Medics Study
Mental State
With Cold
Concluded
(A conference on cold injuries
was held recently at Ladd Air
Force Base, by about 30 specialist!
from the U.S. and Canada. The
Stanford physiologist, Dr. Jeffer
son Crimson, told about the find
ings at a news conference.)
(By The Associated Press)
PERSON moving to climate of
of bitter cold gets along better
of bitter cold gets along better
after being there a while, but
\ whether the improvement is ac
climatization or whether it is due
to learning is not yet clear, Dr.
Crimson said.
He cited tests at the conference
showing that an Eskimo can work
barehanded with big steel bolts
when the temperature is near
zero Fahrenheit but that a man
from the temperate zone cannot
handle a machine gun in such
cold with unprotected hands.
But no evidence has been found
that the Eskimo has undergone
some specific physical change
that increases his tolerance to
cold, the physiologist reported.
Dr. Crimson said one of the
outstanding reports was from Dr.
Scholander, a physiologist from
Point Barrow, who crawled into
the winter dens of huge Kodiak
bears to determine their internal
temperatures while hibernating.
The Kodiak bear, one of the
largest of the species, is not a true
hibernator, Dr. Crismon said, but
sleeps most of the time through
the dead of winter. The animal is
often awake, however, and moves
once in a while.
Dr. Scholander enticed the
bears to stand up by offering
them sugar. Then with a rectal
thermometer and a thermocouple
he took their intestinal tempera
tures, which he found to be about
77 degrees.
The true hibemators, said Dr.
Crismon, lose so much heat that
they have only about one heart
beat and one breath per minute.
They include the marmot, the
arctic ground squirrel, the wood
chuck and the northern hamster.
However, even a true hiberna
tor will wake up if the tempera
tur of its nest drops to freezing,
Dr. Crismon said. The alarm
mechanism which suddenly wakes
the animal has not been found,
he added.
New ACS Schedule
Published
SEATTLE, lift—The Alaska Com
munication System’s 1957 ship
shore coastal telephone servict
pamphlet will be released Mon
day. It will contain informatior
for the benefit of vessels in Alas
ka waters from Ketchikan north
Besides information on placinj
call thru ACS stations, the pam
phlet will include a schedule o
marine weather broadcasts, dis
tress frequencies and an alpha
betical list of vessels frequentin
the area.
AT THE TRADING POST
New stock: Men’s Work Shirts,
Coveralls and Pants
Original Chippewa shoes, boots
Quilts, blankets, mattresses
Army surplus: 3A length parkas
Alpaca Jackets & Liners
Many more items at
The TRADING POST
U.S. Geodetic Survey
Starts Annual
5-Month Trip
SEATTLE, UPC-Men of the U.S.
Coast and Geodetic Survey sailed
out of Seattle yesterday for their
long, long summer in Alaska. Be
hind them they left the families
who’ll wait out the summer in
Seattle.
The Survey’s two major ships,
the Pathfinder and Explorer, cast
off for their annual five-month
tours of duty charting waters and
shores of the Alaska Peninsula
and the Aleutian Islands. Almost
180 men sail with them from the
Survey’s base on Lake Union.
Navy to Again Send
Weather Balloons
From Japan Bases
TOKYO, UFI — The U.S. Navy
announced today it plans to start
sending out more weather bal
loons from southern Japan next
month. It hopes the Russians this
time will realize any that wind
up over Siberia aren’t spying on
anything but the weather.
A Navy spokesman, Lt. Cmdr.
M. Lee Lewis, told a news con
ference the new series of balloon |
flights will continue “until such a
time as we can control the wea
ther”—in other words indefin
itely.
The balloons carry radio trans
mitters which automatically send
back meteorological information.
Lewis said they would be launch
ed from a permanent transocean
soundings station being set up at
the Navy’s Iwakuni air base, 480
miles southwest of Tokyo.
The Navy expert estimated that
about 300 balloons would be
launched this year from Japan,
beginning between May 15-31.
The weather data will be pub
lished in a worldwide meteorolog
ical report available to interested
persons everywhere, including the
Russians. Lewis described the
global task as “like fitting the
pieces in a giant jig-saw puzzle.”
The Navy early last year
launched 20 big weather balloons
from Oppama, Japan, setting off
a flurry of spying charges from
the Soviet Union when one of the
balloons went astray and wound
up somewhere in Communist
Outer Mongolia. The Navy had
expected all 20 to move toward
the United States on the jet
stream.
"4-on" Duplicate Receipt Books
at the Nugget
ESC Forms Mailed
To Employers;
Due Date May 15
JTJNEAU — Contribution and
wage reporting forms for the
quarter ending March 31, 1957
have now been mailed to employ
ers according to Merrill E. Weir,
Director of the Alaska Employ
ment Security Commission.
The 23rd Alaska Territorial
Legislature enacted several em
ployment security tax provisions
which either change or reinstate
provisions of the law previously
in effect. As of Jan. 1, 1957, (1)
the tax base was increased from
$3600 to $4200; (2) Employee con
tributions of Vi of 1% which ex
pired Dec. 31, 1956 were rein
stated; (3) Services per formed by
nurses, technicians and other pro
fessional employees of non-profit
hospitals were exempt from tax.
The delay in mailing the report
ing forms was occasioned by the
late date of passage of the Em
ployment Security Law which de
layed printing of the forms. Be
cause of this delay in furnishing
forms to employers, the due date
for filing these reports and pay
ing tax thereon has been extended
to May 15, 1957.
RAPID RADAR REPAIR
NEW YORK, UP) — The radar
system at Idlewild Airport was
restored Monday night. A minor
fire in the control tower had
knocked out the radar Sunday
night.
Yesterday, a Civil Aeronautics
Administration spokesman had
estimated it would take a week
to restore the system. Rut work
crews completed the job in 24
hours.
History keeps repeating itself
— and every time this happens the
price goes up.
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to issue and redeem trading
stamps after April of 1958.
The legislature passed the law
at its recent session.
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tops and similar coupons.
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