Wrangell Girl “Penpal”
Is Guest of Utah Governor
SALT LAKE CITY, (JP) — A
teen - age Alaska girl has arrived
for a whirl of sight-seeing in Utah
as guest of the state’s first family.
Carolyn Mickelson, 17-year-old
girl from Wrangell, a fishing com
munity of 1,200, climaxed a six
year “penpal” friendship with her
visit to Utah. In 1946, she in
serted an ad in a children’s mag
azine.
Jon Lee of Price, Utah, answer
ed and the two have been corres
ponding since.
Jon’s father, J. Bracken Lee,
was later elected governor of
Utah. Miss Mickelson, winner of
an Elks Lodge scholarship, came
to the States to enroll in Skagit
Valley Junior College near Se
attle.
“Carolyn has never ridden an
escalator, never been swimming
in a lake and has never seen any
sports events,” Miss Lee said.
These activities will be on the
busy round of events for the Al
askan girl.
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Cal Tech Scientists Scale
Mt. Doonerak In Brooks
PASADENA, Calif. — Three
mountain-climbing scientists have
returned to the California Insti
tute of Technology from an Alas
kan vacation-expedition on which
they climbed previously unsealed
Mt. Doonerak, 100 miles north of
the Arctic Circle in the Brooks
Range.
They are Drs. George W. Bea
ble, chairman of the Caltech divi
sion of biology; Gunnar Bergman,
research fellow in chemistry; and
Alfred Tissieres, Gosney research
fellow in biology.
The trio found that this sup
posed Arctic desert region was
not as dry as they expected. In
fact, they were drenched with
rain on nine of the eleven days
they were in the uninhabited area.
They discovered also that alleg
edly unscalable 8,800 - foot Mt.
Doonerak was relatively easy to
climb.
The last attempt on Doonerak
was made in 1939 by Dr. Robert
Marshall, author of “Arctic Vill
age,” gold miner Charles Harvey,
and an Eskimo, Nutirwik. Mar
shall reported the mountain al
most impossible to scale because
of its steep, rocky faces.
The Caltech scientists, however
discovered a ridge running up the
middle of the south face and
found the climbing on it relative
ly simple. They reached the sum
mit from their base camp in 12
hours and took 5 Vz hours for the
descent, making the round trip in
one day. Darkness was no prob
lem since they were in the “Land
of the Midnight Sun,” where the
summer sun shines 24 hours a
day. They had to use only one
piton, a steel wedge driven into
the rock, to protect them on a
precipitous portion of the face.
The peanut plant blossoms
above the surface, but the pods
force their way underground and
ripen there.
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Fairbanks Bartender Is
Charged Manslaughter
In Shooting of Airman
FAIRBANKS, <JF) — A South
Fairbanks bartender has been
charged with manslaughter for
ithe fatal shooting of a sergeant
from Pennsylvania while the vic
tim played a nickleodian in the
Swing Club. The bartender said
it was accidental.
The victim was Sgt. James
Irons. He was attached to a motor
vehicle squadron at Ladd Air
Force Base.
U.S. Deputy Marshall Ted Mc
Roberts signed a manslaughter
complaint against Jimmy Pace,
24-year-old bartender.
Officers said the Negro bar
tender has told them he was
cleaning the .32 caliber pistol and
it discharged accidentally, that the
first he knew of Irons being hit
was when the sergeant smiled
strangely and opened his coat to
the bleeding wound.
Two other men in the club said
Irons walked over to them and
remarked: “If I die . . . look, I'm
shot.''
The complaint against Pace ac
cuses him of handling a loaded
weapon in a negligent manner.
Sabres Destroy 11 and
Damage 14 MIGs In
Three Days Over Korea
By WILLIAM C. BARNARD
SEOUL, (Jf) — Sharp-shooting
U.S. Sabre jet pilots shot down
six Communist MIG 15s and dam
aged three Wednesday in the
third straight day of jet battles
high over North Korea, the UJS.
Fifth Air Force reported.
The Air Force said its three
day bag of the sweptwing Red
fighters totaled 11 destroyed and
14 damaged.
Wednesday’s seven swirling
dogfights got so hot ithat a Com
munist pilot helped shoot down
one of his own comrades.
The MIG flier was firing at
Capt. William J. Ryan, who was
firing at another MIG ahead.
Ryan swerved his plane. The pur
suing MiG’s 20 mm. cannon fire
tore into the Russian-made jet
ahead, blowing it up and finish
ing ithe job Ryan started.
“We are happy to see them
come up . . . The more that come
up the more, we can blast down,”
said Col. Harrison R. Thung,
commander of the Fourth Wing,
as the American flights returned.
U.N. Command Warns
Civilians In North Korea
In Advance of Air Raids
SEOUL, (£■)—The U.S. Fifth Air
Force said U.S. Sabre pilots shot
down four Communist jets and
damaged six in aerial dog fights
over North Korea Tuesday.
The smashing U.N. air victory
announcement came only a few
hours after the U.N. said it had
warned 78 North Korean towns
housing Communist military in
stallations that they are doomed
and advised civilians to get out
in advance of air raids.
The program of heralding air
raids is designed to spare non
combatant lives. It also has the
effect of flaunting the Allied air
superiority over the Communist
North Korean and Chinese Com
mands.
Lt. Gen. Glenn O. Barcus, U.S.
Fifth Air Force commander, said
the warning program has been,
under way in Korea since mid
July.
Fluctuation of Canadian
Dollar Causes Change
Making Problems
WASHINGTON, (iP) — T h e
changing value of the Canadian
dollar may fee causing a change
making problem for American
tourists and Canadian merchants,
but there’s not much that can be
done about it — except by the
Canadian government.
Canada’s government has been
letting the value of its dollar
move in foreign exchange mar
kets in response of supply and de
mand, and officials of the U.S.
government and the World Mone
tary Fund said it’s up to’ Canada
when it will stop the moving by
setting a par rate.
The par rate had been fixed
by Canada at one Canadian dollar
for approximately 92 U.S. cents
until a couple of years ago. Then
the par rate was abandoned, and
the Canadian dollar began a
climb in foreign exchange mar
kets that has taken it recently
above 103 U S. cents.
Canadian merchants dealing
with Americans have not been
uniform in their change - making
practices: most rate a UJS. dollar
as being worth' from 95 to 97
Canadian cents, but some deal on
the basis of one Canadian dollar
for one U.S. dollar to make the
change easier and avoid offending
customers from the U.S.
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Quick-Thinking Pilot
Saves Crew of Crashing
B-29 Bomber Near Tokyo
TOKYO, (;P) — A bomb-laden
B-29 Superfort, bound for Korea,
crashed and burned Tuesday night
four minutes after it took off from
Yokota Air Base west of Tokyo.
Far East Air Force headquar
ters said nine crewmen made low
altitude parachute jumps before
the crash but the pilot and two
other crew members were missing.
The pilot released the bombs
with fuses inactivated before the
impact. Police said one exploded
in some unexplained manner and
slightly injured an elderly Japa
nese man.
Normally, an altitude of at least
300 feet is necessary for an emer
gency parachute jump and more
is preferable. With two engines
afire, the stricken aircraft; heavy
with gasoline, would have had
great difficulty gaining altitude.
“There was some remarkably
quick thinking aboard the plane,”
an Air Force officer said. “Nine
men at least owe their lives to it.”
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No Fatalities On Alaska
Highways Yet This Year
A report of the arrest and con
victions for the year of 1951 by
the Alaska Highway Patrol in
cludes the following totals:
Total Arrests — 1,265
Total Fines Imposed.$22,694
Total Fine Suspended. 1,835
Total Fines Paid. 20,859
There were 9 fatalities in 1951
due to traffic accidents.
Todate for 1952, 874 offenses
have netted the department $14,
530. This includes fines for a wide
variety of violations such as
speeding, driving without license,
dumping garbage on the highway,
hit and run, four in the frcmt
sea, impersonating an officer, etc.
According to the Highway Pat
rol Report, there have been no
fatalities due to traffic accidents
to date this year.
None Directory
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ANVIL LODGE
No. 140
Meets First and
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
Nome Toastmasters Club
Thursdays—6:30 pjn.
B O T—Firelite Room
Dinner Meeting
(Reservations for other than members
must be made before Wednesday noon.)
ROTARY CLUB
OF NOME
Thursday Luncheon
W. H. Cameron, Pres.
Dewey Goodrich, Secy.
POLAR CURIO SHOP