Helicopter Rescuer
Having Hard Time
Getting Paid for Effort
SACRAMENTO, Calif., UP)— C.
T. Jensen’s helicopter plucked 17
persons out of the water in the
Christmas week flood of 1955.
Finding them, Jensen, agrees,
was much easier than finding
someone to foot the bill.
Jensen says the Coast Guard
requisitioned him and said he
would be paid. He submitted a
bill of $2,602.50, mostly for 28
.liours of flying. He’s tried the Red
Cross. He’s tried the federal gov
ernment.
Yesterday the State Board of
Control turned him down.
“Sometimes,” Jensea told the
board, “I wish I hadn’t been
there.”
NOME MARKET
OPEN TILL 10 P.M. TONIGHT
-— Fresh Eggs Arrived Today —
Sgt. Hunt Bags Glacier
Bear on Snake River Road
Glacier brown bears like blue
berries too, according to Sgt.
Robert Hunt of the Army ad
visory group attached to the Al
aska National Guard.
Sgt. Hunt shot a 7 Vz-foot bear
at the '1,7-mile post on the Snake j
River road last week. He said I
it was one of seven he saw in j
the area. He also said he saw
several bears across Penny River
about three miles beyond the end
of the road.
COPS AND ROBBERS
WASHINGTON, OP) — When
i police blocked the exits against
| two meh holding up his delicates
' sen store, owner Joseph Wilder
| offered to help them escape.
“Go upstairs and jump out the
window,” he told the two after
working loose the gag they had
put on him.
He didn’t tell them the upstairs
| windows were heavily barred.
The police, called by a customer,
caught them there after breaking
a locked door.
Improving Alaska
Highway Would
Attract Tourists
EDMONTON, Alta., WV-A Wis
consin geology professor says if
the Alaska Highway had “good
blacktop surfacing,” it would
probably draw 200,000 tourists a
year.
Dr. C. E. Morphew of Wiscon
sin State College at Whitewater
arrived here with a party of 22
students, mostly women, from
Anchorage. They traveled by
chartered bus down the 1,527
mile highway from Fairbanks to
Dawson Creek, B.C.
“The road is very rough,” Mor
phew said. “It appeared heavy
rain had paused many rough
spots.
“If the road had good black
top surfacing, it would probably
draw 200,000 tourists a year in
stead of the present 5,000.”
The professor also said accom
modations were poor at many of
the stopping places along the
highway.
E & M Journal Market
Reports for August 1
Antimony, 99% grade: $0.3659
lb.; bismuth, ton lots: $2.25 lb.;
Copper, $0.2855 lb.; gold: $35 oz.
Lead: $0.14 lb.; molybdenum, 90
95% MoS2: $1.18 lb.; platinum:
$84 oz.; quicksliver, per 76-lb.
flask: $252; silver, domestic:
$0,905 oz.; silver, foreign, N.Y.:
$0.9023 oz.; tin: $0.95625 lb.; tung
sten, froeign ore, per stu* W03,
wolfram: $14; tungsten, scheelite:
$13; GSA suspended; titanium,
per stu* 59.5% Ti02, illmenite:
$26.25; titanium, 94% concen
trate, rutile: $130; zinc: $0.10 lb.
*1 % of one ton - 1 unit or 20
lbs. per short ton; stu = short
ton unit.
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Something New In Bookie Parlors
PROVIDENCE, R.I., MV-Police
say they have run into something
new in bookie parlors.
They raided a gasoline station
j yesterday and arrested three men
| they said were taking horse bets
I at a desk situated in a pit nor
j mally used for greasing auto
mobiles.
j Alaska Airlines
| To Modernize
Their Plane Fleet
SEATTLE, <#> — Election of
George Kinnear, Seattle, and
Joseph J. Clark, New York, to
the board of* directors of Alaska
Airlines was announced Wednes
| day.
i Re-elected at the annual board
! meeting here Tuesday were J ay
G. Larson, Seattle; Homer W.
Robinson, New York; Frank C.
I LaGrange, New York; Keith M.
| Lesh, Anchorage, and Raymond
IW. Marshall, New York,
i Kinnear, an attorney, recently
! resigned as Washington State Re
| publican chairman. Clark, a re
tired Navy admiral, now is a New
York business executive.
In his message to the com
pany’s stockholders, President
Charles F. Willis Jr., said the
year’s activities have been high
lighted by a three-phase modern
ization program involving all
company equipment.
The program includes replace
ment of DC-3 aircraft with 40
passenger Curtiss Super 46 air
planes, addition of pressurized
cabin equipment and moderniza
tion of the air line’s bush plane
fleet.
After describing the company’s
modernization plans, Willis said:
“With this program the stock
holders can expect the company
to show a substantial increase in
the remaining fiscal year. This,
with legislation affecting Alaska
Airlines pending before Congress,
should produce a period of
growth in the airlines’ second
quarter of a century of operation
in keeping with that expected of
the Pacific Northwest and Alas
ka.”
Labor Terrorist Dio
Slugs U.P. Photographer
In Senate Office Bldg.
WASHINGTON, UP) — Labor
terrorist Johnny Dio slugged a
photographer and cursed him for
taking his picture in the Senate
office building, where Dio is to
testify in the Senate rackets
probe.
The dapper, blazing eyed Dio
planted a roundhouse swing with
his left fist on the left ear of
Stanley Tretick, a United Press
photographer.
He called the photographer an
S.O.B. in the spelled out version.
The blow did not knock down
the photographer, and he did not
swing back.
Dio, convicted extortionist, was
paroled from prison so he could
comply with the Senate commit
tee’s subpoena for him to appear
as a witness.
Before the blow was struck,
Bio had walked briefly into the
committee’s hearing room, but
left when photographers and re
porters clustered around him.
He refused to say a word, until
his profane outburst as he swung
his well manicured fist as he left
the building^ and ducked into a
taxicab with two sturdy looking
male companions. /
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Fords cost less to buy!
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lars less than these medium-priced cars, similarly equipped.*
* Based on comparison of manufacturers’ suggested retail delivered prices
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In the only nationally recognized test of gasoline economy,
the 1957 Mobilgas Economy Run, a Ford Six delivered more
miles per gallon than any other car entered! This, remember,
was no “private test” conducted for the benefit of a single -
manufacturer. This was grueling competition between 12
different makes of cars . . . supervised by the United States
Auto Club. And when the test was over, Ford led all other
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Fords cost less to trade!
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