[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 96 (Friday, July 17, 1998)]
[Senate]
[Page S8473]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            RUTH E. CROXTON

  Mr. MURKOWSKI. Mr. President, I have on my right an obituary. This 
obituary is very meaningful to the people of a small village in Alaska 
called King Cove.
  Ruth E. Croxton, 29, was killed July 15, 1981, when her twin-engine 
plane crashed and burned on a hillside. The plane was on approach to 
the King Cove, Alaska airstrip--in what was called ``typical Aleutian 
weather.'' Five other people died in the accident, including the pilot, 
Ernest D. Fife.
  Ms. Croxton was an anthropologist, a pilot, and a 1974 graduate of 
the University of Alaska-Fairbanks. Born in Salem, Ore., her family 
moved to Alaska when she was six years old. She was graduated from 
Juneau-Douglas High School in 1969.
  Ms. Croxton and her pilot were bringing four cannery workers into 
King Cove but would have been evacuating a medical case once they 
reached the Aleutian village.
  She is survived by Mr. and Mrs. Loren Croxton of Petersburg; a 
sister, Mary, of Barrow; and her maternal grandfather, William Older of 
Livermore, Calif.
  Ms. Croxton died along with her passengers because there is no road 
between King Cove and Cold Bay.
  How many more people must die before we do something about it?
  I yield the floor.
  (Mr. GRAMS assumed the Chair.)

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