Federally Sponsored Alaska
Power Corporation Proposed by
Pacific NW Power Executive
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$75,000 Car and Trailer
In Alberta on Way to
Mexico From Anchorage
CALGARY, Alberta, UP)—The
mud-splattered car of Louie Mat
tar rolled through Calgary Friday
and its three drivers told stories
of troubles already encountered
in their planned 6,391-mile non
stop endurance drive which began
in Anchorage, Alaska, Aug. 10
and will end in Mexico City, Mex
ico, Aug. 19—if the boys make it.
They didn’t stop to be inter
viewed in Calgary, but slowed
down enough for newsmen to
climb aboard their gadget-packed
rolling home.
The $75,000 car and patio trail
er is equipped with almost every
thing.
The record-smashing trip is be
ing undertaken at Mattar’s own
expense, to satisfy a whim.
Mattar owns a garage in San
Diego, Calif.
Heintzleman Named to
Represent U.S. in Group
To Preserve Fisheries
WASHINGTON. MV—Alaska’s
Governor B. Frank Heintzleman
has been named as a U.S. repre
sentative on a new commission
which seeks to preserve North
Pacific fisheries.
President Eisenhower named
three others to the commission
which will be completed by mem
bers from Japan and Canada. The
President’s choiees included a Se
attle attorney, a San Francisco
packer, and John E. Farley, direc
tor of the Federal Fish and Wild
life Service.
The commission was set up by
•a treaty signed in Japan two years
ago. Thursday the President
signed legislation putting the
treaty into effect
GRAF ZEPPELIN COMMANDER
DIES IN GERMANY AT IS
FRIEDSRICHSHAFEN, Ger
many, Uf>—Dr. Hugo Eckener,
who commanded the Graf Zeppe
lin on its round-the-world flight,
died at his home here Saturday at
the age of 86.
1 The noted German aeronautical
engineer succumbed to a heart
ailment after a lingering illness.
He made the round-the-world
flight in the Graf zeppelin in
1929.
Bring Your
Watch
to the
Nome Drug Store
for
Expert Repairs
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* FAIRBANKS, W)—Gus Norwood,
executive secretary of the Pacific
Northwest Power Assn., proposed
here Friday that a federally spon
sored Alaska power corporation
be formed for the purpose of de
veloping the territory’s huge pow
er potential.
Norwood, of Vancouver, Wash.,
spoke at a meeting of the Alaska
Rural Electric Cooperative Assn.
He said a similar .proposal to form
a Columbia River power corpora
tion is now being prepared by the
PNPA and will be submitted to
the next session of Congress.
He said the proposed Alaska
power corporation and the Col
umbia River development corpor
ation would operate in a manner
very similar to the St. Lawrence
Development Corp., recently ap
proved toy Congress and the Presi
dent.
Tremendous Power Potential
The Alaska corporation, Nor
wood said, would provide the nec
essary management and organiza
tional framework which would
enable the territory’s tremendous
hydroelectric resources to be put
to use, gradually, until cheap and
abundant power become available
throughout Alaska.
Norwood said Canada produces
about 80 percent of the newsprint
consumed by the United States.
If Alaska had sufficient cheap
power, the' territory could com
pete with Canada because of the
virtually unlimited forest resourc
es for pulp manufacture in Alas
ka, he said.
Atomic Power for Alaska?
Ancher Nelson of Washington,
D.C., federal rural electrification
administrator, also addressed the
meeting. Nelson said that REA
financed systems in Alaska are
serving more than 12,000 custom
ers and have loans to serve anoth
er 3,000.
“I know that one matter of
great interest to Alaska people is
the possibility of using atomic
fuel to generate electric power,”
he said .“Our consideration will
be guided ... by the need, effect
on power cost, and feasibility.
“There are many complex tech
nical and economic problems that
must still be solved before nuclear
power generation will be fea
sible.”
Don Dickey, manager of the
Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce,
accompanied by his mother and
father from California, were on
yesterday’s Wien tour.
Annie Kelly Scanlon died June
17 at a nursing home in San
Francisco. Mrs. Scanlon’s hus
band, Edward, was a mining en
gineer in Nome.
MMM HOSPITAL
Admitted: William Tungahun,
Janna Cooley.
Fine Job Printing at the Nugget
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Fish & Wildlife Service
Closes Fishing Season
In Southeastern Alaska
JUNEAU, 1The Fish and
Wildlife Service, in the third such
order in less than a week, closed
the southeastern Alaska southern
commercial fishing district to trap
and purse seine fishing at 6 p.m.
Friday night. The order ended
fishing for the season.
Clarence Olson, FWS fisheries
administrator, said the action was
taken -because of the poor showing
in the district and in an effort to
restore the pink salmon fishery.
The FWS closed the eastern and
western districts late Aug. 11. All
three seasons were scheduled to
end Aug. 18.
The bright side in the southeast
Alaska picture has been the un
usually heavy run of chums this
year and a good showing of reds
and kings.
The Yakutat area also had had
a good year with a big run of red
salmon and a fair show of chums
and pinks. The coho run is just
now starting and fishermen said
indications are it will be good.
Fishing closes there Sept. 30.
WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by the
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Mostly cloudy tonight and to
morrow. Little change in temper
ature. Easterly winds 10-15 mph.
tonight. Lowest temperature ex
pected tonight 47, highest Tues
day 59.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: High temperature
59, low 44. Max. wind 14 mph.
from the NE. Sunrise 3:56 a.m.,
sunset 8:16 p.m.
Temperatures a year ago today:
high 52, low 36. Extremes this
date since 1907: high 68 in 1950,
low 24 in 1929.
Other stations as of 7 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow 44 Cloudy
Kotzebue 54 Part cloudy
Wales 49 Cloudy
Nome 54 Cloudy
Unalakleet 52 Cloudy
Bethel 50 Cloudy
McGrath 51 Cloudy
Anchorage 53 Rain showers
Fairbanks 51 Clear
:Edmonton 61 Cloudy
Juneau 55 Cloudy
Ketchikan 53 Cloudy
Seattle 60 Cloudy
COLD TRAIL
SAN FRANCISCO, MB—The gov
ernment has asked that an indict
ment against William M. Shuford,
accused of embezzling 3,434 in
postal funds, be dismissed.
Shufford was postmaster at
French Gulch when he disap
peared.
Government must finally have
figured they couldn’t find him.
They’ve been looking for 31 years.
Letter-Size File Folders For
Sale At The Nome Nugget Office.
GLUE POT
Soda Fountain
CIGARS, CIGARETS
TOBACCO
CANDY
FRESH ICE CREAM
EVERY DAY
I Hotel guests in
m S MEMPHIS, TENN.. WHO
.Am RELY ON THE HORN
<\ TOOTING & STREET
NOISES TO AWAKEN THEM OFTEN OVER-SLEEP
DUE TO THE CITY'S NOISE ABATEMENT CAM
PAIGN AND ENFORCED NOISE ORDINANCE/
A NEW PROPOSED HOTEL
hear La Guardi a airport
WILL BECOMPLETEL Y SOUND ' \l
CONDITIONED TO CUT
DOWN NOISES WHICH
INTERFERE WITH A
TRAVELER'S COMFORT.
A DENSE ROW OF
SHRUBS BETWEEN A
HOUSE AND STREET
DEFLECTS & ABSORBS
^ SOME TRAFFIC NOISES.
ACOUSTICAL MATERIALS ARE USED TO
ABSORB SOUND AND KEEP IT FROM
REFLECTING AND SPREADING,STATES
THE ACOUSTICAL MATERIALS
ASSOCIATION.
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