Southern Grandmother
Finds Arctic Winter
Surveying ‘Rewarding’
ANCHORAGE — The wind
honed snow from the top of a
small hill and the temperature
was down to 20 below zero. The
scene was deserted—a vast white
desert except for six parka-clad
workers — one of them a woman.
Their movements were slow
and deliberate because of heavy
clothing and the deep snow. They
wre all surveyors or engineers
working for the U. S. Army En
gineer District, Alaska, laying out
a site for a defense construction
project to start in the spring.
Their job couldn’t wait for the
warmer weather in Interior Alas
ka. It was January — often the
coldest month of the year. Be
sides surveying, they set off
charges of dynamite to break
loose the frozen ground. Then they
gathered soil samples from the pit
to be tested for foundation speci
fications.
Mrs. Marie M. Lassiter was the
only tenderfoot and the only
woman in the crew. Until this
winter, the work was done by
veteran Alaskan men. She volun
teered because she wanted to see
remote parts of Alaska when it is
a winter no-man’s land.
Most of her work as a materials
engineer for the District is done
at the District’s Materials and
Foundation Laboratory in Anchor
age — where the climate isn’t
bad — something like Chicago's.
Her family and friends in
Vicksburg, Mississippi, would be
amazed if they had known of her
adventure. A rather petite grand
mother of eight children in Vicks
burg, she used to teach high school
mathematics there. Her former
students would have difficulty pic
turing the precise teacher wading
through three feet of snow with
out snowshoes because they are
awkward.
On her return to Anchorage,
Mrs_ Lassiter said the “experi
ence was rewarding” She doesn't
plan to duplicate it soon.
Mail Thieves Kill
Two Chicago Post
Office Inspectors
CHICAGO, UP) — The FBI and
police hunted yesterday for three
ihail thieves who shot and killed
two Post Office investigators in
their car minutes ater they
trapped the robbers.
A half-dozen shots were fired
into the bodies of the two inspec
tors by the three robbers, all
Negroes, who fled after the shoot
ing late Monday night on the
southwest edge of the Loop.
The inspectors had seized the
trio and several sacks of mail
from their car and were about to
drive them to a police station
when the shooting broke out.
The inspectors apparently over
looked guns the robbers had con
gealed and they had no chance to
return the fire. Both men were
armed with .38 caliber service
revolvers but neither gun was
fired.
The victims were Ben Spizzirri,
42, father of five young i children,
and John McAuliffe Jr., 36, father
of two. '
Police said a truck driver,
whose car was halted at a traffic
signal, saw the slayings and de
scribed the scene.
He said the inspectors stopped
three Negroes in a car and drove
with them to a second car parked
nearby. One of the two inspec
tors removed several bags of mail
from the trunk of the robbers’
car.
Seconds after he stepped into
the car with the robbers and the
other inspector, a half-dozen shots
rang out. Three men jumped from
the car.
Police found both inspectors
slumped over in the front seat of
their car.
Louis Nashenwing, well known
mining man and resident here
since the early days, left early
this week for Seward to enter the
sanitarium there.
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By Pamela Mulvihill
The Girl Scouts wish to thank
Mrs. Brown and the Home Arts
Club for the theater party which
was given them on Saturday. A
flag ceremony preceded the show,
and the girls were treated to sev
eral shorts and a full length
movie.
The Annual Girl Scout Cookie
Sale will ibe conducted from April
2 to April 9, to coincide with the
sale in Fairbanks and Anchorage.
There was some confusion dur
ing last year’s sale, but this year
the town will be sectioned, and
each troop will be assigned to a
section.
On March 25 at 2 p.m. there
will be a Scout and Brownie sing
at the Lutheran quonset under the
direction of Mrs. Bachelder assist
ed by some of the senior Scouts.
All Scouts are requested to come
and bring their handbooks.
The collection for the World
Friendship Fund in Nome came
to $7.70. This will be used to
help finance international gather
ings and to help Girl Guides in
various other countries.
This week, Mrs. Dimmitt’s
seven girls in the second grade
troop will be transferred to Mrs.
Batchelder’s group.
About a month ago, the 15 girls
of Senior Troop 108 voted to buy
a 50-star American flag and a
troop flag, complete with staffs
and standards. This purchase
has rather drained the treasury,
but now the Nome Scouts have
far better and bigger flags than
the one that caused so much mirth
during the last parade. This group
is also taking first aid training
at the hospital under the direc
tion of the Public Health Nurse,
Mrs. Swanberg.
4-H Club Organized In Elim
Elim now has a 4-H Club —
which, held its first meeting last
week, inviting parents to attend.
The group, which call themselves
the Elim Busy Bees, entertained
with a program of 4-H activities
on Seward Peninsula, with slides
and tape recording by Mrs. Bur
and.
Plans were made for summer
gardening, stated Doris Sagoonick,
who is the reporter for the group.
Airline Pilots
Ordered Retired
At Age 60
NEW YORK, OP) — Commercial
airline pilots 60 years of age or
older were grounded yesterday by
a Federal Aviation Agency order.
The ban went into effect at mid
night after Federal Judge Alexan
der Bicks Monday denied a mo
tion by the Air Line Pilots Asso
ciation seeking a preliminary in
junction against the ruling. Forty
seven pilots were affected imme
diately.
Attorneys for the pilots argued
that the order, issued last Decem
ber, was arbitrary and unreas
onable.
In his order, FAA Administra
tor E. R. Quesada maintained that
to allow pilots 60 or over to fly
passengers at speeds of 500 miles
an hour would be a hazard to
safety in air carrier operations.
The pilots immediately appealed
Bicks’ decision. A hearing was set
for April 8 before a three-judge
appeals court.
NOTICE
Declaration of Candidacy forms
for the City Election may be ob
tained at the City Clerk's Office.
A Candidate must be at least 19
years of age. a resident of Alaska
for at least two years, and of the
City of Nome for at least one year
next preceding the date of dec
laration. EXCEPT that a Candi
date for the Utility Board must
have been a resident of the City
of Nome for at least two years,
and must have attained age of 25
years at time of his election.
Deadline for filing is 5 o'clock
p.m.. March 28, 1960.
ROBERT F. SCOTT,
City Clerk.
Pub. March 16, 18, 21, 23, 25, 28.
ORDINANCE NO. 402
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY
OF NOME. ALASKA, FIXING
THE SALARY OF THE CITY
CLERK TO BE ELECTED IN THE
MUNICIPAL ELECTION O N
APRIL 5. 1960.
BE IT ORDAINED AND EN
ACTED by the Common Council
of the City of Nome, Alaska:
That the salary of the City
Clerk to be elected at the annual
city election. April 5. 1960, shall
be as follows:
CITY CLERK, ASSESSOR
AND TAX COLLECTOR ...$750.00
Per month.
PASSED AND APPROVED by
the Nome Common Council of the
City of Nome. Alaska, in regular
session assembled, March 14, 1960.
Attest:
/s/ Steffen Andersen,
Mayor
/s/ Robert F. Scott,
City Clerk.
Publish March 16, 18, 21.
! F.A.A. Invites ^icF for
Construction Wor* In
N. W. Alaska Villages
ANCHORAGE — Bids for con
struction work at King Salmon,
Nome, Galena, McGrath, Unalak
leet and Cold Bay have been asked
for by the Federal Aviation
Agency.
At Unalakleet, the Agency will
build one duplex housing unit for
FAA employes. This is on a con
crete foundation and may have
full basement. It may be of stan
dard or prefabricated construc
tion. Bids are due March 29.
The Agency will build a “peri
pheral facility’ at Nome, at Ga
lena and McGrath. This consists
of site preparation, construction
of a wood frame building 17 by
32 feet, two 60-foot towers at
Nome and Galena and two 30-foot
towers at McGrath, and installa
tion of power supply, cables, con
trol lines and related work. At
Nome, in addition to the above, a
four-unit living quarters will be
built along with a 62x32-foot pre
fabricated metal garage and stor
age building with a vehicle lift.
The Galena bid was due March
14; McGrath March 23, and Nome,
March 24.
NOTICE OF PUBLICATION
Notice is hereby given that the Fed
eral Aviation Agency has filed request
Fairbanks 023211 for the conveyance to
the State of Alaska for the Department
of Aviation, the following described
tract of public lands, pursuant to the
provisions of Section 16 of the Federal
Airport Act of May 13, 1946, (60 Stat.
170.49 U.S.C. 1115) for the construction,
operation and maintenance of a public
airport at:
SHAKTOOLIK. ALASKA
From the northeast corner of the
Shaktoolik School Building proceed
South 36° 40' East, a distance of approxi
mately 1,547 feet to a point which is the
northeast corner of the airport site, on
the west meander line of the the Dayou
manick River and Corner No. 1, the
point of beginning; thence South 55° 00'
West, a distance of approximately 280
feet to a point on the meander line of
i the Norton Sound which is Corner No.
| 2; thence South 35“ 30' East, approxi
mately 4.650 feet along the meander line
of Norton Sound to a point which is
Corner No. 3; thence North 55° 00' East
approximately 190 feet to a point on the
west meander line of the Dayoumanick
River which is Corner No. 4. thence
northerly apprximately 4.650 feet mean
dering along the southwest limit of the
Dayoumanick River to the point of
beginning.
This tract comprises approximately
25.0 acres.
The purpose of this notice is to give
persons claiming an interest in the lands
or having bonafide objection to the con
veyance, an opportunity to file with
the Manager. Fairbanks Land Office,
Bureau of Land Management, 516 Sec
ond Avenue, Fairbanks, Alaska, within
30 days after the last publication, a
protest together with evidence that a
copy of the protest has been served on
the applicant.
D. B. LEIGHTON,
Acting Manager.
Publish March 2, 9, 16, 23.
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