Nenana Power
Plant Bunts
NENANA — Fire swept the
City. Services power plant here
Friday, levelling the one story
building to the ground in about
three and a half hours.
Volunteer firemen and most erf
the village's residents responded
to the fire call in 40-below-zaere
weather and battled the flames
for most of three hours. The fire
was discovered at 2 in the after
noon. ' V
One of two such plants, the
City Services operation was lo
cated across from the railroad
depot and furnished electric pow
er to about one-third of the vil
lage population. Both of the pow
er plants operate independently.
Mrs. Charles Myers* wife of the
plant’s owner* said the building
was about 20 years ago and was
partially covered by insurance.
She didn’t know the exact value
of the building and its equipment
however, it was a total loss.
Teen-Age Club to Mold
Benefit Dance At School
Gym Next Saturday
The Teen-Age Club have an
nounced a benefit dance for next
Saturday evening.
The party, which is open to the
public, will be held at the school
auditorium from 8 to 12 p.m. Rich
and his organ will furnish the
music, it is reported, and a radio
is to be given away.
Going to Nome as site supervis
or at the White Alice site on Anvil
Mountain is just like going
“home” for Lloyd C. Sundstrom.
For Sundstrom has spent some of
the happiest times of his life
there.
“I saw the first scheduled air
plane service to the States. I saw
the passing of the passenger
steamers to the territory. Having
witnessed the past where it was a
struggle just to get a simplq mes
sage thru, it is quite impressive
to pass another milestone—the
Integrated Communication System
—and to see the progress to a
place where you can dial to reach
almost any plqce.” Sundstrom
says.
Sundstrom has been a licensed
radio operator sinfe 1935 and first
came to Alaska with a Bureau erf
Fisheries patrol boat in 1939. Af
ter that he was with Pacific Alas
ka Airways, a subsidiary of Pan
American Airlines, which kt that
time flew a line from Fairbanks!
to Nome via Ruby, Nulato and I
Koyuk. He was stationed at the
latter village, which boasted an
airstrip and maintained communi
cations and a weather station.
Sundstrom recalls that the sin
gle engine planes flying the Fair
banks-Nome route “tried to make
it twice a week, but sometimes
they’d have to sit down along the
way and were weathered in for
two weeks at a time.”
While with Pan American, he
spent two yeaj-s in Nome in charge
of communications, and several
years with PAA in other Alaskan
areas. During World War II he
sailed with Alaska Steamship Co. *
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as chief radio officer of the SS
Yukon passenger ship.
Both Mr. arid Mrs. Sundstrom
attended the University of Alaska
and after their marriage moved
to Vashon Island, Wash., where
he was a broadcasting engineer.
As might be expected, Sund
strom’s hobby is ham radio, and
he operates his station W7FCC
from his Piper Supercruiser as an
aeronautical mobile unit. While
other mobile hams broadcast car
to-fixed-station, he broadcasts
plane-to-car or plane-to-fixed-sta
tion or various combinations.
Norma Talmadge,
Silent Film Star,
Dies at Age of 60
LAS VEGAS, liev., (&—Norma
Talmadge, versatile dark-eyed si
ren who made more than 200 pic
tures during her silent film career,
died today. She was 60.
Death was attributed to pneu
monia, altho she had had a series
of cerebral strokes recently.
Miss Talmadge and Dr. Carvel
James, her third husband, had
lived quietly during their 10 years
of residence here.
Her first husband was film ty
coon Joseph M. Schenck; her sec
ond was comedian Georgie Jessel.
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Hazel Hanson, who will be re- ;
membered as head nurse at the
MMM Hospital for several years,
writes from Baltimore, Md., where
she is taking a refresher course in
nursing, having been traveling
since leaving Nome last spring.
INTERESTING PEOPLE IN NOME
Lloyd C. Sundstrom, White Alice Supervisor
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CWistmas
from
THE NUGGET
NEWSBOYS
(All 22 of them)
kristmas
May we extend the wish
that yours will be glad
dened O little by our
appreciation and good
wishes. ^
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