Blodgett . . .
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Inferior? Simple? Filthy? Super
stitious? (I flew in the Army Air
Force in the Carolinas during
World War 11 and I came across
inferior, simple, filthy and super
stitious people there. I would safely
say that the percentages are as equal
here as in North Carolina.
The high percentage of divorce
in Alaska is among people who were
married outside of Alaska, (gener
ally misfits escapists where they
came from). The percentage of di
vorce among people who are mar
ried inside of Alaska is lower than
the average in the other 49 States.
Show me 1,000 taverns in An
chorage. Alaska and I'll show you
a white blackbird.
I live some sixty miles north of
Nome, Alaska, and our children
here in our town play out of doors
the year around. Just today my ten
year-old boy was out “jigging" for
Tom Cod through the ice for four
hours. Temperature today is zero.'
Population here is 208 people. To
day there were ten dog teams tied
lip in front of my store and six auto
mobiles and trucks were operating
as w'ell as three tractors.
Four "bush planes" landed on the
airfield today. We receive all state,
national and international news
daily over the 5000 watt Swedish
Covenant Church Radio Station at
Nome, Alaska, Station KICY.
There is virtually no Native vil
Can You Hear an Aurora? . . .
(Continued from page 1)
Specifics Wanted
He is interested in finding how
many times a person has heard an
aurora, in what years, a description
of the sound, whether the sound
was heard while the aurora was
still, while it was moving, or after
: it had moved. He would also like
to know if there was anything par
ticular about the aurora when it
was heard? Was it a red aurora per
' haps? Or was it directly overhead?
Some persons, he said, had writ
ten him steadfastedly maintaining
that the auroras came right down
to the ground although most scient
liage in Alaska that does not have
at leart one person residing there
who has been to the "Outside
Wofld" and most of our villages
! and towns have had many many of
I their population travel to the out
side world, i.e. of the 208 people
here at least forty have seen the
outside world. (I mean the lower
48 states). Not all of the states but
some of them.
I am no Johnny Come Lately here
nor am I a Sourdough. As a law
maker in this state I am most aware
that we cannot enact laws against
missionaries. If we could surely we
would legislate the Whaley types
back to North Carolina.
Sincerely,
Robert R. Blodgett
State Representative
ists were fairly well agreed that
it's highly unlikely they come
closer than 36 miles from the earth.
Much is known already about the
cause of auroras, Wescott explained.
Particles originating in the sun
come toward earth in a wind, so to
speak, and are transmitted down
through the magnetic field. There
are about a dozen theories how this
is done.
Caused by Particles
The particles eventually get in
the upper parts of the atmosphere
and then begin to strike oxygen
and nitrogen molecules, causing
them to oxidize and produce the
light seen in Alaska as auroras.
If a sound wave could propagate
from 36 miles up. it would take the
wave 4 or 5 minutes to reach the
earth and by that time it would
most likely be too weak to be heard.
One theory of aurora sound is that
auroras move, causing shock waves
that in turn propagate sound waves
from lower places in the atmos
phere.
There is much important informa
tion that will probably be learned
from the study — about propaga
tion of sound through the atmos
phere, the causes of auroras, and the
winds of the upper atmosphere.
More Funds
The present study will continue
until February, but Wescott hopes
that additional funds will be allo
cated so the study can continue
next winter.
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