Unalaska, Losing Military
Garrison, Confident
Of Civilian Future
JUNEAU—Unalaska, one of the
most remote spots in the territory,
is looking for substantial commu
nity growth s'oon, Mayor Walter
Dyakanoff has informed Gov. B.
Frank Heintzleman here.
Listed by Mayor Dyankoff as
part of the area’s “great potential
for economic and populational de
velopment” are hopes for estab
lishment of a cannery, of the
landing of large ocean-going
ships, of stationing of a proposed
University of Michigan Research
Center and a tourist trade.
Up to now, the mayor wrote,
the majority of local residents at
Unalaska have had no year-round
employment and only low-income
seasonal jobs. Complete with
drawal of the military garrison at
Dutch Harbor is expected within
a few weeks. Nevertheless, the
school enrollment is up from 29
last year to 40 now and Mayor
Dyakanoff predicts 50 for next
year.
New Books Available
At K K Public Library
The K K Library has announced
that new books will be placed on
the shelves Saturday for its read
ers. The non-fiction books are:
The Web of Life, by John H.
Storer; Of Whales and Men, R. R.
Robertson; Our Wild Life Legacy,
Durwood Allen; The Mind Alive,
Overstreet; But We Are Born
Free, Elmer Davis; Clown, Emmet
Kelly; The Private Dining Room,
Ogden Nash.
The new fiction titles are:
The Best from Fantasy and Sci
ence Fiction, McComas; Desiree,
Annemarie Selinko, The White
and the Gold; Thomas B. Costain;
Bless This House, Norah Lofts;
The Desperate Hours, Joseph
Hayes; Roads from the Fort, Ar
vid Schulenberger; Paris Original,
Alexandra Orme; Not as a Sran
ger, Morton Thompson; Forty and
Fancy Free, Emily Kimbrough;
Spider King, Lawrence Schoon
over; Flight, Evelyn Eaton.
Some dinosaurs were no larger
than a chicken.
British Actress Ready
To Quit Hollywood
After Dieting Illness
HOLLYWOOD, i/'Pi—British act
ress Simone Silva, who posed bare
to the waist for photographers on
the French Riviera, is hospitalized
by what her doctor calls epidemic
vomiting.
She told reporters Wednesday
she has lost 14 pounds in six days
and hasn't eaten in a week.
She said worry over her film
contract brought on the illness.
Miss Silva asserted that pro
ducer A1 Petker, who arranged
for her to come to this country,
hasn’t been paying her $235 week
ly salary. Petker countered that
he has spent $54,000 on her career
to date and said he suspended her
for failing to lose weight.
The 26-year-old actress said she
is rc-ad.v to call it quits and return
home to England.
Air Force Secretary Calls
For Spiritual Guidance
To Avert Destruction
WASHINGTON, UP)—Secretary
of the Air Force Harold Talbott
said Thursday there are weapons
which “can lay waste an entire
continent.”
And efforts to keep these weap
ons from being used, he said, can
succeed only if nations seek the \
help of God.
Talbott spoke of the possible
destruction and the need for spir
itual guidance to avert it in an
address prepared for a Veterans
Day ceremony at the Tomb of the
Unknown Soldier in Arlington
National Cemetery. The Air Force
chief was designated to represent
President Eisenhower in the an- j
nual observance of what until ]
now has been known as Armistice ,
Day.
PANSY BROWNIES NEWS
Most of us finished our needle
books today.
Last month we had a Hallow
een party. We went on a Treasure
Hunt. It was fun. We had lots to
eat. We made masks.
Now we are going to sew lor
Christmas.
—Gloria Carlson, Scribe
I Eisenhower in Hometown
Dedicates Museum,
Visits Parents’ Graves
ABILENE, Kan., (jP)—President
Eisenhower Thursday reviewed a
colorful Veterans Day parade in
this hometown of his youth.
Seated atop the marquee of the
Sunflower Hotel with his three
grandchildren and other members
of his family, the Chief Executive
watched as a color guard leading
the parade marched by.
The guard was made up of fel
low members of the Abilene Am
erican Legion and Veterans of
Foreign War posts. Next in line
was the same Kansas band which
led the Eisenhower inaugural par
ade in Washington in January,
1953.
The parade was a prelude to
the event which brought the Pres
ident back to his hometown Wed
nesday night—dedication of the
$325,000 Eisenhower Memorial
Museum.
The President was up early
yesterday morning and visited the
graves of his father and mother
at Abilene Cemetery on the edge
of town.
He was accompanied there by
his grandchildren, his son John,
an Army major, and his brothers
Milton and Earl. They stood bare
headed at the graves and talked
quietly.
Sleepy Car Seller Takes
Hard Second Look at
Check for Seventeen Fifty
HOUSTON. Tex., UP)—William
D. Bums said he was sleepy when
a neighbor telephoned an offer to
purchase his automobile.
"Will you take seventeen fifty
for your new car?” he said the
neighbor asked.
Burns said he agreed to such a
sale, and the neighbor appeared
a few minutes later and gave him
a check in exchange for the title
and keys to the car.
“I later looked at the check and
it was made out for $17.50. not
$1,750,” Burns said Wednesday.
A charge of felony swindle was
filed against Ralph Wardlaw be
fore a justice of the peace.
A statewide police order has
been broadcast for Wardlaw’s ar
rest.
ASTRONOMY NOTES
By OLAF HALVERSON
Meteors are rarely seen at a
distance of 100 miles from the
earth and few ever get closer than
30 miles. Their paths can be re
corded with great precision by
means of photography.
Millions of very small meteors
collide with our atmosphere every
day but are quickly burnt up by
friction with the air. Those that
pass completely through the at
mosphere and reach our earth are
called meteorites.
Meteorites have been collected
in all parts of the earth and are
now preserved in museums. The
most famous collections are those
found in London, Paris, Vienna,
New York, and Chicago.
In running rapidly in a rain
storm the chest becomes wetter
than the back because of the for
ward movement to meet the drops.
In like manner, the forward por
tion of the earth receives the
most meteors. This occurs just
before sunrise and there is a
gradual increase from midnight
to sunrise.
57 Enrolled at
Seward Sanatorium
SEWARD—School bells have
rung at the Seward Sanitorium
and two territorial school teachers
—Miss Helen Case and Mrs. Myra
McDonald—are busy dispensing
the three R's.
There are 20 school-age chil
dren ranging in age from 6 thru
16, and 37 adults taking the school
work. The adults range in age
from 17 to 64 and several of them
cannot read or write English.
Some of these speak only Eskimo.
English and arithmetic are the
most popular subjects.
Mr. John Hardcastle, of the
Rehabilitation Center, is assisting
with the school work being done
by the two territorial teachers,
by working on the adult education
program.
Goldfish, escaping from orna
mental ponds, have increased
naturally in some places until
they are numerous enough to be
caught and sold as food.
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New Zealanders Assured—
No U.S. Plans for
A-Bomb Testing in
South Pole Region
WELLINGTON, New Zealand,
OP)—Foreign Minister T. Clifton
Webb said Thursday the govern
ment is asking Washington about
British newspaper reports that
the United States is considering
the Antarctic as a site for hydro
gen bomb tests.
Laborite leader Walter Nash,
campaigning against the National
Party regime on the eve of Satur
day’s parliamentary elections, de
clared Wednesday he was against
any such tests because they might
endanger New Zealanders. The
polar territory is 1,800 miles to
the south.
Webb replied that he doubted
the accuracy of newspaper reports
on U.S. plans but would ask the
U.S. government for official word.
The British newspaper Scots
man had reported that retired
Adm. Richard E. Byrd’s big ex
ploratory expedition to the Ant
arctic next month would, among
other things, search for new H
bomb testing grounds.
In his recent announcment of
the expedition. Byrd said the
south polar region, which he de
scribed as “an untouched reser
voir of natural resources,” would
be explored from military and
economic standpoints.
The 6,500-ton icebreaker Atka
will lead off the expedition next
month. A second party of explor
ers will follow later.
WASHINGTON, UP)—1The United
States said Thursday there is
nothing to reports, which have
cropped up in Neto Zealand, that
it may test atomic weapons in the
antarctic area.
The Atomic Energy Commis
sion, which conducts all tests of
nuclear weapons and devices,
does not intend any tests in the
antarctic, a spokesman said.
The United States has used
only two atomic proving grounds,
one in the Marshall Islands and
one in the Nevada desert.
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Nome Directory
NOME ROTARY CLUB
Ben Young, Pres.
Joe Kroninger, Secy.
Thursday Luncheon
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Comerce
MEETS EVERY TUESDAY NOON
BOYD HARWOOD, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. 1
Order of Eastern Star
Meets the 3rd Monday of each month.
Jane Perkins
Worthy Matron
Evelyn Branson
Secretary
LESLIE A. STEVENS
PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT
486 First Ave. West, Nome, Alaska
10 to 12 a.m. 1 to 5 p.m.
Phone Main 82 — P.O. Box 208
ANVIL LODGE
No. 140
John Cooley, WJA.
Norvin W. Lewis, Secy.
Meets 1st and 3rd Thursday each month.