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ALASKA ALMANAC”
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WHAT YOU DO TO WIN
Here's how you take part in this big
opportunity! Every issue this news
paper will publish Alaskagrams In
consecutive order, six each week for
12 weeks—a total of 72 Alaskagrams.
Each Alaskagram is a group of
scrambled letters which form mean
ingless words or a nonsensical phrase.
After an Alaskagram is unscrambled
the letters form the name of a place
in Alaska; however, there is one su
perfluous letter which is not needed
to form the word.
All you do is re-arrange the letters
to form a single word which is the
name of a place in Alaska, and you
also show which is the extra letter.
For example, the phrase "For a
change" when it is unscrambled
equals "ANCHORAGE” plus the ex
tra letter “F."
JUst remember that all place-names
consist of only one word—and re
member to show the extra letter.
There is only one correct answer to
each Alaskagram.
SUBMIT ANSWERS IN
WEEKLY SETS OF 6
Your AUskagram answers should
be mailed to Anchorage In units of
six. Whenever a group of six Alaska
grams have been published, this
newspaper will print an Alaskagram
Answer Blank. You will send all six
Alaskagrams for that week and also
the weekly Alaskagram Answer
Blank. And to be eligible for a prize
each weekly set of six Alaskagrams
must be accompanied by a quarter
(25 cents in coin).
In return for your remittance, after
you complete 10 weeks of the contest,
you will receive a copy of the 712
page Alaska Almanac which critics
label the best modem reference on
Alaska and which will be used as the
official authority for spelling and
definitions in this contest.
NEATNESS DOESN'T COUNT
You don’t have to decorate your en
tries. Just be sure your answers can
be read easily.
Nor will you have to write any let
ters, or slogans or essays. You must
understand that hundreds of Alaskans
are competing in this Alaskagram
contest and it is possible persons may
be tied for prizes. In that case, there
will be tie-breaking puzzles to solve,
as provided for in the Official Rules
which will be sent to you immediate
ly on receipt of your first six solu
tions.
START NOW
This is your big opportunity, your
chance to win as much as $1,000.00
cold cash. If you reside in Alaska any
time between January 1, 1950 and
February 15, 1950, or if you are a
member of the Armed Forces sta
tioned in Alaska during any part of
that period, you can make that 91000
cash prize YOUR goal.
Just be sure you get every issue of
The Nome Nugget so that you can
keep up in this fascinating game.
Leading newspapers throughout the
Territory are featuring Alaskagrama.
All 72 of your completed solutions
and your Answer Blanks must be
taken from the same Alaska newspa
per.
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ALASKAGRAM No. 27
CLUE: This town is at Iliuliuk Harbor. Some clue,
huh? That’s near Dutch Harbor in the
Aleutian Islands.
Anual Task — .-|-.
(Place) (Extra Letter)
Your Name.
P. O. Box.Town.
SAVE THIS PUZZLE AND SUBMIT IT WITH THE
WEEKLY SET OF ALASKAGRAMS 25 TO 30
ALASKAGRAM No. 28
CLUE: Dinah lives in the metropolis of the Bris
tol Bay area, where there is a motion pic
ture theater, several stores and restaurant.
Dinah McGill .- -.
(Place) (Extra Letter)
Your Name.
P. O. Box.Town.:.
SAVE THIS PUZZLE AND SUBMIT IT WITH THE
WEEKLY SET OF ALASKAGRAMS 25 TO 30
Search For C-54
Will Continue Till
Plane Is Found
(Continued from Page One)
to Fort Nelson.
It was not a verbal distress sig
nal,” MacDonald said, “but a key
signal on the distress band.”
At Whitehorse headquarters,
the report raised new hopes but
was discussed by Rayol Canadian
Air Force officers with modera
tion.
The C-54 which picked up the
signals had an experience of its
own to demonstrate the difficulty
of communications under present
sub-zero weather conditions in
the north. MacDonald said it tried
to radio what it had heard to both
Whitehorse and Fort Nelson, but
it failed to get confirmation that
either had heard it.
The new development raised j
hopes for survivors from the miss- j
ing plane after they had sunk to ,
the lowest ebb after the fifth sue- j
cessive day of fruitless aerial j
searching over a vast area of the '
Yukon.
The last radio signal received
from the missing C-54 in flight
was from Snag, Yukon, just across
the border from Alaska. That is
about 700 miles northwest of the
area in which the new hope was
sprung.
After the final Snag report,
some radiomen expressed the be
lief it was from an emergency
radio.
If the C-54 succeeded in land
ing without a disastrous crash,
those aboard would have been
equipped for survival in the se
vere weather. Arctic survival
equipment and supplies are stand
ard equipment in Arctic flying.
However, Wing Cmdr. Alan
Walmsley, head of the R.C.A.F.
search and rescue headquarters
at Winnipeg, said that after the
first two days the chances of sur
viving a plane crash “deteriorate
terrifically each passing day.”
Temperatures yesterday in the
search region ran below zero. It
was 6 below at Whitehorse.
The radio signal was the sec
ond, and most likely, clue in the
vast air search for the C-54 which
disappeared into the snow-cov
ered mountains after reporting
safely at Snag, Y. T., 300 miles
west of here.
The first big clue was a report
of an explosion near Carcross, 46
miles south of here. During in
vestigation of it, a United States
air force Dakota crashed into a
mountain peak, injuring three of
the six persons aboard.
They were brought out of the
rough bushland yesterday after
the pilot trekked eight miles to
the Alaska Highway through
some of the toughest country in
theworld.
Investigation still is being made
of a forest ranger’s report that he
heard an explosion in the Car
cross district the day the big
transport vanished.
The search co-ordinator, Air
Commodore Martin Costello of
the R.C.A.F., Winnipeg, said a
light plane will land beside cab
ins in the district and natives will
be questioned.
“We’ll try to maintain this
search at full pressure as long as
weather is favorable,” Air Com-1
modore Costello said. “We cer
tainly aren’t giving up hopes of
finding the 44 persons aboard the
transport.”
Officials at Great Falls, Mont.,
said the search for the missing
transport plane that disappeared
Thursday with 44 persons aboard
Chamber Hold*
Good Meetings
(Continued from Page One>
Second Division is getting hous
ing for 500 families, but none of
them are in Nome. However Mr.
Duffield stated that Glen Wilder
head of FHA will be in Nome and
discuss the problem thoroughly so
that people will be able to know
how to go about getting loans for
necessary construction on gov
ernment borrowed money.
A. Saario, owner of the Board
of Trade, Charles O'Leary, min
ing man and Larry Galvin, hard
ware and grocery merchant, were
nominated and elected to the
Board of Directors.
Keith Hedreen directed a dis
cussion on aiding Mr. P. Gerard
of Mansen Osberg Co., in obtain
ing a loan of a Sno-go from the
army when they were not using
it, to open the road to Cape Nome
will continue until the plane is
found, or until its flight route is
covered thoroughly.
“The entire flight route of the
missing plane will be covered
thoroughly if the plane is not
found,” said Maj. J. C. Smith of
the 4th Rescue Squadron, Mc
Chord Field, Wash.
Smith is directing search-res
cue operations from here. About
50 air force planes are here from
half a dozen States to join in the
search, which extends to Anchor
age, Alaska.
Planes and crews that sped
[ here to join in the laregst search
t)f its kind in North American his
tory will remain here “for some
time,” if the missing plane is not
found, Smith said.
so that he could resume .opera
tions, thereby getting tl^$*?a-wall
ready for fall storms in time and
also giving work' durihg' the win
ter months to several families.
Russ Apple, Boy Scout execu
tive, gave the highlighls . of the
Boy Scout Jamboree which one
lucky Nome Scout will hie able to
attend if sufficient money is
raised.
It was agreed to have monthly
Chamber meetings as the program
this year is so full of very im
portant matters for the commun
ity.
A. Polet, chairman of. the tour
ist committee urged the. early
publication of literature .on this
part of the country wjjich is
necessary to aid the development
of the tourist industry., .
It was announced that, a sug
gestion box would be set, up so
that anyone could assist the
I Chamber in its various programs.
The Chamber held its regular
; noon luncheon Tuesday and
| started planning new committees
to carry on the work.
A congratulatory message was
voted for the new manager of the
! U. S. Smelting Co., Carl Glavino
| vich, who has given so much of
' his time for many public pro
grams. His co-operative spirit and
help during the building of the
emergency hospital and his . pro
fessional assistance in other civic
: matters were recognized by the
Chamber.
Larry Galvin and Geo. Beacom
were appointed to take over pub
licity; Ted Duffield to investigate
the publication of a booklet for
tourists; John McNees on a co
! ordinating program with othei
parts of the Division; Donald Lyle
oi Roads; Bud Harper and Bil
Woods on membership.
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