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Bureau of Mines
Installs Uranium
Testing Equipment
Installation of equipment by the
Bureau of Mines at Juneau to test
uranium ore samples in Alaska
was announced Friday by Secre
tary of the Interior Douglas Mc
Kay.
McKay said the decision to pro
vide the free service to prospec
tors and others was based on the
fact that several uranium finds
have been made recently in south
eastern Alaska.
Addition of the Juneau station
brings to 11 the number of Bureau
laboratories to which the public
can send samples for radioactivity
tests. All such examinations are
conducted under a cooperative ar
rangement with the Atomic Ener
gy Commission.
The Bureau now tests some
3,000 samples a month for pros
pectors in the continental United
States, compared with approxi
mately 1,000 monthly during the
first half of 1954, Bureau Director
J. J. Forbes disclosed.
The number of samples sent to
the Bureau by prospectors in Al
aska was negligible until only a
few months ago. As recently as
last July only six were received.
Since then, uranium strikes in
southeastern Alaska by two hus
band and wife teams who detected
deposits while flying ipstrument
equipped planes over Prince of
Wales Island and confirmed the
presence of uranium by ground
examination, have been widely
publicized in the territory. So has
detailed exploration by a large
mining company of the more
promising of the finds.
These discoveries aroused so
much interest that Alaska pros
pectors submitted 42 ore samples
to the Bureau for radioactivity
tests in August and 56 in Septem
ber, reported S. H. Lorain of Ju
neau, the Bureau’s assistant re
gional director for Alaska.
Palmer American Legion
Building Burns Down
PALMER, 'The $50,000 Am
erican Legion building was de
stroyed by fire Saturday after
noon as volunteer firemen toiled
futilely in 15-below-zero weather
to extinguish the blaze.
The fire is believed to have
started in the basement of the
single-story frame structure.
More than a hundred volunteers
from widely scattered parts of the
Matanuska Valley were called
after the blaze was discovered at
1:30 p.m. They were directed by
Fire Chief Ray Lancaster, who
also is the Palmer Legion com
mander.
Nome Directory
NOME ROTARY CLUB
George Bayer, Pres.
Joe Kroninger, Sec.
Thursday Luncheon
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Tuesday Noon
DR. FRED M. LANGSAM, Pres.
ALASKA CHAPTER NO l
Ord,er of Eastern Star
Meets 1st It 3d Monday of each month.
( Beverly Morgan
Worthy Matron
Helen Dunbar
Secretary ,