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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
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THE STUDENTS OF NOME SCHOOL — Sixth,
Seventh and Eighth Graders, have been entered
into the 33rd Annual National Spelling Bee, by
Superintendent Conrad Potter, who realizes the
importance of this competition.
This is an educational competition, designed to
help boys and girls improve their spelling, increase
their vocabularies, and develop correct English usage,
that will help them all their lives.
There are fitting rewards for those who will be
working hard to be the Nome entry in the State
contest.
The winner of the Nome School contest gets a
free trip to Anchorage with a companion, and will
participate in the State contest. The winner of the
State finals gets a week of sightseeing and entertain
ment in Washington, D. C., and prizes of more than
$5,000 in cash. The National champ also get a trip
to New York.
The Spelling Bee is something worth working on,
and that means Mom and Dad will be helping too,
with the words.
The National Bee is sponsored by Scripps Howard
Newspapers, and the fare for the local winner is being
raised through local organizations. The Anchorage
Times is the Alaska sponsor.
This is Nome’s first try, and everyone will be
anxious to see who is Nome’s champ.
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Sniper Kills Four,
Wounds 5 Others
UNIONTOWN, Pa., UP! — Why
sharpshooter Daniel Raymond
killed four passersby and wound
ed five others before being shot
dead himself remained a mystery
today to residents in the nearby
mountain community of Chalk
hill.
Although Raymond’s wife indi
cated the shooting spree was
touched off by his “nervousness,1’
there were no clear-cut answers.
State police, protected by a
tank, cut down the 42-year-old
Raymond with a hail of machine
gun bullets as he fled his burn
ing home Wednesday, climaxing
a lengthy battle. Incendiary and
tear gas bombs lobbed from the
tank had set the home afire.
The mountaineer saw a doctor
only February 16 only because he
was nervous his wife said.
Raymond, a pipline walker for
a natural gas company, had a
reputation among the mountain
folk in this southwestern Penn
sylvania area for being a crack
shot. He did his lethal shooting
from the second story of his home
located about 50 feet from a ru
ral road.
Police shut off the road to all 1
traffic, but this didn’t stop Ray- I
mond. For the full nine hours he
shot at almost everything that
moved — cars and trucks. Only
once did he fail to fire at a
moving vehicle. This was a school
bus carrying about 50 youngsters.
“He might have been reload
ing when the school bus passed,”
said a state trooper.
Raymond was armed with two
rifles, one with a telescopic
sight.
His wife said he set fire to their
living room about 12 hours be
fore the shooting began. She said
he doused the fire but she was
frightened and took her three
children to stay overnight with
neighbors.
McKinley Climbers Will
Leave Japan Early April
TOKYO, UP) — Two Japanese
university expeditions will at
tempt this summer to climb
Alaska’s Mt. McKinley, 20,300
feet, highest peak in North
America.
U. S. Ambassador Douglas Mac
Arthur II gave encouraging words
yesterday to the 17-man Meiji
University team at its send-off
party. He said:
“Historians and geographers
have long held the theory that in
prehistoric times there was a mi
gration of people from Asia to
North America. . . . Now this
group . . . may well find new
and exciting evidence to give
added weight to this theory”
The Meiji University scientific
expedition is scheduled to leave
here in early April.
Meanwhile, Waseda University
announced it will also send an
expedition to Mt. McKinley next
month.
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Russia Would Unknowingly
Wage A True Cold War
Against Herself
A Russian engineer by the name
of Pyotry Borisov has proposed a
clam across the Bering Straits and
to pump water into the Arctic
Ocean to warm it up so that even
tually the ice cap covering that
ocean would be removed.
Such a proposal would be a
serious and grievous mistake.
Alaska, Canada, and Siberia can
be thankful for a heavy lid of ice
that covers the Arctic Ocean. If
it was not for this covering lid of
ice, there would be an immense
precipitation of snow far in ex- j
cess of the sun’s abilty to melt it
in the summer, so the snow would
accumulate, glaciate, and drive
out all habitation from the north
land.
Northern Alaska, Canada and
northern Siberia are lands that
could be called marginal temper
ature areas, and, at present, it is
just slightly above a permanent
ly glaciated area. We still have
permafrost to show us that we
are not far removed from glacia
tion. A little disturbance is likely
to cause a tremendous chain reac
tion in the field of glaciation.
Only a month or two finds the
far north free of snow. The con
dition could be compared to a pail
of water close to the point of
freezing. One little disturbance
of the water in the pail, and it
all becomes crystalized.
At present, the snowfall in the
far northern part of Alaska is
very light because there is no
source of moisture, due to the
fact that the ice cap covers the
Arctic Ocean. If there was open
water up there, the snowfall
would be excessive. For an illus
tration, all we have to do is look
at certain glaciers in southern
Alaska, like the Columbia Gla
cier, where the moisture-laden
winds from off the Pacific Ocean
strikes a cold high altitude area
around Mt. St. Elias. Again, look
at Greenland, a grim reminder of
an ice cap on a northern land
surrounded by open water.
— OLAF HALVERSON.
Plutonium, important for the
release of atomic energy, is made
artificially from uranium.
Canadian Vessel Stops
In Southeastern Alaska
Approved by Committee
WASHINGTON, l/PI—'The State
Commerce Committee approved a
bill this week that would allow
Canadian vessels to operate be
tween ports in Southeastern
Alaska and other points in the
United States, directly or by way
of a foreign port.
Other measures approved by
the committee would:
Provide for painting and illu
mination of radio towers to as
sure their visibility to air traffic.
Extend until 1964 an exemption
of small boat operators in South
eastern Alaska from certain Coast
Guard regulations.
Establish a joint board, com
posed of representatives of the In
terstate Commerce Commission,
Federal Maritime Board and Civil
Aeronautics Board, to regulate
shipping and to permit determina
tion of through routes and joint
rates for carriers serving Alaska,
Hawaii and the other states.
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