THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
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MONEY AND BUSH PILOTS
What should be some kind of record for earnings
on an aerial flight might have been set by two bush
pilots from Quebec, recently. Paul LaPonte and Bill
Attwater were flying from Goose Bay, Labrador, to
Mont Joli, Quebec, and noted that their plane’s compass
behaved in a highly agitated fashion.
Because the compass reacted vigorously, the two
pilots some time later rented a seaplane and flew out
to the spot to investigate. The seaplane allowed them
to land at a spot about 400 miles east of Quebec City,
and they picked up some samples of what they hoped
would be valuable ore.
After the sample was investigated, and the two
pilots had obtained rights, they found that the area con
tained a heavy concentration of iron ore. The Iron Ore
Company of Canada became interested and finally
offered the two men more than $1,000,000 for their
claims. The pilots accepted and will get their money
over a period of years.
All of which seems to prove that the problem of
making money involves a considerable amount of luck.
To bush pilots the lesson is obvious and we assume
that those who have heard about the experience of La
Pointe and Attwater will be watching their compasses
fairly consistently in the future.
FRENCH AID
In a joint statement, the United States and France
announced a new plan to end the eight-year-old war
in Indochina. The United States will grant $385,000,
000 in additional aid to France and more French and
native troops will be used there.
An expert calculates that 80 percent of the Ameri
can women artificially shape their eyebrows. That
must take some pluck. — London Opinion.
MAYBE THEY SHOULD LOOK—NOW!
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NEW MAIL SERVICE
The Post Office Department has begun an experi
ment which is sending a limited amount of regular First
Class mail to its destination by air. The present experi
ment is limited to several cities, such as Washington,
New York and Chicago, and is designed to furnish
information on the desirability of an expansion of the
practice.
One feature of the present experiment is that
regularly-scheduled airlines are given a varying amount
of First Class and Air Mail just prior to departure time,
the volume depending upon the lo^d which the plane
is carrying. In other words, if the plane is about to
leave with a load only half its normal capacity, a suffi
cient amount of mail is placed on board to take advan
take of the unused capacity.
There is no reason why First Class mail, or at least
some of it, could not travel by air eventually. Of course,
Air Mail will continue to be the primary mail volume
hauled by airliners but where postal delivery schedules
can be improved at no extra cost by the use of under
loaded airliners, the faster schedules should be utilized.
Bartlett Asks Help
To Get Funds For
Living Cost Studies
WASHINGTON, UP — Delegate
Bartlett Thursday asked the De
partments of Labor, Defense and
Interior to join in requesting the
Bureau of Budget to include funds
in next year’s budget for cost-of
living studies in Alaska.
Favorable action, the Alaskan
said in a letter to heads of the
three agencies, “could not help
but result in benefits to the fed
eral government which, as of June
30 this yeai?, had 14,837 federal
employes in Alaska.”
Bartlett recalled the controver
sy during the last session of Con
gress over cost-of-living allow
ances for civilian government em
ployes in the territory. The prob
lem will “no doubt arise again” in
the forthcoming session, he said,
and up-to-date statistics “would
be most helpful.”
In making his request, the dele
gate said he understands the Bu
reau of the Budget refused to in
clude the funds in the budget for
the current year despite individ
ual requests of various govern
ment departments and other or
ganizations.
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AEC Reported
Drafting Changes
In Atomic Act
NEW YORK, UP) — The New
York Times said Thursday the
Atomic Energy Commission is
drafting a series of important
amendments to' the Atomic Energy
Act.
A Washington dispatch to the
Times by James Reston said the
amendments are desigped to in
crease the participation of private
industry in the program at home
and to liberalize the exchange of
atomic information among the
Allies.
The amendments would do these
things, the story said:
1. Enable private industry to
own or rent fissionable material
and to' own and operate power re
actors under proper controls.
They cannot do either at present.
2. Give the Atomic Energy Com
mission greater discretion in the
exchange of atomic and thermo
nuclear information.
3. Liberalize the rigid patent
system that now governs all de
velopments in this field so that
private industry will have greater
incentives to' put its dollars, man
power and brains into these pro
jects.
4. Revise the security system
so that it is not necessary to get
or evade the high ‘Q’ clearance
for laborers on atomic energy
projects.
Beluga Whales Will Be
Speared Under Water At
Kotzebue By Ted Warren
Beluga whales will be speared
under water next summer near
Kotzebue by Ted Warren, the well
known skin diver of Redondo
Beach, Calif.
Warren started skin diving in
1944 and has fished in the waters
off California, Australia, Fiji,
New Caledonia and Bermuda. His
equipment consists of swim fins,
a face mask with goggles, a snor
kel breathing device and a rubber
suit for cold waters.
Warren uses an ordinary spear
gun four feet long for small fish
but has a special five foot long
spear gun for large fish such as
sharks and bass. This gun has an
^impact head which discharges a
.38 blank cartridge and a mech
anism to attach and inflate the
fish as a means of locating it be
fore it sinks.
A QUARTER-CENTURY OF
SERVICE TO AGRICULTURE—
NBC’s National Farm and Home
Hour, produced in cooperation witty
the U.S. Department of Agricul
ture, is marking 25 years of con
tinuous broadcasting.
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NBC radio network by
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builders of power
equipment for the
family farm, the pro
gram brings you farm
news and entertain
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8 Miners Missing In
Explosion 500 Feet Below
Surface of Gilsonite Mine
BONANZA, Utah, Iff)—Two res
cue workers, encased in a giant
metal bucket, dropped deep into
the smoke-filled maw of a blast
wrecked gilsonite mine Friday
but found no trace of eight miss
ing miners.
Little hope was held that the
men, trapped 500 feet below the
surface by an explosion and fire
Thursday still were alive.
Fellow miners thought they
heard 'faint cries coming out of
the explosion debris Thursday
night.- However, George Collins,
day shift boss, and Joe Postma, a
miner, said only falling rocks and
sagging timbers broke the eerie
silence when they were lowered
to the 300-foot level.
Rescuers, their faces coated
with a white, protective paste,
continued digging into the debris.
The main fire is out but smaller
blazes continued to send fumes
out of the giant trench.
BORROWED ACE
ST. LOUIS, (#)—John Jacobi of
Edwardsville, 111., a 16-year-old
golfer playing with a bill bor
rowed from his mother and a
No. 4 iron borrowed from the club
pro, scored a hole in one at Sun
set Hills Country Club recently. It
was on a 165-yard hole. He wasn’t
wearing his glasses, either.
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PRESIDENT ACTS ON
ST. LAWRENCE POWER
WASHINGTON, UP — President
Eisenhower Thursday cleared the
way for construction of the St.
Lawrence River power project by
the State of New York and the
Canadian Province of Ontario.
The President signed an execu
tive order designating the power
authority .of New York State as
the United States partner in con
struction of the project.
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