TUESDAY IS BROWNIE DAY I
AT DEXTER SCOUT CAMP
Brownie Day will be Tuesday, 1
Aug. 2 at the Dexter Girl Scout
Camp. All Brownies are to meet
at the school playground at 9:30
in the morning. Be sure to bring
your lunch, swim suit, and berry
buckets. The girls will return to
town at 4 o‘clock in the after
noon. For more information call
either Black 44 or Main 124.
DEAN BRONSON AND FAMILY
RETURN TO NOME
Dean Bronson, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Les Bronson, and his wife
Elsa and infant daughter Lisa,
returned to Nome last week from
Minneapolis, Minn. Dean is a
licensed helicopter mechanic but
is now working for the E & B
Construction Co.
They have rented a home on
3rd and Steadman and expect to
make Nome their home.
TODAY is Friday, July 29th,
the 211th day of 1960. There are
155 days left in the year.
Thought for Today: I like to
see a man proud of the place in
which he lives. I like to see a
man who lives in it so that his
place will be proud of him.
—Abraham Lincoln
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SCHOOLTEACHER NAMED
HEAD RURAL DEVELOPMENT
UNDER LOCAL AFFAIRS
JUNEAU, I/P) — A 31-year-old
native Texan, Robert E. Hoffman
of Klawock was named by Gov.
William Egan Wednesday to be
director of Rural Development
within the Local Affairs agency
in Egan’s office.
Hoffman most recently has
been superintendent of the City
Incorporated School at Klawock
and of the Bureau of Indian Af
fairs School there.
Born in Vernon, Texas, Hoff
man taught school in Dallas and
Los Angeles and in rural areas
of Texas, South Dakota and Cali
fornia before coming to Alaska.
Another Busy Weekend Here
A busy weekend is anticipated
at the airport with the arrival of
another University of Alaska tour,
I a Kodiak wives tour, U.S. Rep.
I James E. Van Zant and party, a
group of Shell Oil executives, and
a party of Ohio oil representa
tives. Hotels are expected to be
filled to capacity Saturday and
| Sunday.
1 CORAL GABLES, Fla., UP)—An
office worker choked to death, ap
parently when a dose of sleeping
pills took effect while he was eat
ing.
| Jamieson Pereira, 26, was found
slumped on the floor near his bed.
A half-eaten meal was on the
table. The medical examiner said
Pereira apparently took the pills
i before eating.
Nuclear Sub Seadragon
Will Cross From East to
West Under North Pole
PORTSMOUTH, N.H., (/Pi —The
nuclear submarine Seadragon will
leave Monday in an attempt to
make the world’s first east to west
crossing under the North Pole.
Trips under the polar ice have
been made in the other direction
by the atomic submarines Nau
tilus, Skate and Sargo.
Aboard the 268-foot, 2,360-ton
Seadragon will be a crew of 94
officers and enlisted men, and a
detachment of scientists and ob
servers,
The Seadragon, latest in the
Navy’s growing force of nuclear
attack submarines, will join the
Pacific fleet.
NEW YORK, I/P)—A bandit rob
bed a man of 63 pounds of money
Wednesday. The victim was a
route man collecting coins from
machines owned by a vending
machine company. The bag of
coins taken totaled $450.
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SCRIPPS OCEANOGRAPHY
RESEARCH VESSEL IN PORT
The white vessel in the road
stead is the R/V Hugh M. Smith
from the University of California
Scripps Institute of Oceanography
at San Diego, Calif.
The ship is on an expedition
to the Bering and Chukchi Seas
to study sediment and geology of
the sea bottoms and oceanography
of the waters.
Divers are using Aqualung
equipment and special neoprene
wet suits.
The vessel visited Kodiak, St.
Paul Island, and Unimak Pass on
the way north and will also pay
a visit to Pt. Barrow.
The naval scientific group is
headed by Dr. Hamilton and they
will debark at Pt. Barrow and
fly back to San Diego.
Trouble In the Supermarket
MIAMI, Fla., (if) — Two super
market pushcarts collided at the
intersection near the canned peas
and both “drivers” wound up in
court as a result of the ensuing
fracas.
“He just shouted ‘make way’,”
Mary Bones told the judge.
Teles Cruz countered that the
crash was an accident. But he said
Mrs. Bones grabbed a rolling pin
from the housewares department
and hit him on the head.
The judge said “$50 each.”
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CAP Cadets Receive
Achievement Awards
Last night at the regular CAP
Cadet meeting, pre - encampment
achievement awards were pre
sented to the following Cadets:
Achievement 1, Phase II: Clin
ton Gray Jr., and Carolyn John
son; Achievement II and III,
Charles Burnett and David Grant;
Achievement V, Thomas Boucher.
Promotions: T ^Sgt. Thomas
Boucher to Sqdn. Flight NCO;
C/lst David Grant to acting com
munications officer; C/3rd Clinton
Gray to Sqdn. leader.
Cadet meeting of Aug. 4 will be
devoted to final details and pre
parations for the annual summer
encampment. Seven Cadets will
depart the following weekend for
Elmendorf AFB to participate in
the two weeks encampment. They
are:
Acting Cadet Commander
M/Sgt. Grant Doyle, Acting
Flight Leader T/Sgt. Douglas Lee,
Acting Fit. NCO T/Sgt. Thomas
I Boucher, Acting Communications
Officer C/lst David Grant, Sup
ply NCO C/lst Charles Burnett,
Acting Sqdn. Leader C/3rd Clin
ton Gray Jr., Chaplain’s Assistant
C/3rd Carolyn Johnson.
Whittier Wood Treating
Concern Granted 5-Year
Industrial Tax Exemption
JUNEAU, IP) — A certificate of
industrial tax exemption has been
granted to the Kopper’s Co. of
Pittsburgh, Pa., for a five year
period, Commissioner A. H. Ro
mick of the Department of Com
merce said yesterday.
The company is currently con
structing a $370,000 wood treat
ing plant at Whittier for turning
out pressure - treated poles, ties,
piling, switch-ties and lumber.
Romick said the company an
ticipated sales of some $1,800,000
during the first five years of op
eration.
It will be the only industry of
its kind within the state, Romick
said, and it will use Alaska raw
materials in its manufacturing
process.
Warsaw Readers Are Skeptics
WARSAW, Poland, UP) — A re
cent poll of Warsaw newspaper
readers showed 23 per cent don’t
believe what the Polish press
writes about the country’s econ
omic situation, the weekly Zycie
Gospodarcze reports. Forty-three
per cent regarded the reports as
“mostly authentic.”
Nome Directory
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon at
North Star Dining Room
Pearse Walsh, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO 1
Order of Eastern Star
kRuth Reed
Worthy Matron
Verna Mickelson
y Secretary
Meets first and third Mondays
ANVIL LODGE
No. 140
BYRON G. REED. W.M.
Norvln W. Lewis, Sec.
Meets First and Third Thursday
of Each Month
NOME ROTARY CLUS
Robert Grant
President
Dusty Rhode
Secretary
J Wednesday Luncheo
Parent-Teachers Assn.
Meets last Tuesday of every
month at School.
! MINA BACHELDER, Presider
JANE FOSTER, Secretary
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