TOTAL STATE LAND FILINGS
REACH 1.788.000 ACRES
ANCHORAGE, UP) — A 19,000
acrc selection in the Big Delta
area yesterday brought total
state land filings to more than
1,788,000 acres since the state be
gan its land acquisition program
nearly a year ago.
PERFECT ATTENDANCE
Nor the second Six-Week Period)
Fifth Grade, Mr. Woodiel —
Douglas Doyle, George Eningo
wuk, Billy Leight, Richard Pau
wok, Theresa Walsh, Myra Takak,
Rosy Atuk, Gloria Buchanan,
Nancy Gray, Betty Hoogendorn,
Dolores Johanson.
Sixth Grade, Mrs. Dunbar —
Ernest Dimmick, James Gillis,
Lloyd Hardy, Pat Straub, John
Towner, George Tucker, Susan
Conklin, Patsy Longley, Laura
Walker, Floyd Pauwok.
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Pure, Natural Water
Bartlett Tells Senate
Alaska Needs 71st Air
Rescue Squadron
.WASHINGTON, UP) — Senator
Bartlett told the Senate yesterday
Alaskans are apprehensive con
cerning an Air Force decision to
de-activate the 71st Air Rescue
Squadron at Elmendorf Air Base
in the spring.
“Perhaps no area in the world
has greater need of air rescue and
search operations than Alaska,”
Bartlett said. He added he doubted
the Civil Air Patrol and Alaska
National Guard can offset loss of
the 71st.
He noted the Squadron per
formed 267 search and rescue
missions in the last two years.
“Risk for risk,” Bartlett said,
“We believe that the cause of
air safety and human lives has
unquestionable priority over the
cause of budgetary savings.”
BUTTING IN . . .
HOLLYWOOD, Fla., UP) — The
sign over the store said “Smith’s
Drive-In Drugs.”
So Sol Stavis drove in yester
day, smack through the drug
store’s plate glass display win
dow. Stavis, 47, was attempting to
park when his foot slipped off the
brake and hit the accelerator.
Three customers suffered cuts
from flying glass. Merchandise
got a good scrambling.
Fine Job Printing At The Nugget.
HOPES ARE DIM FOR PASSAGE
OF EMPLOYMENT SECURITY
FUND REPAYMENT MEASURE
JUNEAU, ypi — Prospects were
regarded as dim today for a new
bill on the question of Alaska’s
employment security fund, intro
duced yesterday by Rep. Bruce
Kendall, House Minority Leader.
The bill calls for an appro
priation of $8,750,000 to reimburse
the federal government for loans
made to the fund. Kendall said it
is necessary to repay an obligation
incurred by the .territory and state
in trying to keep the fund func
tioning.
NEW LAS VEGAS
RESTAURANT RAZED BY FIRE
■LAS VEGAS, Nev., i/t) — An
expensively furnished restaurant
that opened less than a week ago
was wrecked by fire an an explo
sion Monday night. Damage was
estimated by the operators at a
million dollars. No one was
injured.
The restaurant, named the Aku
Aku, was next door to the Star
dust Hotel.
WEATHER FORECAST
Variable cloudiness with light
snow. Little change in tempera
ture.
Nome data in the past 24 hours:
highest temp. 17, lowest -12. Max.
wind 32 mph from the south. Sun
rise at 8:38 a.m. sunset 3:54 p.m.
A year ago today: highest temp.
22, lowest 6. Extremes on this
date since 1907: highest 38 in
1913, lowest -37 in 1947.
Shooting Begins Anew
On Syrian-Israeli Border
JERUSALEM, GW — Syrians an
nounced shooting resumed on the
Syrian-Israeli frontier today.
A Damascus spokesman for the
United Arab Republic’s army said
U.A.R. outposts had shot up a
five-man Israeli patrol seen mov
ing toward their positions and
that Israeli machine gunners then
opened fire.
The machine-gun fire possibly
was intended to cover the opera
tion of dragging away the killed
or wounded members of the Is
raeli patrol, the spokesman said.
“The patrol was ambushed by
our fire, and all its members fell
down,” he said.
At Tel Aviv, an Israeli Foreign
Ministry spokesman said Syrian
soldiers seemed to be clinging to
fortified positions in the Tawafik
area in defiance of a United Na
tions request that they withdraw.
FOR DAUGHER'S PRIVACY
HANOVER, Mass., UP) — A spe
cial town meeting voted 440 to
140 Monday night to provide in
dividual shower booths and dress
ing compartments for girls attend
ing Hanover’s new high school.
After the school opened De
cember 2, parents protested when
they learned there were no parti
tions in the shower section re
served for their daughters.
Funds for the alterations must
be obtained at the annual town
meeting in March.
SCORCHY SMITH
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Russia anti Britain
Plan Supersonic
Transport Planes
WASHINGTON, M — The Civil
Aeronautics Board told Congress
Monday that the Russians and
British are reported planning for
an operating supersonic air trans
port between 1965 and 1968.
If the giant, faster-than-sound
planes are built elsewhere in the
world, the CAB said, “the favored
position enjoyed by American
civil aircraft manufacturers might
be lost for decades.”
Describing his agency as in
creasingly concerned about such
a plane being developed by a for
eign nation, CAB chairman James
R. Durfee sent its evaluation to
Sen. Warren Magnuson (D-Washl,
chairman of the Senate Commerce
Committee.
Magnuson said the letter “con
firms my worst fears that Amer
ica’s leadership in commercial jet
passenger and cargo planes is in
great jeopardy.”
“America must not lose the race
for a supersonic cargo and pas
senger plane, nor lag as" badly as
it does in the race for space,”
Magnuson said.
He added that he had asked the
aviation subcommittee to arrange
for a meeting with the CAB.
If the supersonic transport
comes into being in the next dec
ade, Durfee said, between 100 and
200 such planes could meet all
requirements for the long distance
routes.
Such an aircraft, traveling at
2,000 miles an hour, carrying 80
to 160 passengers, could hop from
New York to Rome, Paris or
Frankfurt in about two hours, the
CAB said. Their cost was esti
mated at 12 to 25 million dollars
each.
Stamp Commemorating
Hawaii Statehood to be
Issued Next July 4
WASHINGTON, UP» — A special
four-cent stamp commemorating
Hawaii statehood will be placed
on sale first at the Honolulu Post
Office on July 4, the day the 50
star flag becomes official. .
Sen. Hiram Fong (R-Hawaii)
said lVz million of the 50-star
flag stamps have been allocated
for sale in Hawaii and the Hono
lulu Postmaster, Ernest T. Hara,
may request more from the 120
million issue.
Nome Directory
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon at
North Star Dining Room
Russell Hermann, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. I.
Order of Eastern Star
Ruth Reed
Worthy Matron
Verna Mickelson
Secretary
Meets first and third Mondays
ANVIL LODGE
No. 140
BYRON G. REED, W.M.
Norvin W. Lewis, Sec.
Meets First and Third Thursday
of Each Month
NOME ROTARY CLUB
Ash Craft
President
Herb Jenks
Secretary
Wednesday Luncheor
Parent-Teachers Assn.
Meets last Tuesday of every
month at School.
WERNER BOHRER, President
VESTA SUNDSTROM, Secty.
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