180 Scientists to Participate in
Alaska Science Conference Sept. 7
It is expected that nearly 500<
scientists or persons interested in
science will attend the Fifth Al
askan Science Conference open
ing in Anchorage on Sept. 7 and
continuing through the week.
This is the first time the confer
ence has been held in Anchorage.
Last year, the conference was in
Juneau and other meetings were
held at Mt. McKinley National
Park and in Washington, D.C.
These annual meetings are spon
sored by the Alaska Division of
the American Assn, for the Ad
vancement of Science.
Hugh Johnson, of the Agricul
tural Experiment Station at Pal
mer, and president of the Alaska
division, has announced that the
- program will include 26 sessions
at which more than 150 scientific
papers will be given by nearly
180 different scientists. These in
clude- not only Alaskan scientists
but some from Canada, England,
Norway, Washington, D.C., and
other parts of the United States.
Among the Alaskan organiza
tions represented are the Univer
sity of Alaska, the Fish and
Wildlife Service, the National
Bureau of Standards, the Terri
torial History Museum, the Ter
ritorial Department of Heatlh, the I
Department of Public Welfare,
the Alaska Department o'f Fish
eries, U.S. Geological Survey, the
Arctic Aeromedical Laboratory,
the Arctic Research Laboratory,
and the Alaska Native Service.
Several honored guests will be
introduced at the first session.
These include Delegate to Con
gress E. L. Bartlett; Gov. B. Frank
Heintzleman, Dr. John Reed, rep
resenting Interior Secretary Mc
Kay; Comdr. Wilbur R. Porter,
representing Commerce Secretary
Weeks; Maj. Gen. George R. Ach
eson, Alaskan Air Command; and
Dr. Ernest Patty, University of
Alaska president.
The- biological sciences section
will include six sessions dealing
with arctic biological research,
wildlife and fisheries. One session
will feature a symposium entitled
“Resource Planning in Northern
Alaska—a Problem in Biological,
Anthropological, Economic, Social
and Moral Interrelationships.”
Participatnig in this symposium
will be the moderator, Dr. Viola
Garfield, Robert F. Scott, Ivar
Skarland, Ray Woolford, Eugene
V. Pugh, The Rev. Thomas Cun
ningham and Sally Carrighar.
Another session in the Social
Sciences will include that on Ed
ucation Wednesday evening. The
chairman of this session is Mrs.
Mildred S. Wilson, and the papers
given will apply to various as
pects of Alaskan education.'
A proposed Territorial Library
System will be discussed by Mrs.
Willetta Matsen. The problems of
the outlying schools of Alaska
will be surveyed by Don M. De
foe, Commissioner of Education,
and Dorothy Novatney, Deputy
Commissioner of Education. Dr.
Novatney, who recently returned
from a study trip to Australia un
ANSWERS TO LABOR DAY QUIZ
1. First Monday in September.
2. The Knights of Labor, an American workers’ organization, held
parades in New York in 1882-3-4.
3. May 1.
4. Philadelphia printers struck for $6 a week wages in 1786.
5. All factories, stores close. Meetings, picnics, parades, athletic
events held.
6. Frances Perkins.
7. Samuel Gompers.
8. In 1939 by unions expelled from AFL over organization policies.
9. CIO (auto workers), American Federation of Musicians, United
Mine Workers.
10. Martin Durkin.
I
der a United Nations fellowship,
will compare the situations found
in schools in sparsely settled areas
of Australia with those in Alaska.
The Medicine and Public Health
section will have two sessions.
The first will meet on Wednes
day morning under the chairman
ship of Brig. Gen. Earl Maxwell
and includes papers on tubercul
osis, the poliomyelitis epidemic on
St. Paul Island, infectious hepa
titis on Kodiak Island, leptospiro
sis, as well as reports of anemia
in Alaskan Eskimos and rabies in
Alaska.
Three Anchorage Polio
Victims Flown to Seattle
SEATTLE, tiP) — Three polio
myelities patients from Alaska
were due here Friday evening in
a special Northwest Orient Air
lines plane from Anchorage.
The patients, Evelyn Watsgold,
32; Mrs. Molly Snyder, 30, and
Van Josten, 5, will be taken to
the Northwest Respirator Center
at Harborview County Hospital
here. All have bulbar-type polio.
The special flight was arranged
by the National Foundation for
Infantile Paralysis with March of
Dimes funds.
Ambulances equipped with
portable respirators and other ap
paratus will meet the plane and
transfer the patients^to the hos
pital.
When an Alaskan brown bear
stands erect it can lower nine
feet high.
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
Notice is hereby given that the
copartnership heretofore existing
under the name of RAINBOW
MINES, and operating in the Kou
garok mining area. Cape Nome
Precinct, Frank H. Whaley and
Sterling Montague, copartners, is
now dissolved and terminated by
mutual consent of the said co
partners.
Further notice is given that
Frank H. Whaley is now the sole
owner of said mining enterprise,
and will do business under the
name and style of RAINBOW
MINES.
Frank H. Whaley
Sterling A. Montague
Publ. Aug. 13, 20, 27, Sept. 3, 1954.
IN THE PROBATE COURT FOR THE
TERRITORY OF ALASKA. SECOND
DIVISION. CAPE NOME PRECINCT.
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF
CHARLES GUSTAFSON. Deceased.
No. 1004
Notice to Creditors
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the
undersigned, W. B. McCarthy, was nn
the 20th day of August, 1954, by an order
of the above entitled Court appointed
administrator of the estate of CHARLES
GUSTAFSON, deceased: and that he
thereupon qualified as such administra
tor in the manner required by law. and
all creditors of, and persons having
claims against said decedent are hereby
required to present their claims, with the
necessray vouchers within sixty days
from the date hereof, to the undersigned
administrator at Nome, Alaska, which
office the undersigned hereby designates
as his place of business in all matters
connected with the said estate.
DATED at Nome, Alaska, this 25th
day of August, 1954.
(si W. B. McCarthy
Administrator of the Es
tate of Charles Gustaf
son, deceased.
Publ. Aug. 27. Sep. 3. 10, 17, 1954.
Church Services
ASSEMBLY OF GOD
Third Ave. West
HARRIET E. BROWN. MISSIONARY IN CHARGE
SUNDAY
10:00 a.m. Sunday School.
11:00 a.m. Morning worship.
7:30 p.m. Evangelistic Service.
ST. JOSEPH'S CHURCH
Steadman and Third Ave.
REV. NEIL MURPHY. S. J.
FRIDAY
Evening Devotions—7:30 p.m.
SUNDAY MASSES
8:00 and 10:00 a.m.
4:00 p.m. at Nome Field Chapel
DAILY MASS
7:00 a.m.
SATURDAY CONFESSIONS
4:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
NOME LUTHERAN CHURCH
The White Quonset on B Street
Sunday Services 9:30 and 11:00.
‘•The Tree Is Known by Its Fruit.”
Sunday evening service 7:30.
Wednesday evening Bible Study
at 7:30.
Confirmation Class meets at 11
a.m. on Saturday, the 11th of Sept.
—Curtis G. Johnson
COMMUNITY METHODIST
CHURCH
Second Avenue at West C Street
REEVES c. HAV .NS, JR., MINISTER
and LAVINIA WALLACE YOUNG
COMMUNITY CENTER
MISS ESTHER MCCOY, DIRECTOR
Give God a Chance.
Attend Church Every Sunday.
SUNDAY
9:45—Sunday School classes for
all ages.
11:00—Morning worship service.
Sermon by the pastor: ‘‘Christian
Principles in Leviticus.”
3:30—Hospital service.
6:00—Junior Fellowship.
7:00—Singspiration Service.
The Story of Moses will be continued.
8:00—Senior Fellowship.
WEDNESDAY
7:30—Official Board Meeting.
THURSDAY
7:30—Prayer service and Bible
study.
NOME GOSPEL HOME
808 Front Street
Christians Gathered Unto the Name
Of the Lord Jesus Christ
LORD’S DAY
10:00 A.M.—Morning Worship . . .
“Then will I go unto the altar of
God, unto God my exceeding joy.”
Psalm 43:4a.
2:00 P.M.—Sunday School. Contin
uing the studies on Paul’s first Mis
sionary Journey. Memory verse is
Acts 14:17.
7:00 P.M.—Gospel Meeting contin
uing the study of the great periods
of the Bible history in the Light of
Calvary.
WEDNESDAY
7:00 P.M.—Prayer and Bible study
evening . . . with studies in the book
of Galatians.
THURSDAY
4:00 P.M.—Boys’ Craft Class.
7:00 P.M.—Young People’s Meeting.
FRIDAY
4:00 P.M.—Girls’ Craft Class.
CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE
at Third and Division
LEWIS I* HUDGINS, PASTOR
SUNDAY
10:00 a.m.—Sunday School
11:00 a.m.—Morning Worship
6:30 p.m.—N.Y.P.S. Young
People’s Meeting
7:30 p.m.—Evangelistic Service
WEDNESDAY
7:30 p.m.—Midweek Prayer Meeting.
Come with your Bible and friends.
THE FRIENDLY CHURCH
WITH THE SINGING TOWER
THE EVANGELICAL MISSION
COVENANT CHURCH
Front St. and West B
REV. ROALD AMUNDSEN, PASTOR,
ASSISTED BY REV. DONALD J. BRUCKNER
SUNDAY
10:00 a.m.—Sunday School
11:00 a.m.—Worship Service
7:30 p.m.—Evening Service
MONDAY
Covenant Navigators
TUESDAY
Cottage Prayer Service
THURSDAY
7:30 p.m.—Prayer Service at Church
FRIDAY
Services and Songs in Eskimo Dialect
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST
Between 3rd and 4th Aves. off B St.
M. IREDALE, LEADER
Phone Main 110
SATURDAY
10:00 a.m. — Sabbath School
Nome Laundry
& Cleaners
CALL MAIN 29
FOR PICKUP
Joe Amarok, Proprietor
Record Puget Sockeye
Run May Be Biggest Yet
SEATTLE, (Pi—The Washington
State Fisheries Dept, said Wed
nesday that Tuesday’s American
catch from the Adams River so'ck
eye salmon run may be the
biggest since the fabulous run
started.
Fisheries officials said they
haven’t completed the count of
the Tuesday haul but it is expec
ted to top Sunday’s record of
408,000.
Fishing weather continued good
and fisheries men said interna
tional landings for the season will
reach 8 million fish by the end of
the week.
Whittier Boy, 10,
Paralyzed by Polio
ANCHORAGE, OP — One new
case of polio was reported Thurs
day in this area where the total
cases for the year have passed
the 90 mark.
The latest victim is a 10-year
old boy from Whittier. His case
is of the paralytic type. Seven
teen polio patients now are in
the hospital here.
THURSDAY BALL SCORES
American League
New York 3, Cincinnati 2
Washington 16, Detroit 6
National League
Brooklyn 10, Chicago 2
Philadelphia 5, St. Louis 4
Pacific Coast League
Oakland 3, San Francisco’ 1
Sacramento 14, San Diego 6
Hollywood 7, Los Angeles 5
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President Designates
Hurricane-Hit Regions
As Disaster Areas
FRASER, Colo., I &—President
Eisenhower Thursday designated
hurricane-hit regions of Massa
chusetts and Rhode Island as
major disaster areas eligible for
federal aid.
From his vacation headquarters
here the President sent telegrams
to Gov. Dennis J. Roberts of
Rhode Island and Gov. Christian
A. Herter of Massachusetts, noti
fying them of his action.
Eisenhower told both men he
is “deeply sympathetic to the
hardships and sufferings caused
to the people” of both states “in
this tragic situation.”
WEATHER FORECAST
Decreasing cloudiness tonight
and Saturday. Winds from the SW
10-15 mph. Lowest temperature
expected tonight 44, high Satur
day 56.
Nome data last 24 hours as off
7 a.m. today: Precipitation .15 in.
Highest temperature 49, low 43.
Max. wind 23 mph from the SSW.
Sun rises 4:49 a.m., sets 7:11 p.m.
Temperatures a year ago today:
high 50, low 46. Extremes this
I date since 1907: high 62 in 1951,
| low 30 in 1927.
IN COMMISSIONER'S COURT
Vera Elim was sentenced to 30
days in Federal Jail for disorder
ly conduct.
•* * *
Joe Agarutti received a sen
tence of 15 days in Federal jail
for disorderly conduct.
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