Phosphorus Found
At Shemya, May he
Of Japanese Origin
ANCHORAGE, UP) — Large j
quantities of phosphorus in rock ]
form has been reported discovered
on a 20-foot stretch of beach at
Shemya, in the outer Aleutians, j
The light-weight rock was de
scribed as looking “like frozen
raw meat” and said to burn like
a fire bomb when exposed to air
at room temperature.
The wife of an Air Force ser
geant was burned slightly Thurs
day .when a small chunk of phos
phorus exploded in flame after
being placed on a sheet of alu
minum foil.
The incident occurred at the
District Engineer office where
Mrs. Herman Newsome is em
ployed. She was burned, but did
not require hospital treatment,
Air Force officials said.
They, analyzed the material
after the incident and ordered the
beach roped off., A demolition
team has been sent from here to
destroy it.
They speculated the phosphor
us was dumped by Japanese dur
ing their occupation of the Aleu
tian Islands during World War II.
An earthquake in December plus
an exceptionally low tide led to
the discovery of the material.
Walter E. Jered, a building in
spector for the Air Force, said he
and several other persons found
the mineral smoking on the beach
of the Aleutian island during a
very low tide.
Jered said he picked up
samples, stored them in a .iar
of water and brought them back
to Anchorage for analysis.
The Air Force warned that
other pieces may be around in
the hands of unsuspecting persons.
If so, they should place it in a
container of water and call the
fire department to dispose of it,
they said.
ASTRONOMY NOTES
By OLAF HALVERSON
The planet Venus is receding
toward the sun. It can still be
seen in the low southeastern sky
about an hour before sunrise..
The planet is approximately 36
degrees ahead of the sun and it
will take until June 22 to be in
line with the sun. From that date
on to the close of the year, Venus
will become an evening star. We
will be looking westward next
Christmas season to see this
planet.
Venus completes its orbit in 7V£
months, its year being rather
shorter than ours.
The question of the existence of
life not only on Venus, but on
the other 'planets is always a sub
ject of general interest.. Professor
Barnard of the Yerkes Oberva
tory has said there are possibil
ities of life on some of our bro
ther worlds.
There is possibly life on Mars,
probably on Venus, with Mercury
very doubtful but more probably
lifeless.
NOTICE OF MARSHAL'S SALE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ss:
Second Division. District of Alaska
Public notice is hereby given, that by
virtue of a writ of fieri facias ior exe
cution!. dated January 20th, A.D. 1960,
issued out of the District Court of the
United States for the Second Division.
District of Alaska, on a judgment ren
dered in said Court, on the 27th day
ot November. A.D. 1959. in favor of
JENNIE MARTIN FRAZIER, dba Nome
Liquor Store, and against FRANCIS
CAPRON: I have, on this 22nd day of
January. A.D. I960, levied upon the fol
lowing described real estate, situated in
the Cape Nome Precinct, 2nd Division,
and State of Alaska, to wit:
LOTS ET EVEN HU AND TWELVE (12)
IN BLOCK ELEVEN OF THE
TOWNSITE OF NOME. ALASKA
and that I will, accordingly, offer said
real esLVe for sale, at public vendue,
to the highest and best bidder, for
cash, on the IRth day of February, A.D.
1960. at 2:00 o’clock P.M.. at Room No.
206 — U. S. Post Office and Court
House Building, Nome, Alaska.
Dated, Jam ary 22. 1960, at Nome,
A1‘’SkROBERT W. OLfVER,
U. S. Marshal,
Second Division, District of Alaska.
Bv GEOROE A. BAYER, Deputy.
FRED D. CRANE,
Fairbanks, Alaska
Attorney for Plaintiff.
Publish Jan. 25, Feb. 1, 8. 15, 1960.
Silver Service Fund for
Cruiser Alaska Gains
$3,048.02 Since War’s End
JUNEAU — A patriotic gesture
by Alaskans during World War II
continued to grow last week as
State officials awaited a Navy
decision to the final fate of the
Cruiser Alaska.
The gesture was the contribu
tion by school children and others
of a fund to buy a silver service
for the cruiser which was
launched in Camden, N. J., Aug
ust 15, 1943, and served in the
Pacific during World War II.
Soon after V-J Day — and be
fore the slightly more than $10,
000 collected could be turned into
a suitable gift — the U.S.S. Alaska
was placed in reserve status with
the 16th Fleet.
Although several alternative
suggestions have been offered for
use of the fund. State officials
charged with its administration
down through the years have re
tained it intact against the pos
sibility that the vessel would be
recommissioned.
With the deposit of an addi
tional $125 received as a semi
annual interest payment on a
$10,000 Savings Bond purchased
some years .ago, the fund now
totals $13,048.02.
FEBRUARY BIRTHDAYS
AT SITKA PIONEER HOME
SITKA — Fifteen of the guests
at the Alaska Pioneers Home, Box
198, Sitka, have birthdays in
February. Most of them are far
from their old haunts and friends,
and mail means so much to them,
for it shows that someone not in
Sitka thinks enough of them to
write a card or letter, or send a
' gift, emphasize caretakers at the
Sitka Home.
For some it may be the last
i birthday, so we should, try to
j make it a happy one. The birth
! date, name, the year of birth, and
! place entry was made from is
J listed in that order. Will YOU
| send one or more of these some
j mail, ask the caretakers,
j February 1 — Nils C. Ludvick
■ son, 1890, Juneau; 3 — Roy A.
Smith, 1879, Dillingham; 5—An
I tone Nelson, 1874, Juneau; 7 —
I Chas. Klemola, 1882, Juneau;
i Walter Hand, 1895, Kodiak; 9—
j Oscar O. Danielson, 1879, Pelican;
13—Emil Pozza, 1871, Fairbanks;
j 14—Theodore Rehn, 1881, Fair
1 banks; 18—Wm. J. Johnson, 1888,
! Seward;
21—Gustaf Lundin, 1886, Ju
| neau; Otto Peterson, 1873, Hyder;
’Mrs. Beatrice Roberts, 1911, Ket
: chikan; 24—Alex Woche, 1888,
: Afognak; 26 — Tony Grigoles,
I 1895, Fairbanks; 28—Nels A.
Oman, 1880, Ketchikan.
NEW YORK CITY REAL
j ESTATE VALUATION UP 7
! PER CENT OVER LAST YEAR
! NEW YORK, (41 — The value
of New York City real estate is
| up 7 per cent over last year. The
; city tax commission said Sunday
j tentative assessments for the fis
j cal year 1960-61 have reached a
' record $25,955,030. Valuations for
' the fiscal year ending June 30
| stand at $23,549,007,007.
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Gruening, Javits
Tell Ike ‘Declare
De Gaulle Support’
WASHINGTON, UP) — Senators
Ernest Gruening and Jacob Javits
(R-NY) called on President Eis
enhower Friday to support Gen.
Charles De Gaulle in the Algerian
crisis.
Gruening told the Senate that
the United States ought to an
nounce it is giving “full and un
reserved support” to the French
President in his efforts to pre
vent the outbreak of violence in
Algiers.
“This is not time for the tired,
pusilanimous and vaccilating poli
cy of neutrality,” Gruening de
clared. “If De Gaulle fails in his
efforts, we can only expect chaos
and we, ourselves, will suffer for
it.”
Javits said he agrees that “the
situation is so intense it is time
for a declaration of American
policy.”
Premier Ben-Gurion
Charges Disguised Syrian
Soldiers Infiltrate Israel
TEL AVIV, Israel, UP) — Pre
mier David Ben-Gurion charged
today Syrian soldiers disguised as
farmers repeatedly penetrated Is
raeli territory in the demilitar
ized zone near the Sea of Galilee.
As border tension mounted in
the fourth straight day of shoot
ing, Ben-Gurion told Parliament
in Jerusalem it was “necessary
to destroy the village used by the
Syrians as a base for their in
cursions.”
Israeli and Syrian forces
clashed both on the ground and
in the air. An army spokesman
said two fighter planes drove off
four Syrian MIG jets after a dog
fight over Metullah, near the bor
der of northern Galilee.
A spokesman in Damascus
claimed four Israeli Super Mys
tere jets engaged Syrian planes
and one Israeli plane was shot
down and another damaged. He
claimed the Israeli planes flew
over Syria.
Bob De Armond Sells
Alaska Sportsman Shares
JUNEAU — Henry Barrow, who
has been on the Seattle advertis
ing staff of Alaska Sportsman
Magazine, arrived in Juneau last
week to assume management of
the Juneau office of the publi
cation.
At the same time, Bob de Ar
mond, who has served as general
manager of the publishing com
pany for the past two years, an
nounced the sale of his interest in
the company to Robert H. Hen
neng, formerly of Juneau, the
magazine’s editor. De Armond
said that he will continue in an
editorial capacity with Alaska
Sportsman, but will also be doing
other writing on Alaskan subjects.
No changes in the general poli
cies of the magazine are contem
plated. Home office will continue
to be Juneau. Advertising and
general offices are also maintained
in Seattle, and printing is done
by R. R. Donnelley & Sons, Com
pany in Chicago.
PROHIBITION ANNIVERSARY
Jan. 16, 1960 was the 40th an
niversary of the Prohibition
Amendment which went into ef
fect Jan. 16. 1920. It was repealed
Dec. 5, 1933.
The author of the amendment
was a U.S. Senator from Minne
sota by the name of Volstad. His
name became closely associated
with Nome because his daughter
became Mrs. Carl Lomen.
Nome-T'-Wa«J’
WASHERS It DRYERS
To Use Yourself — or
Well Do II For You!
— Phone Black 1 —
Early Filing Speeds Up
Income Tax Refunds, Says
IRS District Director
SEATTLE — Taxpayers of
Washington and Aaska are heed
ing the advice of District Director
William E. Frank to file their
federal income tax returns early
so they may receive any refund
due them as quickly as possible.
Mr. Frank said 10,000 taxpayers
already have filed their 1959 re
turns presumably because many
of them may have a refund com
ing, and they are eager to get it.
“We have started to process the
returns already filed,’’ Mr. Frank
said. “If they are in perfect or
der and a refund is due, our early
processing will speed up the re
fund checks accordingly.”
Those returns which require a
pre-refund audit will take longer
to process, but in every such
case, the taxpayer will be noti
fied by letter of the reason for
delay, Mr. Frank said.
Mr. Frank again repeated his
tips for early filers who want to
receive any refund due them as
quickly as possible.
One is not to omit any essential
information on your return, such
as your signature <and that of
your spouse if it is a joint return*,
and the W-2 tax withholding
form.
Another is to print your address
as legibly as you can print it.
And the third is not to write
for a few weeks asking where
your retyrn is, because replies to
such letters only slow down the
whole refunding process.
VAL ADAMS NAMED
'HOMEMAKER OF TOMORROW'
MINNEAPOLIS—Valerie Jgne
Adams has been named the 1960
Betty Crocker Homemaker of To
morrow at Nome High School.
She received the highest score
in a 50-minute written examina
tion on homemaking knowledge
and attitudes taken by graduat
ing seniors here.
NOME SANITARY
SERVICE
Phone Main 1
P. O. Box 460
Nobel Prize
Scientist Rescued
From Calif. Cliff
MONTEREY, Calif., Iff) — “I
guess I’ll stay off steep places
and avoid climbing for a while,”
says Dr. Linus Pauling. The con
troversial Nobel Prize-winning
chemist was rescued Sunday after
24 cold, thirsty hours on a high,
rugged cliff overlooking th e
Pacific.
He was unharmed, in high spir
its, sleepy — and highly respect
ful of the danger of straying onto
shale-slippery cliffs. It’s rugged
territory where he was stranded,
80 miles south of Monterey.
Dr. Pauling had started a walk
ing inspection about his 160-acre
ranch Saturday morning. He fol
lowed a deer trail, then became
stranded on an 80-degree slope
facing the ocean.
Saturday evening, he heard
searchers shouting above him.
Pauling shouted back. No one
heard.
The scientist who engaged in
debates over the value of nuclear
bombs — he strongly urged ban
ning both bombs and bomb test
ing — began scientifically ad
justing himself to his predica
ment.
Without a watch, he {jot a stick
and tried to tell time by move
ment of the constellations. He
moved his arms and legs to keep
warm.
He took a large map from his
pocket, lay down and placed it
over him to help conserve body
warmth. To keep awake, “I gave
a little lecture to the surf on
chemical bombs.”
Pauling is Professor of Chem
istry at California Institute of
Technology at Pasadena, where
he lives. He and his wife spend
an occasional weekend at his
cabin, besides Los Padres Na
tional Forest.
Family Night Parly At The
LWY Community Center
A Family Night Party is slated
at the LWY Community Center
at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 3.
Children below the 7th grade
must be accompanied by their
parents in order to attend.
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