THE NOME NUGGET
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DESTINY’S CHILDREN
Dr. Albrecht Testifies
Alaska's TB Patients
Require More Beds
WASHINGTON, UP) — Use of
hospitals in Washington state to
help “lick the problem” of tuber
culosis in Alaska was suggested
in recent testimony before a
House committee.
Dr. C. Earl Albrecht, Alaska
Commissioner of Health, said
Washington state “has done a re
markable thing in treating its
tuberculosis problem so that it
now has 1,100 empty tuberculosis
beds in its existing sanitoriums.
“We are going to have to have
more hospital beds in Alaska or
somewhere to lick this problem.”
The Health Commissioner urged
the House Appropriations sub
committee to approve $160,000 for
Alaska to permit operation of two
vessels as mobile health units.
These boats are now tied up, he
said, at the Lake Union Dry Dock
in Seattle.
Albrecht said a contract can be
made with the Bureau of Indian
Affairs to put patients in the
Washington state hospitals “up to
the number of 500 or 600 if we
act between now and the first
of 1955.”
ALASKA AIRLINES
From Anchorage: Mr. and Mrs.
Wm. White, H. O. White, E. J.
Hargis, Sgt. Donald Gass, Chris
tine Heller, Paul Card.
To Anchorage: John Haefer,
Ephriam Prince.
From Unalakleet: Ruth Martin,
Thos. Sagoonik.
From McGrath: R. McCullough,
B. Cowart, David Twitchell.
From Shishmaref: Harvey Poo
toogookluk, Dorothy Nayokpuk.
From Candle: Mr. and Mrs.
Wm. Jones and two children,
Ben Swan, Cecil Mitchell.
To Candle and Deering: Maur
ice Kelliher.
Security Status of
Glass Researcher
Bein» Reviewed
CORNING, N. ,Y. (tf)—Edward U.
Condon, the former head of the
U.S. Bureau of Standards, said
Wednesday night that Defense
Department officials were review
ing his security status.
Condon, now research director
for the Coming Glass Works, said
he.was working “exclusively on
non-military projects involving no
access to classified information”
while the review was pending.
Condon declined to elaborate
when asked whether the Defense
Department action instituted a
suspension of clearance.
He said the current review was
in connection with the glass firm’s
government contracts. Corning
does work for the Navy Depart
ment.
In a statement, Condon said his
loyalty to the United States was
not an issue in the security re
view. Nor was there any sugges
tion, Condon said, that he ever
had breached security regulations
or had been indiscreet in handling
secret information.
He did not say when the review
was begun, or by what agency.
Condon, who resigned from the
Bureau of Standards post in Octo
ber, 1951, to come here, once was
described by the House Un-Amer
ican Activities Committee as “the
weakest link” in the nation’s at
omic security chain. He has re
peatedly denied this.
Condon’s name has cropped up
j in the security investigation of
Dr. Robert Oppenheimer, the
physicist who headed the Los
Alamos atomic bomb project dur
ing World War II.
MMM HOSPITAL
Admitted: Ileen Ezukameuw.
Discharge: Mrs. Paul Analook
and infant.
Cub Scouts Picnic On
Beach Last Night
Cub Scouts of Pack 363, their
families and leaders, enjoyed a
picnic supper last evening back
back of the seawall.
A big fire was built where
the group enjoyed roasting wien
ers and marshmallows.
Games were played with Jo'e
Barber of Den 3 and Rod Boucher
of Den 1.
Awards were made to the fol
lowing boys by Cubmaster Bill
Barber:
Bobcat Badge — Devon Alex
ander;
Wolf Badge—Charles Wheeler,
Charles Burnett.
Bear Badge—Dick Arnold;
Gold Arrows — Charles Bur
nett, Dick Arnold, Donny Rockne,
Richard Atuk;
Silver Arrows — Charles Bur
nett, Dick Arnold.
Three Sites Picked
As Possible for
Air Force Academy
WASHINGTON, UPl—'The Air
Force announced Thursday that
its search for an academy site has
been definitely narrowed to three
locations—Alton, 111., Colorado
Springs, Colo., and Lake Geneva,
Wis.
Air Force Secretary .Talbott
made the announcement, saying
the three sites had been recom
mended by a five-man board and
he must make the final choice
from among them.
Talbott said he would make his
decision only after further per
sonal inspections by himself and
his staff, and that he will study
thoroughly the problems of land
acquisition, engineering and all
factors at the three locations be
fore making his pick.
The academy selection board
started its search at the beginning
of April, traveling more than 18,
000 miles, reading reports and
recommendations involving more
than 400 locations proposed by
civic groups and local communi
ties.
Legislation authorizing the acacT
emy was signed by President Eis
enhow’er on April 1, but the idea
of setting one up was conceived
shortly after the Air Force be
came a separate service in Sep
tember, 1947.
WIEN AIRLINES
From Galena: J. Sperlstad, Art
Richmond; Rotary party to Fair
banks; to Fairbanks for Seattle:
Myrtle Chambers, Ada Scrivener,
M. C. Wilde; to Kotzebue: Mr. and
Mrs. E. Hoaglund, Lt. Col. Skin
ner.
Kotzebue to Nome: Roger At
toruk on tour; Anne Kier, F. Diki
man, Mr. and Mrs. Novak, to
Fairbanks; Col. Skinner, Francis
Malcolm; to Utica: Clare Sears,
H. Pootookoolook.
THURSDAY BALL SCORES
American League
New York 2, Cleveland 1
Chicago 10, Boston 6.
Philadelphia 3, Baltimore 2
Washington 4, Detroit 3
National League
New York 13, St. Louis 8
Pacific Coast League
San Francisco 3, Portland 1
Hollywood 4, Sacramento 2
San Diego 4, Oakland 3
Arctic Sanitary Service
Phone RED 181
Future of Ice Duration in Northern
Ports May Be Determined in New
Science Study of Juneau Glacier
NEW YORK, UP—Seven scien-<
tists left Juneau this week for a
three-month stay on Lemon Creek
Glacier and a study of the big ice
cube’s deportment and nourish
ment.
Their summer camp will be
only nine miles from Juneau, but
4,000- feet above sea level on the
perpetual ice of just one glacier in
the Juneau ice field.
The project is being carried on
by the American Geographical
Society under contract with the
Office of Naval Research. Logisti
cal support will be provided by
the U.S. Army and Air Force.
Six or seven tons of equipment
will be flown by the Alaskan Air
Command to be deposited ne^ir th^
scientists’ camp by parachute and
free drop. A small plane will ser
vice the party during their stay,
| ferrying personnel, delivering mail
| and maintaining communications.
For five summers and one win
ter the society sent expeditions to
nearby Taku, one of the few
glaciers in the world which is
advancing. Last year its first ex
pedition went to the receding
Lemon Creek Glacier, which has
been proposed as one of the U.S.
stations in a world-wide network
of glaciological observations in
1957-58.
Of particular interest to the
party will be the heat exchange
between the glacier and the air
above it. The men will try to
determine how far the glacier is
receding and the state of its nour
ishment—or the state of balance
between accumulation of new
and the process of evaporation
and melting.
This behavior pattern will be
compared with glacial history and
may shed light on whether the
climate of the world is growing
warmer, whether the sea level
may rise or fall and whether the
northern ports will be ice-free for
longer or shorter periods in the
future.
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Halibut Vessel Fined for
Fishing Before Season
KETCHIKAN, (/P)—The captain
and crew of the Seattle halibut
vessel Wireless were fined a total
of $1,400 and half their 29,000
pound catch confiscated Thursday
for fishing near Kodiak a day
before the commercial season
opened.
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Military Ships Start
Annual Supnlv Voyages
To Unnamed Arctic Posts
SEATTLE, UP)—Ships which will
make the annual resupply voyage
to isolated military outposts in
the arctic have been loading here
and quietly slipping out of port
for the past several days.
Army longshoremen from the
Seattle port of embarkation will
scramble ashore like amphibious
troops at the isolated stations in
the arctic where there are no
docking facilities. A warlike col
lection of landing craft will be
used to get the supplies to the
beaches.
The number of men involved or
the number and location of the
outposts to be visited have not
been revealed.
Military sources disclosed, how
ever, that this year’s fleet will in
clude two Victory ships, two LSTs
and the freighter Valentine. These
will carry 15 assorted landing
craft.
Yoshida World Tour Delay
TOKYO, UP)—Prime Minister
Yoshida Thursday night post
poned until Sunday the start of a
world tour because key legisla
tion is pending in the Diet.
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