ALASKAGRAM No. 65
CLUE: Louis, Paul, and George are friendly com
petitors in the mercantile business here.
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(Place) (Extra Letter)
Your Name.
P. O. Box.Town...
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ALASKAGRAM No. 66
CLUE: Mind your P’s and Q’s on this long Eski
ko name. If you pronounce it, you’ve
solved it.
Ok, King, I will go — ...
(Place) (Extra Letter)
Your Name.
P. O. Box.Town.
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WEEKLY SET OF ALASKAGRAMS 61 TO 66
Weekly Alaskagrani Answer Blank
11 tli Week’s Set. Nos. 61 to 66
Editor
Alaskagram Contest
P. O. Box 763
Anchorage, Alaska
Listed below .are my answers to Alaskagrams
61 to 66 of the Alaskagrams Contest, I also enclose
each of the six Alaskagrams for the week.
Wrapped in a small piece of paper is enclosed
25 cents in coin to make by answers eligible under
the rules.
Puzzle Name of Place Extra Letter
No. 61 .:.
No. 62 .
No. 63 ...
No. 64 ..
No. 65 .
No. 66 .
Mv Name is .
P. O. Box is.Town.
Set must he postmarked not later than 11:59
p. m. April 1, 1950.
(Remember to enclose 25c in coin with each week5!
set of six puzzles to be eligible for a cash prize)
M-K Low Bidder
On Murphy Dome
ANCHORAGE, (JP) — Morrison
Knudsen and Peter Kiewit Con
struction Co., of Omaha, Nebr.,
was the apparent low bidder Wed
nesday on the Murphy Dome mili
tary project near Fairbanks, Alas- j
ka.
Eleven bids were opened. The
Omaha firm bid $3,113,113. The
government’s estimated project!
cost was $2,848,097. Bids will be
sent to Washington, D. C., for
evaluation and contract awurd.
Other bidders included Boes
j pflug Construction Co., Billings,
1 Mont., $3,448,000; Gaasland Con
struction Co., Bellingham, Wash.,
$3,798,757; Patti McDonald, Kan
sas City, Mo., $3,898,983, and Had
dock Co., Ltd., of California |
(town unavailable) $3,991,432.
The Murphy Dome job will be |
similar to the Fire Island project'
near here on which bids were
opened Tuesday. The job calls for
bachelor officers quarters, air
men’s barracks, central heating,
power plant, operations building,
warehouse, mess hall, recreation
i building, utilities and roads.
ALASKAGRAM NOTICE
The Alaskagram puzzle of last
Thursday contained the scrambled
name, "G Snow Hunk," which has
evoked numerous inquiries who
j said they could not fit these let
ters into the name of any known
I Alaska town. David Tewkesbury.
publisher of Tewkesbury's Alman
! as and sponsor of the Alaskagram
; contest, said today the scrambled
name of the town could also read,
"G Snaw Hunk." Full credit for
either solution will be given he
said, since the name of the town
unfortunately appears both ways
! in the almanac.
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Alaskagrams 61 to 66
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NEWS IN BRIEF
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and guests were Carl Rentsler,
Alaska Jaycee president; Marshall
Lovett, Territorial Jaycee secre
tary, Bill Rugge and Bill Olson,
president of the Anchorage club,
all of Anchorage; Joe Godding,
Ketchikan, and Capt. M. C. Heine,
navy director of intelligence for
the Alaska Command.
FAIRBANKS, (A>) — Westing
house Electric Corp., of Seattle
was low bidder yesterday on furn
ishing two turbines and two con
densers for the city’s $4,500,000
utilities project. The firm bid
$205,000.
Other bidders were Worthing
ton Pump, General Electric and
Ingcrsoll Rand.
An invitation to bid on boilers
will be sent out next week.
WASHINGTON, (/P)—'The navy j
has tabbed 10 additonal destroyer
escorts for transfer to North At
lantic treaty nations under the
arms aid program. Two of these
1,240 ton ships previously had
been earmarked for this purpose.
The navy said the 12 will go
into the Boston and Philadelphia
navy yards between now and July
15 for overhaul and refitting. All
weer built in 1943 and 194^.
PEARL HARBOR. (JP) — Air
and sea searchers today continued
their hunt for the Elder, a missing
navy net tender enroute to the
Eniwetok atomic proving grounds.
The main search centered about
“Russia Had Eight
Atomic Blasts”
Says Editor
LONDON, (A) — Kenneth de
Courcy, editor of the “Intelligence
Digest," claimed today Russia
has touched off a series of experi
mental atomic blasts in central
Asia as predicted by him. He sent
out a press release which said
eight explosions occurred between
March 5 and March 10.
De Courcy previously had fore
cast that there would be 11 blasts
in all near the border of the Sov
iet Asiatic republic of Kazakhstan
and the Chinese province of Sin
kiang.
De Courcy, who has no known
connection with British official in
telligence. claims to have a pipe
line into Russia. He came into
prominence as an atomic forecast
er by predicting correctly that the
Soviet Union would bring off its
first atomic explosion in 1949.
400 miles north of Kwajalein,
where the craft with 40 men on
board, was last reported by a
transport. When last seen the ten
der was in no apparent trouble.
Fears have been expressed the
tender may have struck a floating
mine and been sunk.
WASHINGTON, {/P> — The na
tion’s gold mine production total
ing 168,614 fine ounces in Janu
ary was virtually unchanged frorr
December output, the bureau o
mines reported yesterday,
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CLEAN-UP
SALE
Ladies Lingerie
Sp ecially Priced
.25 to 1.00
— INCLUDES —
RAYON GOWNS - BRAS
GARTER BELTS
SHORT GIRDLES
Etc. - Etc. • Etc.
FOR WOMEN ONLY
MEN NEED NOT APPLY