2THE NOME NUGGETFriday, April 22, 1955
THE NOME NUGGET
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IN THAT SETTING IT SMELLS ESPECIALLY GOOD
Bid Deadline Postponed
For Military Projects
At Unalakleet, Kotzebue
ANCHORAGE—To allow con
tractors additional time to figure
on the multi-million-dollar con
struction of complete military in
stallations for the U.S. Air Force
at Unalakleet and five other re
mote sites, the Alaska District
Corps of Engineers has changed
the date for opening bids from
Apr. 21 to Apr. 27, at 11 a.m., in
the Seattle branch office, 4735 E.
Marginal Way.
The military installations, esti
mated to cost between $10,000,000
and $15,000,000, are to be built at
Unalakleet, Kotzebue, Chiniak,
Fort Yukon, Bethel and Homer.
The six are included in one
over-all bid, Invitation 55-63,
with contractors given the oppor
tunity to bid on any one, or any
combination, or all, according to
Col. Carl Y. Farrell, Alaska Dis
trict Engineer.
Construction at the six instal
lations will be similar: composite
housing quarters with mess halls,
operations offices, storage, recre
ation halls, generating and heat
ing units, and garages.
Other construction includes a
transmitter building, paint and
dope storage, explosive storage
building, and utility development
for petroleum fuel storage, water,
sewer and electrical service; ac
cess roads, runways and tower
foundations.
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13 Lucky For This Policeman
DETROIT, 15*)—Attorney Harry
Bockoff was in criminal court
yesterday to defend two men in
a gambling case.
Police Inspector Clayton Now
lin was on the witness stand.
“Now wouldn’t you agree, In
spector, that most people con
sider the number ‘13’ unlucky?”
Bockoff asked.
“I hardly think so,” answered
Nowlin. “There are 13 letters in
my name, and 13 in my wife’s
name. I as married on the 13th
of April and assigned to the 13th
Precinct on April 13 and ...”
“That’s enough,” interrupted
Bockoff.
Plane Service Change
With No Fare Increase
Brings Rival s Complaint
WASHINGTON, —P acific
Northern Airlines has asked the
Civil Aeronautics Board to dis
miss Northwest Airlines’ fare
cutting complaint against it as
being without basis.
Northwest had complained that
Pacific Northern changed the
type of plane it was operating in
tourist or coach service between
Seattle and Anchorage, Alaska,
from nonpressurized DC-4s to the
faster, more luxurious, pressur
ized Constellations, without in
creasing the fare.
In reply, Pacific Northern has
charged that Northwest illegally
changed its own Seattle-Anchor
age service pattern by inaugur
ating Super Constellation sched
ules with combined first and sec
ond class seating.
MODERN MINUTEMAN
HARTFORD, Conn. UP)—Nation
al Guard Maj. A. Kenneth Palmer
found himself in the role of an
American Revolutionary War
Minuteman Wednesday.
When the “Operation Minute
man” test alert came, Palmer was
behind a plow on his farm in
Wapping.
His wife shouted across the
field and, like a Minuteman of
the Revolution, Palmer left his
plow and hurried off to join his
unit.
WEDNESDAY BASEBALL
American League
Baltimore 6, New York 3
Boston 1, Washington 0
National League
Brooklyn 3, Philadelphia 2
St. Louis 3, Cincinnati 0
Milwaukee 9, Chicago 5
Pacific Coast League
Seattle 3, Sacramento 0
Oakland 6, Los Angeles 2
National Guard’s
Test Rally Wins
Officials’ Praise
WASHINGTON, UR—'The Na
tional Guard’s new role in this
era of possible atomic war—a
Minuteman’s defense of the
homeland—was tested in a sur
prise mobilization which drew
praise from defense planners.
Guardsmen in more than 2,000
communities from Florida to Al
aska sprang to arms or took to
the air Wednesday night in re
sponse to a surprise alert flashed
from the Pentagon.
Maj. Gen. Edgar C. Erickson,
chief of the National Guard Bu-1
reau, said preliminary reports
gave “conclusive proof” that the
Army and Air Guard can be as
sembled by the state governors
in a “rapid and efficient manner
for service in any state or nation
al emergency.”
It may be days before re
ports are in from the 5,600 Guard
units listed to take part in the big
test. But the National Guard Bu
reau estimated early yesterday
that some 280,000 men were at
their battle stations or assembly
points within two hours of the
zero hour which was known in
advance to only a handful of of
ficers.
This turnout represented 8 out
of every 10 citizens soldiers who
were on the “alarm” lists pre
pared by the state Guard organi
zations for this first continent
wide mobilization test in peace
time history. Officials stressed
that it was a test only, with no
cause for alarm.
Mau Mau Terrorists
Murder Two Boys
NAIROBI, Kenya, OR—'Two
European schoolboys were found
stabbed to death and mutilated
early yesterday at Ruaraka, three
miles from Nairobi.
Police blamed the murder on
anti-white Mau Mau terrorists.
Helicopters and troops were sent
out to look for the gang.
The boys were Christopher
Robin Twohey, 13, only son of
a freight agent for East African
Railways, and Geoffrey Dandy,
15, also the son of a railwayman.
Christopher still clutched a
pigeon in his hand. The pair had
set out Wednesday morning with
an air rifle to get a bird for Mrs.
Twohey to make pigeon pie.
The airgun was missing.
Prisoners Protest
Railroad Closure
DARTMOOR PRISON. England,
iff)—A protest against the closing
of the Princetown - Plymouth
branch railway line was sounded
Wednesday by—of all people—
prisoners of Dartmoor.
Although most !‘of them are not
going anywhere right now, they
petitioned the British Railways
System not to shut down the
branch line, scheduled soon for
economy reasons.
A prison official explained:
“There is quite a sentimental at
tachment inside to what they call
the 7:35 ‘Freedom Express.’
“That’s the early morning train
for which the men are given a
free ticket when they are re
leased.”
Fine Job Printing at The Nuggej
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CURIO SHOP
Imminent Visit of U.S. Officials Has
Nationalist Chinese Concerned1 Will
U.S. Defend Quemoy, Matsu Islands?
By FRED HAMPSON
TAIPEH, Formosa, (jP>—Official
Taipeh is buzzing with worried
conjecture over the impending
visit of Adm. Arthur W. Radford,
chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs
of Staff, and Assistant Secretary
of State Walter Robertson.
The reason for their visit is
not clear here. Guesses range
from an American decision to
abandon the offshore islands of
Matsu and Quemoy to a decision
to defend them.
In Washington, it was reported
Radford and Robertson, who left
Wednesday for Formosa only two
hours after their trip was an
nounced, were being sent to test
Nationalist reaction to a cease
fire line down the middle of For
mosa Strait. The Nationalists and
Chinese Communists alike have
said they oppose such a cease-fire.
Radford and Robertson are ex
pected to arrive Sunday.
Radford has always opposed
withdrawals before Communist
pressure, but Robertson, a State
Dept, troubleshooter in the Far
East, often has been the bearer
of bad news to the Nationalists.
His visit last fall was followed
by a coastal sanctuary ruling that
stopped Nationalist President
Chiang Kai-shek from attacking
the Reds from sea or air except
when they attacked him first.
A high Nationalist official told
me he was not surprised at the
sudden alarm in Washington over
the Communist buildup of air
fields along the Formosa Strait.
He said, however, that he, as
well as most other Nationalist
officials, were stunned at the
“fiendish” speed with which the
! Reds have advanced their build
ing program.
This official, who asked that
his name not be used, explained
he used the word “fiendish” pur
posely because the speedup was
possible only with impressed la
bor driven at breakneck speed.
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SPECIAL NOTICE
The musical film, “Heavenly
Harmonies,” produced by the Bob
Jones University Unusual Films
Studios and featuring Dr. Bob
Jones Jr., will be shown at the
\
Community Methodist Church on
Sunday, April 24, at 7 p.m.
Musical groups composed of
students and faculty of the uni
versity School of Fine Arts pre
sent four lovely arrangements of
favorite hymns climaxed with a
thrilling vocal and instrumental
presentation of “Beyond the Sun
Set.” “Following Father Home”
and “The Wild White Rose” are
the two familiar selections read
by Dr. Jones which are illustrated
with special effects and beautiful
nature shots.
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GREEK CITY RAZED .
BY TWO QUAKES
ATHENS, Greece, (4*1—A disas
trous new quake struck shattered
Volos yesterday, leveling many of
the port city’s remaining build
ings. Five bodies were dug from
the rubble and officials feared
the death toll would run much
higher.
Police headquarters said that
witnesses telephoned from the
stricken area that nearly every
building in the city of 51,000 per
sons had been partially or com
pletely destroyed by the latest
shock.
Volos is about 100 miles north
west of Athens.
The new tremors came as Volos
inhabitants were struggling to re
cover from a quake Tuesday that
killed one person, injured 49 and
damaged nearly 1,000 houses.
Nearly 6,000 were left homeless
by that upheaval.
BABY BITES MAN
BATTLE CREEK, Mich., UP\—A
baby bit a man here.
A young mother was at a movie
theater with her energetic infant
son. To quiet him she held the
child over her shoulder.
Suddenly there was a yipe from
the rear. The baby had nipped
the toe of a man seated with his
shoes off and his feet upon the
back of the seat.
The embarrassed mother hur
ried out before ushers could get
her name.
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