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Gold, Silver Mining
Promised Brighter
Future by Experts
SPOKANE, UP) — The future
looks bright for gold and silver,
the Northwest Mining Association
was told Friday.
Speakers said the two precious
metals, mainstays of the Western
mining boom in the late 19th cen
tury, are staging a comeback.
“Silver, I believe, will soon be
come of prime importance to the
optimistic miner and investor,-’
said Clark L. Wilson, vice presi
dent of the New Park Mining Co.
of Salt Lake City.
He said new uses are being
found for silver in industry and
its use for jewelry is growing
with the nation’s increasing pop
ulation.
The president of British Colum
bia’s largest gold producing firm,
Franc R. Joubin of Bralorne Pio
neer Mines, predicted the admin
istration elected in the United
States in 1960 will raise the price
of gold.
“Barring unforeseen interna
tional incidents,” Joubin said,
“the administration in 1960 will
be one that has 9hown sympathy
and courage on the same question
before. I believe the increase will
be substantial.”
Joubin didn’t say whether he
■was talking about the Republicans
or the Democrats.
5-Year-Old Killed in
Heavy L. A. Traffic
LOS ANGFJ.F.S, UP) — It took j
a boy to convince authorities that i
a stop light won’t do the work j
of a crossing guard.
But the boy had to die doing it.
The guard was removed Mon
day from an intersection in sub
urban Highland. Children at the
nearby school were carefully in
structed how to work the push
button light.
Five-year-old Calvin Landan
did it just the way they’d told
him to. Principal Olin Graves was
watching.
“He got as far as a traffic is
land, and then he must have pan
icked,” Graves said. “He started
to run back and ran in front of
a car.”
One hundred mothers picketed
the crossing Friday.
The crossing guard was or
dered back on duty.
SWITCH IN 'SHOW ME' STATE
ST. LOUIS, UP) — It’s getting
tough for Missouri mules to find
work, even in Missouri.
The St. Louis State Hospital
| hafe regretfully announced that it
j is replacing its team, Kate and
I Pearl, with a truck. The truck is
| cheaper than a new wagon would
be, and the old wagon in which
Kate and Pearl have been hauling
trash, has broken down.
The hospital has had mules as
long as anyone can remember.
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Space Monkey
4Sam’ O-K After
Dizzy Rocket Spin
NORFOLK, Va., UP — Sam, the
space monkey, came ashore Sat
urday, alive, chipper and an hon
orary member of the destroyer’s
crew which plucked him from
the Atlantic Ocean after a 55-mile
high rocket ride.
Sam and the Project Mercury
capsule in which he took his dizzy
spin arrived at this port city
aboard the destroyer Erie. The
capsule is the kind future space
men will ride in their first at
tempts to orbit the earth.
The destroyer had fished Sam
and the capsule from 12-foot-high
waves about 120 miles off the
North Carolina coast three hours
after they were zoomed aloft by
a Little Joe rocket from Wallops
Island, Va., Friday.
The monkey was met by Major
| Cloid Green, an Air Force phy
sician from the Aviation School
of Medicine at Brooks Air Force
Base, San Antonio, Tex. Imme
diately he was carried, still en
cased in a small cylindrical cham
ber and covered with a blanket,
to Langley Air Force Base, Va.
From the Langley laboratories of
the National Aeronautics and
Space Agency he’s due to be
flown to Brooks.
After Sam and his capsule were
removed from the Berie, ship’s
officers and men and NASA offi
cials said he was mightly lively
and very hungry when, released
from the capsule.
Sam was taken to the ship’s
hospital where he ate, scratched
his head and seemed pleased to
see humans about him. The ship’s
crew filed past the sick bay,
looked at Sam, and he looked
back. Sam was made an honorary
destroyerman and was given a
card to prove it.
Principal purpose of the pro
ject, as far as NASA was con
cerned, was to test at high alti
tude the escape system of the
capsule. NASA, as spokesman
said, merely permitted Sam to
go along for the ride at the re
quest of the School of Aviation
Medicine.
Seven Navy-built American
science bases in the Antarctic
cover an area of four million
square miles.
Nome Directory
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon at
North Star Dining Room
Russell Hermann, 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 W. Lewis, See.
Meets First and Third Thursday
of Each Month
NOME ROTARY CLUB
Asfc Craft
President
Herb Jenks
Secretary
Wednesday Luncheor
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Parent-Teachers Assn.
Meets last Tuesday of every
month at School.
WERNER BOHRER. President
VESTA SUNDSTROM. Secty.
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