FOUR ALASKA REPULICANS
TO ATTEND PARTY MEETING
SAN FRANCISCO, UP>—Repub
lican headquarters reported Fri
day that four Alaskans are ex
pected for the party’s western
conference here Monday.
They are: Albert White of Ju
neau, with the proxy of his wife,
Mrs. Margaret White, who is na
tional committeewoman for Alas
ka; Mrs. Helen Brosius of Sew
ard, vice chairman for the terri
tory; Walter J. Hickel of An
chorage, finance chairman, and
Mrs. Hickel.
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tant collector since 1946, Wednes
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Secretary of the Treasury Humph
rey.
Petrich, named to the post until
a permanent appointee is chosen,
succeeds Mrs. Katherine Nordale,
whose resignation was effective
Oct. 31.
Army Troops In Alaska
Will Get Anti-Flu Shots
WASHINGTON, UP) — Army
troops in Alaska, Europe and the
Far East will be given anti-influ
enza vaccine this year, the Army
announced.
Maj. Gen. George E. Armstrong,
Army surgeon general, said that
experience last winter demon
strated the effectiveness of influ
enza vaccine “only when it is ad
ministered prior to the onset of
epidemics.”
When an American husband
and wife are the same age, the
chances that the wife will outlive
the husband are 60 in 100.
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Long-Range Scorpion F-89s Being
Assigned To Polar Sentinal Duty
At Elmendorf Air Force Base
HAWTHORNE, Calif. — Long-<«
range U.S. Air Force Northrop
Scorpion F-89 all-weather inter
ceptors are being assigned to the
Alaskan Air Command for 24
hour guard duty along top-of-the
world routes to' America’s heart
land.
First twin-jet F-89s are now in
use by the 65th Fighter-Intercep
tor Squadron at Elmendorf Air
Force Base, near Anchorage, it
was disclosed recently. Additional
Scorpions are being assigned to
bolster the nation’s arctic aerial
defense network.
The 600-mph, two-man, semi
automatic interceptors will pro
vide day-and-night far-distant
protection against atomic or hy
drogen bomb attack on key tar
gets in the United States.
With a demonstrated range of
approximately 2000 miles, latest
radar and ample deadly arma
ment, Scorpions can hit an air
invader hours away from Ameri
can cities. If necessary they can
intercept, follow, overtake and
fight approaching bombers over a
flexible defense line hundreds of
>-**
miles in depth.
Within seconds after receiving
an alert call from the Distant
Early Warning radar chain that is
stretched across the polar waste
lands, long-range F-89s can
“scramble” to aerial attack posi
tions.
Six 20-mm cannon arm the
F-89s currently being assigned to
Alaska. The latest Scorpion mod
el, the F-89D, is an all-rocket
armed version carrying 104 air-to
air missiles in wing-tip launching
pods. It is America’s most heavily
armed fighter-type airplane.
A highly-effective anti-icing
system in the F-89 makes the air
plane particularly suited to high
altitude, cold-weather operation.
In addition, the F-89 is powered
by twin turbojet engines, either
of which is capable of carrying
the Scorpion through its intercept
attack should an engine fail. Two
engine reliability is of vital im
portance to the crew of the air
plane when flying over the ocean
or the ice-covered mountains and
plains of the frigid northland.
British and American
Troops Quell Italian
Hioters In Trieste
TRIESTE, Italy, W—Pro-Italian
rioters and local police clashed
again Friday in this disputed Ad
riatic port city. Police gunfire
killed four persons before Ameri
can and British troops, moving
into the riot area with fixed bayo
nets, restored order.
A hand grenade tossed from a
milling mob of 10,000 exploded in
the midst of Trieste’s British
trained territorial police, wound
ing two of them gravely.
In addition to the violence here
demonstrations flared in Rome
and other Italian cities. Resent
ments was expressed against the
British and Americans. A crowd
in Rome surrounded the U.S. em
bassy and shouted “Assassins,
assassins.” Police broke up the
crowd with tear gas and clubs and
arrested scores.
U. S. Ambassador Clare Booth
Luce conferred with Premier
Guisepe Pella. She returned to the
embassy in time to see the dem
onstrators seize a fire truck and
turn hoses on police and toss tear
gas bombs back.
Ten thousand demonstrated in
Milan and marched on the Brit
ish consulate, but were turned
back by police.
Legal Blanks at The Nome Nugget
Latest Soviet Note
Shows Little Hope
For Negotiations
WASHINGTON, GP) — Russia’s
newest note blocking a Big Four
foreign ministers meeting on Ger
many was released yesterday,
pointing up why President Eisen
hower and Secretary of State Dul
les apparently are despairing of
negotiating major world problems
with the Soviets any time soon on
an acceptable basis.
For Moscow not only set up
“impossible conditions” as the I
President put it. The Soviets also
reverted to some of the language,
such as talk of “the threat of a
new world war,” which was fa
vored in the later years of the
Stalinist period.
U.S. officials, who have been
studying the 4,500-word document
since Wednesday morning pri
vately suggested that it marks the
end of a brief but hopeful era in
Russian relations with the West
beginning with Joseph Stalin’s |
death last April.
Despite various Moscow peace
gestures, these officials said the
note demonstrates clearly that
Russia’s Malenkov government
presently has no intention of neg
otiating on any terms acceptable
to the West.
One conclusion of U.S. officials
is that obviously the world is in
for an indefinite period of contin
uing tension and there is no hope
to be found—with the exception
of continuing efforts for a Korean
conference—for any serious nego
tiation with the Russians.
Lubricating systems, bearings
and accessories on modern air
craft must be able to operate
eight to ten times as long without
inspection as their World War II
counterparts.
Review of Mining
Potentialities Of
Seward Peninsula
By HOWARD LYNG
Territorial Senator
The fourth in a series of articles
exclusive to the Nome Nugget
Several miles above Taylor,
Macklin Creek enters the Kouga
rok River. This creek was mined
for years by Laurin Bros., mostly
without benefit of modem ma
chinery. Present owners Johansen
and Wuhrman last year leased the
ground to old-time mining man
Axel Johnson, and partners A1
Pasquan and Martin Beckstrom.
All excellent mechanics, as well
as miners, these men spent most
of the past season in dead work,
repairing ditches, stripping ground
and rebuilding dozers and pumps.
One pit that was taken out showed
good values. There appears to be
many successful mining seasons
ahead for these old-timers.
Close by, on Trinity Creek, an
other gold-bearing Kougarok trib
utary, Mrs. John Kanari, who,
with her recently deceased hus
band owned and mined a group
of claims over the years, carried
on this season with assessment
work in the form of drilling.
Deputy Marshal Maurice Kelli
her, son of Big Jim‘ Kelliher, one
of the earliest Kougarokers, also
owns a group of claims in this
area and expects to resume min
ing in the near future.
Jim Carroll, long-time Koxi
garoker and owner of extensive
mining ground in the Taylor area,
never misses a season of looking
for the pay streak—and he usual
ly finds it.
The Duke of the Kougarok, Sam
Godfrey, states that he and his
associates have been doing exten
sive prospecting in the upper
Kougarok, not only for them
selves but also for others. Among
these is Jerry Noonan, who Sam
says is going to resume where
Buck Whitmore, now deceased,
left off several years ago on Mas
cott Gulch.
Sam also reports he has a group
of o'ld-time Fairbanks miners in
terested in placing a dragline and
dozer outfit on Henry Creek.
Towards that end, he and his as
sociates have been repairing and
extending the present ditches.
A few miles west of the Kou
garok River lies one of the earliest
mined creeks in the upper Kou
garok district, Dick Creek. Large
ly a pick and shovel proposition
until comparatively recent years,
a part of the wealth of this long
lived operation has, and is, being
recovered from the benches, due
strictly to the use of modem
machinery, pumps and bulldozers,
and of course the energy and
courage of old-timer George Bo
dis, owner and operator. George
put in several years sinking shafts
and drilling before he uncovered
the present pay streak.
Travelling down the Kougarok
River from Taylor, we come to
Garfield Creek. Here Lyman Mad
den has helcj forth for many years
except for a stretch during World
War II, and several recent years,
building air strips for the terri
tory along the Bering Sea coast.
Lyman expects to resume his
quest for the illusive metal next
season.
(To Be Continued)
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