KFAR and KENI
Join NBC Network
SEATTLE, (/P)—Radio stations
KFAR in Fairbanks, Alaska, and
KENI in Anchorage, announced
today their affiliation with the
National Broadcasting company,
effective immediately.
KFAR and KENI, stations of
the Midnight Sun Broadcasting
company, are owned and operat
ed by Capt. Austin E. Lathrop.
The NBC affiliation was announc
ed at the broadcasting company’s
Seattle office.
The company said NBC pro
grams will be released through
KFAR and KENI by tape record
ing or short-wave transmission. It
said the majority of programs
would be recorded on tape in
Seattle and air-expressed to the
stations for later release. Pro
grams of immediate interest, such
as Presidential speeches, import
ant sports events and election
broadcasts will be transmitted
via short-wave, through facilities
o fthe Alaska Communicaitons
System.
The announcement said KFAR
and KENI would provide NBC
with on-the-spot coverage of
Alaska news and special events
by means of short-wave or tape
recording.
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the city.
The only previous annexation
to the city was in 1921 when 28Vi
acres were added.
Also depending on the outcome
of the election is the construction
of more than 400 homes in the an
nexation area at an estimated
cost of $6,000,000, including the
purchase price of the land.
Proponents of the annexation
say it will add more than $10,-1
000,000 in taxable city property,;
in addition to money from the j
sale or lease of the land.
FAIRBANKS, (fF) — Fairbanks
Republicans warmed up for the
1950 campaign at 50 below.
They braved the bitter cold
Monday night for the Lincoln Day i
dinner—first gathering of its kind
since" the peace pipe was passed
between the Alaska party fac
tions.
The healing of the factional
wound was signified earlier this
month in the designation of A. E.
(Capt.- Lathrop to attend the
meeting of the National Republi
can committee in Washington,
representing all Alaska Republi
cans. He was asked to attend the
national session by Mrs. Margaret
White, national committeewoman
and a leader of the so-called
"White” faction.
SEATTLE, OP)—The Motorship
North Star was delivered to the
Alaska Native Service today for
Alaska coastal work.
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After the ceremony, the North
Star went to the United States
engineers’ supply depot where the
Alaska Native Service has aware
house and dock. The vessel is
posted to sail for Alaska Satur
day.
The North Star, formerly the
Coastal Rider, was converted into
a supply ship for the Alaska Na
tive Service at a cost of $750,000.
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Legisla
tor! to increase funds for the fish
and wildlife service use in the
Territories was approved yester
day by a House fisheries sub-com
mittee.
It would permit the service to
spend $75,000 yearly for game
protection in Alaska, $25,000 in
Hawaii.
Previously, Alaska has received
$25,000 and Hawaii received $10,
000 a year.
A sub-committee also approved
a bill to extend to Alaska the law’
which now protects the bald eagle
i in the States.
Mrs. Frank Bingham and Mrs.
Ben Hyndman received and sad
news of the death of their mother
Mrs. Hannah Verheek in Seattle,
I who is reported to have died sud
denly from a heart attack. They
both left this morning for Seattle
with Pan American.
JACK LENCER
Watchmaker
Box 625 Nome, Alaska
MINERS & MERCHANTS
BANK OF ALASKA
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Fog Hinders Cold
War In Canada
(By Clark Beach
WHITEHORSE, Y. T. (/P)—This
is a real cold war—in more ways j
than one.
The opposing forces in the joint
Canadian-United States military I
maneuvers have so far done lit- i
tie but make menacing gestures
toward each other.
And the mercury rea c h e d
through the Arctic depths to 25
below zero Monday night.
The ground troops are drawn
together on the Alaska Highway
and are now about 140 miles
apart. The Princess Patricia Ca
nadian light infantry, the battal
ion which led off the Allied 1
attack when it pushed out of
Whitehorse for the north Mon
day midnight, halted at 8:15 a.m.,
for sleep and refueling.
The aggressor in the war games,
who is supposed to have captured
all of Alaska and is now headed
south for an invasion of Canada
and the United States, also is rest- ;
ing.
The only casualty so far is one i
of the umpires, a Canadian lieu
tenant whose name has not been
revealed. He was caught between
a jeep and a truck and suffered a
broken pelvis. He is now in a
field hospital here.
The aggressor was expected to
make an air raid on the field here
at dawn Monday, the first day of
the mock war. But visibility was
too bad and he didn’t show up.
An alert was sounded on the
field at noon when the enemy
planes were about 30 miles away.
But once again, the sub-Arctic fog
foiled them and they did not ap
pear.
The alerts are given by the um
pires, who must substitute for ra
dar detection of aircraft. They
have practically no radar air
warning here. One officer ex
plained that the mountainous ter
rain surrounding Whiteh orse
makes radar, with its line-of-sight
range, useless unless you have ra
dar towers on the highest peaks, j
Constructing and maintaining,
them up there on the icy, track
less crags would be extremely ex
pensive .Radar in Alaska, how
ever, would offer no similar dif-:
ficulties, he said.
On the coast and in the central
section no mountains would inter
fere when the alert came today.
The Canadians swiftly got their
jet Vampires into the air. They
| have a system unlike the Ameri
| cans. Th two planes take off from
one end of the strip, then two
more take off from the other end.
There is little air movement, so a
downwind take-off is not t|ffi
cult.
, Wing commander D. G. Malloy,
'the commander of the fighter]
planes for the Allied forces, says
they get their craft airborne
quicker that way. Here in the
sub-Arctic the blast of air from
propellors or jet engines creates
an ice fog which obscures the
field for a few minutes. By using
alternately first one end of the
field, then the other, the planes
I don’t have to wait for the fog to
I lift.
When the planes were scram
bled, as the squadron take-off is
called, the snow and ice on the
field swirled and tossed like a
blizzard. The Vampires screeched
as they streaked into the sky and
darted over the surround i n g
mountains. American jet Shoot
ing Stars have more of a deep
whooshing sound, because the tail
) pipe on the engine is longer.
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RHINEBECK, N. Y. — Chief
reason why Rhinebeck high school
is a threat for the Dutchess Coun
ty scholastic league title is six
foot, eight-inch Tom Pottenburgh,
here being measured by a couple
of teammates. Long Tom twice
has scored more than 30 points in
a game this season. Kneeling with
the taps measure is Bob Fraleigh,
Tom is atop the ladder.
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FAIRBANKS, (A>)—Eighty-four
year old Jerry Saunders shot two
of his oldest companions near the
ruins of his wilderness cabin Sat
urday.
It was a “mercy killing’’ with
out controversy. It was an emer
gency in which he felt only the
strong could survive.
Facing his 85th birthday, he
felt he was the only one of the
threesome w’ho was strong enough.
So he shot his two dogs.
The mercury hovered around
50 below that night. The old pros
pector built a roaring fire in hit
old Yukon stove—the one that
had been keeping the frost from
his little cabin for years.
But this was one winter too
many for the aged stove pipe. It
got* red hot and set the roof afire.
The old man fought the blaze
alone until daybreak. Then he sal
vaged what little he could of his
personal belongings. The closest
settlement was Manley Hot
Springs, four miles across the
frozen Tanana River and the
snow-drifted tundra.
Saunders thought he could
make it. He was sure his two
faithful huskies couldn’t. Old age
had taken too much out of them.
One was blind. He knew they
would starve without him.
He patted them on the head-—
then shot them, he said today.
He started alone on the trek
through the snow, cm.; ing his
salvaged mementoes.
An Alaska bush pilot, Bob By
ers, sighted the smoke rising from*
the cabin ruins. He circled back
to investigate and spotted the
lonely figure figure on the tun
dra. The pilot landed on the river,
picked up the old man and
brought him to safety.
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stronger, harder, and more re
sistant to chemical attack by
sucking out all the air and mois
ture and forcing in a plastic resin
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