Tiny Gadget Will Help
•Pilots Who Bail Out Of
600-MiIe-an-Hour Jets
jl LONDON, (yP)—British aircraft
constructors announced Wednes
day an additional refinement to
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the ejector seat — a tiny gadget
,;$hat automatically brings the pilot
safely to earth even if he has
>fost consciousness,
jj The invention is a barometric
jfcox the size of a pack of cigar
ettes. It takes over as soon as the
pilot is hurled out, frees him
;lrom the seat and at the right at
1 . *• • « . •
mospheric pressure — altitude —
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opens his parachute.
‘ The trick is a sensitive baro
metric bellows inside the box,
;which is made by the Irving
Chute Company.
»; Desipiers figure that in quit
ting a* *000-mile-an-hour plane, a
4>ilot might pass out or not other
wise be in good shape to open his
chute.
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There was a young girl named
McBride
Who ate a green applefand died.
The apple fermented
And now the lamented
Has cider inside her inside*
Northwest Airlines Cuts
Alaska Flights Due To
Gasoline Shortage
SEATTLE, (/P)—Northwest Air
lines announced Friday its serv
ices would be curtailed sharply on
Alaska and other routes starting
Monday because of gasoline short
age resulting from the oil strike.
NWA reported its five Strato
cruiser round trips weekly to An
chorage and one daily DC-4
freight trip to Anchorage would
be cancelled.
The line will retain two daily
DC-4 trips leaving Seattle at 12:30
and 1 a.m. for Anchorage.
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DRAFT CALL EXPENSIVE
WHITE SANRS, N.M., (ff)—Pvt.
John Hasso Miller spent $700 to
answer his draft call.
Miller was a storekeeper in the
Persian Gulf port of Kuwait when
he received his “Greetings from
the President of the United
States . . .”
He traveled half way around
the world to be inducted at Fort
Meyer, Va. Today he’s plotting the
trajectories of guided missiles at
this Southern New Mexico base.
Harriman Takes Lead
In Democratic Race For
Nominating Delegates
(By the Associated Press)
W. Averell Harriman moved
back into the lead in the race for
Democratic presidential-nominat
ing delegate strength Friday on
the basis of a new survey in
Pennsylvania.
Harriman, Mutual Security Di
rector, had been trailing Sen. Ke
fauver of Tennessee in the Asso
ciated Press nationwide tabula
tion of delegates. *
This tabulation gives Harriman
92, Kefauver 88Vfe.
At a New York press confer
ence, Harriman said that, if nom
inated, he could beat any .Re
publican “on the record of Roose
veltism and Trumanism — that’s
what I stand for.”
The Associated Press survey
of Republican delegates showed
that Taft was leading Eisenhower,
366 to 306.
“Where do babies come from,
mama?”
“They’re sent down to us from
heaven, son.”
“Gee, it must be nice and quiet
up there since Susy came.”
WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by U.S. Dept, of Commerce,
Weather Bureau
Light snow tonight becoming
light snow and rain Saturday.
Easterly winds 15-20 mph. to
night becoming southerly 20-25
mph. Saturday. Low temp* expec
ted tonight 32, high Sat. 35.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: Precipitation .05 in.
Temperatures: high 33, low 29.
Max. wind 24 mph. from the E.
Sunrise 2:39 a.m., sunset 9:20 p.m.
Temperatures one year ago to
day: high 47, low 36. Extreme
temperatures this date since 1907:
high 56 in 1915, low 16 in 1922.
Other stations, 7 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow 21 Clear
Point Hope 2*? Cloudy
Kotzebue 27 Snow
Shishmaref 30 Snow
Wales 35 * Snow
Gambell 32 Cloudy
Nome 33 Snow
Unalakleet 35 Cloudy
Bethel 38 Cloudy
McGrath 50 Cloudy
Anchorage 47 Cloudy
Fairbanks 40 Cloudy
Ketchikan 65 Part cloudy
Edmonton 50 Clear
Juneau 56 Cloudy
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REPAIR SOU ADl
SPACE GEAR.' ON,
THE DOUBLE i
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| $13 Million For
Construction In
Kodiak, Aleutians
Capt. James C. Tily, district
public works officer, 17th Naval
District, announced at Kodiak
Monday that his office is com
pleting plans and specifications
for approximately 13 million dol
lars of construction work at Ko
diak and Aleutian Island bases.
It is contemplated that all the
work shall be accomplished by
lump sum contract and will, be
placed under contract this year.
Captain Tily advised that all
types of construction are being
planned, including airfield pave
ments, fuel facilities, pier con
struction and rehabilitation of
structures.
Interested bidders should insure
that their names be placed on the
bidding lists of the District Public
Works Officer, 17th Naval Dis
trict, Kodiak, Alaska.
Vacation Bible School
Starts Monday Morning
Notebooks, crayons, clay, col
ered paper, Bibles, costumes for
Biblical stories, handcrafts and
stories, songs and games—all will
be part of the Daily Vacation
Bible School getting under way
Monday morning next week at
the Community Methodist Church.
Mrs. John Cooley, Mrs. Robert
Baldwin, Mrs. Jack Wichels, Mrs.
Charles Cole, Mrs. Carolyn Coons,
Ruth and Jerry Fagerstrom, Miss
Esther McCoy and Rev. Robert
Treat will be part of the staff,
supplemented by others for craft
and recreation.
The intermediates will be work
ing on a play, Juniors on Old
Testament stories, the Primaries
on helpers in the Church, and the
Beginners on “God’s World.”
There will be a picnic and a
program at the end of the two
weeks* session.
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HAGEN
JEWELER AND OPTICIAN
Court House Is Opposile Us
Phone Main 40
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
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. 1
Order of Eastern Star
Dorothy Young,
Worthy Matron
Rosa B. Hagen#
Secretary
Meetings 1st & 3rd Mondays
Nome Toastmasters Club
Thursdays—6:30 p.m.
B O T—Firelite Room
Dinner Meeting
(Reservations for other than members
must be made before Wednesday noon.)
ROTARY CLUB
OF NOME
Thursday Luncheon .
W. H. Cameron, Pres.
Dewey Goodrich, Secy.