Slates Much Cooleri
But Corn Crop
Needs More Rain
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Cooler air moved into the mid
west yesterday after a slight
warmup Wednesday which caused
some apprehension among heat
weary residents.
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The Chicago weather oureuu
said a cold front was moving
across southern Iowa Thursday
morning and pushing southward
and eastward. Somewhat cooler
temperatures were reported over
Mississippi, Northern Iowa, tht
Dakotas, Wisconsin and Michigan
and was due to move into Illinois
and Indiana.
No sudden drop in temperatures
accompanied the cool air, and a,
weather bureau spokesman said it
“won’t be so much cooler, but it
will keep us from getting hot.”
Boise, Ida., which had a high ot
!>5 Wednesday, reported a cool 62
yesterday morning, although the
mercury rose again during yester
day to about Wednesday’s levels.
A few scattered thundershowers
were reported in Wisconsin, north
ern Illinois, Michigan and ea’stern
Iowa overnight, but tho rain was
light and not likely to be of much
benefit to crops.
Most of the rest of the country
had fair weather and near normal
temperatures.
CHICAGO, </P)—Many of the
midwest’s cornfields got another
wetting last night and today.
The rain, accompanied by cool
temperatures, extended from east
ern Iowa to northern Indiana. An
arc of hot weather, with tempera
tures in the 90’s, extended from
eastern Montana through the
southern plains states and east- ^
ward to the Tennessee and lower
Ohio valleys.
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Experimenting
With Helpful
Atomic Bomb
—
LOS ALAMOS, N. M., </P>—'The;
development of a “tame” atomic
bomb for research into ways to
get useful power from nuclear fis
sion was announced today by the
atomic energy commission.
Instead of a devastating blast,
the toned-down bomb produces a:
steady output of fast neutrons,'
needed for experiments to deter-;
mine what kind of chain reaction;
is best for practical power pur-!
poses.
It is a new type of chain reac-,
tion plant or “pile” utilizing high
energy neutrons for atomic fission 1
of plutonium. The commission’s!
announcement described it as in a1
sense "a controlled version of the
atomic bomb itself.”
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Census Planned For All
Western Hemisphere
RIO DE JANEIRO, (/P)—Plans
for taking a census of the Western
Hemisphere in 1950 were begun
here by the executive committee of
the Inter-American Statistical In-;
! stitute.
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I Convening at the invitation of
the Brazilian government, the
I committee discussed preparation
for a general assembly of the en
tire organization. Its purpose is to!
develop statistics of a uniform and i
comparable basis among the na-!
tions of North and South America.!
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Fighting Locusts
At Their Hatchery
JOHANNESBURG i/P>—To help,
stamp out a new cycle of locust
invasions, the Union government
has sent two expert officers to the
remote region of Lake Rukwa, in
Tanganyika, and granted $40,000
to the International Red Locust
Control Council.
If the attempt to destroy the
young locust swarms now hatch
ing out succeeds, it may save mil
lions of square miles of 'Africa
from years of disastrous locust in
vasions. The red locust in the past
has laid waste agriculture from
Kenya to Transvaal.
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WHEN COLUMBUS CAME TO
America he found the natives in
haling tobacco to induce a state of
trance, according the the Encyc
lopaedia Britannica. During the
trance they supposedly saw visions
that were accepted as divine reve
lations.
SS BARANOF Scheduled io sail from Seward for
Juneau. Ketchikan and Seattle September 5th. * •
_ V
SS BARANOF scheduled to sail from Seattle for Ketchikan.
Juneau. Cordova, Valdez and Seward, Sept. 13th.
SS BARANOF scheduled to sail from Seward for
Juneau. Ketchikan, and Seattle Sept. 19th.
THE LAST SHIP OF THE 1947 SEASON FOR NORTON SOUND
IS SCHEDULED TO SAIL FROM SEATTLE SEPTEMBER 15th.
Reservations made through Anchorage. Fairbanks or N6me Agent
FENCE FOR LOCOMOTIVES
MEXICO CITY, </P) — Police1
found two complete locomotives
in a junkyard and arrested the
proprietor for receiving property
stolen from the government
owned National Railways.
NOTICE
Special attention is called to
those attending services at the
Federated Church that devotional
services, starting with Sunday.
Sept. 7, will be held at 11 o'clock
in the morning, instead of 7:45
p.m. as heretofore.
NOTICE
Monday being Labor Day. there
will be no paper printed. Business
houses, as well as federal offices
and the post office, will be closed.
POSITION OF BASE
LIBRARIAN
The position of Base Librarian j
will be open at Nome Air Base on
21 September 1947. At present,
funds are available to fill this po
sition until 20 January 1948 at a
fixed salary of $249.38 per month, i
(40 hour week'. Definite assurance
of hire after the above date can
not be given at this time, but ap
plication will be made to higher
headquarters for further allotment
of funds.
Applications for this position
must be submitted not later than
5 September 1947. addressed to
Commanding Officer, Nome Army:
Air Base, Att: Capt. Stephenson,!
stating ftilly the applicants quali
fications as pertains to the follow
ing:
a. Library experience (practic
al).
b. Library training at college
level.
c. Education (Schools, courses,!
degrees).
d. Age: 20 to 40 years.
e. Interest in this type of work.
f. Ability to select books and
advise patrons.
g. United States Citizen (re
quired*.
h. Married or single:
The applicant selected for this
position will be notified on 10
September 1947. and name will be
announced herein on 11 Septem
ber.
All residents of the Base and
Nome who are eligible and desire
to apply for this position are
urged to do so.
Publish Aug. 27, 29, Sept. 1, 3.
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Congressmen View
Pulp Forests
—
KETCHIKAN, (/P) — A Senate
newsprint sub-committee viewed
potential pulp mill sites and the
vast pulp timber resources of Re
villagigedo Island yesterday on a
36-hour tour aboard a coast guard
cutter.
The tour started after Senator
Capehart »R.-Ind.> told a gathering
of 100 Ketchikan citizens at a spe
cial banquet lor the committee
that Alaskans are ready for state
hood and that admission of the
Territory as a state will benefit
the nation.
Senator Ellender (D.-La.t told
the group it is necessary for the
government to assist in housing,
hospitals and education facilities
to thwart inroads of Communism.
Senator Cain <R.-Wash.) is the
third member of the sub-commit
tee.
The Senators, who arrived by
air, are accompanied by James
Montgomery, publisher of the New
Albany, Ind., Tribune.
PIG SCARES LEAVES
SOLDIER IN A LATHER
FORT KNOX, Tenn. (/P) — Cpl.
Theodore Van Dam of New York
City saw six pigs stampeding tow
ard his tent. The leading one
foamed at the mouth. Van Dam
fled, shouting “mad pig, mad pig-”
Next morning, after the corporal
has been commended for sounding
the alarm, he prepared to shave.
He found his shaving cream tube
had been chewed open and licked
clean.
U. S. Must Spend
More On Scientific
Research
WASHINGTON, (/P>—Presiden
tial assistant John R. Steelman de
clared yesterday “national sur
vival” demands that the United
States sharply increase its spend
ing for scientific research.
In his first report as chairman
of the President’s scientific re
search board. Steelman said “no
responsible person can fail to rec
ognize the uneasy character of the
present peace.’
And a nation .which falls behind
in fundamental scientific knowl
edge, he advised Mr. Truman,
“would be severely handicapped
in any future war.”
Steelman proposed that by 1957
public and private outlays for ad
vancing research should be at the
rate of 1 per cent of the national
income or an estimated $2,000,
000,000 a year.
This would be twice the present
rate, but Steelman’s report said it
would be a bare minimum “if we
are to remain a bulwark of democ
racy in the world.”
Mr. Truman released the report
along with a stalemate of his own
saying:
“We must constantly enlarge
the boundaries of scientific knowl
edge in order to continue to pro
vide the benefits of full produc
tion and full employment, and in
order to protect our democracy
from the dangers it faces in an un
easy world.”
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