U. S. To Conduct
Atomic Tests On
Eniwetok Atoll
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“full security restrictions,” Mon
day night’s announcement said.
The area will be shut off from
the world and the security council
of the United Nations will be noti
fied to this effect, as provided in
the U. N. trusteeship agreement
for the former Japanese-mandated
islands.
The 145 native inhabitants of
the atoll islands of Aomon and
Biijiri will leave for a permanent
new home which they will select.
Bikini was unsuitable for the
new experiments, the commission
said, because it lacked land sur
face enough to contain “the instru
mentation necessary to the scien
tific observations which must be
made.”
Eniwetok itself has only about
2V4 square miles of land. One big
reason for choosing it, the an
nouncement explained, it is isola
tion. There are hundreds of miles
of open seas “in the direction in
which winds might carry radioac
tive particles.” It lies about half
way between Hawaii and the
Philippines, and the closest big
land area is New Guinea, 1,500
miles to the southwest.
The army, navy and air force
are installing the necessary hous
ing, protective buildings for the
scientists and control posts. Some
military installations put up after
the Marines killed the Japanese
garrison in a six-day fight in Feb
ruary, 1944, will be renovated for
use.
Lt. Gen. John E. Hull, Pacific
commander of the army, has over
all command of that job.
The word sherry, the variety of
wine, comes from the English cor
ruption of Jerez de la Frontera,
the town that forms the center of
the sherry-producing district of
Spain.
T urner-Power
Romance Over
HOLLYWOOD, (£>) — The ro
mance of Lana Turner and Tyrone
Power is just a memory today.
The famous two-some, whose
names were linked for months
talked things over following Pow
er’s return from a four-continent
air tour Sunday. The decision, a
studio spokesman announced last1
night, was to call it quits.
Talk of the romance was given
impetus when actress Turner ^
kissed Power goodbye before he
left 13 weeks ago on his tour. And
she was waiting in New York
when he returned Saturday,
friends said. But Power skirted |
New York on his return to Holly-,
wood. Miss Turner returned here
and they met Sunday.
Power and his wife, Annabella, |
have been separated since October
of 1946, and she announced last I
week end that she was willing to!
give him a divorce. There was no
comment on this from PouTr.
Miss Turner formerly was mar
ried to musician Artie Shaw. They
were divorced in 1940.
Americans Now
Eating More Meat *
WASHINGTON, (tP) — Ameri
cans are eating more meat now
than they were two months ago
when the government called upon
them to eat less by observing
meatless Tuesday.
This does not necessarily mean,
however, that the meatless day
campaign is failing to achieve its
principal objective — a reduction
in the feeding of grain to livestock
so that more cereals might be
made available for shipment
abroad.
This is the season of the year
when livestock marketing normal
ly increases and when meat pro
duction goes up. It also is the sea
| son of the year when appetites for
! meat tend to grow sharper because!
I of colder weather.
And Now The
Seeing Telephone
Vision by telephone is another
case of the science boys tinkering
with electrons and circuits with
out thinking of the effect their
gadget will have on the public.
In fact, television by phone may
prove even deadlier than the atom
bomb—at least in its social reper
cussions. What will be blown up
and destroyed by the phone with
the seeing eye attachment will be
certain institutions which are as
much a part of the American way
as mamma’s apple pie.
Gone, for instance, will be the
blind date. Two souls can not be
mismated for a dull and expen
sive evening. This gadget will take
the blinds off the blind date, as
you drop a nickel in the slot, flick
on the attacred screen and see
how things look over at the other
end.
Party line listening-in will suf
fer the fate of knickers and the
Charleston. No longer will you
have to bend an ear for the deli
cate “click” of an eavesdropper on
the line.
The screen will do your sleuth
ing. You can catch Mrs. X with
her guilty face hanging out by
once again turning on that indis
pensable screen.
“Guess who?” will vanish from
the lexicon of telephone chit-chat.
Telephone operators, instead of
getting voice instruction, will have
to take screen tests.
The entire country will be
thrown into the hands of the cos
metic trust as it bombards the na
tion with penetrating questions
like “Have you an U. T. F.—an
ugly telephone face?”
We think the science boys
should be herded back to their
labs with orders to solve the
wrong number problem. After all,
first things first, you know.
“Did you hear about the girl
who went to a fancy-dress ball in
a suit of armor?”
“No, what happened to her?”
“Nothing.”
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Forecast And
Weather Report
Nome and Vicinity
Compiled by the U. 3. Dept, ol
Commerce, Weather Bureau.
Wednesday, December 3, 1947
Forecast Nome: Cloudy with
rain or snow tonight and Thurs
day. Continued mild. Occosional
strong S. E. wind tonight decreas
ing Thursday. Lowest temperature
tonight 28, highest temperature
Thursday 34.
Nome data as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Precipitation last 24 hours 0.06
inch. Total precipitation this
month 0.27 inch.
Temperatures last 24 hours:
highest 32, lowest 28.
Maximum wind last 24 hours 38
miles per hour from the East.
Sunrise at 9:31 a.m., sunset at
2:12 p.m.
Comparative data: Tempera
tures one year ago today: highest
5, lowest —17.
Extreme temperatures on this
day since 1907: Lowest —32 in
1916, highest 35 in 1928.
Data for other selected stations
as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow —6 Partly Cloudy
Point Hope 27 Cloudy
Kotzebue 21 Snow
Shishmaref 22 Snow
Wales 23 Snow
Gambell 17 Snow
Nome 30 Snow
Unalakleet 28 Partly Cloudy
, Bethel 35 Cloudy
j Wolves Deplete
Mt. McKinley
Game Preserve
(By Vern Haughland)
WASHINGTON, </P)—1The de
pletion of game animals in Mount
McKinley national park, is a na
tional tragedy requiring immedi
; ate action by federal government
| in the opinion of Marshall Mc
Lean, an executive of the Camp
Fire Club of America.
Mountain sheep in the park
have dwindled from 5,000 early in
the centui'y and 1,500 to 1939 to
less than 500 in 1945, chiefly be
cause of attacks by wolves. Mc
Lean told an interior department
conference of officars of 35 na
tional wilderness conservation or
ganizations Monday. “We ask the
interior department to inaugurate
immediately a campaign to help
these animals make a comeback
and to make McKinley Park what
it once was, the greatest big game
preserve in America.”
Newton Drury, director of na
tional parks, replied that steps are
being taken and that a ground and
air survey showed that the moun
tain sheep and caribou are on the
increase.
McGrath 26 Snow
Anchorage 35 Rain
Fairbanks 16 Cloudy
Juneau 37 Rain
Whitehorse 18 Cloudy
Ketchikan 42 Partly Cloudy
Edmonton 19 Snow
San Francisco11 52 Partly Cloudy
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