WEATHER FORECAST ,
Compiled by the
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Partly cloudy to cloudy, with
little change in temperature.
Wester winds 10-15 mph. Lowest
temperature expected tonight 36,
high tomorrow 47.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: highest tempera
ture 43, lowest 36. Max. wind 23
mph from the West. Sunrise at
1:22 a.m., sunset at 10:42 p.m.
Temperatures a year ago today:
high 50, low 38. Extremes this
date since 1907: highest 72 in
1940, lowest 28 in 1935.
Other stations as of 7 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow 32 Fair
Kotzebue 34 Drizzle
Wales 34 Fair
Nome 39 Part cloudy
Unalakleet 34 Fair
Bethel 37 Rain
McGrath 38 Part cloudy
Anchorage 45 Rain
Fairbanks 48 Rain
Whitehorse 47 Cloudy
Edmonton 73 Cloudy
Juneau 50 Cloudy
Ketchikan 50 Cloudy
Seattle 49 Cloudy
San Francisco 55 Cloudy
Radford Defends
Foreign Aid As
Essential to U.S.
WASHINGTON, Adm. Ar
thur W. Radford said today Am
erican military aid to other free
nations as an act of self interest,
recognizing that this country
alone can not “match the Commu
nist bloc in manpower.”
Radford testified before the
House Foreign Affairs Committee
in support of President Eisenhow
er’s request for $3Vfe billion in
foreign aid next year, including
$1,400,000,000 in military assis
tance.
The 59-year-old Radford, re
cently appointed to a second two
year term as chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the for
eign add program is not a “give
away” but “on the contrary is
essential and realistic from our
standpoint.”
“One basic fact which cannot be
disregarded is that the United
States alone does not have avail
able, nor could we maintain on
active duty for an indefinite per
iod, the forces necessary to match
the Communist bloc in manpower
at every possible point of aggres
sion around the blobe,” he said.
The admiral appeared briefly
in open hearing to read a pre
pared statement. The Foreign Af
fairs Committee then went into
closed session to question him in
secret.
During Emperor Napoleon’s
military campaigns, his chef, not
knowing when his chief would
appear for meals, roasted a chick
en every 20 minutes.
Fine Job Printing at The Nugget
Ken Anderson Elected
President of Navigators
The semi-annual business meet
ing of the Covenant Navigators
was held last Monday night. The
meeting was led by President El
eanor Holm. An interesting pro
gram was presented, followed by
election of officers for the coming
month. The following were elect
ed:
Ken Anderson, president; Ben
Oksoktaruk, vice president; Rich
ard Nershak Jr., secretary; Elean
or Holm, treasurer; Eric Tetpan
Jr., librarian; Barbara Carlson,
publicity.
Interesting programs have been
planned for the coming months.
All young people are invited to
the meeting tonight at 8:00 p.m.
at the Covenant Church.
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Air Force Studies Show Best Diet
To Survive When Lost in Wilderness
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Massive Grain Elevator
Collapses, Spilling 600,000
Bushels Worth $1,200,000
FARGO, NJD., UR—A massive
grain elevator composed of 20
tanks 122 feet high collapsed yes
terday, dumping some 600,000
bushels of grain to the ground
with a noise that sounded like an
explosion.
Completed only last August, the
$390,000 Fargo Grain Terminal
was the largest privately owned
grain storage facility in the state.
All that remained today was a
pile of shattered concrete and
twisted steel. Huge mounds of
wheat and other grain buried part
of the wreckage.
Joseph Eichinger, owner of the
800,000-bushel capacity terminal,
thought that “some kind of com
bustion” caused the collapse.
The 600,000 bushels of spilled
grain were estimate dto be valued
at about $1,200,000. About half of
it was believed damaged
Girl Has Leg Cut Off
To Win Boyfriend’s Love
PORTSMOUTH, England, UR—
Dawn McFarland, 17, had her leg
cut off—to win her boyfriend’s
love.
Dawn had polio when she was
a baby. As a result, her left leg
was shorter than her right. She
couldn’t dance, run or go cycling
—things that 20-year-old Gerald
Manley liked to do.
Last year Gerald went to Mal
aya with the British army.
“Soon afterwards,” Dawn told
a reporter yesterday, “I decided
to do something about my leg.
“I went to a hospital and per
suaded the doctors to amputate it.
It’s wonderful—now I have an
artificial leg from the knee down
and can walk miles and dance
and do anything other girls do.”
When she knew the operation
was a success, Dawn wrote to
* WASHINGTON, tfV-The Air
Force has determined that when a
man is lost in the wilderness,
liberal amounts of drinking water
and a balanced—even if skimpy—
ration give him his best chance
for survival.
Air Force studies reported Sat
urday show this to be true in cold
weather and in temperate weath
er. It plans to make similar hot
weather field tests in mid-sum
mer, at Camp Atterbury, Indiana.
The Wright Air Development
Center, Dayton, Ohio, and the Air
Training Command at Colorado
Springs conducted six-week mod
erate cold weather tests in which
87 volunteer airmen subsisted on
diets ranging from starvation to
3,000 calories a day.
The 87 volunteers spent two
weeks in the field at Camp Mc
Coy, Wis., where some of the men
received only a quart of water a
day, and others were given unlim
ited quantities. Some also were .
assigned to hard~work (marching
12 miles a day) and other to com
paratively little work.
There was very little difference
in the results between those as
signed to hard work and those
lightly assigned, the Air Force
said.
It added that “with the excep
tion of a few extreme diets, water
restrictions worsened the score
of every nutrient combination.
Generally the more calories pro
vided, the higher the score.”
The tests also showed, the Air
Force said, that well-balanced un
dernutrition, with a proper dis
tribution of protein, carbohydrate
and fat, supported body efficiency
better than a greater take of cal
ories with unbalanced distribu
tion.
Gerald.
His reply—an engagement ring
and a letter saying, “We’ll be
married as soon as I get home.”
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