U.S. is Building 50 Towns In Canada
SOMEWHERE ON THE DEW
LINE MP)—Fifty new hamlets are
a-building in the Canadian arctic,
courtesy of the United States.
There t-e the main radar sites
in the DEW (Distant Early Warn
ing) radar line being built by the
United States across 3,000 barren
miles from Frobisher Bay in
southern Baffin Island to Tuktoy
aktuk on the Beaufort Sea near
the Alaska border. They will be
manned by about 1,000 men hired
by a civilian contractor the United
States will select to operate the
new line.
When the line comes into oper
ation, possibly next year, each of
these stations will be staffed by
about 200 men, including some
Eskimos as maintenance workers.
5,000 Men on the Job
About 5,000 men, including car
penters, electricians, engineers,
pilots and stevedores, are engaged
in erecting the electronic fence,
roughly along the 70th parallel
and some 250 miles above the
arctic circle.
The DEW Line will provide the
initial alarm of any air attack on
North America coming from the
Pole. The second alarm will be
given by the mid-Canada line
along the 55th parallel, and the
third by the Pinetree radar‘net
work, along the 50th parallel.
The radar and electronic equip
ment for the quarter-billion-dollar
Canadian section of the DEW Line
—it extends on the flanks into
Alaska and Greenland—won’t be
moved in until the buildings are
ready, maytye this summer. There
will be 7 to 10 buildings at each
site.
Airlift Problems
Temperatures up here now run
to 20 or even 30 degrees below
zero. The first planes lifting ma
terial in had to land on ice and
carry in tractors to build land
airstrips. It doesn’t begin to thaw
out in this region until June. U.S.
Air Force C-124 Globemasters
hauled 20-ton tractors and heavy
earth-moving equipment. At some
sites, it was impossible for any
plane to land. Tractors had to be
parachuted down.
Construction of the buildings
presented a serious problem be
cause of permafrost. Wooden or
steel pile foundations have been
used. Aluminum-sheathed panels
were used in the prefabricated
buildings, put together at major
sites and then hauled, sometimes
hundreds of miles, to their final
destination on tractor trains.
Power at all sites is provided by
diesel electric generators. Some of
the larger DEW Line stations will
require 1,200 to 1,300 tons of die
sel fuel a year.
Russians Are Helping
Oddly enough, the Russians are
helping—indirectly, of course—in
construction of the DEW Line.
Weather data supplied by the
Russians, including information
from Soviet ice islands in the cen
tral arctic basin and other north
ern stations, is put to good use in
forecasting weather in the Cana
dian north. Accurate forecasts of
weather are important in DEW
Line construction because of the
airlift. Canada receives up to 1,000
weather reports from Russia ev
ery 24 hours. In return, Canada
broadcasts about 800 a day for
Russia and all other countries.
Ordinance No. 374
An ordinance of ihe City of
Nome, Alaska, requiring compli
ance with the laws of the Terri
tory of Alaska relative to licenses
required for the operation of
motor vehicles.
Be it ordained and enacted by
the Common Council of the City
of Nome, Alaska, as follows:
Section 1. No person shall oper
ate anv motor vehicle within the
Ci'.y of Nome, Alaska, unless he
is licensed as an operator or
chauffer as required by the laws
of the Territory of Alaska, and
unless he has any license so grant
ed in his possession at all times
while operating a motor vehicle,
and no person shall violate any
condition or privilege of such
license.
Section 2. No person shall per
mit an unlicensed driver to oper
ate any motor vehicle owned by
him, within the City of Nome.
Section 3. No person whose op
erator’s or chauffeur’s license has
been suspended, revoked or re
fused shall drive any motor ve
hicle within the City of Nome
while such license is suspended,
revoked, or refused.
Section 4. No person shall oper
ate any motor vehicle within the
City of Nome, Alaska, unless such
vehicle possess a valid current
Registration and license plate is
sued annually under the laws of
the Territory of Alaska.
Section 5. Penalty: Any person
convicted of the violation of this
ordinance shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor and shall be
punished by a fine of not more
than One Hundred Dollars ($100),
or by imprisonment for not more
than thirty (30> days, or by both
such fine and imprisonment. Each
act of violation and every day
upon which any such violation
shall occur shall constitute a sep
arate offense. r u
Passed and approved by the
Common Council of the City of
Nome, Alaska, at regular meeting
assembled this 26th day of March,
1056.
Steffen Andersen
Mayor
Attest: Carrie M. McLain
City Clerk
Publ. Mar. 28, 30, Apr. 2, ,1956.
JOHN DAVIS, PIONEER
MINER, DIES AT 85
John Davis. pioneer miner at
Dawson, Cordova, Nome and Chi
sana in Alaska’s early days, died
at. Providence Hospital in An
chorage at the age of 85 on Feb.
21. He had made his home the
past four years with Mr. and Mrs.
Carl J. Quist.
Mr. Davis was born in Provi
dence, R.I.j on Dec. 1, 1870 and
had lived in the area for the past
50 years. No next of kin are
known.
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Astronomy Notes
By OLAF HALVERSON
Like a beacon light shining!
high up in the sky, so shines our
present evening star, Venus, in
the western sky. It will reach its
greatest distance cast of the sun
on April 12.
Sometimes a faint, grayish light
is observed on the dark side of
the planet when it is nearest the
earth. This was once thought to
be a reflection from a e6ld and
frozen hemisphere, but a more
likely suggestion hints that it
may be an electrical manifestation
in the planet’s atmosphere, simi
lar to our aurora.
Venus is second in order from
the sun and revolves next within
the earth’s orbit at a mean dis
tance of 67 million miles from the
sun, completing the circuit in 225
days. Its orbit is the most circular
in the planetary system. Its diam
eter is 7,700 miles. It resembles
the earth in size but differs in
rotation and atmosphere.
Actor Alec Guiness
Becomes Roman Catholic
LONDON mV—Alec Guinnes, 42,
British actor who played the part
of a cardinal brainwashed by
Communists in the film “The
Prisoner,” said Saturday he has
become a Roman Catholic.
“It was not a sudden decision.
I have been interested in the Ro
man Catholic faith for years,”
Guiness said.
He added, however, that re
search for his part of the cardinal
subjected to Communist pressures
in the film “made me go into the
subject of Catholicism a bit more
than I had before.”
Guiness’ 15-year-old son Mat
thew became a Catholic six
months ago. Mrs. Guiness is not
a Catholic.
CLEANING, LUBRICATING,
REPAIRING, ADJUSTING
Adding Machines
and Typewriters
For First Cless Work
Contact
JUKE BOX STEVE
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Fii •es Last Year
In Federal Forests
14% Under 1954
WASHINGTON, WV—Forest and
range fires burned over 464,803
acres of Interior Department
lands during 1955, compared with
1,624,701 acres burned in 1954,
Secretary McKay reported Satur
day.
McKay said there were 1,951
fires on Interior lands during
1955, a decrease of 323, or 14 per
cent, from the 1954 total.
He said the burned-over area
of 464,803 acres for last year com
pared with an average annual
burned acreage of 1,084,064 dur
ing the past 10 years. The number
of fires was 547 less than the 10
year average.
The worst fires last year were
three at the Okefenokee National
Wildlife Refuge in Georgia which
burned across 284,230 acres.
By contrast, 190 fires in Alaska
burned across only 23,582 acres
of federal land. That made 1955
one of the best years of record, so
far as fire loss in Alaska was
concerned.
NOTICE OF ELECTION
Notice is hereby given that the
Annual Municipal and School
Board Election of the City of
Nome and Nome School District,
will be held on April 3, 1956 at
the City Hall. Nome, Alaska, for
the purpose of electing the follow
ing officers, vis:'
Mayor; three members of the
Common Council; a City Clerk;
City Treasurer; one member of
the School Board; one member of
the Nome Light & Power Utility
Board. And I hereby certify that
the following named candidates
have been regularly nominated in
accordance with City Ordinance,
pertaining to same, to wit:
For Mayor: Steffen Andersen.
For Councilmen: Wilbur T. Ar
nold, Lester Bronson, Fred Cav
ota. Chas. W. Frazier, "Bob"
! Lewis.
For City Clerk: Carrie M. Mc
Lain.
For City Treasurer: James M.
McLean.
For Member of School Board:
Lorena Gray.
For Member of Nome Light &
; Power Utility Board: Allan G.
Doyle, Pearse M. Walsh.
Polls will open at 8:00 o'clock
a.m. and close at 6:00 o'clock p.m.
Carrie M. McLain, City Clerk
Pub. March 30, April 2. 1956.
Boy, 10, Finds
New Life Instead
Orphan
FORT WORTH, Tex. UR—David
Massey, a shy, blackhaired 10
year-old, found a new life on a
Good Friday that started out to
be the darkest day of his memory.
The youngster found his mother
dead in her bed when he went to
house her for breakfast.
Mrs. Maude Massey, 41, who
suffered from rheumatic fever for
many years, was the last close rel
ative the boy had. Other relatives
had large families and couldn't
take care of him. ,
David faced life as an orphan.
Then City Patrolman E. R. For
ister was sent to investigate the
death. The boy and the policeman
sat down for a long talk. At the
end there was a handshake and
David had a family.
Forister and his wife, who have
never been'able to have children
during their 17 years of marriage,
decided to adopt David.
THREE RUSSIAN SCIENTISTS
ARRIVE IN NEW YORK FOR
NUCLEAR PHYSICS MEETING
NEW YORK, UP) — Three Rus
sian scientists flew here today
from Stockholm enroute to the
sixth annual nuclear physics con
ference starting tomorrow at the
University of Rochester, N.Y.
They declined to be interviewed j
one of them declaring:
“We are not politicians. We are;
scientists. Therefrfre, it is not j
necessary.”
Food From “Quo Vadis”
Banquet Scene Was
Donated To The Needy
More than 700 pounds of food
used in a spectacular banquet
sequences of "Quo Vadis," an
M-G-M epic production now
showing at The Theater, found its
way into the stomachs of needy
Italian children.
For the elaborate scene, depict
ing the Emperor Nero’s testimon
ial banquet for his victorious
commanders, 12 of Rome’s leading
chefs worked 24 hours to prepare
a cold repast that included three
roasted hogs, six turkeys and >15
baked chickens.
Because of the large number of
closeup shots and the fact that
“Quo Vadis” was filmed in Tech
nicolor, it was decided to use ac
tual food rather than props. At
the close of the day’s filming, Di
rector Mervyn LeRoy and Produc
er Sam Zimbalist ordered any
untouched food to be distributed
among five relief agencies.
Robert Taylor and Deborah
Kerr head a cast of thousands in
the thrilling story of the birth of
Christianity in a pagan world.
BROUGHT BACK TO EARTH
SALT LAKE CITY, WV-Art.
Cartier, 83, drove his brand new
car slowly down the sloping, spa
cious University of Utah lawns'
Friday. The front wheels went off,
a four-foot concrete embankment
at the sidewalk, and the car skid
ed to a halt on its frame.
“I was thinking at the time
of a very beautiful lady friend of
mine,” he said.
Guaranteed Lang and Olympic
Dependable Ranges
Fuel Service Quaker Oil
. T> J HEATERS
LP Gas and
Gas Appliances STOVE PARTS
Main 152 and repairs
GREEN’S
CITY FUEL & TRANSFER
YOU ARE
CORDIALLY INVITED
TO DINE AND DANCE
AT THE NEW J
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Pan American Presents
A NEW SCHEDULE
For Nome's Spring and Summer Service
Lv Seattle 1:00 a.m. Tues. & Sat. Flight 903 DC-6'B
Ar Fairbanks 5:00 a.m.
Lv Fairbanks 9:30 a.m. Tues. & Sat. Flight 903 DC-4
Ar NOME 11:30 a.m. Tues. & Sat.
Lv NOME 3:30 p.m. Tues. & Sat. Flight 902 DC-4
Ar Fairbanks 7:30 p.m.
Lv Fairbanks 10:00 p.m. Tues. & Sat. Flight 902 DC-«B
Ar Seattle 5:45 a.m. Wed. & Sun.
SCHEDULE EFFECTIVE APRIL 3, 1956
All Times Shown Are Local Standard for City Indicated
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