Northern Lights
Provides Unusual
Show in States
CHICAGO, (#) — An Aurora
Borealis extending over the north
ern United States provided an
unusual show of northern lights
in the south last night.
Sightings were reported from
as far south as Del Rio, Texas,
where an Air Force pilot noted
the celestial exhibition. It was
also seen at Anderson, S. C., Las
Vegas, Nev., and points in Idaho.
Scientists said sightings south
of the 39th degree north latitude,
which passes along the southern
Tennessee border, and close to
Amarillo, Albuquerque and
Needles, Calif., are unusual.
The Aurora, which occurs at al
titudes of from 100 to 600 miles, is
caused by the influence of the
earth’s magnetic field on clouds
of ionized hydrogen emitted by
the sun, especially during periods
of high sunspot activity.
Because the 11-year sunspot
cycle is nearing its most active
phase, scientists said, brilliant
aurorae may be expected during
the next two or three yars.
HEAVY EARTHQUAKE
ROCKS JAMAICA
KINGSTON, Jamaica OP) —
The heaviest earthquake in 50
years rocked Jamaica Friday,
killing a woman and injuring four
other persons.
Property damage was not
heavy. Electric power and tele
phone services were broken for
a time, but quickly restored. At
Montego Bay, a port city in north
west Jamaica, a steeple of a 200
year-old church collapsed and
the walls of many houses were
cracked.
BROKEN WINDOW SHATTERS
DOWN ON AFRICAN CROWD
WELCOMING U. S. VICE PRES.
CASABLANCA, Morocco, Iff)—
A shower of broken, glass narrow
ly missed Vice President Nixon
Saturday as he made a handshak
ing sortie into a dense welcoming
crowd here.
A big pane of glass on a second
floor balcony broke as the Vice
President stood below virtually
engulfed by the throng. Nixon
heard the crash but paid no at
tention.
The Naval Air Test Center,
Patuxent River, Md., tests all new :
Navy aircraft before they are de
livered to operating squadrons. 1
Death in Auto Collision
With Car of Brother
FORT SMITH, Ark., UP) — Spe
cialist 2/c Glenin C. Brown, 23,
was injured fatally in an auto
collision with his brother yester
day.
Brown, a soldier on leave from
Texas, was thrown from his car
in the collision with an auto driven
by Jerry Brown, 21, on a Fort
Smith street. Officers said the
cars were traveling in the same
direction.
FAIRBANKS GIRL FIRST IN
ELKS CLUB YOUTH CONTEST
KODIAK, UP) — The Royal
Canadian Air Force maritime
patrol squadron, based at Comox,
B. C., will participate in routine
training exercises with U. S.
Coast Guard and Naval forces in
the Gulf of Alaska March 5-9,
Rear Admiral Ira E. Hobbs, U. S.
Naval commander of the Alaska
Sea Frontier, said last week.
The admiral will direct the
joint exercises.
Alaska Airlines
From Anchorage: Warren Tif
, fany, Arthur Jessup, Charles Fra
I zier, Sonya Taylor, Mary Tweet,
Henry Knudsen.
To Anchorage: R. Wieckowicz,
C. Wilson, G. Vancil, B. Froher,
H. Burke, J. Owens, M. Gross
nicklaus, Gordon Young, Mrs. |
Johnson, Garbee Roache, Daniel |
Block, William Seckbach, Charles
Finman.
To Umalakleet: Wilbur Wright,
Warren Tiffany, Wilfred Ryan,
Sig Krogstad.
JUDY HOLLIDAY GETS
MEXICAN DIVORCE
NEW YORK, UP) — Film and
stage star Judy Holliday has ob
tained a Mexican divorce to end
her nine-year marriage to musi
cian David Oppenheim, her attor
ney said last week.
Miss Holliday, 33, gained cus
today of their four-year-old son,
Jonathan. The couple had been
estranged for some time.
INVISIBLE RIDERS?
SHREVEPORT, La., UP) — Pa
trolman Jeff Richardson told city
court yesterday he had stopped
Jesse Hill and asked where he was
going in such a hurry. i
“I’m taking my friends home,”
j Hill replied.
The court fined Hill $150 on
! charges of driving while iintoxi
! cated. Richardson said there was
I no one except Hill in the car.
Wheels Instead of Feet in 200 Years?
Or Should Kids W alk to School?
JUNEAU, UP> — On a 20-4 vote,
the House passed a bill Friday
which would give local school
boards the authority to extend
present school bus service. Cur
rent regulations prevent school
buses from picking up youngsters
who live less than a mile and a
half from their schools.
Under terms of this bill, pupils
living closer to school also would
be eligible for school bus trans
portation, providing the local
school officials pay the cost.
One who voted against the bill
was an Anchorage Democrat, Sea
born J. Buckalew. In a speech on
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the floor of the House, Buckalew
said he objected on the ground
that school children “go from a
heated home into a hot school
bus and into an overheated class
room — and they reach the age
of 18 without ever being outside.”
“We don’t have a rugged re
public any more,” Buckalew pro
tested. “It used to be that the
only time an average citizen
walked at all was when he walked
to school.
“Two hundred years from now,
at this rate, people will have
wheels instead of feet. If we’re
going to live in this cold country,
we should get outside and walk
in it.”
A Ketchikan Democrat, Robert
Ziegler, took the floor and said:
“Maybe Mr. Buckalew would like
to tell us how he gets to the House
of Representatives each day from
Douglas.”
Buckalew said: “Many a time
lately I’ve walked all the way ir
God’s fresh air and sunshine.”
Replied Ziegler: “It should be
called to the attention of the
House that Mr. Buckalew’s auto
mobile has been broken down foi
two weeks.”
Floating Islands of
Polar Ice Pack
I Will he A, F. Bases
By VERN HAUGLAND
WASHINGTON, The Air
Force said today it plans to reoc
cupy this week the floating ice is
land in the arctic it calls T-3.
The Air Force also soon will es
tablish a new floating post on the
ice pack north of Alaska, some
700 miles west of T-3.
The two positions will be used
for scientific observations during
the 18-month-long International
Geophysical Year starting July 1.
The T-3 post, also known as
Fletcher’s Island, will be identi
fied to IGY as Station B, and the
base north of Alaska will be Sta
tion A. T'hey will be within 525
miles of the North Pole.
From past observations, it is
known that T-3 drifts in a coun
ter-clockwise direction around the
Pole at the rate of about a mile
and a half a day. It moves west
ward along the Canadian coast
into the Beaufort Sea, across the
Pole and back to the area of Elles
mere Island. Unoccupied since
1955, it was rediscovered in mid
February off the northwest tip of j
Greenland 200 miles northwest of
Ellesmere.
Station A, on ice only 10 to 12
feet thick, will accommodate 10
scientists and 10 Air Force per
sonnel. The island will be serviced
by Air Force units; in Alaska.
Fletcher’s Island, or T-3, will
be served from Thule Air Base in
Greenland. It is 4V£ miles wide
and nine miles long, and the ice
averages 150 feet in thickness.
The island was occupied from
March 1952 until May 1954, and
in 1955 from June until Septem
ber. Used for weather observa
tions, it was abandoned when it
drifted into areas served by more
permanent stations;.
The Air Force said its house
keeping and maintenance team on
T-3 would consist of 15 airmen—
all volunteers.
In addition to weather studies,
the scientists will measure the
current flow, temperature and
salinity of the ocean water at var
ious depths. They will use radio
active tritium and carbon-14 tech
niques to determine the age of
water samples from different sea
depths. They will study bottom
cores for. comparison of arctic
ocean sediments, substrata and
marine life with that of other
oceans.
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Icebreaker Will Return
To Little America
Wi+h More Provisions
! SEATTLE, iff) — The Navy ice
breaker Northwind will not re
turn to Seattle on schedule tout
will make one more trip to Little
America in the Antarctic before
returning here, headquarters of
the 13th Naval District announced.
The Northwind, damaged in an
earlier trip to Little America, has
been repaired in New Zealand
and will carry another cargo of
provisions to the South (Pole. A
spokesman here said the Navy
would announce an. estimated time
of arrival in Seattle as soon as it
became known.
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Anchorage Man Killed
In Arizona Plane Crash
GLOBE, Ariz., W) — An Anchor
age contractor was killed yester
day and his brother injured when
their light plane dropped into a
canyon in a landing attempt about
35 miles north of Globe near U. S.
Highway 60.
A highway patrol officer said
the two had taken off from Tuc
son, where they had been visiting
a relative, and were headed for
Grand Junction. Strong winds
(buffeted the light craft north of
Globe.
The pilot, B. B. Irwin, 39, died
instantly in the crash, and New
ton Irwin, 27, of Grand Junction,
Colo., suffered a smashed right
arm and possibly other injuries.
Globe, the officer said, and Irvin
turned back and tried for a land
ing on a clear spot near the high
way. Instead, the plane overshot
the clearing and dropped into the
canyon.
The survivor crawled to the
highway and was given first aid
by a passing physician, who took
him to the hospital in Globe.
U.S. and Canadian Units
To Train in Alaska Waters
KODIAK, (if) — Maureen Avery
of Anchorage placed first in the
Alaska Territorial Elks Assn.
Youth Leadership contest. Dennis
Cooc of Fairbanks was second.
Names of the leaders will be
submitted to the Grand Lodge
for national competition. I
Ice Pool Dates
Since 1917, when the Pool
was started, the ice has gone
out at Nenana as follows:
1917— April 30.11:30 aon.'
1918— May 11. 9:33 a.m.
1919— May S. 2:33 pan.
1920— May 11.10:45 a.m.
1921— May 11. 6:42 aon.
1922— May 12. 1:20 pan.
1923— May 9. 2:00 p.m.
1924— May 11. 3:10 pan.
1925— May , 7. 6:32 p.m.
1926— April 26. 4:03 pan.
1927— May 13. 5:42 a.m.
1928— May 6. 4:25 pan.
1929— May 5. 3:41 pan.
1930— LMay 8. 7:03 pan.
1931— May 10. 9:23 aon.
1932— May 1 .10:15 a.m.
1933— May 8. 7:30 p.m.
1934— April 30. 2:07 pan.
1935— May 15. 1:32 pan.
1936— April 30.12:58 pan.
1937— May 12. 8:04 pan.
1938— May 6. 8:14 pan.
1939— April 29. 1:26 pan.
1940— April 20. 3:27 pan.
1941— May 3. 1:50 aon,
1942— April 30. 1:28 pan
1943— April 28. 7:22 pan
1944— May 4. 2:08 p.m
1945— May 16. 9:41 aon.
1948—May 5. 4:40 p.m.
1947— May 3. 5:53 p.m.
1948— May 13.11:13 pan.
1949— May 14.12:39 pan.
1950— May 6. 4:14 p.m.
'951—April 30 . 5:54 pan.
1952— May 12. 5:04 p.m.
1953— April 29. 3:54 p.m.
1954— May 6. 6:01 pom.
1955— May 9. 2:13 pan.
1956— May 1.11:24 aon.
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