SERGEANT HARPER WILL
SUCCEED SERGEANT SMITH
IN CHARGE ACS FAIRBANKS
Technical Sergeant Charles E.
Smith, who has been in charge
of the Fairbanks station of the
Alaska Communications System j
since February 6, 1938, has been
notified that he will be transfer
red to the head office of the sys
tem at Seatt’e, and he will leave
here April 26.
Technical Sergeant Leon F.
Harper, from the Seattle office,
will succeed Sergent Smith as
officer in charge at Fairbanks,
Sergeant Harper arrived on the
train from the south April 15.
Sergeant Harper has been in
Seattle for some time, and prior
to that was in the service in Seat
tie for years. He was stationed
at various times a-* Juneau, Nome
Sitka and other piiaces.
Sergeant Smith has been in the
sendee in Alaska since 1919, diur
ing which he has been stationed
in turn at Nome, Seward, Wran
gell, Ketchikan, Cordova and
Fairbanks.
Accompanying Sergeant Smith
when he leaves will be Mrs.!
Smith. Both the sergeant and
Mrs. Smith have a wide circle:
of friends and say that their stay !
in Fairbanks has been one of the
happiest periods of their exper
ience in the North, and they hope i
some day to return for a visit, if,
not to remain.
Sergeant Smith, by his capable
and courteous discharge of his,
duties, will leave with the high
regard of the many friends and
the public generally. During his
sojourn in Fairbanks he has
had charge not only of the regul
ar servee, but also of import an4
improvements in the local s°r
vice, inc&uding the rebuilding of
the transmission station and
building which serves as the liv
ing quarters for members of the
staff, located near the Independ
ent Lumber Company’s mill, in
the outskirts of the city.
RIVER BOAT SAILINGS
SET FOR MAY 13
First sailing of the steamer Ne
nana of the Alaska Railroad is
posted for May 13 but railroad
officials have scant hope that she
will be able to make the voyage
to Marshall on the Yukon on
schedule because of ice condi
tions.
Service from Nenana on the
Tanana River will be started as
soon as ice conditions permit,
railroad officials exip'ained, but
it was May 3D last year before
the Yukon River was open to
traffic.
The Alaska Railroad will op
erate the steamer Nenana and
steamer Alice between Nenana
and Marshall, as in past years.
The Nenana wifi keep a regular
seh dula and the Alice will make
tr'ps when traffic warrants.
Sailings are scheduled for ev
ery other Saturday from May 13
to September 9. Barges will be
handled on certain trips to ac
comodate freight not permitted
aboard the steamers.
The Alaska Railroad steamers
connect at Holy Cross with
munches ”f Ira Wood and the
Day Navigation Company for
oinfs on the Innoko and Idita
rod Rivers. At Marshall connec
tions are made with Northern
Comm rcial launches for St.
Mi-:tael and Nome.
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Jaycees End Financial Woes
By Entering Nenana Ice Contest
Dream of $100,000 Club House
(Anchorage Times)
Ending their financial troubles
for the next few years, the Jun
ior Chamber of Commerce enter
d five guesses in the Nenana ice
contest last night and planned to
build a club house with the pro
ceeds after the breakup.
The action was taken after the
gathering discussed numerous
projects for the improvement of
Anchorage and possible methods
of financing them.
Need of a manager of Merrill
Field was cited at the meeting
when Larry Larson, pilot, report
ed that airplanes were landing
from many directions at once
! and that collisions have been nar
i rowly averted recently.
| On calm days the planes can
land from any direction, Mr. Lar
| son pointed out, and a day or so
j ago three pi anes came in from
i different directions simultaneous
| ly. Two planes passed with less
| than 50 feet between them.
The aeronautics committee,
! with Mr. Larson as chairman,
was requested to discuss the sit
uation with local aviation firms
with the view of establishing a
set of traffic regulations.
The Junior Chamber presented
Ed Glover, past president ,with
the gavel which he used in pre
siding over the meetings during
the past year. With the gavel go
es a plaque engraved with his
name and title as first president
of the Anchorage Junior Cham
ber of Commerce.
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GIVING A HAND TO THE HAND of President Roosevelt when he pressed a telegraph
key lighting a lamp in the Campfire Girls’ new national headquarters in New York. Margaret Birge
and Jane Brandt (right) really shared in this ceremony. Margaret and Jane are from Arlington. Va..
and each wore the crossed logs and flame insignia familiar to the 250,000 Campfire Girls in U. S.
, The newly-lighted lamp is fashioned into a crossed logs and flame.
TO SAVE NEW PLANES from prying eyes of strangers, Russia used these old-style models
for a parachute jumping meet at Tbilisi. Each of the contestants made 40 jumpy.
Communications
Received By
Local Chamber
Douglas Chamber of Commerce
Douglas, Alaska
April 7, 1939
Chamber of Commerce
Northwestern Alaska,
Nome, Alaska.
Gentlemen;
On behalf of the Douglas
Chamber of Commerce, I want to
thank you for the phamplets for
warded this Chamber.
The publication of these, de
notes that you have a real Cham
ber in that section of the Terri
I torv and it will be a pleasure to
I pass them around; I rea'ize that
you have been to considerable
expense in the matter and I can
assure you that they will be put
to the most good.
It. is to be regretted that the
Territorial Legislature in the last
session could not see fit to make
an appropriation for the Terri
torial Chamber and your Mr.
Cochran, as President will be
greatly handicapped in the work
that could have been accomplish
ed with the very modest request
contained in the BilM; however
at the last meeting of the Man
agers. Mr. Cochran expressed his
will to carry on, making the
most of the limited resources
available.
Again expressing thanks for
the phamplets and knowing that]
we can -always depend on your
support in any worthy measure;
I am
Very truly yours,
Douglas Chamber of Commerce
By L. W. Kilbum, Secretary
The Chamber of Commerce has
also received a letter from the
Librarion of Congress, Washing
ton, D. C,, for copies of all pub
ications of the Chamber at pres
ent and in the future.
The Chamber has also recently
endorsed the action of the Alas
ka Territorial Chamber to con
tinue the organization with the
suggestions that a reorganization
be made to comply as nearly as
possible to the Laws, Rules and
Regulation of the Chamber of
Commerce of the United States.
A. Polet, Secretary
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new air-cooled in-line airplane engine
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SUPER POWER for planes may spring from newly-de
veloped 12-cylinders-in-Iine aircooled motor being examined by
Duncan Cox of Ranger plant at Farmingdale, N. Y. He says motor
combines air cooling with hirl horsepcwe per weieht.
$900,000 85-INCH TELESCOPE FOR TEXAS
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W HAT THE STARS SAY, scientists w ill try to learn
in the new McDonald observatory atop Mount Locke in the Dig
Lend, Texas. To be dedicated in May, the structure houses a 75
ton telescope w itli an 8 Mnch mirror. It was made possible through
a $900,000 gift of the late W. J. McDonald and will be operated
jointly by Texas university and Yerkcs observatory.
BUI,LET-NOSE STREAMLINING Is possible in above new type Ranger-powered Clark
plane in which an air-cooled motor having cylinders in a line Is the feature, permitting a pointed i.ose
which contrasts with the blunt nose of radial-motored planes. Above ship, a Clark 46A, la made of
plastic instead of metal and reoresents a departure in plane construction. j