Navy Plane Safe After
Losing A Propeller 400
Miles Over Pacific
SAN FRANCISCO, UP)—A Navy
Traclewinds plane lost a propeller
400 miles at sea today, but
alighted at Alameda Naval Air
Station safely.
Nineteen persons were aboard
the big flying boat.
The accident occurred at 21,000
feet while the four engined craft
was enroute from Hawaii.
The counter rotating propeller
on the inboard left engine sud
denly tore loose.
The plane lost 6,000 feet in two
minutes and the pilot radioed he
thought he was “going in the
drink.” But he brought it under
control with its three functioning
engines.
BAHA’I LECTURER
TO SPEAK HERE
Florence Mayberry, Baha'i lec
turer from Santa Paula, Calif.,
will arrive in Nome on the 291h
of January. She will show colored
slides of the Holy Land and
Europe on Wednesday night. On
Thursday, the 30th, she will give
a talk on the Baha'i World Faith.
Both meetings will be held at the
Pioneer Hall at 8 p.m.
There are never any charges or
collections for any Baha'i meet
ing. All races are cordially in
vited to attend. For further in
formation phone: Baha'i Center.
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House Passes Bill To
Raise Legal Debt Ceiling
WASHINGTON, Cff)—'The House
yesterday voted 328-71 to raise
the national debt ceiling from
275 to 280 billion dollars until
June 30, 1959.
Before approving the tempor
ary five-billion-dollar increase,
the House voted down 275-114 a
proposal to limit the ceiling hike
to three billion dollars.
House action sends the bill on
to the Senate where chairman
Byrd of the Senate Finance Com
mittee has promised it will get
rapid consideration.
In asking for the ceiling raise,
Secretary of the Treasury Ander
son said it was needed to give
greater flexibility in handling the
public debt and ease the way to
putting more of the debt under
long-term financing.
Survey to be Made Of
Military Housing At
Anchorage and Fairbanks
WASHINGTON, OP) — A three
man government survey team
will leave Seattle Feb. 9 to in
vestigate housing in Fairbanks
and Anchorage, Gov. Mike Stepo
vich of Alaska said today.
He said the group expects to
be in Alaska 10 or 12 days.
Two of the team will come
from the Defense Dept, staff in
Washington while the third will
be from Federal Housing Author
ity’s regional office in San Fran
cisco.
The survey is designed to de
termine whether more military
on-base housing is needed in view
of the number of housing units
now vacant in the two cities.
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My Impressions of The Deep South
By CARRIE McLAIN
Hyattsville, Md.
Jan. 16.
I said goodbye to the South
yesterday when I took the train
for Washington, D.C., from Bir
mingham. Arrived there this a.m.
with snow gently coming down—
making such a picture. It was so
good to get to Hyattsville and see
Mrs. Yager. What a familiar face
does for one is indescribable!
It was about a week before
Christmas when I was introduced
to southern cooking in proper
fashion at the home of a Mrs.
Nicolo of Cass, Texas, when the
Baptist minister and his wife and
in-laws and several of Mrs. Nic
olo’s sons and Marjorie and fam
ily and I sat down to a “lazy
Susan” table with the revolving
table tray covered with serving
dishes of corn meal dressing, but
termilk biscuits, hush puppies
(com meal fritters), chicken pie,
blackeyed peas, and collards and
turnip green, besides other dishes
too various to mention. The folks
were interested in Nome and Al
aska and I believe my slides and
discussion helped to sharpen that
interest.
One of the biggest enjoyments
I had was in showing my Alaska
sildes at the schools. The children
get so animated and ask so many
questions. The little girls just fall
in love with the Eskimo doll—it
is really a curiosity in the
“south.”
Chickens, Turkey and Mink
Chicken and turkey raising
prevails in this area and there
are two mink ranches. The one I
visited raises 1,000 mink a year,
retaining 300 females and 50
males for breeding purposes.
Through mutation, different col
ored mink are raised to suit the
prevailing market. It was a sight
to see pure white mink, silver
blue, sapphire blue, black, gun
metal and varying shades of
brown. It’s remarkable in this
warm country to see such fine
pelted animals, but scientific
feeding and care do that.
Food poisoning must be watch
ed and only fresh or refrigerated
feed is given. A prime white pelt
sells in New York for $50.
NOME SANITARY
SERVICE
Phone Main 1
P.O. Box 558
, These folks also raise 5 to 6
| thousand turkeys a year, with
! day-old chicks secured in March
and May and ready for iharket in
• November and December.
Mr. Beaver had just returned
| from a vacation in Florida and
mentioned the effort that state is
making to attract tourists. He said
Florida has no wonderful scenery
like Alaska—everything is “man
made” bul they get the tourists.
I spent four wonderful days
in Birmingham with Guy and
Julia (Brown) Ryan. They drove
me around this vast residential
city and manufacturing city of
the south. We saw Vulcan, the
second largest statue in the world
which represents the great steel
and iron industry of Birmingham.
When Vulcan’s torch bums red,
the people know that a traffic
fatality has occurred—otherwise
it shows green. The Redstone
Arsenal, where a guided missile
program is being developed, is lo
cated in nearby Huntville, Ala.
I should have planned to stay
a month in Birmingham and
showed my slides in the schools
and churches, folks were so avid
over Alaska, but my cousins
in New Jersey, New York, and
Connecticut, whom I have not
seen in 52 years, were patiently
waiting my appearance. Besides I
wanted to get to Washington in
time to hear the Alaska State
hood bill debated, which was
scheduled for this month in Con
! gress. Mr. Bartlett tells me that
I more urgent matters are taking
preference and there is no set
time now for the Statehood bill.
Northern Girls Become Southerns
It doesn’t take long for our Al
askan girls to adopt the ways of
I the south. Julia and Marjorie
I both are fast getting the southern
accent and have no desire to
return to Nome, only for a visit.
! Each have three sons, who likely
will never know about the north
ern country of their forebearers,
only what their mothers tell
them.
Later I shall write you on my
impressions of Washington, D. C.,
i and eastern cities.
Greetings to all of Nome.
MMM HOSPITAL
Admitted: Herb Payenna, Sig
Wien Omiak, Arlene Picnalook,
John Norbert Sr., Ethel Koma
huk, Marion Wilkalkia.
Discharged: Ellen Attatayuk,
Harriet Henry, Ed Fine, Ellen
Waldheim, John Kost III.
Navy Plans To Send
Living Organism, Probably
Yeast, Into Outer Space
WASHINGTON, UP>—'The Navy
plans to send some living organ
isms into outer space. A few yeast
cells will be aboard one or more
of the test satellites U.S. scientists
hope to launch soon.
A Navy spokesman said the
yeast would be enclosed in a tiny
instrumented container insidte the
satellite, and the experiment
might provide data on the re
action of life outside the earth’s
atmosphere.
The test satellites, forerunners
of larger spheres which are
scheduled for launching later, are
only six inches in diameter, too
small to accommodate any sizable
living object.
Officials said there was no
plan to place any living animal,
even a small one, in the test
spheres.
Princess Caroline of
Monaco One Year Old
MONTE CARLO, W) —Princess
Caroline of Monaco celebrated
her first birthday Thursday. The
palace announced she has six
teeth and likes to play.
The princess’ parents, Prince
Rainier III and Princess Grace,
planned a small family luncheon
— with a one - candle birthday
cake.
The prince and his wife, the
former actress Grace Kelly, at
tended a special thanksgiving
mass in the morning in the chilly
private chapel of the hilltop pal
ace.
The palace took official note of
the birthday in a communique
announcing the little princess
“has six teeth, enjoys playing
and is very sociable.”
Princess Grace is expecting her
second child in March.
WELL. THEY DO LEARN
IN COLLEGE. AFTER ALL
EAST LANSING, Mich., UPi —
Dave Kaiser showed the same
sharp timing that made him an
outstanding Michigan State foot
ball end when he popped the big
question.
Kaiser slipped in during a
break in a classroom period and
slipped an engagement ring on
the finger of Pat Kelley, blonde
cheerleader.
The class was Social 228 —
which the MSU catalog describes *
as “preparation for marriage,
with emphasis on selection of a
husband or wife.”
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Nome Directory
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Menday Noon
JIM WALSH, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. 1
Order of Eastern Star
Mildred Harwood
Worthy Matron
**■,*/* Helen Dunbar
V Secretary
Meetings: 1st and 3rd Mondays
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J. A. von der Heydt, W.M.
Norv j» r. Lewis. Sec.
Meets 1st and 3rd Thursday each month
NOME ROTARY CLUB
UJoe Kroninger
President
W. Mecklenburg
Secretary
Wednesday Luncheon