Huge Catches of Salmon
SEWARD L/P'—Fishermen work
in” out of Seward are taking huge
catches of salmon in what fishing
officials described today as “a
phenomenal run.”
Terrell Schenck, manager of the
Seward Halibut Producers Co-op,
said one boat delivered nearly
26.000 pounds of cleaned and iced
silver and king salmon to Sew
ard’s fish cannery last week. He
said his was the largest on record
every brought into a southeastern
Alaska port.
TOP TEN TUNES
1. Fingertips, Little Stevie
Wonder
2. Blowin’ In the Wind,
Peter, Paul and Mary
3. 'You're the) Devil In Disguise,
Elvis Presley
4. Judy’s Turn To Cry, Lesley
Gore
5. Wipeout, the Surfaris
6. So Much In Love, Tymes
7. Candy Girl, The Four Seasons
8. Surf City, Jan & Dean
9. Hullo Muddah Hello Fadduh,
Allan Sherman
10. More, Kai Winding
Jacqueline Cochran al Fairbanks
FAIRBANKS — U S. aviatrix
Jacqueline Cochran arrived here
Thursday night with her pilot,
secretary, maid and three other
unidentified companions.
She landed at Fairbanks airport
in her 10-passenger plane. She
was not available for comment.
SAN FRANCISCO W) — The
Fairmont Hotel has been chosen as
headquarters for the 1964 Repub
lican national convention. The
rival St. Francis Hotel was picked
as the official hotel for distin
guished guests.
The convention begins July 13
in the Cow Palace.
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KENOSHA, Wis. W —Kenosha’s
dog catcher Ralph Thomas for
feited a $10 bond in County Court
Wednesday.
The charge — allowing his own
dog to run loose.
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City Takes Over FAA
Field at Nenana
Federal Aviation Agency offi
I cials in Nenana have turned over j
to the city of Nenana control of I
the 5,000-ft. airport located at that
city, in part of an FAA program
to release to local government
ownership and control over six
teen intermediate airfields in Al
aska.
The Nenana City Council agreed
to operate the airfield on a con
tract basis with FAA until the
actual changeover in ownership,
which will not take effect until
1964.
“This means that from now on
the city of Nenana will have the
responsibility of maintaining the
field, along with the access roads,
the runway lights and the airway
beacon,” said Nenana mayor J. B.
Coghill.
During the period of the con
tract the city will receive from
FAA the balance of a special fund
set aside by the statehood Omni
bus Act, with which FAA has been
operating the airport since 1960.
This balance amounts to over
$35,000.
No landing fees or parking space
rates that were not in effect be
fore the FAA turnover will be in
effect under the new city con
tract, the mayor assured.
FAA operates at Nenana a wea
ther station and a navigational
beam station besides the actual
airport, using a force of 13 men.
“There will be no change in our
manpower here,” disclosed Ralph
I Hazelton, FAA manager at Ne
i nana, excepting maybe a couple
of mechanics, who will be trans
! ferred.”
' Moose Hunters Must
Get Harvest Tickets
JUNEAU UP) — The State De
partment of Fish and Game cau
tions hunters seeking moose and
sheep to get their harvest tickets
before setting out. A portion of
this free ticket must be attached
immediately to the carcass, and the
other part mailed in within 15
days. The tickets may be obtained
from licensing officers and offices
of the Fish and Game Department.
Agency records show that 666
sheep were taken last year. The
moose ticket is new this year, to
provide additional information on
the harvest of these game animals.
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U.S. Korean Commander
Says N. Koreans Cool Off
With the 1st Cavalry Division, |
Korea L4*> — Maj. Gen. Charles F. i
Leonard, the new commander of
this front - line division, said the
Korean truce line has cooled off.
Leonard, who assumed com
mand of the 1st Cavalry Division
Wednesday, predicted: “ There
won’t be anything else stirring for
some time.”
The general told a newsman
Communist North Koreans ‘‘want
ed to find out if the 1st Cavalry
Division was alert. Well, they
found out. The 1st Cavalry is
alert.”
Unusually heavy patrol activity
and occasional fighting broke out
at spots along the truce line after
three American soldiers in a jeep
were ambushed July 29. Three
were killed.
The 1st Cavalry beefed up its
patrols along the demilitarized
zone and killed four Communist
raiders in an engagement in which
an American and a South Korean
policeman were also killed.
“I don’t think there has been a
pattern to the Communist activ
ity,” Leonard said. “It’s an oper
ational situation they just fell
into.”
Astronauts Practice
Survival Techniques
In The Desert
ON THE NEVADA DESERT UP!
— America’s nine new astronauts
pushed across the desert Wednes
day night in what could have been
a scene from a romantic novel.
There was even a moon.
But the astronauts were under
the watchful eyes of Stead Air
Force Base instructors, learning
how to survive if their space cap
sule ever lands in the desert.
The space-trainees, working in
pairs, got an exercise in traveling
the desert at night—the best time
for a trek over the dunes from the
standpoint of conserving energy
and body moisture.
They will also get a travel prob
lem under the sun before return
ing to Stead, eight miles north of
Reno Friday.
The men, being prepared for the
two - man Gemini and Apollo
flights, had sleeping bags Tuesday
night, but. had to improvise bed
clothing from parachutes, rubber
life rafts and whatever was avail
able from their dummy capsules.
It’s been hot. The sand-level
temperature has gone as high as
135 degrees.
They were told a desert lizard
makes a nice supper when bar
becued.
Alaska Traffic Fatalities Down
JUNEAU OP — Traffic fatalities
in Alaska are still running behind
last year’s total, but fire deaths
are far above the 1962 figure.
The Department of Public Safety
reports that 21 persons died on
streets and highway up to Aug. 5,
compared with 24 last year. This
year’s fatalities total 20 as com
pared to 12 in 1962.
“Here’s to woman! Would that
we could fall into her arms with
out falling into her hands.”
— Ambrose Bierce
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THE NOME NUGGET
35 Years Of Winged Rocket Flight
The age of manned
rocket flight began on a
spring day in 1928 when Ger
auto manufacturer Fritz von
Opel piloted a rocket-rigged glider more
than a mile. The glider was towed aloft before
the rockets fired.
To protect its oil re
fineries during the
last days of World
War II, Germany built an aft-rocket
powered fighter. Known as the Komet, the craft was
capable of 6 to 8 minutes of powered flight at speeds over 500 mph.
On October
14, 1 947, Amer
ica's first modern
rocket plane, the X-l,
carried a pilot faster than the speed of sound for the first time in
history. The power plant was the first of a series built by Reaction
Motors Division of Thiokol Chemical Corp.
The most powerful aircraft rocket engine flown is_
Thiokol's 57,000-pound
thrust liquid engine now
powering the famous
history making X-l 5.
This craft has been
piloted to the edge
of space at
speeds of 4,000 mph.
Next step in manned rocket craft is
the X-20, which will be boosted into
space by multi-stage launch ve
hicles, maneuver above the
earth's atmosphere and return to
* land on a dry lake bed in California.
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' Asst. U.S. Atty. Shortell
Gives Lack of Cooperation
As Reason For Resigning
SEATTLE UP> — Jerry Shortell
confirmed here yesterday he
would resign as Assistant U.S. At
torney at Fairbanks Sept. 15 be
cause of what he called lack of
cooperation from U.S. Atty. War
ren Colver of Anchorage.
Shortell, 37, who will enter pri
vate practice in Fairbanks, said
during his four years in Alaska
“there has been a definite lack
of cooperation from the main of
fice in Anchorage concerning field
office problems in Fairbanks and
Juneau.”
Shortell is vacationing and visit
ing friends in the Seattle area.
Shortell, who holds a degree
from Suffolk University Law
School in Boston, Mass., was in
charge of both the Juneau and
Fairbanks offices at different per
iods since October of 1959.
He also said that “I feel that
when reasonable requests are
made and ignored it is time to
make a change, as it is impossible
to competently and professionally
operate under such conditions.”
Shortell declined comment on
what he meant by requests being
ignored, saying only that he did
not wish to indulge in personal
ities.
Both he and Colver are Demo
crats.
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Dawson City Oldtimer
Leaves Home For First
Time In 64 Years
SEATTLE OP—Sixty-four years
ago a young man from Norway
boarded a steamer in Seattle for
the Klondike in quest of gold.
Wednesday, Louis Roal, now 89
and of failing sight and hearing,
returned by jetliner to reside with
a younger brother.
Ole Roal, 83, shook his brother’s
hand and told him, “I’ll take you
home now.”
Louis, who never set foot out
side the Dawson City, Y.T., area
following his arrival there in 1899,
still spoke with awe of the rags
to-riches sagas of the Klondike.
He never struck it rich and quit
mining for good in 1903 after a
serious back injury.
“A man would strike something
one day, maybe $50, maybe
$50,000,” he reflected. “He'd get
-into one of those dance halls or
places and the next morning
there’d be none of it left.”
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