Astronomy Notes
By OLAF HALVERSON
The sun is still close to the
moon’s node at this particular
time. That means the sun, moon,
and earth are in a straight line at
new moon and full moon. Eclipses
of the sun and moon occur during
this time and such an eclipse oc
curred last Wednesday but was
visible only in Africa, India and
China.
At the time of the last new
moon the moon passed between
the earth and the sun and, being
in direct line, it caused an eclipse
of the sun. However, because the
moon was at its greatest distance
from the earth then (a condition
called apogee) the conical shadow
did pot quite reach the earth’s
surface, and a ring of sunlight
was left surrounding the dark
moon. This type of eclipse is called
an annular eclipse because of the
annulus or bright ring of sunlight
left shining.
Nearly 90 annular eclipses of
the sun take place every century.
GORDON MacRAE FINED $315
FOR DRUNK DRIVING
SAN FERNANDO, Calif., (A»)—
Singer Gordon MacRae, who po
lice said flunked a sobriety test
following a traffic accident last
week, has been convicted of drunk
^riving and fined $315.
MacRae had previously pleaded
innocent and had demanded a trial
by jury. But Friday he waived
jury trial apd submitted the case
to Judge Julian Beck.
The singer was arrested after
his car rammed three others, po
lice said.
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Civil Service Exams
For Phone Operators
Open At Anchorage
ANCHORAGE—The Joint Board
of U.S. Civil Service Examiners at
Anchorage announces open com
petitive examinations for career
conditional appointments to posi
tions of telephone operator (train
ee), GS-1, telephone operator, GS
2 and 3, and telephone supervisor,
GS-4, 5, 6, and 7. Salary range is
from $2,690 to $5,335 per annum,
plus 25 percent territorial cost of
living allowance.
Registers established as the re
sults of this announcement will be
used to fill both present and future
vacancies of federal agencies in
the Greater Anchorage Area, un
less eligibles specify on their ap
plications that they are available
for employment in other areas
within the Territory of Alaska.
Additional information on this,
examination may be obtained at
any First or Second Class Post
Office.
Graham Attorneys Object
To Change in Judges
For Jan. 2 Trial
DENVER, UP)—Objections to a
change in judges were made in a
motion filed Friday by court-ap
pointed attorneys for John Gilbert
Graham, 23, accused of dynamite:
bombing an airliner that carried
his mother and 43 others to death.
The lawyers asked that District!
Judge Edward J. Keating, who|
presided at Graham’s arraignment!
Dec. 9, continue on the case. Un
der routine rotation procedures of
the Denver District Court bench,
Judge Joseph M. McDonald, 38,
is due to receive on Jan. 2 the
criminal court assignment includ
ing Graham’s case.
Graham has been sent to Color
ado Psychopathic Hospital in Den
ver for 30 days observation as a
result of his plea in the case.
He pleaded innocent and inno
cent by reason o| insanity to mur
der-charges in the death of his
mother, Mrs. Daisie King, 55.
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AmericanPrisoners
In Red China Jails
Treated Cruelly
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WASHINGTON, UP—The State
Department is compiling a “white
paper” of cruel and inhuman
treatment which it says Americans
held in Communist China are suf
fering at the hands of the Chinese
Reds.
Officials reported this as the
State Department Friday night
disclosed U.N. Ambassador U. Al
exis Johnson has protested to Red
Chinese envoy Wang Ping-nan at
Geneva against such treatment of
Americans.
The U.S. officials indicated that
Johnson’s protests, so far as they
know, have brought no change in
treatment.
The State Department also an
nounced Johnson has repeatedly
protested to Wang against the fail
ure of the Reds to permit U.S. citi
zens to leave China in accordance
with the Johnson-Wang agree
ment announced last Sept. 10.
There are still 14 Americans
held in Chinese Communist pris
ons. Beginning last Sept. 6, 27
Americans have been permitted to*
leave China but the U.S. contends
that this partial release is not
enough and that the 14 should also
have been allowed to come home
long since.
Truck Driver Shoots Man
For Refusing Aid With Car
DETROIT, t Jf)—Albert Brown,
36, told police a truck driver shot
him Friday night when he refused
to push the man’s stalled truck
with his automobile.
Brown, a druggist and chiropo
dist, was admitted to Harper Hos
pital with a chest worund and a
fractured jaw.
Brown said the truck was stand
ing in a parking lot near his car
and the driver asked him to give
him a push.
“I told him m}' bumper was too
low for the truck bumper and that
I would damage my grille,” he
said. ‘‘I was driving off the lot
when the bullet struck me.”
The assailant escaped.
CALIFORNIA U. BUDGET OF
$95 MILLION APPROVED
LOS ANGELES, —Regents of
the University of California have
approved a $95 million budget for
the eight campuses for 1956-57.
Estimated enrollment for 1956
57 is 40,559 for the eight campuses
—7.7 percent higher than the pre
vious year.
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Eleven Alaska Students
Pass Semi-Finals for
College Scholarships
CHICAGO, UR—Eleven students
from Alaska are among 5,078 high
school seniors who have passed
semi-final tests leading to college
scholarships. Their names were
announced yesterday by the Na
tional Merit Scholarship Corp.
They are the survivors of more
than 50,000 top-ranking seniors
who took initial examinations in
late October in 10,000 high schools
in the U.S. and its territories.
The winners will take a second
exam Jan. 14, cutting the field to
1,500. Subsequent screening will
reduce the number of scholarships
to about 500. The tests are part of
the largest independent scholar
ship program in the history of
American education.
From Anchorage came 4 of
the Alaska test passers; from Ju
neau, 3; Spenard, 2; Fairbanks, 1;
and Ketchikan, 1.
Mrs. Peary Is 111
PORTLAND, Me., UR—Mrs. Jo
sephine Diebitsch Peary, 92, wid
ow of North Pole discoverer Adm.
Robert E. Peary, and an arctic ex
ulorer in her own right, is critic
ally ill. Mrs. Peary, who has lived
in Maine since 1920 when her hus
band died, is celebrated as the
mother of the famous “snow baby”
of the 1890s: her daughter, Marie,
was bom less than 13 degrees
from the North Pole in 1893.
SARANAC LAKE, N.Y., UR—
“Lady Godiva” ancT the “Naked
Dawn” have been showing togeth
er at a theater here.
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Alaska District Corps of
Engineers Bid Openings
Will Run in Multi-Millions
ANCHORAGE—Contracts were
awarded this month by the Alaska
District Corps of Engineers to
talled more than $1,000,000 and
bid openings will run into the
multi-millions. Contract awards in
the first half of the month include.:
At King Salmon U.S. Air Force
auxiliary field. $1,001,043 to Ma
cri Construction Co., Anchorage,
for bulk petroleum storage tanks
and jet fueling facilities.
At Galena Air Force auxiliary
field, .$434,248, to Peter Kiewit
Sons’ Co., Seattle on two sched
ules of their apparent low bid of
$2,677,827. They were awarded for
airfield and taxiway lighting and
base rocket storage building with
steam line. Apparent low bid of
$2,601,272 for construction at El
mendorf AFB of underground jet
fuel and avgas systems was of
fered by Pacific Alaska Co. of Ta
coma, Wash.
SAFETY BELTS FOR TROOPERS
ALBANY, N.Y., MWThe New
York State Thruway Authority is
buying safety belts for use in cars
driven by state troopers patrolling
the toll superhighway.
NOTICE
To Real and Personal
Property Owners
The lax rale on 1955 Real and
Personal property assessments of
the City of Nome, has been set aft
1% (one percent) by the Board of
Equalization. City property taxes
for 1955 are now collectible.
Carrie M. McLain
Nome City Clerk
Publ. Dec. 16, 19, 21, 1955.
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