Mirow Air Service
Activities
Pilot Sasseen made a trip to
Council with freight and return
ed with Miss Enatti and Joe Ost.
Miss Enatti will leave for An
chorage this afternoon.
Pilot Chambers made a trip to
Ungalik with freight and on to
Unalakleet to pick up a passen
ger to come to the Nome hospit
al. Miss Betty Calkins was a
round trip passenger, going along
to help with the care of the
Unalakleet passenger.
Pilot Chambers left for Coun
cil with the Fairchild and re
turned to Nome with Fred Duro
oher.
Pilot Chambers made a trip to
Teller with one passenger and
freight.
Pilot Sasseen will leave for An
chorage this afternoon with four
passengers: Mr. E. Olson, Chas.
Griffin, Helve Enatti and Miss
Jackson. Miss Jackson will be re
turning to her home in Missouri.
The return trip will be made to
morrow with express and passen
gers.
STRAY SHOT KILLS GIRL
ASHLAND, Ky. — Claudine
Barker was hit by a stray bullet
during an exchange of gunfire
between the occupants of two
speeding automobiles and killed,
as she was returning from a par
ty. The unidentified motorists
sped away after the shooting.
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! PNEUMONIA DEATH
TOM. DECLINING
NEW YORK —Pneumonia mor
tallity among the millions of In
dustrial policyholders of the Met
ropolitan Life Insurance Com
pany tmade such a phenomenal
drop during the first three
months of 1940 that even the
startling improvement establish
ed in tiie pneumonia death rate
in 1939 was outdone, according
to the insurance company’s stat
isticians. For the first quarter of
i 1940 the pneumonia death rate
dropped 27 per cent as compared
with the corresponding period of
1939, while from 1938 to 1939
the rate declined 15 per cent, a
development which was heralded
•as being "the most striking in
the entire field of public health
in 1939.’’
Along with the improvement
in pneumonia mortality which is
I continuing into its fourth year,
I other favorable factors in the
i mortality record lead the statis
ticians to declare that “1940 is
I developing into one of the best
health years in the history of
the company’s Industriay policy
holders. And there is, in fact, a
good prospect that the current
year will set a new mark for
low mortality in this important
cross-section of the population.”
There are fewer deaths from
measles, scarlet fever, whooping
'cough and diphtheria during the
1 first quarter of 1940 than in the
similar period of 1939. As each
cf these diseases registered a new
low mortality rate in 1939, it is
believed likely that new mini
mum rates will be established
for the full year of 1940. Lower
death rates than ever before re
corded durine the winter season
.vers established for diarrheal
disea- s. appendicitis, puerperal
conditions and homicides, while
the long time downward trend in
the dea.h rate from tuberculosis
was still in evidence. There has
also been an improvement this
year in fatalities resulting from
automobile 3C cidents.
Mortality from cancer, diabetes
and disease of the coronary arter
ie?, which reached new high lev
els in 1939, was still even less
favorable during the first quarter
of 1940.
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TOP RAN K—Capt. Giles C.
Stedman (above), 42, a native
of Quincy, Mass., will command
the America, now nearing com
pletion as the largest liner ever
built in U. S. He was once with
Coast Guard, has had long mari
time service.
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YOU CAN T BEAT THE DUTCH —When the elatter of wooden shoes died down,
Vice President John Garner got busy, autographing sabots for little Dutch girls from Holland.
Mich., in Washington for a national folk son»fest. Left to right: Winifred Heasley, Merry Hadden
and Barbara Heneveld. Alongside Garner is Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg. Michigan Republican.
SLIM EMISSARY OF DEATH _Germany’s Dornier Do. 17 bomber (above) has a maxi
mum speed of about 310 m.p.h., a range of 1,500 miles. I’lane has span of 59 feet, length 52 2 '.
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COULEE DAM BECOMING
ONE OF AMERICA’S BIG
NATURAL SHOW PLACES
SAN FRANCISCO — Dimen
; sions and construction details of
the Grand Coulee Dam in Wash
ington supply some of the rea
I sons why it is rapidly becoming
! one of the major points of tourist
| interest in the Pacific Northwest
i and attracted nearly 300.000 visit
[ ors in 1939, according to the San
Francisco office of the United
States Travel Bureau, Depart
ment of the Interior.
Fully 12.000,000 cubic yards of
concrete are being used in the
construction of the dam, the pow
er plant, and appurtenant works.
Rising 550 feet above bedrock,
the dam will measure 4,300 feet
in length at the crest, 3,000 feet
at the base, and will taper to a
thickness of 30 feet at the crest
from a thickness of 500 feet.
When completed it will be the
I world’s largest masonry struc
; ture. The base, alone, completed
! in 1938, constitutes the biggest
[man-made structure on earth, ex
{ceedmg by a wide margin the
Pyramid of Choeps in Egypt,
I which is one of the seven won
■ ders of the world.
Towering Face
Grand Coulee Dam will be as
high as a 46-story building, as
j long as 14 ordinary city blocks,
and its huge mass, weighing 25,
000,000 tons would build a monu
ment 100 feet by 100 feet by 5Vi
miles in height, 2.7 times the
height of the Empire State Build
i ing.
i In addition to these spectacular
I features, the dam will control
the Nation’s most powerful water
jcourse. The Columbia River, with
its headwaters in the ioe fields of
British Columbia, is 1,210 miles
long and drains a watershed of
259,000 square miles, including
parts of seven western states and
the province of British Columbia.
It has an annual runoff of 79,000,
000 acre-feet, more than five tim
es the runoff of the Colorado Ri
| ver at Boulder Dam.
The dam is now rapidly form
ing a lake upstream which will
extend eventually a distance of
1151 mites to the Canadian border,
i making the longest artificial lake
in the world. The lake will aver
age 4.000 feet in width with a
maximum depth of 375 feet. The
storage reservoir thus created
will cover an area of 82.000 ac
res, with a total capacity of 10,
000,000 acre-feet of water.
Recreational
I
Far reaching effects of the com
i pletion of this project will in
clude the opening of a great new
' recreational area, the creation of
'an International water-way con
■ necting with the Arrow Lakes in
British Columbia along a 300
I mile route originally used by the
! Indians, trappers, voyagers, trad
I ers and missionaries who opened
, up the country for settlement. In
i addition, the anticipated annual
1 evaporation of 200,000 acre-feet
| of water is expected to modify
| the present climate of the region.
Visitors to the building site get
a grandstand seat. Two vista
I houses overlooking the scene of
| operations are situated on each
I side of the river and will seat
400 persons. Frequent explana
tions over a public address syst
em tell the message of Grand
j Coulee and the high lights of the
construction program.
A main highway cuts through
the entire length of the construe
tion area. There are many free
parking areas. Stores, eating plac
es, service stations, theatres, ho
tes, and camps are also available.
Lewis W. Douglas, insurance
company president, former direct
or of the budget: "The European
war is a struggle between two
wholly contradictory, two clash
ing ways of life. We cannot es
cape the consequences of its out
i come.”
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COUNCIL CITY NEWS
May 27, 1940
The Alaska Placer gold dredge,
thoroughly rebuilt this spring,
Joe Lucas et al on deck, turned
over her bucket line yester eve,
suggesting a long summer’s sea
son. So this dredge, formerly the
Luby dredge, then the Northern
Light dredge, next the North
Star dredge and now the Alaska
Placer dredge —is the first to
start summer’s operation in the
Council section and Neukluk Riv
er.
About two miles further up the
Neukluk, the Council Dredging
Co. dredge, formerly the DeSoto
dredge, then the Blue Goose
dredge, is ready to start river op
oration in a day or so.
The Camp Creek Dredge Cr.
dredge up at the mouth of Camp
Creek is also getting ready to
buck frost and recover the yel
low metal.
Over on Aggie Creek and Fish
River, Billy Jones and assistants
are getting the Inland Dredging
Co. dredge ready to represent
that place.
In a way, C. H. Pearson seems
to have the overseeing responsib
llity for these three dredges—the
Council, the Camp Creek and the
Inland.
Up on Ophir Creek, Hans G.
Larsen with helpers, is getting
the Ophir Gold Dredge, formerly
the Wild Goose dredge ready for
operation later in the season.
Martha and Tom will be in on
the first boat to join in the bat
tle of recovering the gold. To be
gin with, this will be done by the
"hydraulic method” while the
dredge ground thaws.
CAR KILLS CHILD
ALBUQUERQUE, N. M..—See
ing her two-year-old daughter,
Carol Jean, 'lying at the curb,
Mrs. H. P. Hughes thought she
was playing a prank. Upon in
vestigation, however, she found
the child dead, the victim of an
automobile.
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