Fairbanks Prospectors
Will Seek Uranium
Deposits by Plane
FAIRBANKS, UP—An explora
tion company has been organized
here to seek uranium-bearing de
posits by airplane.
Don Pruhs is president of the
new Alaska Uranium Exploration
Company.
Bob Rice, a vice president and
pilot, will fly the airplane from
which uranium indications will be
sought with an aerial version of
the geiger counter. They say they
plan to cover 5,000 square miles
this summer.
They plan to use some old-time
prospectors and a few University
of Alaska mining students at the
same time in ground checking.
“We don’t know what our chan
ces are,” Pruhs explained, “but
we’ll never know if we don’t get
out and see.
“Sam Gamblin (a prospector for
20 years and a member of the
new company’s board) says this
type of prospecting is different
but he rather likes the idea of
prospecting sitting down in an
airplane.
“He has cautioned us that eveh
if we locate likely ground by the
new-fangled instrument we still
have to revert to the old-fash
ioned ways of getting on the
ground and digging.”
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Fine Job Printing at the Nugget
Astronomy Notes
By OLAF HALVERSON
It is interesting to know that
the changing of the direction of
the earth’s axis can be verified by
the pyramids.
The Egyptians were famous
builders and excellent engineers,
with a sound knowledge of prac
tical geometry. When they built
the pyramids they took care to
line one of them up in a particu
lar way with what was then the
North Star, namely, Alpha, of the
constellation called the Dragon.
They did this by building a
shaft slanting downward toward
the interior of the pyramid. The
slope was such that when the star
Alpha was at the lowest point of
its daily circle it shone down the
shaft. Astronomers thus fix the
date at which that pyjamid was
built at 3000 B.C.
Even our North Star of today,
Polaris, is not at the exact center
of the celestial sphere but de
scribes a very small circle about
it in 24 hoTars. It is a common
experience for surveyors to make
this correction in finding true
north.
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Mamie Eisenhower Tops
List of America’s “Best
Chapeaued” Women
NEW YORK, UPi—Mamie Eisen
hower tops the list of America’s
“best chapeaued” women named
Wednesday by 10 noted millinery
designers.
Mrs. Eisenhower was selected
by Sally Victor, who said:
“She has done more for the
American hat business than any
First Lady since Do'lly Madison.”
Others on the list:
Mrs. Lauritz. Melchior, Mrs.
Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney,
Claramae Turner (Mrs. Frank
Hoffman), opera singer; Mary
Bothwell, concert singer; Juliana
Larson (Mrs. Walter Bedford
Sharpe), supper club singer;
Ruby Mercer, radio commentator;
Barbara Gibson, opera and con
cert singer; Jan Sterling (Mrs.
Paul Douglas) movie star; Doro
thy Stickey (Mrs. Howard Lind
say), stage star; Arlene * Francis,
TV star.
Work Speeding Ahead
On Haines-Fairbanks
Oil and Gas Pipeline
FAIRBANKS, \1P)—Work is
speeding ahead on the 29 million
dollar military oil and gas pipe
line between Haines and Fair
banks.
Barney Barses, project manager
for the joint venture contractors,
reports half of the 610-mile right
of-way already has been cleared.
Pipe enough for 52 miles of the
line has been stockpiled at vari
ous points along the route through
Alaska and Canada’s Yukon ter
ritory.
Cold weather in February re
tarded the project, but Barnes
predicts that the clearing job, ex
cept for 40 miles near Haines,
will be completed by May 1.
Forty trucks, with drivers who
gained experience along the Al
aska Highway, have been hauling
the pipe and other equipment out
of Valdez in a rush to beat the
springtime softening of the high
waq.
Mow Lawn at Night
American ingenuity has again
come up with an idea to make life
easier. This time, the old problem
of cutting grass under the hot
summer sun has finally been
licked.
Now you can cut your lawn in
the cool of the evening after the
heat of the day has passed. The
Jacobsen 21-inch Lawn Queen
power mower is equipped with
twin chromium-plated headlights.
The compact, 12-volt generator to
supply the lights is automatically j
driven off the main drive belt of
the mower. Headlights throw
enough light to read a newspaper
at 60 feet.
The headlight-equipped Lawn
Queen will also supply light for
people who like to tend their flow
er gardens or trim bushes in the
evening. Even white sidewall tires
are available on this deluxe
mower.
New Draft of Alaska Mental
Health Act Prevents Jail Terms
For Mental Health Patients
Two identical new drafts of the'
“Alaska Mental Health Act” have
been introduced into the House of
Representatives by Congressman
John Saylor and into the upper
house by Sen. Hugh Butler (they
are H.R. 8009 and S. 3037). These
bills are similar in scope to H.R.
1217 introduced in Jan. 1953 by
Delegate E. L. Bartlett. However,
they clarify several questions that
have arisen regarding H.R. 1217
and make these clarifications
points of law which will not need
to be decided later by adminis
trative regulation.
For example, the governor or
his authorized representative is
specifically empowered “to enter
into a negotiated contract with
any hospital in Alaska to admit
for care any individual who is
qualified for hospitalization.” This
means that arrangements can be
made for the detention, observa
tion, and care of patients in hos
pitals rather than in jails.
Also “the Territorial Govern
ment of Alaska is authorized to
enact such laws as it may deem
appropriate for the care of resi
dents of or persons in Alaska who
are mentally ill.” By this provi
sion, Alaska is at last given the
authority to regulate the provi
sions by which its mentally ill
are cared for.
Those sections of the new bills
having to do wTith commitment
procedures, care, and discharge
of patients are similar to H. R.
1217. The following four ways to
hospitalize a patient are provided:
1. Voluntary Hospitalization—
Any individual over 16 years of
age may apply for admission to a
psychiatric hospital and, in being
thus admitted to such hospital, in
no way has his legal rights im
paired. He must be released upon
his own request.
I. Hospitalization on Medical
Certification (Standard Non-Judi
cial Procedure)—Any individual
may be admitted to a hospital
upon the written application of
an interested party, accompanied
by the certificate of a licensed
physician that the individual is
mentally ill.
II. Emergency Admission Proce
dure—A violently disturbed per
Pope Pius Message
Expected Easter Sunday
VATICAN CITY, UPt—The Vati
can press office said Thursday
convalescing Pope Pius XII prob
ably will give his blessing “urbi
et orbi”—to the city and world—
on Easter Sunday.
The 78-year-old head of the
Roman Catholic Church, was
stricken by an abdominal ailment
Jan. 25.
son who is in danger of harming
himself or others can be admitted
directly to a hospital rather than
being sent to jail.
4. Hospitalization Upon Court
Order (Judicial Procedure)—An
individual thought to be mentally
ill may be examined before the
United States commissioner, upon
the advice of competent medical
testimony, to determine if he is
mentally ill.
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None of these procedures util
izes the jury trial for mental ill
ness. However, in line with Am
erica’s traditional protection of
individual civil rights anyone hos
pitalized against his will shall be
entitled to a writ of habeas corpus.
These bills include a section
which states that the act shall not
impair, amend, or modify any
provision of the existing contract
between the Dept, of Interior and
the Sanitarium Co. of Portland,
Ore. tMorningsideh
Dr. Charles L. Anderson, chief,
section of mental health of the
Alaska Dept, of Health, and Dr. C.
Earl Albrecht, commissioner of
health, have studied these bills
and have urged that they be en
acted promptly. The bill in its
present form is receiving the full
support of the Health Department.
However, several sections of .
the act, in the opinion of Drs. Al
brecht and Anderson, could well
be modified. The definition of a
“mentally ill individual” specif
ically excludes those who are
mentally retarded or mentally de
fective. Under the present ad
mittedly poor law these individ
uals are included.
Unless the definition is revised
to encompass the mentally defec
tive, the territory will find itself
without legal means of hospital
izing the occasional defective pa
tient who becomes disturbed.
Special and additional legisla
tion would need to be enacted
which could just as well be cov
ered in the scope of this act.
Copies of this bill are now
available at the Terri. Welfare
Office, stated Mrs. H. Salisbury.
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