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Foster Daughter Wants
In On Fabulous Alaska
Cinnabar Mining Claim
MERCED, Calif., U*> — A foster
daughter wants to be adminis
tratrix of the estate of Cora Dins
more, who left an Alaskan mining
claim.
Marie L. Blackwell, 47, of Oak
land, Calif., filed a petition in
Merced Superior Court yesterday.;
She said she was a foster daugh
ter of the Merced woman who
died last year.
T/Sgt. Thomas Howlett, 28, a
jet bomber tail gunner at nearby 1
Castle Air Force Base, said last
month that he and his wife had
befriended the widow and had j
been left a map showing the lo- j
cation of the cinnabar deposit in i
southwestern Alaska.
He said after returning from
an .inspection of the area that
geologists told him it had a po
tential value of 40 millioo dol
' lars. He said he had filed a for
mal claim to the deposit. Some
; Alaskan experts doubted the
claim would yield that much.
Mrs. Blackwells attorney, Wm.
D. Corbett, said her petition “is
the first step tward putting us in
a position to ask Howlett some
questions. We don’t know what
he got from Mrs. Dinsmore, if
anything.”
The sergeant wasn’t available
for comment.
Fine Job Printing At The Nugget.
Could Happen To Anyone
OAKLAND, Calif., UP)—Police
man Leroy Pelley was suspended
Monday for 20 days on a charge
of unofficerlike conduct because j
of a misunderstanding—his.
Pelley, 35, lives in San Lorenzo
Village, a tract with many houses
of similar appearance.
A,fter some off - duty drinks
with friends Saturday night Pel
ley headed for home, entered a
house, kissed a woman in the
bedroom, and started taking off
his shoes.
Wrong woman and wrong
house, Pelley learned when the
woman screamed. He mumbled
apologies and left quickly but the
woman took down his license
number.
Adventurous!
SPOKANE, UP)—-A 12-year-old
Spokane boy, who said he just
wanted something to do, took his
father’s car Sunday and headed
for Alaska. The trip ended 114
miles later when the vehicle
skidded into a ditch near Wen
atchee.
The boy, Fred Foss, took his
dad’s 1958 model car early Sun
day and headed west. He did okay
too, until the auto hit a steep
grade and slid into a ditch.
The youngster, who had never
driven before, was returned to
his parents.
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By ALAN COURTRIGHT
Of some 16 to 17 ducks I’ve
seen close up (dead* this year,
only one was an adult, and only
three were males. It would be in
teresting to know whether males
and females, juvenile and adults
migrate through the Nome area
at different times.
For those local hunters who are
interested in this sort of thing but
can’t tell the difference, this is
how it’s done:
Among the “puddle” or “pond”
ducks (which include the mallard,
teal, pintail, and baldpate locally)
the female mallard and teal have
spots on the upper mandible. The
female pintail also has these spots
sometimes, but the color of the
wing bar is a more definite sex
characteristic in this species; the
male has more vivid coloration
with a very noticeable green ir
ridescence, while the wing bar on
the female is duller, mostly
brown.
Another method of telling the
boys from the girls in the puddle
duck group is toy looking for “ver
miculations.” These are fine wavy
lines in the feathers of the belly
and at the base of the wings.
Only the males of most species
have vermiculated feathers.
Juvenile ducks, the birds that
were hatched this year, can be
differentiated from the adults by
the tail feathers in most birds.
These feathers (although not ne
cessarily all of the feathers on the
tail of any particular bird) are
notched or squared off on the
ends in young birds, pointed or
rounded in adults.
The tail feather method won’t
work in all cases later on in the
year, and the spotted bill method
vtfon’t work on' the “diving” or
“sea” ducks, including the scaup
and goldeneye. There are other,
somewhat more complicated
methods which can be used for
these cases. Those who are inter
ested can get more information at
the local Fish and Game Depart
ment office.
I saw someone shoot a duck
with a rifle the other day, which
is illegal; he shot it from a motor
boat, which is also illegal. I won
der if he had a hunting license?
And a duck stamp? I would have
tried to find out, but he had a
big motor and I had a small one.
Nome Directory
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon at
North Star Dining Roopa
Russell Hermann, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO 1
Order of Eastern Star
Doris Wilke
Worthy Matron
Helen Dunbar
Secretary
Recessed Until September 21
ANVIL LODGE
No. 140
KERB JENKS, W.M.
Norvji V. Lewis, Sec.
Meets First and Third Thursday
of Each Month
NOME ROTARY CLUB
Ash Craft
President
^|r>/§"<jgS Herb Jenks
Secretary
Wednesday Luncheon
Parent-Teachers Assn.
Meets last Tuesday of every
month at School.
WERNER BOHRER. President
VESTA SUNDSTROM. Secty.
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