Aluminum Co. of Canada Is Hollowing a Mountain
To Provide a Powerhouse 1400 Feet Underground
By DAVE STOCKAND
Canadian Press Staff Writer
KEMANO, B.C., (/P)—A moun
tain rearing above this mushroom
patch of quonset huts# has no
name, but it has a heart.
Deep inside the mountain, 1,400
feet underground, man is scoop
ing out a bomb-proof, weather
proof power house for the Alumi
num Company of Canada’s “Proj
ect British Columbia.”
Although rock is showing un
expected resistance to the honey
combing and hollowing, a confus
ing maze of passageways already
threads through the Coast Range
mass.
The power house section now
under construction will be 100
feet high, 700 feet long and 80
feet wide. It is the third link in
a chain of engineering jobs that
start 125 miles east of this tem
porary town of 2,000.
The Kennedy Dam comes first.
By straddling the Grand Canyon
of the Nechako River it will re
verse the flow of a watershed of
5,400 square miles and back the
water westward into the Ootsat
ahtsa chain of lakes.
10-Mile Tunnel Through Rock
From four headings, a 10-mile
tunnel is being punched through
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the mountains to carry the water
in a 2,600-foot drop from Tahtsa
Lake to the powerhouse. The rock
has been penetrated more than
4,500 feet.
Tunnel work, and work on the
power house itself, goes on 24
hours a day, six days a week,
under men who have gained ex
perience on almost every contin
ent.
Two penstock tunnels will split
the “head” of the water after it
rushes through the 10 - miler,
which is the width of four auto
mobiles. Each penstock will then
spit into four units to drive eight
turbines planned for the first
stage of the development.
Its job done, the water will be
channeled through a tailrace tun
nel into the Kemano River, which
joins the sea at Gardener Canal,
more than 400 miles north of
• Vancouver.
Structure “Tied” To Mountain
The power house walls and ceil
ing will be built inside the ex
cavated chamber and “tied” to the
natural rock. Weak strata will be
strengthened by long steel rods
anchored deep in the rock and
cement will be forced under pres
sure into flaws.
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A 50-mile transmission line will
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Announcing New DC-3 Schedule
EFFECTIVE MAY 4, 1952
EACH MON.. WED.. THURS.. SAT. & SUN.
leave Fairbanks 8:00 a.m. arrive Kotzebue 10:30 a.m.
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leave Kotzbue 11:15 a.m. arrive Nome 1:00 p.m.
leave Nome 6:00 p.m. arrive Fairbanks 9:30 p.m.
THIS MEANS A 5-HOURS LAYOVER IN NOME
ON MONDAY AND THURSDAY
leave Nome 1:45 p.m. arrive Kotzebue 3:00 p.m.
leave Kotzebue 3:45 p.m. arrive Nome 5:00 p.m.
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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 p.m.
arrive Nome 2:30 p.m.
smelter at Kitimat, scheduled to
carry the power to the aluminum
start producing in April, 1954.
Before the tunnel work oould
begin a 10-mile road had to be
driven from Kemano Bay.
The end of that road is “Camp
Five” of Morrison - Knudsen of
Canada, Ltd.
Equipment Valued at 25 Million
Everything is being done by
machinery. Value of heavy equip
ment engaged on all parts of the
project has been estimated at
$25,000,000.
Three thousand of the 6,000
men employed are working in the
Kemano area, 2,000 of them at
Camp Five. There are literally
hundreds of buildings here: quon
set huts, cement silos, a bank,
theatre, post office, baseball dia
mond and just about everything
found in a regular town of com
parable size.
Boy Scouts at Springs
Duane Force, director at Pil
grim Springs Scout camp — re
ported all the boys were well,
•busy, and well-fed. Plans are afoot
at camp to take an overnight hike
south to a sister mountain of
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Mount Osborne.
All of the boys are swimming
three to four times daily and reg
ular periods for advancement and
handicraft have been established.
Scouts attending are from Nome
Troop 666, Kotzebue Troop 697,
and the newly formed Teller
troop. Rev. Reeves Havens of
Nome is camp Scoutmaster. His
assistants are two young men
from Fairbanks who accompanied
Force, the Midnight Sun District
| field executive.
The new troops at Teller and
Unalakleet are evidence of the
growing interest in the Scout pro
gram on Seward Peninsula. These
troops and one starting this fall
at Shungnak join the old-timers
at Nome, Kotzebue and Shish
maref. In addition Nome has Cub
Pack 363, sponsored by the Com
munity Methodist Church.
Money raised in the Scout fin
ance campaign is deposited in the
Nome bank and used to defray
the cost of the quarterly field
trips by Mr. Force. These field
trips are made for the purpose of
training and assisting troop and
pack leaders in their programs.
The assistance at Pilgrim Springs
is a part of this effort.
NOTICE
Pursuant to an Order of Court entered
on the 7th day of August, A.D. 1952, no
tice is hereby given that a General
Term of the District Court, Second Div
ision, Territory of Alaska, will be held
in the Court House at Nome in said
Division and Territory, commencing at
the hour of 10 o’clock a.m. on Monday,
September 8, 1952, and to continue
thereafter according to further orders of
the Court.
Given under my hand and with the
Court’s seal affixed this 7th day of Aug
ust, A.D. 1952.
(SEAL) Norvin W. Lewis
Clerk of the United States District
Court for the Territory of Alaska,
Second Division.
Pub. Aug. 8, 15, 22, 29, 1952
GOP “Hatchet Men”
Surrounding Ike Urged
As Campaign Issue
SPRINGFIELD, III., (&) — Sen.
Blair Moody of Michigan urged
Gov. Adlai Stevenson Thursday
to* make a major campaign issue
of what he called the “hatchet
men” around GOP presidential
nominee Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Moody declined to identify the
“hatchet • men” to newsmen hut
then he went on to mention the
names of Republican Senators
McCarthy of Wisconsin, Kem of
Missouri and Jenner of Indiana.
The young Michigan senator
also invited Gov. Stevenson — the
Democratic presidential nominee
—to kickoff his campaign with a
Labor Day speech in Detroit—as
President Truman did in 1948.
And he proposed that Steven
son challenge Eisenhower to a
series of one-hour radio and tele
vision debates during the coming
campaign.
Moody gave this report to news
men after a breakfast attended 'by
Stevenson, Moody, and two de
feated Democratic presidential
hopefuls, Averell Harriman and
Sen. Richard Russell of Georgia.
Jet Explodes Aboard
Carrier Boxer, Kills Nine
And Destroys 12 Planes
WASHINGTON, (JP) — An ex
plosion of a jet plane aboard the
U. S. carrier Boxer in Korean
waters killed nine men and in
jured an unannounced number of
others, the Navy reported Thurs
day.
Twelve jet planed were destroy
ed by raging fires that followed
the explosion. Helicopters and
lifeboats picked up 13 crewmen
driven overboard by the flames.
A naval officer said the explo
sion occurred off the coast of Ko
rea Tuesday night. The 27,000
ton carrier normally carries a
crew of 2,900 officers and men.
No enemy action was involved.
Just what caused the jet plane
to explode is not known. It is be
lieved that an accumulation of
gasses built up after a landing,
and caused the blast. The plane
at the time was on the hangar
deck.
The Boxer is to proceed to the
naval base at Yokosuka, Japan,
for repairs.
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America’s 18th Jet Ace
SEOUL, (/P) — The U.S. Fifth
Air Force said American pilots
shot down three Communist
MIGs today in the fifth straight
day of furious jet battles over
North Korea.
America’s 18 th jet ace was
crowned in the action, which
brought the five-day Allied toll of
Russian-built jets to 18 destroyed
and 19 damaged.
Capt. Clifford D. Jolley, Salt
Lake City, shot down his fifth
MIG to qualify as an ace.
That made three kills in two
days for the 31-year-old Sabre
jet pilot. Today the Air Force con
firmed a MIG he shot down on
July 4.
As a result, the spectacular
Fourth of July aerial battle near
the Yalu River became the big
gest day of the war for U.S.
airmen—13 MIGs shot down, one
probably destroyed and five dam
aged.
Kotzebue Rummage And
Bake Sale Nets $377.15
For Crippled Children
The famous Alaska Crippled
Children’s Association Chapter a<t
Kotzebue, under the direction of
president Alice Connolly, held a
rummage and bake sale at Kotze
bue on July 26. As a result $377.15
was collected and sent to head
quarters.
Miss Connolly writes that the
Friends Church was holding a
quarterly meeting at Kotzebue so
the sale was held while all the
people were in town.
As the Chapter did not have a
great deal of rummage sale goods
on hand, they planned a bake sale
in connection. The doors were
opened at 4:30 and in 50 minutes
everything was sold. Everyone in
the village and hospital helped.
Beautiful cakes were donated
by the Rotman girls, Mrs. Bullock,
Mrs. Hanson of the CAA, Alice
Sheldon, and all the rest. The Air
Corps cook made 12 dozen dough
nuts.
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ANVIL LODGE
No. 140
Meets First and
Third Thursday
each month
WILL M. GILLIS, W. M.
NORVIN W. LEWIS, Secy.
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets
EVERY TUESDAY NOON
Larry Galvin, President
Nome Toastmasters Club
Thursdays—6:30 pjn.
P O T—Firelite Room
Dinner Meeting
(Reservations for other than members
must be made before Wednesday noon.)
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