Whooping Crane
Destroys Its Eggs
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NEW YORK, (£>)—Aother hope
for preservation of the nearly ex
tinct whooping crane has just
been dashed.
The National Audubon society
received word today from the U.
S. fish and wildlife service, with
which it has been cooperating in
► attempts to preserve the species,
that two eggs laid by a pair of
captive birds in the Aransas na
tional wildlife refuge in Texas
have been destroyed.
The eggs were broken up by the
parent birds yesterday.
Robert P. Allen, official observ
er on the project, noticed the
birds pecking at their nest, inves
tigated and found the eggs had
been shattered and that they were
infertile.
Only 33 whooping cranes, rem
nants of untold numbers, are
known now to exist. The others
have flown north as usual to nest
in some undiscovered Arctic
breeding ground.
U. of W. Chimes
Tower Burned
SEATTLE, (/»»)—The University
of Washington’s historic chimes
tower burned to a blackened skel
eton shortly after 7 a.m. yester
day.
As firemen finally controlled
the flames that leaped upward as
though from a giant torch, the
bells that for many college gener
ations have summoned students to
8 o’clock classes still hung, black
and naked, atop the burned struc
ture.
Firemen were ordered back
from the burned framework, how
ever, for fear the heavy bells
might crash down from their
weakened perch. The cause of the
fire was unknown.
F’lames spread to the roof of the
Sigma Chi fraternity house across
I the street from the campus. Dam
age to the roof waS not extensive.
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Plumbing is the science of get
ting water where it is wanted and
I how it is wanted, and then getting
it away again.
Alaska .Highway
Open To Fairbanks
ANCHORAGE, The Alas
ka road commission reported Sat
urday that the Alaska Highway is
open to traffic between the United
States and Fairbanks, but that
Anchorage is cut off by a bridge
washout.
The trouble is at the Chistochi
na River bridge on the Tok Cut
off. It can not be repaired this
week-end because of flood stage.
A previous report had indicated
traffic to Fairbanks also was cut.
The commission indicated a be
lief that anyone leaving Edmon
ton now would find the bridge
open again by the time they ar
rive at the Chistochina.
Traffic from Anchorage can not
go via Fairbanks because the
Richardson Highway is not yet
open for the season.
Deaths from starvation in Ben
gal province alone were estimated
at 100,000 a week during the 1943
famine in India.
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Krug Asks Senate
To Restore House
Slash From Budget
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(UP) Special Washington Service*
WASHINGTON, OP)—Secretary
lot interior Krug said yesterday
I that this year’s $616,000,000 bud
J get lor the interior department is
i the “bottom of the barrel in wise
economy.”
He told a Senate appropriations
sub-committee that the depart
ment believes this is the time for
“most stringent economies.” How
ever, he said, the nation should
not spend less than is "really re
quired” for the development of its
economy.
Testifying on the annual inte
rior department money bill, the
secretary said the Senate will be
asked to restore about $23,000,000
of the budget which was lopped
off by the House. As it passed the
House, the bill carried $536,211.
908 for the various agencies of the
department, about $31,000,000 less
than President Truman’s budget.
Krug said the department will
ask for restoration of $8,000,000
in appropriations and $10,000,000
i in contract authorization for reha
bilitation of the Alaskan Railroad
and $1,000,000 for Alaskan high
ways.
A $925,000 reduction made by
the House in funds asked for the
'Alaskan native service, Krug said,
"will seriously handicap" health
activities in Alaska,
j "Under this allowance we
! would not be able to admit pa
i
; tients to the new 200-bed tuber
| culosis hospital at Mount E Ige
■ cumbe, or to use the 80 tubercu
; losis beds provided last year." he
j testified.
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Fly Emergency
Foodstuffs To
Remote Pt. Hope
ANCHORAGE, (JP) — A 7th
Troop Carrier Squadron C-82 Fly
ing Boxcar was flying 8,000
pounds of flour and sugar to the
native village of Point Hope. 300
miles north of Nome, where
shortages exist, the Alaskan Air
Command has announced.
The 5,000 pounds of flour and
3,000 pounds of sugar will be par
achuted to the villagers in 30 250
pound packages. The condition of
the ice and snow in the area
makes it impractical to attempt a
1 ski plane landing.
The Anchorage representative
of the Alaska Native Service who
I requested the flight be made,
I stated that boat supplies would
not reach the village on the Arc
tic Ocean until Sept. 1. The flour
and sugar will supplement the na
tive’s games and fish diet.
Non-Profit Grocery
Stores Huge
Liability
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WASHINGTON, (JP) — Tht
armed forces’ non-profit grocery
stores cost taxpayers more than
$4,800,000 last year, the House
armed services commit'ce report
ed yesterday.
The committee study was made
public at the opening of hearing'
on the military’s multi-mill on
dollar retail busine-s. It -howed
more than $4,300,000 spent lrom
government funds for salaries
alone at the groceries during 1948
This figure, said chairman Vin
son «D.-Ga.», did not include the
light, heat, trucking and other
services furnished to the grocery
stores free by the government.
Delegate Farrington of Hawaii
asked the sub-committee to study
also military retailing in the Ha
waiian Islands and Alaska. Phil
bin told him the figures for those
areas will be brought up as soon
as stores in this country have been
i investigated.
The military stores, such as
post exchanges and ship’s service
: stores, handle everything from
! soap to television sets. In advance
• of the hearings, Vinson told re
porters:
“I expect we will write a bill tc
j cut out all but the necessary
' items.”
Some members said they want
ed to stop sales o£ expensive .jew
elry, household goods and the
like.
WELL-KNOWN MINING
ENGINEER PASSES ON
LOS ANGELES. ..-Pi — George
D. Nordenholt, 65. widely known
mining engineer and geologist and
former football star at the Un.
versity of Chicago, died in a hos
pital Monday after a two-week
illness.
Nordenholt. president of the Pa
cific Petroleum Co., was associa
ted with many major mining and
petroleum developments in the
west from Alaska to Central
America.
He served as director of the Cai
lfonia department of natural re
sources under three governors.
KODIAK BANK TO BE
REIMBURSED
WASHINGTON. (.Pi—A bill to
reimburse the Bank of Kodiak.
Alaska, $3,000 for mutilated cur
rency lost when the steamship
Yukon sank Feb. 4. 1946. has
passed the Senate and gone to the
White House.
A judiciary committee report
stated the money had been taken
from circulation because of its
condition and was being sent to
the treasury department when the
vessel went down.
The bill passed the House
March 15.
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