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1. Forms
7. Grassland
13. Spud
14. Furry
animal
15. Longs
16. Having rows
17. Tantalum:
chem.
18. Belief
19. Like ebony
22. Japanese
measure
23. English
gold coin
26. Challenge
27. Man of valor
29. Depart
30. Girl’s name
32. In reality
35. Suffix:
plural
36. arrow bar
38. Si;a eagle
39. 1 acts
42. Falsehood
43. Is suitable
44. Apportion
46. Italian river
47. Head rest
49. Not broad
53. Once more!
54. Squadron
55. Reply
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1. View
secretly
2. Garden tool
3. Sweetsop
4. Colleague
5. Sicilian
volcano
6. Distress
signal
7. Body from
outer space
8. Ireland
9. Turkish title
10. Soiled
11. Single
12. Marry
18. Article
19. Rimmed
20. Light wood
21. Spanish
’’gold’’
22. Less deep
24. Envoy
25. Mineral
deposits
28. Above
31. Exists
33. Disfigures
34. Silkworm
37. Islet
40. Soft
minerals
41. Let
45. Learning
46. Peel
47. Vegetable
48. Hotel
49. Short sleep
50. Rodent
51. Poem
52. Armed
conflict
Tanana. Yukon Fish Study
Made by U.A. Professor
By SAMUEL DEAN OLSON
Nearly 600 miles of the Tanana
and Yukon Rivers and their trib
utaries were explored this sum
mer by Dr. James Morrow, Pro
fessor of Fisheries at the Univer
sity of Alaska.
For the third successive summer,
Dr. Morrow has studied the var
ious environments fish live in
along the Tanana and Yukon Ba
sins and their effect on the kinds
and numbers of fish.
With the help of two graduate
assistants, Lloyd Chen of Taiwan
and Kenneth Alt of Wisconsin, he
has placed traps, gill nets and
trammel nets at various points in
the rivers from Fairbanks to Tet
lin in the Tanana Basin and from
Circle City to Eagle along the
Yukon.
In his visits to the rivers this
past summer he collected samples
of Sheefish, Burbot, Alaskan
Blackfish, fresh water Sculpin and
other species which are now un
dergoing laboratory tests at the
University. Morrow plans to re
visit the areas next summer.
Since coming to Alaska in I960,
Dr. Morrow’s name has become
well-known among the fishermen
of the state. Two years ago ne
started a commercial fisheries
course in Ketchikan which be
came so popular the University
hired a full-time person to con
duct it.
At present, Dr. Morrow is de
veloping an undergraduate anc
graduate program for students u
fisheries biology at the University
of Alaska.
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•Promote Russia’s
Rift with Mao,’
GETTYSBURG. Pa. CP — For
i mer president Dwight D. Eisen
hower says the United States
should exploit the split between
the Soviet Union and Red China—
“Encourage it and do those things
that tend to widen it.”
“Assuming this is a genuine
split, it is to our great advantage
to promote it,” Eisenhower told
Associated Press reporters in an
interview at his office here.
The former President also: —
j Believes Soviet Premier Khrush
■ chv “has come to the conclusion
there is nothing to be gained, as
! of now, by war.” But, Eisenhower
|
added, “there is no question in my
j mind that the Communist objec
! tive of world domination is as
firm as ever.”
Wants inspection safeguards
against Soviet cheating written in
to any U.S.-Soviet agreement to
ban nuclear weapons from orbit
ing space satellites.
Says French President Charles
de Gaulle ‘knows that geograph
ically France is absolutely essen
tial to a successful NATO,” and
for this reason “is not always easy
to deal with.”
Believes Ludwig Erhard, slated
to succeed Konrad Adenauer as
West Germany’s chancellor, is a
good man.
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AEC Chief Tells House
Alaska, Hawaii Ideal for
Small Atom Energy Plants
WASHINGTON OP — Dr. Glenn
T. Seaborg, chairman of the Atom
ic Energy Commission, foresees
a future for small nuclear po\\er
plants in Hawaii and Alaska.
In testimony before the House
Appropriations Committee, made
public Thursday, Seaborg said reac
tor manufacturers and utility com
panies already feel that in areas
like California and New England,
where the cost of coal and oil \s
high, large nuclear reactors can
be built and operated on a com
petitive basis.
“Small reactors are perhaps not
quite economic,” he said, “but we
think maybe with future develop
ments they will become economic
on a smaller scale too.
“There may be another field for
the smaller reactors in out-of-the
way places like Alaska or Hawaii
or foreign countries, where the
cost of conventional fuel is some
times very high.”
In describing smaller reactors,
Seaboard said he had in mind pro
ductive capacity in the order of
200 megawatts.
Underwood Wants Code to
Require Safety Belts
JUNEAU IP — Seatbelts will be
required in all cars and pickup
trucks manufactured or assembled
after Jan., 1, 1965, and offered for
sale in Alaska, under a proposed
change in the state’s traffic code.
Martin B. Underwood, state
Commissioner of Public Safety,
said yesterday simultaneous hear
ings on the new seatbelt regula
tion and two other proposed traffic
code changes have been scheduled
at Anchorage, Fairbanks and Ju
neau on Nov. 12.
The proposed change in the traf
fic code involving seatbelts would
require the devices for the use of
the driver and one other front
seat passenger and would have to
be of a type meeting specifications
of the Society of Automotive En
gineers.
rne regulation would not ap
ply to trucks other than pickups
or to motorcycles, moter driven
cycles or buses.
The two other proposed changes
in the state traffic code deal with
the definition of right of way and
with left turns.
Russian Kleptomaniacs
Get the Ax!
MOSCOW Ofl — Eleven Soviet
citizens have been sentencd to
death in the Soviet republic of Uz
bekistan for stealing.
The newspaper Pravda Vostoka
said six were convicted of stealing
$897,000 worth of silk from a fac
tory near Tashkent.
The other five were convicted
of stealing 60,000 phonograpn
records.
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[ THE DISCOVERY OF ALASKA -
! Crew Escapes ‘Sure Death’ in Ice Pack
(Continued)
By BOB REDDING
— CHAPTER III —
With his usual calm, Captain
Bering quickly gave orders to
bring the GABRIEL around.
“We will see if we can beat
that ice,” was his only comment,
but every man on the vessel had
the same thought in mind: they
were doomed to a winter on the
unfriendly Siberian coast.
“Sure death,” muttered the
frightened crew, “to get stranded
in this hellish place.”
A stiff wind helped the GAB
RIEL race through the sea. Be
fore long, it began to look as
though there wTns a chance. The
same wind that pushed on the
GABRIEL so willingly had also
retarded the ice’s progress. Hope
returned and faces brightened.
Captain Bering entertained no
such hopes. He was a realist and
would believe the danger past
only after they had successfully
put the ice pack behind them. The
GABRIEL drew’ abreast the white
mass, and entered the channel be
tween it and shore, a scant thous
and yards wide.
“Our danger now.” the captain
advised his lieutenants, “is from
the bottom of these shallows. Just
pray we don’t strike any reefs. We
don’t dare slack speed, for the ice
still could close in and trap us.”
Like a giant seagull, white sails
curved against the wind, the
GABRIEL swept along. Every man
aboard waited tensely expecting it
at any minute to feel the shock
of plank on submerged rock.
“This,” said Chirikov in a voice
dry as husk, “is the last time I
want to play this game.”
“And you,” Spangberg couldn’t
resist pointing out, “wanted to
go on.”
The Russian flushed, but held
his tongue, remembering the cap
tain’s warning.
“Maybe,” he admitted with an
embarrassed grin, “I was wrong.
I so seldom am though,” he added
with a twinkle in his eye.
The two laughed at this attempt
at humor, and the joke helped
ease their tension as they contin
ued to watch the GABRIEL’s prog
ress anxiously.
For an hour the ship paralleled
between ice and shore, and nerves
were drawn to a fine edge. The
decks were silent, for scarcely a
man would waste breath in speech
so intent was he on the race. Grad
ually, it was noticed that the ice
was curving away. The GABRIEL
was able to slip farther out, and
the danger from reefs lessened, a
cheer went up, but it was, as the
captain noted. “A very soft cheer,”
because the danger wasn’t over
yet.
After another hour of nip and
tuck, however, it was obvious that
the GABRIEL had won, for the
pack was now some distance at
sea and the ship was able to find
deeper waters. A great sigh of
relief fanned over the vessel,
and the captain added to the joy
by ordering a share of rum for all.
‘‘We have earned it,” was his
excuse, and nobody argued his
logic.
Storms and nasty weather
hounded the GABRIEL as she telt
her way homeward. On the re
turn trip, however, despite the
elements, the Diomedes we.e
sighted, and it is possible the ex
plorers were close to Alaska
again. Fate was contradictory,
though, and the North American
coast was hidden by fogs. Without
realizing how close they had come
to making the great discovery a
second time, the Gabriel’s cre.v
men looked only for home.
On September 12th, after a voy
age of six uncertain weeks, the
GABRIEL dropped safe anchor in
the Kamchatka River. The under
taking was a success, but Captain
Bering was not satisfied.
“True,” he agreed with his lieu
tenants, “we have finished our
business in the north, but have
you noticed that along the beach
line there are drift logs of trees
not found on Kamchatka?”
“Aye,” Chirikov was quick to
confirm, “and also there are strange
land birds appearing from the east
from time to time.”
“These and other signs, gentle
men, such as the shallow soundings
around the Dimede Islands, make
me think that America lies not too
far away.” Bering’s eyes shone
with excitement. “As soon as we
can fit tlie GABRIEL, we are go
ing to make another trip, .rid
this time we might bring down a
big prize indeed!”
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