U-A Summer Science
Director Will Address
Final P-TA Session
Dr. William Wilson, Director of .
Summer Science Training for I
Secondary Sohool Students at the
University of Alaska, will toe guest
speaker tomorrow evening at the
last meeting of the year for the
Nome P-TA
More than 700 inquiries and ap
plications have been received
from students who wish to attend
the summer sessions, to be given
at College August 7 through Aug
ust 27.
Inquiries from as far southeast
as Miami, Fla., and from the north
at Barrow, are being processed
toy the staff.
Only 40 students will be ac
cepted, from the Ninth, Tenth and
Eleventh Grades, and will toe se
lected for admission on the basis
LWY Community Center To
Close for Summer Months
The many activities of the La
vinia Wallace Young Community
Center are drawihg to a close for
the summer months. Esther Mc
Coy, director of activities, re
quests that all children in the
rhythm band meeting on Wednes
day, as well as the boys of the
3rd and 4th Grade Boys Club, who
want copies of pictures which
were taken, bring 15 cents to their
meetings this week, as that is the
only time the pictures will be
available.
of interest, ability and recommen
dation by teachers.
Eight Nome students will be
interviewed.
Installation of P-TA officers for
next year and appropriate fare
well for those retiring and depart
ing teachers will also be a feature
of tomorrow night’s program.
40 BETHEL VISITORS
HERE OVER SUNDAY
Sunday morning there was a
tour of more than 40 people by
charter from Bethel, who spent
the morning sightseeing, and
then departed for Kotzebue, where
they were to spend the afternoon.
The group was composed mstly of
staff members of the Bethel Hos
pital. They report much activity
in that area with oil crews and
construction workers for the new
school in Bethel as well as ANG
armory construction crews.
EXECUTIVE WILLPOWER
TRENTON, N. J., I/P) — Maga
zine articles on lung cancer have
frightened Gov. Robert Meyner
into giving up smoking.
“I had to either give up smok
ing or give up reading magazines,”
he told a news conference. ,
If the Governor fails, it won’t
be because of inexperience.
“This will be the fifth time I’ve
given up the habit,” he said.
LOST RIVER TIN HOLDINGS
WILL BE UP FOR SALE AGAIN
It was announced at the Cham
ber of Commerce meeting this
noon, that once again the U. S. Tin
Corp. holdings at Lost River will
be put up for sale. Several times
in the past thif has been planned,
but each time, the sale has been
withdrawn. According to the an
nouncement, the bids will be ad
vertised as of June 20, and opened
on July 7.
VISITORS TO BRITAIN
LONDON, W) — About a million
and a half foreigners came to
Britain last year, the government
reports, and 21,000 or so stayed
for long visits or settled. Most
short term visitors — 471,360 —
came from the United States. Ger
many was second with 197,905.
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New Advances in
Missiles Tested at
Vandenberg Base
LOS ANGELES, UP) — The Air
Force is packing a new missile
shooting-iron, after blasting an
Atlas ICBM from a revolutionary
horizontal concrete firing hangar
Friday.
And the Navy successfully
tested Friday a new method of
launching that turns any ocean,
lake or stream into a missile
launching pad.
The Air Force, after the Atlas
test Friday at nearby Vandenberg
AFB, announced the new hori
zontal firing method is opera
tional, or combat ready.
This means Vendenberg now
has two operational launch com
plexes — previously completed
vertical sites plus the new “cof
fin” or horizontal complex.
Previously Atlases, like other
big missiles, have been kept in
vertical posture on their' pads un
til launching. They have been
serviced with huge gantry cranes
that take precious time to roll
away before firing.
The new Coffins are 35 by 90
feet high concrete hangars. The
83-foot Atlas is stored horizon
tally inside. Just before firing a
roof slides back. Then the Atlas
blasts off for any target within
a 6,000 mile range of the West
Coast facility 125 miles north of
Los Angeles.
At Point Mugu, near Vanden
berg, the Navy demonstrated the
novel theory that ballistic mis
siles can be launched from the
surface of oceans, lakes or streams
by floating them like spar-buoys.
The 70-inch missile, rigged by
three frogmen in a rubber raft,
shot less than 100 feet into the
sky. But the Navy said the test
means oceans are now launching
pads.
| Santa Maria Anchor
Being Sent to U. S.
National Museum
CAPE HATIEN, Haiti, UP) — The
| second anchor recovered from
| Columbus’ flagship Santa Maria
i is being sent to the Smithsonian
| Institution in Washington by the ’
Halian government. Edwin Link,
American underwater explorer,
found it off here four years ago.
The first anchor was found in
mid- 19th Century.
Nome Directory
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon at
North Star Dining Room
Pearse Walsh, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO 1
Order of Eastern Star
Ruth Reed
VfiV Worthy Matron t
Verna Mickelson
V Secretary
Meets first and third Mondays
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No. 140
BYRON G. REED, W.M.
Norvin W. Lewis, Sec.
Meets First and Third Thursday
of Each Month
NOME ROTARY CLUB
Ask Craft
President
Herb Jenks
Secretary
Wednesday Luncheon
Parent-Teachers Assn.
Meets last Tuesday of eyery
month at School.
WERNER BOHRER, President
VESTA SUNDSTROM. Secty.
— VISITORS WELCOME _