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AWE INSPIRING, ISN’T IT!
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Neil Moore Appointed
Temporary Director Of
Finance For Alaska
JUNEAU, UPi — Gov. Heintzle
man’s office has announced the
appointment of Neil Moore, terri
torial auditor, as temporary dir
ector of finance for Alaska. The
office was created by the recent
legislature.
The temporary appointfnent is
expected to extend for a period
of about two weeks and was made
to fill technical requirements of
the law, a spokesman for Heint
zleman said.
The most pressing need at this
time is for salary payments to
employes of the Alaska Office
Building custodial staff. Moore’s
position as auditor i$ not affected
by the temporary appointment.
Actually, the elective office of
territorial auditor, which Moore
now holds under a four-year term,
will be eliminated when the De
partment of Finance is set up
under the new law.
The law provides that Moore
shall be shifted to a routine job,
for the rest of his elective term,
under the eventual director of
finance, who is to be a virtual
“czar” over territorial fiscal mat
ters.
Gov. Heintzleman was in Seat
tle this week and it was reported
unofficially that one of his mis
sions was in connection with fill
ing the director of finance post.
WEATHER FORECAST
Cloudy to partly cloudy today j
with scattered snow flurries to
night and Saturday. Colder today
and warmer Saturday. Northeast
erly winds 8-12 mph increasing
to 15-25 mph Saturday.
Low temperature expected to
night 10, high tomorrow 32.
Data in last 24 hours as of 7
a.m. today: highest temperature
35, lowest 17. Max. wind 20 mph
from the East. Sunrise at 4:24
a.m., sunset at 7:37 p.m.
A year ago today: highest tem
perature 26, lowest 2. Extremes
this date since 1907: highest 54
in 1940, lowest -24 in 1924.
“There’s No Defense in
Nome,” Says CSM Editor
In Newspaper Series
“There is no defense in Nome,”
says Max Gilstrap, feature editor
of the Christian Science Monitor
who was in town last summer for
only a brief hour while on a Wien
tour. But he was here long enough
to see for himself that a boosting
hand was necessary to open the
eyes of the military that defense
was of No. 1 importance to the
“back door of Soviet Russia.”
Secondly he noted the great
need of a connecting road from
Fairbanks to Nome and pointed
out that a road was the keynote
to encourage a larger population
and settlement in areas now com
pletely isolated.
His article, the 14th in a series
on Alaska, was featured on the
front page of the March 26 edition
of this outstanding publication.
Retired Coal Miner To
Take His Red-White-and
Blue Lincoln To Italy
SPRINGFIELD, UP)—Fred 'Mari
nelli, a retired immigrant coal
miner who appreciates the oppor
tunity this country gave him, ac
cepted delivery yesterday of his
new $5,000 car—painted to look
like an American flag.
Red and white stripes adorn the
top and sides.
The hood is a blue field bear
ing 50 stars—one for each of the
48 states and two extras in event
Alaska and Hawaii are admitted
to statehood.
Marinelli paid an extra $100
for the special paint job when He
ordered the car (Lincoln) a few
weeks ago.
Explained Marinelli, who came
to the United States from Calasri,
Italy, in 1903:
“I’m planning a trip back to
Italy later this year. I’m going to
take my car with me to show
people of my old country how
America treats immigrants.”
’The first kerosene was distilled
from coal shale and hence was
called coal oil.
Eisenhower Orders
Survey to Assure Fair
Vaccine Distribution
AUGUSTA, UP)—President Eis
enhower Thursday ordered a fed
eral survey to determine how to
assure that all sections of the na
tion get a fair share of the Salk
polio vaccine.
The Chief Executive directed
Mrs .Ovetta Culp Hobby, secre
tary of health, education and wel
fare, to make such a surevy and
report to him.
In announcing the move at the
President’s vacation headquarters,
White House Press Secretary
James Hagerty told newsmen the
emphasis will be on voluntary
rather than compulsory methods
to assure fair distribution of the
polio preventive developed by
Dr. Jonas Salk.
Today’s action was the Presi
dent’s second move dealing with
distribution of the vaccine.
Hagerty announced that Mrs.
Hobby consulted in Washington
yesterday with medical officers
in various federal agencies. The
purpose, Hagerty added, is to as
sure that “every section of the
nation receives a fair proportion
ate share of the vaccine.”
Gen. Peyton C. March,
Doughboy Chief in
World War I, Dies at 90
WASHINGTON, UP>—Gen. Pey
ton C. March, boss of America’s
doughboys in World War I, died
Wednesday at the Army’s Walter
Reed Hospital. He was 90.
The goateed soldier, bom in the
waning days of the Civil War,
rose to Army chief of staff in
World War I. He spent the last 33
years of his life in retirement.
The Germans were pushing off
on their last big offensive when
Gen. March returned from France
to become Army chief of staff.
That was in March 1918. He had.
been serving as Gen. John J.
Pershing’s artillery chief on the
western front when the call came.
Deluged with frantic appeals
for reinforcements, March put in
motion plans which resulted in
the movement of two million Am
erican soldiers to Europe in just a
few mfinths. This was regarded as
one of his greatest achievements
in World War I.
ASTRONOMY NOTES
By OLAF HALVERSON
The two bright stars that we
can see in the southwestern, sky
soon after sunset are Castor'and
Pollux. They form a constellation
called Gemini or “The Twins.”
The upper star is Castor and the
lower one is Pollux.
• Below this constellation and a
little to the right is the brilliant
pJanet Jupiter. Jupiter has more
known satellites or moons than
any other planet—11 in all. This
planet is greater than all the oth
ers combined.
Last fall and early winter we
observed that Jupiter was in line
with Castor and Pollux. It then
began to retrogress or move back
wards which was an apparent
movement caused* by the move
ment of our own earth in its orbit.
Begin to observe Jupiter again
now and notice that it will again
proceed forward in an easterly
direction until it will be in line
with Castor and Pollux. It will
continue to move eastward until
in the latter part of May it will
be in the region of our latest
planet, Pluto.
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Tourists on Vesuvius
Nearly Swept Into
Crater by Windstorm
NAPLES, Italy, UP*—An Italian
tourist said Thursday a violent
windstorm nearly swept 10 tour
ists, including two Americans, in
to the active volcanic crater of
Mt. Vesuvius Tuesday.
The Americans were listed in a
guide's book as Robert Acquarin
of Miami, Fla., and Robert Wood
of California.
The Italian tourist said ,the
windstorm arose as the group ap
proached Vesuvious’ lip to look
down into the crater. The wind
blew so fiercely the 10 were un
able to make their way to the
•nearest shelter 400 yards away.
The tourists clung to^rocks until
a guide reached them with ropes.
That night it snowed on Vesu
vius, a rare event for April.
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Soviet Entertainers
Boost Morale on
Arctic Ice Floe Bases
LONDON, UP\—A Soviet kind of
U.S.O. troupe is boosting morale
on drifting ict floes near the
North Pole, Radio Moscow report
ed yesterday.
It said the entertainers are per- *
forming for the men stationed at
weather observation posts above
the Arctic Circle. v
“A group of Moscow artists, in
cluding soloists from the Bolshoi
Theater, are touring the arctic
regions and have arrived at scien
tific drifting station “North Pole
4,” the broadcast said.
The Soviet Union disclosed re
cently it intends to maintain two
or three drifting ice floe stations
in the arctic region permanently.
The weather information they
supply could be of considerable
military importance. “North Pole
4” was established a year ago.
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