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Mukluks
Parkas
Finr and Cloth
Fur Mitts
ALSO . . .
Wolf ruffs, wolverine trim, sinew,
alpaca lining, wind proof parka covers,
in bright colors.
Estimates Gladly Given
Airlines’ Safety Record
Credited for Big Percent
Of Travel Business Won
In the United States some 85
percent of all who use the com
mon carriers (airline, railroad or
bus) to travel 1,500 miles or more,
travel on the nation’s airlines.
This announcement was made
recently by Brig. Gen. Milton W.
Arnold, vice president of the Air
Transport Assn. Be added that
passenger revenues of U.S. sched
uled airlines during 1954 topped
. railroad passenger revenues, ex
cluding local commuting, for the
second straight year.
Writing in Planes, official pub
lication of the Aircraft Industries
Assn., Gen. Arnold stated:
“The strongest kind of founda
tion for Mr. and Mrs. America’s
soaring acceptance of air travel
for safety, speed, comfort and
economy is provided by the air
lines’ safety record.”
In 1954, he said the scheduled
airlines, domestic and internation
al, came up with the best safety
record ever achieved, with an
overall passenger fatality rate of
only .07 per 100,000,000 passenger
miles.
“At this rate,” Arnold figured,
“a passenger could fly safely more
than a billion miles, or one flight
every day for 5,766 years.”
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Milling Extension Course
By University of Alaska
To Be Offered Here Soon
The University of Alaska Min
ing Extension Dept, will offer the
regular Mining Extension course
here soon with exact starting date
and location to be announced
later. Instructor for the course
will be Peter O. Sandvik, engineer
and assayer for the Nome office
of the Territorial Dept, of Mines,
who taught the course for two sea
sons at Anchorage, Ft. Richardson
and Elmendorf Air Force Base.
The four-week course is offered
tuition free wilfe instruction in
basic geology, mineralogy, pros
pecting and mining, with particu
lar emphasis on field identifica
tion of ore minerals and rocks.
Classes will be held five nights
a week, two hours each night.
There are no educational re
quirements for admission, and
anyone interested may enroll. A
certificate of training is given by
the University of Alaska Mining
Extension Department to all per
sons successfully completing the
course.
The extension courses in mining
were established in 1935 by the
territorial legislature and are
made possible through territorial
appropriation to encourage inter
est in Alaskan minerals and aid
in resource development.
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Military Wives Advised
No Shoulder Weeping
To Husbands’ Superiors
BERCHTESGARTEN Germany,
UP>—Fifty thousand American mil
itary yives in Europe were ad
vised yesterday not to weep on
the shoulders of their husbands’
commanding officers.
Mrs. Lauris Norstad, herself the
helpmate of a four-star Air Force
general, says such tears “are
wasted.”
Lecturing her on service cus
toms, Mrs. Norstad noted approv
ingly that an old rule forbidding
a junior from speaking first to a
senior had gone toy the boards.
“But it should still be applied,”
she told an audience of wives, “on
any occasion when you may feel
urged to tell your husband’s com
manding officer how well he de
serves a promotion, that he isn’t
understood or appreciated, or that
he is the victim of bad breaks.
“Wive’s tears shed on the shoul
ders of her husband’s senior are
tears wasted.”
Mrs. Norstad also urged wives
not to appear in pincurls, even
under a scarf, or wear shorts and
slacks in public instead of dresses.
“To many people mistake slop
piness for comfort,” she said.
Big Black Bear Amuses
Baby But Not Mother
THURMAN, N.Y., UB—Charley
Bills, 14 months, is not likely to
remember the day the black bear
visited him. His mother will nev
er forget it.
Mrs. Edith Bills said Charley
suddenly began jabbering with
enthusiasm in his play pen on
the porch of their house in an iso
lated section of this Adirondack
community the other day.
She found him “sticking his
fingers out through the play pen
slats, smiling and cooing.” A big
black bear was standing nearby
on its hind legs.
“I grabbed up the baby and
ran into the house and into a
bedroom and slammed the door,”
she said. ‘The baby didn’t seem
to be scared at all, just wonder
ing what ailed me.”
The bear just plodded away.
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