COUNCIL NEWS
By Don Perkins
The storm during December and
part of this month put us without
plane service for a month. Every
one welcomed the sight of Art
Johnson when he flew in Jan. 9
with a big stack of mail for Coun
cil.
Even with good weather, we
have not been having good ser
vice since then. In fact, we sel
dom have a complete mail run
because the small planes can’t
carry enough gas to warrant a
return trip to Council from Una
lakleet. We have been giving the
outgoing mail to the pilot wheth
er he’s coming or going. This is
our only *assurance of getting it
into Nome.
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We have more of everything
this year than last except people.
Snow is drifted high, wind has
been of greater intensity and fre
quency than last winter.
All of us are hot stove leaguers, :
coffee drinkers, and yarn swap- j
pers. Forty below was registered
on an accurate thermometer. This
falls short of the -45 seen last;
winter. Not bad compared to oth- |
er spots in Alaska.
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David Henry has made a few
trips to White Mountain recently, j
He had a good team of dogs
and makes the trip with ease.
Guy lone recently skiied down
and caught the mail plane back
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on one of those rare instances
when the pilot has enough gas
to make a return sweep to Coun-t
cil. We’ve had no visitors from
other villages whatsoever. Per
haps Ed Punguk of Golovin will
make 3 trip up one of these days
as he frequently did last year.
Wood cutting had been held up
due to storms. Peter Lee, Jr., was
unable to get over the trail with
a small tractor. It didn’t have
enough weight and traction to
get over the large drifts.
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If ever there was 3n underdog
on the Nome - Unalakleet mail
run, Council is it. It is unpleasant
for us to have to “beef” about it.
but if a town must be skipped
why does it always have to be us?
A scheduled airline is supposed
Geologists Find
Alaska Glacier
Flowing Uphill
).
PASADENA, Calif., ^—Geol
ogists say they believe the ice in
Alaska’s famed Malaspina Glacier
near Juneau flows uphill.
Some of the results of research
by Project Snow Cornice were an
nounced this week by Dr. Robert
P. Sharp. He headed a five-man
team which began a study of the
glacier last summer, .working out
of the California Institute of Tech
nology.
The researchers operated from
a base camp on the ice near the
center of the glacier about 40
miles from Yakutat.
They found the rock floor under
the center of the 1,000-square
mile glacier slopes back inland
toward the St. Elias Mountains to
the north.
They made the observations
with seismic equipment along a
10-mile line running north and
south. They set off small dyna
mite charges in shallow holes in
the ice. The seismic equipment
recorded the shock waves reflec
ted back form the rock floor. The
geologists, knowing the velocity
of the waves through ice, then
could calculate how far the waves
had traveled.
Measurements indicated the ice
thickness along the 10-mile line
ranged between 1,130 and 2,075
feet, and that the floor under the
glacier center was at least 685
feet below sea level, ^whereas it
rises above sea level at the gla
cier’s outer edge.
to' make three weekly trips
through here (six landings) per
mitting the weather is not objec
tionable. We are simply wanting
our share of the service and noth
ing more. Landing can be made
in all four directions on the river.
The distance from the post office
to the plane is a short one. We
don’t always have a lot of mail
to go, but nevertheless, we’re on
the scheduled run. (Supposedly.)
We don’t wish to make enemies
but do have a legitimate gripe
coming and we will gripe.
New Schedules Effective Oct. 30
EACH MONDAY AND THURSDAY
ARRIVE NOME FROM FAIRBANKS 10:30 a. m.
LEAVE NOME FOR FAIRBANKS 11 ^ ™
... „ . . ll:ou a. m.
Via Kotzebue
EACH WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY
ARRIVE NOME FROM FAIRBANKS 12:43 p. m.
Via Kotzebue
LEAVE NOME FOR FAIRBANKS 1;45 p. m.
EACH MONDAY AND THURSDAY
ARRIVE NOME FROM KOTZEBUE q.4n
Via Candle and Deering “* m‘
LEAVE NOME FOR KOTZEBUE lA-dft a m
Via Candle and Deering lU.^U a. m.
EACH SUNDAY
ARRIVE NOME FROM FAIRBANKS 4:00 a. m.
LEAVE NOME FOR FAIRBANKS c.nn „ „
Vi. Kotzebue 5 00 8’
FREIGHT ONLY. NO PASSENGER SERVICE ON SUNDAY
A 4 eta. a. . \ Ak . I. M f 1 - , .
Alexander Chosen for
British Defense Minister
LONDON, (^P)—Prime Minister
Winston Churchill announced yes- j
terday he has chosen Field Mar
shal Viscount Alexander to take
the job of defense minister off
his aging shoulders.
Alexander, 60, has been govern
or-general of Canada since 1946.
Vincent Massey has been appoin
ted his successor in that job and
Alexander will return to Britain
in mid-February, assuming the
defense ministry post on March 1.
Churchill also announced King
George will make Alexander an
earl, a notch higher in the peerage
than his present title.
Streamlined Walkie-Talkie
NEW YORK, (/P)—Latest devel
opments in the walkie-talkie of
the type that came out of World
War II for one-man radiocasting
has resulted in considerable re
duction in size. Not only has the
weight been cut to 29 pounds with
corresponding reduction in size,
but the range has been doubled.
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“What does it take
from an oil company
to run an airlift?”
Ever since mid-summer of 1950,
military activity in Korea has called for
heavy transpacific air traffic by civilian cargo
planes. Over one of their routes they fly a
round trip of 13,450 miles—some twenty-six
times the length of the famous airlift into
Berlin. Hundreds of companies help sup
ply this operation. Maybe you'd like to
know what it takes from an oil company to
run an airlift.
Standard’s part in the Pacific airlift
shows that it’s a big help to have large
companies on hand when the &oing gets
rough. Our work is focused mainly at Wake
Island, that pinpoint some 4000 miles from
the U. S. West Coast. After World War II,
Wake was a refueling stop for commercial
airliners en route to the Orient. But then
came the struggle at the 38th parallel—
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^Before trouble kindled in
Korea, only 20 planes a week re
fueled at Wake. Then that num
her multiplied many times. We’d
been supplying gas to the island;
when the U. S. asked us to step
up deliveries, we were able to do
^ it. As a big, integrated company,
g. we called on our own tanker fleet.
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To secure the special loading
equipment needed by the ground
crews, a Standard ship picked up the
nearest available—at far-off Canton
Island. And at U. S. request, we
helped build new storage facilities
along Wake’s runways.
4< As air activity
* stepped up even more,
* Wake needed larger
* ground crews. Again,
1 Standard’s bigness
f helped.Using facilities
in Honolulu, we quickly
trained men, tripled
our Wake manpower.
To keep Wake and the airlift I
supplied on a regular basis,
Standard drew once more on its
tanker fleet. We now operate a
shuttle service to Wake from the
Pacific Coast. Again, being big
and having our own facilities helps
us serve.
I Of course, the transpacific airlift starts
1 in America, and at home on this end of the
route Standard keeps some 10 airlines sup
plied with aviation gasoline. It would take a
stack of drums a mile high to hold our in
creased daily output for this use. At the same
time, we’re also supplying military needs...
and our usual volume for motorists.
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