Banfe Downed
Af Cordova By
Carburetor Ice
CORDOVA, Wi — Defeat was a
spoonful of ice for distance flyer
Charles F. Banfe Jr. Friday
night.
The 39-year-old commercial
air line pilot from Paid" Alto,
Calif., was forced down at this
Alaskan city Friday night after
logging 3,270 miles on a projected
flight from Tokyo to Miami, a
distance of 7,022 miles.
Banfe, his face etched with
lines brought on by 29 Vfe gruel
ling hours at the controls of his
Mooney Mark 20A aircraft, said
ice which formed in the carbure
tor of his engine forced him down.
He was attempting to crack the
nonstop, single engine distance
record established August 1 by
Pat Boling, a commercial air line
pilot who also lives in Palo Alto.
Boling took off from Manila and
flew 6,979 miles to a landing at
Pendleton, Ore.
Even as he shrugged off the
weariness of his trip, Banfe was
making plans for another shot at
Boling’s record.
‘Tm going to try it again,” he
told reporters at. the fog and
cloud-shrouded Cordova airport.
“It will be yie same flight, the
same plane, \vithin six months.”
Banfe, who left Tokyo at 5:31
p.m. Thursday night, guided his
plane into a safe landing here as
fo=? and low clouds choked the
visibility off to a mere 200 feet.
“The Cordova tower and radar
■* brought me in through that soup,”
Banfe said. “I -don’t know hbw
else I would have got in. I’m a
little jumpy, but I feel fine.”
Banfe, who planned to leave
Cordova for Chicago and New
York today, had engine trouble
three times during his long, lone
some flight along the Great Circle
route used by commercial air
craft.
Once over the North Paciic his
motor ran rough. It cleared up,
only to run rough again as he
passed over Cold Bay, at the tip
of the Alaska Peninsula, at 5
p.m.
Banfe, the father of four chil
dren, radioed at that time that he
might have to call it quits and
land at Anchorage, but the motor
cleared up again and Banfe
pressed on out over the white
capped surface of the Gulf of
Alaska.
As he approached Middleton
Island, a dot of land in the Gulf,
the icing carburetor forced his
hand, and a landing at Cordova.
He still had plenty of the 343
gallons of gas with which he left
Tokyo. ,
Ice was the villian.
Adventures Of A
Six-Year-Old . . .
BALTIMORE, lift — Six-year
old Jackie Dorn was walking
across the Patapsco River Rail
road bridge when a train ap
proached.
But young Jack didn’t panic.
As a matter of fact, said con
ductor Robert Kirby, “he was
quite unconcerned about it all.
He didn’t get excited until we
- gave him a ride in the locomo
tive.”
The train crew was able to
stop the Baltimore and Annapolis
Railroad freight in time, picked
up the tike and deposited him on
the other side of the span.
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Agriculture, Oil, Tourists, Metals Are
Alaska’s Potential, Says Fed. Reserve
SAN FRANCISCO, UR — Agri
culture, energy, the tourist indus
try and metals hold vast poten
tial importance in Alaska’s future.
That’s the view of officials of
the Federal Reserve Bank of San
Francisco, which devotes 11 pages
of its latest monthly business re
view to prospects for the 49th
State.
Gold, forests, furs and fish, the
older industries of Alaska, “have
either run their course or fairly
established they may add to the
income and population,” the bann
reported in what it called “a cold
look” at the new State’s oppor
tunities.
Concerning agriculture, the re
port noted difficulties involved
and commented that “the wonder
is not that agriculture in Alaska
has developed so little, but that
it has developed at all.” But it
added:
“And yet the land is fertile;
some crops to wonderfully well;
prices are high with markets as
sured; experiment station work
is adapting more grains, roots and
fruits to produce in 70-odd days
of fnostly sunshine; hundreds of
thousands of acres of lush grass
are waiting to produce livestock
when slaughter houses, cold stor
age facilities, and roads exist
"WARLOCK" MOVIE SETTING
SCENE Of ACCIDENT
MOAB, Utah, W) — Actress
DeloVes Michaels nursed painful
cuts and bruises last week which
will keep her from working in
the movie “Warlock,” until the
middle of next week.
She suffered the leg and arm
injuries Friday in a slidirfg fall
down a rocky mountainside. She
is on location near here with a
movie company that also includes
Henry Fonda and Richard Wid
mark.
STATEMENT REQUIRED BY THE ACT
OF AUGUST 24. 1912, AS AMENDED
BY THE ACTS OF MARCH 3, 1933,
AND JULY 2, 1946 (Title 39, United
States Code, Section 2331 SHOWING
THE OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT
AND CIRCULATION OF
THE NOME NUGGET, published Tri
Weekly, at Nome Alaska, for October
1957 to October 1958.,
The names and addresses of the
publisher, editor, managing editor, and
business managers are:
Publisher — Emily Boucher, Nome,
Alaska.
Editor—Emily Boucher, Nome, Alaska.
Managing Editor — Emily Boucher,
Nome, Alaska.
Business Manager — Emily Boucher,
Nome, Alaska.
The owner is Emily Boucher, Nome,
Alaska.
The known bondholders, mortgagees,
and other security holders owning or
holding 1 per cent or more of total
amount of bonds, mortgages, or other
securities are: None.
The average number of copies of each
issue of this publication sold or dis
tributed, through the mails or other
wise, to paid subscribers during the 12
months preceding the date shown above
was: 600.
(Signed)
EMILY BOUCHER.
Mananging Editor.
Sworn to and subscribed to before me
this 17th day of October 1958.
(SEAL)
MARGARET P. BOHRER,
P.stmaster, Nome, Alaska.
(By)
EDITH THOMPSON.
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at The Nugget
Tlie Polaris
Dining Room
Featuring . . .
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BROILED
STEAKS
Open 5 to 11 P.M.
Closed Thursday
which will bring the product to
market in good condition.”
By “energy,” the reported re
ferred mainly to oil prospects and
hydroelectric potential.
Alaska’s position as “the hot
test wildcat area in the the world
today,” the report said, is a fact
“backed up by major oil company
commitments for exploration well
in excess of 100 million to be
spent in the next two or three
years.”
Prospects for tourist business
that may reach 100 million dol
lars annually were said to rest
on development of adequate
transportation and comfortable
accommodations.
“A combination of private and
public investment,” the report
said, “may well make tourist gold
far outshine the commodity which
has contributed most to the terri
tory’s ‘fabulous’ reputation.”
As for Alaska’s metals other
than gold, the report noted that in
the past 25 years, 217 million
dollars worth of copper has been
mined but “most of her iron, mer
cury, nickel, uranium and tin are
still in the icebox.”
Referring to the new State’s
scant population, the report con
cluded:
“If the federal government
finds it possible in the course of
the next decade or two to ear
mark considerable amounts for
Alaskan development, to be allo
cated mainly to providing trans
portation, power, aids to agricul
ture, and loans to business, more
of Alaska may be transformed
into a desirable place for hqpian
habitation, adding pleasure,
depth and variety to the culture
of the nation.”
NOTICE OF JOINT AUCTION OF LAND
AND PERSONAL PROPERTY.
Subject to the provisions of Chapter
184, S.L.A. 1957, and the regulations
issued thereunder, and Title 57-8-8,
Alaska Compiled Laws Annotated, the
Director of the Alaska Dpartment of
Lands and th Treasurer of Alaska, or
their representatives, will sell tothe
highest and best qualified bidders the
following dscribed land and the various
personal property stored thereon.
All of Lot One (1) in Block Fifty-five
(55) according to the official townsite
plat of the City of Nome, Alaska,
and:
To be sol'd in one parcel, all the
various and assorted personal property
located on the above described tract.
Bids will be made at Public Auction
to be held at the office of the U. S.
Marshal, Nome, Alaska, at 2:00 P.M.,
November 4, 1958. In reference to the
tract of land above described, no bid
will be accepted for less than the ap
praised value of $900.00.
The successful bidder shall deposit at
the time of the award a sum of not
less than one-tenth of the purchase price,
plus the cost of advertising in cash or
by certified checks
Upon acceptance of the bid by the
Alaska Land Board and/or the Treas
urer of Alaska, and the payment of all
sums due, the Director will issue a
quit-claim deed for the tract purchased:
appropriate documents will be issued
by the Treasurer of Alaska passing title
to the personal property referred to
above.
The right is reserved to waive tech
nical defects in this advertisement and
to reject any and all bids.
Further information concerning the
auction may be obtained from the Direc
tor, Alaska Department of Lands, 333
D Street, Anchorage, Alaska, or his
representative.
Publish October 13, 20 and 27.
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Education Suffers
From Anemia,
Says Catholic
BALTIMORE, to — The presi
dent of the nation’s second'oldest
Catholic college and seminary
says education today “suffers
from anemia — the beef and iron
have disappeared. The sideshows
have taken over the main tent.”
The R. Rev. Msgr. John L.
Sheridan, president of Mount St.
Mary’s College in Emmiteburg,
Md., said:
“When we get back to the tests
that sharpen the mind rather
than ersatz diet aimed at devel
oping -personality and social
awareness, we will find the stu
dents will follow eagerly.
“We may produce fever gad
geteers and tailfin technicians —
though even that I doubt — but
we will have removed our insti
tutions from the status of the
hot dog stand where every teach
er is a carhop jumping at the
beep of every demanding horn.”
Msgr. Sheridan spoke Friday
before the Maryland Association
of Higher Education and Junior
Colleges. "S
— Stack Healers At Cavota's —
E-E-K ! — Beauty
Scares The Beast!
FORT GREELY, UP> — The Ar
my attests to this story involving
Alaska’s only buffalo herd, which
grazes near this military base.
A young woman headed for an
appointment at the post beauty
shop found the entrance blocked
by the bulky beasts. She stomped
her feet, swung her handbag and
yelled, “Scat.”
The animls held their ground
for a time. Then they ambled pa
tiently away.
The buffalo were back later as
the womn left the shop aft >r
completing a beauty treatment.
The herd took a single look
and stampeded.
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Douglas DC-3 and Super C-46
Fairbanks to Nome (via Kotzebue)
Each Monday, Wednesday & Friday — Fit. 311
Leave Fairbanks 9:00 a.m. Arrive Hughes
Leave Hughes Arrive Kotsebue 10:35 a.m.
Leave Kotzebue 11:15 a.m. Arrive Nome 12:25 p.m.
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Each Monday, Wednesday & Friday — Fit. 312
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Each Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday — Fit. 311
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