New Airborne Computer
Makes Fighter-Bomber
Nearly Automatic
WASHINGTON, UR — General
Electric Co. has developed a new
kind of airborne computer which
it said would make a modem
fighter-bomber nearly automatic.
As described at a meeting of
military electronics specialists
yesterday, the digital computer
can:
1. Help the pilot navigate from
his base to the target.
2. Choose the particular weap
on to be employed, and prepare
it for firing.
3. Control the approach ma
neuvers of the plane as it nears
the target.
4. Release a bomb or missile
at the proper moment with re
gard to altitude, wind velocity,
distance from the target and
other conditions.
5. Select the best altitude and
speed, from the standpoint of
fuel economy, for the flight home.
6. Direct the aircraft back to
its base.
The computer was developed
by GE’s light military electronic
equipment department at Utica,
N.Y., and was described by M. R.
Johnson, manager of the de
partment’s armament and control
section.
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Japanese Catch
Record Octopus
TOBA CITY, Japan, UPI—The
Toba City aquarium Tuesday
claimed it has the best equipped
octopus in history—one with 45
tentacles ranging from 1 to 24
feet in length.
Japanese scientists told the
newspaper Yomiuri the previous
record was 19 tentacles, on an
loctopus caught near Norway.
The local acquisition was found
in the Pacific off Toba City, a
port on the Pacific coast of South
Central Honshu.
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Goldfine Friend
Renominated In
Maine Primaries
PORTLAND, Maine, UPi — Sen
Frederick G. Payne (R), friend
of the controversial Bernard
Goldfine, was overwhelmingly
renominated in Marne’s pri
maries.
He and Gov. Edmund S. Mus
kie, unopposed on the Democratic
primary ballot Monday, will bat
tle it out in the state’s final
early September election. In
1960, Maine joins the other states
balloting in November.
Sen. Payne, who acknowledged
taking an expensive coat from
Boston millionaire Goldfine some
time ago, piled up better than a
five-toone vote over Herman D.
Sahagian, a long-time political
foe who told the voters that when
he needed a coat “I bought it
myself.”
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Joint Meeting
Solves Scouts
Camping Problem
At a joint meeting of the Nome
District Scout Committee and the
Executive Committee for the
Nome District Girl Scouts, held
on Friday evening, a happy solu
tion was reached regarding the
ownership and use of the quon
set huts at Camp Dexter. It
developed that the huts were
turned over to the Boy Scouts
by the military in 1947, but that
the Girl Scouts had contributed
materially to improvements and
equipment of the huts; and that
the use of the huts for the Girl
Scouts was necessary to their
camping program, but that the
Boy Scouts needed another hut
for their camp at Salmon Lake.
To solve this dilemna Mr. Carl
Glavinovich, General Superin
tendent of the U. S. S. M. & R.
Company, offered of behalf of
the Company to convey to the
Boy Scouts a quonset hut to be
moved to the Salmon Lake Camp,
in order that the use of the
Dexter Camp by the Girl Scouts
may not be disturbed. He also
offered a site of his own on the
bank of the Nome River upon
which the Dexter huts may be
moved, wjien required by the
Bureau of Public Roads. These
offers were graciously accepted,
and both groups satisfied.
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Alaska Statehood
Bill Called
Unconstitutional
WASHINGTON, LT>—A. South
ern senator suggested the House
passed Alaska statehood bill may
be unconstitutional.
Sen. Strom Thurmond (D-SC)
said the bill, now expected to
come up for Senate consideration
late this week or early next,
“raises grave legal questions
which have not been answered.”
“For example, the section
authorizing the President to with
draw Northern Alaska from state
control and to transfer the gov
ernmental functions to the fed
eral government,*’ he said, “would
weaken the sovereignty of Alask®
and make it inferior to the
other states.”
He said he “cannot see how this
could be construed as being con
stitutional,” but added: •
“If it were so construed, it
would set a precedent for, the in^
vasion of the sovereignty of other
states by |fedel al government”
The provision Thurmond crit
icued would authorize the Pres
ident at any future date to set
aside military reservations with
in the sparsely settled area of
Alaska north and west of the
Porcupine, Yukon and Kuskok
wim Rivers.
It was included jn the bill at
the request of the .admlnistra^
tion, which said it was essential
to satisfy security requirements
arising from Alaska’s strategic
location. ** f 4 | £ j i •;
He referred to other objections
frequently cited by statehood
critics including the contentions
that Alaska’s ability to support
statehood is questionable.
Meanwhile, Sen. Clinton P.
Anderson (D-NM)—a statehood
supporter—indictated he may of
fer an amendment to the Alaska
bill in the Senate to prevent a
loss to the new state of revenues
from oil and gas lease royalties.
He said he was concerned over
the possibility that a 5 per cent
royalty provision, now possible
under federal ahd.'state, Regula
tion for new discoveries in AlaSfr
ka, could be extended to cover
millions of acres. • '
Anderson, who favors a 12t£
per cent minimum royalty, said
he would not object to granting
the 5 per cent royalty as an in
centive to the initial well in a
new field but would oppose put
ting all wells in a unit under
the reduced royalty.
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MONDAY BALL SCORES
National League
| St. Louis 6, Cincinnati 5
Pacific Coast League
Seattle 7, Salt Lake City 4
Name Direct ary
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon at
North Star Dining Room
Jerry Manning, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. 1
□of Eastern Star
Milored Harwood
Warthy Matron
Helen Dunbar
Secretary
Meetings: 1st and 3rd Mondays
ANVIL LODGE
LNo. 140
\ J. A. von der Heydt, W.M.
Norvin W. Lewis, Sec.
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Meet/ 1st and 3rd Thursday each month
NOME ROTARY CLUB
Joe Kroninger *
President
Bob Grant
Secretary
Wednesday Luncheon