L7 ^ of Nation on Southwest Hotel
This is a scale model of the 1,001-room Hotel Statler inDallas,
Texas, where each guest room will have television-radio. The
hotel will be completely air-conditioned. New type bathrooms
will have a dressing room atmosphere. The main banquet area
will seat 2,000 in one group. “Flat-slab cantilever” construc
tion to be used for the first time.
Construction has begun in
Dallas, Texas, of one of the larg
est hotels to be built anywhere
in the world in more than a
quarter of a century, the 1,001
room Dallas Statler.
The hotel’s design is unique in
that exterior walls are of glass
and aluminum like the United
Nations building in New York.
This new kind of construction
makes possible use of the canti
lever principle which eliminates
about half the columns and foot
ings necessary in older type
buildings. Use of this ultra
modern design has aroused na
tion-wide interest on the part of
architects and engineers.
The new 18-story giant will
have banquet facilities that will
seat 2.000 persons in one group,
largest capacity west of Chicago.
Every guest room in the hotel
will have television-radio and the
entire building will have air
conditioning with individual con
trols in each guest room. Most
of the rooms will be of the studio
type, a bedroom at night and a
living room in the daytime. All
guest rooms will have outside
exposure and will feature “pic
ture windows” which will extend
across about two-thirds of the
room’s width.
Bathrooms have been designed
to have a dressing room atmos
phere. The top of the wash bowl
in each bathroom will be ex
tended under a wide mirror to
form a vitrious china shelf for
make-up or shaving accessories.
Dallas’ newest skyscraper will
be constructed in the form of a
huge “Y”. Two prongs of the Y
will converge on the main street
leaving a part of the site avail
able for a landscaped garden.
The hotel will be the only down
town Dallas building not built
flush to the street but with an
approach for taxis and guest
cars on its own property.
The Dallas Statler will be
opened in the summer of 1955.
CAVOTA’S
OUR TOYS
AND GIFTS
ARE NOW
ON DISPLAY
FOR ALL
THE
FAMILY
AT
CAVOTA’S
Tlie Family Store
k. —J
DEAN BRONSON BECOMES
MASTER AVIATION MECHANIC
Mr. and Mrs.. Lester Bronson
have learned that their son, Dean,
has successfully completed a 52
weeks course of training at the
Cal-Aero Technical Institute in
Glendale, Calif., and has been
certificated a Master Aviation
Mechanic.
Due to excellent recommenda
tions from the school he has been
immediately placed with the Kern
’Copters Co. in San Fernando,
Calif.
Dwindling Number Of
Federal Civilian Workers
WASHINGTON, UR — Another
28,600 civilian workers were
dropped from the federal payroll
during October, the Civil Service
Commission reported this week.
It said this brings the net cut
back since January to about 176,
600, leaving a total of 2.372,100
federal employes.
ARCTIC OIL DELIVERY!
STOVE OIL FURNACE OIL
Ben Young
We Check Your Tank Regularly
Office Phone: BLACK 76 Residence: MAIN 52
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ALASKA CAB
“SEE US FOR SIGHTSEEING”
MAIN 20 or RED 41
Coffee Keeps Car
In Caravan After
Cooling System Quits
FAIRBANKS, UP) — Mrs. Ethel
Granite’s car was perkin’ right
along when it ground to a stop
here after a trip to Nenana Sun
day.
Mrs. Granite, of Fairbanks, drove
one of 105 cars carrying more than
300 Fairbanks residents in a cara
van to Nenana and back over a
wilderness trail local people hope
will soon become a road.
On the way back Mrs. Granite’s
car stalled because of cooling sys
tem trouble. But Yankee ingenuity
came to the rescue.
Out came the thermos bottles—
the temperature was around zero
—and into the radiator of Mrs.
Granite’s car went all the coffee
members of the caravan hadn’t
already consumed.
It worked, and Mrs. Granite
came home on a ping and a cuppa
java.
Bad Luck Strikes Actress
Third Time In Same Leg
HOLLYWOOD, Actress Su
san Ball is back in a hospital bed
again and this time her oft-in
jured right leg is broken. Her dog
tipped over his drinking water
Saturday and the pretty 22-year- I
old brunette slipped on the wet
spot.
It was the same leg she injured
while dancing for a movie scene a
year ago and then hurt again in an
automobile accident last February.
Following the first injury a
growth developed which was diag
nosed as a form of cancer. Miss
Ball refused, to permit amputation
although-it was advised. - ’
“After a year on crutches, I
was all ready to go back to work,”
she said. “And now this happens.”
Estimates of the weight of blood
in the human body vary from one
thirteenth to one-twentieth of the
weight of the body.
Alaska Division Of Bureau
Of Public Roads Combines
With Division Eight
JUNEAU, UPi—Hugh A. Stoddart,
Alaska division engineer for the
Bureau of Public Roads, said Sat
urday the division would be com
bined with Division Eight and
have its headquarters in Portland,
Oregon, effective Jan. 1.
Stoddard, who came here five
years ago from Portland when the
division was set up, made the an
nouncement upon hit return from
Washington.
He will become division engi
neer when the transfer is made,
succeeding W. H. Lynch, present
chief of Division Eight.
He said Alaska’s road program
is “over the peak” and a separate
division was not necessary. There
was no announcement of who
would be district engineer for Al
aska.
Fina Job Printing at the Nugget
Drivers find
gasoline cost per
mile down 20%
To compare gasoline values now with the
"good old days,” test drivers at Standard ran
popular cars of the 1920’s on 1925 gas, ’53
models of the same makes on today’s gas, and
’53 models modified to use 1925 gas. All cars
were driven over the same course, on the same
amount of fuel till they ran out of gas. The
results may surprise you.
Today’s gasoline giv«s you, under com
parable driving conditions, 50 % more miles
per gallon than in 1925! What does it mean
to you? Suppose you started on a trip from
San Francisco to Lake Tahoe with 12 gal
lons of gasoline—a route covering all kinds
of driving. In the old car with 1925 gas,
you’d travel about 131 miles; in the new
car modified for 1925 gasoline you’d go
149 miles; but in the new car with today’s
gasoline, you’d go all the way to Lake
Tahoe, 196 miles. Improved auto engines
explain part of this—but better gasolines
made them possible. You benefit steadily
from the competition in research and op
erating efficiency between Standard and
other oil companies. Competition steps up
gasoline quality, helps hold prices down.
While living costs have risen 54% in the
last 28 years, today’s gasoline costs you
only 22 % more a gallon (except for taxes)...
gasoline cost per mile has dropped one fifth!
STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA
plans ahead te serve you hotter