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Thor-Able Rocket Fails
To Put Navigation
Satellite Into Orbit
CAPE CANAVERAL, OP) — The
United States failed Thursday to
put into orbit a satellite designed
for experimenting with a global
navigation system.
More than an hopr after a
three - stage launching vehicle
lifted the satellite from Cape Ca
naveral the Defense Department
in Washington announced that the
third stage apparently had failed
to work.
The satellite, riding on a com
bination Thor-Able launcher, lift
ed cleanly off the pad. The sec
ond stage rocket engine fired on
schedule.
The Advanced Research and
Projects Administration had said
j that the new navigational system
! if it worked would be more ac
j curate than any systems now
! available.
The satellite was aimed at a
nearly circular orbit 400 miles
above the earth.
Another Thor-Able rocket put
Explorer VI — the paddlewheel
satellite—into orbit last month.
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SERVICE
Phone Main 1
- P. O. Box 460
Dan Jones In Charge of
Revision of Land Records |
In Fairbanks Office
FAIRBANKS — A project was j
initiated in August in the Fair
banks Office of the Bureau of
Land Management to make a
complete revision of Alaska’s
basic land records.
The Bureau of Land Manage
ment is responsible for the main
tenance and preservation of the
records of public land transac
tions. The physical deterioration
and documentary inadequacy of
the present records in Alaska
makes interpretation of the valu
able data a time consuming, diffi
cult, and therefore a wasteful and
expensive procedure.
Skilled personnel and trained
technicians from many parts of
the United States have been trans
ferred to Fairbanks to work on
the program. The Records Im
provement Project is located in
the Lathrop Building, and is de
veloping a new system of record
keeping. The same system is now
being installed in the Anchorage
Office of the Bureau.
The project is scheduled to be
completed by June 30 of next
year. Overall direction of the
project is by the Records Manage
ment Office of the Bureau with
headquarters in Washington, D.C.
The project in Fairbanks is under
the supervision of Dan Jones,
originally from Nome.
SCORCHY SMITH
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Atlas ICBM Hits
Target At Near
6,300-Mile Range
CAPE CANAVERAL, UPt — The
operational - type Atlas intercon
tinental ballistic missile fired
here Wednesday night was suc
cessful and landed near Ascen
sion Island in the Atlantic, the
Air Force announced.
A brief statement said that:
“This was an operational-type
Atlas. The test was scheduled for
near - full range and the missile
impacted in the Ascension Island
area as planned. Recovery of the
nose cone was not planned for
this test.”
Full range would be about 6,300
statute miles.
A week ago, an Atlas flew suc
cessfully from Vandenberg Air
Force Base, Caif., and the Defense
Department declared the big mis
sile operational.
Launching pads at Vandenberg
now hold a few war-ready Atlases
capable of hitting Soviet targets
25 minutes after launching, ac
cording to informed sources. The
rocket has a range of 6,325 miles
and hits' a peak speed of 15,000
miles an hour.
Carbon Monoxide Kills
Fairbanks Man In Seward
SEWARD, (A*>-—Carbon monox
ide fumes seeping into the cab of
a parked truck claimed the life
of Don ‘Michael Kilber, 17, of
Minot, N.D.
A companion, David Barnhard
of Fairbanks, was revived.
Police said the two men had
come to this port city from the
Fairbanks area with a truckload
of melons they intended to sell at
a highway stand.
They arrived too early to set
up their stand and apparently de
cided to nap in the truck cab until
morning.
Seward’s volunteer ambulance
corps, summoned by police who
checked the truck and discovered
the two men, revived Barnhard.
Kilber could not be revived.
Nome-U-Wash
WASHERS & DRYERS
To Use Yourself — or
We'll Do It For You!
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Nome Directory
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 Dunbax
Secretary
Recessed Until September 21
ANVIL LODGE
No. 140
HERB JENKS, W.M.
Norv,n W. Lewis, Sec.
Meets First and Third Thursday
of Each Month
NOME ROTARY CLUB
Ash Craft
President
|C> 5 jp Herb Jenks
Secretary
'■'bvrvf-U Wednesday Luncheor
Parent-Teachers Assn.
Meets last Tuesday of every
month at School.
WERNER BOHRER. President
VESTA SUNDSTROM. Secty.
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