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Transmission Tests Show Aurora
Borcaii- Weakens Shortwave Signals
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from it- ;.r<-.<•».t a- ..gnrnent at too
Island of b.oo'ii
‘Tin- tv/o 25 k-,v shortwavc
transmitter ■ on the Courier ran be
beard •/.<•)] up to approximately 650
miles from it-: pn <-rit location,”
Direr-tor Mur row staled “How
cver, beeaige of the effect:-: of the
aurora, it r. very doubtful whether
these shortwave transmitters would
he useful in the Alaska area for
broadcasting to the Soviet Union.
The 150 kw medium wave trans
mitter on the Couriei hs a range
of up to 200 miles during the day
light hours and up to 050 miles
during tiie hours of darkness. As
suming an anchorage in the Nome
area, (international treaties, to
which the United .State is a a
signatory, prohibit broadcasting
from tiie high seas), the nighttime
range of the medium wave Iran;;
■ • • i e.n] v the fur
te::. >•>:': • " of Si bona, a
Vo a*, ir; very .-par <-iy in
' ■ . o • A.’. ■ ' horag< jo the west
Av u'.ia.n would enable the
transmitter to reach
■‘athan Kamchatka Penin
and tnen o.n.y during the
'em r ! rihrxT;*'-:. No significant
of Soviet Union would be
4n.n range of Courier’:; rnedi
• wave transmitter from either
ar.'.'.'-rage 1 nation during the
non: . of day light.”
delegation was advised that
VGA ; .now installing five short
wave radio transmitter.': in the
,<j isianos to cover all of Si
s':.a 7.nfn VOA broadcasts. The
ager.f y wants to discard the
ha.no at ita earliest convenience
a .* effectiveness is limited and
it costa about SI million a year
to maintain.
CHICAGO'S MIDWAY
AIRPORT CLOSES
CHICAGO '#> — Midway Air
port’s last inter-city passenger
fliglit landed Monday, ending the
flow of commercial passenger plane
traffic which three years ago made
Midway the world’s busiest air
port.
In 1959 Midway handled more
than 1,000 flights daily. In the last
month less than 300 flights of all
types — passenger, freight, pri
vate —- used the terminal.
The large jet airliners which re
quire lengthy runways apparently
doomed Midway’s commercial pas
senger traffic. O’Hare Internation
al Airport — northwest of the
city — now handles most of Chi
1 cago’s air traffic.
The $100-million facilities at
| Midway continue to handle 56
1 intra-city helicopter flights daily.
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Houston & Betty Alexander
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Mon- \ititml<‘
Shot* In Pacific*
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ox
, ff(.- - j;
f. tc-t r.{ spring ar.d sum
;' indicated the Christmas
J ■ - ' a «• was almost at an end.
■■ :..*e a Joint Ta k Foret 8 d;
clo: leg that to. t z- • < v
■ .r. and plane.- Monda% nigh-. It
v. a. understood one of the last
hot- in the Christmas region was
being readied for firing.
Twenty-four nuclear devices
have been detonated at Christmas
ince the test program started
April 25. Most of these blasts were
at low altitudes.
There was speculation after two J
earlier attempts at high-altitude I
detonations failed that the John- j
ston blasts might be cut to only !
one or two.
The original schedule included I
one shot of the megaton range — j
that was Sunday’s firing — and
two tests of less than one-million j
tons of TNT. One was to be at j
an altitude of ‘’hundreds of kilo
meters.” possibly higher than the
big blast Sunday.
The megaton success produced a
spectacular show as the thermo
nuclear flash spread across the
ocean and lit skies from Auckland. !
New Zealand, to Hawaii. Eeerie
greens, pale pinks and bright
oranges and reds blended like a
watercolor sunset for more than
five minutes.
The device, carried aloft by a
Thor missile, was exploded at a
height of slightly more than 200
miles. It had a force of more than
one million tons of TNT. Uncon
firmed reports placed the power
at close to 10 million tons.
CLARA BOW COMES OUT
OF SECLUSION FOR RITES
OF HER LATE HUSBAND
GLENDALE, Calif. W — Actress
Clara Bow, vivacious “It Girl” of
the Roaring Twenties, stepped out
of a decade of seclusion Monday—
at services for her late husband
Rex Bell.
A crowd of 150 attended final
rites of the former cowboy actor
who became lieutenant governor of
Nevada and this year the only an
nounced Republican candidate for
governor.
He died last Wednesday of a
heart attack at the age of 57 after
addressing an Independence Day
rally in Las Vegas.
Miss Bow, in ill-health for 10
years, still looked striking in a
black dress, black shoes, dark
glasses and a wide-brimmed black
hat. She waved to newsmen and
photographers before entering the
Church of the Recessional at Forest
Lawn Memorial Park.
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;,i . rather than '-ffor a
rr.o<-o ■ v<; * vh ion of ‘ < x
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• made w. t.nc WorId’s
r ;r Comm:- Monday.
(: a ner voted to < Rf; the
onto • now ra t:rn< after a
ar :• over *ne propo transfer
of the W; hmeton Stab Coli cum
to t:.».- City of Sea’tie
T:.<• city ha- planner] to pay ’he
fate $850,000 for trie land the
C'-l. e-urr. ’•’and- on. and one-half
of th* * million building construc
t.o.o co.-’ The four-acre -tructure
would be converted into a sports
arena and convention hall.
However, Robert E. Rose. State
C- rrrr.erce and Economic Develop
n cot Director, said his agency is
authorized to designate the Coli
-eurr. after the Fair only “for such
use . • ■ as shall promote and
fester the commerce and economic
development of the states’
Rn e said he wasn't sure
whether Seattle's plans for the
Coliseum were in line with his
department's: stipulations.
Worth remembering: “The
greatest efforts of the race have
always been traceable to the love
of praise.” —John Ruskin.
( ■ f k ' : Ap: wir"
Committee* to
Explore Need for
Boarding School
JUNEAU -•? — 7:w
w< of a f ur-rr.- ::.
e t ; :e an • .
r. I '.-y : ; ; a;
■ ■ c- ■ ye? terday ov G V.'
Egan.
Named to the comn
Dr f.'n.u: - K Ray. ■ • ;
tne Division of Ebucat. j. • •
S'r..v< r.- :ty of A’a k S
Staff- Hugh J. Wad- . Ac
rrusisoner of E • . • • •
Isaac: and Hunt Grueni. _ ; ;
neau. a mem her of the St: t.
of Education.
Dr. Ray will -■ rvc
of the committee.
The committee i.
of a February meeting :n \y.
ington. D.C., in which to,
agreed to prepare an ■ v-:: .
with local participate ;• :
pan.sion of present him •
cilities and transfer f
operated by the Bureau • : I
Affairs to state management
operation.
The committee will als. ex; !
the need for regional boar
schools.
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