ALASKAN TITLES
Autographed Children’s Books
On Arctic Ice
A Dog Called Gill
Panuk
By Fred and Sara Machetanz
Alaska Sourdough
by Morenus
Flying North
by Potter
Daughter of the Gold Rush
by Klondy Nelson
Alaskan Birds
By Ira Gabrielson
California Brunette Chosen
Miss USA; Will Compete
For Miss Universe Today
LONG BEACH, Calif., (JV-Gen
tlemen ffiay prefer blondes, but
the judges’ pick as Miss USA in
the Miss Universe Pageant is a
statuesque brunette coed from
California.
Terry Huntingdon, 19, mixes
with 33 foreign lovelies in the
Ninth Annual International Beau
ty Contest. Miss Universe will be
selected Friday.
The UCLA dance major has
blue-green eyes, stands 5 feet 6Vfe,
and measures 36-23-36. She was
selected Wednesday night before
4,000 spectators.
Runners-up in order, were Miss
Texas, Carelgean Douglas; Miss
Florida, Nanita Greene; Miss
Georgia, Dorothy Taylor, and Miss
New York, Arlene Nesbitt.
Fairbanks Man Among
Those Approved for Navy
Promotion to High Rank
WASHINGTON, OPt — President
Eisenhower Wednesday approved
selection of 34 Navy captains for
promotion to rear admiral. They
include Capt. Henry L. Miller,
commanding officer of the USS
Hancock. Captain Miller was born
in Fairbanks. The 35 captains will
attain their two-star rank during
the next 12 months as vacancies
occur in the list of active flag
officers.
Fine Job Printing At The Nugget.
Climber Sets
Rainier Record
SEATTLE, W) — The story of a
mad-dash climb up and down the
slopes of Mt. Rainier was related
here Wednesday by a 50-year old
Oregon ranchef who began moun
taineering only two years ago.
The alpine sprint was made in
seven hours and 50 minutes, said
John Day of Central point. This
cuts 31/2 hours from the record
set in 1934 by Bill Butler, ranger
at Mt. Rainier National Park.
Day, accompanied by Seattle
guides Jim and Lou Whittaker,
made the ascent in five hours and
20 minutes, 1V& hours less than
the time set by Rainier guide Dick
McGowan on a rescue mission last
year.
The climbers were clocked by
park rangers when they left Para
dise at 1 a.m. Tuesday morning.
They returned from the summit
of the 14,110-foot mountain in
time for breakfast.
Day said the trio encountered
few bad crevasses and had “all the
breaks.” He admitted they came
down the icy slopes at “almost a
dead run” part of the way.
Day said he started climbing
mountains in 1957, and in that year
conquered six major western
Washington peaks.
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of animals than there are words
defined in an unabridged English
dictionary.
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Sea Patrols
ANCHORAGE, UP) — “They tell
us to carry bullets, and we carry
bullets.”
Thus, Rear Admiral Arnold
McKechnie, commander of the
Alaska Sea Frontier, reacted
Wednesday to his first news that
the Navy has ordered all its planes
patroling within range of Commu
nist shores to be armed.
But the admiral does not think
the order will affect Alaska or
result in any change in opera
tions locally..
“The command was put out for
sensitive areas primarily, like
those in the far Western Pacific,”
he said.
Admiral McKechnie said Navy
planes in Alaska have never 'been
armed and ready for action “on
regular patrols” before. The ad
miral was here to greet Admiral
James S. Russell, chief of naval
operations. He will return to his
Kodiak headquarters immediately.
“The Navy’s primary mission in
Alaska,” the admiral said, “is anti
submarine warfare, with a secon
dary mission of reconnaisance
flight to check shipping.”
The Navy operates one squadron
of patrol planes in Alaska, both
out of Kodiak and Adak. The
planes, 11 in number, are twin
engined P-2B’s. The planes fly
chiefly over the Bering Sea, up
between Big and Little Diomede.
The squadron also patrols ship
ping lines south of the Aleutian
chain, keeping track of fishing
boats and reporting on them.
Commenting on the unprovoked
attacks by MIG fighters on Amer
ican planes, the admiral said “We
have just as much right to fly
over the open sea as anyone.”
Officially U. S. planes can fly
to within three miles of Red
shores, but the admiral said the
pilots stay much farther out than
that. “We don’t get very close to
the Soviet lines,” he said, adding
aircraft kept “easily” 25 to 50
miles away from the shores.
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SERVICE
Phone Main 1
P. O. Box 460
Nome Directorv
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 Dunbar
Secretary
Meets First and Third Mondays
ANVIL LODGE
No. 140
HERB JENKS. W.M.
Norvin Lewis, Sec.
Meets First and Third Thursday
of Each Month
NOME ROTARY CLUB
Ash Craft
President
Herb Jenks
Secretary
Wednesday Luncheor
Parent-Teachers Assn.
Meets last Tuesday of every
month at School.
WERNER BOHRER, President
VESTA SUNDSTROM. Secty.
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