Sourdough President
Tells Qualification for
Being Sourdough
VANCOUVER, B.C., UP)—What
makes a sourdough a sourdough?
Sight of the ice breaking up on
the Yukon River is the only quali
fication, says Thomas A. Lamb,
72-year-old president of the Inter
national Sourdough Assn, which
opened a reunion here Monday.
“You could be a sourdough at
10 years old,” said the man who
himself went into the North in
1903, five years after the start of
the Gold Rush of ’98.
Mr. Lamb mined at Sulphur
Creek, and although he came to
know some of the almost-legend
ary characters of the area, he
denies he shot Soapy Smith.
“I don’t know; I only heard
Smith was shot in order to start
the cemetery at Skagway, Alas
ka,” he said with a grin.
Eisenhowers Fly to
New York to Register
For Nov. 2 Elections
NEW YORK, UP)—President and
Mrs. Eisenhower paid a flying
visit to New York yesterday and
registered as voters for the Nov. 2
elections. They also applied for
absentee ballots.
A heavy police guard was pro
vided for the couple during their
brief stay.
Altogether, the President was
absent from Washington only 3
hours and 20 minutes. He left
there at 8:20 ‘a.m. and arrived
back there at 11:40 a.m.
Approximately 1,000 police were
assigned along the Eisenhowers’
route from the airport to the
board of elections headquarters
on the lower east side.
They made a trip in a 12-car
motorcade accompanied by 110
policemen on motorcycles. A
police helicopter hovered above
the line of cars carrying police,
( secret service men and newspa
permen.
COAST GUARD ANNOUNCES
COMMISSIONING EXAM DATE
WASHINGTON, UP)—The Coast
Guard announced Monday it will
hold examinations for the com
missioning to the Coast Guard of
licensed officers of the merchant
marine Feb. 7, 8, and 9, 1954.
Coast Guard commissions in the
ranks of It. (junior grade), lieu
tenant, and It. commander will be
offered. Applicants must be be
tween the ages of 21 and 40 years,
and must have served at least
four years on a U.S. merchant
vessel as a licensed officer.
The Coast Guard commissions
licensed merchant marine officers
as part of its merchant marine
safety program.
’54 Seal Skin Yield
From Pribilofs
Below Average
WASHINGTON, Iff)—The gov
ernment reported Tuesday that
63,882 fur-seal skins were taken
in this year’s sealing operations
on Alaska’s Pribilof Islands.
The yield was 2,496 skins below
last year’s take of 66,378. The an
nual average over the past 10
years has been about 65,000 skins.
The Fish and Wildlife Service
said that even though the fur-seal
industry on the Pribilofs is a U.S.
responsibility, 20 percent of the
take will be delivered to Canada
under terms of a 1942 agreement.
The remaining skins will be de
livered to a private concern in St.
Louis for processing and sale at
public auction under a govern
ment contract.
About 80 percent of 'the world’s
fur seals go to the Pribilofs each
summer to breed. Once threatened
with extinction because of indis
criminate killing at sea, the fur
seal has been restored and is being
maintained at its original level of
abundance, the service said.
The annual take now is limited
primarily to 3-year-old males,
considered surplus from the
standpoint of breeding.
Rock Turns Perfect
Landing Into Crash
LYTTON, B. C., Iff)—A near
perfect landing turned into a
spectacular plane crash on the
banks of the Fraser River near
here, 170 miles from Vancouver,
but it probably saved the life of
D. W. Hardesty of Anchorage,
nevertheless.
Two spark plugs of Hardesty’s
Fairchild PT-19 failed last night.
He headed for a sandbank beside
the river and had almost com
pleted touchdown when one of the
wheels hit a rock which ripped
the undercarriage and one wing.
RCMP Constable B. Giberson
said it would rave been a near
perfect landing if Hardesty had
been able to run another 10 feet.
The constable said the crippled
aircraft will be trucked to Van
couver for repairs.
Hardesty, who has recorded
2,200 hours flying time, recently
bought the plane in Portland, Ore.
and was on his way to Anchorage.
HOOD DECORATION
OKLAHOMA CITY, Iff)—A 45
year-old man and his 46-year-old
woman companion were-jailed on
drunkenness charges here Tues
day. Officers said the woman was
riding through the city on the
hood of her escort’s automobile.
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12:00—Music from the Nlte 4:00—News 10:15—Jack Kirkwood
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9:00—Ronnie Kemper 11:00—News j 2:00—News
9- 15—Tennessee Ernie 11:15—Sports Final 2:15—Johnny Mercer
9-30—Coffee Concert 11:30—One Night Stand 2:30—Music a la Carte
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10:10—What Do You Know 1:00—Sign Off 4:05—Baseball Game
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Kadow Defends Tin Mine
At Lost River, Saying
$492,000 Worth Is Mined
SEATTLE, (A1)—Alaska’s tin
mines on Soward Peninsula rep
resent a great reserve which the
federal government properly has
helped to finance as a defense re
source, Kenneth Kadow, former
U.S. Tin Corp. executive, said in
Seattle Friday.
Kadow, enroute to Alaska, came
west from Washington, D.C.,
whore he was summoned to tes
tify before the joint-House-Senate
Committee on Defense Produc
tion. He said he fel^ the commit
tee had treated him courteously
and given him the opportunity to
state the full facts of the case.
Charges were made before the
committee that the corporation
had obtained $3,000,000 in federal
loans and had not produced any
tin. Kadow said that when he fi
nally was called to the witness
stand, he was able to point to
U.S. Tin’s continuing tin produc
tion—the only tin produced under
the American flag, together with
other Seward Peninsula opera
tions.
$492,000 worth of tin from the
mine on Lost River either has
been sold or is enroute to smelters
at the present time,” Kadow said.
“That certainly represents pro
duction of tin and proof that the
government’s effort to explore
and develop American tin depos
its is paying off.”
The operation will continue
through the winter, shutting down
only during low-water periods
next spring if weather conditions
require it, he said.
Man Elected Chief of
Purple Heart Order After
Being Shot by Gunman
LOS ANGELES, (A5)—Donald E.
Lowry was shot by a fleeing gun
man just two hours before he
was elected California department
commander of the Military Order
of the Purple Heart, an organiza
tion of veterans wounded while
serving with the armed forces.
Lowry had been to lunch and
was returning to the convention
floor Monday to pursue his cam
paign for commander when he
was struck in the groin by a bullet
from the gun o'f a robbery sus
pect, Robert Marsden, 29-year-old
ex-convict.
Police said that Marsden a few
seconds before had shot and seri
ously wounded Herbert S. Miller,
62, owner of a downtown watch
repair shop were Marsden had
taken $100. Lowry, of Hollywood,
was passing by as the gunman
fled. Two parking lot attendants
captured Marsden and turned him
over to police.
BLIND MAN'S ERROR
DALLAS, (J)—A blind man fell
into an open manhole Monday
and blamed himself.
A utility workman had put a
guard rail around the hole but
left a gate in the rail open while
he prepared to take his tools
down.
O. C. McCrackin, blind operator
of a concession stand in the fed
eral building, walked through the
open gate. He was treated for two
broken ribs, a bruise on his knee
and elbow cuts.
McCrackin’s comment: “I just
mis-used my cane.”
TEEN-AGE DANCE
Saturday, August 21
Old Church at foot of Steadman
9 p.m. till 12 Midnight
SADIE HAWKINS DANCE
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