Geographical !
Names In The
Antarctic
• From Delegate Bartlett’s Office*
Three geographical portions in
the Antarctic have been named
after persons wellknown in Alas
ka.
Gruening Glacier, after Alaska’s
Governor, is a broad glacier of
the Richard Black Coast. It was
discovered on December 30. 1940,
by members of the U. S. Antarctic
Service expedition in a flight from
East Base. It was named after
Governor Gruening shortly after
the time he left the Interior De
partment’s division of Territories
and island possession, which he
headed during the inception of the
U. S. Antarctic Service. He was a
member of the executive commit
tee by which the service was di
rected.
A mountain in the Antarctic
about 10.400 feet high, known as
Mount Berlin, pays tribute to
Leonard M. Berlin, who is now in
Juneau with the office of cadas
tral engineer. The mountain was
discovered by members of the
Second Byrd Antarctic Expedition
on'extended flights to the north
east and to the east of Little Amer
ica in November and December,
1934. Mr. Berlin, after whom the
mountain has been named. was
the leader of the Pacific Coast Sur
vey party of the U. S. Antarctic
Service expedition, 1939-41, which
sledged to this mountain in De
cember, 1940.
Mrs. Ruth Hampton, who is
known through Alaska through
her service as assistant director of
the division of territories and is
land possessions from which posi
tion she has retired, has a moun
tain named after her. At the time
of the mountain’s disccfvery in De
cember, 1940, Mrs. Hampton was
the Interior Department member
of the Antarctic Service executive
committee.
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Stops Anchorage
Strike Conciliation
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agreement to permit resuming op
erations. Please advise.'
The wire was to Lou Taylor,
business agent.
The city government, still await
ing word from labor conciliator
Leonard F-. Evans of Juneau, fears
the union may take out emergency
switchboard operators at midnightj
Wednesday, when a six-day dead
line falls.
Taylor warned that the opera
tors probably would be with
drawn. He said also that water
pumping station employees, also
union members, may go off the
iob, depending on the strike com
mittee decision.
With onl four girls on the tele
phone switchboard to handle
emergency calls, Mayor Francis C. j
Bowden said he would personally'
run the board if the four are with
drawn.
The union’s strike committee in
dicated it would seek another con
ciliator if Evans can not come. <It
was announced in Seattle that a
federal conciliator was on his way
to Anchorage.>
The union and city officials
agree that it is almost impossible
to find an acceptable local arbitra
tor.
The union today cleared city
electricians to work on a trans
former for the refrigeration sys
tem in a cold storage plant after it
blew a fuse. The work was listed
as an emergency.
SILVERIO RUIZ NOW WITH
GRANT JACKSON
Silverio Ruiz, former owner of
the Nevada Grill, who sold out to
Carl Newman, states that he is
now employed by Grant Jackson,
, and anyone wishing to contact him
can get in touch with him there.
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Government
Activities Affecting
Alaska
_
• From Delegate Bartlett’s Office1
WASHINGTON — During the
first seven months of 1947 numer
ous decisions and actions involv
ing federal agencies were of direct
benefit to Alaska.
Steps were taken for comple-!
tion of 96 housing units for veter
ans at Anchorage at an approxi
mate cost of $700,000. Work had
been halted due to lack of funds
necssitating a cut-back on the en
tire government program not onlv
in Alaska but throughout the
United States. The Federal Public
Housing Authority dipped into
emergency reserve funds to aid
the Anchorage housing problem.
A start was made on a new par
cel post zone system in Alaska so
that the present 8th-zone rates
would not prevail throughout the:
entire Territory.
The Canadian government, after
efforts made by numerous Alas
kans, Territorial and federal gov
ernment officials were successful,
agreed to maintain its portion of
the Haines cutoff this summer.
Initial dredging of Wrangell
Narrows was begun by the Puget
Sound Bridge and Dredging com
pany of Seattle under contract
from army engineers. $500,000 has
been appropriated so far and the
total estimated cost is set at $3.
321,000. Dredging throughout the
northernmost 13^ miles of Wran
gell Narrows, started at Frederick
Sound, to a depth of 24 feet and
a width of 300 feet is contemplated
under the $500,000 appropriation.
Dawson Creek, British Colum
bia, was designated as a Canadian
customs port of entry allowing
trans-shipment of freight “in
bond” direct from the United
States to Alaska by Canadian rail
road to Dawson Creek for trans
fer to trucks at Dawson Creek for
carriage over the highway to Alas
ka.
Numerous grants were made to
Alaska communities by the Feder
al Works Agency for plan prepar
ation of community projects such
as fire stations, school facilities,
streets, sewers, etc.
Delegate Bartlett was success
ful in his fight to restore the pay
ment of the 25 per cent salary dif
ferential to dependent employees
of the War Department who reside
with th head of a family employed
by another federal government
agency which had been elimin
ated by the department.
Mail delivery service to 23 west
ern Alaska communities, including
the Aleutian Islands, was resumed
for the first time since the war bv
awarding of a mail contract to
boat skipper Captain J. H. Pet
rich.
Several loans to Alaska associa
tions approved by the Rural Elec
trification Administration in con
nection with development of
power included: Glacier Highway
Electric Association of .Juneau.
$230,000; Golden Valley Electric
Association of Fairbanks. $270.
000; Homer Cooperative Associa
tion of Homer, $217,000; Kodiak
Electric Association of Kodiak,
$310,000.
OSWEGO, N. Y. f/P> — A 57
year-old railroad engineer was
killed yesterday when he was run
over by his own engine in a tun
nel of the Delaware, Lackawanna
and Western railroad. Police re
ported that John Carroll, Syra
cuse, was attempting to escape
from the cab of the locomotive as
steam started pouring from a
valve and fell under the moving
engine.
States Swelter In
Death-Dealing
Torrid Wave
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weather Monday with predictions
of cool along the Rockies yester
day.
The worst heat wave of the
year, still firmly anchored over
most of the nation today, and had
caused at least 19 deaths as it
spread into the eastern states.
The finger of cold a:r from Can
ada had brought substantial relief
i
and some scattered showers to the
Dakotas and Minnesota but h was
almost absorbed in Nebraska and
western Iowa where the weather
bureau said the temperature drop
was only moderate.
There was nothing in sight, the
bureau said, to dislodge the hot1
air from the Mississippi valley,
south plains and Great Lakes re
gions generally within the next 24
hours, although with relief prom
ised for parts of other north cen
tral states tonight and Thursday.
Both the eastern and Rocky
Mountain states would be warmer
today, forecasters said.
No rain of consequence was in
immediate prospect for most of
the dry midwest topsoil, now gen
erally depleted of moisture by
three days of temperatures rang
ing from the high 90’s to well
above 100 degrees. Pastures were
reported drying up and hay crops
reduced. Corn has fired in at least
a few areas.
In Chicago, where the tempera
ture hit 100 degrees yesterday.
Mayor Martin H. Kennedy issued
a proclamation saying the con
servation of water was “impera
tive.” More than 200 tenants on
second floors had complained, he
said, the pressure has been so low
at times they were unable to ob
tain water from faucets.
Fatalities from the heat report
ed during the past 24 hours in
! eluded: Chicago 4, Arkansas 3, In
dia, Pennsylvania, Ten n e s s e ,
Iowa and Wisconsin one each.
Legal Blanks at The Nugget office
Potato Chip Queen
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. —
Nikki Geer, chosen Miss Potato
Chip of 1946, at the annual conven
tion of the National Potato Chip
Institute here. Nikki is snowed
tinder an edible halter made of
potato dupa.
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