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By OLAT HALVERSON
The Harvest Moon will be shin
ing at full on Saturday. The Har
vest Moon is the full moon that
occurs nearest the time of the j
autumnal equinox. Then the
moon nears its full rise from
night to night with the least
delay.
Sometimes the time of the
moonrise is only thirteen minutes
later than on the night before.
Thus, the Harvest Moon lingers
longer than other nearly full
moons in the evening skies of the
Northern Hemisphere. The least
delay in the moonrise occurs when
the moon’s path is least inclined
to the horizon.
The moon is the earth’s satel
lite, or its attendant. Some of the
satellites of other planets are
larger than the moon, but no
other satellite or system of sat
ellites supplies so much reflected
sunlight to its respective planet.
Our satellite is 2,1€0 miles in di
ameter, or more than one-fourth
of the earth’s diameter.
Navy Airmail Arrives
Thirteen Years Late
McPherson, Kan., upi — o. r. j
Andrews was serving in the Navy j
in the North Pacific in 1945 when
he wrote, his father, H. R. An
drews.
The letter has just arrived.
After the son wrote, the letter
was placed in a mail bag on a
Navy plane. Four days later, the
plane disappeared over Alaska.
Recently near Lake Becharos in
Alaska, the wreckage of the miss
ing plane was found. Letters in
cluding the one penned by Sea
man Andrews were among items
irecovered.
The son now is in the Army
and stationed in San Francisco.
He’ll get the weather-scarred let
ter one of these days, after rela
tives finish reading it. The father
is now dead.
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“Flirting” Riders Lucky
In Runaway Vehicle
CANON CITY, Colo., UP! — Mrs.
Cleo Roberts of Denver felt the
brakes fail as the car started down
I a steep, eight-mile hill. She
slammed the vehicle into low gear.
The car rounded a curve and
then the clutch went out. It
picked up speed, swinging around
sharp bends in the highway.
Mrs. Gladys Neals of Wichita,
Kan., owner of the car, sat tensely
as Mrs. Roberts steered around a
pickup truck at 75 miles an hour.
The women waved and
screamed at the truck driver, John
Skerjanec, 59, a Canon City
Power Co. employe.
At first he thought they were
flirting with him. Then he rea
lized the car was out of control.
He increased his own speed to
95, he said, until he caught up
with the women’s car and passed
it. He slowed down in front of
the runaway vehicle. It rammed
the truck’s rear bumper, and
Skerjanec brought the two ve
hices to a stop.
Small Business Admin.
Loans Offered for Building
I Airport Rental Hangars
i Builders of hangars for rental
purposes on Alaska airports are
eligible for loans from the Small
Business Administration, the Civil
Aeronautics Administration an
nounced today. •
The loans, which are for not
! more than 80 per cent of the val
ue of the hangars, can be made
only, to firms engaged in the avia
tion business at airports, or wjao
combine other aviation business
with hangar rental. Where an ap
plicant can get bank financing
for as much as 25 per cent of the
loan, the processing of the Small
Business loans is faster. Appli
cations are made to the office of
the Administration, 424 Fifth
Avenue, Anchorage.
The arrangement was made by
the CAA to meet the shortage of
hangars for small personal planes
at airports throughout the States.
Loans are made only on hangars
which have a minimum, capacity
of six airplanes, and -for a max
imum period of five years. The
hangars may be built on leased
land if the duration of the lease
equals the time limit on the loan.
The SBA office at Anchorage
has a folder, “Small Hangar
Loans,” available free, which de
scribes the loans in detail, and
which also includes recommenda
tions of the engineering division
of the CAA’s Office of Airports
on type, cost and features of
hangars.
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Bomarc, Controlled
1500 Miles Away,
‘Destroys’ Target
WASHINGTON, UP) — The Air
Force said yesterday its new Bo
marc long range interceptor mis
sile “destroyed” a 1,000-mile-an
hour target missile flying 75 miles
away a't a height of 48,000 feet.
Both the Bomarc and the X-10
research rocket used as the tar
get were launched from the Cape
Canaveral site ' yesterday. How
ever, all firing control of the Bo
marc was from a SAGE air de
fense network center of the Air
Force at Kingston, N. Y., 1,500
miles distant.
The Bomarc carried no war
head and the “knockdown” was
simulated — recorded by an in
strument — with the target fly
ing on for later use.
The Air Force said • that “the
successful mission demonstrated
the capability of the Bomarc sys
tem and effectiveness of its di
rection by SAGE.”
The 1,000-mile-per-hour speed
of the target used in the test is
similar to the speeds of some Rus
■ sian fighters and bombers now
in operation.
President Appoints New
Advisor On Economics
WASHINGTON. (41 — President
Eisenhower today appointed Don
Paarlberg, assistant secretary of
agriculture, as his special assist
ant and adviser on economics.
Paarlberg, a former professor
of agricultural economics at Pur
due University, succeeds Gabriel
Hauge, who has resigned effec
tive next Tuesday, to become
chairman of the finance commit
tee of the Manufacturers Trust
Co. in New York City.
Paarlberg is 47 and a Repub
lican. He was an assistant to
Secretary Ezra Taft Benson for
4 Vi years.
Big'Black Bear
Killed When He Moved
Into City From Wilds
BUENA VISTA, Colo., UPi — A
big black bear who gave up
mountain life for a whirl in the
city is dead.
Game Warden Bryan Denton
killed him with a rifle yesterday
as a safety measure.
The 153-pound bear wandered
into town Wednesday, made his
way into an orchard, stuffed him
self with apples and then climbed
into a tree to take things easy.
Authorities tried unsuccessfully
to run the bear back into the
mountains before shooting him.
The Po River floods killed
about 150 and left 150,000 home
less in 1951.
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Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon at
North Star Dining Room
Jerry Manning, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO 1
Order of Eastern Star
Mildred Harwood
Worthy Matron
Helen Dunbai
Secretary
Meets First and Third Mondays
ANVIL LODGE
No. 140
J. A. von der Heydt, W.M
Norvji v. Lewis, Sec.
Recessed Until Oct. 2
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Jim Blanning
President
Bob Grant
Secretary
1 Wednesday Luncheon