GEOLOGIST TELLS
CHAMBER LAVA BEDS
IDEAL FOR HIGHWAY
Willie Brown, owner of the
Nomerama theater and KNOM
TV, was presented a U.S. Army
Public Service plaque for his co
operation in presenting special
service film for the local TV sta
tion, today at the Chamber of
Commerce luncheon-meeting. The
award was made by Cept. Flana
gan who heads the U.S. Army
Advisory group to the Alaska Na
tional Guard.
Wm. Kohler, geological consult
ant for the Department of Com
merce, gave a very interesting ac
count of his summer’s work sur
veying the proposed route of
Highway 97 over the lava beds to
Haycock.
He stated that the “young lava
beds” about a million years old,
would make a fine road bed and
ideal for Highway 97. He esti
mated that the area was about
50 miles of solid lava.
The formations are so unique,
he said, and so different from
any he had ever seen, that he
proposed that the Chamber con
sider the possibility of a state
park in that area when and if
that route is chosen for the Nome
Fairbanks highway.
Kohler estimated that the lava,
when in liquid form, must have
been about 1,000 degrees centi
grade. At the present time the
ground temperature is about one
degree centigade.
Mr. Ed Parsons of Wien Air
lines reported on a recent trip to
the Kateel oil country and said
that the two-way radio communi
cations facilities are now com
pleted and the camp is about
ready for use. He said the foun
dation for the oil rig is now being
built and 15 miles of good road
has been completed along the east
bank of a fork of the Nulato
River
Del Kampmann, station man
ager of Alaska Airlines, bid fare
well to the group of which he
was chairman of the tourist com
mittee.
Other guests included George
Rayburn of Wien Airlines, Sgt.
John Jameson and Col. McIntyre
of the Alaska National Guard,
Mrs. John Maakestad, Henrietta
Lund, and Herbert Beaser, legis
lative assistant to Senator Ernest
Gruening.
Crosby Boys End Feud
With Famous Dad
HOLLYWOOD, UP) — Bing Cros
by saw his son’s night-club act
for the first time Friday night.
He slipped quietly into the
Moulin Rouge to catch the early
show of the four Crosby brothers
— Gary, Philp, Dennis and
Lindsay. He laughed and clapped
heartily during the performance.
Afterward he met with the boys
in their dressing room. Newsmen
were barred.
Gary, the oldest at 26, had been
feuding with his father for sev
eral months.
But when asked to pose for
pictures, Gary got up on a chair
and put his arm around his fa
mous father.
Youngsters Found Toying
With Air Force Rockets
ALPENA, Mich., UP) — Police
were on the jump upon discov
ering that children were using
Air Force rockets for toys.
The officers rounded up 11 ;of
the 3 Vi-foot rockets Friday and
put them safely in a vault until
the Air Force could have a look.
Where did the rockets come
from?
Parents of some of the children
said the youngsters told them
they got them from fishermen
who netted them in Lake Huron.
Wortsmith Air Base at Oscoda,
not far from here, has a jet prac
tice firing range over the lake. The
base is investigating.
FORMER OPERATIC STAR
SAVED FROM GAS FUMES
ABERDEEN, Scotland, WV-The
voice that brought operatic fame
to Mary Garden half a century
ago saved her life Friday.
Nearly overcome by gas furnes
in her home, the frail, 82-year-old
former prima donna raised faint
cries for help before collapsing.
A gardener tending the flower
beds of a neighbor, Dorothy Bell,
heard her. They found Miss Gar
den lying almost unconscious just
iriside her front door and sum
moned a doctor. She was reported
making a good recovery.
FORMER ALASKAN JAILED
FOR INDECENT ACTS
SEATTLE, WP> — Lawrence
Meyers, 47-, former Alaska and
Oregon newspaperman, was sen
tenced to up to 20 years in the
State Penitentiary Friday for tak
ing indecent liberties with a 14
year-old deaf-mute girl.
Nepal Mountain Claims
Women Climbers
KATMANDU, Nepal, UP — An
all-woman atempt to climb Mount
Chokoyu, the world’s sixth high
est mountain, was reported Sat
urday to have ended in disaster.
Two of the women and two Sher
pa guides were reported missing,
presumed dead. The Nepal For
eign Office said they have been
missing since October 1, when a
fierce blizzard swept the treach
erous emerald green slopes of the
mountain whose name means Big
Head.
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