B.C. Whaling i
Season Ends With
Catch of 636
VANCOUVER, B.C., UP)_The
whaling season off the west coast
of Vancouver Island has ended
with a catch of 636 whales of all
types.
Thf six whaling vessels returned
to port for their annual overhaul.
Breakdown of the year’s catch
was 16 blue whales, 283 finbacks,
49 humpbacks, 96 seis and 192
sperm.
The total catch compares fa
vorably with 1954 and 1955 and
is a big improvement over the
poor year of 1956 when only 376
were caught.
The whaling fleet of B.C. Pack
ers, Ltd., started operations in
2948 out of Coal Harbor in Quat
sino Sound, only whaling station
in North America.
It is still a marginal operation
because of stiff competition in
world markets from the highly
organized antarctic whaling in
dustry.
Prices of oil and meal are de
pendent on world supply and de
mand. Recently oil prices have
been static, while meal prices are
down sharply, and costs continue
to rise.
Woman Watching for
Sputnik Gets a Big
Surprise From the Skies
FORT WALTON BEACH, UPi—
Mrs. Antoinette Dettle heard over
a television station Friday that
the Russian made moon would be
overhead at 5:15 p.m.
She went into her yard to try to
see it. Her three children, 5, 4,
and 2, were playing in the yard.
At 5:15 p.m., Mrs. Dettle said,
she heard a screaming sound and
then the thud of an object landing
in the yard, within 10 feet of the
children. It tore a hole about 18
inches wide and a foot deep in
the ground.
It wasn’t Sputnik.
It was a 50-pound metal box of
flares that dropped from an Eglin
Air Force Base plane. The box
was retrieved by an Eglin demo
lition team.
By then, Mrs. Dettle had for
gotten about Sputnik.
America’s first transcontinental
railway was built in Panama,
spanning the 50-mile isthmus.
Miller Reports on
Alaska Congress of
Parents, Teachers
Dick Miller, vice president of
Nome PTA, returned from the
first annual conference of the Al
aska Congress of Parents and
Teachers which met in Anchor
age Oct. 19 for the purpose of or
ganizing the Alaska Congress, a
branch of the National Congress
of Parents and Teachers.
To further acquaint the public
with the Alaska Congress of Par
ents ancT Teachers,” stated Miller,
“it’s the headquarters for our
local PTA, the same as the head
quarters in each of the states,
under the National Congress. Its
purpose is to bring better and
closer relationship between all of
the Alaska PTA’s, and to have
them operate uniformly.”
Miller said the objects of the
Alaska Congress shall be:
1— To promote the welfare of
the children and youth in home,
school, church and community.
2— To raise the standards of
home life.
3— To secure adequate laws for
the care and protection of chil
dren and youth.
4— To bring into closer relation
the home and the school, that
parents and teachers may cooper
ate intelligently in the training of
the child.
5— To develop between educa
tors and the general public such
united efforts as will secure for
every child the highest advan
tages in physical, mental, social
and spiritual education.
Presiding at the Anchorage con
ference was Mrs. John Homing,
Alaska Congress president, and
she was assisted by Mrs. Ellen
D. Bieler, national field copsult
ant. Attending were selected vice
presidents from all the PTA’s in
Alaska.
Mr. Miller said that much im
portant work was done for PTA
in Alaska.
The Nome PTA is very fortun
ate in having Mrs. Homing and
Mrs. Bieler here to attend the
executive meeting of the local
PTA Tuesday evening.
MMM HOSPITAL
Admitted: Ada Komonoseak
Discharged: Mary Walsh, Jim
Walters, Lena Peterson, Ada Ko
monoseak, Isabelle Kuyoutellak.
17 Children and
4 Adults Perish in
Weekend Fires
(By The Associated Press)
Seventeen children and four
adults died yesterday in six fires
in Texas, Ohio, New Jersey, and
upstate New York.
V In Belpre, Ohio, a 36-year-old
mother and seven of her nine
children perished in a fire appar
ently started by defective wiring.
They were found huddled about
the television set in the living
room. Firemen said they died of
suffocation.
V Four children were asphyxi
ated in their frame house in Am
arillo, Texas, while their father
was taking a babysitter home. His
wife was ill with influenza at the
base hospital.
The youngsters, whose ages
ranged from 18 months to 6 years, |
were in the back bedroom of the
house when the fire swept thru
the living room and kitchen.
V Four children in a Newark,
N.J., family died when flames
trapped them in the third floor of
a tenement. Their parents and a
fifth child were injured when
they jumped to the street.
As the three-alarm fire swept
thru the six-family frame tene
ment, the father, thinking his
family safe, jumped to a second
floor' window ledge and then to
the street.
His wife, clutching her 8-year
old daughter in her arms, leaped
45 feet to the sidewalk before a
net could be stretched. The girl
was critically injured while the
parents were in fair condition.
Thomas Edison’s first lamp bulb burned
40 hours. A replica of that bulb was recent
ly switched oh in a laboratory-—and it is ex
pected to burn lor 100 years.
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