British Dog Loyalty . . .
WHERSTAD, England, UFi —
Somebody told Spot, Britain's
* obedient dog, to “sit” ?md he did
. — for 14 hours, ,
Officials of the Royal Society
j for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals were investigating the
case.
A cyclist reported the dog was
. sitting beside the road at 6 p.m.
Thursday and was still sitting
there when he rode to work Fri
day morning.
An RSPCA inspector had to
slip a collar around the dog’s neck
to get him to move.
Said the inspector: “I could tell
from the dog’s reluctance to move
that it was obeying a command.
I am treating this as a case of
a dog abandoned.”
Fine Job Printing At The Nugget.
Hawaiians Solemnize
Pearl Harbor Day
On Sunken Arizona
PEARB HARBOR, Hawaii, (JPi
— Ceremonies aboard the sunken
battleship Arizona, choir sorfgs
and somber memories marked the
17th anniversary Sunday of the
attack on Pearl Harbor.
The ceremonies were to take
place on a platform built on the
Arizona’s superstructure, still pro
truding from the water of this
giant naval base.
The Arizona was one of the
first targets hit in the surprise
attack by waves of Japanese
bombers. She sank in eight min
utes, entombing 1,102 of her men.
The ceremonies — dedicated to
peace — were to launch a nation
wide fund-raising campaign to
enshrine the Arizona.
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Space Probe Loses Speed In Army’s
First Attempt To Launch Moon Rocket j
By VERN HAUGLAND
. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., UP) —
The Army fired its first space
probe thousands of miles into the
sky Saturday but hours later cal
culated that the goldplat'ed vehicle
would travel barely a quarter of
the distance to the moon.
Pioneer III had been equipped
to send back a signal when it
passed the moon. Had it been com
pletely successful it would have
gone on to slip into orbit around
the sun.
Instead the Jupiter rocket that
was the first stage of the launch
ing vehicle cut out 3.7 seconds
prematurely, and the probe failed
by about 1,000 m.p.h. to attain the
24,000 m.pJi. velocity required to
| reach or go past the moon.
'tfhe Army’s jet propulsion lab
oratory built the instrument filled
space cone, a 13-pound forerunner
to future satellites. It was only
23 inches high, weighed 13 pounds
and was 10 inches in diameter at
the base.
Dr. William Pickering, director
of JPL, estimated the cone would
reach a peak altitude of 64,830
miles, and would fall back to
earth about 3 pm. Sunday.
This would be 14,000 miles less
than the distance attained by
Pioneer I, launched by the Air
, Force October 11.
No one was wishing the Army
I bad luck, but since its first space
shot was less than perfect some
Air Force officers could not con
I ceal their relief that Pioneer III
j had not outperformed Pioneer I.
Eight hours after the launching
Pioneer III was more than 42,000
miles away' from the earth but
had dropped to a velocity of 3,718
m.p.fa. is
Pioneer III had as its primary
goal the attainment of lunar dis
tance in a flight of 33 hours.
Dr. John Froelich. aide to
Pickering, told a conference here
that radio telemetry signals from
the probe were being received at
the Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, trac
ing station in excellent fashion.
Turns Down Reward
For Saving Family
DALLAS, Tex., Iff)—Newspaper
carrier Bruce Shockey, 14, turned
down a $15 reward for routing a
sleeping family from a burning
home.
He was delivering copies of the
Dallas News about 5 a.m. when
he spotted smoke issuing from
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Don
ald H. Heil and their two chil
dren. They fled unhurt after his
pounding on the door waked Mrs.
Heil.
“I looked at the burning house
and decided they needed the mo
ney worse than I did,” Bruce said.
MINING ENGINEER
EVALUATES RARE
GOLD NUGGET
Fred Kubon, well-known mining
engineer, geogolist and metal
lurgist, on being shown the huge
gold nugget which will be given
away at the Roof Garden had this
to say: "IT IS BY FAR THE
MOST UNIQUE, ATTRACIVE
RARE SPECIMEN OF IS KIND
| I HAVE EVER SEEN. I MIGHT
SAY IT IS PRICELESS."
We know that Fred has handled
and processed millions of dollars
worth of gold and has had wide
experience in lode and placer gold
mining. Fred was onetime mayor
of Nome.
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Army Party
Blazes Trail From
Little America
' ; By CHARLES MAHER
McMtJiRDO SOUND, Antarctica
Uft—An eight-man party of Amer
ican trail-blazers moved three '
miles across the Ross Ice Shelf
Friday as much like a man on
tiptoes as their tons of equipment
would permit.
Hie party of Army Maj. Merle
Dawson is menaced by crevasses
on its trip from Little America to
the U. S. base at McMurdo Sound.
Dawson figures another three to
five miles might get him out of
the crevasse area, a Navy officer
reported.
Lt. Cmdr. Jerry Barlow added
that with luck the party might
make it to McMurdo Sound toy
Saturday or Sunday. “But it could
take a week,” Barlow said.
Barlow is the executive officer
of air development Squadron 6
which flies several daily loads of
fuel and dynamite to Dawson. The
dynamite is used to blast down
snowbridges across crevasses lo
cated toy electronic detectors.
The party then pushes snow
into the holes so it can cross the
pockets in the ice formed toy gla
cial movements. Barlow estimated
that 50 crevasses had been found
in two days.
The party left Little America
21 days before to mark a 480-mile
trail for the evacuation of that
outpost.
Barlow said Dawson doubts that
the heavy equipment at Little
America can be moved over his
trail. Little America is being
abandoned because the ice shelf
on which it sits is expected to
break off.
FAST DRAWS TOO FAST . . .
GOLDEN, Colo., UPl — Earl
Vaughn shot himself in the right
leg yesterday when the gun he
was fast-drawing from a holster
discharged prematurely. Vaughn
is president of the Colorado Gun
slingers Association, of Colorado
Springs. The wound was only a
scratch.
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Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon at
North Star Dining Room
Jerry Manning, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO 1
Order of Eastern Star
Mildred Harwood
Worthy Matron
Helen Dunbar
I_H Secretary
Meets First and Third Mondays
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No. 140
J. A. von der Heydt, W.M.
Norvji v. Lewis, Sec.
Meets First and Third Thursday
of Each Month
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Jim Blanning
President
Bob Grant
Secretary
Wednesday Luncheor
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Meets last Tuesday of every
month at School.
ROSCOE WILKIE, President
MARY DIEDE, Secretary.
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