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i Great Northern Railway
Sells Park Properties
ST. PAUL,, Minn. W) — The
Great Northern Railway an
nounced sale of its Glacier Na
tional Park properties to Don
Hummel, Tucson, Ariz., mayor
and businessman, yesterday.
The amount involved was not
disclosed and the railway said the
required approval by the Secre
tary of the Interior and Canadian
National Park Administration is
being sought by Hummel.
Transfer of Great Northern
hotels, motels, motor coaches and
other properties held by the sub
sidiary Glacier Park Co. will be
effective Jan. 1, if approved.
Hummel now operates conces
sions in Mount Lassen National
Park in California, and Mount
McKinley National Park in Alas
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IMPORTANT NOTICE
Alaska School Tax for 1960 now due and payable
Tax is due and payable after January 1 of each year
And becomes delinquent after December 31, 1960
SCHOOL TAX $10.00
A PENALTY OF $2.00 ATTACHES IF NOT PAID ON OR BEFORE DEC. 31. 1960
Who Must Pay School Tax:
All male and female persons 19 years of age or over on January 1, 1980.
Exemptions:
Unemployed dependent females
Active military or naval personnel
Insane persons '
Permanently injured—unable to earn a living
Employers are responsible for collection of tax from employees.
Civilian employees of the Federal Government must make school tax
payments individually as this tax is not withheld from their wages.
Failures or neglect to pay the School Tax is a misdemeanor and subject
! to arrest and fine of not more than $100.00 or imprisonment of not
more than 90 days.
Payment should be made to:
Nome Branch Office OR MAIL TO:
Alaska Department of Revenue Department of Revenue
Front Street Alaska Office Building
Nome, Alaska Juneau. Alaska
Navy Pilot Sets
New Altitude Record
WASHINGTON (41 — The Navy
claimed a world altitude record
of about 17 miles for a jet attack
plane carrying a payload of slight
ly over one ton.
The height reached was 91,450.9
feet, which would exceed the of
ficially recognized record of 67,
096 feet set last year by a Soviet
pilot.
T: e flight was made Tuesday at
Ed" u-ds Air Force Base, Calif.,
by Cmdr. Leroy A. Heath and his
navi ;ator, Lt. Henry L. Monroe,
both from the Patuxent River,
Md., test center.
The plane was a North Ameri- !
can A3J Vigilante, a type now
being given final evaluation be- j
fore being turned over for fleet
use. The Navy calls the Vigilante
the most important aircraft in
the Navy.
Heath and Monroe were deco
rated for their achievement, with
Navy Secretary William B. Franke
making the awards in behalf of,
the President.
Rep. Dawson Refuses
Postmaster Generalship
WASHINGTON (41 — President
elect Kennedy said Thursday he
had offered the Postmaster Gen
eralship to Rep. William Dawson,
Chicago Negro Congressman, but
that Dawson declined it.
Kennedy said Dawson told him
he felt it would be wiser to remain
in the House in view of his 18
years of experience there and his
chairmanship of the Government
Operations Committee.
By turning down the post, Daw
son rejected the opportunity to
become the first Negro in U. S.
I history to serve as a cabinet of
ficer.
Kennedy said he has no one else
in mind at the moment for Post
Office Department Chief.
FORMER TEACHERS HERE
HAVE NEW DAUGHTER
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Leibig,
former teachers at Nome School
have announced the arrival of a
daughter on Dec. 9. She has been
named Elizabeth Coletta. The
Leibigs, with their adopted daugh
ter, Harriet now reside in Madi
son, Wis.
SCOKCHY SMITH
| OAKY DOAKS
U. S. Fails Again
To Send Satellite
Around the Moon
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. MV
The United States failed for the
sixth straight time to send a satel
lite around the moon yesterday
when a giant rocket exploded in
flight.
The spectacular blast ended a
four-shot Atlas-Able carrier
rocket program — a $4(1 million
failure. It will be several months
before U. S. space scientists have
another favorable chance to make
the Shot.
American space scientists now
must await development of more
powerful rockets, expected next
summer, for future moon launch
ings.
The 10-story tall rocket, carry
ing a 388-pound space craft in its
nose, rose smoothly from its
searchlight-illuminated pad at
4:11 a. m. The satellite was packed
with electronic instruments de
signed to make the most extensive
study ever attempted of the
moon’s environment.
The huge rocket appeared to
be flying a true course for 70
seconds. Suddenly it lurched
violently and erupted with a
blinding flash that illuminated the
Atlantic Ocean and its beaches
for several miles.
A massive ball of red-orange
fire hung seemingly motionless
thousands of feet in the sky for
several seconds as tons of fuel
consumed in a boiling inferno.
Flaming pieces of the rocket
spiraled into the Atlantic several
miles offshore.
The rocket’s extremely difficult
mission was to hurl the space
craft to the moon 240,000 miles
away in 60 hours.
The failure made the moon an
elusive target for U. S. missile
men who had propelled five
earlier rockets toward it without
success—and leaves the Soviet
Union with a comanding lead in
the field of space exploration.
Soviet scientists last year hit
the moon with Lunik II and took
the first picture of its hidden
backside with Lunik III, a wide
swinging earth satellite which
passed behind the moon on its
first orbit.
MMM HOSPITAL
Admitted: Edith Thompson, Kit
ty Pederson, Robert Koweluk and
Herman Attatayuk.
Discharged: Sam Dimmick and
Nora Burlison.
Nome Directory
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon at
North Star Dining Room
Pearse Walsh, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO 1
Order of Eastern Star
Ruth Reed
Worthy Matron
Verna Mickelson
Secretary
Meets first and third Mondays
ANVIL LODGE
No. 140
BYRON G. REED, W.M.
Norvln W. Lewi*, Sec.
Meets First and Third Thursday
of Each Month
NOME ROTARY CLUS
Robert Grant
President
1 Dusty Rhode
Secretary
Wednesday Lunche**
Parent-Teachers Assn.
Meets last Tuesday of every
month at School.
MINA BACHELDER. President
JANE FOSTER. Secretary
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