Bids Sought on Nome
Airfield Drainage
Civil Aeronautics Administra
tion will accept sealed bids for
the rehabilitation of the drainage
system at the Nome air field until
2 p.m. June 25.
Award will be made to one con
tractor only and anyone desiring
more information has been ad
j vised to address inquiries to Room
302, Federal Bldg., Anchorage.
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Russia Is Turning
Island Off Siberia
Into Huge Air Base
By FRED SAITO
MAI2URU, Japan, UP)—A Jap
anese repatriate from the U.S.S.R.
says Russia has turned the island
of Sakhalin, off the Siberian coast,
into a huge military, jet plane and
naval base.
Fobukatsu Murboka, 38, who
was a railroad worker on the is
land, told newsmen:
“Russian jet planes fly over
head every day. Russian soldiers
are walking every place. Concrete
and steel buildings are going up
all over. The southern port of Kor
sakov is being turned into a naval
base and no Orientals are permit
ted there.”
He said the Russians started a
steady flow of North Korean labor
into Sakhalin—the southern half
of which Japan owned until the
end of World War II—as soon as
the Korean War was over.
Murboka was one of 62 Japan
ese repatriated from Siberia last
week. He said he was sent to Si
I beria from Sakhawin two years
i ago after being jailed on “slow
| down” charges.
i He said about 200 Japanese are
Eisenhower’s Brother
Resigns University Job
UNIVERSITY PARK, Dr.
Milton Eisenhower has resigned
as president of Pennsylvania State
University. The resignation is ef
fective no later than Dec. 31.
The announcement was made at
the university in the absence of
Eisenhower, who was in Washing
ton with his ailing brother, the
President.
j The resignation came on the
| eve of the graduation ceremonies
for the university, Saturday.
Milton Eisenhower said he re
signed for personal reasons.
living at bare subsistence level on
Sakhalin. They are restricted from
going north of the 50th Parallel
out of former Japanese territory
or approaching military installa
tions.
All former Japanese air bases
have been expanded for use by
jets, especially the one near the
capital, now known as Kuzhno
Sakhalinsk, Murboka said.
The returnees said about 4 0
Japanese on Sakhalin, all civil
ians, have been convicted—usual
ly “framed”—on charges of es
I pionage, supporting capitalism or
i disloyalty to the Soviet Union.
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Jet-Fired Rockets
Slam to Earth
Near Fairbanks
FAIRBANKS, —Six rockets,
fired from an F-89 Scorpion jet
fighter plane on a gunnery range
near Fairbanks, slammed to earth
on the southern outskirts of the
city Monday night.
Police said there were no injur
ies and no property damage from
the errant missiles, which were
rigged with dummy heads not
containing explosives.
An Air Force spokesman at
Ladd AFB, the plane’s home field,!
termed the accident an “electronic
miscalculation of distance.” The
rockets came from one of four
Scorpions practicing firing on the
rocket range 27 miles south of
Fairbanks.
One of the rockets hit the Rich
ardson Highway. Several of the
others landed near small homes
on the southern outskirts of Fair
banks but caused no damage be
cause of their non-explosive na
ture.
Brig. Gen. G. Alan Bennett,
commander of the 11th Air Divi
sion, said Air Force teams and
Fairbanks police were successful
in locating all of the rockets.
“There was no human error,”
Bennett said.
The first call to police came at
8:27 p.m. when a taxi driver heard '
; a loud thud as he started through
the door of the cab company’s of
fice. He ran to his taxi and found
about two feet on the other side
of the vehicle the tail fin of a
rocket protruding from the pave
ment. A Ladd ammunition officer
disarmed the weapon, not know
ing whether it w’as live.
The rockets, two feet long, bur
ied themselves in the ground with
only the tailfins showing. Some
were imbedded in the permafrost
I and a Ladd spokesman said cables
| would have to be used to pull the
rockets free.
Senate-Passed Bill
Permits Export of Walrus
Hides From Alaska
WASHINGTON UP—The Senate
Monday passed a bill to permit
export of walrus hides from Alas
ka and to authorize hunting of
walrus for purposes other than
food or clothing.
The measure is aimed at im
proving the Eskimo economy by
permitting sale of the hides as
silver-buffing material.
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