Eisenhower Urges Nation
Support March of Dimes
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President-elect Eisenhower meets 1953 March of Dimes Poster
Girls Pamela (left) and Patricia O'Neil, of Raleigh, N. C.
NEW YORK CITY—President
elect Dwight D. Eisenhower called
on the American public to support
the 1953 March of Dimes being
conducted throughout the nation
during all of January.
He joined in the annual appeal
after meeting the two Raleigh,
N.C., sisters who are pictured on
the 1953 March of Dimes poster.
They are Patricia, 6, and five
year-old Pamela O’Neil, both of
whom were stricken with polio
but now are recovered completely.
“It’s hard to believe that these
are the same little girls whose
pictures are on the March of
Dimes poster,” he noted. “Now
Seattle B. & P. W. Club
Ask Congressmen For
Waterfront Legislation
SEATTLE, UP — Legisiation
which would give water - bom
transportation the “same rights of
uninterrupted service” during
labor disputes pending negotia
tions between management and
labor as railroads now have, was
asked by the Seattle Business and
Professional Women’s Club Tues
day night.
The group heard speakers dis
cuss the recent several weeks
tieup of the Seattle port by long
shore formen’s dispute and its
effect on Alaska, Mrs. Idel Ronne,
president, said. *
Then it adopted a resolution
asking Washington’s congressmen
to work for such legislation.
Secretary Chapman In Favor
Of Statehood For Hawaii
WASHINGTON, UP —Secretary
of the Interior Chapman said yes
terday he is encouraged by pro
gress being made in Congress
toward granting statehood to
Hawaii.
Chapman said that he also
hopes Congress will grant state
hood to Alaska but feels that
Hawaii’s case should be consid
ered on its merits without being
linked with the Alaska bill.
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they’re completely recovered from
polio, thanks to thfe generosity of
the American people.”
He urged all Americans “to
help the others like them by join
ing the March of Dimes.”
Later, he joined the poster
girls in making a short film which
is being shown by television sta«
tions throughout the nation.
This year’s March of Dimes
follows the all-time record polio
epidemic of 1952 in which more
than 55,000 were stricken. At the
beginning of 1953, there were
58,000 polio victims of former
years still undergoing treatment
with financial help from local
! March of Dimes chapters.
Anchorage Photographic
Club Sponsors Contest
During Fur Rendezvous
Preliminary plans have been
formulated for the Fourth Annual
Fur Rendezvous Photographic
Contest, to be held in Anchorage
during the Fur Rendezvous next
month. This event is sponsored
each year by the Alaska Trails
Photographers, Anchorage club,
under the auspices of the Anchor
age Fur Rendezvous Committee.
After the judging, entries will be
exhibited in the Armed Services
YMCA, 6th and F Streets, for the
duration of the Rendezvous.
The contest is open to all Alas
kans and has, in the past, pro
duced entries of top quality from
many parts of the Territory. The
contest this year will be divided
into a black and white division
and a color slide division. Each
of these major divisions will in
turn by separated into five cate
gories. These are (1) portraiture;
(2) scenic; (3) abstractions and
still life; (4> human interest and
documentary, and (5) nature (ani
mal and floral shotsh Entry
blanks are being prepared and
will be made available in the near
future. For further information,
inquire at the Nugget.
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Land on “Lake” At
Fletcher’s Island
HQS, Alaskan Air Command,
Elmendorf, Alaska, — A C-54 of
the 54th Troop Carrier Squadron
completed the final re - supply
mission of the Alaskan Air Com
mand for Fletcher’s Ice Island
Thursday, it was announced by
this headquarters.
On March 1, the responsibility
for the logistics and operations of
this polar outpost of the 7th Air
Weather Group will be turned
over to the Northeast Air Com
mand.
The flight marked the second
time a four-engine aircraft landed
on the island. Last spring a C-54
transport successfully blazed a
landing in the snow. But during
the past summer months, airmen
stationed at this polar outpost,
dammed up one end of a trough
between two very low ice ridges
on the island. The warm summer
temperatures melted the ice on
top and permitted the run - off
water to flow through the trough
in sufficient length and width to
form a 5,000 foot by 200 foot
“lake.”
When cooler weather came, the
lake froze, and was kept free of
fresh snow by two airmen with
a bulldozer, thus allowing the
heavily-laden cargo carrier to set
tle down on the natural runway
without incident.
As an additional luxury, lights
have been installed along the
edges, the electricity being pro
duced by a portable generator.
By Wednesday of this week,
two landings had been made by
the C-54. Cargo consisted of about
17,000 pounds of food, fuel, and
communications and scientific
equipment for the island which is
presently floating some 240 nau
tical miles from the North Pole.
Physicist Describes
Northern Lights
Dr. Sydney Chapman, interna
tionally known physicist, from
Queens College, Oxford, England,
and advisory scientific director of
the Geophysical Institute at the
University of Alaska, captivated
his audience at a recent Fair
banks Chamber of Commerce
meeting with his discussion of the
aurora phenomena in down-to
earth terms.
Source of Light
The aurora, or northern lights
is not like a rainbow, he said,
but a definite source of light. This
has been determined by photo
graphs with star backgrounds
which definitely locate the thin
sheets of light about 60 miles
above the surface. They can be
seen within a 1500—mile diameter
and are most frequently observed
in a magnetized area at the ends
of magnetic axis of the earth.
The thickness of these sheets of
light have not yet been deter
mined but the brightness appears
the same at all distances, he
pointed out.
Types of Lights
Dr. Chapman said that there
are the two types' of aurora—the
arc, which might be part of a
circle, and the corona in which
lines seem to converge at the
zenith of the sky. How they ap
pear is a matter of perspective.
Regarding the question of whe
ther or not the lights make
sounds, there are differences of
opinion. He would not deny it, he
said, but a tape recording of the
sounds if they exist, would be in
teresting.
Magnetic Storms
The phenomenon is connected
with magnetic storms which upset
cable and radio communications
and have been known to even put
out large power systems.
An analysis of their spectrum
Bodies of 37 Korean Veterans
And Crew of C-46 May Remain
In Frozen Graves Until Spring
FISH HAVEN, Idaho, (*>—The
bodies of 40 persons who died in
a C-46 crash on a desolate moun
tain ridge near here may ncrt be
removed from their frozen graves
until spring.
“There are bodies all over,” Air
Force Capt. E. W. Morris who di
rected the first search party to
reach the wreckage, said. “An
arm, a leg, a piece here and piece
there. You would have to dig all
the snow off the mountainside to
get the bodies out.”
The <big Army transport smash
ed into the mountain Jan. 7 with
-37 Korean combat veterans and
a crew of three. The veterans
were enroute home to be dis
charged.
shows that they are caused by
atomic hydrogen, nitrogen and
oxygen gases from the sum travel
ing from the sun into the earth’s
atmosphere. They travel more
slowly than light and take a day
to make the trip. These electric
charges are subject to deflection
and are speeded up when they
contact the atmosphere down to
about 60 miles above the surface.
It will be some time before the
aurora is completely understood
he concluded.
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