Army Regulars Enjoy Time Off
There's never a dull moment for Hie Army Regular during his off-duty
hours. Here a group of soldiers in the European Theater are horseback
riding through the scenic countryside. New sights, adventure, recreation,
and comradeship are offered young men 18 to 34 years of age, inclusive,
by the peacetime Regular Army.
Employees Will
Get Refund On
Disability Tax
Steps are being taken today to
refund money contributed under
the Territorial Workmen’s Disa
bility Trust Fund by employees.
The Attorney General’s office is
mailing out questionnaires and in
structions to employers who em
ployed five or more employees
prior to July 1, 1946, at which
time the act was suspended.
The law was repealed by the
1946 Territorial Legislature, but
no provisions have been made pre
viously for refunding the money
collected from employees. Under
the original law, employees, where
there were five or more, were re
quired to contribute up to $2.50
per month into a trust fund for
medical, surgical and hospital
services.
In the instructions, assistant
Territorial atornev general, Frank
L. Oliver said: “The repealing law
made no provisions regarding the
disposition of the trust fund bal
ances. Since the escheat law
would operate on unclaimed de
posits, the Territory has a defin
ite interest in these funds, and we.
therefore, outline a procec^ire for
you to follow.”
Oliver said that a pro rata re
fund of the balance remaining
should be immediately refunded
to employees. After refunding, he
said, the total remaining balance
should be deposited in a separate
bank trust acount to be .paid to
t^ie Territorial Treasurer at the
end of the escheat period.
Under the Territorial escheat
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Air Force Day
Op en House At
Nome Air Base
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Nome Army Air Base will hold
open house for the general public
in commemoration of Air Force
Day, August 1, 1947. Between the
hours of four p.m. and seven p.m.,1
two aircraft will be available for'
public inspection and guides will1
be provided to conduct visitors
throughout the installations. At
six-thirty p.m., an air show will j
be presented with weather per
mitting. The Post Commander.1
Colonel John E. Bodle, will give
a speech over WXLN, the Armed 1
Forces Radio Station, at seven
p.m.
In Nome, patriotic organizations 1
and the women’s clubs are spon- j
soring a dance at the Nome High
School gym at nine pm. Refresh
ments will be served. There will
be no admission charge and mu-1
sic will be provided by Cal Downs j
and his orchestra from Nome
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FRANK DAUGHERTYS
VISITING IN NOME
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Daugherty
I are enjoying a few days in Nome
from their home in Solomon. Mrs. j
; Daugherty joined her husband j
] here after completing a trip to St.
' Lawrence Island on the Hygiene,
where she acted as secretary, be- j
ing well acquainted with the peo-j
pie there.
law, unclaimed money can be con-'
fiscated by the Territory after a j
period of seven years.
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F irst Navy “Sofar”
Station Placed
In Operation
“SOFAR,” tiie new navy long
range, underwater sound system1
for locating air and ship survivors
at sea, has successfully completed
its first tests in the Pacific.
A number of four-pound and
six-pound bombs, recently drop-'
ped in the vicinity of the Hawaiian
Islands, were heard and success
fully recorded 2,300 miles away
by the first “SOFAR" station at
Monterey, Calif.
The Monterey station is the fir«t
of four stations which will com
plete the Pacific net of listening
and recording points. The other
stations will be located at Point
Arena, northwest of San Francis-;
co, Calif.; Kaneohe and Hilo, Ter-:
ritory of Hawaii.
When completed and in opera
tion late this year, the Pacific net]
will provide a means for locating
survivors of sea distasters with an
ultimate accuracy of a plus or mi
nus two miles. In some instances
at present it is necessary to seaich
thousands of miles of ocean for
planes lost at sea.
The name “SOFAR” is derived
from the phrase Sound Fixing and
Ranging. Operation of the system
involves the dropping of signal
bombs by survivors on planes, life
rafts and the receipt of reports of
the bombs detonations by shore
stations. The bombs may be droo
ped before or after a plane crash,
or automatically released from a
plane in the event of a fatal crash.
The sound transmitted through
the water at a speed of approxi
mately a mile a second, and is
heard over the “SOFAR” station
loudspeaker as rising kettledtum
crescendo which cuts off sharplv.
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Receipt of the signal sound star’s
a paper tape recorder and sirrtu!-1
toneously sounds an alarm to alert
the station operator. The paper
tape provides a permanent record
and a means of timing the signal
to an accuracy of about a tenth of
a second.
Upon receipt of a signal, each
“SOFAR" station immediately
transmits the information to a
control center. Because of the rel
atively slow speed of sound in wa
ter (about 4,800 feet per second'
as much as half an hour might
elapse between receipt of the ex
plosion signal by the first and last |
stations. From the difference in!
time of arrival of the signal at i
each pair of stations, the control)
center will determine the exact lo-j
cation of the crash, using special
charts similar to those designed
for LORAN. This position is then
radioed to a rescue plane, already
in the air.
The “SOFAR” stations are op
erated by means of hydrophones
planted in depths of approximately
1,800 feet and connected by sub
marine cable to the equipment
ashore. Duplicate cable and hy
drophone installations are made at
each station in order to continue
service in event of failure of any
one unit.
“SOFAR” depends on an under
water sound zone, the existence of
which was confirmed by a by
product of wartime submarine de
tection studies carried on for the
navy bureau of ships by Dr. Mau
rice Ewing, wartime director of
research in physics for the Woods
Hole Oceanographic Irystitfution,
Woods Hole, Mass., and now pro
fessor of geology at Columbia uni
versity. Professor Ewing’s studies
demonstrated that, as the result of
a “speaking tube” effect, sound
travels amazingly far in the ocean
depth zone between 2,000 and
6,000 feet.
During tests conducted in the
Bahamas last year, sound within
the zone was heard with useful
intensity when the cooperating
ship, the USS Muir, dropped
bom’os as far away as Dakar, Af
rica, 3,100 miles across the Atlan
tic. At a depth of 600 feet, how
ever, the bomb explosion could be
heard only for distances of 100 to
300 miles.
The 3,100 mile range obtained
in the Atlantic is not expected to
be the extreme limit of the sys
tem. Theoretical considerat.ons.
based on the Atlantic data, indi
cate that this range may eventual
ly be doubled.
The bureau of ordnance is de
signing a five-pound -bomb for
service use as standard equipment
on planes, life rafts, and lifeboats.
It will have a variable depth set
ting to allow for variations in the
depth of the ocean sound channel
in different latitudes. The bureau
of aeronautics is simultaneously
designing a launching rack to be
used with the bomb.
In addition to its practical as
pects, SOFAR is expected to aid
in a number of oceanic research
problems, including the location of
unknown shoals by the masking
effect on the path of sound; the
location of under water volcanic
explosions; and the study of the
absorption and attenuation effect
of extreme ranges.
SCOUT NEVrS
Last evening an enthusiastic
group of Boy Scouts held their
regular meeting at the Boy Scout
clubhouse and made plans for
their two weeks outing which
starts next Sunday afternoon and
will be held at the new Boy Scout
campsite on the Big Bend of
Snake River at Dexter.
B. G. Baker will be in charge
of the camp with Mrs. B. G. Baker
and Mrs. Carl Glavinovich acting
as housemothers.
An extensive program is plan
ned with side trips to the Kouga
rok planned.
Several of the boys are expect
ed to pass their exams for 2nd
class scouts and others will be
earning merit badges for 1st class
scouts.
AMPHIBIOUS ADVENTURE
DETROIT. (/Pi—Kenneth Blue.
28, jumped into his car during
last night’s downpour and started
, to drive out of a parking lot on
Belle Isle. island recreational
park.
Water rose quickly around his
auto and the windshield wiper
was totally ineffective.
“Worst rain I ever saw,” said
Blue as he got out of the car to
investigate. He discovered he had
driven 10 feet into one of Belle
Isle’s lagoons.
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