Nome Group Turns Down $50,000
Offer for Uranium- Bearing Ground
<Fairbanks News-Miner)
An offer of $50,000 cash and
future royalties for 88 claims on
uranium-bearing ground on the
Seward Peninsula was turned
down last week by four Alaskan
prospectors.
George Lilly, partner in the
venture, said they refused an in
itial offer by the Apex Mining
Co. of Denver, but admitted they
are hopeful of getting “some
kind of a reasonable offer” this
winter for the ground.
Lilly, with Maurice Steffe and
Bert and Bill Beltz, made the
uranium strike last summer and
since then have staked 88 claims
in the area about 18 miles north
of Candle.
“We’re working on a shoe
string,” Lilly said, “but we’re also
hoping for a better offer from
some reputable mining company.”
Meanwhile, the four venturers
have ordered a large drill from
Tulsa, Okla., and will start next
spring to see if they have uranium
in commercial quantities. They’re
assured of its quality. Samples
submitted to the Territorial De
partment of Mines assay office at
Ketchikan showed 1.10 and 1.30
uranium by fluorimetric tests on
samples.
The four men have filed ar
ticles of incorporation as the Mid
night Mining Co. It was near the
Midnight mountains that their
long quest for radioactive ground
began to pay off.
Their search started last June
in the Peace river and Bear creek
areas on the Seward Peninsula.
Flying low in an airplane they
kept constant check on their scin
tilometer through Fox Bar on the
Kougarok river, over Serpentine
Hot Springs* then into the Mid
night mountain area. It was here
that the readings began to look
interesting.
“We were out flying three to
four hours every day for three
months,” Lilly said, “When we
finally located the spot, we had
to walk overland almost 20 miles
to reach the ground.”
This marked the second ura
nium strike in Alaska this year.
An earlier strike netted its find
ers $100,000 and royalties for
claims on Prince of Wales island
off Ketchikan.
No Eisenhower Successor
Should Be Chosen Until
Primary, Says Knowland
TACOMA, Wash., (^—Senator
Knowland (R-Calif) said Wednes
day night that no one man should
be designated as “an heir-appar
ent” if President Eisenhower does
not seek re-election in 1956.
The Senate minority leader de
parted from the text of a prepared
speech to tell a Republican wom
en’s club he felt “the Nation will
be better served by a wide-open
Republican primary.”
He returned to his text to say,
in further discussion of possible
Republican nominees, that he did
not consider “a Pepsodent smile,
a ready quip, an actor’s perfection
with lines, nor an ability to avoid
issues, as qualifications for high
office.”
U.S. Given Permission
To Fly Flag in Morocco
RABAT, French Morocco, yp)—
France has finally given the U.S.
permission to fly the American
flag over 17th Air Force head
quarters in Rabat, Maj. Gen.
Frederick Glantzberg announced
Wednesday. The French, sensitive
of their sovereignty, had been
reluctant for months to permit it.
Rabat is the major command
site in the system of U.S. air bases
and attached installations in Mor
occo. The bases are technically
French-American but were built
largely at American expense and
are manned by 12,000 Americans.
Marine Sergeant
Coming to Nome
To Seek Recruits
Master Sergeant Leonard L.
Gaston, Marine Corps recruiter
for the Territory of Alaska, has
announced that a Marine from
Kodiak, Sgt. William E. Scott,
will visit Nome Oct. 19 and 20.
The purpose of this visit is to
disseminate information to young
men 17 to 28, with the opportuni
ties offered by enlistment in the
United States Marine Corps.
The Marine Corps is accepting
applicants for enlistment for three
or four years and there is no wait
ing list, he emphasized. An appli
cant must be of good moral char
acter, in good health, and pass a
mental test. An applicant can be
assured of enlistment prior to
leaving the territory, as the phys
ical examination is given at An
chorage. From there he is flown to
Kodiak for enlistment, and then
on to San Diego, Calif., for his
basic training.
The Marine Corps has over 140
Specialist Schools, which train
Marines for 470 different special
ist jobs, and the opportunities are
unlimited, he further stated. For
a chance to fulfill the military ob
ligation and at the same time
learn a useful trade, is something
to inquire into today for young
men faced with the prospect of
military service.
During his stay, Sgt. Scott can
be contacted at the Nome Post Of
fice between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m., on
Wednesday and Thursday, Oct.
19 and 20, 1955.
Kefauver-for-President
Office Opens But Senator
Hasn’t Said He’ll Use It
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., UO—A
big Kefauver-for-President office
has been opened quietly in Wash
ington, even though the Tennessee
senator has declined to say wheth
er he will use it, says the Chatta
nooga Times.
In a dispatch from his Washing
ton correspondent, Charles Bart
lett, the Times said yesterday Sen.
Estes Kefauver’s suite is located
in the new Pennsylvania Bldg, at
13th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.
Tenants of the offices, the paper
said, are Col. William Roberts,
Washington attorney, and Lou
Poller, businessman who has been
engaged in TV and construction.
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