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Federal Electric 3 1 .750
Linaments . 5 3 .625
Polar Bar . 5 3 .625
N. C. Sluggers 5 3 .625
Mizers . 4 4 .500
Airlines . 4 4 .500
Weather Bureau 3 5 .375
F A A .5 3.5 .125
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Hospital Cases ..0 8 .000
Morgans . 0 8 .000
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U. S. Secret Outer Space Atom Blasts
Created Protective Neutron ‘Shield’
By JOE F. KANE
WASHINGTON, UP) — Three
nuclear bombs exploded by the
United States beyond the earth’s
atmosphere formed an electronic
sheet that circled most of the
world.
A responsible official outside
the Defense Department said the
tests at tremendous altitude were
an effort to spread a shield
through which missiles could not
fly.
Defense Department officials
confirmed Wednesday night that
the blasts had been set off se
cretly last September, for both
military and scientific test pur
poses. But they declined to dis
cuss the military angles.
Other sources reported, how
ever, that the tests explored the
possibility of generating at an al
titude of about 300 miles a diffu
sion of neutrons which would
offset the nuclear reaction in mis
sile warheads.
Just how the electronic shield
could halt a missile or keep it
from exploding was not explained.
The shots were fired from naval
craft in the South Atlantic late
in September — more than a
month before the United States
started a one-year suspension of
nuclear tests pending negotiations
with the Soviet Union halting
all such testing.
Deputy Secretary of Defense
Donald Quarles and Dr. Herbert
York, director of Pentagon re
search, gave some details of the
test shots after newsmen learned
of them from other sources.
They said the explosions were
of very low yield in radiation and
would not disclose the altitude
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at which the tests were made.
York said there was no radioactive
fallout on the earth from the
tests. ‘
York said the main objective
of the blasts was to test important
theories about the trapping of
electrons by the earth’s magnetic
field. He said the detonation of
the bombs released electrons into
space above the earth’s atmos
phere, and that the trapping of
these by the earth’s magnetic
field created the great sheet that
eventually circled the globe.
The ’nonmilitary part of the
test, York said, was to find out
more about the nature and origin
of the Van Allen belt of radia
tion.
The Van Allen belt is a myster
ious radiation band beginning at
about 1,000 miles above the earth
and extending, with some inter
ruptions, up to at least 12,000
miles. It is named for its discov
erer, Dr. James Van Allen, State
University of Iowa physicist.
New State Lands
Bill Passes Senate
JUNEAU, OP) — A state lands
bill, containing proposed regula
tions for leasing of oil and gas
lands, was approved unanimously
by the Senate yesterday and sent
to the House.
The bill would permit com
panies searching for oil in Alaska
to hold up to a million acres in
leases on state lands—a half mil
lion acres each of uplands and
tidal areas.
It would tie competitive leas
ing of uplands to the actual dis
covery of oil and provides for a
12Vfe per cent royalty payment to
the state on actual oil production.
Uplands leasing generally
would be on a first-come, first
served basis. However, once a
producing well was established,
the state could classify surround
ing land for competitive leasing.
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Workmen’s Comp.
Measure Passes
In Alaska House
JUNEAU, W* — The hotly-con
tested Senate Bill 22 which died
in both the past two Legislatures,
to expand benefits to injured
Alaska workmen, 'went to the
House yesterday with unanimous
Senate endorsement.
Only major change this year is
in the so-called “open end” pro
vision for death benefits. As the
Senate approved it, that point
would be left to court determina
tion in any case in which the
death provision was involved.
Sen. Coghill tried and failed, on
party line votes, to establish a
$52,000 dollar ceiling.
Supporters argued that the bill
would now cost employers less in
insurance fees. It was vetoed in
1957 on the grounds that it would
cause an unknown increase in
workmen’s compensation costs to
employers.
Sen. Moody said the reduced
rates follow disclosures by the
Legislative Council that “insur
ance carriers had been making an
exhorbitant profit off employers.”
It brought about a series of rate
reductions amounting to 37 per
cent, he said, and even with the
increased benefits employers will
still enjoy rates 14 per cent less
than previously.
Sen. Owen said he was grateful
to the Legislative Council for the
disclosure of the high rates in
Alaska. He also said he welcomed
what he called the “growth of
human compassion in this Sen
ate,” referring to the “inhuman
remarks” he said were made in
the 1955 legislative debate.
In 1955 and 1957, Owen and
Sen. Beltz sponsored the bill. It
was introduced as a Legislative
Council bill this year.
Joy Manufacturing Co. and
Union Carbide Corp. are working
on a remote control system of coal
mining, whereby mining and
transporting machinery will be
guided and controlled from the
surface, with no one underground.
They predict success with this
system within 5 to 10 years.
NOTARY PUBLIC
at
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Nome Directory
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meet* Every Monday Noon at
North Star Dining Room
Jerry Manning, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. 1
Order of Eastern Star
Doris Wilke
Worthy Matron
Helen Dunbar
Secretary
Meets First and Third Mondays
ANVIL LODGE
No. 140
HERB JENKS, W.M.
Norvin V. Lewis, bee.
Meets First and Third Thursday
of Each Month
NOME ROTARY CLUB
Jfan Wlnnning
President
Bob Grant
Secretary
Wednesday Luncheon
Parent-Teachers Assn.
Meets last Tuesday of ovary
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ROSCOE WILKIE. President
MART D1EDE. Secretary.
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