Eastern Stars Install Officers,
Give Presentations and Awards
Lillie and Harry Lewis, moth
and son, were installed Monday
evening as Worthy Matron and
Worthy Patron of Alaska Chap
ter No. 1, Order of Eastern Star.
Twin brother Charles Lewis
presided during their installation,
with Norvin Lewis, father of the
boys, acting as installing chaplain.
Robert Lewis, another brother
of the patron, was unable to at
tend.
Other officers for the 1957 year
include the following:
Associate matron and patron,
Mildred Harwood and Herb
Jenks; Conductress and Assistant
Conductress, Doris Wilke and
June Jeffries, Marshal, Emily
Boucher; Chaplain, Jack Blattler;
Organist, Dorothy Young; Star
Points, Barbara Martin, Bev
Morgan, Josephine Weyer* Ellen
Waldheim, Ruth Reed; Warder,
George Weyer; Sentinel, Jack
Reed.
Special musical numbers were
NATION S 2nd A-SUB
BACK AFTER TEST
GROTON, Conn.*, UP)—The na
tion’s second atomic submarine,
the Seawolf, was back in her
berth today after 36 hours of first
trials at sea.
The builder’s trial run took the j
sub out into Long Island Sound
on Monday. She returned yester
day.
A spokesman for the U.S. Navy
Atlantic Submarine Force head- j
quarters in New London said the
trials—including initial submerg- j
ence tests—went off satisfactor- .
ily. More tests are planned.
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sung by Barbara Mecklenburg
and Willard Mecklenburg.
Emily Boucher, who has been
acting matron for the past six
months, was presented a beauti
ful jade pin hy the officers and
a lovely jade necklace and ear
rings by the chapter. The presen
tations were made by Bev Mor
gan, who was installing marshal,
and Trustee Luther Dunbar.
Outgoing Patron Charles Lewis
and Past Patron Stan Morgan
each received past patrons’ pins.
In a special ceremony, a beau
tifully engraved gavel was pre
sented the chapter by Emily Bou
cher for her father, Past Patron
Antonio Polet.
Delicius refreshements were
served following the meeting by
a committee composed of Mr. and
Mrs. Thomas Martin and Mr. and
Mrs. Stan Morgan.
18 Perish in Flames
During Wedding Feast
COLOMBO, Ceylon UP)—A gaily
decorated pavilion made of coco
nut palm leaves caught fire Mon
day night during a wedding feast
on a tea plantation. Eighteen per
sons were burned to death.
The 17-year-old bride was
among a- dozen people burned
critically. The bridegroom, a van
driver on the estate, escaped with
slight injuries.
The fire broke out on the roof
of the palm shed, built for the
occasion, just after the newly
married couple and the guests
sat down to a wedding feast.
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Old Nugget Issue
Features Trip of
Basketball Team
The Nugget is in receipt of a
copy of the Nome Nugget for Oc
tober 22, 1907, which is now on
display at the Nugget office. .
It is interesting to note that one
of the big features is the depar
ture of the Nome basketball team
enroute to the States, where it
played teams throughout the
country and won 75 percent of
all games played, according to
George Goshaw, who, with Ralpn
Lcmen, are the only two surviv
ing players of this colorful team.
In this issue, the City Council
was having its problems finding
money to plank its streets and a
lot upon which to build a city
hall. The firemen were delegated
to turn the streetlights off and on.
The old issue is full of the
names of the people departing on
the last boat for the season and
the town was settling dovm for'
the winter social season .
One ad reads: “Cheer up! If
you are left behind, cheer up!—
Come to the Breakers.”
U.S.-Brazilian Base
Will Track Missiles
Launched From Florida
RIO DE JANEIRO, (JV—Work is
to begin at once on a joint U.S.
Brazilian base on Brazil’s Fer
nando de Noronha Island for
tracking guided missiles.
A new agreement be.tween the
two nations promises economic
aid to Brazil in exchange for use
for five years of the island in the
South Atlantic, 250 miles off the
hump of Brazil. Terms of the aid
are to be worked out later.
The island is on the 40-mile
wide, 5,000-mile-long guided mis
sile track between Florida launch
ing sites and the terminal control
point, Britain’s Ascension Island.
Electronic equipment will be
installed to check the flight of
U.S. test missiles and detect mis
siles that might be fired by other
nations.
Small Boys’ Ears
Serve as Pockets
LOUISVILLE, Ky. UP)—'Thomas
Godfrey, city school supervisor of
health and physical education, is
convinced small boys do the
darndest things.
Three of them showed up at
doctors’ offices after hearing tests
made in city schools indicated
their hearing was 'below par.
The physicians found:
A marble lodged in one lad’s
ear.
A wad of paper in the ear of
another.
A screw in the ear of the third.
Godfrey managed to keep a
straight face as he reported to the
school board: “The hearing of
these boys is back to normal
Trouble in Back Seat
TOPEKA, Kan., W—Det. Sgt.
Jim Freel picked up the telephone
and a man’s voice said:
“Someone stole my steering
wheel and all the foot pedals
from my car.”
Freel obtained the address and
a patrol car was sent on its way.
A few minutes later the phone
rang again. “Everything is all
right,” the same voice reported.
“I was looking in the back seat.”
Freel suggested the man wait
until the squad car arrived.
“I don’t have time,” the man
said. “I’ve got to see my girl. And
besides, your men might arrest
me for being drunk.
H. Meade Alcorn of Connecticut Is
New Republican National Chairman
WASHINGTON, Uft—H. Meade
Alcorn Jr. of Connecticut Tues
day was unanimously elected Re
publican national chairman. Pres
ident Eisenhower had named him
as his choice.
Alcorn was chosen by the com
mittee on motion of L. Judson
Morhouse, New York State chair
man.
Harry Darby of Kansas, chair
man of a subcommittee which
conferred with Eisenhower at the
White House, had just reported
that Eisenhower “would like it
very much” if Alcorn was elected
to succeed retiring Chairman
Leonard W. Hall.
Hall submitted his resignation
to the committee, effective Feb. 1.
Alcorn’s election was made
unanimous when Morhouse made
a motion to have the committee
secretary, Mrs. Wesley Dixon,
cast a single ballot for Alcorn.
Alcorn, 49, is a Hartford law
yer. An early booster of Eisen
hower for President, he was the
chairman of the Citizens for Ei
senhower organization in his state
in 1952.
As GOP chairman, Alcorn will
FIRE CHIEF GETS HOSE
SENECA FALLS, N. Y., UtV
After firemen doused a blaze in
a milk plant near here, they
turned the hose on Fire Chief
Norman Comiskey.
Sparks had set a cuff of his
trousers on fire.
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serve without pay as did Hall. ‘
Alcorn accepted the post with
an informal speech in which he
pledged he would be a “hard
working chairman and give it
I possess.”
He said it would be hard to fiH
Hall’s shoes and that the retiring
chairman had given the party a
new type of leadership with vigor,
freshness and affability.
In his talk, Alcorn also made
these points:
1. He believes "very strongly in
organization and reorganization
at every level.” He asked help in
strengthenihg every component of
the party organization.
2. He hopes to carry on Hall's
work by setting up organizations
on a hill time basis in every state,
including the South.
3. He believes in making the
national committee a "far more
significant instrument” in nation
al polities.
4. He believes the party can
win back control of Congress in
1958 if it has all of three ingredi
ents—good candidates; a good
program and good organization.,
Chicago Grain Elevator
Destroyed in Fife
With Loss at Millions
C H ICAGO, —Flames de
stroyed a huge grain elevator on
Chicago’s far south side Monday
night and early Tuesday with a
loss estimated at “several million
dollars.”
The spectacular fire, fought by
about 400 firemen in a driving
rain, leveled the 10-story Conti
nental Grain Co. structure at 94th
St. and the Calumet River before
it was controlled.
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