SCORCHY SMITH
| ON TOP OF EVERYTHING ELSE WE'VE|
THE STORM'S FINALLY LETTING U?! MAYBE
THE DELAY WAS A HELP -THE WARM
FOOD I'VE GIVEN HER SEEMS TO
HAVE BUILT UP HER STRENGTH/ ^
ITS NOT GOING TO BE EASYGOING
WITH BABS TIED ONTO THE AIRPLANE
WING AS A SLED, BUT ITS BETTER.
THAN JUST SITTING, WAITING FOR
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EAS')' 5CORCHY- EASE HER DOWN//....I'M GLAD
THIS WING WAS FAIRLY INTACT."- AS A SLED IT'S |
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SOME way before: THIS- IS ALL OVER! |
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TO A WEREWOLF IF YOU'LL
FORK OVER THE TREASURE
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Ketchikan Fire
Wipes Out Most of
Waterfront Block
KETCHIKAN, — Fire wiped
out most of a waterfront business
district block in this Southeast
Alaska city early yesterday be
fore firemen, volunteers and
Coastguardsmen brought it under
control.
Five business establishments
were destroyed but the flames
were kept from spreading to a
cold storage plant containing a
million pounds of fish.
Unofficial estimates placed the
loss at upwards of $500,000.
! Absence of wind aided the fire
i fighters and may have spared the
! rest of the business district, much
j of which is built on pilings along
| the waterfront.
' Burned out were a florist shop,
printing and stationery store, shoe
store, butcher shop and taxicab
company.
Two Coast Guardsmen fighting
the blaze were overcome by
smoke but were not believed ser
iously harmed. A fireman was
hospitalized, apparently with
exhaustion.
Some 50 Coast Guardsmen
fought the fire alongside about
45 city firemen and volunteers.
Every available piece of equip
ment, including a fireboat and a
Coast Guard cutter, was used to
combat the blaze.
The flames could be seen for
miles in the clear, dry air. Tem
peratures were just below freez
ing but the cold did not present
any great problem to the fire
fighters.
The fire apparently started in
the heating plant of a flower shop.
It quickly spread to adjacent
business houses and threatened
the Ketchikan Cold Storage Co.’s
main building.
The firm’s offices burned but
■ firemen managed to keep the fire
away from the 3-story cold stor
age where a million pounds of
salmon and halibut were stored.
It was Ketchikan’s third major
fire in its business district in
three years. A block adjacent to
the fire was swept by a blaze
on New Year’s Day, 1958, and
the destroyed businesses never
were rebuilt.
The Alaska Cold Storage Co.
plant itself was rebuilt after it
was destroyed by fire about 10
years ago.
Nome Directory
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon at
North Star Dining Room
Russell Hermann, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO 1
Order of Eastern Star
Ruth Reed
Worthy Matron
Verna Mickelson
Secretary
Meets first and third Mondays
L ANVIL LODGE
No. i40
BYRON G. REED, W.M.
Norvln W. Lewis, Sec.
t and Third Thursday
of Each Month
NOME ROTARY CLUB
cdp6a&U Ast Cra*t
jjf 'C] p vZj President
''ifp'.fe Herb Jenks
Secretary
Wednesday Luncheoi.
Parent-Teachers Assn.
Meats last Tuesday of evyy
month at School. *
WERNER BOHRER, President
VESTA SUNDSTROM, Secty.
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