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1 in City Boasts Bowlin", Basketball
Tin City is on the jawline of
the Western World.
It is appropriate that a bowling
alley should be there, and a bas
ketball court.
You are 60 miles away from Si
beria at Tin City; about 1,500
miles west of the Golden Gate, and
some 500 miles west of Pearl Har
bor. You are still on the continent
but at a point where it juts the
farthest west, and a little south
of the Arctic Circle.
The city isn't a city, town or a
village. Early miners, in about
1903, finding the only tin mine
on the continent thought they had
the makings of a city. That was
before they gave it up because the
enterprise was so distant it didn’t
pay. It’s a rude arctic country at
Tin City. Winds blast it and it
freezes there on the warmest days
of the year. The country is barren
and not fit for much if it were not
for its strategic location.
That it was there, pressed closest
to the hump of Asia, is probably
the reason the Army Engineers
came there in 1951 building a de
fense station — one of a network
of remarkably isolated stations
stretching around the northern
perimeter of the continent like
a trip-line to give warning in case
of a sneak attack.
Ever since the Engineers first
came to the outpost, there has
been a siege that hasn’t been lifted
by sandblasting weather. The En
gineers’ job was to make life pos
sible for the garrison of Air Force
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troops and to facilitate their mis
sion. The latter, of course, is to
maintain the sleepless radar vigil i
on the vast unfriendly country i
that stretches back from just a
little east of Tin City for thousands
of miles. ,
Morale of Tin City troops, like
the morale of the early-day min
ors, is a problem. Morale concerns
the U S. military. Even if you have
the highest hopes, as did the min
ers in the early days, the country,
the weather and the distance be
comes increasingly disappointing.
Tin City is one of the very few
remote stations which offers
nothing in the way of diversion —
no fishing, hunting — even walk
ing is dangerous because of fierce
sudden storms, and then there is
no place to go.
The Army Engineers wrent back
to Tin City this spring to build a
two-lane bowling alley and a bas
ketball court as a morale booster.
These were completed in Novem
ber 15.
The Commander of the 710th
Squadron at Tin City, Lt. Col. Al
exander J. Stomma, looks for
ward to seeing some exciting bas
i ketball games in the new gym.
They will all be of the intramural
variety, he says. No games will !
be scheduled with teams from the
nearest town — in this case — a
pace called Dezhnev, Siberia.
Harvard-Yale Game
Postponed In Mourning
CAMBRIDGE, Mass, tf) — The
Harvard-Yale football game sched
uled for tomorrow will not be
played because of the President’s
death. That was announced today
bv a spokesman for Harvard.
There was no decision imme
diately whether the game would
be played one week from tomor
row, or at some other later date.
Half the U.S. population lives
in less than 10 per cent of its land
area.
ARCTIC MENS LEAGUE
High team series — Alaska Air
lines 2739, Polaris Hotel 2687, Polar
Eskimos 2627.
High team game — St. Joseph’s
996, Polaris Hotel 969, Alaska Air
lines 950.
High individual series — George
Lienard 576, L. Nevue 546. D
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High individual game — G. Lie
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Team high game — Oogruks 789.
Morgans 712.
Individual high three — Men:
George Lienard 538, Pat Durrett
534, Clarence Hester 530. Women:
Lou Oliver 461. Fay Lienard 439,
Mvrna Durrett 431.
: Individual high game — Men:
Bill Burand 200, George Lienard
194, Clarence Hester 190. Women:
Lou Oliver 177, Ike Schick and
1 Myrna Durrett 157.
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Nooks vs. Hornets — ANB
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City League Tonight
The Nome High Nanooks will
try for their second City League
win tonight when they go against
the defending champion Polar Hor
nets. The Nanooks are 1-0 in league
play, while the Hornets will be
looking for their first victory after
a tough opening loss to ANB in
overtime.
Coach Ray Tinjum indicated
more line-up changes and some
change in strategy in an effort
to get his five into a smooth
working unit, preparatory to their
first interscholastic road trip to
Fairbanks. Game time is 7 p.m
Nome Insurance opens its sea
son against ANB, (1 -0» at 3:36
p.m. tonight. Nome Insurance will
attempt to show its class bv get
ting off to a victorious start in
the interesting play of the City
League.
Season iekets will again be on
sale, which will help the high
schoolers to make its trip to Fair- i
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INVITATION FOR BIDS
STATE OF ALASKA
DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS
Sealed bids in single copy for furnish
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and performing all work for Project*
S-0131O2 and S-0131(13i, Nome-Teller
Road, Sinuk to Tisuk Section described
herein, will be received until 10:00 a m.,
PST, December 19, 1963 in the Commis
sioner's office, Department of Highways,
Island Center Building, Douglas, Alaska.
This project consists of grading and
drainage of 20.877 miles of roadway and
constructing six welded steel girder
bridges with concrete decks on the Nome
Teller Road near Nome, State of Alaska.
Total length of project is 21.094 miles.
Principal items of work consist of the
following: Unclassified excavation. 124,
000 cubic yards; Selected material, type
1 borrow. Case 1, 957,000 cubic yards;
Selected material, type II borrow. Case
1, grading A, 63,250 cubic yards; Over
haul of borrow. Case 1 <1,000 ft. free
haul), 2,080,000 yard-miles; Structural
steel piles, 10 BP 57, furnished and driv
en, 3,627 linear feet; Class A concrete,
1,315.7 cubic yards; Reinforcement steel,
235,550 pounds; Structural steel, furn
ished. fabricated and erected, approxi
mately 617,920 pounds; Rock slope pro
tection, 4,456 cubic yards and miscella
neous minor drainage structures. All
work shall be completed by July 25,
1966.
Plans and specifications may be ob
tained by all who have a bona fide need
for them for bidding purposes from the
Commissioner of Highways. Plans may
be examined at Department of Highways
District offices in Anchorage, Fairbanks,
Juneau, Valdez and Nome.
d. a. McKinnon, p. e.
Commissioner of Highways
Pub.: Nov. 18, 20, 22, 1963.
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FLIGHT 309/310
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