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Utility Boat, Piledriver
To Be Auctioned by
Alaska Engineer Corps
A utility boat and a gas-driven
piledriver are being offered in
two separate sales to highest bid
ders by the Alaska District, Corps
of Engineers. Both have been used
on government jobs which now
are completed.
The boat, the “San Juan,” is a
utility type single screw, gas
driven 180-hp. 6-cylinder Sterling
petrel engine. She was built by
the Fremont Boat Works of Seat
tle in 1937 and has a displacement
of eiaht tons. Length is 35 ft. 7l4
in. She will sleep three and is
certified for 12 passengers.
Bids on the boat will be opened
at the office of the Alaska District
Engineer in Anchorage at 2 p.m.,
Sept. 27. A deposit of 20% of
amount bid must accompany the
bid, and the successful bidder
must remove the boat within 14
days after notice of award.
The piledriver which is for sale
is gas-driven with Continental gas
engine and 3-drum hoist. A depose
it of 20% of bid-offer is required,
and the equipment must be re
moved within 7 days after notice
of award.
The piledriver may be inspected
between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. any
weekday prior to Sept. 30, by no
tifying William Brown, resident
engineer, Corps of Engineers, at
Nome, Alaska. Bids will be opened
at the office of the Alaska District
Engineer in Anchorage at 3 pjn.
Sept. 30.
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U.S. Top Jet Ace
Dies When ’Chute
Fails to Open
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE,
Calif., Iff—Death on a routine test
flight has ended the spectacular
career of Capt. Joseph McConnell
Jr., the nation’s leadin'* *et pee.
The 32-vear-old oilot. credited !
with downin'* 1R Mips in Korea, I
was killed Wednesday when his j
F-86 Sabre iet crashed on the
Moiave Desert, 12 miles northeast'
of Rogers Lake.
His bodv was found beside his
election seat, half a mile from the
shattered plane. Nearby was his
unopened parachute. An Air Force
spokesman said apparently he had
eiected himself from the plane at
low altitude.
During the flight McConnell
had radioed that he had lost con
trol of the plane oartially, but
thought he could make a landing
on the dry lake bed. Soon there
after he reported he had lost the
cockpit canopy. He was advised
to bail out. Edwards Base officials
said he probably stayed with the
plane too long.
McConnell, who said his pre
maturely gray hair came from
being the father of three young
children and not from his flying,
served as a bomber-navigator
during World War II and later
took flight training.
After the fighting broke out in
Korea he repeatedly requested
combat duty despite being told he
was too old. His request was
granted and he became an ace in
just 30 days last year.
He named his Sabre “Beauteous
Butch,” nickname for his wife,
and shot down his first Mig-15 on
Jan. 14, and his fifth on Feb. 16.
Pilot on Hunting Trip
Killed in Plane Crash
ANCHORAGE, Iff—-A light plane
crashed near Hidden Lake on the
Kenai Peninsula Wednesday, kill
ing the fnlot, George Picken, 33,
of Spenard.
Pickens, a meterman for the
Chugach Electric Assn, left here
Saturday on a hunting trip.
He is survived by his wife,
Thelma, of Spenard.
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$33 Billion Spent by
Russians on Navy
Since World War II
LONDON, W*—The British Ad
miralty says Russia has spent
more than 33 billion dollars on
her new since World War II and
may have equipped it to use at
omic tactical weapons and guided
missiles.
The Admiralty’s 1954-55 esti
mates of Soviet naval strength,
released Wednesday, forecast that
within the next two to three years
the Soviets would have 30 cruis
ers, 150 destroyers, 500 submar
ines, 500 motor torpedo boats,
1,000 minesweepers, 300 escort
vessels, 4,000 naval aircraft and
numerous patrol and landing
craft.
Soviet navy manpower was put
at 750,000, with 270,000 sailors in
the fleet, 85,000 in the naval air
force and the remainder ashore.
“Nearly all the ships are of
postwar construction and most of
the aircraft will be .iets,” it was
said.
Restrictions on U.S.
Trade With Russia Eased
By Commerce Dept.
WASHINGTON, UPI—Secretary
of Commerce Weeks Thursday
eased restrictions on 'U.S. trade
with the Soviet Union and other
Communist countries of Europe,
but he said he doubts there will
be an early increase in the flow
of goods across the Iron Curtain.
Commerce Department sources
said Weeks’ order would reduce
by one-third to one-half the list
of goods now banned from com
merce between the United States
and the Red bloc in Europe.
The announcement dealt only
with policy—the Commerce De
partment is to make public later
lists of specific items to be freed
from embargo.
Week’s move came a day after
foreign aid chief Harold E. Stas
sen announced a similar relaxa
tion of curbs on Red trade of
friendly nations getting aid from
the United States.
Both officials said existing re
strictions still stand on trade with
Communist China, North Korea,
or the Communist area of Viet
Nam.
Nome Directory
NOME ROTARY CLUB
Ben Young, Pres.
Joe Kroninger, Secy.
Thursday Luncheon
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Comerce 1
MEETS EVERY TUESDAY NOON
BOYD HARWOOD, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. 1
Order of Eastern Star
Meets the 3rd Monday of each month.
Jane Perkins
Worthy Matron
Evelyn Branson
Secretary
LESLIE A. STEVENS
PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT
486 First Ave. West, Nome, Alaska
10 to 12 a.m. 1 to 5 p.m.
Phone Main 82 — P.O. Box 208
ANVIL LODGE
No. 140 i
John Cooley, W.M.
Norvin W. Lewis, Sec^B
Meets 1st and 3rd Thursday each montH