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(By George Nelson Meyers)
( SEATTLE, (£b—John A. Misco
:h of Alaska’s gold-mining Mis
viches has been wrestling giants
ice he was 8 years old. It was
ugh, tedious work.
Miscovich decided to change all
at, and he has. He built his own
ant.
In placer mining parlance, a
ant is an overgrown hose nozzle,
directs a powerful spray of wa
r against mountains of muck
•erlaying bedrock.
Operating a giant is one of the
lost wearying chores in the gold
elds.
But not Miscovich’s giant—
diich he has given the trade name
f Intelligent.
“Look!” exclaimed Miscovich
s he demonstrated his invention
t the University og Washington
ydraulics laboratory. “Look—no
ands!”
water shot to a distance of 170
eet in a powerful arc. The giant
ozzle slowly swung to right, dip
ped down a few degrees, swung
“ft, eased upward and started the
>cle again.
The Intelligent makes use of
ts own water power to direct the
raverse mechanism. Two sets of
calves and cylinders control the
jattern of the horizontal and ver
ical sweep.
In tests with earlier models,
Miscovich has operated nine
»iants, unassisted, on his mining
ground in Alaska’s Iditarod River
country.
Miscovich, 32 was born at Flat, :
scene of a major gold strike in
1910. He i sa son of Mr. and Mrs.
Peter Miscovich, one of the best
known names in Alaska mining.
Veteran miners who have seen
the Intelligent demonstrated de
scribe it as the first revolutionary
step in hydraulic-mining engin
eering since 1870.
Miscovich shrugs off the com
pliment.
‘T‘m no engineer,” he declares.
“Heck I didn’t even get out of
high school. But I spent plenty of
time pushing giants around.
I guess I just got tired of work
ing so hard.”
Funds Insufficient
For Child W elfare
The Department of Public Wel
fare is very much concerned
about the present Juvenile prob
lems in the Territory of Alaska.
An ever increasing number of
children ase being referred for
Child Welfare Service, including
a large number of children com
mitted under provisions of the Ju
, venile Code Law. The question is,
I “How is the Welfare Department
: to continue to extend help to the
| children and young people in
trouble in Alaska when there are
not sufficient funds to carry out
the legal requirements of the pro
grams?”
The $160,000.00 appropriation
by the 1949 Territorial Legislature
was just sufficient to care for the
children then under Juvenile
Code commitment and did not al
low for any increase in cases
committed to the Department of
Public Welfare by the U .S. Com
missioners’ Courts throughout the
Territory. The $160,000.00 was
$90,000.00 short of the request
made by the Board of Public Wel
fare.
Effective immediately the De
partment of Public Welfare is put
ting into effect the policy of re
serving the Juvenile Code funds
available during the balance of
the biennium through March 31,
1951, for children already under
care and only for babies and
younger children referred as new
cases. The younger children par
ticularly need the protective serv
ices of the Juvenile Code pro
gram. With the serious shortage of
Juvenile Code funds, the agency
will only be able to provide assist
ance for a very limited number of
these younger children. This action
means that the adolescent boys1
and girls, who are in trouble in the j
communities, and are committed
to the Department of Public Wei- |
fare, will suffer as there will be no |
funds available for their care, al- j
though they may benefit from the
protective custody provided by the j
Juvenile Code Law. As a result,
the Childe Welfare Service pro
gram will be critically hampered
by lack of adequate funds.
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Fairbanks Electric
Strike Cci I led < )ff
FAIRBANKS (A*)—A scheduled
strike today by 270 AFL electric
ians, which would have created a
critical power shortage in Fair
banks, was called off late yester
day.
Mayor Maurice T. Johnson an
nounced after a meeting in his of
fice that workmen at the Fair
banks Exploration Department of
the U. S. Smelting, Refining and
Mining Co., had agreed to remain
on their jobs during continued
contract negotiations
The strike had been called by
local 1550 of the AFL Internation
al Brotherhood of Electr i c a 1
Workers in support of demands
for a union shop.
Johnson said details of the tem
porary agreement would be made
public today.
The company supplies about
two-thirds of the electricity used
in Fairbanks. The city had ar
ranged for emergency power‘from
the Alaska Railroad and Ladd Air
Force Base.
Flood Threatens
Fort Yukon
FAIRBANKS, (£>) — Another
flood is threatened by the ice
jammed Yukon River just inside
the Arctic Circle.
Distress calls have come to Ladd
Air Force Base from the Fort Yu
kon area, which a year ago was
inundated.
A flight of F-80’s is ready to
drop a load of 100 and 1,000 pound
bombs on the ice-choked river.
The fliers are working with
KAZH, the bush pilot radio,
which is the only communication
in some outlying areas.
It was last year’s ice-jam
bombing which old timers said
stirred up gold nuggets which
were responsible for the minia
ture Fishwheel ‘gold rush” last
October.
EMPLOYMENT SECURITY
REPRESENTATIVE HERE
John F. Isadore, of the Fair
banks office of the Employment
Security Commission arrived yes
terday and will be available to
both employees and employers for
interviews on compensation prob
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i ed for more troops and military
( equipment to build up the Wcst
| ern European bastion than the
' countries’ economic experts say
they can pay for.
It is reported that the pact na
j tions may consider enlarging their
defense treaty into a Western Eu
{ ropean defense and economic or
ganization which would include
Germany, possibly Sweden, Tur
key and other nations not mem
bers of the present agreement
It has been suggested that Gen.
Omar Bradley, present chairman
of the U. S. Joint Chiefs of Staff,
might be named head of a new
Western Defense Command which
would replace the present five
nation defense organization head
ed by British Field Marshal Lord
Montgomery.
A counter move to shut out all
western influence and tighten
communist control of countries in
Russia’s eastern sphere of influ
ence has been noted by western
i diplomats. The latest sign of this
campaign has been seen in Po
land, where a purge of govern
ment officials and party weak
lings is reported under way.
Unofficial reports from Tur
key’s national elections yesterday
indicate a sensational landslide
may sweep out of office the Peo
ple’s Party regime of President
Ismet Inonu. The party has ruled
Turkey since the founding of the
republic.
U. N. secretary general Trygve
Lie indicated. today that he may
stay in Moscow most of this week
to continue his attempts to medi
ate in the East-West cold war. An
informed source said Lie had ac
cepted a reception at the Norwe
gian embassy Wednesday cele
brating Norwegian National Day.
Marshal Tito, in an unprece
dented radio interview over the
Italian national radio, told Italian
listeners last night he had no in
tention of annexing the zone of the
Freed Territory of Trieste Yugo
slav troops now occupy.
lems relating to his office.
He will be at the Wallace Hotel
Tuesday from 10:00 a.m. until 6:00
p.m. Tuesday.
He returns to Fairbanks on
Wednesday.
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Day race, wrecked his Bowed Seal
Fast Special late Friday.
The 23-year-old Ontario, Calif.,
1 driver set an unofficial one-lap
record of 134.328 miles an hour
for a rear-drive car and then
| smacked into the wall on his next
time around.
Ruttmann escaped with a scalp
wound, wrenched back and mild
concussion. He was kept at the
Methodist hospital for observa
tion. His car is out of the race.
Chicago, (P)—Edward J. Flynn,
Democratic National Committee
man from New York who was
stricken at a national party con
ference. was reported in “good”
condition by physicians today.
They said he had spent a com
fortable night.
NEW YORK, (P)—The nation’s
1950 “Mother of the Year”—Mrs.
Henry Roe Cloud of West Linn,
Ore.—said yesterday that the fam
ily and the church must combine
to bring about universal peace.”
“Whatever our spirtual adher
ence,” she said, “let us be faith
ful to it.”
The 60-year-old, half-Indian
mother spoke to 1,500 persons
during the Salvation Army’s an
nual observance of Mother’s Day
in Central Park mall.
COWICHAN, BAY, B. C. (/P)—
A seven-year-old boy died in the
flames of a $50,000 waterfront
fire yesterday despite the efforts
of his father to sava him.
The victim was Wayne Vande
cacteyen. The youngster’s father
re-entered the blazing hotel but
was forced to jump from a win
dow into Cowichan Bay to save
himself.
In addition to the hotel, the
fire also raged through a cafe,
garage and store.
SEATTLE f/P)—Twin girls were
born to Mrs. Jean Fisher, Austral
ian war bride, here yesterday—
Mother’s Day.
NOTICE
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Now Specializes in
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Mexican Dishes
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Nome Directory
ROTARY CLUB
OF NOME
Thursday Luncheon
Stanley R. Morgan, Pres.
Ron Brousseau, Secy.
ANVIL LODGE
NO. 140
Meets First and
Third Thursday
each month
STANLEY R. MORGAN. W. M.
NORVIN W. LEWIS. Secy.
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets
EVERY TUESDAY NOON
ARVO SAARIO, President
HAGEN
JEWELER AND OPTICIAN
Court House Is Opposite U>
Phone Main 40
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