Cub Scout Dog
Races Held Sunday
Cub Scouts, their families and
friends enjoyed a field day yes
terday when their annual dog
races were run over a course ex
tending from the Polaris Hotel
west up 1st Ave. to D Street.
Cub Joe Barber had the fastest
“team” with Johnny Bahnke as
his burden and led by the Bahnke
dog. Whiskers, covering the
course in 50 seconds.
Second was Ernie Ailak with
his own dog, Bingo, in 55 seconds.
Third was Rodney Boucher with
his pup, Nanook and burden
Danny Rockne, in 1 minute 14
seconds. Fourth, Richard Munz
with Dick Arnold as burden and
Cinder (Irish setter of Bob Em
mons) in 1 minute 25 seconds.
Fifth, Sonny Wheeler with David
Barber and Sonny’s dog, Bootsy,
in 1 minute 50 seconds. Sixth,
Billy Oman with his own dog,
Wildy, in 2 minutes 3 seconds.
The seventh and eight teams
of Rickv Norbert and his dog,
Whitey, and David Barber with
burden Douglas Lee and dog
Pete (loaned by Sid Porter) tied
with a time of 2 minutes 25 sec- j
onds.
Oilier Cubs who failed ot rustle
a dog for themselves, were allow
ed to participate by using dogs !
which had already run and in- J
eluded Tommy Mogg, Steven
Heath and Mark Fritz.
The Dens also competed against
each other with a boys-pullmg-a
slcd race, with L.'n i winning the!
contest.
A prize was also given to the
boy with the biggest dog, which j
was Bingo, owned by Bobby j
Oman. Sonny Wheeler’s do'g,
Bootsy, won the prize for being
the smallest dog in the race.
The prizes were made possible
through the generous contribu
tions of local merchants who were
more than willing to assist in
making the event interesting for
the bays. Contributors included:
Northern Commercial Co., Nome
Hardware, Nome Drug Store,
Cavota’s, Fashionette, and Dor
othy’s.
Prizes were awarded at Den
Mother Emily Boucher’s home
where hot cocoa was served to
the pack.
Judges were members of Cub
Committee: Bill Barber, Dan
Fritz, Bob Herman, and Sam
Ailak.
Japanese-Caught Tuna
Passes Radioactivity
Test At Vancouver
VANCOUVER, B. C., 0P>—The
first cargo of Japanese-caught
tuna to arrive here since the
March 1 atomic blast in the Pac
ific passed a radioactivity test
here Friday with a silent geiger
counter.
The counter, which clicks wild
ly in the presence of radioactive
objects, was used to check on
whether any of the 29,000 pounds
of fish might have been contami
nated.
Freight Train Falls
Through Burning Trestle
Near Steilacoom, Wash.
STEILACOOM, Wash., UFI — In
what the engineer termed “30 sec
onds of hell,” eight units of a
73-car Union Pacific Railroad
freight train plunged through a
burning trestle into' Puget Sound
here yesterday.
The only casualty was L. R.
Pearson, a brakeman who suf
fered minor burns about the eyes
as he braved flames to save three
carloads of bellowing cattle.
Union Pacific officials placed
damage to the trestle and to the
cars at more than $300,000.
Engineer William Boyce said he
was highballing along the water
side track toward Seattle, some
45 miles to the north, when he
rounded a curve and saw flames
billowing from the trestle.
He applied the air brakes, but
the heavily-laden train couldn’t
be stopped before the three diesel
units and 19 cars ploughed thru
the flames. The next eight cars
dropped through to the water as
the trestle gave way. Four cars
burned.
The destroyed cars carried wax,
tires, refrigerators and shoes.
The cause of the fire was not
determined.
N.Y, Times Reports
Mighty Mo be Mothballed!
NEW YORK, <#> — The New
York Times said Monday the bat
tleship Missouri will be ordered
this summer to join the mothball
fleet.
A Times story from Norfolk,
Va., said the 45,000-ton “Mighty
Mo,” one of the world’s deadliest
ships, is scheduled to go to Puget
Sound Naval Shipyard at Brem
erton, Wash., for a four-month
process of mothballing, beginning
in September.
The story said, “The Navy is
convinced that the aircraft car
rier has become the backbone of
the fighting fleet.”
A super-siren producing inau
dible sounds of about 34,000 cycles
a second can, up close, ignite a
piece of cotton in a few seconds or
boil water in a few minutes.
COMMUNICATION
To the Members of the
Kegoayah Kozga Library
I wish to extend my appreci
ation to' the members of the Ke
goayah Kozga Library Board for
the excellent services rendered
during the past 20 years while
I have been a subscriber to the
local library.
I have greatly admired these
women who give regular service
year in and year out without com
pensation, during stormy and cold
weather, that the people of Nome
may be provided with the recrea
tion of good reading.
This group deserves recognition
for its efforts in the cultural de
velopment of the community and
it gives me much pleasure to take
this opportunity to express my
personal appreciation.
Sincerely,
Conrad Yenney
SERVICE CLEANERS
4ih and B Streets Opposite School House
QUALITY DRY CLEANING A SPECIALTY
Prompt and Courteous Service
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Mickelson, Proprietors
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N.Y. Interest Buys
Anchorage Apts.,
Shopping Center
ANCHORAGE, W\—In a trans
action involving twice the origi
nal cost of the whole Territory of
Alaska, an Anchorage chain of
apartments and the Hollywood
Shopping Center have been sold
to East Coast hotel operators.
The Allied Hotels Inc., former
owners, sold the property to a
new syndicate called the Alaska
Housing Corporation. The sale
price, according to Herman B.
Sarno, president of the new cor
poration, is considerably in excess
of $15,000,000.
Properties transferred include
the Richardson Vista Apartments;
Vista Apartments; Holly Vista
Apartments; Jefferson Courts, E
and E Apartments, S and S Apart
ments, Linda Arms and the shop
ping center.
Other officers of the corpora
tion are Edward Lewis, vice pres.,
and Alfred Taffet, sec. treas. They
and Sarno are from New York.
Sarno said the three men are
associated with a firm holding ex
tensive hotel and apartment house
properties in the East, South and
Middle West.
Fairbanks Union Leaders
Issue “Stay Home”
Warning To Job-Seekers
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, UPI—A
“stay home” warning to job-seek
ars was issued here Friday by
labor union officials.
They said the annual rush has
started already in the Fairbanks
area, but that no jobs are avail
able at present.
All unions reported an influx
of outsiders began arriving last
week. Officials attribute the ear
lier-than-usual seasonal influx to
“tighter” job conditions in the
States. They said an unusually
heavy volume of job applications
also have been arriving by mail.
“There are now 2,000 people
out of work in the Fairbanks
area,” said Mrs. Olga Reeve, act
ing director of the Employment
Service, “and there definitely are
no job openings for newcomers at
the present time.”
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at the Nugget
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Ice Pool Dates
Since 1917, when the Pool
was started, the ice has gone
• out at Nenana as follows:
1917— April 30.11:30 a.m.
1918— May 11. 9:33 a.m.
1919— May 3. 2:33 p.m.
1920— May 11.10:45 a.m.
1921— May 11. 6:42 a.m.
1922— May 12. 1:20 p.m.
1923— May 9. 2:00 p.m.
1924— May 11. 3:10 p.m.
1925— May 7. 6:32 p.m.
1926— April 26 . 4:03 p.m.
1927— May 13. 5:42 a.m.
1928— May 6. 4:25 p.m.
1929— May 5. 3:41 p.m.
1930— May 8. 7:03 p.m.
1931— May 10. 9:23 a.m.
1932— May 1.10:15 a.m.
1933— May 8. 7:30 p.m.
1934— April 30 . 2:07 p.m.
1935— May 15. 1:32 p.m.
1936— April 30 .12:58 p.m.
1937— May 12. 8:04 p.m.
1938— May 6. 8:14 p.m.
1939— April 29 . 1:26 p.m.
1940— April 20 . 3:27 p.m.
1941— May 3. 1:50 a.m.
1942— April 30 . 1:28 p.m.
1943— April 28 . 7:22 p.m.
1944— May 4. 2:08 p.m.
1945— May 16. 9:41 a.m.
1946— May 5. 4:40 p.m.
1947— May 3. 5:53 p.m.
1948— May 13.11:13 p.m.
1949— May 14.12:39 p.m. |
1950— May 6. 4:14 p.m. j
1951— April 30 . 5:54 p.m. 1
1952— Mav 12. 5:04 p.m.
1953— April 29 . 3:54 p.m. 1
Widow of Alex Stewart
Dies In Seattle, Aged 72
SEATTLE, OP) — Mrs. Edna
Miller Stewart, widow of the late
Alexander C. Stewart, died Satur
day. She was 72 years old.
The Stewarts went to Nome in
1905 where Stewart owned and
operated gold mines for 40 years.
Stewart, president of the West
Coast Mineral Assn., and one o'f
the northland’s best known min
ing operators, died in 1949.
The Stewarts established their
home in Seattle in 1907, going
north each summer.
Survivors include a son, Don
ald of Seattle and Nome.
Diane Wells Letter
May Be Of Value In
Pending Murder Trial
FAIRBANKS, GP*—Two top law
enforcement officers said a letter
written by Mrs. Dianne Wells just
before her March 9 suicide in
Hollywood may be of value in the
Cecil Wells murder case investi
gation.
Dist. Atty. Ted Stevens and
U.S. Marshal A1 Dorseh disclosed
in a joint statement that the letter
is.in the hands of a private inves
tigator.
The investigator is Glen E. Bo
dell, formerly associated with
Earl Stanley Gardner. He has
been hired by the Wells estate.
Alaska Airlines
Persists in Try for
Fare Reductions
WASHINGTON, (At—A 1 a s k a
Airlines asked the Civil Aeronau
tics Board Friday to reconsider its
suspension of Alaska’s proposal
to reduce fares between Fair
banks and the Pacific Northwest.
Alaska wants to cut its $90 fare
to $75, in order to compete with
the two-hours-faster service of
fered by Pan American World
Airways.
Alaska said the board, in ruling
that the new fare may be lower
than costs justify, must have been
looking at the question from the
standpoint of Pan American,
which it called the “heaviest sub
sidized airline.”
It said the board was operating
in a “factual vacuum” and had no
idea of Pan American’s actual
costs.
Alaska Airlines added that sus
pension of its reduced fares would
give a “green light” to Northwest
Orient Airlines to start Seattle
Anchorage DC-6B service at no
difference in fare, in competition
with Pacific Northern which, like
Alaska Airlines, has only DC-4’s.
Northwest plans to do this on
April 1, thus placing Pacific
Northern in the same predicament
as Alaska, the petition said.
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PAN AMERICAN PRESENTS . . .
A NEW SCHEDULE
FOR THE NOME SERVICE
EFFECTIVE APRIL 1. 1954
Flight 901 — DC-6B
Lv. Seattle TUESDAY & FRIDAY 7:30 a.m.
Ar. Fairbanks TUESDAY & FRIDAY 11:30 a.m.
Flight 911 — DC-4
Lv. Fairbanks TUESDAY & FRIDAY 12 Noon
Ar. Nome TUESDAY & FRIDAY 2:00 p.m.
Flight 912 — DC-4
Lv. Nome TUESDAY & FRIDAY 5:00 p.m.
Ar. Fairbanks TUESDAY & FRIDAY 9:00 p.m.
Lv. Fairbanks TUESDAY & FRIDAY 10:00 p.m.
Ar. Seattle WEDNESDAY & SATURDAY 8:00a.m.
All Times Above Are Local Standard For The City Indicated
Please note that this new schedule was designed to extend
to the Nome people the advantage of DC-6B Super Six service
between Seattle and Fairbanks. It is unfortunate that under
the present circumstances it is not possible to provide this
same service south-bound.
ONLY THE SCHEDULE HAS BEEN CHANGED
The Quality of the Service and the Fares Remain Unaltered