j ASTRONOMY NOTES
By OLAF HALVERSON
i Sirius, the Dog Star, located a
j short distance southeast of Orion,
[held a very important place in the
taffairs of the Egyptians. Many
•.temples in Egypt were dedicated
| to the worship of Sirius.
{ About 5,000 years ago this star
rose in the morning with the sun
'during the midsummer season. It j
heralded the approaching inunda
tion of the Nile, an occasion of
great rejoicing in Egypt: It meant
a new layer of rich, moist soil
along the dry banks of the great
river.
Sirius is intensely white in col
• or and is a hydrogen star. Be
cause it is not very high in the
heavens its light is often refracted
and broken up by the atmosphere.
It therefore twinkles or scintil
lates more than other stars. Some
times it flashes spectrum colors of
red and green.
It is one of our nearest neigh
lbbrs, being only eight and a half
light years away.
Remarks that are uncalled for
are usually delivered.
Preliminary Permit Asked
For Juneau Hydro Project
WASHINGTON, (iV-Georgia
Pacific Alaska Go., Juneau, Alas
ka, asked the Power Commission
Tuesday for a 36-month prelimin
ary permit for a, proposed hydro
electric project on Lemon Creek,
near Juneau.
The company said power pro
duced at the proposed project
would be used in connection with
operation of a newsprint or pulp
mill.
A preliminary permit is for the
sole purpose of giving the holder
priority while making studies
necessary to prepare an applica
tion for a commission license.
FIRST THINGS FIRST
OKLAHOMA CITY, UP)—Abra
ham McClory was too embar
rassed to spread the alarm.
So he ran 24 blocks for an extra
pair of pants first. Safe in the new
trousers, the 32-year-old McClory
telephoned police to report being
robbed by a man and woman who
took his automobile, $9, his hat—
and his pants.
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Famed Femme Fatale,
Theda Bara, of Silent
Films, Dies of Cancer
HOLLYWOOD, UP—Death has
claimed the first great femme
fatale of the movies, Theda Bara.
She died in a Los Angeles hospital
last night of cancer. She was 65.
Although she was horn Theo
dosia Goodman in Cincinnati, film
publicists created an exotic back
ground for her to match the sul
try, tempestuous screen roles as
signed to her by Produced Wil
liam Fox. They said she was born
in the shadow of the pyramids,
the descendant of kings of Egypt;
that her last name was Arab,
spelled backwards.
Her name was magic at the box
office. She was the original
“vamp” of silent films, an irre
sistable lure to her screen lovers,
with her heavily-mascaraed lids
and deep eye shadow', her heav
ing bosom. Fox’s movie empire
was founded on her appeal.
In private life Miss Bara was
the wife of film director Charles
J. Brabin. She retired from the
movies in 1921 and lived in seclu
sion. She had undergone surgery
for abdominal concer several
times in the last 18 months and
had been in a coma since March
26.
Marine Kills Self at
Wedding Rehearsal
WACO, Texas, UP—A Marine
home on leave accidentally shot
himself dead Wednesday night at
his wedding rehearsal.
Cpl. Joe McClain, 20, was play
fully twirling a .22 pistol, officers
said. The gun fired, and the bullet
hit him in the head.
It happened at a wedding re
hearsal party in the home of Miss
Billie Joe Morrman, who he was
to have married last night.
The person who uses a lot of
big words isn’t trying to inform
you—he’s trying to impress you.
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BREAD
Soil, Darigold
ICE CREAM
RESTAURANT
MEALS
AT
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REASONABLE PRICES
Stateside Storms Cause
Widespread Damage to
Crops, Property, Livestock
(By the Associated Press)
.Early spring storms pounded
areas in the southeast states yes
terday after Wednesday’s damag
ing wind and rain storms in Texas
anti other southern areas.
A tornado struck Altoona, a
town of about 1,000 population
north of Birmingham, causing an
estimated $50,000 damage. Tor
rential rains fell at other north
ern Alabama towns.
Tornadoes and severe wind
storms which hit across a 5,000
square-mile area of north central
Texas Wednesday killed dne man
and injured 27. Crop and proper
ty damage tvas estimated in the
millions of dollars.
Losses to cattle and sheep in
the violent blizzards which virtu
ally paralyzed Wyoming and
Montana earlier this week were
estimated at $1,200,000 by Wil
liam L. Chapman, Wyoming Agri
culture Commissioner.
Chapman said perhaps 20,000
head of sheep and 8,100 cattle
died in the blizzard.
WEATHER FORECAST
Continued fair with little
change in temperature tonight
and Saturday. Light and variable
Winds. Low temperature expected
tonight -12, high tomorrow 17.
Data last 24 hours as of 7 a.m.
today: highest temperature 16,
lowest ill. Sunrise at 4:50 a.m.,
sunset at 7:15 p.m.
The weather at Nenana at 7
o’clock this morning was cloudy
with 13 degrees.
FOR AN ATOMIC SUNDAE
DENVER —An ice cream firm
in Colorado—where snow and
dust have been in the news along
with increased atomic fallout
from recent Nevada tests—came
up with a new flavor of the month
yesterday.
The name? Chocolate Fallout.
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WASHINGTON NEWS LETTER
By Mary Lee Council
Secretary to E. L. Bartlett.
Delegate to Congress from Alaska
The Independent Offices Ap
propriation Act for the 1956 fiscal
year as it passed the U.S. House
of Representatives last week in
cludes $1,000,000 for a new post
office and courthouse building at
Nome.
The estimate provided for con
struction of a three-story office
building and a separate two-storv
building for boiler room and
tanks, with overall gross floor
areas totalling 24,000 square feet.
The amount allowed is $200,000
below the sum requested in the
President’s budget. The new
building had been estimated to
finally cost $1,335,000, but the
House approved the $1,000,000
to finance the entire construction
cost.
The new building is needed to
replace the present structure
which, according to the House
Appropriation Committee’s re
port, “has become unsound be
cause of subsoil conditions caused
by intermittent thawing and
freezing.”
Free Market for Gold
The Treasury Department is
opposed to any legislation per
mitting a free market for gold in
the United States.
Its views were submitted last
week to the House Committee on
Banking and Currency relative to
a bill introduced in January of
this1 year by Delegate Bartlett.
“Under such a free market,”
j the acting secretary of the Treas
ury stated, “there would be two
alternatives: the United States
government would either stay out
of the market or it would stand
ready to buy and sell gold at the
official price to prevent fluctua
tions. It is believed that the first
alternative, which would have the
effect of creating variable prices
for gold in terms of the dollar in
domestic and foreign markets,
would tend to undermine confi
dence in the currency and thus
would be a step away from a
sound monetary policy. The sec
ond alternative would be, in ef
fect, full convertibility of the
currency into gold.”
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Joe Kroninger, Sec.
Thursday Luncheon
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Tuesday Noon
DR. FRED M. LANGS AM, Pres.
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. I
Order of Eastern Star
Meets the 3rd Monday of each month.
U Beverly Morgan
Worthy Matron
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