Italian Government! {
Honors Felice Pedroni,
Founder of Fairbanks
SEATTLE, (iP)—Felice Pedroni
heard the biggest news of the day
and the year when in 1896 the
word “Gold!” skittered down
from Alaska.
He left immediately for the
fields of the northern territory
from his home in Carbonado,
Wash. He — like thousands of
others—wanted to be among the
first.
Next Tuesday, the Alaska cen
tennial celebration at Fairbanks
will include ceremonies placing
a bronze bust of Pedroni in the
halls of the University of Alaska.
Pedroni was among the first.
He was the first white man to
come to the area of Fairbanks.
He was the first to begin organ
ization of Fairbanks. He was the
MONDAY SCORES
American League
Detroit 8—New York 2
Washington 15—Cleveland 4
St. Louis 7—Boston 5
Philadelphia 2—Chicago 1
Naiional League
New York 6—Cincinnati 2
Brooklyn 6—St. Louis 0
first to find and cry “Gold!”
there.
At the spot where the precious
metal was first unearthed by Ped
roni, a plaque fastened in a
granite boulder will be unveiled
next Tuesday. The plaque and
bust are gifts of the Italian gov
ernment which will be represent
ed at the celebration by Alvara
Vito Beltr, vice consul in Seat
tle, and Baron Filippo Muzi Fal
coni, consul general from San
Francisco.
RADIO PROGRAM
ARMED FORCES RADIO SERVICE — NOME FIELD
Wednesday
5:00—Jack Kirkwood
5:15—Jack Smith
5.30—Sym phonic Portraits
6;00—News Shapes Tomor.
6:15—Sportscope
5-6:30—News & Baseball
• Reception permitting'
6;30—Rev. Romp, Requests
7:30—This Is The Story
8:00—Groucho Marx
8:30—Hollywd Music Hall
9:00—News
9:05—Halls of Ivy
9:30—Big Story
9:55—This I Believe
10:00—Requestfully Yours
11:00—Club 15
11:15—Words with Music
11:30—One Night Stand
12:00—Jukebox USA
12:30—At Ease
12:55—News
Thursday
8:00—Strike up the Band
6:15—Jack Baker
6:30—Rise and Shine
7:00—News
7:05—Rise & Shine, Cont.
8:00—Morn. News Rndup
8:15—Dixieland Club
8:30—Morning Devotions
8:43—J ack Berch
9:00—Frank Duval
9:20—You Name It
10:00—News
10:05—You be Weatherman 1
10:30—Harmony Rangers
11:00—Dave Garroway
11:15—Music from S. A.
11:30—Organaires
11:45—Program Previews
Noon—News
12:15—Platter Parade
1:00—Strike It Rich
1:15—Hillbilly Jamboree
2:00—Heard at Home
2:30—Radio Music Hall
3:00—Just Between Us
3:15—Waltz Time
3:30—Down Memory Lane
4:00—News
4:15—Curt Massey
4:30—Musical Wonderland
5:00—Jack Kirkwood
5:15—Jack Smith
5:30—Symphonic Portraits
6:00—News Shapes Tornot.
6:15—Sport scope
5-6:30—News & Baseball
(Reception permitting*
6:30—Rev. Romp, Requests
7:30—Dimension X
8:00—Amos & Andy
8:30—A1 Goodman Album
9:00—News
9:05—Judy Canova
9:30—Dragnet
9:55—This I Believe
10:00—Requestfully Yours
11:00—Peggy Lee
11:15—Words with Music
11:30—One Night Stand
12:00—Jukebox USA
12:30—At Ease
12:55—News
Friday
6:15—Jack Baker
6:30—Rise and Shine
6:00—Strike up the Band
7:05—CAA Remote
7:10—Overnight News
! 7:15—Rise and Shine
1 8:00—Morn. News Rndup
8:15—Dixieland Club
8:30—Morning Devotions
8:45—.lack Berch
9:00—C. Jenkins
9:30—You Name It
10:00—News
10:05—You be Weatherman
10:30—Harmony Rangers
11:00—Dave Garroway
11:1-5—Music from S. A.
11:30—Piano Portraits
11:45—Program Previews
Noon—News
12:15—Platter Parade
1:00—Comedy of Errors
1:15—Hillbilly Jamboree
2:00—Song of Liberty
2:30—One Old One New
3:00—Behind the Story
—c'r:r»tiv in'^’^ental
3:30—Meet the Band
4:00—i\evvs
4:15—Curt Massey
4:30—Musical Wonderland
i 5:00—JEck K irkwood
Navy’s ‘Skyrocket’
Attains Twice
Speed of Sound
MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., (JP)—
An apparently inadvertent dis
closure that the Skyrocket re
search airplane has flown twice
the speed of sound was confirm
ed here Tuesday.
It was also indicated that the
Skyrocket carries refrigeration
equipment enough to cool a the
ater of 3,000 seats.
This would be necessary—in an
airplane flying more than 1,300
miles an hour—in order to keep
the pilot from being roasted alive,
and to keep the airplane metal
from turning soft.
The Navy has announced of
fically only that Douglas test
pilot Bill Bridgeman flew its
D558-II Skyrocket faster and
higher than any other piloted air
craft has travelled.
The details were kept secret.
The new world speed and altitude
records were set over the Mojave
desert near Edwards Air Force
Base, Calif., last August.
At an air show nt Edwards last
Saturday, however, an announ
cer—an Air Force major speaking
over a public address system —
said the Skyrocket had flown
more than 1,300 miles an hour.
A fellow officer said later that
the announcer had been author
ized to say only that the plane
was capable of that speed.
The altitude mark “more than
79.000 feet”—was in an article
in the aviation trade magazine
Pegasus, a month ago.
The Skyrocket was launched
from a B-29 mother ship, at about
38.000 feet, for the start of its
record-shattering flight.
It has a turbo-jet engine with
a rocket engine for the additional
thrust to move into supersonic
flight, and has wings swept back
35 degrees.
At the laboratory inspection
here Tuesday, National Advisory
Committee for Aeronautics of
ficials declared that aerodynamic
heating, resulting from friction of
air on planes traveling at super
sonic speed, is the “next big bar
rier” which aviation must over
come, now, that the once-feared
“sonic wall” — the supposed air
block at the speed of sound—
has been hurdled.
ALASKA AIRLINES
From Anchorage: Jess Hobbs,
Robert Fair, Daringer, Mrs. G.
Daringer, Jim Hurl, Carl Lavote,
John Daws, G. Benton, M. Benton.
Anchorage: Blanche Ryan, Vir
ginia Ryan, H. E. Cook.
To Moses Point: Mr. and Mrs.
Denton Howard, Richard Escholtz.
Dora Hess was given a sentence
of three months in the Federal
jail for disorderly conduct.
SPECIAL
OOMIAK
EXCURSIONS
See SAM MOGG c/o A. Pole!
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Excursions to Sledge
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Island, Cape Nome, and
around the roadstead
can be arranged for as
many as 25 persons.
SEE THE BIRD ROOKERIES
ON SLEDGE ISLAND
Destroyer Southerland
Hit By Red Artillery
WASHINGTON, (yP) — T h e
Navy reported the Destroyer
Southerland was hit four times in
a duel with enemy shore batteries
%
fof Korea’s east coast Sunday.
Eight enlisted crewmen received
“minor injuries.”
During the 24 - minute battle,
more than 200 rdunds erf five
inch shells were poured onto
Communist gun emplacements,
silencing five of the seven shore
batteries.
The destroyer returned the fire
three hours after receiving the
hits.
. CALL FOR BIDS
Sealed bids in quadruplicate will be
received at the Office of the Commis
sioner of Education until 2 o’clock p.m.
Auufcst 5, 1952, and then publicly opened
and read for the furnishing of stove,
diesel, and lube oil, gasoline, and kero
sene to be delivered in place for approx
imately 2 Territorial Rural Schools. Spec
ifications and bid forms may be obtained
from the Territorial Department of' Ed
ucation, Box 1841, Juneau, Alaska, or
the lbcal School Agent.' The right is
reserved to reject any and all bids.
EVERETT R. ERICKSON
Commissioner of Education
Pub. July 7, 11, 16.
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Invitation To Bid — Airport Construction
Sealed bids, in single copy, will be received until 10:00 a.m.,
July 25, 1952, then publicly opened for furnishing all labor and
materials and performing all work for the construction of a
public airport located at Circle Hot Springs, Alaska.
Plans, specifications and project documents may be obtained
from the Director of Aviation, Department of Aviation, Territory
of Alaska, Glover Building, or Box 2215, Anchorage, Alaska,
where copies of plans are requested. A deposit of $25.00 will be
required to insure their return. Plans may be reviewed at the
offices of Frank A. Metcalf, Territorial Highway Engineer,
Juneau, Alaska; the Associated General Contractors, Seattle and
Anchorage, or the office of the Department of Aviation, above
address. TONY SCHWAMM,
Director of Aviation, Territory of Alaska
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I Announcing New DC-3 Schedule
EFFECTIVE MAY 4, 1952
EACH MON., WED., THUHS., SAT. & SUN.
leave Fairbanks 8:00 a.m. arrive Kotzebue 10:30 a.m.
leave Kotzebue 11:15 p.m. arrive Nome 1:00 a.m.
leave Nome 6:00 p.m. arrive Fairbanks 9:30 p.m.
THIS MEANS A 5-HOURS LAYOVER IN NOME
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ON MONDAY AND THURSDAY
leave Nome 1:45 p.m. arrive Kotzebue 3:00 pjn.
leave Kotzebue 3:45 p.m. arrive Nome 5:00 p.m.
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I OUR NEW MAIL SCHEDULE EFFECTIVE APRIL 21
By Cessna 170, 195-and Norseman
EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY
leave Nome 7:00 a.m,
arrive Deering 8:15 a.m.
leave Deering 8:45 a.m.
arrive Candle 9:00 a.m.
leave Candle 9:30 a.m.
leave Kotzebue 11:15 a.m.
arrive Candle 12:00 N
leave Candle 12:30 p.m.
arrive Deering 12:45 p.m.
leave Deering 1:15 pwm.
arrive Nome 2:30 pjn.
PAUL SPURLOCK. Station Manager