Cold Damages
States Cotton Crop
'By The Associated Press)
Freezing cold hit the southern
plains yesterday, following heavy
rains which took at least three
lives and damaged the cotton crop
at harvest time.
Even lower temperatures moved
into the northeast and midwest af
ter the season’s first snows fell at
several points.
In the Texas Panhandle, Dal
hart reported a nearly morning
low of 26 degrees. Elk City, Okla.,
had the season’s lowest, 29, after
two days’ rain which delayed the
cotton harvest but helped other
crops.
Thousands of geese were sighted
in the chilly midwest. They were
making their annual southward
migration from Canada.
Snow covered the ground at
Georgetown, Del. There was snow
in upstate New York and flurries
swirled over parts of Maine. The
low New England temperature was
18 degrees at Rumford and Houl
ton, Me.
Some parts of Texas got a heavy
drenching and many streams over
Agriculture Re
search Building
Progressing Well
PALMER, (1P) — Plans for new
headquarters for the agriculture
research administration are prog
ressing well with completion of
project expected by March 1, Don
L. Irwin, A. R. A. director, re
vealed here yesterday.
Bids for for apartment housing
units for additional personnel
were issued last Monday, but no
construction on housing will be
possible until next year, Irwin
said.
Plans for the project include a
greenhouse, garage, maintenance!
shop, and vegetable and grain j
storage units, in addition to the
headquarters building.
Work on the headquarters build
ing will continue through the win- |
ter, after workmen won a race
with the weather last week by
finishing the roof of the building
and making heat installation pos
sible.
flowed. Three persons died. Many
families in San Antonio had to
flee their homes.
Crazed Farmer
Wounds Ten:
Shoots Self
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WATERFORD, Mich. </P) — A
i crazed, middle-aged farmer shot
up two taverns Monday night,
then killed himself after wound- j
ing ten persons.
On a mad spree with a shotgun
Joe Runyon, 57, terrorized this
sleepy little resort village in a be
grudging farewell to the world.
Two of his victims, both women,
were critically wounded.
Tramping back and forth across
a street, Runyon fired seven or
eight charges from a 12-gauge
shotgun through windows of the
two taverns, witnesses said.
At the end of a violent 10 or 12
minutes, he walked a short dis
tance up the street and fired a fi
nal charge through his own chest.
This was the last in a series of
rapid reloadings. Runyon’s gun
was a single-shot weapon.
Runyon, a former auto factory
worker in nearby Pontiac, lived
alone on a farm he was said to
have bought a year ago.
Little was known of him, but
evidently things had gone wrong
recently and he had become de
Fishwlieel Growing
By Leaps and —
Women Arrive
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I have not been to the farthest
claims upstream, but reports keep
coming down of “colors” and a
few rice-sized nuggets being
panned.
Colors are minute specks of
flake gold, commercially worth
less but often indicative of more
gold somewhere nearby.
Some gold seekers now are liv
ing in the lap of Arctic luxury.
Those whose claims are adjacent
to a landing field have fixed their
tents in the best Statler fashion,
with stoves, sitting facilities and
improvised tables.
In the true tradition of the
northland, anyone is welcome tB
come ,in and share the warmth
and swap tales. Prospectors al
ready are eager for news from
home.
spondent.
At his tidy farm house was
found a note saying:
“Take over, Joe. Dad’s quit
work, (obsenity) ’em all.”
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The tent where I am now sit
ting belongs to Charlie Bieder
man, F. H. Alexander, Robert Al
exander, C. V. Johnson and Rob
ert Alexander, C. V. Johnson and
Robert Barenz. Biederman is now
here alone, his partners having re
turned to Fairbanks Sunday after
staking claims. Biederman, a trap
per from Eagle, Alaska, now is
finishing the job of blazing boun
dary lines and sinking prospect
holes.
The tent is about 8x10 feet and
very warm. In the middle of the
earth floor is a Yukon stove,
which resembles a gasoline drum
with a vent cut near the bottom
to supply air to the burning wood.
There’s a plentiful supply of dry
wood within 15 feet of the tent.
A stovepipe extends through the
tent roof. Cardboard cartons are
laid flat on the ground to provide
insulation for our sleeping bags.
Our food locker contain.; eggs,
bacon, bread, flour, powdered
milk and dehydrated vegetables.
Biederman’s partners keep him
supplied with food.
The temperature rose sharply
the last two days and now touches
five degrees above zero. But we
know it will drop to 15 or 20 be
low tonight.
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
IN THE PROBATE COURT FOR
THE WADE HAMPTON PRE
CINCT, SECOND DIVISION
TERRITORY OF ALASKA
IN THE MATTER OF THE ES
TATE of F. H. KRUGER.
Deceased.
Order: Hearing on Final Account
And Petition for Distribution
Now whereas on the 29th day of
September 1949, the Executor of
the above entitled estate filed his
final account of his administration
of said estate, and has petitioned
for distribution of the residue
thereof—
NOW, THEREFORE, it is OR
DERED: that the 1st day of De
cember, 1949, at the hour of 10
o’clock A. M., at the office of the
undersigned Commissioner and
ex-officio Probate Judge, at For
tuna Ledge Alaska, be, and is here
by appointed as the time and place
for hearing of objections, if any, to
such final account and settlement
thereof, and for hearing said peti
tion for distribution.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED:
that said executor publish notice
thereof in the Nome Nugget, a
newspaper published at Nome,
Alaska, and that such publication
be made once a week for four con
secutive weeks and that the pub
lisher’s return showing such publi
cation be made and filed herein.
DATED, Fortuna Ledge, Alaska,
October 7th, 1949.
H. ROY HUNTER,
U. S. Commissioner and ex
officio Probate Judge for Wade
Hampton Precinct, Second
Division, Alaska.
Pub. Oct. 12, 19, 26, Nov. 2, 1949.
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