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VOL. LIX No. 85 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1957 * Per Copy—15*
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Miss America Contest
Narrowed Down to 15
Of Prettiest Girls in U.S.
LONG BEACH, Calif., UP—Fif
teen of the prettiest girls in the
U.S. still were in the running to
day in the contest to pick Ameri
ca’s representative in the Miss
Universe contest.
The beautiful survivors of the
first night’s competition will par
ade their charms before the judg
es again tonight. The winner will
become Miss U.S.A., who will
then take her place in a field of
33 of the fairest of this and many
other lands.
Among the 15 chosen was Miss
Washington, Diana Schafer, 18,
of Bellevue.
Boy, 3, Perishes From
Exposure After Climbing
3,000 Feet Up Mountain
BRIDGEPORT, Calif., UP—The
body of little David Allen Scott
was brought to this mountain
town yesterday after the boy—
dead of exposure and exhaustion
—was found at the 8,500-foot lev
el of Eagle’s Peak.
The boy, who would have been
three next Monday, strayed Sat
urday from the Sierra campsite
of his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Scott of San Diego.
The body was found among
boulders on a steep slope. He had
climbed an incredible 3,000 feet
higher than the camp, losing one
little red canvas shoe and his
brown play trousers on the way.
New Federal Bldg.
Is First of Its
kind in Nome
The new Federal Building is
growing daily next to the M & M
Bank and creating much interest,
as it is the first concrete building
of its kind in the community.
Pouring of the concrete for the
basement walls is scheduled for
this week, we are informed. This
floor will house the U.S. Jail and
also have office space.
The main floor will have the
U.S. Post Office and will be much
more efficient and convenient
than the present Post Office,
which requires a climb to the
second floor.
The U.S. courtroom will be lo
cated on the second floor which |
will be much better than the
present system as it will elimin- |
qte much of the noise which at |
present makes it impossible to |
hear during many of the court '
sessions.
It is hoped to have the building
closed in by freeze-up so that
work on the interior may con
! tinue throughout the winter.
GOVERNMENT COLLECTS
CHARLOTTE, N.C., UP)—Uncle
Sam sent a bill to Charlotte drug
gist J. A. Monroe.
Monroe says he’ll pay the bill
without any fuss. It’s for one
| cent, the amount the govern- !
ment says he still owes on his J
; income tax.
NEW BRITISH PLANE
EXCEEDS WORLD’S
AIR SPEED RECORD
WARTON, England, UP)—Brit
ain’s new fighter, the English
Electra P - 1, has exceeded the
existing world air speed record
of 1,132 miles an hour, the manu
facturers announced today.
“The company is unable for
security reasons to state the pre
cise speed reached, the announce
ment said.
The P-1 is a day and night all
weather interceptor now in pro
duction for the Royal Air Force.
Because the flight was not
clocked officially for rceord pur
poses, the speed title still belongs
to another British aircraft, the
Fairey Delta 2.
Two U.S. Navy Jets
Make Record Time From
Mainland to Honolulu
HONOLULU, UP>—T w o A 3-D ,
Skywarrior jets, built the Navy |
says to carry atom bombs, broke !
the mainland - Honolulu record
yesterday.
Lt. Cmdr. James P. Pruitt, of
Rule, Tex., landed here 4 hours
45 minutes after leaving Moffett
Field,- Calif., south of San Fran
cisco. A second Skywarrior, pilot- ]
ed by Lt. Cmdr. Horace Little,
New Orleans, touched down one
minute later.
An Air Force B-47 set the old
record—4 hours 52 minutes—on
Sept. 29, 1952.
Oldster Dies at 106;
Attributed Long Life to
Moderation in All Things
PORTLAND, UF> — Charles
Henry Mack, 106, died at his
Portland home Monday.
On his 100th birthday he said
his long life was due to moder
ation in all things.
Mack spent 30 years in Alaska
and the far north before settling
in Oregon in 1926. He had made
his home here sipce.
At the turn of the century,
Mack was on a fishing boat
which foundered near Nome and1
he wandered with a half dozen
companions along the coast for
an extended period before being
found.
Russian Railroad Engineer Genius Meets His Quota
By Shipping Water and Air as ‘Liquid’ Freight
By ROY ESSOYAN
MOSCOW, UPi—A Russian rail
road engineer named Vorobov is
described as a genius by seven of
his fellow workers in the railway
newspaper Gudok — he has dis
covered that water and even
fresh air can be shipped in tank
cars to meet his quota for
“liquid" freight.
In the Soviet Union everything
is done by plan, from the number
of fares a cab driver is supposed
to pick up to the tons of coal
a miner must dig. Success in
meeting the quotas is rewarded
by honors and bonuses.
Two years ago, according to
the letter written by the engi
neer’s seven associates to Gudok,
Vorobov suddenly realized his
section of the Vladivostock line
was in danger of not meeting its
quota for deliveries of liquid
freight.
Vorobov had an inspiration. He
ordered 50 tank cars filled with
water and shipped from Voro
shilov to Usurisky. At Usurisky
the water froze in the cars and
it took a month to get them
thawed out and emptied. But
Vorobov met his quota and kept
his job.
This summer Vorobov again
fell behind on his liquid deliver
ies. Consoled by the thought that
water does not freeze in sum
mer, he devised an even better
plan. He ordered water pumped
from mains at Pervaya Rechka
directly into tank cars and ship
ped to Egersheld nearby, where
it could be emptied back into the
mains and allowed to flow back
to Pervaya Rechka.
At this rate, the writers said,
Vorobov could fulfill the whole
annual plan in a month, but to
speed things up even more he
sent 15 cars with nothing but air.
This simpified the unloading,
since some of the water let out
at Egersheld washed out the
roadbed and caused traffic de
lays.
No Trace Found
Of C-47 Missing
Enroute Formosa
TAIPEH, (4*1—An intensive air,
sea and ground search today
failed to turn up any trace of a
U.S. Air Force C-47 missing with
16 persons aboard.
Radio contact with the plane
was broken Tuesday night as it
neared the end of a journey to
Taipei from the Philippines.
U.S. Air Force headquarters on
Taipei said this afternoon—more
than 20 hours after the plane
vanished—there was nothing to
substantiate Chinese police re
ports it had crashed in the moun
tains between Taipei and the
Formosa Strait.
There were no dependents on
board the plane, all seven crew
men and nine passengers being
military personnel.
The missing C-47 was attached
to the U.S. air task force in For
mosa. It was returning to Taipei
on a routine flight.
WALTER T. HIGGINS
Anvil Lodge 140
Will Be Host to
Grand Master
Anvil Lodge No. 140, F. & A.M.,
will be host to the Most Worship
ful Master Walter T. Higgins,
Grand Master of the Most Wor
shipful Grand Lodge, Free and
Accepted Masons of Washington,
at a Special Communication to be
held Friday evening, July 19th:
at the Masonic Temple at 8 p.m..
at which time Higgins will make
his official visit to Nome.
He will arrive Nome Friday
morning via Alaska Airlines. The
Worshipful Master of Anvil
Lodge, Robert K. Lewis, together
with his Senior Warden, James
A. von der Heydt, and the Junior
Warden, Herbert J. Jertks, are
making all arrangements for the
Grand Master’s visitation.
All local and visiting Master
Masons are cordially invited to
attend the communication and
meet the Grand Master.
Grand Master Higgins will
leave Saturday with Pan Ameri
can Airways for Fairbanks, where
he will visit with Tanana Lodge
No. 162 that evening.
Dr. Anderson
| Arrives in Nome
;
To Start Practice
Dr. Harvey Anderson arrived
Sunday from Fairbanks to open
his practice here, taking over the
office of Dr. Fred Langsam at the
MMM Hospital and thereby re
lieving the tension in the com
munity since the departure of
Dr. Langsam.
Dr. Anderson is a graduate of
the University of Michigan and
Vanderbilt University School of
Medicine. He interned at the Yale
University Service at New Haven,
Conn., and has had a general
practice in Bakersville, Calif.,
before spending four years in
Fairbanks at the Doctors and
Fairbanks Clinics. He was born
in Astoria, Ore.
Dr. Anderson has been very
active in community service at
Fairbanks, where he was a mem
ber of the City Council, Elks Club,
Lions Club and Toastmaster Club.
He has announced office hours
from 9:30 a.m. to 12 noon and
1:00 until 5 p.m. during the week
and morning hours only on Sat
urdays.
Mrs. Anderson and two chil
dren accompanied the new doc
tor, who is temporarily making
his home in the former Gabriel
| son residence on 1st Ave. W.
I New Speed Record
Coast-to-Coast
Is 3 Hrs. 23 Mins.
NEW YORK, (jPI — The Navy
beat the Air Force’s transconti
nental speed record Tuesday by
! flying 2,460 miles coast to coast
in 3 hours 23 minutes 8.1 sec
onds.
The previous record, set by an
F84F March 9, 1955, was 3 hours
44 minutes 53.88 seconds.
A Marine pilot, Maj. John
Glenn Jr. piloted a F8U1 Chance
Vought Crusader from Los Ala
mitos, Calif., Naval Air Station
to Floyd Bennett Field here to set
the record.
A second Crusader, which took
off at dawn with Glenn, had to
land at Albuquerque when it ran
into refueling-in-the-air trouble.
The cross - country flight was
officially billed as a test of the
Crusader’s “sustained capability
at near-maximum power over
long distance.”
Last month two Crusaders flew
from a carrier off California to a
carrier off Florida to demonstrate
the Navy’s flexibility for Presi
dent Eisenhower and defense of
ficials.
"GUARANTEED PAIN KILLER"
OKLAHOMA CITY, UP>—Police
vice squad officers today seized,
a unique hot water bottle de
scribed by its owner as a “guar
anteed pain killer.”
Authorities said the bottle was
full of corn whisky. Anna Marie
Davis, 35, paid a $40 fine fo.
possession of whisky and va
grancy.