USSR & M Offers
Three Years Work
And Scholarship
Three years of summer em
ployment and a scholarship of
$250 to the University of Alaska
are provided annually for six
high school and university stu
dents by the terms of the new
student training and scholarship
plan of the United States Smelt
ing, Refining and Mining Com
pany, according to an announce
ment just made by Earl Beistline,
dean of the University School of
Mines.
The plan is open to students in
all branches of engineering and
will be put into effect starting this
summer. Applications must be
filed at the University of Alaska
by April 15.
The successful applicants will
be employed at various jobs de
signed to give a well rounded
groundwork of experience in all
branches of gold dredging 'busi
ness and will be paid by the com
pany at the established wage rate
for each kind of work done. At
the end of the third summer each
student who has satisfactorily
completed the schedule of sum
mer employment will be given a
certificate to that effect and a
$250 scholarship for the follow
ing year at the University of
Alaska. In addition, a cash prize
of $50 will be offered at the end
of the first and second summers
for the best essay submitted by
October 1 on some phase of the
work done that season.
The proposed schedule of sum
mer employment calls for a stu
dent during the first summer to
spend 40 days at point driving, 40
days on the pipe crew, and 40
days as nozzleman; during the sec
ond summer to spend 40 days on
the cleanup crew or at prospect
drilling, 40 days as decker or
shoreman on a dredge, and 40
days in the warehouse; and dur
ing the third summer to spend 60
days as thawing assistant or
timekeeper and 60 days in the
machineshcrp or power plant. At
option of the company substitu
tions may be made to employ a
student in the engineering depart
ment or at the McCarty Mine.
Rules for the selection of can
didates were listed as follows:
•‘This plan shall be open to
physically able male students
over 18 years erf age who are en
rolled or intend to enroll in min
ing, metallurgical, civil or other
engineering courses at the Uni
versity of Alaska and who intend
to take at least three or more
years there.
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ST. LOUIS, {/P) — Monsanto
Chemical Co. weighs invisible
quantities of radio-active ma
terials.
The company has a scale at its
mound laboratory in Miamisburg,
O., operated for the Atomic En
ergy Commission, with a balance
so sensitive it can detect weight
differences as small as one three
billionth of an ounce.
The government has asked j
the Red Cross to train thou
sands of new nurse’s aides and
to re-train former aides inac
tive in recent years. These
aides are taught to become
competent assistants to profes- !
sional nurses and serve as aux
iliary workers for community
health. Your donation to the
1952 Red Cross Fund Cam- |
paign will help provide this
valuable instruction.
| CAP News
A meeting of the Nome Sqaud
ron, Civil Air Patrol was held
last Wednesday evening in the
federal building, with Maj. Bron
son presiding.
The appointment of the follow
ing officers was announced.
Commanding Officer — Lester
Bronson, Major.
Adjutant — Walter McCarthy,
2nd Lt.
Personnel—Ashby Craft, 2nd Lt.
Assistant Personnel Officer —
Sgt. Cortwright.
Training Officer—Bob Emons,
Capt.
Commandant of Cadets—Mrs.
Stella Cooley, 2nd Lt.
Supply—Louis Chasse, 2nd Lt.
Operations — Phil Lancaster,
2nd Lt.
Chaplain — Rev. Raul Carlson,
Capt.
Fiscal Officer — Alice Hudson,
2nd Lt.
Public Information — Clinton
Gray, 2nd Lt.
Communications—Fred Parson,
2nd Lt.
Acting Engineering Officer —
Staff Sgt. W. V. Ireland
Photographic Officer — Bill
Sheppard, 2nd Lt.
Assistant to C.O. — Mary Lee
Kenison, Warrant officer.
Flight Officers — John Cooley,
Capt.; Sam Tucker, 2nd Lt.; Dr.
M. Kennedy, 2nd Lt.; Frank Kil
lins, 2nd Lt.; Obee O’Brien, 2nd
Lt.
Flight Proficiency Board —
Lester Bronson, John Cooley, Sam
Tucker, Obee O’brien and Walter
McCarthy.
It was decided that the first
meeting of each month be limited
to officers and the second meet
ing, on the third Wednesday, to
be an open meeting.
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Uature's greatest mystery
V cry little is known about the Alaska salmon, backbone
of the Territory’s economy. Despite years of study ^
scientists still have much to learn about this highly
important resource.
With more knowledge there will be better opportunity
to insure future runs of salmon in Alaskan waters. For
this reason, salmon packers of the Bristol Bay, Westward, Kodiak
Island, Southeastern Alaska, Prince William Sound and
other districts each year assess themselves a fixed amount
per case of salmon to finance the University of Washington
Fisheries Research Institute.
The industry in the past six years has allocated
more than a million dollars to finance these studies.
The University’s Institute is an entirely independent, scientific
research organization, directed by Dr. William F. Thompson,
who has won an international reputation for his studies of
of the halibut and Fraser River sockeye. The Institute’s research
program complements studies being made by % M
the Fish and Wildlife Service.
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