Crossword Puzzle
l.
5.
8.
12.
13
14.
15.
17.
18
20
21
23
25.
2 i.
30
32.
33.
34
35
ACROSS
Rant
Joke: slang
Dry
Image
Card game
Ore deposit
Fried cake
Passageway
Ally
Ever: poetic
Latin
Be
Dawn
goddess
Robert E.—
Roofing rock
Look at
Leaner
Nails
Monkey
Japanese
C »iil
36. tellurium:
(. ’em.
37. Map book
39. Clever
41. Ocean
45. Split
47. Appease
48. Pure and
simple
49. German "I”
50. Experienced
51. Comfort
5:1. Bashful
53. Duct
Aniwer
DOWN
1. Swing music
phrase
2. Land
measure
3. Empty
4. Come in
5. Flashed
6. Main
arteries
7. Depart
8. —Baba
9. Evergreen
shrub
10. At rest
11. Animal
16. Sings in
a round
17. Public
notice
19. Printer’s
measure
22. Wing
23. Recede
24. Over: poet.
25. Breaks
27. Weapons
28. Golf mound
29. Sea eagle
31. Poem
32. Showy
34. Fasten to
37. Article
38. Shuffle
39. Pinnacle
40. Appeal
41. In
42. Chinese
weight
43. Eskimo
house
44. Whale .
46. Service
charge
49. Lives
Pan American Highway
RENO. New L&—A route through
five Western states connecting
Alaska to Central America was des
ignated the Pan American West
International Highway at the 31st
annual meeting of the Okanagan
Cariboo Trail Association Mon
day.
The designation “Pan American
was approved by the Pan American
Congress. The association urged
its members to persuade state
highway departments to mark the
new route with signs carrying the
name.
The route links the Alaska High
way to Mexico via Washington,
Oregon. California, Nevada and
Arizona. It is a counterpart of an
older route that parallels it sev
eral hundred miles east.
Japanese Agree to
Cut Whale Catch
TOKYO UPl — The Japanese
government has agreed to an
amendment of the international
whaling pact cutting the quota for
Japanese whale catches in the
antarctic this winter.
The 18 - nation Internationa]
Whaling Commission decided at a
meeting in London in July tc:
drastically reduce this year’s total
catch from 15.000 blue w’hales tc
10.000 to preserve stocks.
Japan’s quota was reduced tc
4,600 blue whales from last year’s
6,150. Japan was the only whaling
nation to have achieved its quota
last season.
Norway, Russia and the Nether
lands — three other major whaling
countries — have shares of 2,800
2.000 and 600 whales respectively
under the amended quotas.
The Japanese whaling industry
has decided to send seven fleets tc
the Antarctic next season, whicl
will open in December.
--———■ ,
Defense Appropriation
Exclude G.I. Pay Hike
WASHINGTON UF> — Congress
l completed action Tuesday on a
j $47,220,010,000 Defense Depart
ment appropriations bill, sending
i it to President Kennedy.
The figure was a compromise of
differing amounts previously
. voted by the two houses.
, The Senate passed the measure
by voice vote after the House had
' acted bv a 335-3 roll call.
Its total was $1,794,227,000 less
than President Kennedy had re
quested. $119,697,000 less than the
Senate approved and $138,001,000
more than the House voted earlier.
Included was $73.1 million for
development of a medium range
ballistic missile that could be
launched from railroad cars, trucks
or ships.
The bill does not include funds
to finance military pay raises,
| voted by Congress effective Oct. 1.
An additional $900 million to fi
nance the raises will be provided
! in a later measure.
i
—
FLYING WITH WIEN
From F air banks — Ray Selstrom,
Richard Miller, Major Hamilin,
Richard Guba, Bill Burand, Shar
on Harwood, Kathy Harwood, Jim
Wright.
From Kotzebue — John Nelson
Sr„ Dr. Tokash.
For Kotzebue — John Evak,
Henry Harris.
For Fairbanks — Walter Brown,
Dale Stewart, James Sunsquist,
Agnes Rodli, Dick Able.
' f ~~ I
STRAUB
Service Center
Radio & TV
Appliance Repair
House Rentals
Phone 2260
B.C. Sockeye
Show High
Death Toll
VANCOUVER. B.C. OP — A dis
astrous mortality rate among sock
eye salmon has wiped out about
90 per cent of this year’s escape
ment of potential spawners to the
Chilko River, one of the major
sockeye rivers of the Fraser Rivvr
system.
This was disclosed by the Inter
national Pacific Salmon Fisheries
Commission Monday when it said
of a total escapement of 800.000
sockeye, an estimated 720.000 died
without spawning.
The commission said that dis
aster to a lesser degree also struck
the Stellako River, a tributary of
the Nechako in northern B.C.
where the total number un
spawned salmon will exceed
100.000.
At the beginning of the season
the runs of sockeye were 10 days
earlier than usual. And because of
a strike by B.C. coast fishermen
the escapement was extremely
heavy.
Fisheries scientists say this is
a bad combination of events be
cause early escapement and popu
lation density usually lead to a
big mortality of unspawned fish.
A specialist in fish diseases. Dr.
Robert Pacha of the University of
Washington, was retained by the
commission to study the situation
early in September when mortali
ties started to occur in practically
all major spawning areas.
On the Stellako he found sock
eye heavily infested with a bac
terial disease called culumnaris,
but on the Chilko the majority of
the fish died without any appar
ent indication of the disease.
The over-all mortality of sockeye
in the upper Fraser watershed
now is estimated at about 900.
000 fish. The commission consider;
the situation so serious that during
the winter available experts on
physiology, bacteriology and gene
tics will be asked to aid in inves
tigating the problem.
PARTY POOPER . . .
READING. England </P — Opti
cian Thomas Dear rubbed his eye;
when he saw the bare-breaste
blonde on the poster advertising
a charity ball.
“The printers who usually dc
[ our posters couldn’t handle the jot
i this year,” Dear explained. “S(
one of our members volunteerec
to do the work. I’m afraid he le
his imagination run away witl
him.
The posters were to advertis<
j the annual ball of an organizatior
called the Local Yokels. Over th<
blonde were the words “See Yoi
There.”
Dear, an official of the Loca
Yokels, sketched in hundreds o
black bras on the poster blonde.
SUBSCRIBE TO THE NUGGET
GLUE POT
Soda Fountain
Cigars—Cigarettes
Tobacco
Candy
I w „
Fresh Ice Cream
Every Day
I ALL kinds of
SODA POP
| THE DISCOVERY OF ALASKA -
Bering Guides Good Ship Gabriel
Along Foggy, Ice Bound Siberia Shore
(Continued*
— CHAPTER II —
By BOB REDDING
The weather proved very bad
for a voyage of discovery. Ar the
GABRIEL slowly groped through
the choppy waves, none of the
crew saw the Diomede Islands,
although they did see St. Lawrence
Island, and named it after the saint
of the day.
It was foggy much of the time,
and one of the strangest facts of
exploration resulted from this.
Many times during their passage
through Bering Strait, the voyag
ers could have seen Alaska had the
weather been decent. As it was,
they made the entire trip without
ever knowing how close they had
come.
After several weeks of slow and
patient navigation. Captain Bering
rounded the Chukchi Peninsula,
whence the GABRIEL’S course
changed more to the west than
north. This indicated that they
would be sailing away from Amer
ica, since so far as anybody knew
for all was guesswork, that con
tinent lay somewhere to the east.
“I think,” said Spangberg, “that
we have proved the issue. The
coast of Siberia obviously follows
west, and an isthmus is very un
likely."
"But.” objected Chirikov, "we
should sail to the north more. We
might be in a large bay, or a con
tour of coastline leading to an isth
mus.”
Spangberg sneered. "There is
nothing out there but a continent
of ice!”
And what the Dane said, cer
tainly seemed true. A great mass of
ice had been threatening the GAB
RIEL for several days. There
seemed no end to it as it stretched
north like a vast, white prairie
for as far as the eye could see.
Bering had to skirt the lonely Si
berian shore plainly visible in the
near distance.
Alexi Chirikov’s stubbornness
came to the front. "We don't know
that it’s all ice!” he insisted. "I
( believe we ought to find a way
, through.”
, This brought a scowl to Spang
[ berg’s brow, and he roared that
if the expedition were left to Chir
ikov they would all be dead. Fur
ious, the Russian retaliated by say
, ing foreigners were cowards — a
, statement that made him bite his
, tongue immediately. He had grown
, to respect Vitus Bering, and had
no wish to offend him.
1 The captain heard the quarrel
t and stepped between the combat
ants.
“This is what we will do, gen
. tlemen,” he said, "to keep the peace
among us. If an opening appears in
the ice we will attempt to pass
through. I must add that I think
this is polar ice and that it
stretches clear across the polar
cap. If so, we will not be able to
investigate it any further. And
consequently this proves that an
isthmus is highly improbable.”
The captain looked to the sky
always dark and heavy with
clouds.
“We will hold our course for two
more days,” he went on, “and if
by that time nothing occurs to
change matters we will return. We
have had bad weather, but the
heavens above hold even worse,
and I’m not sure the GABRIEL
can take much more. And if that
very ice under discussion should
close in behind us, gentlemen, we
will have to spend a winter on
those barren shores!”
Both of the lieutenants made as
if to speak, but the captain raised
| his hand to silence them. “That,”
j he declared firmly, “is the way it
will be. And remember what I said
i about sending you back to St.
Petersburg.”
The young officers lapsed into
| silence, and this marked the be
1 ginning of a truce that would even
tually mold into friendship as the
years passed.
On the evening of the second
day. August 26th, Bering called his
i lieutenants far consultation.
He pointed to a map that he
! had brought from St. Petersburg.
“According to this," he observed
with a trace of humor, “we should
be in the middle of the Siberian
tundra.
It is one of Joseph DeLisle’s
creations, and as wrong as can
be.” The captain raised his eyes.
“Gentlemen, we are now at lati
tude 68 degrees and 18 minutes
north. We have sailed far enough
along this coast to convince me
that, as Alexi thought possible,
i we are not in a bay of any kind.
; This is the westward course of the
j Siberian continent. If we proceed
far enough we will reach the mouth
of the Ob River — impossible be
cause of the ice.” Vitus smiled. “I
declare our mission accomplished,
and we wall return at once."
"If,” commented Spangberg, “we
can.”
"Meaning what, Martin?”
“Look to the rear, sir."
Before the protesting eyes of all,
the great ice pack was moving
toward shore directly in the path
of the GABRIEL. Retreat was
cut off!
(To be continued!
180 CESSNA 185
Floats — Wheels — Skis
CHARTERS — HUNTING
•
FA A Certified Operator
— WILFRED P. RYAN —
Unalakleet Air Taxi
WRITE — or PHONE 624-3200
Guaranteed
Dependable
Fuel Service
LP Gas
and Appliances
Office: Dial 2561
ZIEGLER
&
QUAKER
Stove Parts
& Repairs
Oil Heaters
Res: Dial 2471
Deal W'itb Confidence At
Green’s City Fuel & Transfer