NOME HIGH TOPS FIRE DEPT.
m IN EXCITING GAME
Last evening the Nome High
School played the MAFB Fire de
partment basketball team in a fast
and exciting game, with the gal
lery packed to capacity with root
ing spectators.
During the first half of the game
the Fire Department team surged
► > ahead of the High School team but
the final score was in favor of the
school 46 to 40.
Excitement ran so high during
the game that the officials of the
game were at times unable to
hear their own whistles.
Proceeds of the game will go to
sending the High School team to
Anchorage for the All Alaska meet
% next month.
JOHNSON WILL ASK FOR
REHABILITATION FUNDS
ANCHORAGE, UP) — John P.
Johnson, general manager of the
Alaska Railroad, plans to appear
before a House appropriations
sub-committee in support of re
habilitation money for the rail
road. Before departure for Wash
ington, he said he expected to ap
pear before the group Jan. 18 and
19‘
™ If the $31,000,000 recommended
THREE DIE WHEN AUTO
SKIDS INTO POND
LONGVIEW, Wash. </P) — An
army corporal’s wife and two
children died early today when
the family car skidded from an icy
highway and plunged'into a road
side pond.
Cpl. Walter Warner, 25, the hus
band and father, escaped from the
car but said he was unable to res
cue his trapped family. He was
suffering from exposure and
shock when he was rescued from
its top.
Coroner Gordon Quamstrom
said said the Warners were trav
eling from Pennsylvania to Fort
Worden, Wash. Their home city
was not available immediately.
The accident occurred about 7
a.m. in hazardous driving weather,
about two miles houth of Kalama.
The car skidded into a pond that
had been formed when the high
way was built.
for the railroad in President Tru
man’s budget message to Congress
wins approval, railroad officials
said it would make possible the
completion of the $75,000,000 re
habilitation program that was
started in 1947.
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j System-Wide Strike
j Faces P. A* A*
BROWNSVILLE, Tex., (/P) —
Roy L. Flager said here yesterday
a system-wide strike against Pan
American World Airways is plan
ned for Feb. 1 unless mediation
efforts i na long-standing dispute ;
with the Transport Workers of,
America are successful.
Flager is spokesman for the CIO
union.
Flager said the case is slated for
mediation in Long Island, N. Y.,
' January 16.
Personnel involved in the con
tract disagreement are ground me
chanics and maintenance workers
at Brownsville, Miami, San Juan,
Hawaii, Seattle, San Francisco
and New York.
Negotiations began Dec. 19, they
resolved the dispute to six basic
points covering: system-wide se
niority; job security and a clause
covering maintenance “farm out”
contracts; severance pay in event
of lay-offs; hospital and retirement
plan; increased vacation with pay
and more holidays; and a 20-cent
per hour increase “across the
j board.” j
I To Germany To
| Find A Wife; |
| Home Unmarried
——
PORTLAND, (&)—•The 31-year
old construction worker who went
to Germany to find a wife is back
home, still hunting, and kind of
mad at a magazine article.
Fred Stoecker, Jr., said he was
in an Alaska construction camp
when he picked up a magazine. It
! had an article about how easy it is
for an American to marry beauti
ful blonde German girls. All he
! had to do, the magazine said, was
to go to Germany and look around.
“So I end up three weeks later
in Hamburg,” Stoecker related. “I
announce to everybody I can find
to talk to that I want a wife. I
even ran an ad in the paper. The
magazine was right — practically
every woman I talked to wanted
to marry me and come back to the
: United States.
“That is. all but the one I want
ed. She sure is a pretty thing.
Twenty-one years old and just the
right height and just the right
weight. Everything was just right,
except she wouldn't come back
with me.
“She asked me if I would want
her to stay home and keep house
and have kids. It told her all those
things were on the agenda. She
thanked me kindly and told me I
was a nice fellow, but she would
rather stay in Germany and work
for the telephone company.”
“What’s the right one like?”
He isn’t quite sure. “But I’m
not,” he insisted, “too picky.”
ARCADIA, Calif. (/P)—Citation
is safely past his initial comeback
race and, barring mishap, will be
the big factor in the $100,000 San- 1
ta Ania handicap February 25.
The big chief of the Calumet
stable swung back into action
Wednesday after a'13-month lay
off. He traveled six muddy fur
longs in triumphant fashion, her
alding a return to the greatness
he knew as the triple crown cham
pion in 1948.
He handled himself well, run
ning the distance in the fair time
of 1.11 2/5.
His win Wednesday netted him
$2,600, and edged his all-time
earnings to $867,750.
‘Quake Hits South
ern California
LOS ANGELES, (/P) —Accom
panied by heavy rumbling, a sharp
earthquake jarred a large section
of southern California Wednesday,
but it caused no damage.
Heaviest jolts were felt in the
tall civic center buildings down
town, although the trembler was
reported from Long Beach 75
miles inland to San Bemadino.
Geologists feared that oil wells
in the Long Beach area, which
suffered several million dollars
damage in a ’quake Nov. 17, may
have been disturbed anew.
Dr. Charles F. Richter, Califor
nia Institute of Technology seis
mologist, said the epicenter was j
within 15 miles of Pasadena.
“What is your age?” asked the
magistrate. “Remember,” he cau
tioned, “You are on oath.”
“Twenty-one and some months,”
answered the woman.
“How many months?”
“One hundred and eight.”
ROTARY GUARANTEES REGIS
TRATION FEE FOR SCOUT AT
INTERNATIONAL JAMBOREE
The Scout of Ndme who can
meet the stiff qualifications re
quired to represent his city and
troop at the International Scout
Jamboree to be held at Valley
Forge this coming July 4th .will
have his registration fee of $35.00
paid by the Nome Rotary Club,, it
was decided at the club luncheon
Thursday noon.
The Scouts themselves, with
their committees’ backing are go
ing to try to raise the rest, and
among their projects are a benefit
dance and a plan to meet promin
ent officials at the airport and
provide a dog sled ride, the offi
cial then paying to the kitty.
The Rotarians were to attend
last night’s High School basketball
game to encourage the team's trip
to the Anchorage tourney.
Next week’s meeting will fea
ture Karl Dewey’s taking over the
program.
The principal food of the com
mon octopus is crabs, which it
paralyzes with a poison secreted
by salivary glands.
JACK IENCER
■
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