U.S. Public Observes
Armed Forces Day
WASHINGTON — Stressing
1he theme “power for peace,” the
annual Armed Forces Day ob
servances opened Saturday with
a massive public showing of mis
siles, super-fast aircraft and other
weapons.
The observance will run
Ihrough May 21 and during the
period. Navy, Army and Air Force
bases across the nation will be
thrown open to perhaps millions
of Americans. Officially, Armed
Forces Day is May 20.
The kickoff for Armed Forces
Day was set at Andrews Air Force
Base in Maryland, about 11 miles
outside the capital.
More than 1,000 exhibits were
lined up for viewing by the pub
lic.
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Mobile Dial Telephone
Exchange to Replace
Smaller System in Haines
SEATTLE UP — A nine-ton
mobile dial telephone exchange,
housed in a specially designed
van, will leave here may 18 on
the Alaska Steamship MV. Ga
lena for Haines to replace a small
er, outmoded system now in use.
Installation and the “cutover”
of telephones from the old to the
new system is scheduled for June
1, C. J. McLean, vice president
and general manager of the Alas
ka Telephone Corp., said Satur
day.
He described the Haines proj
ect as “another step in our ex
pansion program in Alaska.”
The $40,000 exchange is of the
all-relay type and although
equipped initially for 240 lines
can be expanded to nearly double
that capacity, McLean said. It has
been assembled here.
New cable facilities costing
$50,000 are being installed at
Haines and long distance service
will be provided through the
Alaska Communications System
switchboard at Juneau.
TOO MUCH HOMEWORK . . .
BUDAPEST, Hungary OPI —
Communist authorities 9ay Hun
garian children are overburdened
with homework. The Ministry of
Education decreed that homework
for children 6 and 7 years old
must be more than 30 minutes,
8 and 9 year-olds one hour and
pupils 10 to 14 no more than two
hours. The decree says no child
should be expected to repeat texts
word by word, except for poems.
Skin Diver Shows
U.S. Navy How to
Descend 1,000 Feet
By Elion C. Fay
WASHINGTON UP* — A young
mathematician-diver is showing
the U. S. Navy how he can de
scend to 1,000 feet, almost twice
as deep as any previous diver.
He believes that dives down to
3,000 feet will be possible later, i
The formula of gases he uses |
in place of air for breathing is j
secret — even from the Navy.
Hannes Keller, 26, former
mathematics instructor from Win- :
terthur, Switzerland, held a news
conference at the Navy’s experi- ;
mental diving unit headquarters
here Friday. Navy diving officers
and scientists attended.
Keller said he had been diving
only during the last few years to
carry out his research. But he has
gone deeper than any professional
diver, several times passing the
open water depth record of slight
ly over 500 feet reached by a
U. S. Navy diver. In a test in
the pressurized tank used here,
another Navy' diver reached a
simulated depth of 561 feet.
Last month, Keller went down
to 1,000 feet near Toulon, France.
This was a “bounce dive,” in
which he remained on the bot
tom for only a few seconds. Total
time for the dive and return was
about 48 minutes. Using normal
diving techniques, the return from
that depth would require hours
of a slow ascent for the gradual
decompression needed to prevent
the “bends.” This is caused by
the development of nitrogen bub
bles in the bloodstream when re
Irish Sweepstake Winner
Being Held on Three
12-Year-Old Indictments
WEST WARWICK, R. I. Ufi —
The winner of $140,000 in the
Irish Sweepstakes, didn’t think the
police would remember something
that happened more than a dec
ade ago. But they did.
Albert Diorio, a Long Beach,
Calif., bus driver formerly of
Providence, R. I., is being held
on three 12-year-old indictments
charging him with breaking into
Rhode Island business establish
ments.
Diorio and his wife were to
have left New York next Wed
nesday aboard the Queen Mary
to collect the winnings and tour
Europe.
But first Diorio wanted to visit
old friends and relatives in Rhode
Island. While he was at it he
dropped into the office of the
Providence Bulletin. He volun
teered the story of his winning
and said he was going to give
$20,000 to charity.
The story appeared on page
one. The police spotted it, remem
bered him, and picked him up.
“I didn’t think it was going to
happen,” said Diorio. “I didn’t
think it would be remembered
after all these years.”
turning too rapidly from the
heavy pressure of extreme depth.
Keller said there were several
reasons for withholding informa
tion on the formula of the gases
he uses. He mentioned only one:
Fear that amateur skin divers,
using a technique still experi
mental, might be injured or
killed.
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Advanced Atlas
Missile Hits Target
5,000 Miles Away
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. UPC
An advanced Atlas missile de
signed for greater range and
heavier payload, smacked a target
5,000 miles away Frirday night
and revived Air Force hope that
the new weapon can be operation
al this year.
Driven by the most powerful
set of U. S. rocket engines ever
flown, the 85-foot intercontinental
range missile 9ped to an intended
target north of the South Atlan
tic island of Ascension. The Air
Force reported all flight objec
tives were met on the 25-minute
trip.
A 30-pound data capsule eject
ed from the nose cone and was
[ recovered by the range vessel
Sword Knot less than an hour
after it parachuted into the sea.
The capsule was packed with in
struments to record the perfor
mance of the cone, especially how
it withstood the searing 13,000
degree re-entry heat.
The success was only the sec
ond in seven firings of the new,
more powerful Atlas E model.
Most of the previous failures in
the series were traced to a faulty
hydraulics system. Engineers have
concentrated on correcting tine
trouble and officials said after
the latest flight that the problem
seems solved.
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Nome Directory
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Shrine Club
Werner Bohrer, Pres.
H. M. Crinklaw, Sec.
Meets First Thursday of Each Month
Masonic Hall
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon at
North Star Dining Room
Don Hoover, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. 1
Order of Eastern Star
Barbara Martin
Worthy Matron
Bev Morgan
Secretary
Meets First and Third Mondays
Anvil Lodge
No. 140
A. E. BOHRER, W. M.
Norvln W. Lewis, Sec.
Meets First and Third Thursday
Of Each Month
Nome Rotary Club
Robert Grant
••XQflS Dusty Rhode
Wi fy.£r Secrelary
Wednesday Luncheon
Parent-Teachers Assn.
Meets Last Tuesday of Every
Month at School
Mina Bachelder, President
Jane Foster. Secretary
—VISITORS WELCOME—
Pioneer Igloo No. 1
Meets 1st and 3rd Wednesdays
Win. H. Cameron, Pres.
Chus. D. Jones, Hedy.
Civil Air Palrol
Northwestern Group
Lt.-Col. Dusty Rhode, Cmdr.
Mnln III! Of lSB
Meetings - Monthly. I.sst Tuesday n pm,
Stuff Conferences - Each Tuesday II p in,
Group lld(|trs.. Nome Airport
Nome Cadet Squadron
1st LI. Jesse Jones, Cmdr.
Mnln llll or 334
Medliign Kadi Thursday V 00 pm