Alaska Saluted
At Carnegie Hall
A group of New York friends
of Alaska, headed by Sam Pryor,
vice president of Pan American
Airways, joined with the Keedick
Lecture Bureau in arranging a
“Salute to Alaska” program at
Carnegie Hall, New YorK City, on
the evening of Nov. 14 The prin
ciple speaker was Lowell Thomas
Jr., of Anchorage, who gave a
talk on the outstanding natural
features of the new state, and
their lure to vacationists. The
lecture was illustrated with ex
cellent moving pictures taken by
Mr. Thomas, who is highly es
teemed as a photographer of the
outdoors.
(Mr. Thomas has devoted most I
of the past two years to telling
the world about the economic
and recreational potentials of
Alaska in magazine articles and
lectures and by film. The lecture
given in Carnegie Hall was heard
by a practically full house.
The speaker was introduced by
Frank Heintzleman, former Gov.
of Alaska (1953-1957) and long
time chief forester of the Alaska
branch of the U.S. Forest Service.
Mr. Heintzleman, now retired
from public service, is contribut
ing his efforts to expansion of the
economic development of the new
state of Alaska through the intro
duction of industrial enterprises
based on the use of the extensive
local natural resources.
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REINDEER HEADS - U.S. MERC
Barney Buck Funeral
Held Here Today
Barney M. Buck was buried this
morning after services at 10:00
a. m. at Our Savior’s Lutheran
Church.
Mr. Buck was born on the
North Sea under the English flag
of Norwegian and English par
entage March 3, 1882. He came to
Alaska in 1902 where followed
the gold mining industry.
He married Mary Westdahl at
White Mountain on Aug. 13, 1918.
To them a son, Donald and a dau
ghter Irma, were born. Irma
passed from this life in 1957.
The Bucks lived in Golovin,
Haycock, Kivalina, Selawik, Kot
zebue and Candle where they re
sided from 1932 until his death.
He died Sunday morning, Nov. 19
at the MMM Hospital at the age
of 79.
Interment was at Belmont
Point Cemetery. Rev. J. Maak
estadt officiated.
Donald Buck came to Nome for
the funeral from Ft. Yukon where
he and his family now live and
where he is employed at the
White Alice site.
35 Soldiers Set Out on
March from Bethel
To Cape Newenham
Thirty-five Fort Richardson
soldiers set out from Bethel last
weekend on a long march to Cape
Newenham. The overland trip is
expected to take them until about
Dec. 7.
The long range foot patrol is
one of a series of a small unit ex
ercises planned for November
and December by the 1st Battle
Group, 23rd Infantry.
Commander of the patrol out of
Bethel will be 1st Lt. Donald
PasteUa, of Menessen, Pa., a pla
toon leader of Co. D. With him
will 'be his platoon and three en
listed intelligence specialists.
Primary purpose of the patrol
will be reconnaissance training
for the platoon, according to Lt.
Pastella. The men will check ex
isting maps as they make the
march.
The season of the year will give
the patrol it? secondary mission.
The 36 infanrtymen will act as
emissaries of Santa Claus as they
take gifts of clothing and toys to
the children in the village of
Kwinhagak, a remote community
on the coastline which will be the
end of the patrol route.
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40 Tracked Cargo
Carriers to Be Used
By Army in Alaska
The first of 40 new “go every
where” tracked cargo carriers
destined to increase overland sup
ply capabilities and suport ele
ments of UjS. Army, Alaska have
arrived at Fort Richardson.
The first six of the all-weather,
all-terrain carriers are currently
being readied for use as training
vehicles for future drivers and
mechanics in a concentrated train
ing program scheduled to start
Nov. 27, under direction of the
US ARAL Support Command Di
rector of Maintenance.
With delivery of all new ve
hicles sometime in December, the
40 carriers will be divided equally
between Army commands north
and south of the Alaska Range.
Fort Richardson area units will
receive 20 of the vehicles and 20
of the carriers will be assigned to
Fort Wainwright.
Purchase of the vehicles from
Robin - Nodwell Manufacturing,
Ltd., Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
followed extensive user-tests by
USARAL officials last February
during Exercise “Willow Freeze,”
the Army’s 1961 winter maneu
ver in Alaska.
“The Nodwell’s were tested un
der simulated combat conditions,
and proved their superior over
snow capabilities in the face of
deep snow, severe weather and
over some' of the most difficult
terrain in the far north,” a
USARAL spokesman said.
Additional rugged work-outs
are expected for the Nodwells this
February, when they will be used
to support USAJRAL’s 1962 win
ter maneuver, Exercise “Great
Bear,” taking pla~ between Tok
Junction and Eielson Air Force
Base.
“The Nodwell is really a work
horse of the wilderness,” said
W. Roberston, factory technical
representative. “Elmploying the
principle of floatation in its de
sign, Nodwell carriers have a
ground pressure of less than two
pounds per square inch. They
operate in all weather, over any
type of terrain, at a high peak of
proficiency.”
Other characteristics of the
Nodwell prove it a versatile,
heavy duty carrier ably suited
for the missions of overland sup
ply to Army troops in rugged far
northern areas, according to Lt.
Col. James Syme Jr., USARAL
Support Command Transportation
officer.
The Model RN 110-B is a four
axle machine with an eight cylin
der, 292 cubic inch engine. It has
a clear load carrying area of 8
by-12 feet, a carrying capacity of
•11,000 pounds, topped off with a
50 gallon gas tank and speeds up
to 15 miles per hour fully loaded. I
Rockets of Today Will Be Known
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SUNNYVALE, Calif. (#S — If
scientists at work on nuclear
powered spaceship designs suc
ceed in conquering their formid
able engineering problems, the
rockets of today will be known
as ihe Model T’s of the space age.
Some scientists say application
of nuclear power to rocket flight
may carry the United States into
the lead in the race for the
planets. They claim there are no
signs the Soviet Union lags in this
field.
Nuclear-powered space vehicles
are scheduled for submission to
the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration by the end
of this month.
Aerojet General Corp. already
is developing a nuclear fission
reactor light enough to power an
airplane at its Nevada camp Mer
cury testing grounds.
The advantage of nuclear
rockets over conventional liquid
and solid fuel models has been
compared to the superiority of
speedy, long-ranging U.S. atomic
submarines over their diesel pred
ecessors.
Dr. Harold Plank of Lockheed
Missiles and Space" Co. here says
a nuclear-powered upper stage
in a manned interplanetary space
rockeit system could provide twice
the speed and double the payload
of present rockets of the same
weight.
Space Will Be Conquered
Kraft Ehricke, general dynamics
rocket scientist, has been quoted
as saying, “space will be con
quered oqly by manned nuclear
powered vehicles.”
The maiden flight of a U.S.
nuclear rocket may come in 1965
or 1966, the Atomic Energy Com
mission has predicted.
The nuclear and conventional
rockets are quite similar in that
both use chemical fuels, turning
them into rapidly expanding
gases.
In nuclear rocket engines a jet
of liquid hydrogen will be di
rected through holes in an atomic
reactor where temperatures may
reach about 3,600 degrees Fah
renheit.
This is far higher than the burn
ing temperatures in conventional
rockets of the same size and would
cause much greater exhaust gas
expansion and a corresponding
boost in thrust, according to Aero
jet.
Lightweight Reactor
An even bigger factor in ex
pected performance of nuclear
rockets would come because vast
quantities of liquid oxygen used
in conventional liquid rockets
would be replaced by a light
weight atomic reactor and its
comparatively tiny amount of
uranium fuel.
One major problem in harnes
sing the atom for space explora
tion is the vast quantities of ra
diation which would be given
off by the reactor.
For this reason, says Dr. Plank,
nuclear-powered engines probably
would not be used in the atmo
sphere of the earth or other
, planets.
Plfcns call for a chemical boost
er to lift the nuclear rocket Into
space where it would bs dis
carded as the nuclear pcrw^rpiant
took over propulsion. A final stage
conventional rocket could pro
vide the power for landing on a
distant body and later relaunch
ing the manned capsule and re
turning it to earth.
The final stage would provide
another useful function. It would
give -the crew some of the neces
sary shielding during nuclear
operations.
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ARRIVALS ft DEPARTURES
From Fairbanks: Emily Bou
cher, Donald Buck, Harry John
sen Jr., and W. (R. Greely.
To Fairbanks; Bertha Attata
yuk, Hubert Gilbert, A. G. Jones,
Ralph Archer, Ellis Westcott, Wil
lard Dahlgren, Russel Hintz, Ray
mond Ward, Perry Dedrich, Earl
! Bowman, and George Kilmer.
From Kotzebue: Andy Cowan,
Don Hoover, Claude Rhodes, E. G.
Frederickson, and Joe Komak.
Brother Seeks Ed Welter
Does anybody remember Ed
Welter who lived in Nome, Kotze
bue, Circle City and Fairbanks
from 1900 to 1925. His brother G.
C. Welter at 504 S. Michigan Ave.
at Rosewell, N.M., would like to
correspond.
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