Symington Announcement
Pledges First Rate, First
Class, First Place America
WASHINGTON, UP) — Sen. Stu
art Symington laid down a four
point peace-and-progress program
in a formal announcement he is
seeking the Democratic Presiden
tial nomination.
His statement avoided direct
mention of the primary theme he
has pursued in months of cam
paigning — that the United States
is falling dangerously behind the
Soviet Union in the development
of intercontinental missiles.
Instead, Symington confined
himself to the statement that
“only a first-rate, first-class, first
place America can reinforce the
world’s faith in freedom and se
cure a just and lasting peace.”
He said the next President of
the United States — which he
wants to be — “must provide the
free world with resourceful and
decisive leadership.” In the past,
Symington has accused President
Eisenhower of failing to supply
the country with leadership.
'His action left only Sen. Lyn
don Johnson unannounced among
the major Senate aspirants for
the nomination. Johnson gave no
indication he plans to change his
course.
Greatest Dog Musher
Was Nome Ski Champ
(From Alaska Yukon Sourdough)
SAN FRANCISCO—We believe
Nome can lay claim to one of the
first ski clubs — almost certainly
the first in Alaska — organized
in 1901. The people of early Nome,
believed to have run the world’s
longest sled-dog races, had other
outdoor sports to help fill the
long winter months while their
isolation was complete and gold
mining impossible. One of them,
skiing, was probably stimulated
by the presence of the three young
Seppala brothers from Norway —
Asle, Sigurd and Leonhard, the
latter to become known in both
hemispheres as the greatest dog
musher of them all.
In Nome, the ski area was the
slope of Anvil Mountain, which
offered a natural ski jump on the
course of Dry Creek. On this
jump in 1906, both Asle and Leon
hard accomplished 103 foot jumps.
That year Leonhard won first
prize in Nome Ski competition.
Stateside Firms Awarded
Southeast Air Force Contracts
SEATTLE, OP) — Washington
State firms today were awarded
contracts to build two Air Force
communication facilities in South
eastern Alaska.
The largest, for $3,216,420, went
to Manson-Osberg Co., Seattle,
for work at the Duncan Canal
Station. One for $1,105,392 went
to Gaasland Co., Bellingham, for
work at the Smugglers Cove sta
tion.
Mechanized Sled
Replaces Dogs
On Yukon Trail
FAIRBANKS, UP) — The dog
team took a powerful setback in
Alaska last night.
Three motorized sleds, pulling
toboggans loaded with freight,
pulled into Fairbanks after com
pleting a 1,500-mile journey over
trackless ice and snow.
The three sleds averaged 70
miles a day on the three-week
journey from the seaport of Be
thel up the frozen Kuskokwim,
Yukon, and Tanana Rivers.
Fairbanks city officials and
members of the Chamber of Com
merce and many citizens greeted
the sleds when they arrived here.
Dog teams, still widely used in
the Alaska “bush” country, can
average about thirty miles a day
on the trail. Thus the “iron dogs,”
as Alaskans have dubbed the mo
torized sleds, doubled the speed
of dog teams on their rugged
journey.
Three men and a woman guided
the motor sleds on the journey.
They were Mr. and Mrs. Rudy
Billberg of Fairbanks Edgar Het
teen and Erving Ralk of Roseau,
Minn. Hetten and Falk are con
nected with the Polaris Indus
tries, Inc., which manufactures
the sleds.
Purpose of the long journey
was to prove that power sleds
are superior to dog teams in
hauling freight and tending trap
lines in the Alaska wilderness.
The party spent a number of
nights camping in the wilderness.
Occasionally they touched at an
Indian village and were able to
spend a night indoors.
The party moved in tempera
tures that ranged well below zero.
At no time did the vehicles have
a road to travel on.
The sleds (known commercially
as Snow Travelers) ride on two
steering skis, two main skis and
an endless steel cleated track
which drives them. They are pow
ered by one cylinder, air cooled
(Kohler) engines which drive the
sleds at about 20 miles an hour
on a gallon of gas. ‘
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NOME SANITARY
SERVICE
Phone Main 1
P. O. Box 460
Nome Directory
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon at
North Star Dining Room
Pearse Walsh, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. 1
Order of Eastern Star
Ruth Reed
Worthy Matron
Verna Mickelson
Secretary
Meets first and third Mondays
ANVIL LODGE
No. 140
BYBON G. REED, W.M.
Norvln W. Lewli, Bee.
Meats First end Third Thursday
of Each Month
NOME ROTARY CLUB
Aab Craft
President
Herb Jenks
Secretary
Wednesday Luncheor
Parent-Teachers Assn.
Meets last Tuesday of every
month at School.
WERNER BOHRER, President
VESTA SUND8TROM. Sacty.
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