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Entered as second class matter October 14. 1943, at the
post office at Nome. Alaska, under Act of March 3, 1879.
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Mail Service For The Lower Yukon
HIGH ON THE LIST OF NEEDS of Northwestern
Alaska, which the legislators should study is
that of mail service for those forgotten people of the
Yukon. Although the people of Fortuna Ledge and
Kwigik have complained about the service for a long
time, the rest of Alaska did not realize how isolated
they were until it was time to count the votes in the
recent close election.
Election forms mailed on Nov. 10th from Fortuna
Ledge have been over a month in reaching the election
supervisor here. Duplicates, however, were received
in Juneau. Absentee ballots sent to Hamilton in plenty
of time for the people to cast their votes were not re
ceived there until after the election.
No first class mail has been received from Fortuna
Ledge by the election supervisor since the election,
although it is reported to have been mailed. Northern
Alaska is big and sparcely settled, but there is no need
for such complete isolation in this day and age.
Mrs. Kennedy Calls on
Mrs. Eisenhower to
Overlook White House
WASHINGTON UP! — Mrs. John
F. Kennedy paid a call today on
Mamie Eisenhower and looked
over the White House where she
will preside as First Lady after
Jan. 20.
Mrs. Eisenhower had invited
her to come for a visit and look
at her future home at her con
venience.
The wife of the president-elect
left Georgetown University Hos
pital at 10:30 a. m. with her new
baby son, born two weeks ago,
stopped by her Washington home,
and was at the White House at
noon.
She stayed inside for an hour
and 10 minutes.
Mrs. Eisenhower and Mrs.
Kennedy came out of the south
portico to pose for pictures in
the sunshine of a cold day.
The Kennedys had planned to
leave at 1 p. m. on a flight to
Palm Beach, Fla., where Mrs.
Kennedy and the children will re
main through Christmas.
Mrs. Kennedy’s decision to visit
Mrs. Eisenhower delayed the de
parture.
New Books at the Library
For holiday reading the Kegoa
yah Kozga Public Library has an
nounced the receipt of the fol
lowing new books:
Decision for Sally, by Clayton;
When the Kissing Had to Stop,
by Fitzgibbon; Fire Tower, by
Kestner; Ticonderoga, by Lan
caster; LaFayette in America, by
Maurois; Libby Come Lately,
by Nielsen; New Boy in Town, by
Nickerson.
First Northwest Passage, by
O’Meara; Dangerous Flight, by
Pedersen; Haunted Highway, by
Rathjen; Pilgrims in Paradise, by
Slaughter; Missing $10,000 Bill,
by Voight; Indian Wars and War
riors-East, by Wellman; Indian
Wars and Warriors-West, by Well
man; Hawaii, by Michner; Des
perate People, by Mowat.
The library will not be open
Saturday, Dec. 24.
Arriving from Fairbanks with
Wien Airlines yesterday were Mr.
Cooper, Daugherty, Middleton,
Ira Hill, Donald Lawcock and
Rodney Lincoln from Kotzebue...
Leaving was Walter Cavey who
has been with the U.S. Smelting
Co. this summer, also Maj. Larry
Flanagan, Henry Lundh, Thomas
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OTTAWA 14*—Soviet proposals
for a Bering Strait dam-and
pump system to warm the Arctic
raise doubts whether the plan “is
put forward seriously or as a
means of testing our sense of
humor,” says a special report on
the project for the Canadian gov
ernment.
“If the scheme is to be taken
seriously—and I think there is
just enough to warrant taking it
seriously—it should be studied by
an international scientific com
mission which would have to sit
many months before the com
plexities could be unravelled,”
says M. J. Dunbar, associate pro
fessor of zoology at McGill Uni
versity and a director of the Arctic
Institute of North America.
His “preliminary report on the
Bering Strait scheme,” requested
by the Department of Northern
Affairs and National Resources,
was released recently.
The recurring Soviet proposal
is that a dam be built across the
50-mile wide stretch of water be
tween Alaska and Siberia. Giant
pumps would be used to dump
Arctic Ocean water into the
Pacific, hastening the flow of
warmer Atlantic water into the
Arctic from the east and raising
temperatures in the ice-covered
sea.
Some of Prof. Dunbar’s con
clusions:
1. It is “very doubtful” that the
scheme is possible on mechanical
grounds. Existing natural circu
lation in the Arctic Ocean by cur
rents “is such to dwarf anything
we can do at present.”
2. If it did prove feasible, the
scheme would have far-reaching
impact, partly bad. Northern cli
mate would develop higher tem
peratures and more snow and rain,
probably nourishing another gla
cial advance.
3. The important improvements
would be on the Soviet side.
4. Marine life would change
most significantly as commercial
quantities of cod and other fish
ranged northward.
5. A Bering Strait dam alone—
without pumps—would block off
an inflow current from the Paci
fic and reduce the outflow else
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where to affect the eastern Cana
dian Arctic and Greenland.
Prof. Dunbar emphasizes that
his conclusions are only tentative
and preliminary and “perhaps the
building of a working model
would be useful.”
The Arctic Ocean, with its
heavy lid of permanent shifting
ice, is largely land-locked. One
entry is the Bering Strait with
Its northward current. Another
northward Atlantic current enters
north of Scotland and the saltier
and warmer water submerges on
impact to form a submarine
blanket many feet thick.
Meanwhile, southward currents
exist on both the Greenland Coast
and through the Canadian archi
pelago which drive floes with
tremendous force through the j
Sounds and Straits.
Finally, there is considerable
runoff from land into the Arctic
Ocean.
The concept of a Bering Strait
dam was raised as early as the
1890s and resurrected by the
Soviet Union with official back
ing after the second world war.
The latest Soviet scheme would
reverse the pumping flow—south
rather than north.
Tremendous Pumps
The dam itself needs only time,
material and energy, says Prof.
Dunbar. He assumes the necessary
pumps to speed up the Atlantic
inflow of water would have to
be most considerably more power
ful and efficient than those now
existing, perhaps atomic powered.
For exampe, he calculates that
it could take up to 670 years to
change the inflow using 1,000
pumps about 33 feet in diameter
and each capable of the tremen
dous job of moving some 220,500
pounds of water a second.
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\irlines Order SO New
Boeing 727 Transports
NEW YORK. Dec. 5 W — Two j
major airlines placed $350 mil
lion orders for 80 Boeing 727
transports in what the aircraft
company said was the largest
transaction in transportation his
tory.
The joint announcement marked
the entry by the Boeing Airplane
Co. into the short-to-medium
range jet airliner field.
Contracts for 40 each of the
three-engine transports were sign
ed here by United Airlines and
Eastern Airlines.
The 727, smaller and lighter than
Boeing’s long-range 707 and
medium range 720, will be power
ed by three turbofan engines
mounted at the rear of the fuse
lage rather than beneath the
wings.
The 727 will have a cruising
speed of 550-600 miles an hour,
carry 70 to 114 passengers and
operate fully loaded from 5,000
foot runways.
The 727s will be built at Boe
ing’s Renton, Wash., plant.
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