World's First Television City
Initial unit of CBS Television
City in Hollywood, world’s first
community designed exclusively
for television, to start operations
on October 1, will look like this
two-ton, working model.
The model, 15 feet long and 14
feet wide, is one of the largest
scale and precision built minia
tures ever constructed from archi
tectural plans. It will be exhibited
publicly in a tour of principal U. S.
cities.
Covering 15 acres, this initial
unit of Television City will house
four mammoth studios and three
rehearsal halls in the section at the
right, with the glass-fronted, four*
story unit at left serving as admin
istration and services building.
The ramp running around the
second story of the studio area will
be used to haul scenery, which will
be designed and constructed in
shops in the far end of the admin
istration-services building. Actors'
cars are parked in the lot in the
foreground. When finally com
pleted, Television City will eover
35 acres.
San Francisco
Sourdough News
A large group attended the May
card party at the home of Cather
ine and Irene Bongard. An enjoy
able evening was reported.
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“Hi” Dill, recently returned
from Italy, attended the June
meeting in Oakland of the Sour
dough Association, and was
smothered with greetings.
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Emil O. Goulet and wife are
summering in Fairbanks. Mr.
Goulet is author of the book
“Rugged Years on the Alaska
Frontier.”
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Pearl Van Sickle reported that
Jane Higgins had offered to loan
the Club her recordings of stories
by older members.
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WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by the
U S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Continued clear tonight. In
creasing high cloudiness Tuesday.
Winds light and variable. Lowest
temperature expected tonight 44,
high tomorrow 62.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: Temperatures: high
58, low 41. Max. wind 21 mph
from the SW. Sunrise at 2:31 a.m.,
sunset at 8:46 p.m.
Temperatures a year ago today:
high 53, low 37. Extremes this
date since 1907: high 75 in 1947,
low 35 in 1938.
Other stations, 7 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow 39 Rain
Kotzebue 60 Part cloudy
Wales 49 Fog
Gambell 46 Clear
Nome 58 Clear
Unalakleet 65 Clear
Bethel 65 Part cloudy
McGrath 66 Clear
Anchorage 67 Clear
Fairbanks 62 Part cloudy
Whitehorse 67 Part cloudy
Edmonton 53 Rain
Juneau 62 Part cloudy
Ketchikan 53 Part cloudy
Seattle 59 part cloudy
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45 of 49 Aboard Burning
Freighter Are Rescued
By Liner Gripsholm
NEW YORK, </P) — A naptha
lene - laden Norwegian freighter
burst into roaring flames on thfc
dark Atlantic, but 45 or 49 per
sons aboard were snatched from
fiery death Saturday in a tense
Qnd dramatic rescue.
Four crewmen still were miss
ing from the 5,000-ton freighter,
the SS Black Gull, as the ship
settled 65 miles off the eastern
tip of Long Island.
The Swedish Americap liner
Gripsholm, a hospital mercy ship
in World War II, “headed hell
bent for the scene” in the words
of a line spokesman and plucked
45 persons, including six women,
from the rolling sea.
The veteran skipper of the
Gripsholm, Capt. Sigfrid Ericson,
radioed the Associated Press that
six of the rescued needed medical
treatment.
Forty-four of the rescued were
transferred to the Coast Guard
Cutter Mackinac which headed
for New York.
The Black Gull was carrying
500 tons of napthalene in metal
drums from Bremen to New York.
Napthalene is used in making
dyes and explosives.
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In Wall Street Journal
The Alaska Steamship Com
pany, in cooperation with the Al
aska Development Board, is pre
paring a series of ads which it is
sponsoring in the “Wall Street
Journal” in an effort to focus at
tention of investors on the indus
trial opportunities in the Terri
tory.
One ad entitled “Pulp Manufac
turers Eye Rich Alaska Resources
With Increased Interest” is sched
uled for July 21 and another—
“Vast Stores of Industrial Lime
stone in S. E. Alaska, Recent
Survey Reveals” is scheduled for
August 11.
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Glacier Priest To Film
Movie “Blue.Ice” In
Alaska This Summer
JUNEAU — The Rev. Bernard
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R. Hubbard, famed Alaskan “Gla
cier Priest” has returned to the
territory to spend the summer
filming a motion picture.
Father Hubbard is making the
movie, entitled “Blue Ice,” to be
shown at the Motor Boat Shows
of New York and Chicago next
January and February.
He is accompanied by his pho
tographer, Joseph Fernandez of
San Jose, Calif., and his brother,
Capt. John Hubbard, who is in
Alaska investigating mining pos
sibilities in the north.
Father Hubbard is head of the
geology department of Santa
Clara University, author of num
erous books and articles about
Alaska, and an internationally
known explorer and lecturer.
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