Above are pictured the Nome Explorer
Scouts as they emplaned at Fairbanks
enroute to the Kodiak encampment The
Scouts are expected to arrive home today
or tomorrow. In the back row. left to
right: George Bell, advisor, Joe Senunge
tuk, Dick Benson, Chuck Snyder, Chuck
Fagerstrom. Front row: Bob Russell, Ken
Kolongan, Taylor Moto, Arthur Nuglene,
and Jerome Trigg. —Fairbanks News-Miner Photo
Wildlife Graduate Will
Keep Eye on Mink
In Koyukuk Fur Area
Mink which have been roving
the Koyukuk Fur Management
Area in western Alaska with com
plete freedom, this summer will
come under the watchful eye of a
wildlife agent.
Dr. John Buckley, head of the
Cooperative Wildlife Research
Unit at the University of Alaska,
last week sent Robert A. Rausch,
wildlife graduate student, into the
area which is the size of Massa
chusetts and Connecticult com
bined.
Rausch will live-trap the mink,
tag them, try to recapture some
of them, and obtain trapping re
turns from trappers in the area.
The purpose will be to get a
better understanding of the mink
and determine the possibilities of
managing them on a sustained
yield basis.
Trappers reported a good catch
last year.
Total Eclip se of Sun in South Asia
Draws U.S., British, German Scientists
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Cops Get New Variety of
Accident: Car vs. Airplane
SALT LAKE CITY, Police,
accustomed to auto wrecks, added
a new variety to their files over
the weekend: car vs. airplane.
The cops were up in the air
after damage of $7,000 was re
ported on a Navy torpedo-bomber
tied down at the Salt Lake Munic
ipal Airport.
But Steven Apodaca, 37, Salt
Lake City, came to police head
quarters after the accident and
said he had taken a wrong Dad
and ended up on the ramp of the
airport. He damaged the plane, he
said, while trying to turn his car
around.
He was given a citation for
leaving the scene of an accident.
r COLOMBO, Ceylon (ifl—The
moon totally eclipsed the sun over
south Asia today for the first time
in almost a year and the weather
man allied himself with the U.S.
As the lunar body cast its shad
ow across the fiery orb more than
400 times farther from the earth,
heavy unseasonal rain clouds
blocked the view from observa
tion posts set up by most foreign
and Ceylonese scientists.
But only a light cloud was over
the central Ceylon spot guarded
by an American team from Har
vard University. A spokesman
said the phenomenon was fully
visible for the four minutes that
the eclipse was total, beginning
about 9:40 p.m. PST Sunday.
“We are quite happy,” one of
the Americans said. “Our experi
ments were very successful.”
German technicians attached to
a combined British-Ceylonese
team wept copiously when a sin
gle black cloud obscured their
view. There were trying to check
theories of the late Albert Ein
stein and had brought with them a
telescope designed for Potsdam
University, where Einstein once
taught.
In the Philippines, an American
scientist was flown in a U.S. Air
Force jet trainer to record the
event on special cameras.
An eclipse began at sunrise in
the Indian Ocean, along the east
ern coast of Africa and southern
Arabia. As the earth rotated, it
streaked at 24 miles a minute—
visible entirely or in part—across
i India, China, the Indochinese and
Malayan Peninsulas, Indonesia,
northern Australia and the Philip
pines. The 180-mile-wide path of
total darkness streaked 7,200
miles across Ceylon, south Siam,
central Indochina and the Phil
ippines.
The longest totality lasted for
7 minutes 7.9 second, at one point
in the South China Sea. New
York’s Hayden Planetarium said
many scientists think it was the
longest since 717 A.D.
President Warren G. Harding
was the first chief executive to
broadcast through microphones
which in those days were called
“enunciators.”
Politics being what they are you
can expect government to be
what it is.
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