Sergeant Clyde Plank of the Colorado National Guard, soared over. They flew to Silverton, Col., 200 miles from Denver, over crags and chasms no one had ever before crossed. All of Silverton, for four weeks completely snowbound, floundered over to the town baseball lot to see mail, food, newspapers and diphtheria antitoxin drop from the skies into a snowbank. The factory siren kept up a steady shriek. Oldest inhabitants ants shifted their quids to ejaculate. It was not only the first visitor in a month but their first airplane ever--just skimming the housetops, circling higher, shining in the sun, veering on a wind gust, dipping, climbing, droning fainter, dwindling away into the mountains again, back to fabulous Denver.