THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
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TOUGH TASK MASTER
DISTINCTIVE NAME NEEDED
The new section of the Nome Scool has a lovely
small auditorium which has served many purposes
since it was put to use and has been designated the
multi-purpose room.
The name suits as it serves the community in
manyways. However, the time has come when it
should have a name identifying it with a little more
distinction and dignity, as it is more than a room.
It could be named after some person who is
worthy of recognition in the educational field in Nome
—some teacher, maybe an appropriate Eskimo name.
■It would be an opportunity of honoring a local person.
The Nugget would be glad to publish suggestions
to be presented to the Nome School Board for
consideration.
ASTRONOMY NOTES
By OLAF HALVERSON
Two asteroids that come close
to the earth are Apollo and Ado
nis. When Apollo is at peri
helion it is inside the orbit of
Venus. The jperihelion distance
of Adonis is only slightly great
er than Mercury’s mean distance
from the sun. This asteroid
passes a little more than a mil
lion miles from the earth’s
orbit.
Another neighborly asteroid,
Icarus, which passes within 4
million miles of the earth’s or
bit, attracted attention in 1949.
It left a long trail on a photo
graph by Baade with the 48-inch
Schmidt telescope of the Palo
mar Observatory. At perihel
ion its distance from the sun is
less than 20 million miles. It is
the only known asteroid that
ventures within the orbit of
Mercury.
Asteroids which have been
detected within a few million
miles of the earth are about a
mile in diameter.
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Fort Sumner Flag Taken
From Case First Time In 93
Years To Be Photographed
CHARLESTON, S. C., UP) — The
historic flag that flew over Fort
Sumner when the first shots of
the Civil War were fired was back
in its hermetically sealed case
Thursday.
The 18 by 24-foot, shell-torn
flag was taken out Wednesday
for the first time in 93 years to
be photographed in color by the
National Park Service. The
photograph is for inclusion in a
book on the American flag’s evo
lution.
The flag was last unfurled
here in 1865 when federal troops
raised it in ceremonies marking
the war’s end.
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Air Force Jet
Starfighter Climbs
To 91,249 Feet
LOS ANGELES, UP) — The
United States claimed a new
world altitude record of 91,249
feet Thursday.
. It was achieved in a 27-minute
flight over the Mojave Desert by
a Lockheed F104A Starfighter
flown by Maj. Howard C. John
son, 36, stationed at Hamilton
Air Force Base, near San Fran
cisco.
The Air Force said the alti
tude he reached exceeded by
more than two miles the mark of
80,190 feet recorded May 3 by
a French experimental plane.
This, in turn, had topped the
altitude of 76,928 feet achieved
April 16 by Navy Lt. Cmdr.
George C. Watkins, in a Gruman
FI IF-IF in a flight over Ed
wards AFB, Calif.
Gen. Nathan Twining, chair
man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
calls the Starfighter “the most
advanced plane of its type ever
developed.”
The 17-mile climb by the
Starfighter, designed to exceed
the speed of sound in straight
upward flight, was started at
11:40 a.m. and completed 27
minutes later.
The F104A flies on razor blade
wings’ and is powered by a Gen
eral Electric J79 jet engine. The
wings’ lading edges are so sharp
they are covered with felt strips
when the craft is on the ground
to prevent injury to crewmen.
The wings measure only 7V£ feet
from the fuselage to the tips
while the body.- of the lance
shaped plane is 5434 feet long.
The Starfighter is the lightest
weight jet combat plane in the
U. S. Air Force fleet.
Amundson Reports On
Aviation Board Meeting
Rev. R. Amundson, the Second
Division member of the Alaska
Aeronautics Board, returned yes
terday from a meeting at which
four of the members attended in
cluding Noel Wien, Afton Coon
and Lyman Rice.
On the agenda for the 1959 pro
gram for this area Rev. Amund
son reports that only the Shish
maref field is found to be in
adequate for mail serve and work
will be done on it.
On the lower Yukon there has
been little work done as the res
idents have been unable to agree
on a spot appropriated for their
use. They have petitioned the
board for a DC-3 field to be
placed where the engineers see
fit as one is badly needed in
that area.
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Manslaughter Charged
In Shooting of Husband
Over “Other Woman”
ANCHORAGE, UP) — Mrs. Betty
Jean Mahaffey, 32, was convic
ted of manslaughter Wednesday
in the New Years’ Day shooting
of her husband, Robert Mahaffey,
34, son of a Seattle school teacher.
The District Court judge made
a strong recommendation for
leniency.
Mrs. Mahaffey had been
charged with second degree mur
der in the “other woman” shoot
ing at the Kodiak home of the
J. S. Fish and Wildlife Service
agent.
She had based her defense up
on temporary insanity and said
the bedroom slaying was a form
of self defense after he had
threatened to do her bodily harm.
Mrs. Mahaffey told the court
her troubles stemmed from the
fact Mahaffey had said he was in
love with a Mrs. Nancy Tomlin
son Scott of Seattle.
She remained free on bond af
ter the verdict and will appear
for sentencing May 16. .
Wien Seeks Permit
For Flight to Big Delta
WASHINGTON, UP) — Wien
Alaska Airlines asked the Civil
Aeronautics Board Monday for
authority to operate a scheduled
service between Big Delta and
Anchorage.
Wien currently serves Big
Delta on a route between Fair
banks and Titlin.
The airline said Big Delta, a
town of 300, is near the Army
post at Fort Greely, which has
a population of 1,800.
Wien proposed one round trip
a day between Fairbanks and
Anchorage by way of Big Delta.
Troops To Leave
Little Rock, Ark.
On May 29tli
WASHINGTON, UFI — Presi
dent Eisenhower Thursday or
dered withdrawal May 29 of all
federal troops enforcing school
integration at Little Rock, Ark.
The President said in a state
ment he hopes it will be unnec
essary to return the troops at
the start of the school year next
September.
Eisenhower’s statement said:
“Since last September the
federal government has stationed
soldiers at the Little Rock High
School to prevent obstruction of
the orders of the U. S. District
Court.”
“Since the summer recess starts
at the Central High School on
May 28 and since there will be
no further present need for the
Guardsmen, I have directed they
be released May 29.”
“Following that date I trust
that state and local officials and
citizens will assume full respon
sibility and duty for seeing that
the orders of the federal court
are not obstructed.”
“The faithful execution of the
of the responsibility will make
it unnecessary for the federal
government to preserve the %n
tegrity of our judicial processes.”
At Little Rock, Asst. Adjutant
General William C. Page said a
few over 400 officers and men
still were federalized in con
nection with the integration con
troversy.
May 28 is the last day of
classes at Central High and other
public schools in Little Rock.
Graduation exercises will be held
at Central High May 27.
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