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1 Killed, 8 Injured
In Nike Explosion
At Proving Ground
WHITE SANDS PROVING
GROUND, NjM. —One man was
killed and eight injured Friday
when a Nike engine exploded,
blowing the roof off the building
where it was being tested.
Clyde F. Wooford, Las Cruces,
died of injuries about two hours
after the explosion. One of the in
jured was in serious condition.
The engine for the guided mis
sile was being tested when “some
thing went wrong,” a spokesman
said.
“It was a chemical explosion,”
he said. “They're investigating
now but it will probably take sev
eral days to determine just how
the explosion occurred.” *
Airman Gilbert Ozenna
Gets Korea Assignment
FIFTH AIR FORCE, Korea—
Airman Third Class Gilbert Ozen
na of Nome, Alaska, was recently
assigned to the 58th Fighter
Bomber Wing, a Korea-based unit
of the Fifth Air Force.
| Airman Ozenna attended the
Nome Public School. He enlisted
in the Air Force in December 1952.
Presently he is a member of a
unit whose mission in the Far
I East is combat readiness and air
i defense against possible agression.
SS Baranof Sold
To Japanese Firm
SEATTLE—The S.S. Baranof
has been sold by the Alaska
Steamship Co. to Japanese inter
ests. The transaction awaits only
the approval of the U.S. and Jap
anese governments, stated R. C.
Anderson, executive vice presi
dent.
The Baranof, a 4990-ton, 186
passenger ship, was built in 1919
as the Grace liner Santa Elisa.
She was renamed for an old
Russian fur baron when she en
tered the Alaska trade in 1936.
Since last fall, when Alaska Steam
went out of the passenger busi
ness, she has been idle in Lake
Washington.
Japan Holding Out for
Unconditional Return of
Her Pre-War Islands
TOKYO, Uft—Japan’s chief ne
gotiator at the Russian-Japanese
peace talks said Saturday Japan
is insisting on unconditionl return
of southern Kuriles, Shikotan and
Habomai Islands.
j
Shunichi Matsumoto told news
men Russia’s offer to return Shik
otan and Hadomai Islands on con
dition that they not be fortified
“would be an infringement of
Japanese sovereignty and is not
acceptable to Japan.”
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Nurse Grace Crosson
Cited for Help Given
To Shot-Down Airmen
The St. Lawrence Island nurse,
Grace Crosson, of the Alaska Pub
lic Health Dept, was cited by Rear
Adm. K. Craig for her help to
men injured in a Navy patrol
plane shot down in Bering Sea
June 22, according to the Alaska
Health bulletin.
“The plane’s crew, their fami
lies and the personnel of this
command,” wrote Adm. Craig,
“join me in sending you a grateful
‘Well done’ in recognition of your
role in the rescue.”
Commenting on the accident of
the 11-crew plane, Miss Crosson
wrote, “Thank goodness I was
there and not in Savoonga (her
other ’station on the island). They
were certainly brave fellows, six
of them badly burned on face and
hands and not a noticeable peep
out of them. We were all so thank
ful they made it to shore 12 miles
below here.”
Whaling Fleet Back
To Vancouver With
629 Whales Harpooned
VANCOUVER, B.C., (M—A six
craft whaling fleet has returned to
Vancouver from its hunt off the
west coast of Vancouver Island,
reporting one less catch than the
record of 630 whales harpooned
last year.
One of the few wrhaling fleets
operating in North America, the
six catcher boats also accounted
for the largest mammals ever tak
en by the fleet—an 86-foot blue
whale harpooned last May 10.
The six-month whaling season
in Pacific coastal *■ waters ended
last week and officials of B.C.
Packers Ltd. said it had again
been successful. The company re
sumed commercial whaling last
year after a lapse of eight years.
The harpoon-equipped catcher
vessels—three of them veterans of
Antarctic whaling expeditions and
three converted mine sweepers—
are based at Coal Harbor in Quot
sino Sound, near the northern tip
of Vancouver Island.
Their hunting territory extends
to a 150-mile radius.
Nome Directory
NOME ROTARY CLUB
George Bayer, Pres.
Joe Kroninger, Sec.
Thursday Luncheon
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Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Tuesday Noon
DR. FRED M. LANGSAM, Pres.
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. 1
Order of Eastern Star
Meets 1st 4 3d Monday of each month.
Beverly Morgan
Worthy Matron
Helen Dunbar
Secretary
C. F. O’DELL
— Notary Public —
Bookkeeping & Secretarial Service
711 FRONT ST.
P.O. BOX 201 MAIN 14
2 P.M. to 10 P.M.
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No. 140
Charles P. Lewis, WJtf.
Norvin W. Lewis, Secy.
Metis 1st and 3d Thursday each month.