Cadets Prove
Teamwork to Be
Snap for Spacemen
MARIETTA. Ga. kF — Six po
tential astronauts have convinced
psychologists teamwork should be
a snap for spacemen when crews
are blasted into orbit.
The six. cadet volunteers from
the U.S Air Force Academy at
Colorado Springs. Colo., spent 15
days locked in a small compart
ment working 16 hours a day. One
of them is Rupert G. Fisk of An
chorage. Alaska.
They sat at flight stations and
solved problems thrown at them
electronically by psychologists at
the Lockheed-Georgia Co. for the
Air Force Aerospace Medical Di
vision.
The cadets worked four hours
and slept two, around the clock,
in the 1.100 cubic foot compart
ment. the Air Force reported Wed
nesday.
“A major finding of our study
was that six men were able to per
form 16 hours a day on a heavy
work schedule in a confined area,"
said Dr. Earl Alluisi. Lockheed
psychologist and project leader,
“and that, on leaving, they said
they could have continued on the
job even longer."
“We got on each other’s nerves
only once or twice,” said Cadet
Phillip Patterson of Richmond.
Mo. “When this happened we kept
quiet for about 15 minutes and
everything got okay."
The volunteers were all 20 to 22.
100 SOVIET SHIPS FISHING
IN GULF OF ALASKA
SEATTLE i.T — Most of Russia’s
eastern Bering Sea fishing fleet is
operating between Unimak Pass
and Kodiak in the Gulf of Alaska,
a Seattle newspaper reported
Thursday.
In a dispatch from the Gulf, the
Seattle Post-Intelligencer said an
estimated 100 Soviet vessels are;
fishing in the area.
More than 20 Russian ships were !
spotted in one group southwest of
Chirikof Island and 35 others south
of Sitkinak Island, the paper re
ported.
Five 280-foot trawlers and eight
refrigerated fish transports were
observed in the fleet. The trans
ports were estimated to be up to
430 feet long. Most of the vessels,
however, are standard 120-foot
medium trawlers.
One U.S. Fisheries agent esti
mated that the Russians were land
ing very few halibut in the Gulf
waters, the paper reported.
TREATS RATTLER BITE
PROSSER, Wash, ti?' — A young
Marine deliberately shot a hole in
the calf of his left leg Tuesday so
the venom from a rattlesnake bite
would drain with the blood.
Cpl. Albert G. Squair, 22, then
limped a mile to his ranch home,
I and his parents took him to a hos
I pital. Attendants said his condition
was good.
Squair, on leave from Treasure
Island, San Francisco, was hunt
! ing coyotes in the Horse Heaven
Hills when the rattler struck.
Scientists Find
Permafrost
1,475 Feet Down
RESOLUTE, Northwest Terri
tories i/P* — The Jacobsen-McGill
University Arctic expedition yes
terday reported the deepest per
mafrost measurement ever made in
North America.
A temperature-measuring cable!
installed in a dry hole drilled by i
an oil company showed that the j
Arctic ground at Winter Harbor j
on Melville Island is frozen to a i
depth of 1,475 feet.
The scientific team, which in-1
eludes two experts from the Unit
ed States Department of the In- j
terior, installed a 2,000-foot cable!
in the 2-mile deep hole Tues- !
day.
They said they believe the per- |
mafrost extends even deeper than
measurements indicate, but that
will be known only after heat from
the drilling operation dissipates.
The temperature-m e a s u r i n g j
cable has been frozen into the hole i
and will stay there for 10 years.
It is hoped that the data it collects
will give clues about the behavior
of permafrost and perhaps hints
about conditions at the earth’s
core. The hole was drilled by
Dome Petroleum Co. of Calgary
and turned over to science when no
oil was found.
Winter Harbor is 1,700 miles
north of Calgary and the hole is
the most northerly one ever drilled I
in North America. No one has j
ever been sure exactly how far |
down the Arctic ground is frozen. |
SOVIET SPY SOBLEN’S
AVENUES OF ESCAPE ARE
EEMPORARILY CUT OFF
LONDON (tfl — Dr. Robert A.
Soblen’s campaign to escape life
mprisonment in the United States
is a Soviet spy suffered two set
sacks yesterday — in London and
lerusalem.
The British Court of Appeals re
jected Soblen’s plea that he be
^et free in Britain. The three ap
peal judges, headed by Lord Den
ning, threw out Soblen’s conten
tion that the British government
failed to serve him proper notice
that he would not be admitted to
this country.
In Jerusalem, Israel’s Interior
Ministry turned down Soblen’s ap
plication for admission to Israel
as a Jewish immigrant under the
1952 Law of Return. This ruling
was reported to have unanimous
approval of the cabinet.
The ruling was challenged, how
ever, by Soblen’s Tel Aviv lawyer,
A. Ankorion, and it wras announced
the full cabinet will meet Sunday
to reconsider the decision.
In neither the British nor the
Israeli action was Soblen’s return
to the United States assured. But
possible avenues of escape were
at least temporarily cut off.
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FORTY -FOUR OHIO
TOURIST VISIT NOMF
One of the most interesting tours
of the season to visit Nome ar
rived yesterday from Cleveland,
Ohio, headed by Mr. and Mrs.
Bromely House of Adventure
Tours.
Tiie tour was sponsored by the
YWCA of Cleveland, flew to Bur
bank. Calif., took in Disneyland
and then to Fairbanks where they
presented Gov. Win. Egan with a
40-pound cake made specially for
the Golden Days Festival and was
presented at the Eskimo Olympics.
The group then went to Mt. Mc
Kinley.
“Nome is the high spot on our
tour,” stated Mrs. House. From
Nome the party went to Anchor
age to take in the ski lift, then on
to the state capital, after which
they will go to Seattle and enjoy
a few days at the Century 21 Fair.
A full two weeks travel was plan
ned for the group, who returns
home after the visit to the Fair.
In the party were:
Paul L. Jr. and Paul L. Alexan
der Sr., Ruby Armstrong, Gladys
Aust, Helen Bartlett, Dr. Frank
Berger, Vicki Bergles, Helen Bruck
er, Florence Christian, Margaret
Clark, Florence Conley, Ann Doc
tor, Dorothy Dickey, Marion Egli,
Hazel Gaush, Floyd Gifford, Lu
cille Hart, Olga Hitchcock, Erma
Hoffman, W. G. and Rhea Holley,
Florence Hostetter, Bromley and
Honor House, Ralph Hunter, Helen
and Hope Johnson, Geneva Ker
ven, Miriam Lindblom, Eliza Mc
Clain, Miriam McMillen. Harriet
Mayer, George and Lucille Mee
han, Elizabeth Miller, Louise Os
born, Bert Osterle, Marion Reeves,
Vernon and Gertrude Sanford,
Paul and Margaret Schmidt, Cindy
Seifert, Hilda Smith, Marion
Strode, Elsie Stuhldreher, Grace
Tennis, Frances Thomas, and Lee
Usher.
“A fabulous smorgasbord was
prepared for us by Ernie Gustaf
son at the Seaview Room, which
was beautiful to see and wonder
ful to eat,” stated Mr. House.
The biggest feet in the U. S.
Army belong to Leverne Butch
Kuhr. He wears size 17-D shoes,
and they cost Uncle Sam S100 a
pair.
Nome Directory
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon at
North Star Dining Room
Pete Walsh, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. 1
Order of Eastern Star
Pearl Bohrer
Worthy Matron
Bev Morgan
Secretary
Meets First and Third Mondays
Anvil Lodge
No. 140
Carl Mickelson, W. M.
Norvln W. Lewis, Sec.
Meets First and Third Thursday
Of Each Month
Nome Rotary Club
Herb Jenks
President
Marc Beauchamp
Secretary
Wednesday Luncheon
Parent-Teachers Assn.
Meets Last Tuesday of IVary
Month at School
Dorothy Grant, President
Harriet Amundsen, Secretary
—VISITORS WELCOME—
Pioneer Igloo No. 1
Meets let end 3rd Wednesdays
Ralph DeLong, Pres.
Chat. D. Jonee, Secty.
Civil Air Patrol
Northwestern Group
Nome Cadet Squadron
let lit Jesse Jones, Ondr.
Meetings - Bash Thursday 7:04 pjn.