SYLVANUS STEVENS,
FIRST NOME EDITOR,
DIES AT TUKWILA
SEATTLE, MP>—Sylvanus H. Ste
vens, 82, who established the first
newspaper in Nome, the Nome
Gold Digger, died at Tukwila near
here Tuesday. He also was a mem
ber of Nome’s first City Council.
Stevens, who was born in Kan
sas, went to Alaska in 1897.
He came to Seattle in 1912 and
became editor of the Northwest
Daily Produce News, a trade pa
per. Later, he became owner of
the news and also established the
Produce Publishing Co. in 1922.
The publishing firm later was re
named the Stevens Press.
Stevens sold his business inter
ests in 1941 and retired. He was
twice mayor of Tukwila during
World War I.
Surviving are two sons, C. Har
low Stevens, Seattle, and Russell
E< Stevens, Oakland, Calif.; a
daughter, Miss Helen J. Stevens,
who is with the American Red
Cross in Germany; a sister, Mrs.
H. C. Clark, of Coldwater, Mich.;
and three grandchildren.
The federal government had
127 employes when it first set
up shop in Washington.
WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by the
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Cloudy with occasional snow or
rain today, decreasing cloudiness
tonight and partly cloudy Satur
day. Little change in temperature
today and tonight. Warmer Satur
day. Low temperature expected
tonight 33, high tomorrow 46.
Data last 24 hours of as 7 a.m.
today: highest temperature 38,
lowest 31. Max. wind 18 mph
from the West. Sunrise at 2:26
a.m., sunset at 9:33 p.m.
A year ago today: highest tem
perature 46, lowest 27. Extremes
this date since 1907: highest 57 in
1912, lowest 15 in 1926.
Other stations as of 7 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow 22 Fog
Kotzebue 31 Cloudy
Wales 31 Cloudy
Nome 31 Cloudy
Unalakleet 32 Cloudy
Bethel 49 Part cloudy
McGrath 49 Part cloudy
Anchorage 46 Rain
Fairbanks 42 Part cloudy
Whitehorse 42 Rain shrs
Juneau 46 Part cloudy
Ketchikan 53 Cluody
Seattle 67 Part cloudy
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U.S. Airpower Greater
Than Russia’s, Says Air
Force Secretary Talbott
WASHINGTON, W—Secretary
pf the Air Force Talbott said yes
terday this country’s air power is
greater than that of Soviet Russia.
But he said he is surprised at re
cent Russian advances.
After a two-hour conference
with senators, both Talbott and
Gen. Nathan F. Twining, Air
Force chief of staff, told newsmen
they were surprised at current
fear about Russian airpower.
Twining said an Air Force gen
eral “did not tell the truth” when
he said in a speech in Detroit
Wednesday night that “the Rus
sian air force is currently at least
as good as ours, possibly better.”
The statement was made by
Brig. Gen. Woodbury M. Burgess,
deputy chief of staff for intelli
gence of the Continental Aid De
fense Command, in a speech to a
Detroit American Legion post.
Burgess also said we have been
underestimating the Russians.
Twining said Burgess was speak
ing to a group of ground observers
and “he exaggerated.”
Asked if the Russians could de
liver atomic or other bombs, Tal
bott replied: “We don’t know what
they have inside them.”
Oil Company Leases
105,000 Acres Alaska
Land From Government
TULSA, Okla., (tf)—Nearly 105,
000 acres of Alaskan land have
been leased from the federal gov
ernment by Sunray Mid-Continent
Oil Co., it was reported Thursday.
Sunray Mid-Continent, the na
tion’s 13th largest oil concern, said
most of the leases are on the Ke
nai Peninsula in southern Alaska.
The leases are next to land
under lease to Richfield Oil Corp.,
Standard of California, Ohio Oil
Co., Union Oil Co. of California
and General Petroleum Corp.
Richfield, Standard of Califor
nia and Shell Oil Co. already have
announced they plan geological
and geophysical exploration in the
vicinity this summer.
KEYS. PLEASE
OMAHA, UP)—It was a snappy
exhibition of how to handcuff and
chain a dangerous prisoner that
U.S. Marshal William Raab gave
the Kiwanis Club yesterday.
Embarrassing, too.
When Raab looked for the keys
to free volunteer Lyle Remde he
didn’t have them. He had left
them at his office.
And that was where the pair
went to get Remde free.
SCORCHY SMITH
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Seal Dies of Fish and
Ulcers After Freedom
NEWARK, Ohio, —Smokey,
the seal, trapped in Buckeye Lake
Wednesday night after some days
of freedom, is dead.
“Too much fish—and ulcers,”
reported a veterinarian who con
ducted an autopsy.
Smokey and a companion seal,
Junior, had been fed salt water
fish in an effort to trap them after
their escape from an enclosure at
Buckeye Lake Park last Monday.
A bucket of salt-water fish led
to Smokey’s recapture a few hours
before he died. He had been lured
into a chicken wire net trap.
But Junior is still sporting thru
the waters of the seven-mile-long
lake and efforts to trap him are
continuing today.
Red Warship Chased Him,
Says Japanese Captain
TOKYO, —Kyodo News Ser
vice yesterday quoted a Japanese
coast guard captain as saying his
patrol ship was chased by a Rus
sian warship Sunday.
A coast guard spokesman here
said the coast guard had no such
report.
Kyodo said the captain reported
his 700-ton Daioh Maru took in
tow a fishing boat in distress
southeast of the central Kurile
Islands north of Japan. At this
point a 1,000-ton Russian ship
“apparently a destroyer,” chased
his boat, cut a circle around it,
and then let it “escape,” accord
ing to Kyodo.
Mrs. Mattie Reeves, who has
made her home in Teller for the
past two years, is a visitor in
Nome enroute to her home in .
South Dakota. She states that she
enjoyed knowing the people' in
Teller, who are all such fine
and industrious Alaskans.
She has been with her son and
daughter in law who have been
teachers for the territorial school
at Teller.
NOTICE
Existing conditions prevent the
continued operation of my Public
Accounting Office; therefore, ef
fective June 15, 1955. it will be
discontinued.
Anyone having records in my
office will please call for them
prior to that date. Thank you.
61 —Leslie A. Stevens
NOTICE
Pioneer Women, Auxiliary No.
1, will meet May 20 at 8:00 p.m.
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