Airplane Lands
At North Pole
ANCHORAGE, (/Pi — A Tenth
Ttescue Squadron C-47 airplane
has made two successful landings
on the North Polar ice pack, the
Alaska Air Command announced
last night.
The landings, made March 21
and 22 but unreported until now,
were made 100 miles north of
Barter Island, a desolate stietch
of land off the northern ccast of
Alaska. The island serves as the
base of training operations now
being conducted by the Air Com
mand.
The C-47 was piloted by Lt. Col.
Eugene O. Strause of Topeka, Kas.
Col. Bernt Balchen, command
ing officer of the rescue squadron,
termed the landings “one of the
most important events in Polar
aviation.”
“Colonel Strause’s landi ngs
showed that if necessary both
large bombers and transports
could land with comparative saf
ety on the Polar ice pack,” Bal
chen said.
The landings were designed to
test the different types of surfaces
available in the far northern re
THIEF HAS DOUBLE TAKE
BNTTE, Mont. (JP) — Robert
Jones had this double hard luck
story for police:
A portable radio and a shirt
were stolen from his room while
he slept. He traced the property
to the operator of a boarding
house who had purchased it, inno
cently. But, said the boarding
house keeper sadly, just before
j Jones arrived the radio and shirt
hail been stolen again—apparent
ly by the man who lifted them
from Jones.
gion.
One was made on a large ice
block covered with coarse graul
lated snow; the other on hard
packed and drifted snow, the usu- i
al surface found in the region.
On both days, the C-47 was pre
ceded onto the ice by a glider pi- j
loted by Lt. James S. Keel of Chi
cago. It later was snatched up by 1
a C-54 and towed back to Barter
Island.
The crew of the C-47 remained
| on the ice approximately 35 min
( utes the first day and about 90
minutes the next. Neither day,
I however, were crew members
able to take soundings of the wa
I ter depth because of the 10-12 foot
thickness of ice. j
Seek To Restore
G.S.A. Funds
lor Alaska
(By Charles D. Watkins)
q'/P) Special Washington Service*
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Delegate
Barlett of Alaska said yesterday
efforts will be made in the Senate
to restore a House committee’s cut
in funds for community facilities
in the Territory.
President Truman asked Con
gress to provide $12,000,000 cash
and $13,000,000 contract authority
for the General Services Admin
istration to carry on the Alaska
Public Works program in the year
starting July 1. The House appro
priations committee cut it to $9,
000,000 cash and put a restriction
that the projects must be neces
sary to national defense.
Bartlett said this action was
crippling to the program.
“A determined effort will be
made to increase the amount in
the Senate and to strike out the
crippling requirement for defense
certification,” he told a reporter.
“Of course, the legislative com
mittee of the Senate an dHouse,
in approving this legislation last
year, clearly indicated it did not
j have as a primary purpose the
granting of aid only to communi
ties where defense establishments
1 exist.
i “The law was intended to aid
, the entire Territory in moderniz
ing community facilities.”
Bartlett said much of the money
voted by the House committee for
other departments has not been
earmarked, but he had learned
these specific items would be in
cluded for Alaska:
For extension service work,
$23,950; experiment station work,
$66,048; school lunch program
and conservation payments to
farmers, $47,000; homestead loans,
and production and subsistence
livestock and equipment loans,
$160,000; rural electrification
loans, $3,000,000; civil aeronautics
board, $156,000; Anchorage and
Fairbanks a i r p orts $3,200000;
coast and geodetic survey, $2,200,
000; customs bureau, $203,500.
He said funds to be allocated to
Alaska by the defense department
would include $800,000 for storm
protection work at Nome and
$350,000 for dredging Wrangle
Narrows.
The annual festival of Up-Helly
Aa in the Shetland Islands is be
lieved by some to go back to Vi
king days.
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| Execute Dolly,
Circus Elephant
SARASOTA, Fla., (/P) — Dolly,
the circus elephant, was executed
: at dawn today.
The animal was put to death
with cyanide for killing five-year
old Edward Schooley who was
feeding her peanuts last Sunday.
Why the weary-looking animal
suddenly grabbed the child with
her trunk and stepped on his head
was a mystery<
The decision was made at the
last minute, John Ringling North,
circus vice president, had said a
few hours earlier a “deluge” of
protests by telephone, telegram
and letter had been received at
winter quarters here.
Only a bare announcement was
made here by North after the
death. He said the elephant had
been taken to a pit. given thg cy
anide at 5 a.m. and buried after
she had crumbled in death.
About two and one-half million
people in the United States are
cripples.
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
ORDINANCE NO. 343
An Ordinance of the City of
Nome, Territory of Alaska,
amending Ordinance No. 335 com
monly known as City Sales Tax by
adding thereto Sections IX and X.
BE IT ORDAINED AND EN
ACTED BY THE COMMON
COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
NOME as follows:
Ordinance No. 335 commonly
known as City Sales Tax is hereby
amended by adding to the Ordin
ance Sections IX and X to read as
follows—
SECTION IX
All taxes imposed on the buyer
by Ordinance No. 335 shall be due
and payable to the seller on all
cash sales at the time of sale and
on all credit sales at the time the
account is due and payable.
‘tFCTlON Y
DEFINITION OF TERMS:
RETAIL SALES as applied to
Ordinance No. 335 shall include
every sale made to a consumer or
to any person for any purpose
other than for resale in the orig
inal form of tangible personal
property and regardless of the
quantity purchased or the sale
price.
RETAIL PRICE shall mean and
shall be construed to mean sale
price.
PASSED by the Common Coun
cil of the City of Nome in regular
Session Assembled and approved
by the Mayor of said city the 27th
day of March, 1950.
STEVE ANDERSEN,
Mayor
Attest:
CARRIE M. McLAIN,
City Clerk
Pub. Mar. 29, 31, April 3, 1950.
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