Tar-Rubber Paving
Protects Airfields
From Jet Blasts
ANCHORAGE —A rubberized
paving material developed as a
protective covering against the
deteriorating effects of jet fuel
and jet blasts on flexible airfield
paving will be introduced on the
Alaska defense construction scene
this year, Col. Farrell, District
Engineer for the Corps of Engi
neers in Alaska, announced.
The new paving material — a
combination of tar and rubber
together with crushed aggregate
— will be used first at Galena
where, a large construction proj
ect for the Air Force will be
underway this spring, and will
have a continued use on other air
field paving projects in the fu
ture.
According to Col. Farrell, the
tar-rubber paving is placed in a
lVt-inch thick course over those
portions of an airfield’s asphalt
paving which are subject to deter
ioration caused by jet fuel spill
age and jet blasts. Jet fuel is
principally composed of kerosene
and does not evaporate as readily
as regular aviation gas. When fuel
spillage occurs as it does in fuel
ing and dispersal areas and on
parking aprons and taxiways, it
soaks into porous asphaltic pave
ment and eventually dissolves the
pavement’s asphaltic binder.
The failure of asphaltic pave
ment also occurs where the pave
ment is subjected to concentrated
• blasts from the jet tail pipes such
as the extreme ends of runways
where take-off runs are started.
Tar - rubber paving has been
subjected to extensive testing on
airfield throughout the United
States since 1952. Tar is the tough
jet-fuel and blast-resisting por
tion of the new paving mixture
and the rubber is added to pro
vide the flexibility needed as pro
tection against temperature ex
tremes.
Approximately 5,800 tons of
tar-rubber paving will be used
at Galena to provide a protective
covering for the airfield’s disper
sal and service areas and both
ends of the runway. Nearly 31,000
tons of asphalt will also be placed
in rehabilitating the remainder
of the existing- runway.
WIEN AIRLINES
From Fairbanks: Sgt. Richard
Gray, Lydia Fohn-Hansen, Mrs.
Bob Savaaria.
To Kotzebue: Mr. and Mrs. Don
• Moto and family.
To Fairbanks: Lt. W. Knicker,
Sgt. Harold Planer.
From Kotzebue: R. Romoth, V.
Clark, Charles Lee and H. Lar
kin of Shungnak, Wesley Wood,
Johnnie Snow, Eli Know, Carl
Hank, Carrie McClellan, Sally
Rotman Gallahorn, Alice Sheldon,
Bernard Sheldon, and Wm. Zu
beck.
Senate Group Inquires as to Effect
Of Alaska Statehood on Security
WASHINGTON, UP)—'What ef-i
feet, if any, would statehood for
Alaska have on the national se
urity?
Members of the Senate Terri
tories Subcommittee looked for a
detailed answer to that question
Tuesday as they resumed a hear
ing on statehood legislation for
both Alaska and Hawaii.
James H. Douglas, undersecre
tary of the Air Force, was desig
nated to testify on behalf of Sec
retary of Defense Wilson who has
advised the committee:
“ . . . The Defense Department j
believes it would be in the inter-:
est of the national security that
Alaska remain a federal territory
for the present.”
In Alaska, Wilson said, “the
great size of the territory, its
sparse population and limited I
communications, as well as its j
strategic location create very j
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Atomic Tower
Test Explosion
Jolts Las Vegas
LAS VEGAS, Nev. UP)—An atom- j
ic tower explosion—second shot j
of the 1955 nuclear test series— j
jolted Las Vegas just before dawn !
Tuesday.
The “George Shot”—this was !
Washington’s Birthday — rattled I
windows and awoke many per
sons not already up in this city
of 50,000, which lies 75 miles
southeast of the Atomic Energy
Commission’s test site.
There was no damage reported.
Seventeen congressmen and 200
military observers watched the
detonation of the nuclear device,
set off from the top of a 300-foot
tower on Yucca Flat at 5:45 a.m.
The orange flash was visible in
Los Angeles 275 airline miles to
the southwest, and Sacramento,
550 miles to the northwest.
Observers at the AEC control
point, about 10 miles from the
blast, felt two distinct shocks as
the sound wave rumbled around
the low mountains circling the I
flat. Two shocks also were felt in
Las Vegas.
I The atomic cloud rose over
20,000 feet and an ice cap formed
on top of the familiar mushroom.
Within half an hour winds be
gan shearing the cloud and it was
blown east and southeast in the
general direction of St. George,
Utah, and northern Arizona.
The Civil Aeronautics Author
ity warned all pilots planning
flights within 300 miles of Grand
Canyon Airport to check first j
CAA. Southern Utah and a large
rectangular segment of Arizona
were closed to aircraft from 15,
000 to 26,000 feet much of the
morning.
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special defense problems.”
The Defense Department posi
tion was one of three contrasting
stands disclosed yesterday by
three cabinet agencies.
In testimony before the sub
committee, Secretary of the In
terior McKay said he—as an indi
vidual—favors admitting Hawaii
and would also favor statehood
for Alaska if a large area of the
territory were set aside for a
possible military reservation. He
said he couldn’t support the pend
ing combined bill, however.
The State Department went on
the record in favor of statehood
for both territories. In a letter to
the group, Assistant Secretay
Thurson B. Morton said the two
new states would change U. S.
foreign policy and boost Ameri
can standing in international af
fairs.
Chairman Jackson (D-Wash)
called the Defense Department’s
position a “direct reversal” of its
previous positions. He recalled
Monday that in 1950, Gen. Nathan
F. Twining, now Air Force chief
of staff but then head of air, naval
and Army forces in Alaska, had
supported statehood for the terri
tory “as a defense measure.”
Jackson said he was “at a loss
to understand why Alaska would
not be as strong as a state as it
would as a territory,” adding:
“On that theory, the State of
Washington should be made a ter
ritory in order to strengthen it. I
can’t follow the department’s
reasoning.”
The subcommittee also wants
to find out, in connection with
proposals to set aside portions of
Alaska as potential military res
ervations, the extent of the Presi
dent’s authority to create such
reservations in a state.
In addition, members have in
dicated they will seek to learn
exactly what areas of Alaska are
a cause of concern to the military.
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Benson Wins
Over Lannen in
Ballot Recount
JUNEAU, Ub—The recount of
absentee ballots in last fall’s elec
tion of territorial labor commis
sioner ended in Juneau Monday
afternoon with an apparently
conclusive victory for Commis
sioner Henry Benson, Republican
incumbent.
A tally checker working in be
half of H. J. Lannen, the Demo
cratic candidate, said that Benson
was the clear winner. He said that
depending on the official recount
supervisor’s decision on some of
the absentee ballots, Benson’s
victory would range from 30 to
39 votes.
The figure compares with the
27-vote lead Benson had at the
conclusion of the official canvass
in December.
Lannen posted $2,000 to finance
the recount of virtually all the
ballots cast in the election.
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. —.
Dell Publishing Pledges
Itself To Produce Only
Wholesome Comic Books
NEW YORK — The Dell Pub
lishing Company, the nation’s
largest single comics book pub
lisher, selling upwards of 25,000,
000 copies a month, and repre
senting over 40 per cent of the
industry’s total sale, announced
for 1955 an extensive “Pledge to
Parents” campaign.
Beginning in March of this year
the new pledge will be carried on
each of the 300,000,000 copies of
Dell Comics sold yearly. The
pledge reads: “The Dell trade
mark is, and always has been, a
positive guarantee that the comic
magazine bearing it contains only
clean and wholesome juvenile
entertainment. The Dell code
eliminates entirely, rather than
regulates, objectionable material.
That’s why when your child buys
a Dell Comic you can be sure it
cointains only good fun..”
Covenant Ladies Give
Surprise Baby Shower
Last Saturday evening Mrs.
Fritz G. Carlson gave a surprise
baby shower for Mrs. Thomas
Tungwenuk. Present were: Mes
dames R. Amundsen, E. Towner,
W. Mclvor, E. Engstrom, J. Mat
son, J. Savok, J. Titus. E. Walker,
W. Anderson, and Miss Eleanor
Holm and Eunice Carlson.
Hostesses were Mrs. Carlson,
Mrs. F. Eben, J. Ahwinona.
Some of the ladies had made
beautiful hand - made garments
which were much appreciated.
The ladies spent a delightful eve
ning together.
He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat;
He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment seat;
Oh be swift my soul to answer Him! Be jubilant my feet!'
Our God is marching on. l. Cor. 15.52-58
Paid. Adv.
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