Geri Fagerstrom
Back From States
As CAP Cadet
Geraldine Fagerstrom, lieutenant
with the Civil Air Patrol Cadqts,
lust returned from her first trip
to the States, having been a CAP
Cadet representative to Michigan
and one of eight girls to be chosen
from the territory.
With her on the trip were three
girls from Juneau and four from
Anchorage. Two chaperones in
cluded an officer of CAP from
Anchorage and an Air Force
WAF.
The trip was made, Geri stat
ed, in a variety of military trans
portation and in Michigan the
girls were greeted by CAP Cadet
groups in Birmingham, Flint,
Grand Rapids, Muskegon and oth
er places.
Some of the highlights included
a trip through Greenfield Village,
which is an historical center in
Michigan, and a boat ride at the
Detroit Yacht Club. The girls
were also on a television show.
When queried about what she
liked best about her first trip to
the States Geri unhesitatingly
replied, “Escalators.”
Before she left Nome, Gerry
had been presented with $50 for
spending money from the Front
Street merchants. She expresses
her deep gratitude for this kind
ness.
Work Is Under Way on
Underwater Cable System
Linking Alaska Points
WASHINGTON, UfV-The Army
announced yesterday that work is
already under way on a 370-mile
underwater cable system linking
Skagway, Ketchikan and other
Alaskan points.
When completed, the Signal
Corps system will be linked at
Ketchikan with an 800-mile sub
marine cable planned by the Am
erican Telephone and Telegraph
Co. to supply additional commu
nications between Alaska and Port
Angeles, Washington.
The Signal Corps section of the
system, to cost about $6,750,000,
is expected to be completed by
late 1956 and will provide capac
ity for 36 telephone circuits. Tele
phone service between Alaska and
the 48 states is currently handled
over 14 radio and land line cir
cuits operated by the Alaska Com
munication System, a branch of
the Army Signal Corps.
The cable for the Signal Corps
section is being manufactured by
the Simplex Cable Corp., Ports
mouth, N.H. When completed, the
cable will be loaded on an Army
ship and transported through the
Panama Canal and up to Alaska.
Cable laying operations are
scheduled to start in Alaska next
spring.
KOREAN ARMISTICE
ANNIVERSARY UNNOTICED
SEOUL, W)—The first anniver
sary of the Korean armistice
passed virtually unnoticed here
Tuesday.
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Nome Drug Store
Interior Official
To Visit Nome
By Mary Lee Council
Secretary to E. L. Bartlett,
Delegate to Congress from Alaska
Assistant Secretary of the In
terior Felix E. Wormser will leave
for Alaska on Aug. 3 and is sched
uled to visit in Juneau, Fairbanks,
Barrow, Kotzebue, Nome, McKin
ley Park and Anchorage, accord
ing to information given Delegate
Bartlett this week.
Mr. Wormser, assistant secre
tary for mineral resources, will be
accompanied by Mrs. Wormser;
Dr. John C. Reed, staff coordina
tor for the Geological Survey; As
sistant Director T. H. Miller of the
Bureau of Mines; and S. H. Lor
ain, regional director in Alaska
for the Bureau of Mines. The in
terior officials plan to visit many
mining areas in the territory.
Hen’s eggs hatch after being
held at the proper temperature
for 21 days.
Statehood Chances
This Session Nil
WASHINGTON, W—Any lin
gering possibility that Congress
would vote at the current session
to take Hawaii and Alaska into
the Union as states was wiped out
late Monday.
The House Rules Committee, by
voice vote, has decided against
sending separate House and Sen
ate bills to conference to iron out
differences.
The House had voted statehood
for Hawaii, as the Eisenhower
Administration had asked, but the
Senate voted to give statehood to
both Hawaii and Alaska. The
Rules Committee decision, taken
after months of inaction, blocks
efforts to reach a compromise.
Chairman A. L. Miller (R-Neb)
of the House Interior Committee
laid the vote killed statehood leg
islation for this session.
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