GIRL SCOUT NEWS
Girl Scout Committee To Meet
The Girl Scout Committee will
meet Monday evening at the
home of Mrs. Bob Casperson. A
Senior Girl Scout will be chosen
at this meeting to represent Nome
at the Fairbanks encampment.
Mrs. Roy Dunlap will be wel
comed as a new member of the
committee.
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Senior Girl Scouts
The Senior Girl Scouts wish to
thank everyone who helped to
make their rummage sale a suc
cess. The girls have now earned
$50 towards expenses for their
delegate to Fairbanks.
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Girl Scout Week
March 8-14 is National Girl
Scout Week. The week will be a
busy one for local Scouts. It be
gins with Girl Scout Sunday. Ev
ery Brownie, Intermediate, and
Senior has been encouraged to at
tend her own church. Some
groups are taking special parts in
the services.
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Mineral Leasing Rules
Offered To Senate
JUNEAU, Ufi — A 40-page bill
to provide regulations for the
leasing of mineral lands in Alas
ka was introduced yesterday in
the Senate.
The measure would limit oil or
gas lease holdings to 500,000 acres
for any individual or corporation
in the state.
The bill stipulates the leasing
of mineral lands of all types
would rest with the commissioner
of the proposed Department of
Natural Resources and with the
director of the department’s divi
sion of lands. It also provides for
both competitive and non-com
petitive leasing. First-come, first
served type of leases would be
allowed except where the com
missioner would rule otherwise.
A ruling opening an area for
competitive leasing of land would
come if/ the commissioner deter
mined the best interests of the
' state would be served.
BIG DOUBLEHEADER
BASKETBALL • BENEFIT
FRIDAY THE 13th
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SCHOOL BAND FESTIVAL FUND
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FROLICSOME FRAUS •
— versus —
TANTALIZING TEACHERS
— AND —
DIZZY DADS
— versus —
TERRIFYING TUTORS
Admission: Adults $1.00 Children 50^
ATTEND THE
WINTER ICE
CARNIVAL
In Fairbanks March 7 thru 15
3 GLORIOUS WEEKS
IN THE
“HUB OF ALASKA”
ROUND-TRIP
EXCURSION RATES
Available March 1 thru 21
Nome to Fairbanks and Return
S66.70 plus tax
Fairchild Pressurized F-27
Prop Jets Coming Soon!
Phone: Wien Alaska Airlines Station Mgr. I
MAIN« “First In Alaska” P'*' w*I*h
Gulf of Alaska Obstruction ‘Drowned,’
Reports U. S. Coast - Geodetic Survey
WASHINGTON, Wl — The mys
tery of a missing shoal in the
Gulf of Alaska seems to have
been solved by the Coast and Gep
detic Survey. The agency be
lieves the shoal drowned.
Discovered 30 miles off the
northern shore of the Gulf in
1779 by a Spanish explorer, it
disappeared rom sight more than
100 years ago.
Recently, an oceantographer for
the Survey found a submarine
ridge; 400 feet under water, that
answered to the description of the
old bedrock structure. He re
ported that the searidge appar
ently foundered — that is, its
base broke down.
The shoal, to the northeast of
the Aleutian Trench, is the sec
ond recent scientific discovery in
that region. In September, 1957,
the survey reported a huge crack
in the floor of the Gulf in that
region which could be responsible
for underwater earthquakes.
George F. Jordan, who made
| the study of the shoal, said he
’ does not connect its changed po
j sition with the crack, but rather
| relates the searidge to similar
structures on the shore which
I have undergone changes in posi
tion.
The shoal was sighted at var
ious times in the lat^ 18th Cen
tury but was assumed to have
existed by 1867 only through
what a U. S. coast survey called
circumstantial evidence.
Later, when geographical recon
naissance of Alaska failed to turn
j up the rock, it was disregarded in
| charting.
Considered a menace to navi
gation, it was reported to have
caused the wreck of a small gal
ley. Once charted at depths of
1,500 fathoms, the shoal now is
considered an area of only mod
erate depth.
The agency is hoping for fur
ther evidence to “definitely re
solve the status of Tamplona
Searidge.”
DRIVE-AWAY BLIND DATE . . .
LOS ANGELES, UP> — The blind
date, met by telephone, was de
lighted when Robert Wood, 29,
suggested a drive-in m<3jde.
She seemed pleased, too, when
he went after refreshments, leav
ing her alone in his late-model
car.
But for Wood, a service station
attendant, the evening suddenly
took a dismal turn. Missing along
with the brunette, when he re
turned, was his car.
INVITATION TO BID
Bids, in writing, will be ac
cepted at the office of the City
Clerk until 5 p.m., March 9, 1959,
for the purchase from the City of
Nome of the following described
'real property:
LOTS 11 AND 12 IN BLOCK 7
Bid must be for both lots to
gether as one parcel, and no bid
will be accepted for each lot
separate. All bids must be accom
panied by cash or check in the
full amount of the bid. The City
reserves the right to refuse and
reject any or all bids.
NOME COMMON COUNCIL
By ROBERT F. SCOTT,
City Clerk.
Publish Feb. 25, 27, Mar. 2, 6.
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WHY WORRY?
CALL US
and RELAX!
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Soda Fountain
CIGARS, CIGARETS !
TOBACCO
CANDY
FRESH ICE CREAM
EVERY DAY
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Texan, Tired of
City Frustrations,
Heads for Alaska
HOUSTON, Tex., — James
M. Brogan carried out his prom
ise Wednesday.
Three years ago he' vowed he
would go to Alaska should the
city of Houston carry out plans
to annex an area that included
his home.
Houston annexed a 180-square
mile area in late 1956 and by mid
1958 beat down the last resistance
to the move in court.
Brogan mounted a sky-blue
pickup truck and headed for
Alaska. Brogan, 43, bade Houston
farewell because of what he called
the frustrations infecting an over
grown metropolis — chuck-holed
streets, lack of city water and
sewer service, garbage cans in the
front yard, parking meters, and
taxes, taxes, taxes.”
“That’s what is wrong with the
country,” he said. “Everybody
pays and almost nobody says a
word.”
“’Here, there’s just no way for
a little man to fight the big man,”
he said. “It may be the same in
Alaska, but at least there maybe
we can do something about it.”
As a prelude to his trip, Bro
gan, a bachelor, sold his neat
frame house and withdrew from
a grocery store and adjoining auto
parts store which he had run
with a brother.
His traveling companion to
Alaska is a three-month-old part
shepherd pup, Laska.
The modern-day pioneer will
take his 66-year-old mother, Mrs.
Elsie Brogan, as far as Los Ala
mos, Calif., where she will visit
a sister.
Then Brogan will drift leisure
ly up the West Coast.
“I intend to tour every road
this side of the Arctic Circle,” he
said. “Just meander around and
look for opportunity. If I like the
country, I’m going to stay. And
1 I’m going to make a bear dog out
I of Laska.”
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MOTOR R3A1DS
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66Sixth Sense”
Warns Drivers
Of Trouble
By Martha Johnson,
Dodge Safety Consultant !
BOASTING some of the fin
est safety records on the high
ways, drivers of trailer trucks
credit much of their driving abil
ity to the development of a
“sixth sense” about trouble on
the road ahead.
Almost any veteran truck
driver can tell of how a premo
nition prompted him to slow
down, thus saving him from an
accident around a curve or over
the crest of a hill.
Actually, this six'll seme can
be developed by a y drVer. It
merely is an cr‘— i o" a cau
tious attitude.
Start asking .. ", cs you
drive along, “vVhat if l ? is
an accident just beyond that
curve?” or “What would I do if
a child ran out from between
those parked cars ahead?”
As you think of these possi
bilities, you will automatically
become more cautious; you will
reduce your stopping time by
several vital seconds because you
have planned your reactions.
Soon you will notice that this
mental preparation has made
you a much better and safer
driver, too.