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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the postoffice
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Nome, Alaska, Monday, May 28, 1951
WE BUILD AIR BASES IN ENGLAND
Without much publicity, the United States is build
ing up air strength in Europe. In addition to planes sta
tioned on the Continent, we have a dozen air bases in
the British Isles and are steadily constructing the
ground facilities that will enable the Air Forces to go
into action in a matter of hours.
Some twenty thousand U. S. airmen, ground crew
men, engineers and anti-aircraft artillerymen are in
Britain, serving as a part of the Western world’s de
fense against unexpected aggression. Runways are
being enlarged to care for the biggest planes. Gasoline
and lubricants are being stored, radio communications
installed, spare parts stocked and pilots, navigators,
bombardiers, air and ground crews drilled for their
jobs.
At the present time, our air power in the British
Isles consists of about fifty bombers, the same number
of F-84E Thunderjet escort fighters, a score of con
verted B-29 refueling planes and a few four-jet recon
naisance bombers.
During the past three years, the Royal Air Force
has loaned thousands of men to service and maintain
the bases occupied by our units.
Recently, an anti-aircraft artillery group went
over to relieve British troops from the work of protect
ing our bases. Since the stations were set up in 1948,
many American airmen have spent ninety days, or
more, in the British Isles as a part of their training.
Truth may be stranger than fiction but it will
never sell for as much—Louisville Times.
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The public is a ferocious beast; one must either
chain it up or flee from it.—Voltaire.
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but
the parent of all the others.—Cicero.
Man’s genius enables him to build a space ship
in the nick of time, just when his stupidity threatens
to make the planet uninhabitable.—Boston Globe.
Concert At Methodist Church Tuesday
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Piano Duet
Now Thank We All Our God . . . Johann Cruger
Lullaby.Johannes Brahms
Juanita Fagerstrom — Cpl. Barksdale White
VII
Vocal Duet
Trees .Oscar Rasbach
The Twenty - third Psalm . . . Thomas Koschat
Mary Treat — Carrie McLain
VIII
Piano Solo
Clair de Lune.Claude Debussy
Valse in D Sharp Minor,
Opus 64.Frederic Chopin
Cpl. Barksdale White
DC
Saxophone Solo
Ave Maria.Franz Schubert
Cpl. Carl Berreckman
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Prelude in C Sharp Minor,
Opus No. 3.Sergei Rachmaninoff
Cpl. Barksdale White
Usherettes
Lois Swanberg Ruth Fagerstrom
-Geraldine Fagerstrom Margaret Bjornstad
CHRYSLER TO SET PACE IN INDIANAPOLIS '500'
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This is the car that will set the
pace on Memorial Day for the
fastest fleet of racing cars ever
assembled. The Chrysler New
Yorker Convertible, equipped with
the new 180-hp V-8 “FirePower
Engine” — most powerful power
plant of any passenger car — has
drawn the coveted honor, and
here is shown on the famous
Speedway 1 Indianapolis where
the 500-mile race will be run. At
the wheel is D. A. Wallace, presi
dent of the Chrysler Division of
the Chrysler Corporation, who
will guide the 33 racing cars
around the 2%-mile brick and as
phalt track. At his side is Wilbur
Shaw, president and general man
ager of the Speedway and three
time winner of the “500,” and
seated in the rear seat is Tommy
Milton, chief steward of the track,
who was a fabled racing driver
of the Twenties, when he brought
home two winners at Indianapolis.
This is the fourth time in twenty
five years that a Chrysler has
been selected as the Pace Car,
motor thoroughbred of the year.
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Big Ten Teams To
Play In Rose Bowl
For 3 More Years
EVANSTON, 111., (jT»)—'The Big
Ten and Pacific Coast Conference
will tangle in the Rose Bowl foot
ball classic for at least three more
years.
Squelching all rumors it was
satiated with five straight Pasa
dena wins and would suntinarily
quit the post-season contest, the
Big Ten Friday voted tor continue
Bowl Play just the way the Pa
cific Coast Conference wanted.
That came in a surprising Big
Ten approval of a once -every - two
year appearance limit for the same
team. The Big Ten’s policy in the
original five-year pact of limiting
the same team to one trip every
three years had been under fire
by the West Coast circuit which
made no restrictions. The I.C.C.
recommended a compromise one
every-two-years limit in any con
tinued series.
Although certain details have to
be worked out between the two
conferences, Friday’s Big Ten ac
tion virtually certified renewal of
the grand-daddy of all post-season
grid spectacles.
The Pacific Coast *loop was
happy over the Big Ten’s action.
Commissioner Vic Schmidt of the
P. C. C. immediately expressed
his pleasure and said it would be
only a short time before commit
tees of the two circuits would
thresh out details.
U. S. Sabre Jets Battle
Russian-Made MIGs
U. S. FIFTH AIR FORCE
HEADQUARTERS, Korea, (/P) —
Three American F-86 Sabre jets
caught eight Russian-made MIG
jets 10 miles south of the Yalu
river today and damaged one in
a brief air battle.
The Sabre jets returned to base
unscathed.
Lt. William H. Gallup of South
Norfolk, Va., said:
“They didn’t really want to
fight—we were just between them
and the Yalu.”
Lt. Col. Glenn T. Eagleston of
Alhambra, Calif., damaged the
MIG before the Reds broke off
the battle. The fight lasted less
than five minutes.
Lincoln Ellsworth Dies
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pole on May 12, Ellsworth’s 46th
birthday.
But Admiral Richard E. Byrd
and Floyd Bennett beat them to
the pole in a plane, by three days.
He financed many of his trips
with the fortune he inherited
from his father, a wealthy mine
operator.
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JUNEAU—Persons contemplat
ing opening new retail stores in
Alaska should contact their near
est Office of Price Stabilization
Office before doing so, the Terri
torial OjPS. advised today.
Regulations require that new
sellers of goods at retail submit
the following information to
O.P.S. before making sales: 1—
Nature of 'the business; 2—Your
•proposed ceiling prices; 3—The
method used to determine pro
posed ceiling prices; 4—The rea
son why you believe the proposed
ceiling prices are in line with the
level of other established prices.
This information is not required
from stores already established
and which are merely changing
ownership, but only from new
stores.
O.P.S. offices are located in
Fairbanks, Anchorage and Juneau.
SEATTLE, </P)—Charles Henry
Pells, 83, Seattle pioneer and re
tired president of the American
National Laundry Co., died Satur
day.
He was a motorman on one of
the first four cable cars put into
operation in Seattle in 1888. A
year later he went to Alaska and
operated a horse-mule train be
tween Skagway and Lake Bennett,
Canada.
A daughter and two sons sur
vive.
Alaska Nurses Meet
History was made when the
Alaska Nurses Association held
their first annual meeting in An
chorage on May 18, 1951. Repre
sentative nurses from Juneau,
Seward, Palmer, McGrath, Fair
banks and Anchorage attended.
A “no-hostess” luncheon was
held at Club 25 at 1:30 pm. May
18, attended by approximately 25
nurses. In the evening the annual
meeting and election of officers
was held in the study hall erf the
Anchorage High School. By-laws
and Constitution approved by the
American Nurses Association were
adopted by the Alaska Nurses
Association.
Elizabeth Fritz of Anchorage
was elected president of the or
ganization for the next year.
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