Aerobee Rocket
Test in Canada
Sets Near Record
FORT CHURCHILL, Man., UH—
A slim 26-foot Aerobee rocket,
last in a series of six rockets
launched here in test maneuvers
before the start of the Interna
tional Geophysical Year in July,
blasted itself to a near record
into the subarctic sky last night.
The rocket, its nose cone load
ed with sensitive instruments,
was fired into the upper atmo
sphere to record wind velocity,
temperatures and density. Its al
titude of 156 miles was just short
of the record 163 miles an Aero
bee set at the White Sands, N.M.,
proving grounds in earlier tests.
Scientists said the launching
was probably better than the rec
ord-making test at White Sands
since Fort Churchill is 13,000 feet
nearer the earth’s center and is
therefore under greater gravity
pull.
Fort. Churchill also is 4,000 feet
lower jhan White Sands in alti
tude above sea level and the air
much, colder and more dense.
It, was. estimated if the rocket
had been fired at White Sands it
may have reached an altitude of
close to 175 miles.
WIEN AIRLINES
To Fairbanks: Clara Johnson,
Myrle Votruba, Fred Johnson,
Nancy Johnson, Charles Foltz.
From Fairbanks: Donald Dutton,
Mary Louise Dutton, Mrs. Shirley
Haley, W. M. Haley, Tad Neil,
Thomas Rogan, Chet Green, Ed
ward Hazelwood. Harry Lewis.
To Kotzebue: Marvin Chappie,
Robert Chappie, Vernon Gerlack,
Herbert Truitt, Frank Posch, and
Emory Chappie.
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The sign with the green letter
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Federal Tax Collections
Up 13 Percent Over ’55
WASHINGTON, IB — Federal
tax collections totalled $75,113,
000,000 for the year ended June
30, 1956, an increase of $8,824,
000,000 or about 13 per cent over
the total for the preceding fiscal
year.
This was reported today by
Russell C. Harrington, commis
sioner of Internal Revenue. He
attributed the increase largely to
higher levels of personal income,
corporate earnings and business
activity.
Collections by regions, for the
year ending June 30, 1956, with
comparative figures for 1955 in
brackets, include: Alaska: $43,
566,000 ($44,537,000); Washington
$847,575,000 ($802,124,000).
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Sen. Mansfield Will Be
Senate Democratic ‘Whip’
WASHINGTON WV-Sen. Mans
field of Montana said today he is
prepared to accept the post of
Senate Democratic “whip.”
Tfce “whip” serves as a right
hand man to the Senate Demo
cratic leader. Working mostly be
hind the scenes, he attempts to
rally votes on pending bills, to
smooth factional difficulties be
tween party members and to help
on strategy matters.
NOTICE
Any ASSESSMENT BLANK
CARDS outstanding shall please
be filled out and mailed immedi
ately to this office. Any tenant
not receiving one for personal
property may apply to the City
Clerk.
Carrie M. McLain,
Nome City Clerk
Publish Nov. 10, 19, 21, 1950
First Sixty Hungarian Refugees
From Soviet Terror Arrive in US.
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Two Bandits Leave
Trail of Bills After
Robbing Bank
SEATTLE, Uf\ — Two bandits,
striking in broad daylight, robbed
the West Seattle branch of the
People’s National Bank of $34,000
Monday and then left a trail of
fluttering bills as they raced to
a parked, getaway car.
Richard D. Auerbach, special
agent in charge of the Seattle FBI
office, said the two gunmen en
tered the bank just before closing
time at 3 p.m.
One of the men, Auerbach said,
stood by the door while the sec
ond went behind the tellers’
cages and stuffed money into a
paper bag.
The robbery completed, the
two bandits raced from the bank,
across the street and into a park
ed car. As they fled across the
street, the bag in which the stolen
money was being carried blirst
and bills were strewn on the
street.
They made no attempt to re
trieve the fluttering bills.
SPECIAL SERVICE SUNDAY
AT COVENANT CHURCH
The Covenant Church has an
nounced that it will have a bap
tism and dedication service on
Sunday afternoon at 2:30 in the
church building.
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ALASKA EXPORTS
SEATTLE, Iff)—The Commerce
Department said today that the
value of exports thi;u the Alaska
customs district during the first
eight months of 1956 amounted to
$4,600,000.
MMM HOSPITAL
Discharged: John Hiliyard, Don
Grosegebauer, Fred Seegock, Ken
Anderson, James Springer, Jennie
Oxerok, Sam Tucker.
Helium was discovered within
the sun before the element was
located on earth.
VIENNA, OP — Sixty refugees
from Soviet terror in Hungary
were on their way to homes in
the United States today as Ameri
can officials worked to speed up
to 5,000 across the Atlantic.
The fugitives from Russian sup
pression of the Hungarian rebel
lion streamed out to other West
European countries at the rate of
1,000 a day, but they poured into
Austria nearly four times as fast.
The total to reach Austria since
the Russians turned their tanks
and guns on the rebels was fast
approaching 50,000. About 8,000
so far have been shipped out to
foreign countries, and many are
finding homes and jobs in Austria.
A silver, blue and red DC-4,
chartered by the Intergovernmen
tal Committee for European Mi
gration <ICEM> left Vienna’s
Schwechat Airport early Tuesday
morning with the first 41 refugees
bound for the United States. It
collected another 19 Hungarians
in Munich and arrived at McGuire
AFB, N.J., near Camp Kilmer,
this morning.
lUimer, a motnoanea worm
War II army camp, has been con
verted into a reception center for
the Hungarians offered refuge by
President Eisenhower. From there
they will move out over the
United States to new homes and
new jobs.
WE WISH to take this
opportunity to thank
you all for your patron
age and wish you
A Most Pleasant
Thanksgiving!
NOME MARKET
Closed AD Day Thursday
Navy Seabees Are
First to ‘Colonize’
The South Pole
By DON GUY
McMURDO SOUND, Antarc
tica, OP—Americans colonized the
South Pole Tuesday.
Eight Navy Seabees and 11 sled
dogs are the first residents of
the bleak, snow-topped plateau at
the bottom of the world, where
the temperature was 29 degrees
below zero.
The party landed just after mid
night in two ski-equipped C-47’s.
The Navy men will set up a
camp for American scientists who
will spend the black Antarctic
winter at the pole. Their obser
vations will be part of the U. S.
contribution to the worldwide
study of the earth and its at
mosphere duri ,g the Internation
al Geophysical Year.
First task of the Seabees, com
manded by Lt. Richard A. Bow
ers, a young Navy engineer from
Harrisburg, Pa., was to set up
survival shelters. Later they are
to be joined by 16 more men who
will help construct the polar base
and Dr. Paul Siple of Washing
ton, D. C., who wil\ head the
scientific expedition spending the
winter.
The men who landed Tuesday
will be the first in all history to
live at the pole.
The eight Americans camped at
the bottom of the world found to
day they would have to move.
Their weasel broke down while
their own breath grew short in
the thin air. They reported by
radio that their survival tents
were pitched eight miles away
from the pole. If they cannot re
pair their weasel, they must hike
the distance thru powdery, knee
deep snow.
A Globemaster took off imme
diately on the eight-hour trip with
parts for the weasel. They were to
be dropped by parachute.
But the Seabee mechanic will
have a tough job changing the
transmission virtually without
protection from the cold.
If the Weasel cannot be re
paired, it means that 11 sled dogs
must pull the bulk of the supplies
and that some must be left ^be
hind. The dogs, of Alaskan husky
stock, can pull about their own
weight under polar conditions—
probably less than a half ton on
each sled.
Sun sights were taken from the
ground with a theodolite at six
hour intervals to locate the Pole
more accurately.'
Nome Directory
NOME ROTARY CLUB
Dewey Goodrich
President
W. Mecklenburg
Secretary
Thursday Luncheon
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Tuesday Noon
STAN MORGAN, President
ALASKA CKAFTSm I'O. 1
Order of Eastern Star
Meets 1st a 3rd Monday of essh month
Q Betty Edwards
Worthy Matron
Helen Dunbar
s«rgUrr
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No. 140
Harry A. Lewis, Wit
Nervtn W. Lewis, Sec.
Meets 1st and 3rd 'Thursday task snrnth
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