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Several changes have been made in the plans for the hotel training course to be held here as well as in several other Adirondack centers by the state education department.

The preliminary course has been cut from 10 weeks to six. The first instruction will be given in Saranac Lake on March 6. The course in Lake Placid will start on March 20 and in another community, still to be selected, two weeks later. There will be instruction for waitresses, bell boys and chambermaids.

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Lost skier

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Northern Lights were a bit of luck to Miss Beatrice Vianne of New York Friday night when she was lost for three hours after skiing on the Mount Whitney trail.

The long blast of the fire siren shortly before 8 o’clock, which in this village means “man lost,” sounded at about the same time that Miss Vianne by chance came upon the Schwartz camp at Cheery Patch Pond, which happened to be occupied for the weekend. She was brought back to the village by automobile.

Miss Vianne had been skiing in the afternoon with Fred Wolf and Edward Stryker, who like herself, were guests at the Lake Placid Inn.

They were to meet at the foot of the trail when ready to come home. When the men reached the appointed spot and failed to find the young woman, they looked about for awhile.

In the meantime, Miss Vianne, confused in the heavy snow which was falling, had turned to the right instead of the left at the base of Mount Whitney. She reached the lake and had gotten as far as the Caesar Cone camp when she saw Whiteface Mountain ahead of her illuminated in the Northern Lights, which were particularly brilliant after the snow stopped.

Realizing then that she was headed in the wrong direction, although she did not know she was on Lake Placid, she reversed her course and retraced her steps to Cherry Patch, where she saw the lights of the camp.

After reaching the conclusion that his guest must be lost, Frank Swift, proprietor of the inn, sent his son, William Swift, an expert skier and familiar with the terrain, into McLenathen Bay trail.

He then notified members of the ski patrol, who divided forces.

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Whiteface broadcast

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Many unique broadcasts have originated from Lake Placid during the past few years, broadcasts over beams of light, from bobsleds dashing down the Mount Van Hoevenberg bobsled run, but one of the most interesting will be heard over WGY and W2XAF at 6:30 p.m. Saturday.

How it feels to be isolated during an entire winter atop a mountain nearly 5,000 feet above sea level will be described by engineers stationed at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and New York University meteorological observatory on Whiteface Mountain.

The highway leading to the observatory is blocked in places by as much as 20 feet of snow and ice, and the broadcast will be made possible by the use of a pack transmitter which will be transported up the mountain by a dog team.

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Archives

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