2 THE NOME NUGGET Wednesday. December It. 11*6
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LONG TIME NO SEE
Noel O’Kelly of Ireland
Given Christmas Present
By San Diego Co-Workers
SAN DIEGO, (*) — Mainly be
cause his name is Noel — Noel
Francis O’Kelly — his wife and
two young sons showed up in San
Diego yesterday long before he
expected them.
O’Kelly came from Ireland
four months ago and got a job
with the McNeil Construction Co.
He had been sending $40 a
week of his $90 pay home to pay
passage for his wife Monica, 29,
and Paul Francis, 3, and John
Francis, 1.
Fellow workers decided a man
named Noel deserved a Christ
mas present. So they collected
$700 suietly and had the family
flown here.
They surprised O’Kelly at
work.
ALASKA AIRLINES
From Anchorage: Don Hitch
cock, Quentin Sizer, Bjorn Holta,
Mr. and Mrs. Barney Crosby,
Kelley Weiss, Jerry Hickman, N.
H. Rudasill, Lt. Col. Gordon Hill,
Willis Sharrar, Walter Bagley,
Don Carlquist, Maj. Burton Mc
Neil, Chas. Crane, Ray Coombs.
To Anchorage: John E. Day,
E.J. Rusing, Wesley Nerland J.
Wilson, Lauris Parker, Bjorn
Holta, Jefferson Chestnutt, H.
Orock.
To Unalakleet: Lincoln Milli-1
grock, Mack Hilton, G. Glancy.
From Unalakleet: C. Reeves, Ed
and Evelyn Jean, Laura Mae Na
ahoalook.
Book by German Author
Tells of Alaska Travels
Heinz Helfgen, German writer
who came to Nome last summer,
has published a book about his
trip, which he claims took him
over the North Pole and to Vic
toria Land.
The book is well illustrated
with 88 pictures taken in the
territory. They include some
in Nome, Kotzebue, Wales and
show “Big Mike,” Major Kell,
Steffen Andersen, of the No. 5
gold dredge here, and of other
places he touched in Alaska.
The book is written in German
and publishing in Germany and
is entitled “Ich Tramye Zum
Nordpol.”
The book was received here by
Alfred Kalweit who works at
the No. 5 camp of the U.S. Smelt
ing Co.
COPPER PLANT PLANNED
FOR VANCOUVER ISLAND
VICTORIA, B.C., (jW—A multi
million-dollar copper refinery and
ore development is planned for
the Jordon River area on south
western Vancouver Island.
Sources close to the planners—
a U.S. company which has been
incorporated in Delaware and
soon will be registered in British
Columbia—s a i d yesterday the
company has an authorized capi
tal of $6 million for the purpose
of copper production in the area.
MMM HOSPITAL
Admitted: Flora Luke.
Discharged: Winifred Adloat,
Charles Lewis, John Kass.
REMODELING OYER
POLARIS RESTAURANT
IS OPEN AGAIN
7 a.m. to 10 p.m.
CLOSED SUNDAY
— Charcoal Broiled Steaks Our Specialty —
Director Says
Best Sellers Make
Best Pictures
The greatest artistic and finan
cial successes in the history of
motion pictures have been films
based on best-selling novels, ac
cording to Henry Koster, director
of the motion picture version of
“The Robe.”
This ace director is convinced
that “The Robe," 20th Century
Fox’s eagerly awaited Cinema
scope, all-star Technicolor pro
duction, playing Dec. 25, 26, and
27 and The Theater, will soon join
that select company of Academy
Award winning film hits headed
by “Gone With the Wind,” “Gen
tlemen’s Agreement” and “How
Green Was My Valley.”
The motion picture version of
“The Robe,” which stars Richard
Burton, Jean Simmons, Victor
Mature and Michael Rennie, is
based on the novel by Lloyd C.
Douglas, and was 10 years in the
making at a cost of more than
$5 million.
Producer Frank Ross and 20th
Century-Fox studios took special
pains in transferring “The Robe”
to the screen. Not only is it an
extremely popular novel, but the
film version was used to launch
the Cinemascope process.
When “The Robe” was first
published in 1941, it climbed im
mediately to the top of the best
seller lists and remained there
for an extended period. The book
has been read by more than 20
million people.
More Contributors To
Christmas Tree Fund
The Christmas Tree Committee
have reported the following ad
ditional contributions to this
year’s fund:
$10—Les Bronson.
$5—Paul Dryden, Axel Edman.
$2—Mr. and Mrs. Carl Webb,
Mr. and Mrs. Richard August,
Carrie McLain, Mrs. Richard Lee,
Wm Angell, Wm. Ullrich, John
Rauch, Mr. Miller.
A total of $15.50 has been re
ceived from anonymous sources.
The Christmas tree for the
Friday evening program and the
Saturday Santa Claus appearance
is scheduled to arrive today by
Wien Airlines.
Wales Man Charged With
Assault With Deadly
Weapon on Brother
Chester Adloat was brought in
from Wales and bound over to
the Grand Jury charged with
assault with a deadly weapon.
His brother, Winifred Adloat,
is hospitalized with a gunshot
wound in the leg.
WIEN AIRLINES
From Kotzebue: Vernon Rich
ards, C. M. Green, Mr. Hitch
cock.
FVom Fairbanks: Luella Trent,
Robt. H. Vecellio, Donald E. Rose,
Nels Swanberg.
To Fairbanks: Eugene Esser,
Raymond Henessay, H. Truitt,
Vernon Gerlack, Anton Dahl, F.
Posch, R. Davidson, Chas. Foltz,
Rose Gassman, Lamar Wood.
FOG GRIPS BRITAIN
LONDON, UPV—Thick fog blot
ted out wide areas of Britain to
day, dislocating road and rail
traffic and grounding airliners.
Seven persons were killed on
fog-bound highways.
Thdusands were late for work
with trains and buses crawling
thru districts where visibility
was down to five yards.
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Americans Blaze 632-mile Trail Across
Unexplored Area of The South Pole
U.S. May Streamline
Its European Divisions
But Not Reduce Them
WASHINOTON, (JV— Secretary
of State Dulles said Tuesday
there may be some streamlining
| of the U. S. divisions in Europe,
but that there is no plan to .re
duce American military strength
there.
Dulles made this statement at
j a news conference. It was in re
sponse to questions about specu
lation that American forces in
Europe might be cut substantially
or withdrawn in order to get
Soviet forces out of the satellite
states of eastern Europe.
The fact is, Dulles said, that
there has been no change in the
eastern European situation suf
ficient to justify a reapprisal of
| U?S. military dispositions in Eu
1 rope.
Dulles than said the U.S. gov
ernment is very open - minded
toward any suggestion that might
be made as to the future status—
neutrality or otherwise—of east
ern European countries like Po
land or Hungary.
The United states, he said,
would like to take away the fear
of Soviet leaders that their sys
tem would be endangered if they
facilitate the process of increas
ing independence for the satellite
countries.
Galena Man Killed While
Crossing Seattle Highway
SEATTLE, W)—Herbert Whole
cheese, 40, of Galena, Alaska, was
killed and a companion was in
j jured seriously Monday night
when they were struck by a car
on the Seattle-Tacoma Highway.
Wholecheese was killed out
right. Taken to a hospital in criti
cal condition with fractures of
both legs was Nicole Mishka, 30,
also of Galena. Both men were
patients at the Riverton Sanitar
ium.
The State Patrol said Whole
cheese and Mishka were crossing
i the highway when a car driven
by Phillip E. Holt, 33, of Seattle
struck them.
The death of Wholecheese
raised King County’s 1956 traffic
death toll to 115.
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j WEATHER FORECAST
Continued fair and cold tonight
' and Thursday with little change
(in temperature. Northwesterly
winds 5 to 10 mph. Lowest tem
perature expected tonight 15 to
20 below zero. High tomorrow
-5 to -10.
Nome data in last 24 hours as
of 7 a.m. today: highest temper
ature 1, lowest -18. Max. wind 20
mph from the north. Sunrise at
10:01 a.m., sunset at 1:56 p.m.
A year ago today: highest tem
perature 22, lowest 13. Extremes
this date since 1907: highest 37
in 1920, lowest -36 in 1918.
t> By DON GUY
McMURDO SOUND, Antarc
tica, W)—Eleven U.S. Army and
Navy men, aided by an electronic
crevasse finder, have blazed a
trail 632 miles across a previously
unexplored reach of the Ant
arctic.
Traveling by tractor and wea
sel, they made the trip from
Little America V east to Marie
Byrd Land in six weeks. Seabee
members of Operation Deep
freeze will build an American
station at the end of the trail
to"be used in the International
Geophysical Year program.
The crevasse detector, pio
neered on the Greenland ice cap,
was mounted on the lead weasel
in the advance group. Long arms
at the front - of the contraption
emit a high voltage beam. When
it fails to bounce back its im
pulse to the control panel in a
steady signal, it means crevasse
trouble ahead.
One tractor driver was killed
during a preliminary exploration
last season when his vehicle
plunged into a hidden cavity.
More than two tons of explo
sives were used on the trek to
Marie Byrd Land to blast away
false bridges concealing cre
vasses. One typical pit 20 feet
wide and 100 feet deep had to
be filled with one million cubic
yards of snow bulldozed in to
make a bridge.
A second party of 19 men in
six 30 - ton tractors left Little
America V Dec. 5, following the
long path marked by trail flags
planted by the advance group.
The second expedition is hauling
six sleds carrying 200 tons of
building material, sleeping and
food supply equipment.
Can't Believe His Good Forune
KEOKUK, Iowa, l* — Fortune
just doesn’t seem to smile on
George Fortune, 53.
George found himself in a
phone booth, but he couldn't
make it out.
He did have the presence of
mind and a dime to call police.
Officers told him he should
have been pulling instead of
pushing to get the door open.
They also told George he was
being charged with intoxication.
Fortune is now a guest at the
city jail for three days.
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