NEWS LETTER
Bv Mary Lee "'ouncil
■Secretary t" E. I... Bartlett.
Delega'e t0 Congress from Alaska
The Territory of Alaska would
be permitted to incur bonded in
debtedness in the amount of $12Vi
million if Delegate Bartlett’s bill
approved by the full House Inter
ior and Insular Affairs Commit
tee becomes law.
The bonding bill would permit
indebtedness for public improve
ments, such as schools, hospitals
and other public facilities. If en
acted it would eliminate a pro
hibition contained in the Oragnic
Act of 10-12 against such indebt
edness.
At the general election of 1952
approval was given by the voters
of Alaska to the referendum seek
ing views on territorial bonding
up to $12V£ million for school pur
poses. The vote was 19,609 to
4,078.
The Mines and Mining Sub
committee of the House Interior
and Insular Affairs Committee
tabled Delegate Bartlett’s bill
providing that the holders of un
patented mining claims in Alaska
may deposit $100 each year for
each claim in lieu of assessment
work, with such funds to be de
posited in a special territorial ac
count for use in construction of
mining access roads.
The subcommittee’s action was
unanimous, based on objections
that approval for a measure for
Alaska would set a precedent for
other areas in the United States.
“To require annual work or
improvements of the holder of a
mining claim is to ensure that he
will make some effort to further
the search for and the develop
ment of valuable mineral resourc
es,” Assistant Secretary of the In
terior D’Ewart stated in his re
port to the committee.
“To permit a person to substi
tute, from the time when he first
locates a mining claim, an annual
money payment for annual devel
opment work would defeat the in
tention of the existing laws, and
would encourage persons to spec
ulate on the possible increase in
the value of their claims without
ensuring that any effort would
be made by the claimants to fur
ther the national program of min
eral development. Moreover, if a
claimant were permitted from the
beginning to make money pay
ments, there would then be no re
quirement of doing any work
which would leave visible evi
dence of work done on which a
value could be set for patent pur- i
poses.”
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3 Power Co-ops
Ask Approval for
Atomic Plants
WASHINGTON, UPl—Three rural
electric cooperatives have asked
the Atomic Energy Commission
to approve proposals for construc
j tion of atomic electric power fa
cilities.
Clyde T. Ellis, general manager
| of the National Rural Electric
Cooperative Assn., said that the
Chugach Electric Assn., Anchor
age, Alaska; Rural Cooperative
Power Assn., Elk River, Minn.,
and Wolverine Electric Coopera
tive at Big Rapids, Mich., submit
ted proposals in the AEC’s sec
ond-round experimental power
reactor program.
“Proposal of the three rural
electric systems should be highly
feasible,” Ellis said, “due to the
fact their electric power opera
tions are in areas that presently
suffer extremely high power
costs.”
Brig. Gen. T. Alan Bennett
Is Acting Commander of
Alaskan Air Command
Brig. Gen. T. Alan Bennett,
commander of the 11th Air Divi
sion at Ladd Air Force Base, has
been appointed acting command
er of the Alaskan Air Command.
General Bennett, who has been
commander at Ladd since August
20. 1954, succeeds Maj. Gen. Geo.
R. Acheson. He came to Alaska
after serving three years as com
mander of the 25th Air Division
at McChord Air Force Base at
Tacoma, Wash.
MMM HOSPITAL
Admitted: Edward Kun^ek,
Beatrice Davis, George Washing
ton, Billie Beaton, Wallace Suke
nik.
Discharged: Lucille Tevok,
Phillip Kozak, David Bradley.
Ships Menaced
By Soviet Mines
TOKYO, MV—U.S. Navy officials
said Saturday numerous Russian
made mines have been floated de
liberately into the Japan Sea,
menacing navigation in violation
of the Geneva convention.
A spokesman said 142 mines
have been recovered on Japanese
beaches or water since 1952.
“These mines are all of Soviet
manufacture which were laid in
fields along the Korean coast,”
the spokesman said.
The Geneva convention re
quires nations using mines to pro
tect installations to provide auto
matic sinking or exploding devices
in case the explosives break loos
en, the spokesman said.
The majority of those picked up
off Japan were “rigged to act as
floating mines, to mbenace ship
ping, he added.
Ten have exploded on washing
ashore in Japan, but there are no
known casualties, the Navy said.
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Judy Garland’s Third
Marriage Ends in Divorce
j SANTA MONICA, Calif., Ufc—
i Judy Garland’s third marriage
! has gone awry.
The little gal with the big voice
filed suit for divorce Friday from
actor’s agent Sid Luft. They were
wed June 8, 1952. She charged
cruelty, asked the court to make
an equitable division of commun
ity property and requested cus
tody of the two children, Lorna,
3, and Joseph, 10 months old.
Miss Garland formerly was
formerly married to musician Da
vid Rose and. film director Vin
cente Minnelli. She and Minnelli
had one child, Lj^a.
It was Lult who helped Judy
make a stirring comeback after
her downfall at MGM Studio,
where she had several tempera
mental clashes, one of them end
ing in her attempt at slashing her
throat with a broken glass.
James George from Anchorage
is the house guest of Willie and
Virginia Brown of The Theater.
WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by the
CJ.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Burea'
Continued clear and colder to
night and Tuesday. Low temper
ature expected tonight -15, high
tomorrow 0.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: highest temperature
20, lowest -10. Max. wind 17 mph
from the northeast. Sunrise at
8:26 a.m., sunset at 4:04 p.m.
A year ago today: highest tem
perature -20, low -31. Extremes
this date since 1907: highest 33
in 1929, lowest -35 in 1925.
Other stations as of 7 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow - 8 Bloing snow
Kotzebue - 8 Fog
Wales - 8 Bloing snow
Gambell - 4 Part cloudy
Unalakleet - 8 Cloudy
Nome -22 Cloudy
Bethel 15 Snow
McGrath 10 Snow
Anchorage 23 Snow
Fairbanks -18 Cloudy
Whitehorse 16 Snow
Edmonton 36 Cloudy
Juneau 36 Rain
Ketchikan 40 Rain
Seattle 39 Fog
San Francisco 53 Cloudy
Ice Pool Dates
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Since 1917, when the Pool
was started, the ice has gone
out at Nenana as follows:
1917— April 30 .11:30 a.m.
1918— May 11. 9:33 a.m.
1919— May 3. 2:33 p.m.
1920— May 11.10:45 a.m.
1921— May 11. 6:42 a.m.
1922— May 12. 1:20 p.m.
1923— May 9. 2:00 p.m.
1924— May 11. 3:10 p.m.
1925— May 7. 6:32 p.m.
1926— April 26 . 4:03 p.m.
1927— May 13. 5:42 a.m.
1928— May 6. 4:25 p.m.
1929— May 5. 3:41 p.m.
1930— May 8. 7:03 p.m.
1931— May 10. 9:23 a.m.
1932— May 1 .10:15 a.m.
1933— May 8. 7:30 p.m.
1934— April 30 . 2:07 p.m. -
1935— May 15. 1:32 p.m.
1936— April 30 .12:58 p.m.
1937— May 12. 3:04 p.m.
1938— May 6 . 8:14 p.m.
1939— April 29 . 1:26 p.m.
1940— April 20 . 3:27 p.m.
1S41—May 3. 1:50 a.m.
1942—April 39. ’:28 p.m.
1S43—April 28 . 7:22 p.m. :
1944— May 4. 2:08 p.m.
1945— May 16. 9:41 a.m.
1946— May 5. 4:40 p.m.
1947— May 3. 5:53 p.m.
1948— May 13.11:13 p.m.
1949— May 14.12:39 p.m.
1550—May 6. 4:14 p.m.
1951— April 30 . 5:54 p.m.
1952— May 12. 3:04 p.m.
—Rpr'l 29. r> ~i.
1954— May 6. 6:01 p.m.
1955— May 9. 2:13 p.m
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Science features_
The Calcium Needs Of Mother And Child
Shortage of calcium, the mineral most important to sound bones and
teeth has long posed a problem in prenatal care.
A frequent symptom of calcium deficiency is leg cramps. These are
experienced by more than 50 per cent of expectant mothers. If the
deficiency becomes severe enough, the baby’s bone formation might
even be affected. It may also ere- ♦-————
ate health hazards for the mother.
However, calcium deficiencies can
exist silently in the mother’s sys
tem, without the appearance of leg
cramps.
Medical science has always been
acutely aware of the increased cal
cium needs of expectant mothers
and the growing child in her womb.
To fill the additional requirements,
doctors have prescribed calcium—
and protein rich diets, vitamins,
as well as a long-used prenatal
dietary supplement called dical
cium phosphate.
Recent medical studies have
shown that calcium deficiency is
actually only one aspect of the
problem The other is an over
supply of phosphorous which acts
as an antagonist to absorption of
the calcium that can enter the
blood stream of the mother and
unborn child
In fact, clinicians have reported
that the phosphates normally pres
ent in a rich protein diet, and in
the dicalcium phosphate supple
ment, actually lowei the calcium
content in the blood of the preg
nant female and her unborn child
to the point of a rathei severe
insufficiency
An adequate quantity of calcium
is necessary to life not only be
cause the mineral supplies about
90 pei cent of the substances
necessary foi healthy bone forma
tion, but is also essential to normal
heart action Calcium also plays
an important role in the body’s
blood-clotting mechanism
Furthermore, the mineral helps
the nervous system to function
properly, and makes it possible
for the body to obtain energy from
the food it consumes
Although the ordinary North
American diet is ample to fulfill
these functions—its average cal
cium content is 0.85 gm. per day—
it does not provide enough of the
substance to fill the needs of
mother and child. According to
medical authorities this need i cs
to 1.5 gm. in pregnancy, and
continues during the period of
lactation
The answer to prenatal ca! nm
deficiency now seems to have n
found Doctors who have tes a
new calcium supplement, c ed
Calcisalim which is free oi 3
phates( report the new n «« y
notably raises calcium lev. : n
the blood and reduces the inch. e
of leg cramps Calcisalin is rein
forced with vitamins and min' re s
known to be required in prenatal
supplementation. Aluminum Hy
droxide gel is also added L use
it ireduces the amount of j os
phorous compounds absorbed into
the mother’s system
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