Manager of Nenana Ice Classic
Says Ice Not Ready To Go Yet
By DON TUCKER
Manager Nenana Ice Classic
NENANA, April 24 (Special) —
The tickets have all been sorted
and listed and the big book is in
the process of being bound and
it should be reaching the deal
ers about Monday or Tuesday of
next week.
I want to thank everyone for
their cooperation in making this
year a success in the Nenana Ice
Classic. It has become larger each
year since 1917 and we hope to
make it continue to grow in the
coming years. We can only do
this through your continued co
operation.
The weather at Nenana has
been rather cool, still freezing
weather most of the time and
the river is still solid.
The Nenana River has cut a
small channel into the mouth of
the Tanana River but not enough
to warrant any excitement as yet.
It will take a few warm breezes [
in the hills to get the snow melt
ing and the creeks flowing to
affect the ice in the Tanana
river.
You know I am beginning to
have less faith in what these
old timers say every year. Next
year I am going to wait at one
one of the airports until I see
a person get off that has his
luggage plastered with travel
stickers. I will run up and ask
him when the ice is going out
in the Tanana river. The ans
wer I will get will be as close
to the time as I have had in
previous years.
The clock has been placed in
the watchman’s shack and watch
men have been placed on twenty
four hour duty. The clock is
-checked every morning and if a
discrepancy is found it is cor
rected. I have been getting the
time from WWV at 15 mega
cycles on a short wave receiver
so the clock is corrcet to the
second.
We have a total of 527 re
jected. tickets this year—tick
ets with no dates, blanks, im
properly marked, no names,
outside addresses, no a.m. or
p.m. checked. And believe it or
not there were 71 tickets dated
April 31. Someone should post
that little rhyme we were
taught in school: "Thirty days
hath Septemebr, etc."
Charley Wilson just came in
and reported that a new channel
is being cut on the opposite side
of the river from Mission. This
has never happened before in any
breakup. As phobably some of
you know the river has been cut
ting the bank away and slowly
working toward the mission
building. In time it will take
everything out. So if this new
channel keeps up the worries of
losing the Mission are greatly
reduced.
The Saturday after the ice
breaks there will be a dance held
in the Nenana Civic Center. We
are having live music and re
freshments. There is a nice lpdge
here for overnight accommoda
tions and a good airfield. We
would enjoy seeing anyone who
would care to come, especially
the winner or winners as the case
may be. We guarantee a real
hoe-down. If the ice goes out on
Friday or Saturday the dance
will be held the following Satur
day.
This will probably be the last
newspaper write-up but I will
keep radio stations posted as to
the conditions as they change.
Sharp Increase In
Larceny anti Auto
Thefts in Alaska
WASHINGTON, m—Reports of
Alaska’s Territorial Police show
a sharp increase during 1956 in
the number of Larcenies and auto
thefts.
The figures, contained in the
annual crime report of the Fed
eral Bureau of Investigation show
463 larcenies in 1956 as com
pared with 388 in 1955. Auto
thefts last year climbed to 376 as
contrasted with but 287 reported
for the previous 12-month period.
Other 1956-1955 comparisons
based on reports of the Territor
ial Police in the two years in
cluded (with 1955 figure in par
entheses):
Murder, non-negligent man
slaughter, 10 (11); robbery, 32,
(36); aggravated assault, 47 (60);
burglary, 103 (163).
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