GRACE PUTKUK NOW WITH
ANS IN WASHINGTON
Mis6 Grace Putkuk, who gradu
ated from the Nome High School
two years ago, has finished stud
ies at the Haskell Institute, Law
rence, Kansas, and is now em
ployed by the Alaska Native Ser
vice in Washington, D.C.
VOLUNTEER FIREMEN
ANSWER A NOON CALL
The Volunteer Fire Department
responded quickly to a call at
12:10 p.m. today to the home of
“Big” Eld Anderson on Third Ave.
The fire was confined to the
roof, and had been caused by
sparks from a chimney igniting
MISS LOGAN HERE
ENROUTE TO STATES
Miss Eunice Logan, teacher here
for several years with the ANS,
and who taught last year in Kot
zebue, arrived with Wien Air
lines on Monday, enroute to the
states for the summer.
GERALD MODROWS HAVE
NEW BABY DAUGHTER
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Modrow,
of Wien Airlines, are the proud
parents of a baby daughter born
Monday afternoon at five o’clock.
Sheryl Lee weighed six pounds,
14 ounces.
the shingles. No other damage
was caused.
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COMMANDER HIRSCHY HERE
INSPECTING HARBOR VESSELS
Lt. Comdr. L. H. Hirschy, U.S.
Coast Guard, arrived Monday for
the annual inspection of all small
boats and equipment in the Nome
Harbor. He will be joined by
Captain J. C. Freeman, marine
inspector, who is now at Bethel
and expects to arrive here to
morrow.
The work is expected to take
about a week after which the
two officers will go to Kotzebue.
ORDER OF EASTERN STAR
FOOD SALE
Saturday. June 12
DOROTHY'S GIFT SHOP
GOP MCKINLEY DELEGATES
RETURN FROM CONFAB
W. W. Laws and Charles D.
Jones, delegates from the 2nd
Division to a meeting of Repub
licans at McKinley Park last Sat
urday and Sunday, returned yes
terday with Wien Alaska Airlines
plane.
Mr. Laws stated that there was
an excellent turnout of 53 dele
gates from all over the Territory.
The group endorsed delegates
which had already been selected
at a meeting in Sitka last month.
The group favored proposals by
the “anti-White meeting.”
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NW Flood Areas
More Critical In
Watery Assault
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the city of 18,700.
Hundreds still missing. The Re<I
Cross reported Late today 390
persons were still unaccounted for
since the flooding of Vanport.
The number was decreasing, how
ever. It was 715 Monday.
Sixty thousand homeless. The
number may be higher now due
to the breakthroughs of the last
few days.
Damage in the millions—and
growing daily. Days ago, quali
fied sources put the total at per
haps $140,000,000 but thousands
of acres in Oregon, Washington
and British Columbia have gone
under since then. Floodwaters now
cover about 650 square miles in
the U.S. sector alone—more than
half the area of Rhode Island.
PORTLAND, — <yP) —Two mo e
I bodies were taken from the wate s
over flood-destroyed Vanport to
day.
There is still no in format on f
the possible number of dead t
Vanport. The Red Cross has re
vised its list to total 545 missir .
i While the search for the de (
went on, the Columbia and Fras r
rivers fired their third flood crc t
downriver. Weary sandbag b -
talions defending battered Am* -
ican and Canadian dikes were r -
I inforced for three more weeks of
| siege.
i Scorching weather throughout
j the Pacific Northwest sent tons
i of water from fast melting moir.i
1 tain snow into the two rampagi ig
' river systems. The Kootenai Riv r
! one of many feeding the Colum
bia, crashed through another d ?
in Canada. Water poured over
8,000 acres of rich farmland near
Creston, B. C., 300 miles east o?
Vancouver.
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France May Not
Approve Accord
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i economic aid to those countr es
1 which maintain friendly relations
I with her.”
One also learns from Rus a
i that Benjamin Franklin after all
! didn’t discover the electrical na
| ture of lightning with that k te.
A Russian named Lomonosov did
! the trick a year earlier, the Soviet
i Trade Union organ Trud wo I
I have one believe.
Ankara,—Turkey’s government
; of Premier Hasan Saka collapsed
under fire of domestic polic es.
Prague.— Czechoslovakia came
under the new Communist con
stitution which President Eduard
Benes refused to sign. He resigned
instead.
Washington.—The U.S. Senate
continued debate on a peacetime
draft.
PANAM PLANE WAS COLLEGE
EXPRESS FOR NOME
Four Nome homes were glad
dened yesterday with the arrival
home of students from colleges
and schools in the states.
Bonnie Ann Dunbar, daughetr
jf Mayor and Mrs. Luther Dun
bar, returned from her first year
at St. Helen’s in Portland.
Paul McCarthy, son on Mr. and
Mrs. W. B. McCarthy; Eric Hay,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Ole Hay; and
Loren Tjernagel, son of Clare ice
Tjernagel. returned from Wash
ington State College for the jum
1 mer.