West Coast Base Getting
1,400 mph. Starfighters
•SAN- FRANCISCO, UfV-Jet in
terceptors that travel at twice
the' " speed of sound and fire
guided missiles are being deliv
ered to Hamilton Air Force Base
for defense of the Pacific coast.
Officials at the base, 30 miles
north of here, said -the first con
signment of F104A Lockheed
Starfighters would be in opera
tion within 30 days. They will be
attached to the 83rd Fighter
Intereeptor Squadron.
Armed with Sidewinder air-to
air missiles, the Starfighters can
move at more than 1,400 miles an
hour.
Weather Expert
Says Reds May One
Day Freeze Florida
NEW YORK, UR — Howard T.
Orville, chairman of the Advis
ory Committee on Weather Con
trol, says the Russians may one
day be capable of freezing Flor
ida or turning the Midwest into
a permanent drought belt.
Orville was interview by the
New York Times as he registered
at the opening of the annual
meeting of the American Meteor
ological Society.
He cited many suggestions by
American physicists that might
achieve intercontinental weather
control. One involves spreading
lamp black over ice or snow at
the poles. The black soot, the idea
goes, might melt these regions,
send the water pouring into the
oceans and raise the level of the
Atlantic Ocean in the New York
City area to the street level in
Times Square.
Last month' Orville reported in
Washington on the findings of the
Weather Control Committee. He
said weather control could have
results more disastrous to the
United States than atomic dis
coveries.
18-Year-Olds Must
Register With Selective
Service Local Boards
JUNEAU — Calling attention
to the fact that failure to register
is a violation of law and makes
the delinquent liable to penalty,
John L. McCormick, Alaska State
Director of Selective Service out
lined registration requirements
under the Universal Military
Training and Service Act, which
he said he believed were not
thoroughly understod by all of
the general public.
“The obligation to register,”
Mr. McCormick said, “is a con
tinuing obligation and must be
fulfilled. The obligation to reg
ister i3 imposed by the Act on
every male citizen and every
other male person in the United
States between the ages of 18 and
26. Members of reserve compon
ents of the armed forces, includ
ing the National Guard are not
exempt from registration.”
The young man who becomes
18 is required to register at a
local board office within five
days of the date of his 18th
birthday, Mr. McCormick ex
plained.
Letter-size and legal file folders
available at The Nome Nugget
Girl Scout News
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TROOP 67
Alice Arnold opened the meet
ing and we saluted the flag and
had our promise.
We have a contest about being
neat all year.. Sally was the neat
est last meeting.
Judy Coplin is taking care ofr
the Troop Scrap Book.
We are making plans to have
an International Dinner in Feb
ruary.
We voted at our last meeting
for a name for our troop and
we chose Golden Girls.
—Judy Coplin
TROOP 66
Last week’s meeting we plan
ned to make a Girl Scout scrap
book and we learned some new
songs. The names of the songs
were “I’m as Happy as a Donkey,”
“Let Me Call You Lizzy,” and
“I’d Rather Have Fingers Than
Toes.”
This week we pasted the covers
on our scrapbboks. We played
some games. Then we made our
Friendship Circle. That was the
end of the meeting.
—Mary Pasquan
TROOP 65
We read stories out of our
Brownie Handbook and after we
read we tried to finish our aprons.
—Catherine Walsh
Forget-Me-Not Brownies
Seventeen girls came to our
meeting on Thursday, Jan. 2 . We
took a walk to Chicken Hill and
picked willow branches. We hope
they will sprout leaves and pus
sies. c
—Sandra Osborne
Classical Music Not For Insane
SACRAMENTO, UP) — Mood
music has it all over classical for
soothing mental patients waiting
to take electric shock treatment.
The Department of Mental Hy
giene reported that a study at
Napa State Hospital showed the
classics made the patients more
confused, restless and hostile.
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Rep. Sikes Resurrects
Portrait of “Old Jeff”
WASHINGTON, UP)—Jefferson
Davis’ portrait hangs in the Pen
tagon—after being relegated to a
basement storeroom.
The picture of the one - time
Secretary of War and later presi
dent of the Confederacy used to
hang in the office of the Secre
; tary of the Army. Who moved it
| from there has not been estab
| lished.
“It was removed after the Ei
senhower administration took
over,” Rep. Sikes (D-Fla) said.
“That’s all I know.”
When Sikes heard that the por
trait had been shunted to the
basement, he went into action.
“A Secretary of the Army can
choose the pictures or portraits he
wants to hang on the walls of his
office,” he conceded,“ but he
shouldn’t ban Old Jeff to the
I basement.”
Sikes waxed warm in telephone
calls to the Pentagon, and the
portrait was resurrected and
placed in a corridor among like
ness of other past Secretaries of
War.
And Sikes has cooled down.
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Nome Directory
Northwestern, Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon
JIM WALSH, President
ALASKA CHAPTER HO. 1
Order of Eastern Star
Mildred Harwood
'f&L. Werthy Matron
Helen Buabar
Secretary
Meetings: 1st and 3rd Mondays
ANVIL LODGE
No. 140
J. A. von der Heydt, W.M.
Norvji **'. Lewis. Sec.
Meets let and 3rd Thursday each month
NOME ROTARY CLUB
Joe Kroninger
President
W. Mecklenburg
Secretary
Wednesday Luncheon