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Floating Ice Island Weather Base
To Be Maintained As Winter Home
For Air Force Research Party
ANCHORAGE, Sept. 18, (/P)—A
bleak and lonely island of ice,
floating near the North Pole, is
to be the winter-long home of an
Air Force research party.
The desolate six by nine-mile
chunk of ice has been occupied
as a weather' station since last
March, although the airmen have
been rotated.
The floaters’ strange life at the
top of the world has become so
work-a-day that the Air Force
now refers to the operation as
“purely routine.’’ Weather re
ports are received every six hours
from the party on “Fletcher’s Is
land’’ in a region where science
thinks many of the Northern
Hemisphere's storms may be
brewed.
The airmen who are there now
are, ironically, almost all south
erners. But there’s never a com
plaint of a chilblain.
They are due to return to Al
aska for reassignment late- this
mouth or early in October after
riding the ice cake since early
July.
One note of Arctic luxury was
provided the present party. They
have a camp cook. He was added
after members of the original ex
pedition. in best Army tradition,
griped at K.P. duty.
A lone scientist has been on
the T-3 island project since April
1. He is Dr. Albert P. Crary of
West Newton, Mass. He, too*, is
due to return to his home labora
tory. Another scientist will re
place him.
Air Force officers say one fac
tor that led to a decision for an
all-weather station is the better
condition of the ice in winter
time. The slushiness that makes
summer landings on the ice diffi
cult is eliminated in the below
zero cold of winter darkness.
Research on the island since
Lt.' Col. Joseph O. Fletcher of
Shawnee, Okla., led the original
group of Arctic pioneers to T-3
has led to the general belief that
the 200-foot-thick ice originated
on land.
Tests have shown that samples
of dirt and ice are closely akin to
those found on the Ellesmere Is
land, west of Greenland. It has
led to the conclusion that the ice
is of glacial origin composition. It
contains little, if any, salt and has
a bluish, glacial tint.
The island now is about 100
miles from the North Pole. It
moves more than a mile a day, on
the average.
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Britain Calls on China
Release Western Nationals
Held Without Charge
LONDON, (/P) — Britain has
called on Red China to release all
American, British and Canadian
nationals arrested without being
accused, the Foreign Office an
nounced Friday.
A spokesman told a news con
ference a note delivered in Pei
ping Wednesday further demand
ed that Red China give exact in
formation on the whereabouts of
some 72 Allied nationals and pro
vide facilities for visits to them.
British Charge d’Affaires L. H.
Lamb made the representations on
behalf of the United Kingdom,
Canada, Australia and the United
States governments, the spokes
man said.
Britain is the only one of these
nations to-have a diplomatic rep
resentative in Peiping. This coun
try recognized the Communist
government of Mao Tze-Tung two
years ago. China has never re
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turned the compliment.
Copter Pilot Sets New
Non-Stop Distance Record
NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y., (/P) —
A Texas test pilot’s 1,234 - mile
hop to Niagara Falls Wednesday
broke every known non-stop dis
tant record fo*r helicopters.
Elton J. Smith, 31, of Ft. Worth,
covered the distance from his
home town in 12 hours, 57 min
utes and 30 seconds, flying a Bell
model 47D-1. Auxiliary tanks
boosted the craft’s fuel capacity
from the normal 30 gallons to 187.
MMM HOSPITAL
Admitted: Margaret Maloney,
Flora Lee of Teller, Sara Koyuk,
Jim Weyanna, Douglas Waddell.
Discharged: Edith Tungwenuk,
Thomas Tungwenuk and Michael
Cannon.
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Serious Train Wrecks
In Korea and Germany
SEOUL, Korea, (/P) — Army
authorities Thursday reported an
unofficial toll of 20 killed and 159
injured in a wreck of a Korean
pasenger train near here Wed
nesday. Most of the casualties
were school children.
HAMBURG, Germany, (/P)—A
German commuter express train
jumped the tracks Thursday as
it approached the main Hamburg
railway station, killing at least
eight persons and seriously in
juring more than 30 others.
CIO ASKS GENERAL MITORS
TO GRANT WAGE AND
PENSION BENEFITS NOW
DETROIT, (J-P)—Bound by con
tract until 1955, the CIO United
Auto Workers Union is asking
General Motors to go beyond their
historic • cost-of-living pact and
grant immediate wage and pen
sion benefits.
If GM—the industry’s pattern
setter for years—agrees, the union
presumably will ask Ford, Chrys
ler and other auto companies with
similar contracts to do likewise.
WEDNESDAY BASEBALL
National League
Pittsburgh 4 — Brooklyn 1
New York 2 — Chicago 0
Philadelphia 7 — Cincinnati 4
American League
New York 12 — Detroit 3
Cleveland 6 — Washington 1
St. Louis 10« — Boston 4
Pacific Coast League
Sacramento 4 — Los Angeles 3
Seattle 6 — San Francisco 2
Oakland 12 — San Diego 8
Hollywood 6 — Portland3
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ROTARY CLUB
OF NOME
Thursday Luncheon
Boyd Harwood, Pres.
George Bayer, Secy.
Nome Toastmasters Club
Thursdays—6:30 pan.
B O T—Firelite Room
Dinner Meeting
(Reservations for other than member*
must be made before Wednesday noon.)
Alaska Chapter No. 1
Order of Eastern Star
Dorothy Young
Rosa B. Hagen
Worthy Matron
Secretary
Meetings 1st and 3rd Mondays
HAGEN
JEWELER AND OPTICIAN
Court House Is Opposite Us
Phone Main 40
ANVIL LODGE
No. 140
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Third Thursday
each month
WILL M. GILLIS, W. M.
NORVIN W. LEWIS, Secy.
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets
EVERY TUESDAY NOON
Larry Galvin, President
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