Cargo Containers Keep Alaska Freighter Susitna Active
J^JORE SAILINGS from Seattle
are made each year by the
Alaska Steamship Co. motorship
Susitana thrn by any other dry
cargo, ocean-going ship, accord
ing to Richard Mohn, manager of
the Seattle Merchants Exchange.
Most of the Susitana’s 23 voy
ages last year were on her reg
ular assignment, the run to South
eastern Alaska. The 6,000-ton
vessel sails every other Friday
opposite her sister ships, the Ga
lena, Tanana or Tatalina, calling
at Ketchikan, Wrangell, Peters
burg, Juneau and Sitka. Skagwav
and Haines are added ports on
her alternate sailings.
Freight transportation, the pri
mary activity of Alaska Steam
since its organization in the gold
rush days of 1895, became its spe
cialization on discontinuance of
passenger service in 1954.
Since then Alaska • Steam has
been providing regularly sched
Eigteen Members of ;Deep Freeze’
Will keep Lonely Vigil at Antarctic
Headquarters Until Relieved in Oct.
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Gifted Anchorage Girl
Sets Speed Record at
Secreterial Collesre
SPOKANE, Wash. UP)—Employ
ers please line up to the right.
Patricia Johnson of Anchorage.
Alaska, set a record at Keating
Secretarial College, officials said
this week. She completed the
course in six months with a short
hand speed of 140 words a minute
and a typing speed of 70 words a
minute. She had straight “A”
grades in other subjects.
‘Tons of Ice’ Fall
On Russian Base
At South Pole
NEW YORK, UP) — The Mos
cow paper Pravda reports thous
ands of tons of the ice shield fell
at the Soviet Antactic outpost
Mirny catapulting members of
the Russian’s expedition into the
sea and killing two.
The accident took place, the
Soviet paper said, while the ship
Lena was being unloaded, and
the Lena itself had a narrow es
cape from destruction.
Pravda said members of the
Lena’s crew demonstrated hero
ism in lifeboats, rescuingf from
the frigid water an unspecified
number of men.
Mirny is the center of Soviet
Antarctic activity. It is about a
thousand miles from the Amer
ican Antarctic center at McMur
do Sound. One American meteor
ologist is stationed on an ex
change basis with the Russians
at Mirny.
By AMES F. TOMLINSON
McMURDO SOUND, Antarc
tica, OP) — Operation Deep Freeze
II ended today with a farewell
flight to the South Pole.
A U. S. Air Force Globemaster
roared off the icy runwav at this
Antarctic base to parachute last
minute supplies to the 18 Amer
icans manning the scientific out
post at the bottom of the world.
The flight wound up man’s big
gest assault to date on this ice
bound continent.
Part One of Operation Deep
Freeze, which ended last Jan
uary, included the establishment
of main bases at McMurdo and
Little America V and explora
tion for other scientific stations.
Operation Deep Freeze II saw
the work fan out to set up and
supply other bases in the snowy
wastes. Operation Deep Freeze
III, expected to start next Oc
tober, will bring in supplies and
fresh personnel to replace the men
who will serve at the stations
through the Antarctic winter.
The operations are being car
ried out as part of the Lailed
States’ role in the International
Geophysical Year (IGY > program.
J At the South Pole, Antarctic
| Explorer i aul Siple and 17 other
I men will attempt 'to be the first
to survive a winter there. Sipie
expects temperatures of 120 de
grees beiov zero.
u'led freighter service. Each week
a vessel sails for Southeastern
Alaska and two for Southwestern
Alaska to connect with interior
cities. Last year there were 171
voyages to the Northland.
As was true with the passen
ger business, modern develop
ments are making the piece-by
piece handling of packaged goods
a thing of the past. Much cargo
is consolidated and moved in
sealed containers. To a degree it
is this container service, begun
in 1953, that has made possible
the regularity of freighter
sailings.sailings.
The number of 60-. and 144
cubic-foot containers exceeds
18,000. Each is 'handled readily
by fork-lift truck aboard ship
and on the wharf, eliminating
much longshore drudgery. Four
of the five Alaska Steam 10,000
ton Liberty ships and all eight
6,000-ton coastal freighters have
been adapted to handle con
tainers.
The Susitna’s holds were the
first in the fleet to be paved for
easy maneuvering of fork-lift
trucks. While a major portion of
her cargo is containerized, the
Susitna also carries a variety of
items, such as automobiles, loco
motives, fire engines and live
stock, not packaged readily. She
was named for a river northwest
of Anchorage.
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Military Land Transfer Restrictions
Sought for Alaska and Hawaii
WASHINGTON, (JB—'The House
Interior Committee has agreed to
include Hawaii under proposed
legislation to control the with
drawal of public lands for mili
tary purposes.
As originally introduced by
Committee Chairman Engle (D
Calif.), the bill would have ap
Astronomy iNotes
By OLAF HALVERSON
Easter is on April 21st one of
the three latest occurrences with
in the last forty years. It is a
movable festival because it falls
on different dates in different
years.
Easter is the first Sunday after
the full mocn after the 21st of
March. Hence Easter cannot occur
earlier than March 22nd nor later
than April 25th.
Some of the earliest dates for
Easter are: in 1918 it was on
March 31st; in 1921 it was on
March 27th; in 1929 it was on
March 31st; in 1932 it was on!
March 27th; in 1937 it was an
March 28th and in 1940 it was on
March 24th, one of the earliest.
The twenty-first of March,
which is the date from which the
calculations are made, is the ver
nal equinox, or when the sun is
above the equator and the days
and nights are equal.
plied only to the United States
mainland and Alaska.
It would require Congressional,
approval for any withdrawal of
public land in excess of 5,000
acres for military use. The bill*
also would require that military'
personnel observe local game and!
fish laws for hunting and fishing!
on or off military reservations. !
Hawaii was included in the leg-!
islation at the request of Delegate;
Bums (D-Hawaii). The bill is still
before the committee, with si,
final vote expeeted next week.
“At present, Bums said, public
land in Hawaii can be transferred
to the military by executive ac
tion of the President or the gov
ernor. The new bill would re
quire an act of Congress for siz
able withdrawals.”
One of our difficulties in the
past has been that once land is
taken away there is a tendency
never to get it back.”
He continued: “A Congression
al act could specify that the land
be returned to its former status
when no longer used for military
purposes.”.
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