THE NOME NUGGET
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B-47s NOW IN MASS PRODUCTION
It was recently revealed that the Boeing B-47
medium bomber is now being turned out in such
numbers that the effort (in dollar volume) is the iergest
of any Air Force program. The B-47 is a 600-mile jet
bomber, capable of hauling the atomic or hydrogen
bomb.
Happily, Boeing is not making all the B-47s for
the Air Force in one plant. Boeing has agreements with
both Douglas and Lockheed) and these two companies
are also producing the B-47s.
Though the U.S. Air Force is still a long way from
being prepared, since it has few heavy jet bombers
ready for action, it is gratifying to know that the Air
Force is at last receiving a steady stream of medium
jet bombers, something it did not possess at the begin
ning of the Korean War.
As was the case with tanks, the U.S. was poorly
equipped in the air when the Korean War erupted,
just as it was in World War I and World War II. It is
good to know that for once, in peacetime, U.S. mliitary
services are receiving a steady flow of up-to-date
combat equipment.
French Forces Seek
Withdrawing Rebels
In Northwest Indochina
HANOI, Indochina, t?)—Crack
rebel Vietminh troops surround
ing France’s northwest Indochina
fortress of Dien Bien Phu moved
still further back Thursday to es
cape battle-seeking French forces.
Gen. Rene Cogny’s troops pushed
three to five miles north and west
of the heavily fortified plain with
out contacting any units of the
Communist-led rebels.
Cogny, French commander in
north Indochina, for several days
has been sending out 4,000 to
5.000 troops daily in an attempt to
draw major units of the estimated
36.000 Vietminh soldiers into
battle. The rebels have been en
trenched around Dien Bien Phu
for three months but have never
attacked.
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Summary Judgment On
A NIC A Manager Set
Back to March 22
SEATTLE,. UP) — The govern
ment’s request for a summary
judgment against Louis C. Peters,
manager of Alaska Native Indus
tries Cooperative Association, will
be argued before Federal Judge
William J. Lindberg on March 22
instead of this week as origin
ally set, attorneys agreed yester
day.
The Interior Department says it
wants to remove Peters from the
top spot in the cooperative pur
chasing agency in the interest of
the 33 native Alaska villages
which own it. Peters contends he
has a contract with the natives
and they want him, not the gov
ernment, to run ANICA.
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ALASKA GOLD OUTPUT IN 1953
UP 14% OVER YEAR BEFORE
From Bureau of Mines
Annual Area Report (A-6)
Alaska gold production in 1953
—based on 11 months’ receipts at
mints and smelters and on an
estimate for December—increased
14 percent above the 1952 output,
a U.S. Bureau of Mines report
reveals.
The increase in gold production
was unexpected, considering the
adverse economic conditions un
der which the gold miners con
tinued to operate. The high cost of
labor, materials, and supplies in
relation to an unchanged United
States Treasury price of $35 per
fine ounce of gold constituted a
serious handicap and in some
cases an insurmountable obstacle
to the gold miner.
Gold produced in prior years,
but not shipped until 1953, ac
counted for a large part of the
increase in gold output recorded
in 1953. According to available
information, the qua lity of “nat
ural gold” sold on the open mar
ket at prices higher than the of
ficial United States Treasury
price was insignificant. Most of
the “natural gold” was sold in
nugget form to buyers for use in
making jewelry.
Except for an insignificant
quantity of gold produced from
lode mines, the total Alaska gold
output in 1953 came from placer
mines. Most of the gold was re
covered by bucket-line dredges.
The United States Smelting, Re
fining & Mining Co., which oper
ated six dredges in the Fairbanks
district and two dredges in the
Nome district, was the principal
producer of gold in Alaska in
1953.
Production of gold from lode
mines was recorded from two
mines in the Willow Creek district
and from one mine in the Fair
banks district. A small quantity of
gold was recovered from one mine
while doing assessment work at
the- Lucky Shot and Gold Cord
mines in the Willow Creek dis
trict. Jokela and Lazeration re
covered a moderate quantity of
gold from ore mined from the
Greenback claims and milled at
the Cleary Hill Mines Co. mill in
the- Fairbanks district.
Extensive exploration and de
velopment programs were con
ducted on the Big Hurrah lode
gold mine in the Nome district
and on the Nixon Fork, lode-gold
mine in the McGrath district.
TIN
In 1953 as in 1952, interest and
activity in tin mining and explor
ation centered in the Port Clar
I ence district, Seward Peninsula
region. The United States Tin
Corporation produced tin concen
trate from ore mined and milled
at its Lost River mine and mill on
Cassitorite Creek.
"fhe concentrate was stockpiled
at the mill pending installation
of flotation cells to clean the con
centrate.
The Northern Tin Co. produced
tin from its placer tin operation
on Buck Creek, and the Zenda
Gold Mining Co. continued its
exploration program for placer
tin in the Cape Mountain area by
drilling Boulder Creek.
The Alaska Tin Co. began an
Arctic Sanitary Service
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exploration program of chum
drilling for placer tin on Tuttle,
Kreuger, and Eldorado Creeks in !
the Ear Mountain area.
A small quantity of tungsten
concentrate was produced by Rus- \
sel R. Schaefer as a byproduct of
gold from a placer gold operation
on Forty-seven Creek in the Ani
ak district, Kuskokwim region. '
The Rocky Mountain Mining
Co. made a shipment of tungsten
ore from its property on Rocky
Mountain Creek in the Nome dis
trict, Seward Peninsula, during
1953. This ore had been produced
and stockpiled from prospecting
work performed during the years
1951 through 1953.
Big Four Plan
Korea Peace Talks
In Geneva, Apr. 15
BERLIN, !#t—British inform
ants said Thursday the Big Four
plan to hold a Korean peace par
ley in Geneva about April 15. So
viet Foreign Minister V. M. Molo
tov is consulting with the Red !
Chinese regime at Peiping on the
details of its participation, they
added.
These were the developments
from the foreign ministers’ con
ference yesterday afternoon as it
neared its close.
In another development, Austria
offered to extend the occupation
rights of the Big Four powers to
June 39, 1955, if they grant her
independence at once. Russia re
fused.
And rival “protest parades” oc
curred in East and West Berlin
is an outgrowth of the conference.
One- hundred and fifty thousand
East Berlin workers marched un
der orders of their Communist
bosses in a monster anti-West
demonstration. A rival “silent
march” of protest against Russian
tactics in the Big Four conference
is due to start soon. The West
Berline-rs will march in protest
against Molotov’s refusal to unify
Germany by a free election.
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GOP Outcry Over
Manion Dismissal
By White House
WASHINGTON, UP)-nRep. Mason
(R-Ill) Thursday resigned from
President Eisenhower’s Commis
sion on Inter-government Rela
tions in protest against the dismis
sal of Clarence Manion as chair
man.
And from several Republican
senators there was a chorus of
outcry against the White House
treatment of Manion, former dean
of the Notre Dame law school.
Manion disclosed late Wednes
day that he had resigned by re
quest. He declared he had been
let out because he supports a pro
posed Constitutional amendment
by Sen. Bricker (R-Ohio) to limit
| treaty power.
Manion said his resignation was
reguested by Sherman Adams,
Presidential aide.
Since Manion wgs a Presiden
tial appointee, Adams obviously
could not have acted without Eis
enhower’s approval.
Mason said Adams’ action
“smack of autocratic dictatorship”
and puts the commission “in the
same helpless condition as a
strong man would be with his
head suddenly severed from his
body.”
Ke called Manion “one of the
| biggest men in the country—a
man capable enough to be Presi
dent of the United States.”
Scotland Yard Expert Says
Women Are More Deadly
LONDON, (iff—A Scotland Yard
I murder expert says woman is in
doed the more deadly of the
species.
“Men generally kill quickly and
mercifully,” Cmdr. C. H. Hather
ill, head of the Yard’s criminal
investigation division, told a
meeting of the Royal Empire So
ciety yesterday. He continued:
“When a woman decides to kill
someone, she usually uses poi
son, and just sits for weeks watch
ing her victim suffer terrible
agonies before dying, withou. any
compassion or pity at all.”
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