Richest Nickel
Deposits Found
Near Juneau
By LOUIS R. HUBER
SEATTLE, Aug. 15—One of the
Richest nickel-cobalt-copper veins
discovered anywhere in recent
years apparently has been struck
at Fortuna Bay, near Juneau.
That is the report here of min
ing men associated with the Fun
ter Bay prospect. An exploratory
drift, or tunnel, pushed 500 feet
into the mountainside recently,
has fully confirmed rich ore val
ues indicated by previous diamond
drilling from the surface, they say.
Gold and silver ore also is con
tained in the vein.
The nickel exploration is being
done by the Admiralty - Alaska
Gold Mining Company, on a $112,
000 loan from the Defense Min
erals Exploration Administration.
The work has been under the dir
ection of the U.S. Bureau of Mines.
S. H. Lorain of the Bureau of
Mines office in Juneau has gone
to Funter Bay to examine the new
nickel strike. He will make rec
ommendations as to further work.
Because the United States is
“poor” in nickel ore, the DMEA
lists all nickel exploration as high
ly strategic and requires only ten
percent financial partcipation by
private companies.
Mining experts here say it is
quite possible for the Funter Bay
deposit to turn into large-scale
production soon.
Personal and Legal Size File
Folders on Sale at the Nugget.
British Businessman
Jailed in Red Hungary
For 4 Years Is Released
NICKELSDORF, Austria, UR —
Edgar Sanders, British business
man jailed by Communist Hun
gary for nearly four years as a
spy, crossed into Austria Tuesday
a free man.
The Red Hungarian government
pardoned the 47-year-old Briton
Monday night and expelled him
from the country where he and
American Robert Vogeler were
sentenced in February, 1950, on
charges erf espionage and sabot
age. Vogeler was released in April,
1951.
Like Vogeler, Sanders came ac
ross the frontier to freedom at
Nickelsdorf, a little Austrian bor
der station. Russian tanks on man
euvers and Austrian farm com
bines cluttered the narrow road
on the Austrian side of the front
ier.
Sanders crossed the frontier in
a car of the British legation in
Budaipest.
He looked pale, wore his cus
tomary glasses and a grey suit.
A British embassy spokesman
said Sanders’ release was no hu
manitarian act but an attempt by
the Reds to “widen the growing
split between the United States
and Britain.”
(Vogeler said the Hungarian
charges that Sanders engaged in
espionage were “completely
false.”
(“Since he was convicted false
ly, his release is no great credit
to the Reds.”)
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Alyce Vetter, Beta Sigma
Phi Representative, Meets
With Nome Chapter
Beta Sigma Phi members met
with Ay Ice Vetter, international
representative in two special
meetings last weekend to discuss
sorority activities and procedures.
Miss Vetter is visiting the 15
Alaska chapters of the sorority
and Friday evening told the Nome
members that last year Beta Sig
ma Phi spent $29,000 on cancer
research and is currently support
ing work of two outstanding
scientists in cancer research at
the University of Colorado. A
paper on their finding was pre
sented to the International Cancer
Congress in Paris in 1952 in the
name of the sorority.
The international objectives and
projects of the organization in
clude a donation of $15,000 to
Girls town, USA, each year,.lib
eral arts contest, and conducted
tours to Europe, Hawaii and other
fascinating places for large groups
of the members.
Sorority members participate in
these projects, as well as activities
in their own communities, and
also follow a cultural program of
self - development each year in
their semi-monthly meetings. Miss
Vetter stated that a sorority mem
ber enjoys the same privileges and
advantages she would have in her
own chapter, no matter where she
goes. These include transfer of
membership to any of the 3,600
chapters in the English speaking
countries of the world, assistance
in establishing a residence or of
obtaining a job in any part of
the country.
On Sunday afternoon Miss Vet
ter met with sorority members
for a discussion of program plan
ning. On Saturday evening the
members and guests drove to the
Dexter summer home of Mrs.
Beverly Morgan for a picnic sup
per. Saturday afternoon* the visit
or shopped in Nome’s curio stores
and took a short trip up the rail
road, and on Friday afternoon she
took the conducted tour of the
town and surrounding area. She
left Sunday evening for Fair
banks to continue her visit in the
territory.
James Chadwick Resigns
As Director of A.V.A.
JUNEAU, Aug. 13—James W.
Chadwick, who has been Execu
tive Director of the Alaska Visit
ors Association since it first set
up offices here two years ago,
has resigned effective August 31,
he revealed here today.
* Chadwick, with his wife John
sie, will leave for New York
where he will return to television
production work in which he was
engaged before taking over AVA
here.
The Board of Directors of the
Visitors Association will meet on
Sept. 7 to chose a successor.
Air travel in the Nome area was
| pioneered by Noel Wien.
PNA Asks Permission For
$65 Anchorage-Seattle
Fare On Cargo Planes
(AP Special Washington Service)
WASHINGTON, UP) — Pacific
Northern Airlines has asked the
Civil Aeronautics Board to ap
prove a $65 fare for southbound
travelers, between Anchorage and
Seattle, on combination cargo and
passenger airplanes.
Pacific Northern said the reduc
tion, from the standard fare of
$75, is essential to enable it to
compete with Northwest Airlines.
It said Northwest put a $65
freighter class Anchorage-Seattle
passenger fare into effect this
month and is using it as a “loss
leader” which may seriously div
ert traffic from Pacific Northern.
Stanley McCulcheon Resigns
As Dem. National Committeeman
ANCHORAGE, UP)—Stanley Mc
Cutcheon, Anchorage lawyer, re
signed Tuesday as Democratic
National Committeeman from Al
aska. He has held the post since
January, 1949.
The names of Henry Roden,
Ralph Rivers and J. Earl Cooper
have been submitted by local
Democrats as possible successors
to McCutcheon, whose resigna
tion has been expected.
i Defense Dept. Issues
Last Casualty Summary 1
WASHINGTON, UD — The De
fense Department today announ
ced a preliminary battle casualty;
total of 142,277 Americans killed,
wounded and missing for the
whole Korean war.
The tentative total was given in
what the Pentagon said would be.
the last regular weekly summary
of battle casualties. It showed a
net decrease of 17 from last week,
reflecting the addition of 19 kill
ed, a decrease of 23 missing and
a transfer of 19 wounded to a
non-battle classification.
Auditing of casualty figures will
continue fur months, possibly
years, before a final figure can
be reached to tell the full story
of the cost of the Korean con
flict in terms of dead, wounded
and missing.
The revision process will in
evitably raise the tentative death
toll of 25,604, as confirmation is
obtained on American deaths in
enemy prison camps. The num
ber of missing will decrease grad
ually as the death toll rises. The
missing figure will eventually
reach a theoretical zero when,
after all the checks and investi
gations are completed, men re
maining on the missing list will
be declared dead.
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