Road to McGrath
Would Open Up
New Farm Area
ANCHORAGE—The proposed
highway from the Matanuska
Valley to McGrath which is being
pushed by the Anchorage Cham
ber of Commerce could open up a
large new farming area in Alaska.
That is the belief of Herman
Turner, agent at large for the
Alaska Extension Service, who
has been encouraging gardening
in western Alaska for several
years.
From McGrath to Aniak, about
175 miles to the southwest on the
Kuskokwim River, Turner has
found the soil and climate good
for agriculture. The McGrath area
is similar to the Tanana Valley
and nearer Aniak growing condi
tions are similar to those of the
Matanuska Valley.
Even as far north as Unalakleet
Turner has found excellent soil.
Altho temperatures were cooler,
there were gardens there before
anyone had ever heard of the
Matanuska Valley, Turner said.
Only rarely are women color
blind.
AIR SEARCH FOR |
PILOT FELDER
FAIRBANKS—The Fairbanks <
Civil Air Patrol has joined forces
with the 74th Air Rescue Squad
ron in the search for pilot Joseph
Felder, missing in the Brooks
Range.
Poor weather hampered the
search.
Felder, a former University of
Alaska student now residing at
Pt. Barrow, failed to arrive at
Umiat after a trip from Betties
last Monday. He was flying a blue
Stinson.
UPSIDE DOWN WINDOWS
LOOKED LIKE MODERN ART
LOUISVILLE, Ky., 3—T h e
stained glass windows at Temple
Acbath Jeshum are right side up
again, thanks to a rabbi who
couldn’t figufe out something that
looked like it might be modem
art.
When he finally had the win
dows turned around “they be
came clear,” he said. “There are
the scrolls in one. And the ram’s
horn and burning bush are in
another. And in the third are the
candelabra and cup of wine. Now
they look fine.”
SrnurHY SMITH
HALF ACRE CASTLE
KAREN LEE1
MOftpE OF
PONTIAC, j
MICHIGAN
SAYS CUT
THE TOPOFF j
AN EMPTY
MILK CARTON,
FILL IT WITH i
WATER, PUT I
IT IN YOUR
FREEZER
ANO IT CAN
BE USED
FOR ICING
DRINKS,
rALICE ANN\
WOLFF OF
CLIFTON,N4
SAYS WHEN
PLACING
SILVERWARE
INTO • i
DISHWATER
PUT KNIVES
AND FORKS
IN SAME
DIRECTION
TO
PREVENT
CUTTING
YOUR
FINGERS.
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Three U.S. Ships
Complete Sailing
Northwest Passage
ARGENTIA, Nfld., UP)—'Three
U.S. military supply ships left
last night for their home ports,
completing the first circumnavi
gation of North America by
American vessels.
The cutter Storis and buoy ten
ders Bramble and Spar left Wash
ington July 1, crossed the Arctic
Circle in Bering Strait July 10
and recrossed it 64 days later in
Davis Strait.
Weary of a summer-long battle
against sea, wind and ice, the
ships docked at the U.S. naval
base here to take on fuel and
fresh provisions. Cmdr. Harold
L. Wood, commanding officer of
the Storis and the three-ship unit,
said the brief stopover also pro
vided the officers and crew with
rest and recreation. They covered
more than 4,000 miles in the arc
tic without a break.
The Storis is bound for Kodiak,
Alaska, via the Panama Canal.
The Bramble steams for Miami,
the Spar for Bristol, R.I. All have
passed thru the historic North
west Passage.
The ships were part of a convoy
of U. S. and Canadian vessels
l which converged on the arctic
i from the Atlantic and Pacific
Oceans. They dropped off some
300.000 tons of dry goods and 3,
500.000 barrels of gasoline at
DEW Line installations stretching
3.000 miles across the roof of the
world.
It was the first time the bases
were re-supplied by a ship con
voy. The work was done before
by planes and shallow-draft ves
sels of much smaller tonnage.
Construction Workers
Will Have to Tip-Toe
So Minks Can Mate
CHICAGO, UPt—Quiet-loving
minks apparently will force con
struction workers building part
of Illinois’ $445 million tollway to
tip-toe during the mink mating
season Feb. 1 to April 1.
A Lake County mink farmer
bas served notice he’ll demand
$130,000 damages if construction
noises disrupt mink mating.
George McGum, tollway coun
sel, said he and the farmer have
agreed on a zone of quiet during
tihe crucial period. Road builders
will be told to keep noise at a
minimum.
Nome Directory
Northwestern Alaska
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Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon
JIM WALSH, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. I
Order of Eastern Star
□ LUlie Lewis
Worthy Matron
Helen Dunbar
Secretary
i Summer Recess
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No. 140
Robt. K. Lewis, WK.
Norvin W. Lewis, Sec.
Meets 1st and 3rd Thursday each month
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