Mining Extension Course Again
To Be Offered By U. Of Alaska
The tentative schedule of the<S
University of Alaska’s Mining Ex
tension courses was announced
recently by Earl H. Beistline, Dean
of the School of Mines.
The month-long “Prospector’s
School” began in Kotzebue Mon
day, and will next be offered in
Nome, Anchorage, Kodiak, Val
dez, Ketchikan, and Juneau.
Established in 1935 by act of the
territorial legislature, the purpose
of the mining extension course is
to instruct Alaska’s prospective
prospectors. The course consists
of a series of interesting lectures,
laboratory work which stresses
mineral identification, and field
trips which aid in the recognition
of geologic features.
Instruction is free and is given
in the evening for the convenience
of those who work during the day.
No formal education is required
and any person over 16 years of
age may attend.
The lectures themselves are
varied somewhat to suit the geo
logic make - up of the locality
where the course is being offered
and the stress is on the minerals
of economic importance which oc
cur in the district. Every student
learns how to pan gold and how
to identify the most common min
erals in his locality. Instruction is
given in the use of prospector’s
tools such as the mineralight and
the geiger counter. This year geo
chemical prospecting methods
have been added.
Every student who satisfactorily
completes the four-week course
will receive a certificate of rec
ognition from the University of
Alaska.
Preparatory reading material is
suggested: “Field Book of Com
mon Rocks and Minerals,” by
Loomis; “Handbook for Prospec
tors and Operators of Small
Mines,” by VonBemowitz; “Pros
pecting for Gold and Silver,” by
Savage; and Operating Small Gold
Placers,” by Boericke.
Former Airlines Pilot
Loses Suit Claiming
Improper Dismissal
SEATTLE, UR — James Evan
Farris, commercial airplane pilot,
has failed in an effort to get a
$357,000 judgment against Alaska
Airlines, federal court, recorts
showed Monday.
Farris filed the suit claiming he
had been dismissed without prop
er notice by the company. Judge
Murphy, who heard the case while
he was visiting here last January,
declared in his finding that Farris
had “waived the right” to a for
mal list of charges against him.
Farris was the pilot of a plane
in which eight persons died when
it crashed in a landing attempt at
Seattle-Tacdma International Air
port on November 30, 1947.
The pilot was cleared by a fed
eral court jury of a charge of care
less action in the mishap.
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Russia Proposes
Conferences On
Germany & World
PARIS, UP—The Soviet Union
came up Tuesday with two pro
posals for interpational confer
ences—a Big Four meeting on
Germany and a five-power meet
ing including Red China to discuss
the entire problem of world ten
sions.
The two proposals were con
tained in the latest Soviet reply to
invitations from the United States,
Britain and France to meet on
Oct. 15 at Lugano, Switzerland, in
a conference on the German and
Austrian treaties.
In neither case did the Russians
suggest a date or place for the
meetings.
There was nothing especially
new in the Soviet proposals. The
Russians have asked before that
the subject ctf Germany be dealt
with before consideration of a
treaty of independence for Aus
tria. They have also proposed a
meeting of the four powers and
Red China to discuss a full slate
of world problems. The Western
powers'have not gone along with
either side.
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KENTUCKY’S WORST
AVIATION DISASTER
LOUISVILLE, Kentucky, UPi —
The death toll from the worst avi
ation disaster in Kentucky’s his
tory climbed to 23 Tuesday when
Stewardess Dorothy Jean Bush,
32, of San Antonio succumbed.
Twenty-two persons, including
20 Puerto Rican soldiers, were
killed outright when a two-engine
chartered airliner nearing the en£
of its journey went out of control
late Monday and crashed in the
center of Louisville’s Standiford
Field.
The remaining 18 of the ship’s
41 passengers remained in critical
condition in three hospitals.
Possible Delay In
Explanations To
Unreturned POWs
PANMUNJOM, —The neutral
nations repatriation commission
said Tuesday explanations to Al
lied and Communist war prisoners
who have refused to go home may
be delayed again—this time by a
dispute over facilities.
Explanation teams which will
attempt to persuacfb the POWs to
return home originally were
scheduled to start talking to pris
oners last Saturday, but the talks
were postponed until Thursday be
cause of a dispute over the ground
rules.
An Indian spokesman for the
commission said Tuesday the
meetings may be pushed back
again unless the Reds and Allies
accept explanation centers al
ready constructed.
He said both sides want exten
sive changes. The Communists, he
said, object to centers built by the
U.N. Command because Red teams
would have to pass through all
the POW camps to reach them.
“They want to avoid them be
cause of hostile prisoners,” the
spokesman said.
Allied dissatisfaction centered
on explanation booths and com
pounds built by the Reds. They
say both are to'o small.
The Allied objection apparently
stems from the dispute over
whether prisoners should be in
terviewed individually or in
groups. The Allies want group ex
planations while the Reds insist
on individual interviews.
3-D X-Ray Motion Pictures
For Medical Research
Shown To Surgeons
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The first
public showing in the United
States outside of Rochester of
three-dimensional X-ray motion
pictures used for medical diagnosis
and research will be held at the
18th annual congress of the U.S.
and Canadian sections of the In
ternational College of Surgeons ^t
the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New
York City, Sept. 14-17.
The unique stereoscopic X-ray
motion pictures were developed
at the University of Rochester
medical school*. The 3-D X-ray
motion pictures permit a new vis
ual perception of living anatomy.
X-ray shadows afe converted into
three-dimensional images permit
ting the observer to look through
the entire thickness of the body,
visualizing its living, moving con
tents in their normal relation
ships. The single projector meth
od developed by the Rochester
researchers uses only a single strip
of film to throw two images on
a screen simultaneously through
two lenses and a mirror system.
The projection screen is viewed
through polaroid glasses.
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