Crossword Puzzle
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ACROSS
Unmarried
woman
Slap hard
Salad green
Lasso
Stirs a Are
Divine
revelation
Still
Ourselves
Knowledge
Saint: abbr.
Anglo
Saxon slave
Noah’s son
Ocean
Snares
Bitter drug
Married
woman’s title
Great Lake
Declare
Run off
quickly:
slang
Humans
Military
force
Because
Take court
action
49. Musical note
50. Fruit
54. Reach
56. Split
57. Dog
58. Tenant
5P. Detests
Answer lo P.-ssia
Chemical 27. Printer’s
compounds measure
29. Upper limb
30. Large tart
31. Japanese
coin
2. One opposed 33. Greek letter
3. Image 35. Continent:
4. Canal em- abbr.
bankments 38. Weasel
5. Occurrences 40. Trees
6. Bird’s home 43. Ore
DOWN
1. Untidv state
7. Slackens
in speed
8. Mother
or Dad
9. Macaw
10. Notch
11. Leafy plant
14. Number
21. Not late
22. Before
23. Owns
24. High: music
25. Extinct bird
excavations
45. Used up
46. Baglike part
47. State
48. Sicilian
volcano
50. Land
measure
51. Tardy
52. Always
53. Indian
weights
55. Small island
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editor Schmitt admits “Usually ev
eryone doesn’t get mad at us at
the same time . . . and while I get
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snatchers and the big shots, I also
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wonderful people. I even get some
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early and become newspaper
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Creosote Plant
Cuts Out of Alaska
ANCHORAGE UP — The Kop
pers Co. has ceased operations and
is closing down its creosote treat
ment plant at Whittier.
“We’re putting everything in
mothballs — I'm in the process of
cleaning up the works,” plant man
ager Guy Phillips said here ,Mon
day.
Ten persons were regularly em
ployed at the half-million dollar
plant, which went into operation
in the summer of 1961.
,kThat’s just the direct payroll
— Indirectly there are loggers,”
Phillips said.
Federal government purchases
of creosote-treated ties for its
Alaska Railroad provided the bulk
of the business for the Whittier
plant, the only one of its type
in Alaska.
The government this year
awarded the contract to a Wash
ington firm, the Baxter Wycoff
Co. of Seattle, which underbid
Koppers. The contract calls for
delivery of 70,000 ties.
The Baxter Wycoff bid — $5.57
per tie — did not include the cost
of shipping the ties to Alaska.
The government will pay the trans
portation cost of transporting the
loge from Seattle to Alaska, Phil
lips said.
The Koppers Co. bid $5.84 for
ties made available to the railroad
in Alaska. The Seattle firm’s bid
for ties delivered here was $6.01.
He said the company lost the
contract because the federal gov
ernment’s General Services Ad
ministration decided to buy the
ties for the Alaska Railroad in
Washington.
In Juneau, Gov. William A.
Egan said the state’s Congressional
Delegation had explored the en
tire matter with the Department
of the Interior “to make sure that
the best use was being made of
public monies.”
Egan said the state’s efforts and
the efforts of its Congressional
Dtlegation were directed toward
the use of local timber “within
the framework of good adminis
tration.”
The Governor said that as he
recalled the case there were con
siderations other than price in the
Interior Department’s decision to
award the contract to the Seattle
firm rather than to Koppers.
The oil industry has spent more
than $4 billion in the Gulf of Mexi
co since the area’s first major
oil field was discovered 25 years
ago, Oil Facts reports.
You Ain't Lived . . .
The
Board of Trade
If You Haven’t
Heard 'PEANUTS"
at
THE DISCOVERY OF ALASKA
Bering’s Homecoming Stirs up
Jealousy, Scorn in Science Academy
(Continued'
By BOB REDDING
CHAPTER V
Upon returning to Kamchatka
River, Vitus Bering set out imme
diately for St. Petersburg, his work
of exploration completed. Though
he had not found America, his ef
forts disclosed two important geo
graphical facts: First, and this was
the original intent of the expedi
tion, he had shown that America
and Siberia were separate conti
nents, in no way connected. Sec
ondly, he revealed the unexpected
fact that Kamchatka was a penin
sula. This was important, not in
that he would show deLisle to be
wrong, but that future explorers
could sail from the Siberian main
. land across the Okhotsk Sea and
around the peninsula’s tip to
Kamchatka’s eastern shore. This
would result in a great saving of
rubles, time and effort. Bering
had to portage his mass of equip
ment across Kamchatka at great
cost.
Reaching St. Petersburg on
March 12. 1730, the weary captain
expected no undue plaudits. He
had been asked to do a job, and
the job was done to his satisfac
tion, which, he assumed, would
also satisfy the authorities. He was
not at all prepared for the attacks
to come.
The Frenchman, DeLisle, Rus
sia’s fo remost cartographer,
launched a bitter fight against
Bering’s discoveries. Vitus expec
ted this, for he had proven the
man wrong on two important
counts. But what the Dane did
not expect was the doubtful re
ception his own Admiralty Office
gave him. Jealousy prevailed in
the Admiralty because Bering,
still regarded as a foreigner
though he had served Russia for
nearly twenty years, had been
singled out by the Czar to head
the expedition.
In addition to the Admiralty,
other official bureaus and bodies
such as the Senate were weak in
their support. The Senate did ac
cept Bering’s findings, but the
members did little to defend him!
The worst vilification came from
the powerful Imperial Academy
of Science of which DeLisle was
a member. Russia was showing
her first interest in the sciences,
and the Academy had the support
of that most important personage
the Empress Anne. What the
Academy wanted, Anne wanted,
and nobody dared cross an em
press in those despotic times.
“Bering’s a liar and a charla
tan!” screeched the Academists.
“He should be stripped of rank
and jailed,” they howled. And les
ser luminaries joined the outcry
like jackals at the heels of a lion.
It became the thing to do.
Unfortunately for Bering, the
only man who could have stopped
all this nonsense was dead, Peter
the Great. He died in February,
1725, the month Vitus had departed
from St. Petersburg. Consequently,
he battled the vindictive slander
virtually alone, save for the help
of his faithful officers Chirikov
and Spangberg. Even the two car
tographers whom he had taken on
his voyages, a couple of scalawags
by the names of Lushin and Pati
lev turned against Bering. Evident
ly DeLisle had gotten to them.
Disgusted and discouraged, Ber
ing turned in his resignation and
left for Viborg, his home. After
five long years, he was glad to be
back with his family and the quiet
of his estate. He made up his mind
to forget Russia, DeLisle, America
and all the rest. History would
clear him, and the time for re
tirement had come.
But neither fate, which played
so large a role in the explorer’s
life, nor his own restless nature
were going to allow such a pre
mature end for Vitus Bering.
In December, 1732, a messenger
arrived at Viborg from St. Peters
burg summoning Vitus to the cap
itol at once. The message didn’t
specify what it was all about, but
Vitus couldn’t resist his curiosity
and obeyed.
On hand to meet him were Ivan
Kirilovieh Kirilov, Chief Secre
tary of the Senate, and Heinrich
Osterman, Vice-Chancellor. They
took him into their chambers and
came right to the point.
“We want you,” said Kirilov, “to
head another expedition to arctic
regions.”
“Much larger, with a greater
scope than the last one,” added
Osterman. “And an important
phase will be a prolonged search
for America.”
Vitus rubbed his chin in thought
ful silence, then quietly asked,
“But, gentlemen, am I not re
garded as a charlatan ”
Osterman quickly denied this.
“Neither Kirilov nor myself have
ever thought that. We have ac
cepted your findings Ivan Ivano
vich, and we need you now. You
are the only man capable of head
ing the enterprise.” ,
But kind words were not apt to
sway Bering so easily. He reached
for the door. “I have been caused
much humiliation,” he said, “and
my reputation has suffered. I can
not accept. Not yet. I must have
time to think,” and wuth that he
left the officials to wonder.
(To be continued)
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