Barrow Squirrels
Undergo Study
At U. S. C.
LOS ANGELES, (/P)—'Ten Arc
tic ground squirrels, trapped by a
scientist at Point Barrow, are ob
jects of laboratory study at the
University of Southern California.
Dr. William V. Mayer, who
caught the varmints himself, is
hoping to get some little squirrels
out of the experiment, although
the only instance he knows of
their reproducing in captivity was
at Point Barrow.
The Navy asked Dr. Mayer to
make the study. The Navy be
came interested in squirrels ori
ginally as a possible food source
for fliers who are forced down in
the far north.
The animals are good to eat
but hard to catch. They hibernate
deep under the snow from fall to
April.
“We will be interested to see
what they do in Los Angeles when
their normal hibernation time rolls
%
around and the weather is still
warm.” said Dr. Mayer.
“California squirrels are active
only during the day,” he added.
“We wondered what their Arctic
cousins did where there are 24
hours of daylight. We were sur
prised to find they went to sleep
about 9:30 p.m. every day and
didn’t awaken until about 4:10
a.m., just as though it had been
dark. Arctic ground squirrels
spend from half to two-thirds of
their life asleep,” including the
hibernation period.
In the laboratory, just as in the
Arctic, the squirrels spend almost
all their waking hours eating and
storing up fat for the winter.
“Command Post Exercise"
Test Ability Commands to
Operate From Field Hq. i
ANCHORAGE, (JP) — Military
units representing land, sea and
air services in Alaska launched a
“command post exercise" Monday I
night to test the ability of Alaska
commands to operate from ad
vanced field headquarters.
A spokesman for Lt. Gen. Wm.
E. Kepner, commander-in-chief
for Alaska, said headquarters per
sonnel from the Alaska Command,
Alaskan Air Command, U.S. Army
Forces in Alaska, and the Alaskan
Sea Frontier are involved. The ex
ercise started at midnight Monday
and will continue until midnight
Thursday.
Participating headquarters are
operating from a 31-car train
which moved Saturday from El
^ mendorf Air Fore Base here to
Birchwood, 22 miles north.
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NW Governors Ask Public
Cooperation In Voluntary
Saving of Elctric Power
PORTLAND, (/P)—The govern
ors of Washington, Idaho and Ore
gon yesterday turned down a pro
posal to extend daylight saving
time during the Pacific North
west’s power shortage.
The governors said other mem
! bers of the Columbia River Basin
Inter-Agency Committee, meeting
here, concurred in the decision to
i
revert to Standard Time on sched
ule next Sunday.
The governors asked the public
instead to cooperate in voluntary
saving of power in advance o'f ex
pected orders for a brown-out
throughout the region.
Geological Survey Says
Alaska Mapping Underway
' AP Special Washington Service)
WASHINGTON, (/P)—‘The Geo
logical Survey said yesterday a
program for mapping Alaska is
underway.
The agency said it plans to map
the entire territory on a scale of
1 to’ 250,000, and to map selected
areas of strategic and economic
importance on a larger scale of
1 to 63,360.
The agency said the Navy and
Air Force are making air photos of
the territory and have completed
about ome-third of the area.
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GERMANY'S OLD MAIDS
EYE ALASKA'S SURPLUS MEN
FRANKFURT, Germany, (/?)—
West German spinisters, moaning
scarcity of bachelors in this coun
try, are casting envious eyes at
Alaska.
A West German magazine which
reported on its front page that
“Alaska needs 50,000 women” was
sold out in record time recently.
One of 2,800,000 German women
whose chances for marriage are
slight because of war casualties,
confronted a dealer the day after
she had bought her copy. “That’s
all fine and interesting to read,” j
she snapped. “But how do we get'
there?” !
Hollywood’s Scarlet Sin
Not So Red Says Revivalist
HOLLYWOOD, (/P) — “There’s
nothing wrong with sex,” Evan
gelist Billy Graham told a ciowd
at Hollywood Bowl last night.
“God has given it,” he said. “It
is heaven on earth if practiced
within the confines of God’s law.
And it’s hell on earth when God’s
law is disregarded.”
Graham’s subject was “Holly
wood’s Scarlet Sin,” and the re
vivalist declared that the film col
ony “isn’t the focal point of sex
promiscuity that some people ap
parently believe.”
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