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Soldier Being Interviewed In News
Office Discovers His Divorced Wife
Who Believed Him Dead Five Years
NEWPORT NEWS, Va„ UPl —'
The soldier was telling of his
rodeo experiences when a startled
expression came over his face and
he blurted out:
“It can’t be true—it’s my first
wife.”
A pause, then:
“My God, baby, I’ve searched
all trver the country for you.”
And that’s how a slim attractive
proofreader and the husband she
had believed dead for five years
were reunited in the newsroom of
the Newport News Daily Press,
where the soldier was being inter
viewed.
The two, Mrs. Wayne Ferguson
and Donald Eugene Tinkle, had
given up hope of ever seeing each
other again and both since had
remarried.
Mrs. Ferguson, 24, toelieved Tin
kle was killed in a rodeo accident
in 1949 at Camden, N.J. Tinkle,
25, now a soldier at nearby Ft.
Eustis, obtained a divorce in Nev
ada in 1951 on grounds of deser
tion after two years of fruitlessly
searching for her.
The two were separated in Ro
anoke, Va., in 1949 shortly, after
their daughter—who’ll be 5 years
old soon—was born and Tinkle
suffered a serious leg and ankle
injury in a rodeo accident. Tinkle
left his wife—then a trick rider—
in Roanoke and went to Camden
with the show.
“A few days after he left, I
received a wire from Camden
saying he had been killed in a
bad rodeo accident,” Mrs. Fergu
son said. “He had been injured
so badly so many times ... I
accepted it without question.”
She remarried—an Air Force
sergeant stationed at Langley Air
Force Base—in 1951. They now
have two children.
Used to be that you just got
a licking when you brought home
a report card with low grades,
says “Changing Times.” Nowadays
you get drafted.
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Territorial Dept, of Mines
July Bulletin
Shortage of funds in the TDM’s
appropriation is delaying the com
pletion of the new assay office
and laboratory at Nome, it was
hoped to have this office in oper
ation by late summer, but it ap
pears now that it will probably
not be. The starting date when
samples may be sent to this office
for assay will be announced as
soon as possible. In the meantime,
technical help and information
can be obtained from Pete Sand
vik, engineer-assayer.
* • *
A surprising amount of interest,
has been shown lately in the old
Independence silver-lead mine, a
one-time producer at the conflu
ence of Independence Creek and i
the Kugruk River on Seward Pen
insula. The area is almost direct
ly east of Imuruk Lake.
The most recent indication is a
formal request to the TDM for an
engineer’s examination of the
property from Archie Ferguson of
Kotzebue. Mr. Ferguson states he
has plans for putting the mine
back into operation.
• * *
Current Metal Prices
The following metal prices are
taken from the E. & M. J. Metal
Markets report of July 1, and
should be of interest to the pros
pector and miner:
Copper—Domestic average 29.7 <t
refinery (lb).
Lead—14tf N.Y. (lb.)
Zinc—lltf East St. Louis (per lb.)
Tin—96prompt, N.Y. (per lb.)
Quicksilver—$280, N.Y. (per 76- j
lb. flask)
Silver—85V4tf N.Y. (per oz.)
Platinum—$84-$87 (per oz.)
Nickel—60c (per lb.)
* * *
President Eisenhower recently-;
directed the Secty. of the Trea-tJ
sury to organize the Federal Fa-®
cilities Corp. to take over the
responsibility of operating the
Texas City tin smelter after the
Reconstruction Finance Corp. goes
out of business June 30.
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Phone RED 181
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Joe Kroninger, Secy.
Thursday Luncheon
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
MEETS EVERY TUESDAY NOON
BOYD HARWOOD, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. 1
Order of Eastern Star
Meet* the third Monday of each month.
Jane Perkins
Worthy Matron
Evelyn Branson
Secretary
LESLIE A. STEVENS
PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT
—IMS First Ave. West, Nome, Alaska—
10 to 12 a.m. - 1 to 5 p.m.
Phone Main 82 — P.O. Box 208
ANVIL LODGE
No. 140
John Cooley, W.M.
Norrln W. Lewis, Seey.
Meets 1st and 3rd Thursday each month.