Everything From
Diapers, Diamonds
Used in Bombers
A purchasing agent who fills
requisitions for diamonds, diapers,
pipe tobacco, wooden marbles
and leg makeup does so, not in a
movie or TV studio, as you might
expect, but at an aircraft factory.
The diamonds, it turns out, are
for grinding wheels employed in
tooling; diapers, it seems, are
dandy lint-free cloths for cleaning
bombsight lenses on a giant jet
bomber.
The pipe tobacco is used in
smoke generators to test ventilat
ing systems; wooden marbles—
some 3,800,000 of them are uti
lized in metal-bonding to equalize
vacuum and to apply pressure to
uneven tool surfaces.
And the leg makeup is applied
to employees’ hands, not legs,
for photographic purposes to pro
duce a contrast to provide the
provide the necessary require
ment.
Other novel requisitions the
purchasing agent can fill without
so much as a raised eyebrow, in
clude:
Ink droppers, chloroform, fin
gerprint remover and acid neu
tralizer, grain alcohol, helium,
stop watches and window socks.
Their uses: ink droppers are
used to fill pvrometers in heat
treat areas; chloroform and heli
um aid in servicing and repair
and aircraft flight instruments;
fingerprint remover and acid neu
tralizer are used on unplated
parts to prevent corrosion due to
handling; grain alcohol is pro
vided for laboratory tests; the
stop watches are employed in
various service tests on bomber
components, and the “■window
socks” of the type worn by shop
window decorators, are worn by
maintenance men walking on top
of the bomber. They prevent sur
face scratches.
Spine-Tingling Action
In ‘Sports Highlights’
On KNOM-TV Tonight
Spine - tingling action on the
American sport scene will be de
picted for viewers of KNOM-TV
this evening at 10:30 p.m. when
they see “Sports Highlights of
1955.” It is presented through
the courtesy of the Miller Brew
ing Co., of Milwaukee, Wis.
Five sports in all are covered in
the 30-minute movie, including
glimpses of the initial $35,000
Miller Open golf tournament. Of
particular interest to golfing fans
will be the camera study of Dr.
Cary Middlecoff as he drilled a
birdie three on the final hole to
win the $6,000 first prize and a
new automobile.
Rounding out the movie are
segments on the 100 - mile Rex
Mays Memorial Classic automo
bile race in Milwaukee, the All
Star baseball game, skiing at As
pen,' Colo., and the Professional
Championship football game be
tween the Cleveland Browns and
the Los Angeles Rams.
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Huge Bolivian Tin Firm
May Be Invited to
British Columbia
VANCOUVER, B.C., UP>—Pro
vincial Liberal Leader Arthur
Laing says the giant Patino tin
interests of Bolivia may be in\iit
ed to British Columbia.
Laing told a young Liberals
meeting here he had been reli
ably informed there was a pro
posal to invite the company to in
spect an area in the Rocky Moun
tain trench in the far northern
part of the province in the belief
tin had been found in large quan
tities.
A 40,000-square-mile tract in
the north is being surveyed by
a B.C. development company.
The development company is a
subsidiary of interests controlled
by Swedish multi-millionaire Ax
el Wenner-Gren. It proposes to
build a monorail and has talked
of developing a billion-dollar in
dustrial empire in the wasteland
area.
Air Force Orders
11,735-Acre Reduction
In Alaska Land Needs
ANCHORAGE, UP)—T he Air
Force today ordered an 11,735
acre reduction in territorial land
requirements in Alaska.
Brig. Gen. Kenneth L. Gibson,
commanding general of the Alas
ka Air Command, said the land
involved is located in the vicinity
of the Cape Romanzof Air Force
station on the Bering Sea.
Gibson said an application pend
ing with the Bureau of Land
Management asking withdrawal
of 16,635 acres in the Cape Ro
manzoff area will be amended to
request cnly 4,900 acres.
Gibson said the Air Force ac
tion is in line with the policy of
the Alaska commander-in-chief
“to return to BLM control all
property not vitally needed in the
interests of national defense.”
He said the Air Force will an
nounce land relinquishments at
other sites at an early date.
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CLEANING
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SOMETHING -
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Willow Root Trays
small — large
Rye Grass Mats
square — oblong — round
Miniature Vases
of Whale Tooth
several shapes — some etched
William Porter, Former
2nd Division Legislator,
Dies at Pioneer Home
SITKA, (#>—Wallace Porter, 85,
former member of the Alaska
House of Representatives from
Nome, died Saturday at the Pio
neer Home here.
Porter was for many years a
gold miner at Haycock.
Funeral services will be held
tomorrow.
Britain Wins Ryder Cup
First Time in 24 Years
LINDRICK, England, (^—Brit
ain won the Ryder Cup from the
United States professional golf
ers for the first time in 24 years
Saturday.
In a great comeback, the Brit
ish methodically turned back the
Americans one by one after the
U.S. had taken three of the four
Scotch foursome matches the day
before and appeared headed for
another international victory.
STATEMENT REQUIRED BY THE ACT
OF AUGUST 24. 1912, AS AMENDED
BY THE ACTS OF MARCH 3, 1933,
AND JULY 2, 1946 (Title 39, United
States Code. Section 233) SHOWING
THE OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT,
AND CIRCULATION OF
THE NOME NUGGET, published Mon
day. Wednesday and Friday at Nome,
Alaska, for October 1956 to October 1957.
The names and addresses of the pub
lisher, editor, managing editor and busi
ness managers are:
Publisher — Emily Boucher, Nome,
Alaska.
Editor—Emily Boucher, Nome, Alaska.
Managing Editor — Emily Boucher,
Nome. Alaska.
Business Manager — Emily Boucher,
Nome, Alaska.
The owner is Emily Boucher, Nome,
Alaska.
The known bondholders, mortgagees,
and, other security holders owning or
holding 1 percent or more of total amount
of bonds, mortgages, or other securities
are: none.
The average number of copies of each
issue of this publication sold or distrib
uted. through the mails or otherwise, to
paid subscribers during the 12 months
preceding the date shown above was:
650.
(Signed i EMILY BOUCHER
Managing Editor
Sworn to and subscribed to before me
this 3rd day of October, 1957.
(SEAL I MARGARET P. BOHRER
Postmaster, Nome, Alaska
U.S. Naval Scientists Have a
‘Good Fix’ on New Satellite
WASHINGTON, UP>—U.S. naval
scientists said today they have a
“good fix” on the Russian space
satellite, and plot its path ahead
anywhere from 24 hours to a
week.
The latest information here is
that the satellite is following
what a Naval Research Labora
tory spokesman called a “fairly
circular orbit.” The exact height
has not been determined, he said,
but it is a minimum of 400 miles
high.
With establishment of a fix on
the Russian baby moon, Navy
trackers said it should become
visible in the continental United
States in about a week or 10 days.
A spokesman for Project Van
guard, the U.S. satellite program,
said it is estimated that the So
viet satellite will begin at that
time to make passages over the
U.S. during pre-dawn or evening
twilight periods—the only times
it would be visible.
He said the extreme northwest
portion of the country would be
the first to see it and that it would
be in the evening.
The spokesman said present!
evidence is that the orbit of the
satellite is “fairly circular, with a j
low point of 400 miles altitude i
above the earth, but we still are J
not sure of the high point.”
When it was pointed out the!
Russian announcement had said
the sphere was travelling at an
altitude of 560 miles, the official
said it might have been launched
at that altitude, but then may
have dropped in going into its
actual orbit around the earth. J
American satellite planner have
said their plans call for launching
a satellite to an altitude of 300
miles, but they expect it would
then go into eliptical orbit having
a minimum altitude of 200 miles
and possibly as high as 2,000
miles at its farthest points.
U.S. scientists still are making
plans to 'launch their first earth
satellite next spring after test’
shots this fall.
The closer to a circle the orbit
is, the longer a satellite would
remain aloft, but it is more diffi
cult to achieve a circular orbit
than an eliptical one.
A catfish, breathing through its
skin as well as through its gills,
can stay alive in solidified mud
during drought.
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