GUINEA PIGS — Two Curtiss-Wright experimental test
pilots undergo stratosphere conditions inside an altitude chamber
that can simulate conditions as high as 80,000 feet and at tempera
tures as low as 85 below' zero Fahrenheit. The pilot (right) makes
notes describing their reactions to the high and low temperatures
in the chamber.
Rules Relaxed On Mailing
Packages Overseas
Headquarters Alaskan Depart
ment—Rules governing the mail
ing of parcels to men overseas in
the armed forces have been re
laxed to permit more than a hun
dred percent increase in weight of
packages sent to APO addresses,
Maj. Howard C. Walters, in charge
of the Army Postal Service in the
Alaskan Department, said recent
ly.
“While heretofore the maxi
mum weight on packages sent sol
diers at overseas stations was five
pounds,” Maj. Walters said, “they
may now weigh as much as 11
pounds. Limits on size have also
been liberalized,” he continued,
“and now a package may be 42
inches long, and may equal, but
not exceed. 72 inches in length and
girth combined.”
Such packages, the Major said,
may be mailed at any time. How
ever, items must be requested by
the members of the armed forces,
as heretofore. Only packages not
exceeding eight ounces may be
mailed to members of the services
unsolicited, and these must be
sent first class Maj. Walters said.
These rules do not apply to
packages mailed by members of
the armed forces overseas. Mem
bers of the service, as formerly,
may continue to mail packages
from Army postoffices at any
time, up to 70 pounds in weight
and not exceeding 100 inches in
length and girth combined.
Legal Blanks at The Nugget office
COMMUNICATION
The following letter was re
ceived by the Nugget:
Envelope was addressed:
“Editor of the Nome Nugget
“Nome Nugget,
“(Oldest Newspaper in Alaska)
“Nome. Alaska.”
(Postmaster had facetiously
added “Try Nugget.”)
APO 732—202d Station Hosp.
c/o PM—Seattle, Washington
Editor of the Nugget:
I was roaming through some of
Alaska’s back-country the other
day, when I ran into an old min
ing area far up on the Snake
River. In an empty, broken-down,
miner’s home, long since vacated,!
I foupd the following poem:
THE LIFER
I’ve set with pan between my
knees
Till both my legs was numb;
And then for rest I’d use one hand
Till I couldn’t bend a thumb.
Then I’d count the worth o’ gold |
I had,
And the puny amount would
make me mad;
And I’d swear I’d quit, but never
did—
Yes, brother, I know I’m dumb.
I followed the ledges and gravel
beds
With shovel and pan and pick.
I hunted the source of the yellow
lure
In desert and hill and crick—
Till I found a pocket or vain of
stuff
That would pay a little, but
never enough
To buy me off, nor make me rich.
So here I be; and still I stick.
1 nave washed a million tons of
dirt
For an ounce of two of gold.
I reckon I ought to die or quit—
For I know I am growing old.
But I can’t when I know somj hill
or stream
Still hides the strike of a life
long dream.
I’ll find it yet; I know I will.
My life to Hope I’ve sold.
—Mrs. William Honrath
(a miner’s wife).
The poem increased in signifi
1946 LIGHTERAGE TARIFFS
We are considering no increase in lighterage rates.
i
Increased tonnage volume has enabled us to hold our rates at
prewar levels in spite of increased costs. In 1946 a continued sub
stantial tonnage is anticipated and therefore we expect our 1946
tariffs will average the same as in 1945 unless unlooked-for condi
tions affecting our costs should develop.
Gold mining is the life blood of Seward Peninsula and we
trust that no situation wilt arise which will so increase our oper
ating costs that irici^^jfegj&^uffs become necessary.
Substantial increase in transportation rates would be detri
mental to Alaska business and mining interests and would add to
the already high cost of living.
Lomen Commercial
Company
cance as I continued my journey
through the mountains for soon I
came upon an old prospector still
mining his claim. He invited me
into his shack for a cup of coffee
and soon engaged himself in story
telling. The stories he told-of
places he’d been the world over;
of money it had taken a year’s
mining to earn, lost in one miser
able night—of women he’d loved
and lost, etc., etc., etc.-for me,
this poem took on life and was
sifting before me in the form of
this old miner-sold to the dust
of Alaska’s mountains and streams.
I though perhaps you, too, might
enjoy this poem.
Very Sincerely Yours,
A soldier at Nome
Hank.!
He—But you advertised a bed
sitting room.
Landlady—Certainly. This is it.
He—Well, I see the bed, but
where is the sitting room?
Landlady—On the bed.
Wide Open Spaces
NEW YORK, (/PI—There’s room
in New York’s commuting area
for 16,500 000 people in addition
to the 12,330,000 now resident
there, according to the Regional
Plan Association. The area ex
tends from 30 to 45 miles from
Times Square and covers 2,860
square miles.
Persistence Pays;
Doc Fools Phone Co.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo.—(fP)—Dr. Orr
Mullinax, superintendent of a
state hospital here, is a patient
but persistent man.
When the telpehone company
hewed strictly to the line of pro
tecting its patrons’ wishes—and
refused to tell the doctor his own
unlisted telephone number — he
called all the numbers on his
monthly telephone bill.
When his private telephone rang
he put it down as his and the tele
phone company’s secret.
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NORTHERN
LIGHT & POWER CO.
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Electrical Appliances Washing Machines
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