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Nome’s Fair Now
Well Organized
President of the Fair Associa
tion, Terry Fisher, in an interview
told about the general plans of
the organization.
The Northwestern Alaska Fair
Association, she stated, is a non
profit-sharing organization. The
aim is to advance, foster, and en
courage the mining, industrial,
fur-bearing, reindeer, dog, fishing
and agricultural interests of North
western Alaska, and to promote
the general welfare of the section.
That no officer of the associa
tion receives any remuneration
whatsoever was emphatically ex
pressed. All help in putting on the
Fair is voluntary.
All money raised by the Fair is
used to pay necessary expenses,
and to promote a better Fair next
year.
Listed below are the exhibits
which will be shown at the Fair
here in Nome June 7 and 8 and
the superintendents.
EXHIBIT SUPT.
Territorial Mr. Olaf Halver
School son
Rural Schools Mr. Emil Fisher
Native Products Mr. JohnMcNees
Reindeer Sect’n Mr. Robert Ok
pealook
Mining, mineralsMr. Dan Jones
Art Dept. Mrs. Ellen lorle
Household Ec- Mrs. Adeline Ul
onomics rick
Flowers, gard’ns Mrs. Mark An
derson
Fish & Wildlife Mr. Gordon Os
borne
Boy Scouts Mr. Marc Ander
son i
In addition, a new system of
awards will be set up this year.
First, Second and Third Prizes
will be awarded in each class only.
This will be fewer prizes given
but should excite keener competi
tion. The prizes will be ribbons
give in aceremony on the stage.
Other exhibits will be hobbies,
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U. S. Tin Corp.
Gets First DMA
Loan in Alaska
Negotiations have been com
pleted for a $375,000 RFC loan,
through the Defense Materials Ad
ministration, to the U. S. Tin
Corporation of Seattle for extend
ing its operations in tin mining on
Seward Peninsula, according to
George Sundborg, head of the Al
aska Development Board. This is
the first DMA loan made in Alas
ka.
The U. S. Tin Corp. has been
operating a tin placer mine at
Lost River, near Cape Prince of
Wales, for some time producing
about 100 tons per year. They
have now obtained a certificate of
necessity from the Defense Min
erals Administration to install a
mill to mine lode tin. Building of
the mill is to start immediately.
On completion of the mill it is
estimated that about 100 tons of
| ore will be produced a day during
the first year, with 30 to 40 men
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Would-Be Record Setter
Sranded on Mt. Ranier
LONGMIRE, Ranier National
Park, (/P)—An Air Force pilot was
stranded yesterday in his ski
equipped light plane. •
Air and ground rescue teams
worked desperately to assure his
survival.
He is Lieut. John Hodgkin, 41,
of Selma, Calif. Friends said Hodg
kins landed on the mountain top
because of his burning ambition
to hold the honor of the world’s
highest landing and takeoff. He
made the landing O.K. The plane
engine apparently died and re
fused to start again in the rare
fied atmosphere.
“INVADERS” LAUNCH
PROPAGANDA ATTACK
Friday* April 13* 1951
ANCHORAGE, (/P)—Aggressor
forces opened a propaganda at
tack over the Armed Forces Radio
Station yesterday as a new phase
of “Operatipn Firestep,” war man
euvers testing Alaska’s military
defense.
Unscheduled broadcasts warned
the defenders of an “inevitable”
attack on Elmendorf Air Force
Base and invited them to surren
der immediately. The assumed
“enemy” broadcasts were trans
mitted from a unit installed and
powered to crowd out the Elmen
dorf radio stations.
One speaker made all the trans
missions. He entreated the de
fenders not to “resist foolishly,”
and described the aggressor form
of government as a “utopian gov
ernment.”
i
In one broadcast recorded by
■ Elmendorf intelligence, the com
I mentator gloated over the con
. quest of California by the aggres
!sor, and announced that all who
surrendered would be sent to
k camps there. The terms “concen
i tration camp” and prisoner of
war” were avoided. The commen
tator referred to the camps as
“comfort stations for the op
pressed.” Air transportation was
promised all those who surren
dered.
Although the voice warned of
approaching “enemy forces,” it
gave no indication when the inva
sion might take place. The voice
of the aggressor uses the title “ed
ucational advisor.”
March weather in Home was
cold and dry. The temperature
was eight degrees below normal#
while less than 25% of the expec
ted amount of precipitation fell.
ANNIVERSARY:
Aged Car Takes Trip Down Memory’s Lane
AP New&feaiures '
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Hilscher
have a date on June 10 in St. Paul,
the day and place they were mar
ried 60 years ago. They are sure
their 30-year-old Model T will
get them there on their trip from
Seattle. They are going the long
way round, down the west coast
and over to New Orleans, then on
for a tour of eastern states. The
Hilschers are each 64 years old.
They habitually drive at 25 miles
an hour. At that rate their car
has gone 151,000 miles. When they
get to St. Paul they plan to hold
a reception at Phalen Park. They
have sent invitations to nearly
1,000 of their friends. They are
on their way now. They are the
parents of Herb Hilscher of Fair
banks.
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Truman Hopes
Action Will Bring
Peace Nearer
WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
Truman has pinned high hopes
for peace — and vindication for
firing Gen. Douglas MacArthur—
on the crushing of a threatened
Communist. spring offensive in
Korea.
Mr. Truman told the nation in
a radio and television talk Wed
nesday night that he relieved Mac
Arthur of his Pacific commands
because the five-star general dis
agrees with his policy aimed at
preventing the Korean fighting
from spreading into a world war.
Less than 22 hours had elapsed
since the announcement of the
picturesque general’s dismissal.
“We do not want to see the con
I flict in Korea extended,” the Pres
ident said solemnly and firmly.
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Well Known
ASS Stewardess
Quits Union
SEATTLE, '(AV-Nurse-steward
ess Lysbeth Rawsthome, for years
a figure on Seattle-Alaska passen
ger ships, has resigned from the
Marine Cooks and Stewards Un
ion in protest over «a fine and a
suspension she said was levied
against her by the union.
Mrs. Rawsthome, known to
thousands of Alaskans, tourists
and seamen as “The Duchess,”
said she quit the union after a
trial committee fined her $100 and'
suspended her for 30 days for as
sertedly aiding a rival union ar
gamzer during a voyage on the
SS Denali last month.
“The charges were ridiculous,”
the soft-spoken stewardess de
clared Tuesday. “The real reason,
I am convinced, was that I re
fused to be ruled by fear as a
member of the union.
“It began last January when
the Steward Department crew of
the Denali voted a resolution sup
porting the United Nations against
the Communists in Korea, and ap
proving Coast Guard screening of
merchant seamen to bar subver
sives. Later, after meeting with
union officials the crew voted to
‘rescind* the resolution. I was one
who refused to vote to rescind it.”
LOCAL DENTIST
MARRIES NURSE
Dr. Maxwell Kennedy, well
known dentist of this area, and
Linda Musgrave, popular nurse of
the MMM Hospital, surprised their
many friends by being quietly
married last evening at the Ken
nedy residence.
Rev. Robert Treat of the Com
munity Methodist Church per
formed the ceremony with Mr.
and Mrs. Ben Mozee in atten
dance on the couple.
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By the Associated Ptess
Thursday, April 12, 1951
American warplanes shot down
five enemy jets, probably de
stroyed two more and damaged 15
today in two roaring air fights
over northwest Korea.
* All American planes* came out
of the battles.
One of the thunderous clashes
was the biggest jet fight in his
tory. It involved 180 jet planes—
80 Russian-made Mig-15’s and , 100
American F-86’s and F-84*s—and
about 40 B-19 medium bombers.
On the ground, two Chinese
divisions pulled back suddenly
and mysteriously on the central
front American troops pushed
cautiously ahead in their wake
against no opposition. Staff offi
cers said they were puzzled by the
enemy withdrawal.
The two Red divisions Wednes
day bitterly opposed Allied cross
ings of the Mantan River south of
Chorwon. They fought from the
craggy hills north of the river.
But they broke contact Wednes
day night.
South Korean troops cm the east
cfijast stabbed 26 miles into north
Korea in the deepest Red land
penetration of the currant United
Nations drive.
In history’s biggest jet battle,
the 80 Migs swooshed out of Red
Manchuria against 72 UjS. jets
flying cover for 30 to 40 B-29
superforts. The iB-29’s dropped
300 tons of bombs on the vital
railroad bridge across the Yalu
River between Antung, Manchur
ia, and Sinuiju, Korea.
Other Allied planes in 672 flights
reported more than 509 Reds killed
ov founded Thursday, the greatest
claim against troops in the past
three weeks. The fighters strafed
ti oop columns of 5,000 soldiers
near Anak and 1,000 Reds near
cnaeryong.
In the ground fighting the Allies
used bayonets and hand grenades
in carving out two small beach
heads Wednesday on the Hantan
River north bank.
The Reds tried to halt the Uni
ted Nations advance with heavy
mortar and grenade fire.
Friday, April 13, 1951 !
Red Chinese withdrawals in
North Korea Friday coincided with
a warning that they might be pre
paring the Way for heavy air
strikes at the advancing Allied
ground forces.
In the wake of history's great
est jet air battle, Lt. Gen. George
E. Stratemeyer, commander of the
U.S. Far East Air Forces, said the
growing Communist air arm might
soon start ground attacks.
In nine and one-half months of
war, such Red raids have been,
limited to minor nuisance bomb
ings by one or two planes.
Allied Airmen are forbidden to
strike at the Manehurian bases of
the Red air force, Gen. Strate
meyer noted in an interview. "Our
only recourse is to blunt the at
tack once it is launched,” he said.