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Equipment _
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Industrial
Engines
Dependable, compact power
' packages are available to
power users in any one of the 11 models of Caterpillar Indus
trial Diesel Engines ranging to 520 horsepower. All are "work”
engines designed to give outstanding performance with mini
mum operating and maintenance costs. You’ll find the right
engine for your job among the 11 Caterpillar models and you
can tailor it with the right attachments to fit your heeds,
including clutch, cooling system, starting method and fly
wheel design.
Cotorpillor ond Cot ore Registered Trodemarki of Coterpillor Tractor Co.
CIAYTON-KERRICK
Steam
Cleaners
Tern* Clayton-Kerrick steam
* cleaners provide completely
equipped and efficient steam clean
ing units for tough cleaning jobs to be done in the shop, in the
field or on the farm. There’s a variety of models ... stationary,
portable or completely mobile with rubber tires. Each attains
full working pressure in 3 to 5 minutes and each delivers the
balanced vaporized cleaning solution at high pressures. Some
models quickly converted to high pressure rinse units as well.
Your choice of gas or oil fired and motor or engine drive.
LINCOLN
Welders
Twja Regardless of your
I**** welding problem,
you’ll find the answer to it
in one of the many Lincoln
arc welders. There are Lin
coln arc welders for production, maintenance or structural
welding and for farm use. There are portable Lincoln arc
welders on wheels and engine driven models. Using alternating
or direct current, Lincoln arc welders .give weld uniformity at
all times . . . and, equally important, they cost less than com
parable welders and give longer service life.
WITTE
Diesel Engine
Generator Units
For installations where
* * . ' dependable, 24-hour-a
operation is required, use a Witte engine or a Witte engine
generator unit. They will provide reliable, low-cost power, are
completely weatherproof, and can be operated out-of-doors,
without protection, except under extreme cold or wet-weather
conditions. Both are compact, require minimum maintenance,
and operate on low-cost diesel fuel. There are many generator
unit models for either direct or alternating current, «nd Witte
diesel engines from 4 to 12.5 horsepower.
NC "CAT” DEPT.
Machinery Division, Northern Commercial Co.
FRONT ST.. NOME, MAIN 22
Letourneau
Produces 70-Ton
Earth Mover
SAN FRANCISCO, UP) — A ma- j
chine which can pick up and carry l
70 tons of earth was unveiled be- !
fore delegates to the American
Mining Congress meeting here
Tuesday.
The behemoth of dirt movers'
was produced by Letourneau
Equipment Company and brought i
to San "Francisco on two flat cars j
from the company’s proving I
gound at Longview, Tex.
Letourneau said the machine j
has twice the capacity of the |
largest earth mover previously I
built. It weighs 63 tons, is 62 feet i
long and 14 feet wide. It is pow- 1
ered by a 600-horsepower diesel j
engine which supplies several
electric motors. The motors turn 1
the big wheels independently. |
Letourneau said the machine j
is “in the $100,000 class” and still !
larger earth movers are contem- !
plated.
SMALLPOX RAGES IN
EAST INDONESIA
JAKARTA, Indonesia, UP) — A :
smallpox epidemic raging in Bu
tan Island, East Indonesia, has
caused 515 deaths since January,
PIA News Agency reported today.'
; O-K FOR KIDS
PHILADELPHIA, UP) — Hula
j hoops are all right for the kids,
| but they give adults a pain in the
1 back, says Dr. John K. Eckendorf,
i president of the Pennsylvania
! Chiropractic Society. “Whereas
1 the supple bodies of the young
sters can be twirled about in the
most grotesque of gyrations,
adults just end up with back
aches,” he adds.
HULA HOOPS OUT
CHARLOTTE, N. C., UP) — At
; times, the playground of Park
; Road Elementary . School here
i looked like a halftime show. Ev
j trybody had a hula hoop, prac
| tically. Now the hoops are banned
| at the school. Officials say none of
■ the 500 pupils seems to object.
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EMERSON NAMED HEAD AT
ANCHORAGE WEATHER BUR.
j WASHINGTON, UP) — Mac Al
j lan Emerson last Friday was
' named administrative officer oi
I the Weather Bureau’s 5th Region*
| with headquarters at Anchorage,
l Alaska.
| Emerson has been assistant di
i rector for Alaska for 10 years.
: He succeeds Glen Jefferson, who
is retiring.
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I Letter-size and legal file folders
at The Nugget
LARRY MOORE HAS
HEART ATTACK IN CALIF.
WATSONVILLE, Calif., I® —
Larry Moore, former Alaska man
ager of Associated General Con
tractors, was reported improving
Monday at Watsonville Hospital
where he was taken after a severe
heart attack last Tuesday.
The heart seizure came just six
days after the former Anchorage
contractor had bought a house in
Rio Del Mar, a seaside community
between Santa ruz and here.
HOUSE FLIES —
LOS ANGELES, l® — The Ray
mond Marquez family bought a
three-bedroom house in Long
Beach, where it had been con
demned for a freeway project.
Movers hauled the house to the
Marquez lot in the Lawndale Dis
trict. To get it to the rear of the
lot, they had to jack it up 25
feet and wheel it over the roof
tops of two other residences along
a driveway that separates them.
The house reached its founda
! tion without incident, if soaring
j over two other houses isn’t an
incident.
The first emergency flood con
trol dike built by the Corps of
Engineers in Alaska was con
j structed at Valdez in 1912.
1 Fine Job Printing At The Nugget.
44 Hail Tlie Queen ”
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— Wien Alaska Airline Photo by Frank Whaley
THE NEW QUEEN for the title of "Miss Top O' T ie World" was chosen at Barrow, August 23rd.
Her name is Maggie Lampe, sixteen years of age. Second place went to Dorcas Brower, and
third place to Patricia Hopson. A cro&d of 48 J people gathered to witness the big event in the
large Armory building. There were 11 contes ants in all. Alice Ahmaogak, the 1957 winner,
placed the crown on the parka-clad winner. Judges for the occasion were chosen trom the
visiting tourists in the audience and were: Dr. Kenyon De Green, Santa Monica-, Calif.; Mr.
Carl Hooker, Dallas, Texas; Mr. Robert Young, Peru, S. A.; Mr?. Lulu Fisher Sanders, Arizona,
and Mrs. Vickie Arnett, Fairbanks, Alaska. T^e other runners-up in the contest to choose the
Queen were: Ruth Burnell, Ruth Brower, Molly Ahvakanna, Mildred Kagak, Alice Ahmaogak,
Dolores Kilbear, Lollie Akpik, Bernice Kanyarak. The attractive winner is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Chester Lampe. She was sponsored by the Barrow Souvenir and Gift Shop. The
contest was under the management of Helen H'C'1, Wien Airlines Tcur Director.