Alaska Mineral Production Up by
$1,500,000 Over ’56; Gold Still First
(Mineral Industry Surveys)
U.S. Bureau of Mines
JUNEAU—The total value of
mineral production in Alaska in
1957 increased about $1,500,000
over 1956, according to estimates
of production compiled by the
Bureau of Mines, Dept, of Inter
ior. Increased mercury and coal
production, as well as substantial
shipments of uranium ore were
mainly responsible *for the higher
value.
Gold remained in first place as
the leading commodity, in terms
Jesse Lasky, Pioneer
Movie Producer, Dies
HOLLYWOOD, UP) — Jesse L.
Lasky, movie pioneer, who died
of a heart attack Monday, spent
some time in Alaska at the turn
of the century.
Lasky took off from his native
California for the gold rush, but
in a few months he was stripped
clean.
Early in life he took up coro
net playing and it led him into
show business. When he went
broke in Alaska, he got out his
trusty coronet and earned enough
to return, steamer steerage, to
San Francisco.
Lasky, 77, a moviemaker 44
years, collapsed and died in Bev
erly Hills shortly after talking
about his book, “I Blow My Own
Horn” before a women’s literary
club.
The producer, apparently . in
good health up to that moment,
stumbled and fell as he turned to
walk toward his car at the motor
entrance of the Beverly Hilton
Hotel.
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of value, produced by the Alaskan
mineral industries. Coal was sec
ond in total value, and sand and
gravel ranked third.
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Gold production (based on 10
months’ receipts at mints and an
estimate for two months) stayed
virtually stable, compared with
the 1956 output, and was reported
from placer mining operations
exclusively.
No gold deposits from lode
mines were recorded; customarily
a small quantity of gold is report
ed from this source.
Alaska’s largest gold producer,
U.S. Smelting, Refining & Mining
Co., operated 11 dredges in three
major mining areas.
Seven dredges were operated
in the Fairbanks district; the Gold
Hill dredge was closed down ear
ly in preparation for a move to
new dredging grounds on Sheep
Creek.
At Nome, three dredges were
operated for the first time since
1955.
A dredge at Hogatza River, in
the Hughes district, began opera
tion following two years of pre
paratory work, including moving
the dredge from Livengood.
In addition to operating the
dredges, the company continued
to strip ground on Chicken Creek,
Fortymile district, in preparation
for dredging.
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Ike Submitted
“War Budget”
MOSCOW, (fl> — The Soviet
press said Tuesday President
Eisenhower submitted a war bud
get to the U.S. Congress.
Pravda, Izvestia and other Mos
cow morning newspapers gave
prompt reaction to the Presi
dent’s budget message under the
headlines: “Another arms race
budget.”
Pravda carried a Tass news I
agency dispatch from Washing
ton stressing military expendi
tures. It said individual taxpay
ers must meet 52 per cent of the
budget “while corporations who
profit most pay only 27 per cent.”
In a dispatch from its Wash
ington correspondent, Izvestia
said “Though the budget message
weighed four pounds it can be
summed up in two words, ‘War
Budget’.”
Izvestia said it was the man
in the street “who must bear the
terrific weight of this new tax
burden ...” It added: “This
is the way so-called people’s cap- j
italism looks.”
The Soviet newspapers noted |
a sharp cut in appropriations for i
civil requirements. Izvestia said I
that of 22 per cent for civil bene
fits “five billion dollars goes to
veterans, part of which is to aid
such reactionary organizations as
the American Legion.”
While the Soviet press was
quick to pounce on the Eisen
hower budget as one intended to
heighten international tension, it
still has not reported President
Eisenhower’s reply to Premier
Bulganin’s proposal for a summit
conference.
Samuel Johnson published the
first English dictionary in 1755.
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WEDNESDAY
6:30—Mickey Mouse Club
7:00—Tombstone Territory
7:30—Wyatt Earp
8:00—You Bet Your Life
8:30—This Is Your Life
9:00—Giselle MacKemie
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Army’s New Research
Chief Says U.S. Can
Surpass Soviet Weapons
TOKYO, UP)—’The U.S. Army’s
new chief of research and devel
opment, Lt. Gen. Arthur Gilbert
Trudeau, declared today recent
Soviet weapons gains are nothing
“we can’t compete with or sur
pass.”
Trudeau, a corps commander in
Korea, told a news conference he
learned only this morning that he
had been chosen to replace Lt.
Gen. James Gavin as the Army’s
research chief.
He will take over his new Pen
tagon post April 1, one day after
Gavin’s retirement becomes offi
cial.
Trudeau said he hopes to in
ject a “vigorous attitude” into
America’s missile and weapon
program, “to destroy or at least
reduce the complacency with
which this situation has been
viewed.”
Trudeau, 55, sidestepped a
question on consolidating the
the present U.S. chiefs of staff
system under one head.
MMM HOSPITAL
Admitted: Wm. Carney, Mary
Okie, Jackie Nelson, Fred, Allen
and Robert Kost, Harriet Henry,
Jim Smith, and Helen Delkoke.
Discharged: C. Swanson, Eliza
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Seattle Fish Imports
Valued at $33 Million
SEATTLE, OF)—The U.S. Fish &
Wildlife Service reported yester
day that fish products valued at
more than $33 million were
brought into Seattle during 1957.
Of the total, $25,149,000 Was id
edible fish or shellfish. Such
; products as fish meals and oils
accounted for $8,216,000, the Fish
& Wildlife Service said.
Wien Airlines
From Fairbanks: Glen Carlson,
Grace Davis, John Miller, Edgar
Philleo, Robert Huntley.
To Fairbanks: Mr. and Mrs. Ai
West, A. A. Welken, Ed Rusing,
Bob Johnson, W. M. Collins, Earl
Sybrant, Sally Kranz, Harold
Moyer, Fredrico Pilon, AnecitO
Alcoy Jr., Arthur J. Vest Jr., Jo
seph O. Metts, Howard Patterson.
To Kotzebue: W. R. McPherson.
From Kotzebue: Farrell Row
ley, Douglas T. O’Brien, Melvin
Derry, L. Gutierrez, Albert Nuel
ler, W. R. McPherson, and Minnie
Fagerstorm.
Dashiell Hammett, American
founder of the “ hardboiled
school” of detective fiction, was
a Pinkerton detective for eight
years, and worked on the Nicky
Arnstein and “Fatty” Arbuckle
cases.
John Masefield, before he be
came poet laureate of England,
worked in New York City in a
bakery shop, a livery stable, a
saloon, and finally a carpet fac
tory in Yonkers.
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