Canada’s Last
Sternwheeler
To Be Retired
NELSON, B. C., UPi — The S. S.
Moyie, Canada’s only , active
sternwheeler, twirls its paddle
wheel for the last time come Sat
urday to end a romantic era in
western Canada transportation.
The Canadian Pacific Railway
is replacing its Mississippi steam
boat - style craft with a screw
propelled tug.
The Moyie was built in Toronto
60 years ago and was originally
intended for gold rush service on
the Stikine River between Wran
gell, Alaska, and Telegraph
Creek, B.C.
The gold fever cooled in those
parts, however, before the Moyie
reached its destination and her
1,000 dismantled parts were di
verted here where the ship was
reassembled in 1898 for service
on Kootenay Lake.
For the past 59 years the pad
dlewheeler, her single stack
belching smoke, has churned up
and down this 70-mile-long lake
in southeastern British Columbia.
It has been-estimated she trav
elled the equivalent of 60 times
around the world.
ASTRONOMY NOTES
By OLAF HALVORSON
In ancient times some nations
believed that a vast monster was
devouring the friendly sun when
an eclipse took place. Barbarous
noises were made to frighten him
away.
For ages the sun was an ob
ject of worship and it was but
natural that an eclipse would
arouse fear to the inhabitants.
Once every month there would
be an eclipse of the sun when the
moon comes to a phase called
new, were it not for the fact that
the moon’s orbit is inclined 5 1/7
per cent to the earth’s orbit.
Eclipses occur when the moon is
on or near the intersection of the
orbits.
Two solar eclipses are certain
every year but they are visible
only in certain parts of the earth.
Several years have passed since
we have witnessed a good eclipse
in Nome. The eclipse on Monday,
April 29, will cover almost half
of the sun. The eclipse will begin
at 12:38 p.m., will be at its maxi
mum at 1:45 p.m. and will ter
minate at 2:50 p.m.
Be prepared to witness this
phenomenon with colored or
smoked glasses.
Fine Job Printing al The Nugget
Music Suffers as
Benny Takes On
L.A. Symphony
LOS ANGELES, UP*—'The Los
Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
may never be the same.
Jack Benny, 39-year-old violin
ist of Waukegan, 111., made a
guest appearance with the orches
tra last night at Philharmonic
Auditorium. He played selections
from Sarasate, Mendelssohn and
Rimsky-Korsakoff. All three com
posers lost.
Such music lovers as Frank Si
natra, James Stewart, Claudette
Colbert, Dana Wynter, Clifton
Webb, Gregory Peck, Ann Miller
and Sam Goldwyn paid $100 a
seat to hear Mr. Benny’s West
Coast debut as a concert artist.
The event was for the benefit of
Cedars of Lebanon Hospital.
Charity netted a reported $100,
000. What happened to music is
another matter.
Immaculate in white tie and
tails, , the violinist played vigor
ously while carrying on a running
fued with the concert-master. The
latter interrupted with violin so
los and was removed from the
stage at the request of Mr. Benny.
The comedian’s stares were
eloquent than his cadenzas. But
here and there was evidence that
he might have gone further with
the fiddle if he had applied him
self more back in Waukegan.
CAB Indcates It May Lop
$300,000 from Mail Pay of
Pacific Northern Airlines
WASHINGTON, (JV-The Civil
Aeronautics Board indicated yes
terday it may lop almost $300,000
off the annual mail pay of Pac
ific Northern Airlines of Anchor
age.
The board ordered the airline
to show cause why its mail rate
should not be reduced.
Last August the CAB proposed
that effective Jan. 1, 1956, Pacific
Northern be granted $3,180,021 in
mail pay annually. It said this
would enable the airline to real- ,
ize a net operating income of
$836,991 a year along with a 10
per cent return on investment.
Pacific Northern reported a net
operating income of $1,136,456
for 1956. The CAB said it ap
pears, therefore, that the air
line’s “financial circumstances
have improved and its subsidy re
quirements may have diminished.
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Nome Directory
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon
JIM WALSH, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. 1
Order of Eastern Star
Meets 1st & 3rd Monday of each month
Lillie Lewis
Worthy Matron
Helen Dunbar
Secretary
anvil lodge
No. 140
Hoht. k. Lewis. W.M.
Norvin W. Lewis, Sec.
Meets 1st and 3rd Thursday each mouth
NOME ROTARY CLUB
Dewey Goodrich
President
W. Mecklenburg
Secretary
Wednesday Luncheon