$2,000 March of Dimes
Scholarship Goes to Young
Fairbanks Student Nurse
SEATTLE — Mary Margaret
Walker, 930 9th Street, Fairbanks,
is the Latest young person in
Alaska to receive a $2,000 March
of Dimes health scholarship, it
was revealed last week by Dr.
Ernest N. Patty, Alaska State
March of Dimes Chairman.
Mary Margaret, a June grad
uate of Fairbanks High School, is
attending the University of Wash
ington School of Nursing in
Seattle.
Dr. Patty announced that Miss
Walker would receive $500 each
year for four years during the
period of her college training
leading to a degree in nursing.
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Civil Air Patrol Week
JUNEAU — Governor Egan has
issued a proclamation setting the !
week of December 1 through De
cember 7 as Civil Air Patrol Week
in the State of Alaska.
In his proclamation, issued on
November 24, the Governor cited
the Civil Air Patrol for making
“flights of mercy, rushing food
and medical supplies'to those who
needed them in times of stress
and disaster, and in many other
ways proving its worth as a ready
servant of the American people
and as an auxiliary to our Air
Force.”
The Civil Air Patrol will ob
serve the seventeenth anniversary
of its founding tomorrow, and the
Governor further urges “that this
deserving organization be special
ly honored by our citizens by their
participation in ceremonies de
signed to honor the men and wo
men of the Civil Air Patrol.”
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Court Rules Airline Not
Liable in Bomb Deaths
DENVER, UP) — A U. S. Dis
trict Court jury ruled Friday that
United Air Lines was not negli
gent in a 1955 crash caused by a
bomb secreted in the baggage
compartment by John Gilbert
Graham.
Graham was executed on a
charge he planted the bomb in
his mother’s luggage in a plot to
collect insurance on her life. She
and 43 persons aboard the airliner
died when it exploded in flight
shortly after taking off from
Denver for Seattle.
The verdict was in a $29,000
damage suit filed against United
in behalf of three young sons of
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Lipke of
Pittsburgh, who were killed in
the crash.
United attorneys argued that
the crash was caused by Graham,
“a stranger over whom we had
no control.” Attorneys for the
Lipke children contended United
should have had a system for de
tecting 'bombs in the luggage of
passengers.
First Hunt for 12-Year-Old
Bags Bruin with Last Shot
SOUDERTON, Pa., W> — John
Delikat, 12, went on his first bear
hunt Thanksgiving Day, with his
father, two uncles and a friend.
They didn’t expect much; the
others had never killed a bear.
But the uncles beat the bush
and a 220-pound black bear came
into the clearing, shuffling
towards John, who was waiting
alone.
The first shot from his three
shot pump gun hit the bear in
the spine.
“He stood on his back feet,”
John said. “He growled, and he
came towards me waving his
front paws. I fired a second time
and I hit him in the jaw and he
dropped. He kept dragging him
self towards me.
“I fired my last bullet. That
stopped him.”
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MEMPHIS, Term., iff) — Russia
paid attention to a 14 year-old
boy who turned to the Soviets for
aid in space research when he
couldn’t get help in his own j
country.
Robert Graham, winner of three
Science Fair ribbons, hit pay dirt
when he wrote to Nikita Khrush
chev and the Russian Academy of
Science.
It started last spring. Robert,
who has his own laboratory, be
gan pondering the possibilities
of bacterial life on the planet
Mars.
He studied research and decided
to try some of his own. He
needed soil samples from cold
areas for his experiments. He
opened a campaign to get them.
First, Robert wrote to the De
partment of the Interior in Wash
ington, explaining his plans and
asking how he could obtain soil
samples.
The request was referred to the
Department of Agriculture, which
sent a mimeographed pamphlet
listing Soil Conservation Service
publications on such subjects as
“stubble mulching in the Great
Plains.”
Robert wrote to Governor Wil
liam Egan of Alaska, explaining
his problem and asking for soil
samples from the Brooks Range
and the Alaskan Peninsula.
The reply from Egan’s special
assistant, Frank W. Vaille, said
Alaska is a big state and the areas
mentioned are widely separated.
“I regret,” he concluded, “It would
be impractical to comply with
your request.”
The Mt. Palomar Observatory
in California, asked for an analy
sis of Martian atmosphere, sent
data on another subject.
The U. S. Embassy in Iceland
came through with a soil sample.
The Russian Academy shipped
Robert a box loaded with soil
samples from the Ukraine, the
cenral Siberian uplands and the
tundra. In these areas winters are
bitter cold.
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Controversy Rages
In Boston Over
‘Old North Church’
BOSTON, (JPi — Paul Revere
stood on the dark Charlestown
shore, his eyes fixed on a church
steeple across the harbor.
One if by land, two if by sea
was the code which would tell
him how the British foe
approached.
Finally two lanterns glowed
and he was off on the mission
celebrated down the years in song
and story — the midnight ride of
Paul Revere in 1775.
Now, 184 years later, the ques
tion is rife as to identity of the
spire.
The Rev. John Nicholls Booth
says the Second Church, Unitar
ian, deserves the distinction, and
the designation “Old North
Church.”
He told his congregation Sun
day in a sermon the honor does
not belong to Christ Church, Prot
estant Episcopal, long known as
the Old North.
Dr. Booth gave numerous reas
ons and said many more can be
found in his new book, “The Story
of the Second Church.”
In Revere’s day, the Second
Church was located in the North
End, close to Christ Church, but
now is situated in the Back Bay
section.
The Rev. H. P. Kellet, vicar of
Christ Church, is undisturbed by
his colleague’s claim.
“I’m not going to get involved
in a controversy I know nothing
about,” is his position. “We’re get
ting ready for Christmas, you
know, and I’m not interested in
lanterns.”
THE DIETRICH MANNER
PARIS, OR — Marlene Dietrich
strolled on the stage of the Etoile
Theater Friday night and brought
the house down with a song she
first sang almost 30 years ago.
She drew her biggest ovation
when she whispered in the off
key but haunting Deitrich manner
“Falling in Love Again” from the
old German movie “The Blue
Angel.”
Marines first became a part of
a Navy ship’s detachment when a
unit was assigned to the “Cabot”
in December, 1775.
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Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon at
North Star Dining Room
Russell Hermann, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO 1
Order of Eastern Star
Doris Wilke
Worthy Matron
Helen Dunbai
Secretary
Meets first and third Mondays
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No. 140
HERB JENKS, WJM.
Norvin v. 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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