AT CONTROLS — Three young Alaska native men, from left, Mor
ris Thompson of Tanana, Vern Miller, Fairbanks and Lawrence
Peterson of Ft. Yukon, are shown at a control mechanism in the
NASA Gilmore Creek Data Acquisition Site. They are among sev
eral recent trainees employed at the site.
—Tundra Times Photo
SPACE STATION BEGINS;
TEN NATIVES MANNING IT
Ten Alaska native young men
employed by the RCA Service Co.
were among those manning the con
trol room of the Gilmore Creek
Data Acquisition Facility at Fox,
Alaska today as the space station
became semi-operational.
The men are working in three
shifts as the station begins to re
ceive data from the two active
U. S. weather satellites. Tiros VI
and VII, on a 24-hour basis.
For the past several days, the
space data facility has been a bee
hive of activity as it prepared for
operation. The station is scheduled
to go fully operational on Septem
ber 15.
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In the past several weeks, a con
siderable amount of equipment for
weather bureau personnel including
a large computer has been installed
at the station. At a darkroom in the
station operations building, pictures
received from space will be de
veloped showing cloud cover over
large stretches of the earth.
The information received and
processed will be extremely help
ful in more accurately predicting
the weather.
The ten Alaska native electronics
engineers were trained under a
special program set up by the RCA
Co. and the Bureau of Indian Af- I
fairs. I
KLUKWAN IRON DEPOSITS
MAY YET BE DEVELOPED
The way may be cleared this fall
for a large iron development next
year near Haines, according to Dr.
William R. Wood, president of the I
I University of Alaska.
In an exclusive interview, Dr.
i Wood told Tundra Times that two
j pieces of property, one owned by
the Indian village of Klukwan and
| a 150-acre tract owned by the Uni
versity of Alaska are in the process
of being leased to a major steel
company.
The two pieces of property con
tain very heavy deposits of iron
ore.
Contested
The ownership of the University
land had been contested for eight
years but last year the Department
of Interior definitely ruled it be
longed to the University and the
I contest was dropped.
Since that time the Klukwan
Iron Ore Corporation, backed by
the Columbia Iron Corporation, has
been negotiating with the Univer
sity a settlement on a lease royalty
basis.
The University Board of Regents
this spring approved a lease royalty
arrangement but legal problems
must be clarified before the trans
action can be consummated.
President Wood, while he says
the transaction may go through
smoothly this fall, he also warns
that legal problems may arise re
CONSTRUCTION AND
GENERAL LABORERS
Local 942, AF of L
Edmund N. Orbeck, President
Joel Wiegert
Secretary-Treasurer
905 Noble St
Meetings Every 2nd FHday
7:30 P.M.
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quiring an Act of Congress to solve.
Low Grade
The iron is of low grade and there
will be difficult problems in pro
cessing. None, however, are unsur
mountable.
The ore is not hematite but ti
tanous, that is, it contains as much
titanium as it does iron. The prob
lem is to separate the two.
Some big advantages of the de
posit. it is located near the sea and j
the deposit is alluvial.
"The overbody is about 200 feet
deep," President Wood pointed out.
Each time I sell a painting it is
like an operation, like feeling a
limb amputated.—Pablo Picasso
BIA Field Reps
Named by Nash
Three new Area Field Represen
tatives for the Bureau of Indian
Affairs have been named in Alaska
by Philleo Nash, commissioner of
the BIA.
Only one, John F. Gordon, pres
ently principal of the Barrow BIA
school, comes from the ranks of
present BIA employes in Alaska.
He will be the new field represen
tative for Bethel.
Murray O. Campbell, presently
at Muskogee, Okla. will take over
the Fairbanks office, and Wallace
Craig, now at Lapwai, Idaho, will
assume duties in Anchorage, it was
announced.
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