PETE SATTERLEE PRAISES
SERPENTINE SPRINGS
Pete Satterlee returned recent- j
ly from the Serpentine Springs
where he has spent the early !
spring and summer, and describes
this little known vacation spot,
which is in Nome’s backyard, as a j
wonderful place.
He states that it is hard to be
lieve that only 90 miles from i
Nome there is a region of sandy ,
black soil, warm and tropical the |
whole year. All through the win
ter, with a few glass enclousures
for protection, anyone could grow
flowers and edibles. There is also
a creek nearby, Mr. Satterlee
states, where Dolly Varden and
Arctic trout abound the year
round.
The bath facilities include a 15
by 22 foot building with a spa
cious tank deeply embedded for
a steady inflow and outlet of the
health giving spring waters. The
tank is lareg enough to accommo
date about ten people at one time.
9 Others can lounge in the dressing
rooms or take steam baths.
The main building is 55 feet
long and can accommodate twenty
beds. It is partitioned into a main
kitchen and two additional rooms
for men and women. As there is a
cook stove in each room, food can
be prepared separately if desired.
Willow wood and branches for
fuel can be gathered, and that is
all that is needed as the building
is erected on hot ground.
Mr. Saterlee states that the spot
is frequented regularly by those
who know the place and could be
developed into a real resort as ev
erything is there to make it possi
ble.
IN THE PAST MONDAY WAS
humorously canonized as “St.
Monday," the festival of cobblers.
According to the Encyclopaedia
Britannica, cobblers were suppos
ed not to know on which day the
feast of St. Crispin, their patron
saint, fell except that it should be
a Monday. Thus they celebrated
the patron’s feast every Monday.
Alaska Observes
Its Eightieth
Anniversary
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$7 200,000 had not been appropri
ated by the United States Con
gress, Russia signified readiness
to make delivery without waiting
for payment.
A Captain Pestchouroff of the
Russian Army and a Major Gen
eral Rousseau of the American
army, named commissioners', met
in San Francisco and then pro
ceeded to Sitka, where the Rus
sian garrison was replaced by
American troops in appropriate
ceremonies. The United States
flig was not formally raised at
Kodiak until' the next summer.
After the Mount McKinley ob
servance Saturday night, the
streamliner took the Territory’s
guests to Fairbanks for a second
dedicatory exercises there Sun
day.
The new train, painted a blue
and gold, has four passenger
coaches, each with 60 individual
reclining seats, a dining car with
seats for 32 persons, a mail car
and baggage car. It has a possible
speed of 98 miles an hour, oui Me
' train can never be run at tha
speed on the present roadbed.
Railroad officials said they
i hoped to be able to cut the time ol
1 ’he Anchorage-Fairbanks run tc
10 hours, from the previous 27
hours, which included and over
night stop at Curry. 7 hey said
they also had plans to keep the
Mount McKinley Park hotel open
all year around.
KOUGAROK MINING PEOPLE
ARRIVE IN NOME
Kougarok mining men arriving
this week are Harold Bayne,
George Bodis, and C. L. Dempsey.
The Herb Engstrom family are
in town from their mine on the
railroad and awaiting transporta
tion to the States.
BERING SEA CLUB
Open 10 A.M. to Midnight
Dancing — Cards — Liquors
ARCTIC OIL DELIVERY
Phone—Shop: Black 76 — Residence: Red 153
100-GAL. OIL TANKS FOR SALE
WE CHECK YOUR TANK REGULARLY
BEN YOUNG
LEWIS CAB CO.
Phone MAIN 144
. * •
SALE
TROMMERS BEER
$2.00 per case
Polar Liquor Store
BLACK Phone Your
138 Orders
! Nome Army Air
Base Sidelights
T/5 Paul Kauer cleared the field
la. t Friday and has gone back to
the States for d'scharge. He was
with the Engineers since last De
cember and worked in the Electri
| cal Warehouse. The weekly trips
the Engineers made into the
mountains every weekend in their
railway car, have come to a halt.
The last trip was made Sunday, •
Oct. 12. They went about 25 miles
! back and it was fortunate that
they didn’t go much further for as ^
it was, they had much difficulty ,
returning through Sunday eve
ning’s snow storm.
Tuesday night. Signal and QM,
I who have combined forces in bas
| ketball. met the officers in our
first practice game. The officers
took an early lead and at half
time the score was 17-12. There
wasn’t much scoring in the next
half and when the game ended the
officers were 25 and Signal 17.
1st Lt. Olson stopped many of our
baskets by just reaching out and
hitting the ball out of the air.
Something will have to be done
about that. We either have to get a
j couple of stepladders or accident
! ally break Lt. Olson’s leg.
Two Hq. Det. stalwarts have re
i turned to the States. Sgt. Warren
j Guthrie intends to re-enlist for j
: another three-year hitch. Cpl.
; Eldon Briggs still has a year or
I better to go on his present enlist
I ment. Guthrie was in charge of
; PX activities, while Briggs work
ed at the Motor Pool. Cpl. Briggs
, has served out his full eighteen
months in Nome and is to be es
pecially classed as one of the "old
guard” of Hq. Det., except for his
last week here, when he turned ;
"Zoomie.”
All the personnel of the 10th
Rescue Sq. offer CONGRATULA
TIONS to our Line Chief, M/Sgt.
; Frank K. Atcheson, upon his pro
motion to a 1st L^eutant, Regular
Army. Good luck, Sarge, or should
we say Lieutenant, now? With the
! opening of the Post Basketball
League, we of the 10th are looking
forward to winning the coveted
| crown. This is a warning and we
hope to follow it through. J
Our new Det. CO, Capt. Robert
L. Powers, took over the AACS
Detachment this week and Lt.
James Gardner gets a thirty day ,
J leave and an assignment to Kelly
Field, Texas. Sgt. Jim Williams
! returned from his furlough and is
back on duty. T/Sgt. Robert Flosi
j left for the States and reassign
ment. S/Sgti William Rich, for
merly of the Nome Air Base, is
now Stationed at Mile 26. There
i are two new men in our detach
. ment now: S/Sgt. Ray Sanderson
who is a radio mechanic and Pfc.
Kenneth Ikler, a radar mechanic.
With the boat season pretty well
licked, a lot of sports are in the
offing for the QM boys. Because
of the size of our detachments,
we have, combined basketball
teams with Signal to constitute
the Quartermaster-Signal team.
Our prospects, Tom Lavan, Alvin
Ammon, Herbert Hawkins, George
Abraham, and others expect, with
Air Force Plans
Defense Network
In Alaska
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ka either for operational duty or
on training missions. 'These are
in addition to several squadrons
of B-29 bombers which have made
rotational training missions to the
theater*.
In addition to surveying for the
defense sites, the reconnaissance
squadrons have carried on two
other projects—exploratory flights
for establishing regularly sched
uled air transport service: photo
mapping, in cooperation with the
navy, of a 35,000 square-mile area
“to determine the possibility of
oil formations.” 'This presumably
may be a reference to the explora
a little practice, to become fairly
good within the next few weeks
In our first practice game, we
were beaten by the Officers, which
isn’t too bad, considering that it
was our first practice.
Several members of the 761st
MP Det. rolled out for basketball
practice Wednesday night and
Thursday morning a few were
nursing some mighty sore mus
cles. The entire outfit is looking
forward to a good season and lots
of enjoyment from playing. The
team is a little short on players
but we expect lots of good mate
rial from the Arctic Indoctrination
organization, which is joined with
us in the league.
tion for oil begun by the navy
during the war in the region of
Point Barrow*.
The air force news announce
ment testimony earlier this year
by Gen. Carl Spaatz, USAF chief
of staff, and Lt. Gen. Ira C. Eaker,
then deputy AAF commander and
now retired.
Spaatz said that the combina
tion of large populations and vast
industrial resources prov 1 d e d
three possible areas in the north
ern hemisphere from which at
tacks on the United States might
be launched — western Europe,
eastern Eurasia and nearby 's
lands in the western Pacific, “the
land muss of central Asia.” He rc
1 ferred to long range bombers and
the possibilities of long range
guided missiles and the paths for
them over the pole. This, said he.
‘ changes our whole defense pic
ture; it means, for example, that
we must have a chain of radar
stations looking northward to dis
co\ e" the enemy weapons and we
must have a means of intercepting
and destroying them.”
! Eaker spoke of the need of
bases for American long range
bombers “closest to possible en
emy targets” and referred to need
for two new major air bases, one
in northern Maine (which is now
being built at Limestone*, the
other, Eaker said, was urgently
needed ‘‘in the location which
would put us closest to the imlus
i trial capacity in one of the three
: areas mentioned by General
Spaatz.” His reference here ap
' parently was to Alaska.
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