Red Devil, Alaska’s
Newest Post Office,
Open for Business
Alaska’s newest post office—
Red Devil—opened today.
Stamp and envelope collectors
all over the country have deluged
the Anchorage post office with
more than 2,000 letters which j
they wish to have cancelled for j
collector’s purposes on Red Devil’s
first day.
A heavy increase in mining ac- 1
tivity near the small village on
the Kuskokwim has resulted in
opening the post office, Anchor
age postal inspector J. H. Ray
said.
Two mining firms, the Decour
sey Mountain Mining Co. and
Cordreo Mining Co., have active
operations in the area. Mining of
cinnabar and reduction of cinna
bar to mercury and carried out in
the area.
A NEW ANIMAL ACT?
BERLIN, New Hampshire, Itf)—
Leon Dumoulin reported that he
was awakened at 2 a.m. Saturday
by noise outside his home and dis
covered a mother bear and four
cubs climbing the antenna of the
Paper City TV Cable Co.
Dumoulin grabbed a gun and
rushed from the house, but the
door slammed shut, alerting the
bear family, which dashed to
safety in the nearby woods.
Dumoulin went back to bed.
For every man who lives to be I
85 there are seven women—but i
by now it’s too late.
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U.S. Engineers
Devise New Way to
Beat Permafrost
A new method to beat perma
frost and protect pilings on which
White Alice installations at Beth
el are constructed, is to be tried
by the U.S. Army Engineer Dis
trict, Alaska.
The district engineer has called
for competitive bids for the job.
They will be opened Nov. 1 at
| Anchorage.
The work consists of encasing,
with metal collars, approximately
71 steel pilings whose viscosity is
little affected by cold. The collars
are to be filled with a special mix
ture of wax and oil. This scheme
prevents the freezing ground from,
adhering to the pile and heaving
it up.
Military defense construction at
Bethel—an important link in the
communications and warning sys
tem which stretches across the far
north—has gone forward under
the Alaska District since 1953.
Work completed or now being
constructed under the Alaska Dis
trict totals more than $7,000,00(1
in this area.
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