Prospector’s Pick and Shovel Being Replaced
By Station Wagon and Portable Assay Kit
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Permanent Authority
Recommended for
Alaska Airlines
WASHINGTON, WV-C^vil Aer
onautics Board Examiner Joseph
L. Fitzmaurice recommended Fri
day that Alaska Airlines be given
permanent authority for jts
routes.
The examiner’s “initial deci
sion,:’ scheduled to be affirmed
by the CAB within a few days, is
one of a series involving all the
airlines in Alaska. Congress has
instructed the CAB to give per
manent certificates to the com
panies, which heretofore have
been operating under temporary
authority.
Alaska Airlines serves Anchor
age, Nome, and a number of
smaller towns in the territory.
Russia Is Holding 129
Japanese Fishermen
TOKYO, lit—The Maritime
Safety Board said Saturday Rus
sia is holding 129 Japanese fisher
men captured in Soviet waters
since the end of World War II.
The announcement said the
number includes eight men who
were captured in 1949.
At least 12 fishermen—and per
haps two more—died while in
captivity, the board said.
Russia agreed to release all
Raptured fishermen after Japan
and the Soviet Union restored
diplomatic relations last week.
NEW CAR'S DESIGN HELPS
POLICE CATCH BURGLAR
DALY CITY, alif., WV-The de
sign of those new low-slung cars
came to the aid of police yester
day.
They found an intruder under
a 1957 model in an automobile
showroom.
“Come out!” called Sgt. Dave
Hanson.
“I can’t,” was the answer. “I’m
stuck.”
Officers jacked up the car and
released the man. They booked
Winfred Ivanhoe, 26, on suspi
cion of burglary, prowling and
vagrancy.
SENATOR SEES NO
TAX CUT LIKELY
WASHINGTON, UB—Sen. Byrd
iD-WVa) says it is “very evident”
that federal taxes cannot be cut
any time soon unless the govern
ment cuts back on foreign -aid
and non-military spending at
home.
Byrd, chairman of the Senate
Finance Committee which han
dles tax legislation, said yester
day that “in the present state of
the world, defense expenditures
should not be reduced and may
have to be increased.”
Over 1,000 Japanese
Await Repatriation
In Siberian Port
TOKYO, 144—Soviet Charge
D’Affaires Sergei Tikhvinsky no
tified the foreign ministry today
that about 1,034 Japanese are
awaiting repatriation at Nakhod
ka, Siberian port southeast of
Vladivostok.
Tikhvinsky said the repatriates
included former war criminals
released from Russian prison
camps, fishermen seized in Rus
sian waters and civilians desiring
to return home.
Release of the repatriates nad
awaited the recent ratification of
the Japan-Soviet peace agree
ment.
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Bird and Buck Winners
Larry Galvin reported, today
that only two turkeys have been
claimed so far: the one previously
reported by James Savok, and
one by John Bell.
One more ‘Lucky Buck,’ worth
$10 in trade at the Hardware
Store or UfS. Merc, was brought
in by Sgt. Bob Royce of the ACS.
ARCTIC SANITARY
SERVICE
PHONE RED 181
SEATTLE, Of)—The prospector
riding his faithful burro and car
rying a pick-axe is passing slow
ly over the horizon and his suc
cessor coming into view is driving
a station wagon with its own
portable assay kit.
That’s the picture painted by a
University of Washington geolo
gy lecturer and the U.S. Geologi
cal Survey in a bulletin issued by
the Montana Bureau of Mines,
describing new prospecting meth
ods being tried in Montana.
Forbes Robertson, of the Uni
versity, and J. H. McCarthy Jr.
and H. W. Lakif of the Geologi
cal Exploration Section of the
US. Geological Survey are co
authors of the bulletin.
Describing future prospecting
methods, the report says the pros
pector will halt his station wagon
at what he considers a likely i
spot and scrape up samples of i
surface sail. Then he will use his
portable kit to make his own
analyses.
If a series of analyses show j
progressively promising results, I
the prospector can plant a stake;
and announce:
“Thar’s gold in them thar
mountains.”
Robertson said geologists know ,
it isn’t always necessary to see i
ore to determine its presence.
Part of the ore was washed away
thru the centuries, and some soils,
particularly where there is sur
face vegetation, retain enough of
the metal to be analyzed.
The metals easiest to find by
this method are copper, lead,
zinc and manganese, the geolo
gists said. But gold also can be
identified if arsenic is present.
The report says simple and
comparatively cheap analyses can
detect concentrations of only 10
parts per million.
The geologists report the show
ing of metal becomes stronger as
samples are taken closer to a
buried ore body, and the surface
tests make it possible it establish
the exact location of underground
wealth.
But they warn this is not a
quick way to riches.
“It’s a new tool, comparable to
the miners' gold pan,” they said.
Robertson said the soil analysis
method is being used in some
■parts of the world by big mining
companies and tests made in
Montana indicate it would work
there “or anywhere else where
conditions are right.”
U.S. to Allocate
$4 Million More
To Aid Refugees
WASHINGTON, Ul—President
Eisenhower announced Saturday
that the United States is allocat
ing an additional $4 million for
assistance to Hungarian refugees.
One million dollars was set aside
earlier.
A White House announcement
said the new contribution will
“assist the Austrian government
working in cooperation with the
high commissioner (the U.S. high
i commissioner for refugees), the
International Red Cross ai ' other
intergovernmental and vc. ary
agencies, in meeting the i vy
demands placed upon the R". ub
lic of Austria by the arrival of
these refugees.”
The money will be- delivered,
probably this week, to the secre
tary general of the United Na
tions.
The money will come from the
President’s emergency $100 mil
lion fund authorized in the Mu
tual Security Act.
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GIRL GETS POLICE HELP
IN 'SHAKING' BOYFRIENDS I
MIDDLETON, Ohio., UPV—Mid
dletown Law Director Tilmon El- I
lison yesterday received a tele- !
phone plea from an irate girl for
professional assistance in “shak- ;
ing” two boy friends.
A policeman who went to the I
girl’s house found the two swains j
throwing rocks at the home, try- J
ing to coax her out.
The policeman said he coun- j
seled the pair on the futility of
trying to change a woman’s mind, i
The two boys, both 9, accepted !
his advice and left the house of
their 8-year-old sweetheart.
ATTENTION O.E.S.
There will be no meeting of
the Order of Eastern Stars this
meeting will be on Jan. 7, 1957.
Emily Boucher, acting W.M.
Pilot Crashes Plane
Rather Than Hit Kids
DALLAS Iff)—Aubrey Crutcher,
53, of Houston was piloting two
friends to Dallas after a deer hunt
when he ran out of gas coming in
to land yesterday.
He started to make a forced
landing on a playground when he
spotted a group of children at
play.
Police said he deliberately
stalled his twin-engined light
plane, vaulted to one side and
crashed “just to keep from hit
ting that bunch of kids.”
Crutcher suffered a mouth cut;
L. H. True of Dallas received a
broken nose, and J. A. William
son, 48, of Houston escaped in
jury.
MMM HOSPITAL
Admitted: Curwood Olson.
Discharged: Carl Katuk, David
Soule, Martha Teayoumeak.
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