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Reindeer Man
Got Herd of 14
From Unala kleet
By JACK DeYONGE
(Fairbanks News-Miner)
Grady Carothers is one of the
few reindeer herders south of the
Arctic Circle—on this continent
at least—and he left Fairbanks
recently with 14 more animals to
add to his growing string.
Carothers picked up his reindeer
at Unalakleet, where they cost
him $150 a head, slightly more
than reindeer were going for in
his previous buying trips.
But, altho the animals cost him
$1,000 a head by the time they
were driven (in a van! to Califor
nia, the legendary helpers of
Santa Claus will more than earn
their keep.
Carothers operates and owns
the animal concession at Santa’s
Village near Lake Arrowhead in
the mountains behind Los Ange
les.
During its first year of opera
tion, this year-around Christmas
mecca for children and adults had
over 300,000 visitors. Carothers
anticipates that 1,000,000 persons
will see, be pulled by and will
fondle his growing herd of rein
deer.
Every day Carothers uses a
team of reindeer to pull a sleigh,
which is actually driven by an
electric motor around the village.
His deer breed and thrive in
the temperate mountain air of the
•village. But business is expanding
so rapidly Carothers expects to
be back in Alaska getting more
stock.
Actually, he splits up his herd
and sends strings out on tour
thruout the west. Last year each
team averaged about 13,000 miles
on their fall jaunts.
World's Fattest Man
Fnds Summer Vacation
Weighing 1,041 Pounds
FISHHOOK, 111., WV—Robert
Earl Hughes, who claims to be the
world’s fattdst man, has returned
home from a summer tour with a
circus where he fattened up to
1,041 pounds.
Because of his great bulk, the
30-year-old Hughes gets weighed
only infrequently. For scaling
purposes, he usually is brought to
commercial scales in Fishhook
aboard a truck from his farm
home near here.
Hughes’ heaviest weight before
this summer’s tour was 946
pounds. Nobody thought to take
his measurements at his latest
weighing. But at 946 pounds, his
waist was an almost unbelievable
115 inches.
Other members of Hughes’ fam
ily, including his father and two
brothers, are average size persons.
Hughes attributes his great bulk
to a siege of whooping cough
when he was two years old. He
believes the paroxysms of cough
ing somehow upset nature’s bal
ance and a glandular disorder re
sulted.
Around 11 pounds at birth,
Hughes was up to 550 pounds
when he was 10 years old.
Daylight Saving Time
Ends in 14 States
NEW YORK, UP)— Daylight Sav
ing Time ended in 14 states and
the District of Columbia at 2 a.m.
yesterday.
States affected this weekend
are New York, New Jersey, Con
necticut, Massachusetts, Maine,
New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode
Island, and parts of Pennsylvania,
Missouri, Illinois, Virginia, Indi
ana, and Delaware.
Among cities making the cur
rent change are New York, Chi
cago, St. Louis, Boston and Wash
ington.
$30,000 Will Be
Set Aside for
Statehood Studies
NETCHIKAN, WV-The Alaska
Statehood Committee said Friday
it would earmark $30,000 of the
$80,000 it will request from the
legislature for study of two major
projects required in event of
statehood.
It said the study will be made
on acquisition of public lands and
administrative changes.
Now in session here, the com
mittee approved provision of liv
ing costs for a 60-day period for
the two “senators” and one “rep
resentative” elected earlier this
month.
It also voted to provide trans
portation one way and pay 'he
Tennessee Plan officials $1,000
for special expenses. Appointment
of John Adams, public relations
man, to prepare the way for the
three men in Washington was ap
proved. Adam’s services will cost
$12,000.
Adams was a newscaster with
the Columbia Broadcasting Sys
tem before entering the public re
lations field. He was a radio war
correspondent during the second
world war.
Dulles, 3 Senators
Confer on Crisis
In Middle East
WASHINGTON, lift—Secretary
Dulles called three senators to the
State Department for a talk today
on the Middle East. The adminis
tration was reported alarmed at
the possibility of war there in 24
to 48 hours.
The senators were George (D
Ga), Fulbright (D-Arki and Long
er (R-ND).
Department officials said that
Dulles, in keeping with his policy
during any international crisis,
arranged the meeting to brief the
lawmakers on what the United
States is doing.
George is chairman of the Sen
ate Foreign Relations Committee.
Fulbright and Langer are mem
bers of it.
Officials are said to feel that
only the highest order of Israeli
Arab statesmanship could avert a
Middle East explosion. They were
looking mainly to Israel's Prime
Minister David Ben-GUrion, as
the man who held the decision.
However, Officials were less
pessimistic about the situation to-,
day than they were yesterday.
They credited a personal appeal
by Eisenhower to Ben-Gurion,
made public yesterday, with hav
ing done much to help cool the
situation.
Man Winning Battle With Nature
In Recovery of Aleutian Scrap Iron
TACOMA, Wash., — Far out
toward the tip of the Aleutian
chain, a struggle of man against
wind and tide and time is being
carried on by a hardy group of
men—and thus far man seems to
be winning a profitable battle.
The prize in this war against
nature is a vast store of hundreds
of thousands of tons of scrap ffom
former and existing naval stations
in the Aleutian islands.
Much of the material was left
there when the United States
withdrew the bulk of its military
strength from the islands after
ALASKA AIRLINES
From Anchorage: Susan and
Jimmy Wafford, Robt. Robinson,
E. Geffe, W.A. Rich, Marion Beck,
Janet Black, Truman Sage.
To Unalakleet: Albert Anigiack,
and Messrs. Carlson, Fields, and
Ingraham.
From McGrath: Gerald IJper
ner, Robt. Miller, Ernest Phillips,
L. F. Rotz, Carlos Flores, Lewis
McCoy, Dallas Eberle.
To Anchorage: Edward Elkins,
M. R. Cordlay, D. E. Wenger. Carl
Schalka, J.F. Sather, Wm. Halli
gan, Joseph Russo, C. J. Cawley,
Jack Edwards, Betty Alexander,
Major Crawford, Herb Doddridge,
Capt. Ellis, T. Kenick, N. Atuk, R.
Herman, Sgt. Merrill, F. Kingik,
D. Mendalook, D. Soolook, D.
Amaktoolik, J. Kiminock, Harry
Ivanoff, Stephen Tocktoo, Ray
Seetamona. Geo. Mayac, Frank
Topseak, James and Abner Noya
kuk, Ernie Weyanna, K. Kakoona,
Roy Okpealuk, Andrew Niugue
look, J. Egelak, R. Punguk.
World War II.
Already, a converted L#ST (land
ing ship, tanks) has brought 3,200
tons of war’s leftovers to the port
of Tacoma; more are coming in
an operation which is expected to
last three years.
Handling the big job is General
Metals of the Aleutians, which
so far has concentrated most of
its activities on Adak, where
American forces were garrisoned
in large numbers during World
War II. Many a serviceman re
members Adak as a bleak, blowy
and blankety-blank spot.
The men who work up there
now are agreed. So far, they say,
winds up to 95 miles an hour have
fallen barely short of blowing
them into the sea. The snow and
cold and more wind are not far
off.
But the first load to come in
abourd the LST gave an indica
tion of what rewards can be ex
pected. It ranged from used ve
hiclular equipment to nuts and
bolts. A forthcoming bargeload,
scheduled to leave Adak early
this week includes 25,000-pound
anchors and 200 tons of assorted
nails.
The material stored here await
ing sale shows surprisingly little
rust despite a 10- to 15-year stay
in the northern climate.
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clipper)
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1:00 a.m. Lv. Seattle Ar. 5:00 am.
5:00 a.m. Ar. Fairbanks Lv. 9:15 p.m.
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