Aircraft Industry Will
Help Mechanic Who Built
Wright Bros.’ Engine
LOS ANGELES, —The mech
anic, now homeless, who built the
engine for the Wright brothers’
first airplane, is being aided by*
the aircraft industry he helped to
pioneer.
Charles E. Taylor, 87, entered
General Hospital Nov. 19 as a
destitute charity case. He was suf
fering from asthma and ailments
of old age.
Although now physically able
to leave, Taylor has no home. His
only income is $800 a year from
a fund left by the late Orville
Wright.
After reading of Taylor’s plight,
a spokesman for the Aircraft In
dustry Assn, said Friday the asso
ciation will see to it that Taylor
is provided with a home and funds
for the rest of his life.
Astronomy Notes
By OLAF HALVERSON
Our satellite, the moon, revolves
around the earth in a plane in
clined five and one seventh de
grees to the plane in which the
earth travels around the sun. The
plane in which the earth travels
is called the ecliptic.
Because of this difference in the
inclination of the planes, there
must be a great variety of condi
tions which bring about eclipses
of the moon. All depends on the
distance of the center of the
earth’s shadow from the node of
the moon’s orbit at the time of full
moon.
The entire range along the ec
liptic within which a lunar eclipse
is possible is 25 degrees. The sun
ta<es 26 days in traversing this
arc. This interval of nearly a
month at each node makes it pos
sible to have eclipses of the moon
twice a year.
The lunar ecliptic limit varies
with the moon’s distance from us
because the nearer the moon is to
us the greater is the breadth of
the earth’s shadow.
Gold Value 33%
Of All Minerals
In Alaska in 1954
Gold dropped 2 percent below
the 1953 output in 1954, but re
mained higher than 1951 or 1952,
the Territorial Dept, of Mines has
announced. The value of the gold
output accounted for 33 percent of
the value of all minerals produced
in Alaska in 1954.
Working under the strangle
hold of an established U.S. price
of $35 per fine ounce for gold, un
changed since January 1934, cou
pled with ever increasing costs, it
was surprising that the gold out
put remained as high as it did in
1954.
Gold sold in its “natural state”
(nuggets, grains, and dust that had
not been melted) was sold to jew
elers to be used for the manufac
ture of “nugget” jewelry. Prices
for this crude gold were $28 to $33
an ounce.
The 146 active placer mines
supplied 99.6 percent of the total
quantity of gold produced. The
rest came from five active lode
mines.
The leading five producers of
gold in 1954 supplied 74 percent
of the Alaskan total gold output.
In order of output they were:
U.S. Smelting, Refining and Min
ing Co., Fairbanks unit, six dredg
es in the vicinity of Fairbanks;
New York-Alaska Gold Dredging
Corp., three dredges at Nyak; IJ.S.
Smelting, Refining and Mining
Co., Nome unit, two dredges in the
vicinity of Nome; Gold Placers,
Inc., one dredge at Coal Creek;
and Collinsville Mine,, nonfloat
operation (“dry land dredge”) at
Collinsville.
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Eskimo Artist
For hand drawn Alaskan
• Christmas cards, also
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