Boeing Will
Construct Navy
Hydrofoil Ship
WASHINGTON, <*> — Award
of a two million dollar Navy con
tract to Boeing Airplane Co. for
construction of a high-speed hy
drofoil vessel was announced
yesterday.
Representatives Thomas Pelly
and Thor Tollefson, Washington
Republicans, said they were in
formed by the Navy of the award
of the $2,082,215 contract by its
Bureau of Ships.
They said Boeing had leased
the Martinac Shipbuilding Corp.,
Tacoma, for construction of the
115-ifoot, 110-ton craft.
The Navy is interested in the
a 'ti-submarine potential of the
hydrofoil, which achieves high
speeds by skimming over water
on foils protruding from its sides.
National Guard Hosts
Festival Visitors
Special visitors in town for the
Midnight Sun Festival are guests
of the Alaska National Guard:
Col. Chas. Casper, U. S. Property
and Fiscal Officer and Lt. Col.
Elmore, Commander of the -Na
tional Guard, who will be here to
make final arrangements for the
Alaska National Guard Officers
Assn. Convention, which is slated
for some time in August.
Also here on the 17 th will be
Capt. Cox of G-3, and Lt. Hodges,
Commander of E Company, ANG,
who will make a survey for the
maneuvers scheduled to be held
here in September.
WANTED—TWO NAMES
-In keeping with the best tra
ditions of the game of softball, it
is desired to give the newly cre
ated League an appropriate name.
With all the effort that has gone
into making a fine softball field
for Nome, it, too, deserves'a name.
The name of the field should be
of an athlete in the past history
of Nome, one who was known for
his qualities of sportsmanship as
well as athletic ability. The
League name should come from
associations with location or out
standing event.
Suggestions for naming either
the League or. softball field, or
both, should be tendered, to Stan
Sobocienski or to Maj. Flanagan.
Mr*. C. E. Short of Seattle is
visiting here with her daughter,
Mrs. Stan Molitor, and enjoying
her new grandchild.
Monorail Rocket Attains
Speed of 2,688 m.p.h.
HOLLOMAN AFB, N. M., (* —
Two speed records have been
shattered by monorail rocket
sleds on Holloman’s 7-mile test
track.
One of the high-speed runs
was made by a 2V4-ton, 48-foot
rocket, composed of three Nike
boosters fired in three stages. It
reached a speed of 2,650 miles an
hour, and traveled 5Vfc miles in
15 seconds.
The second monorail sled was
powered by three Javelin rock
ets, fired simultaneously. In a
25,000-foot run, the sled hit a
speed of 2,688 miles an hour —
the fastest monorail sled run at
the Holloman track.
Gwen Riggs to Return for
First Visit Since 1918
Old-timers here will remember
the Clarence Riggs family who
left here shortly after the flu epi
demic m 1918.
They are especially remembered
as Mrs. Riggs was one of the vic
tims of that epidemic, and left
a family of small children mother
less. ,
Gwendolyn Riggs McElvoy is
returning Friday on her first visit
since the family left in 1919, and
will remain here just overnight.
She would like to see old
friends of her family, as well as
school friends she knew. She will
be a guest at the Polaris Hotel.
CARRIE McLAIN GETS
SPECIAL FESTIVAL TREAT
The Midnight Sun Festival will
be a special time of celebration
for Carrie McLain as she will be
discharged from the hospital on
Friday after a four and a half
month stay. She will return to
her home on Belmont Point with
its view which is unequaled any
where in the community.
BILLY ATTATAYAK DIES AT 79
Billy Attatayak, age 79, passed
away at his home on the Sand
Spit, and was buried from the
Lutheran Church this afternoon.
State Police Sergeant Here
Sgt. Chappel, who heads the
Northern Police District, arrived
here today to confer with local
State Trooper Gene Morris.
HOME FOR THE SUMMER
Ludwig Towner, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Earl Towner, is home for
the summer from North Park Col
lege. Returning with him were
two classmates, Stanley Summers
and Jim Ingwald, who will be
working with KICY this summer.
Treasures of Gold
Rush Days Lost in
Dawson City Blaze
DAWSON CITY, Y. T., I* —
Mementos of the Klondike Gold
Kush and of Davison City’s “boom
town” days were lost here during
the weekend when fire destroyed
the Dawson City Museum.
It was believed a cigaret left
by an afternoon tourist started
the fire, discovered around mid
night.
Hundreds of articles linked
with early Yukon history were
destroyed in the hour-long blaze
which leveled t'he two-story build
ing, formerly a fire hall, which
was built-in 1905. •
Among te articles lost was the
cash register used in one of the
saloons owned by Dawson’s most
spectacular bonanza king, Big
Alec McDonald, who brought his
gold into town by pack horse.
The Nudes, larger-than-life oil
paintings which passed from one
hotel to another during the town’s
early years, were also lost. Done
in the true “bar-room style,” the
paintings were believed to have
been stolen and were shipped into
Dawson at tremendous expense in
the days when transportation was
as expensive as it was limited.
The museum itself was regarded
as a'landmark. The-leaded glass
doors at one period opened to let
horse-drawn fire wagons out to
fight blazes in and around the
city.
All that was saved from the fire
was a 1906 model Stoddart-Dray
ton touring car which men pushed
from the burning building.
Already a drive to start another
museum is under way and an in
ternational appeal has been issued
asking for the donation or loan
of some of the thousands of Klon
dike mementos known to be scat
tered through Canada and the
United States.
New Navy Bluejack Sub
Is First and Last . . .
PASCAGOULA, Miss., iffi —
The 2,500-ton submarine Bluejack,
first such underwater vessel to
be built in the deep South since
the Civil War, left here Monday
to join 'the Pacific Fleet.
The Bluejack was built by the
Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp. here.
About the only resemblance be
tween the Bluejack and the Hunt
ley built by the Confederate Navy
in Mobile, Ala., in 1863 is the fact
both are subs. Even the Bluejack
is outmoded. The Navy said it
will be the last diesel sub. Future
subs will be atomiC-powered.
Ex-Middleweight Champ
LaMotta Testifies He
Threw Fox Bout in ’47
WASHINGTON, Iff) — Former
Middleweight Champion Jake La
Motta swore Tuesday he was of
fered — and rejected $100,000
bribes to throw two fights, but did
agree to lose one on assurance it
would get him a title bout.
Sweating nervously in the wit
nes chair of Senate investigators,
LaMotta said the bribe offers
were relayed through his brother
and manager, Joseph, and that he
wasn’t interested in details.
He repudiated a statement he
had made in May naming the al
leged fixers in a 1947 bout with
Billy Fox. It was this bout which
LaMotta said he threw on assur
ance of a shot at the middle
weight title.
Fox won by a four-round
knockout in New York’s Madison
Square Garden Nov. 14, 1947.
LaMotta said he was offered
$100,000 to lose to Tony Janiro in
Madison Square Garden in June,
1947, but rejected it. He won a
decision over/ Janiro.
Though promised a title shot
for losing to Fox, LaMotta said
he finally had to pay $20,000 to
get the 1949 bout in which he
took, the title from Marcel Cerdan
at Detroit.
Juneau Votes Maximum
Sales Tax Collection
JUNEAU, Iff) Voters of Juneau
and Douglas yesterday approved
increasing the sales tax levied in
the two municipalities from two
to three per cent.
The one per cent increase in
Juneau will become effective July
1, and the City Council indicated
it would stop personal property
tax levies next Jan. 1 as a result
of the new income.
Two-thirds of the new sales tax
rate will go to the City of Juneau,
with the increase being used to
meet increased city operating
costs. One-third of the three per
cent levy goes to the Juneau
Douglas Independent School Dis
trict.
The same division of the sales
tax receipts is made at Douglas.
The Juneau sales tax increase
was approved ,by a vote of 939
264. The boost won approval at
Douglas by a vote of 130-26.
CALL MAIN 65 for j
Arctic Sanitary
Service
SCORCHY SMITH
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-ALONE ON A TRACKLESS DESERT... FLYING TOWARD A CITY... I'LL. )
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State Lays Down
Rules to Fishing
For Subsistence
The Alaska Department of Fish
and Game have announced that
while the one dollar subsistence
fishing license is not yet avail
able, subsistence fishermen may
fish without it until it does be
come' available. The Department
realizes that any delay in allow
ing fishermen to participate may
deprive some deserving people of
their winter food supply. When
these fishing licenses do become
available, the Department will re
quire all subsistence fishermen to
procure one.
The Department also announces
that subsistence fishermen in the
Arctic may fish at any time and
take as many fish of any type that
they need, using fish-wheel, gill
net, seine or longline with the
following exceptions:
The Salcha and Little Salcha
River near Fairbanks r.re closed
to subsistence fishing with nets
under four and one-half inch
stretch measure.
The Snake River near Nome is
closed to subsistence fishing with
nets under four and one-half
inch stretch measure.
The Nome River is closed to
subsistence fishing with nets of
under four and one-half inch
stretch measure upstream from
the end of Osburn Road.
Subsistence fishing on the
Yukon River from its mouth up
stream to the Bonasila River is
closed from 6 p.m. Saturday to
6 a.m. Monday until the commer
cial quota is filleti.
Greyling may be taken only by
hook and line.
It is further pointed out com
mercial fishing within the mouth
of the Solomon River is illegal.
AREA GEOLOGIST WILL
ATTEND MEET IN SWEDEN
David Hopkins, well - known
geologist of this area, has been
appointed as an American dele
gate to the International Geologi
cal Congress in Copenhagen in
August. At this meeting he will
present a paper on the Nome
Coastal Plain, which he has been
studying over a period of many
years, and on which he has done
considerable research. He will be
accompanied on the trip by his
wife and 8-year-old daughter.
Mrs. Hopkins, who visited here
last summer, is also a geologist.
Nome Directory
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon at
.1 North Star Dining Room
Pearse Walsh, President
ALASKA CHANTSR NO. 1
Order of Eastern Star
Ruth Reed
Vortkl Matron
Verna Mickelson
Secretary ‘ #
Meets first and third Mondays
ANVIL LODGE
No. 140
BYRON O. REED, WJ1
Norvin' W. Lewis, Sec.
Meats Pint and Third Thursday
of Each Month
Secretary
Luncheon
Parent-Teachers Assn.
Masts last Tuesday of every
■Edh at MtooL
Hlli BACHELDER. President
JABS FOOTER. Secretary
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