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ST. JOSEPH'S CHURCH
Steadman and Third Ave.
REV. NEIL MURPHY. S.J.
Sunday Masses
7:00 and 9:00 a.m.
4:00 p.m. at Air Force Base
Daily Mass
8:00 a.m.
Saturday Confessions
4:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE
at Third and Division
LEWIS I. HUDGINS, pastor
Sunday
10:00 a.m. — Sunday School
11:00 a.m. — Morning Worship.
6:30 p. m. — N. Y. P. S. Young People’s
Meeting.
7:30 p.m.—Evangelistic Service.
Tuesday
7:30 p.m. — Cottage Prayer Service
Wednesday
7:30 p.m.—Midweek Prayer Meeting.
Come with your Bible and friends.
You are invited to enjoy with us
any and all of these services.
THE FRIENDLY CHURCH
WITH THE SINGING TOWER
COMMUNITY METHODIST
CHURCH
and LAVINIA WALLACE YOUNG
COMMUNITY CENTER
“There’s a Christian welcome here”
Second Avenue at West C Street
REEVES C. HAVENS, JR., minister
MISS ESTHER McCOY
DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY CENTER
Sunday
9:45 - Sunday School classes for all ages
11:00—Worship service. The message will
be “Conference Echoes."
3:30—Hospital service
7— Gospel Hour of singspiration, special
music ana message.
8— Youth Hour of song, fellowship and
topic: "Is it wrong to take a chance?”
8:45 p.m. —Community Hymn Sing in
the LWY Clubhouse, directed by the
youth of the Protestant Churches of
Nome.
Thursday
7:30 p.m.-Prayer service and Bible study
THE EVANGELICAL MISSION
COVENANT CHURCH
Front St. and West B
REV. PAUL B. F. CARLSON ano
REV. ROALD AMUNDSEN, pastors
Sunday
10:00 a.m.—Sunday School
11:00 a.m.—Worship Service
Rev. Ralph P. Hanson, speaking
7:30 p.m.—Evening Service
With Rev. Ralph P. Hanson,
Secretary of Foreign Missions,
delivering the message
Monday
Covenant Navigators
Tuesday
Cottage Prayer Service
Thursday
7:30 p.m.—Prayer Service at Church
Friday
Services and Songs in Eskimo Dialect
INVITATION TO BID
Sealed bids in single copy will
be received until 10:00 a.m. Aug
ust 1, 1953, and publicly opened in
the office of the Director of Avia
tion, Department of Aviation,
Room 202 Glover Bldg., Anchor
age, Alaska, for the following
work to be performed:
Transportation to include neces
sary longshoring of the following
equipment:
Two D-8 Tractors with Dozer
One Carryall (LeTourneau) 12
c.y. capacity
One No. 12 Cat Grader
The above listed equiomeni is
to be transported from Cape Ro
manzof to Hooper Bay on or be
fore August 15, 1953.
TERRITORY OF ALASKA
Tony Schwamm,
Director of Aviation,
Dept, of Aviation,
91 Box 2215, Anchorage
Atoruk-Sheldon Wedding
Roger Atoruk and Mary Shel
don of Kiana were married yes
terday toy the U.S. Commissioner,
Helen Bockman. Attendants at the
wedding were Clifton Jackson and
Vera Huff. Roger is employed by
the U.S. Smelting Company.
ARCTIC OIL DELIVERY
WE CHECK YOUR TANK REGULARLY
Ben Young
Phone BLACK 76 (Shop) or MAIN 52 (Residence)
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Alaska, Canada Vie For Power From
Yukon R. Headwaters — Alaska Has
Plant Site, Canada Has Water Source
By LOUIS R. HUBER <
Special Nome Nugget Correspondent
JUNEAU, Alaska—There’s pow
er to burn in the lakes and streams
of the Yukon River headwaters
over the border in Canada near
hear.
Question is, who’s going to burn
it?
American and Canadian firms
both have expressed their earnest
desire to do so. Both have plans
for building huge metallurgical
plants to be run by this power.
Because of the geography of
this region, hydroelectric plants
can only be built on the Alaska
side of the border—at sea level,
on the coast, where a tremendous
“head” or pressure of water can
be developed.
But the water, thousands of feet
high and on the far side of coastal
mountains, lies in Canada.
Some kind of cooperative ar
rangement should be worked out,
it would seem. So far in this Solo
mon like situation, however, only
three major developments have
occurred.
First, the Aluminum Company
of America late last summer an
j nounced it would drive a couple
of 21-mile-long tunnels through
the mountains at Taiva Inlet near
Skagway, in order to reach and
tap the Yukon’s source waters
--- provided Canadian permission
were granted.
Alcoa said it would build a
S400.000.000 power plant and alu
minum smelter. To this it would
bring large tonnages of alumina
from other parts of the world.
Second, Canada unofficially but
firmly turned a cold shoulder to
this proposal. It would be a fine
thing, Canada hinted, if she were
to turn all her mighty waters
over to enrich an American com
pany!
Third, a combination of large
Canadian mining firms came into
the picture by obtaining lease
transfers and contracting for de
velopment of a large iron deposit
at Klukwan, near Haines, Alaska.
This is only a few miles from the
Alcoa Taiya project.
The Canadian firms also an
nounced they intend to harness
the Yukon’s headwaters by means
of a plan similar to Alcoa’s—but
situated on the Taku River 35
miles east of here.
Spearheaded by Quebec Metal
lurgical Industries, an affiliate of
Ventures, Ltd., of Toronto, the
Canadian enterprisers already are
probing the iron deposit—said to
contain several billion tons of ti
taniferous magnetite — and are
making a survey of the Yukon’s
sources.
Although the Klukwan iron de
posit seems to be the chief objec
tive of the Canadian venture, the
smelter that would be built near
here would be used also for alu
mina reduction and for smelting
nearby potential sources of man
ganese, molybdenum, nickel, co
balt, tungsten and chromite.
Alaskans make no secret of
ftheir feeling it is their turn for
enjoying a large hydroelectric de
velopment. They are thinking of
the $600,000,000 installation now
going in 300 miles north of Van
couver in British Columbia.
Built by the Aluminum Com
pany of Canada, Ltd., over an area
almost as large as France, the
Kitimat development is the same
sort off deal—power on the coast
from high waters across the moun
tains.
Kitimat will develop 1,300,000
kilowatts of power for about one
mill per kw. (Grand Coulee in
Washington develops 2,000,000 kw
for about two mills per kw) It
is said the Taiya or Taku pro
jects would provide electricity at
an even cheaper rate—probably
because less earth-moving would
be involved.
At any rate, no matter how the
“jurisdictional” problem for the
Yukon headwaters is solved, Al
aska should gain something pretty
big out of it. For it would be the
largest industrial development yet
to take place in the northland.
Yukon-headwaters power would
not be so staggering as Kitimat or
Grand Coulee, perhaps. Alcoa says
it would be 840,000 kw. The Can
adian firms describe it as 4,300,000
horsepower.
In either case southeastern Al
aska would derive a new city at
the site of the smelter, with a
population of around 30,000 em
ployed the year around.
There are people who think this
sort of thing is what will finally
lift Alaska out of her chronic
slump and make her hum. If so,
the greater part of the territory
may benefit. Even the arctic re
gions have sizeable hydroelectric
potentials.
We remember the report made
by Ralph Browne of the Alaska
Development Board, for example,
which defined a number of pos
sible projects in Northwest Alas
ka. One of these is right next
docfr to the in-producing region
at the end of Seward Peninsula
—where the Imuruk Basin can be
easily dammed and provide abun
dant power for a large surround
ing heavily-mineralized area.
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