New State Office Building
Slated For Fairbanks
JUNEAU im *— Gov. Wm. Egan
staid today the state will open
bids Feb. 15 for the lease of a
new office building in Fairbanks.
The bid invitations seek prices
on both 20-year and 25-year
leases for the building, which will
contain 55,772 square feet of
usable office and court space. The
structure will be built with pri
vate capital.
The four-story building would
foe used by the Departments of
Law, Public - Safety, Revenue,
Natural Resources, Health and
Welfare, Labor, Fish and Game.
Commerce and Administration and
the Alaska Court System and the
University of Alaska.
Mrs. Beatrice Brandon, better
known to her Nome friends as
Trixie, arrived last week from
Anchorage for the funeral her
friend, Charles Fagerstrom.
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Homeward Bound . . .
SEATTLE UFi — The University
of Washington sophomore who
flew to Juneau Friday with a one
dime bankroll was homeward
bound Saturday without his bag
gage.
Steve Camden’s baggage did not
not amount to much.
Pledges at his fraternity got
him out of bed and put him
aboard the plane as a joke —
giving him just a one-way ticket.
He was dressed in pajamas, a
raincoat and shoes.
He was given a suitcase contain
ing scraps of other clothing and
a dime, but it did not get on the
plane.
Camden, thoroughly puzzled,
left the plane at Ketchikan and
telephone^ his parents in Seattle.
They explained the prank, so
Camden flew on to Juneau.
Members of the Junior Cham
ber of Commerce provided him
with overnight lodging and the
fraternity pledges wired him
money for the plane ticket home.
ROBBED BY MICE . . .
PARMA, Italy — A woman
showed up in -tears at a bank Fri
day and reported she had been
robbed — by mice.
She had hidden. $5,000 in lire
notes in a cardboard carton. Mice
got at it and at $4,000 worth of
the bank notes.
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Won’t Clip His Wings . . .
AMITYVII.UE, N.Y. W — Wm.
S. Read doesn’t believe a man
should clip his wings at any age.
He learned to <fly an airplane
five years ago — just for the fun
of it. A real estate broker, he also
uses his single-engine Cessna to
fly prospective clients over likely
bits of Long Island land.
When the weather cleared Sun
day Read took a friend, Vincenzo
Sesti Jr., 34, of Hunting, out for
a pleasure spin.
After a leisurely ride Read
headed homeward. Suddenly he
realized he was coming in too
low, right above some power
lines.
“I saw those power lines ahead
of me,” he said. I revved up the
motor, but for some reason it
didn’t take. I didn’t want to knock
out those power lines. It would
have caused a lot of trouble. I
could have landed In a yard, tout
then I saw a street, and I set it
down good.”
Read pancaked the plane in.
The craft wound up with damage
to the wing tips and undercar
riage — but Read and his pas
senger walked away without a
scratch.
Does Read intend to stop flying?
“Oh, no!” he exclaimed. "The
idea! Of course I’ll keep flying.”
Read is 80 years old.
Swordfish have been clocked
swimming 57.5 miles per hour.
NOT A KNEE IN SIGHT . . .
PEORIA, 111. W — There was
not a knee in sight Friday at the
Academy of Our Lady, a Catholic
high school for girls.
School authorities *had decided
that there were too many knees
showing. The €00 students were
inspected for proper uniform, and
100 had been sent home with in
structions to lower their hemlines
to a point midway between knee
and calf.
HARD-HEADED SHARK . . .
MOSS EL RAY, South Africa
— A “jumping jack” shark Sat
urday attacked and holed the
motor vessel Peggy so badly she
had to be towed 16 miles to this
South Atlantic port.
The shark had given the fish
erman lots of trouble, taking most
of their catches off the hooks.
The Peggy crew tried to beat it
off with clubs, but the shark
wheeled 'back and badly holed the
boat beneath the engine.
Tempest in a Teapot . . .
DOWNEY, Calif. UP) — ’Twas
a tempest in a teapot; Tarzan was
never in jeopardy at Downey
school libraries.
So says Supt. Bruce Moore,
after an investigation. He found
that no Tarzan books were ever
removed from the shelves, uncon
firmed rumors to the School Board
to the contrary notwithstanding.
A furor arose last week with
reports of agitation against the
books on moral grounds.
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BMEWS Capable
Of Split-Second
Warnings to U.S.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo UR
— The latest electronic warning
system functioning in the far
reaches of the Arctic can sense
almost instantly when an enemy
missile has been fired, North
American Air Defense Command
(NORAD) officials said Saturday.
“We now have a leg up on the
enemy,” said Gen. Laurance S.
Kute*, NORAD Commander. He
spoke at ceremonies at which pri
vate contractors turned over the
Ballistic Missile Early Warning
System (BMEWS) to the Air
Force, which operates the facility
for NORAD.
The completed BMEWS instal
lations at Thule, Greenland, and
Clear, Alaska, are capable of
split-second warnings which Kuter
termed “fantastic ... a very real
strengthening of our armed
forces.”
A third BMEWS station is near
ing completion at Fylingsdale
iMoor, Yorkshire, England. Work
on the billion dollar project
started in January, 1958. More
than 2,400 private contractors,
headed by RCA and Western
Electric, participated in the con
struction and installation of
equipment.
The main sensing device at each
station is a radar antenna, larger
than a football field tilted on
edge. The antennas scan*much of
Europe, Asia and some 2,000 miles
of Arctic land.
An unidentified object is spot
ted the instant it rises above the
horizon. Computers determine the
object’s position and speed. 'The
course is calculated and a warn
ing flashed to NORAD within 10
seconds, officials said.
The BMEWS system is a re
finement of the Distant Early
Warning (DEW) and Canadian
antennas which are still in use.
NORAD officials said BMEWS
utilizes a communications system
that provides for the first time
warnings against intercontinental
ballistic missiles.
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Nome DirectorV
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon at
North star Dining Boom
Bon Hoover, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. 1
Order of Eastern Star
Barbara Martin
Worthy Matron
Bev Morgan
Secretary
Meets First and Third Mondays
Anvil Lodge
No. 140
A, E. BOHRER, W. M.
Norvin W. Lewis, Sec.
Meets First and Third Thursday
Of Each Month
Nome Rotary Club
Herb Jenks
President
Marc Beauchamp
Secretary
Wednesday
Parent-Teachers Assn.
Meets Last Tuesday «l
Month, at School
Ralph Fond ell, President
Lavonne Small, Secretary
—VISITORS WELCOME
Pioneer Igloo No. 1
Meets 1st and 3rd Wednesdays
Wm. H. Cameron, Pres.
D. Jonas. Sooty.
Civil Air Patrol
Morthwestem Group
Nome Cadet Squadron
1st Lt Jesse Jones, Cmdr.
Meetings . Each Thursday 7:00 pja.