Crossword Puzzle
ACROSS
1. Vigor: slang
4. Intersect
8. In the stern
11. Italian river
12. Therefore
13. Pigeon’s cry
14. Farm animal
15. Post
16. Weep
17. Get away
19. Slide over
21. Arranging
23. Gush out
26. Upon
27. Char
28. Head cover
31. Books of
Moses
34. Watch
secretly
35. Pain
37. Send forth
39. Cubic meter
41. Forms a plan
45. Limbs
47. Snuggle
48. Obtained
50. Lark or robin
52. Chair
58. Hail!
54. Great Lake
55. Vases
56. Prohibit
57. Peruse
58. Finish
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DOWN
1. Not poetry
2. Decree
3. Spud
4. Reminder
of past
5. Age
6. Sponsorship
7. Sounds a bell 43. African
8. Grows with antelope
18. Half quart
20. — and downs
22. Pierced
by horns
24. Knock
25. Attempt
28. Possesses
29. Deed
30. Playhouse
32. Revised
33. Bee house
36. Be mistaken
38. Gauze fabric
40. Live coal
42. Hind part
time
9. Suit the
needs of
10. Plaything
11. Grows older
44. Become rigid
46. Father
48. Chatter
49. Eggs
51. Creek
Military Construction Bill
Passes Upper Chamber
JUNEAU UP> — The Senate yes
terday approved a military con
struction authorization bill for fis
cal 1964 calling for an expenditure
of $21,041,000 in Alaska, Senator
E. L. Bartlett reported from Wash- |
ington.
The amount approved by the full
Senate represented a cut of $30,
000 from the amount included for
Alaska as the bill came out of the
Senate Armed Services Committee
last week.
Bartlett said the $30,000 cut was
made in the authorization for sup
ply facilities to be constructed at
various locations in the state.
The specific point or points of
reduction were not listed.
All other figures approved by
the Armed Services Committee a
week ago were concurred in by the
Senate yestrday.
Many fish, but especially gold
fish, turn gray with age — just
like people.
You Ain't Lived .
If Y'ou Haven’t
Heard 'PEANUTS’’
at
The
Board of Trade
Wilson Shrine Open
To D.C. Tourists
WASHINGTON W — Monday,
there was another shrine for Wash
ington tourists: Woodrow Wilson’s
last home
It’s a handsome red brick house
of Georgian design at 2340 S St.
in northwest Washington. There
the World War I President lived
from March 4, 1921. when he left
the White House until he died
Feb 3, 1924.
It is a memorial to a marriage
as well as to a statesman.
Among the relics the visitors will
see is the high-backed, leather
covered chair used by Wilson at
White House Cabinet meetings On
the back is a card in Wilson’s
handwriting which reads:
“Presented to my dear wife
whose inspiration meant so much
while I occupied this chair, Wood
row Wilson.”
She was Edith Bolling Galt Wil
son, whose will on her death in
1961 gave the house to the Na
tional Trust for Historic Preser
vation to be a memorial in honor
of her husband The National Trust
has now prepared it for the public.
A government study found that
there are two million U.S. widows
i over 62. Less than half of all wom
en over 25 in this country are high
school graduates. And that more
than 50 per cent between the ages
of 45 and 54 have paid jobs.
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UNALAKLEET. ALASKA
Cook Inlet
Undersea Oil-Gas
Vesuvius Tamed
ANCHORAGE W — A blazing
monument to the difficulties of
underwater oil exploration was ex
tinguished today.
Pan American Petroleum Corp.
reported the Cook Inlet well which
has been burning out of control
since Aug. 24, 1962, had “bridged
itself” at 8 a.m. today and stopped
flowing oil and gas.
Officials said they were not cer
tain exactly what had happened
12.000 feet below the surface of the
inlet. However, they said some
40.000 barrels of sea water pumped
down a relief well gradually flowed
into the producing well bore —
apparently causing the walls of the
burning well to soften and slough
off, forming a rock plug at the
bottom of the well.
That was the aim of extensive
relief drilling, which began with
in a week of the blowout last year.
This was believed to be the first
time that a wild well had been
killed in a deep water marine op- |
eration of this type — involving a |
relief hole directionally drilled
from a nearby floating vessel.
The flames of the burning torch
were visible on clear nights from
Anchorage, and were a beacon to
airline pilots and other fliers hom
ing into Anchorage at night.
The first word that the 14-month
effort to shut off the fire had
succeeded came from the Federal
Aviation Agency, which was noti
fied immediately by Pan Am offi
cials.
The well was a joint venture by
Skelly Oil Co., Phillips Petroleum
Co. and Sinclair Oil and Gas Co.,
with Pan American acting as op
erator.
The well was drilled to 12,000
feet when unexpected pressures
at the bottom of the hole caused
oil and gas to blow out at the
surface.
NEW YORK CSV-U.S. Ambassa
dor Adlai Stevenson says that,
beginning January 25, veterans of
the U.S. Peace Corps will be se
lected for training as interns in
the field of bi-racial community
relations. They’ll be paid an an
nual salary of $5,000.
The project is a joint effort of
the Peace Corps and the Eleanor
Roosevelt Memorial Foundation,
of which Stevenson is chairman.
The foundation will contribute
one-half the salary. The other half
wil come from the various agen
cies employing the interns.
M-M-M HOSPITAL
Admitted — Martha Keller.
Clifford Charles, Gloria Karmun,
Edna Ahwinona, Helen Pungowiyi.
Discharged — Jessie Milligrock
and infant, Loretta Tocktoo, Mar
tha Keller, Clifford Charles.
Arctic Oil
Delivery
— Automatic Service —
Furnace (SRS) Stove
oil oil
the DISCOVERY OF ALASKA
Bering Plagued bv Intrigue of Officials
(Continued)
By BOB REDDING
CHAPTER VIII
Alexi was stunned. “Court-mar
tialed!” he exclaimed in disbelief,
“after all that you have done?”
“Also,” Vitus went on, “They
have cut my pay in half.” He
laughed in spite of the seriousness
of the situation, “Trust somebody
to think of the ever mighty ruble.
That’s a sure way to get to me!” j
Alexi was not a swearing man, i
but the look on his face told plenty, i
“This is disloyal of me,” he j
clenched his fists, “but Petersburg j
has treated you badly, and I could
be shot for saying it, but you have :
been used traitorously.” He calmed
somewhat with that out of his j
system. “Who is behind it, Coni- !
mander?”
“Can’t you guess?”
“The Academists?”
“Yes. as well as others. The gov
ernors of Siberia have never been i
helpful, Alexi, as you know. They, 1
along with our scientific friends ,
have created much mischief.”
“And St. Petersburg believes all
their lies.”
“I still have enemies there, too.”
This conversation, like the ex- i
pression on Alexi’s face, tell of
plenty. For eight years, Command
er Bering had been mis-used and
maltreated by his superiors in the
capitol. Concientious and hard
working, Bering had given without
stint his splendid abilities of lead
ership, but he never seemed to sat
isfy those in higher office. He was
the sort of man who largely ig
nored the commotion he caused,
spending his energies on work
rather than engaging in what he
thought useless bickering. This
harmed him, for his silence em
boldened his detractors.
One of the things the adminisra
tors in St. Petersburg held over
Bering was the partial failure of
the expedition’s arctic phase. So
little was known about these re
gions, that the reconnaissance and
mapping parties were unexpectedly
scuttled by pack ice, bad weather
and hostile natives. The blame for
this was laid to the commander,
though he could hardly have been
responsible for the weather, or, for
that matter, any of the rest of it.
While being harped at from
home, the several governors at
Yakutak, Irkutsk and Okhotak had
been un-cooperative to say the
least. The governor of Okhotak, a
shifty individual by the name of
Pisarjev, was the worst. Once a
favorite in St. Petersburg, he some
how became involved in the wrong
politics and was given his post in
distant Siberia. Seeking to curry
favor, he took up the slander cam
paign against Bering with a calcu
lated hope that he might be invited
back to the inner circle if his work
was effective.
He became such a nuisance and
a hindrance to the expedition, that
Spangberg urged Bering to topple
the man by battle if necessary.
This was within Vitus’ right, and
he finally agreed, as much as he
hated violence. Pisarjev put up
only token resistance, then fled,
but the defeated governor con
tinued to undermine the Great
Northern Expedition wherever
possible. That St. Petersburg still
listened to this malicious person is
unbelievable, but it was consistent
with their policy regarding Com
mander Bering.
Following Pisarjev’s example,
the other governors were a little
more subtle, however. They re
peatedly ignored ordrs from St.
Petersburg to extend Bering aid,
claiming they never received the
instructions, though there was
proof enough that they did. Nothing
was ever done to chastise their
delinquency.
It is remarkable that Vitus wasn’t
asked to resign outright, but he
never was. Instead, he was sniped
at with threats of court-martial and
pay cuts. St. Petersburg would go
just so far, then retract all their in
sults and re-instate the commander
to full status with glowing letters
of commendation. It was a game
they played for eight years, and it
is significant the expedition got
as far as it did. This alone reveals
the commander’s virile ability to
continue in the face of extreme
adversity. A lesser man would
have quit a dozen times.
At one time Alexi Chirikov was
directed by the Admiralty to spv
on his chief, and send in secret
reports. If they were looking for
l slander and negation, they picked
l the wrong man, for Chirikov had
nothing but good to say. It is very
j likely that rather than hinder,
Alexis reports did Vitus much
good.
Eventually, this continuous tur
moil and insecurity had an effect
on Bering, for every man has his
breaking point, and Vitus had his.
He was aging fast and his splendid
energies swiftly disappearing. The
heart-break, suspicions and venom
cast against his person by ene
mies and even those he once re
garded as friends, took a heavy
toll. By May of 1741, Bering was
a sick man.
“I thank God,” he revealed to
Chirikov, “that next month we
sail for America. Another six
weeks of this would kill me.”
The big day, so valiantly fought
for, was drawing near.
(To be continued)
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