Montana Shows
_ Much Hospitality
To Weary 59ers
GLASGOW, Mont., OP) — Ap
plauding Montanans gave the
59ers a carpet beater to “fight
off Alaskan mosquitoes” and
turned the Civic Center info a
bath house for the weary voyagers
. Wednesday night. ..........
When the refreshing stop; ended
the 34 Alaska-bound pioneers
.started the final 2,000 miles of
their road trip, swinging .north
into Canada. .
A venison dinner, games and
square dancing followed the
•baths, which one woman said was
her first since the group left De
troit last Thursday. The men took
showers. * ,.
“We never imagined t'neye was
•this much hospitality anyplace,”
said the band’s bearded vyagon
master, Ron Jacobowitz.
The caravan is made up. of cars,
trucks, trailers, station wagons
and a moving van of 1934 vintage.
Snow, tire blowouts and an ac
cident have plagued the group,
which hopes to homestead farms
in Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula. The
latest trouble came when VTwheel
•broke on a trailer, which was re
turned to Minot, N. D., for repairs.
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New State Seal
Proposed by
Fairbanks Rep.
JUNEAU, iff) — This new state
seal is proposed for Alaska: Two
circles around the North Star and
Big Dipper design of the state
flag.
Rep. Robert Giersdorf, Fair
! banks Democrat, told the House
the present seal was never of
ficially adopted by the Territory.
The seal suggested in his bill,
he said, would “eliminate the
gingerbread” of the o 1 d one,
which portrays mountains, a bay,
a small community, a dog team,
and other bits of Alaskan life.
The state constitution provides
that the official seal of the terri
tory is the official seal of the
new state, with the word “State”
used in place of “Territory.”
ACHING BACK? —
HEAD FOR THE BRASS RAIL !
DETROIT, WP)—A scientist has
confirmed what every long-stand
ing bar room character knows —
the brass rail helps your aching
■back
Dr James K. Stack, associate
professor of orthopedic surgery at
Northwestern University Medical
School says hooking your foot on
the rail when you stand at a bar
straightens your back and reduces
strain, making you more comfort
able.
Long-Range Alaskan Radar Sites Will
Give President 20-Minute Attack Lead
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.,
— A long-range radar network
designed to warn against Russian
missile attacks is being built in
the Artcic wastes, the North
American Air Defense Cimmand
reported yesterday. The chain of
radar stations under construction
in Alaska and Greenland to cover
the Soviet land mass from the
Pacific to Poland is called the
Ballistic Missile Early Warning
System (BMEWS).
NORAD said the system, costing
the Air Force one billion dollars,
will be ready for operation next
year. It included three radar
screens at Clear, and four at
Thule, Greenland.
The screens have a 3,000-mile
line-of-sight range and are in
tended to pick up Russian inter
continental ballistic missiles 5
minutes after launching on what
would be about a 30-minute flight
toward United States targets.
Information on distance, speed
and course of the missiles would
be fed back to NORAD headquar
ters and to Strategic Air Com
mand at Omaha.
BMEWS will complement the
Distant Early Warning Line (DEW
Line) stretching across North
America and Semi-Automatic
Ground Environment (SAGE) con
trol command posts in the eastern
United States.
Presumably, the radar network
would give the President or who
ever has the command decision to
take about 20 minutes to decide
whether SAC bombers, armed
with hydrogen bombs, would be
launched in counterattack.
Gen. Earl Partridge, commander
of NORAD, said the command has
no anti-missile capability, only
the ability to defend against
manned bombers.
“We would know they were
coming,” he said, “but under our
present setup we wouldn’t be able
to do anything about it except to
tell SAC to get airborne with a
retaliatory raid.
“If an attack came today; we
would fight today with what we
have today, where it is today. We
must fight today’s 'battles with
today’s weapons.”
It was reported at NORAD there
is no plan now to connect BMEWS
with the Nike-Zeus &nti-missile
developments.
APPROPRIATE COMMITTEE?
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.. UP> —
Speaker Richard H. Ichord is try
ing to decide which Missouri
House committee should hear a
bill which would outlaw nudism.
“The appropriations committee
thinks it should get the bill be
cause it deals in figures,” Ichord
said Thursday. He said he would
send it to a mental health conv
mittee, but the House doesn’t have
one.
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Regulations For
Fed. Land Grant
Detailed for Alaska
WASHINGTON, Iff) — Proposed
regulations under which Alaska
would receive more than 103 mil
lion acres of federal lands were
announced yesterday.
The regulations spell out the
procedures which the new state
must use and detail how the In
terior Department will handle the
state’s selection.
The Alaska statehood legislation
did not specify the lands to be
transferred to state ownership and
the new state will have 25 years
in which to select what it wants.
The Interior Department said
the complete text of the proposed
regulations will be published in
the Federal Register. It added that
even though a waiting period is
not required, 30 days is being pro
vided for interested persons to
submit written comments.
Any comments should be ad
dressed to the Director of the Bur
eau of Land Management here.
The regulations amend and update
regulations already in effect re
lating to selection of state lands
from federal grants to make them
apply to the new state.
Rep. Ralph Rivers said Alaskans
who have been pressing for early
action on the regulations have
been guided in part by language
of the statehood bill which pre
cludes the new state from select
ing lands on which the govern
ment has issued oil and gas
leases since the bill’s enactment
last July.
Such leases have been issued- at
an estimated rate of nearly two
million acres a month recently as
the Bureau of Land Management
catches up with a heavy backlog
of applications.
Roy Snyder Returns To
Calif. On Navy Destroyer
LONG BEACH, Calif., CFHTNC)
—Roy W. Snyder Jr., radarman
third class, son of Mr. and Mrs. R.
W. Snyder of Nome, returned to
Long Beach February 27 aboard
the radar picket destroyer USS
Dennis J. Buckley after a six
month tour of duty with the U. S.
Seventh Fleet in the Far East.
While with the fleet the vessel
patrolled the waters off Formosa
j during the Quemoy Crisis.
The Buckley also visited such
ports as Sasebo, Japan, Pearl Har
bor, Okinawa and the Philippines.
Nome Directory
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon at
North Star Dining Room
Jerry Manning, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. 1
Order of Eastern Star
Doris Wilke
Worthy Matron
Helen Dunbar
Secretary
Meets First and Third Mondays
ANVIL LODGE
No. 140
HERB JENKS. W.M.
Norv.n v~. Lewis, Sec.
Meets First and Third Thursday
of Each Month
NOME ROTARY CLUB
Jim Manning
President
Bob Grant
Secretary
Wednesday Luncheon
Parent-Teachers Assn.
Meets last Tuesday of every
meft et School.
ROSCOE WILKIE, President
MART D1EDE. Secretary.
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