Automatic Navigator
For Jet Planes Displayed
KANSAS CITY, Mo. UP) — An
automatic navigator for jet planes
went on display Monday before
representatives of domestic and
foreign airlines.
The instrument, known as the
Bendix Doppler Navigation Sys
tem, enables the pilot or co-pilot
to learn at a glance all the navi
gational information he needs.
Trans World Airlines, which has
been using the instruments on its
12 Trans-Atlantic jets, is sponsor
ing a symposium on the instru
ment here. Representatives of
other airlines were invited to
share in the knowledge gained in
TWA’s use of the system.
Approval of the new system by
the Federal Aviation Agency is
expected. The first flights to be
made without human navigators
are expected in the spring.
Soviets Display
Crewless Tanker
NEW YORK UR — The Soviet
Union is now experimenting with
a completely crewless tanker for
operation on the Caspian Sea,
Maritime Administrator Donald
Alexander said Monday night.
Alexander, speaking before the
Marine Society of New York, said
the Soviet tanker Inzhener Pus
toshkin, a shallow-draft vessel, is
now being converted for fully
automated operation.
“It will make experimental
voyages on the open sea without
any crew, being shore-controlled
over great distances,” he added.
Alexander said the Soviet Union
also is building the first two of
a series of 45,000-ton automated
tankers, on which a single crew
man can operate turbines and
boilers and machinery can be con
trolled from the bridge.
Army Tank and Truck
Collide, Five Soldiers Die
FT. HOOD, Tex. IP) — An Army
tank and a five-ton truck filled
with 23 soldiers crashed headon
Tuesday killing five soldiers and
injuring at least 22 others.
All the dead and injured were
from Co. A of the 35th Armored,
a unit of the 2nd Armored Di
vision, said Col. Edward Kyle,
information officer for the Fort.
The collision occurred on a main
street of the Fort.
Names of the dead and injured
will be released after next of kin
have been identified.
Ten of the injured are in serious
condition.
“There was a collision and a
gasoline explosion,” Kyle said.
“That is about all we can say
now.”
Nixon Honored at Banquet
On His 49th Birthday
WHITTIER, Calif. (jP> — Former
Vice President Richard Nixon
calls for “responsible leadership
which will avoid the extremes of
the far left and the far right.”
At a banquet honoring him on
his 49th birthday last night, Nixon
said: “'Radicals of the right and
radicals of the left are a small
minority in the nation. But their
influence is far greater than their
number because they are so ac
tive and so noisy.
“The answer to the crooks and
crackpots in politics is for respon
sible people, who make up the
great majority in every com
munity, to participate more ac
tively in political affairs.”
The banquet was sponsored by
the Whittier area Chamber of
Commerce at Whittier College,
Nixon’s alma mater.
Letter-size and Legal File Folders
Available at Tho Nome Nugget
REPORT OF CONDITION OF
Miners and Merchants Bank of Alaska
of Nome in the State of Alaska at the close of business on
December 30, 1961
ASSETS
Cash, balances with other banks, and cash
items in process of collection . $ 485,949.64
United States Government obligations,
direct and guaranteed . 1,036,789.19
Obligations of States and political subdivisions . 34,408.86
Other bonds, notes, and debentures . 19,400.00
Loans and discounts (including $526.66 overdrafts). 1,048,827.95
Bank premises owned $12,889.49, furniture and
fixtures $14,340.98 . 27,230.47
Other assets . 19,114.95
TOTAL ASSETS . 2,671,721.06
LIABILITIES
Demand deposits of individuals, partnerships,
and corporations . 1,006,390.47
Time and savings deposits of individuals,
partnerships and corporations .. 465,577jI 5
Deposits of United States Government
(including postal savings) . 95,575.68
Deposits of States and political subdivisions . 804,774.43
Certified and officers’ checks, etc. 5,038.65
TOTAL 'DEPOSITS .$2,377,356.38
(a) Total demand deposits .1,250,270.50
(b) Total time and savings deposits 1,127,085.88
Other liabilities . 115 00
TOTAL LIABILITIES . 2,377,471.38
CAPITAL ACCOUNTS
Capital: Common stock, total par value $100,000.00 100,000.00
Surplus .v. 100,000.00
Undivided profits . 94,249.68
TOTAL CAPITAL ACCOUNTS . 294,249 68
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND CAPITAL ACCOUNTS. 2,671,721.06
MEMORANDA
Loans as shown above are after deduction of
reserves of . 37,923.80
I, George E. Bell, Cashier of the above named bank, do
solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of
my knowledge and belief.
GEORGE E. BELL, Cashier,
BOYD C. HARWOOD
NELS SWANBERG, JR.
Directors
CORRECT ATTEST:
(NOTARIAL SEAL)
State of Alaska
Second Judiciary District
Sworn to and subscribed before erne this 9th day of January, 1962,
and I hereby certify that I am not an officer or director of this bank.
EDMOND C. MORICAL,
My commission expires expires August 16, 1965 Notary Public
For Future Use
Hydroponic Garden Kit
GROTON, Conn. MR — A hydro
ponic garden kit, just the thing
to take along on those long sea
cruises — say for 60 days or so
underwater.
The kits are providing fresh
lettuce, carrots and green peas
for what might reasonably be
called the jaded appetites of the
men in the atomic submarine
fleet. They were developed by
the Electric Boat Division of Gen
eral Dynamics Corp.
Similar to large window flower
boxes, the kits have a chemical
base in which to plant the seeds.
Fluorescent lights do the rest.
A respectable head of lettuce
can be grown in three weeks, and
carrots and peas in about four.
The kits were given a workout
during a recent cruise of the
Polaris submarine Robert E. Lee.
Additional ones will be installed
in the rest of the fleet.
Sugar Cane for Astronauts
NEW HAVEN, Conn. UP> — The
astronaut off on a trip to Mars
may grow sugar cane plants in his
space ship and use them for food,
water and fresh air.
James Horsfall, Director of the
Connecticut Agricultural Experi
ment Station here, has disclosed
a project in which he says the Na
tional Aeronautics and Space Ad
ministration is very much inter
ested.
Dr. Dale Moss, associate soil
scientist, currently is caring for
and studing dozens of sugar cane
plants.
As envisioned by the scientists,
astronauts aboard the space ship
exhale carbon dioxide while using
the available oxygen. The air
would be kept fresh, however, by
the sugar cane, which draws off
the carbon dioxide and replaces
the oxygen.
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Unemployment Rate in
Alaska Moves Upward
JUNEAU m — State Labor
Commisioner Gil Johnson said
Tuesday that Alaska’s insured
unemployment rate moved up to
14.6 per cent during the week
ending Dec. 30.
The figure compared with a rate
of 14.2 per cent during the pre
vious week and a rate of 15A
per cent during the same week a
year ago.
New unemployment totaled 704,
while continuing unemployment
amounted to 4,930 Johnson said.
The insured unemployment
rate by area included Anchorage,
13.7 per cent; Fairbanks, 13.8;
Juneau, 14.3; Ketchikan, 16.4;
Nome, 19.2; Petersburg, 42.5; and
Sitka, 10.2.
Seniority: Only nine U. S.
states have enough people 65 or
alder to make up more than 11
per cent of their population,
rhey rank: Iowa, Missouri, Neb
raska, New Hampshire, Vermont,
Florida, Massachusetts, Kansas,
and Maine. Alaska is last—it has
anly 2.4 per cent of its people to
.all on for post-65 wisdom.
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Airlines May Fine
Passengers and Passengers
Can Also Collect Penalty
WASHINGTON Ufi — Airlines
may begin on March 1 charging
passengers up to $50 when they
don’t show up for their reserva
tions, the Civil Aeronautics Board
has decided in a tentative ruling.
But a passenger may also col
lect a penalty of at least $25 if he
shows up with a ticket and finds
no seat available.
In a ruling Monday, the CAB
said the order would be deferred
for 20 days to allow the airlines
or other interested parties to file
comments or protests.
The action stemmed from a re
quest of 11 major airlines that
something be done aboi 1 the
“no-shows.”
BANG! BANG! BANG! . . .
NEW YORK m — Bang, bang,
bang, bang, bang, and bang!
Six shots rang out and the j
Wells Fargo truck carrying $45,
000 through lower Manhattan .
screeched to a stop.
Holdup? Nope.
Police said the shots were fired 1
by Victor Maher, 54, a messenger
riding inside the truck. He was
intoxicated, police said.
The Brooklyn man and a guard
with him received superficial
wounds from shattered glass, po
lice said. Maher was charged with
felonious assualt.
U.S. Sets Off Ninth Blast
WASHINGTON Ub — A low
yield nuclear test blast, the ninth
to be announced by the Atomic
Energy Commission in its current
series, was set off Tuesday at the
Nevada test site.
iLow yield normally means an
explosive force equivalent to not
more than 20,000 tons of TNT.
The AEC said the blast was de
tonated under ground, but gave
no other details.
Best way to clean your costume
jewelry is to soak it for one hour
in a half-and-half mixture of hot
water and ammonia. Then dry it
well and it will sparkle like new.
World-Record Moose
Bagged in Alaska
By Bert Kleinberger
SEATTLE UP) — A world-record
moose, bagged in Alaska after
a four-year quest by a Seattle
hunter and taxidermist, is on dis
play here — its massive antlers
spreading 78% inches.
Bert Kleinberger, an owner of
the Jonas Bros, taxidermy firm,
said he flew 25,000 miles with An
chorage guide Eldon Brandt and
scanned more than 10,000 moose
before spotting the big one.
Kleinberger said the head will
score at least 254 points. The pre
vious record moose scored 250%
and had a spread of 65% inches,
tt was shot in 1047 by Dyton
Grilliland on Alaska’s Kenai Penin
sula.
The giant moose killed by
Kleinberger was found last Nov.
} as he and Brandt circled over
:he -Mt. Susitna area about 75
niles from Anchorage.
The two landed their -plane
ibout three miles away and
searched all day on snowshoes
vithout locating their quarry,
rhey slept in the plane that night
n zero weather, sighted the
noose in a willow thicket the
lext morning and Kleinberger
Drought it down with a model
70 Winchester using a 300 mag
lum load.
The head, which weighed 80
pounds, was brought out that day.
Brandt and a fellow pilot return
ed with two planes three days
later and flew out about 800
pounds of moose steaks and
roasts.
If your feet get tired, so do
your shoes. A 150-pound person
with a 3-foot stride who walks 5
miles a day at the end of a year
has put a total of 120,450 tons of
weight on his shoes.
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NEW SCHEDULE
Effective September 18,1961
Monday & Friday Fit. 309/310
Lv: Fairbanks 8:00 ajn. Ar: Kotzebue 8:50 a.m.
Lv: Kotzebue 9:30 a.m. Art Nome 10:20 eTrr*t
Lv: Nome 2:40 p.m. Ar: Fairbanks 6:25 p.m.
Wednesday Fit. 309/310
Lv: Fairbanks 8:00 a.m. Ar: Kotzebue 9:20 a on.
Lv: Kotzebue 10:00 aun. Ar: Nome n-nn a
Lv: Nome 3:50 p.m. Ar: Fairbanks 7:35 p,m.
Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday
Flight 311/312
Lv: Fairbanks 8:00 a.m. Ar: Nome 9:05 a.m.
Lv: Nome 10:00 a.m. Ar: Kotzebue 10:50 »-«»
Lv: Kotzebue 11:20 a.m. Ar: Fairbanks 2:30 p