Little Diomede Island’s
Ice Box Is On the Way
MIDLAND, Mich. UFi — The ici
box which the Eskimos on Alaska’
Little Diomede Island want is or
the way. That’s right; Ice box.
Panels with which to make it lef
by air for Seattle Monday. Syro
foam sandwiched between wood
the panels are due in time to make
this year’s sailing of the North
Star for Little Diomede.
What do 80 Eskimos living with
in three miles of Siberia want with
an ice box?
To keep their meat fresh through
the warm summer weeks. If thej
had an ice box they could chop
enough winter hunks out of the
Bering Strait to keep it cool the
summer weeks.
The panels are a gift from the
Dow Chemical Co., and the an
swer to a plea made by the Rev
James Flynn, a Little Diomede
missionary, on a recent trip to
Midland.
The airlift to Seattle was a
round-about gift from the 9506th
Air Reserve Squadron at nearby
Tri-Cities Airport. It got Washing
ton clearance for- the 434th Troop
Carrier Wing from Bakalar Air
Force Base, Ind., to fly the panels
on a training flight from Seattle.
The North Star is operated by
the Bureau of Indian Affairs and
makes only a single trip yearly to
Little Diomede Island.
At Seattle, Rev. Flynn said
other firms also contributed part
of the equipment, including the
Onan & Son Portable Electric
plants, Minneapolis.
He said the material must be
loaded for the North Star’s sailing
north to Barrow, Alaska, in August
and that the unloading at Little
Diomede on the way back south,
just ahead of the winter ice, might
be difficult.
Ships cannot pass between Little
Diomede and Big Diomede because
of shallow water, he explained.
The North Star anchors a mile
and a half off either the south or
north end of the island, and cargo
is loaded into skin boats to be
lightered ashore.
The 10 hours’ unloading of the
annual supplies last year, he said,
took five days because of rough
water.
Speaking of that future possi
bility, an Air Force measuring de
vice has concluded that already
a Southern Californian driving
home from work on a busy free
way may undergo more nervous
strain than an astronaut in orbit.
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41 Alaskans to Take
Advanced Electronic
; Training at U of A
Gov. William A. Egan announ
1 ced last week that 41 Alaskans
have been selected to attend a
u special electronic technician train
ing course at the University of Al«
’ aska beginning June 3.
The trainees will be enrolled in
1 an accelerated 48-week long voca
tional training course underwrit
ten by the Federal Manpower De
velopment and Training Act. The
graduates will be prepared for em
ployment in industries utilizing
electronic equipment within the
state.
Gov. Egan said, “We have long
needed technological training of
this type within Alaska. The elec
tronics industry, particularly the
large defense and communications
systems, generate substantial num
bers of year-round employment in
Alaska.”
None of the trainees chosen
were from this area.
Artificial Mating
LONDON Iff! — Artificial mating
calls may one day tempt fish into
the nets," the second World Fishing
Gear Congress was told Monday.
Dr. Donovan Finn, Fisheries Di
rector of the United Nations Food
and Agriculture Organization, said
much still had to be learned about
behavior patterns of fish.
Discovering the sounds that fish
make when they are feeding or
mating is an aspect now under
study. Dr. Finn suggested that
tactics similar to the use of arti
ficial mating calls in wild game
hunting might one day be used in
fishing. Then, he said, it might
well be possible to detect fish by
unmanned apparatus, to herd them
like cattle, to fence them in and
harvest them at will.
A MAIL DUCK . . .
PHILADELPHIA UPl — Making
his morning rounds Monday, post
man Herbert Cosen was bowled
over by a quacking in a corner
mailbox.
He unlocked the box and pulled
out a full-grown white duck, friend
ly as could be.
“I’ve found kittens, puppies,
dead fish, even pizza pies, in these
boxes, but never before a live
duck,” said Cosen.
A woman came to mail a letter,
and the duck trailed after her. She
called the Society for the Preven
tion of Cruelty to Animals, and
the duck wound up in the so
ciety’s pool for stray fowl.
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jCan You Describe
The U.S. Flag?
By HAL BOYLE
NEW YORK Ufi — One of the
most recognizable and least known
things in our life today is the
American flag.
We get an automatic lift of heart
whenever we see that banner in
the sky take each passing breeze
in grandeur. Our inborn patriot
ism seizes us by the throat, parti
cularly if a band is passing by
with drums beating and bugles
blowing.
But who can sit down and de
scribe it?
Very few of us.
Let us consider a few questions
| about it.
If you ask the average Ameri
can what are the colors in his flag,
he will immediately reply, “Red,
white and blue” —and look at you
as if you were impertinent.
If you ask him what are the
colors of the stripes, he will reply
“Red and white.”
If you ask him how many
stripes there are, after .a dutiful
search of his grammar school his
tory memory, he’ll reply, “Thir
teen—one for each of the original
colonies.”
So far, so good. Now ask him,
“How many red stripes are there,
and how many white stripes?”
After a long and doubtful men
tal consultation with himself, he
may—eight out of ten —come up
with the correct answer —seven
red stripes, six white stripes.
Well, you say, if the stripes are
red and white, what color are the
stars? The chances are that he will
answer, without thinking, that the
stars are blue.
If you point out that the stars
are actually white against a blue
background, he will begin to get
mad.
Then, if you inquire how many
stars there are in the flag, he’ll
begin to think you are making a
fool of him. But his answer may
be 48, 49 or 50.
If he happens to give the correct
answer, which at the moment hap
pens to be 50, you will hardly
fluster him by asking if he can
draw the proper positions of the
stars in the flag.
“Why, that’s simple,” he’ll say.
If you tell him he’s wrong and
that there are nine rows of stars
in his flag, he’ll regard you as a
liar and after struggling with
pencil against paper tell you it’s
mathematically impossible.
Then you show him it isn’t. The
current American flag does have
line rows of stars. Five rows have
six stars. That makes 30. Between
hem alternately are four rows of
•ive stars. That makes 20. Add 30
md 20 and you have our 50 states.
Well, in this world I guess we
ake many familiar things for
granted. And I suppose it isn’t as 1
mportant to be able to draw the
American flag as it is to feel its
>tarry fingers wave in certainty
ibove us all.
Emotional tension affects vision.
:t is literally possible for you to
aecome blind with rage.
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