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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
64th Year No. 119
NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1963
Per Copy 15£
New Addition Stretches
Runway to 6,000 Feet
On Saturday, Oct. 5, the FAA
sponsored a dedication ceremony
celebrating the additional 600 feet
which has been added to the west
end of the East-West runway.
Atttending the function was
George Lienard of Alaska Air
lines, Dick Galleher of Munz
Northern Airlines, and Harry
Lewis, representing Wien Airlines.
Also in attendance was Roy
Wall from the FAA’s Anchorage
office, Roy Snyder, Nome FAA
mechanic foreman, Arley Evans,
Chief of the Flight Service Sta
tion, and Ray Caudle, FAA station
manager.
The work was done by local la
bor under the supervision of Roy
Snyder. The East-West runway is
now 6,000 feet, in comparison to
the 5,400 feet of the North-South
runway. The tailing pile at the
west end of the field has been low
ered, which results in aircraft be
ing able to touch down at the ex
treme end of the strip now.
The threshhold lights will be re
located and additional marker
lights installed. Next spring the
end of the runway will be re
marked with the standard white,
and until then the yellow paint
will be obliterated.
No More Point Barrow —
SEATTLE Ofl — Last Thursday’s i
storm made Point Barrow an is
land and may result in revision of i
maps, a University of Washington
scientist said today.
Dr. Phil Church, head of the
university’s Department of Atmos
pheric Sciences, said he received a
report on the storm damage from
Dr. Max Brittos of the Office of
Naval Research in Washington,
D.C.
Point Barrow, the end of a nar
row spit running out 5V^ miles
into the Arctic Ocean northeast
of the community of Barrow, has
been the northernmost land point
on the continent.
During the storm the ocean
washed through a narrow section
of the spit. Dr. Church said maps
eventually will have to be changed
unless the channel fills with earth.
He said another long spit was
breached into five islands by the
storm.
Dr. Church’s department has a
contract with the Office of Naval
Research for scientific studies at
Barrow. The Arctic Research Lab
oratory at Barrow was damaged
extensively but Dr. Churh said the
storm did not hit two research sta
tion on ice island 800 and 1,000
miles north of Barrow.
LEND A HAND . . .
Due to the devastation and loss of property during the recent
storm at Barrow,( the City of Nome will conduct a clothing drive, and in
this manner lend a helping hand to our neighbors to the North. Volun
teer workers will accept any size clothing, clean and in fair condition,
at the City Hall Fire Station, on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday,
from 1:30 to 4 pun. — ROSCOE WILKE, Mayor.
FIRE >'REK • OCTOBER 6-1
National Board of Fir* Undorwritoro
Army Specialist
Group will Train
Scout Battalion
Capt. Robert L. Stevens of the
Army’s 7th Special Forces Group,
out of Fort Bragg, No. Carolina,
arrived in Nome last week, here for
the purpose of setting up a co
ordination with the Nome Nation
al Guard Advisory group in order
that they may plan for the arrival
of a team of specialists. These
specialists will give training to the
Eskimo Scouts in many fields.
“We fully anticipate, however,
that we will learn as much from
the natives, as they do from us,”
commented Capt. Stevens.
This unit, which has seen action
in such areas as Viet Nam. Laos,
Cambodia etc., specializes in guer
rilla warfare. They are for the
most part bi-linguists and experts
in such things as propaganda, dem
olition, and hit-and-run tactics.
They have another important
function, however. Their warfare
specialists are augmented by spe
cialists as those of seurgical. civil
affairs and psychological. Normally
these experts are called into an
area by the guerrillas after they
have achieved their purpose.
A group of about 15 of this type
of specialist will arrive in Nome
on about the 20th of October. They
will work in small detachments,
in the various villages from Bar
ter Island to St. Michael. They will
have their own aircraft, but will
depend also on the aircraft of
the advisors group in Nome. This
incoming group will stress the
civic action capabilities of their
unit. For example, they have a
preventative medicine specialist
who can make recommendations as
to sanitation. Others are construc
tion as well as destruction author
ities.
This mission is not classified,
although much of their work is.
Low Water Thwarts
Talkeetna Unloading
Last night Lomens made their
first attempt to commence dis
charge of the TALKEETNA which
has been in the Roadstead since
early Saturday. Bringing in a
a loaded barge at about 5 this
morning, it was found that the off
shore winds had created low water
to an extent that the LUCILE
could not get into the harbor. The
MARGO was sent out to assist her
after the LUCILE began taking
water as result of pounding on
the bar.
According to Jim Cary, all are
back at the side of the ship await
ing favorable weather. Discharging
will resume whenever the present
wind and water conditions will
permit.
~WEATHER REPORT
Cloudy today and tonight, partly
cloudy tomorrow. Low tonight 25.
High tomorrow 34.
Word of Nome Will Spread to More
Than 40 Free Nations After Tuesday
1114LITARY AIR ATTACHES from 45 nations will he guest*
of the Alaskan Air Command for two days beginning
October 7, as part of a week’s orientation tour designed to
WELCOME TO NOME
HOSPITALITY SPOKEN HERE —
Hola! Mucho Amigo de Sud
America
Na Dobra Dosa u Nome
Herzlich Willkommen
Saudasao
Bienvenus a Nome
Tena Yis Tillin
Salvete!
Comopsumnida
Terve
Huan Ying
Velbekomen
Yi wo ninge
Sie Like
Daansay
Kalos Althatai Pheila mas
sto Nome
Buno Visita ah Nostra Chita
Velkommen til Nome
Cead Mile Failte
Ohaio Gozaimasu
Salaam Aliecom
Hallo
Kars i lam a k
Sholem Aliecum
Namaste
Nagowatook Tegelotesea
Namashka
acquaint them with various operations of the U.S. Air Force.
While in Alaska, the attaches will be given an air tour
of some of the remote installations of the command, tied in with
a visit to Nome, according to pres
ent plans.
On hand to greet the group up
on their arrival at the Elmendorf
AFB flightline the morning of Oc
tober 7 will be Lt. Gen. Raymond
J. Reeves, commander-in-chief,
Alaska; Maj. Gen. James C. Jen
sen, commander, Alaskan Air
Command, and Col. Thomas W.
Gell, Elmendorf base commander.
Noon that same day will find the
Greater Anchorage Chamber of
Commerce honoring the foreign at
taches with a luncheon at the An
chorage-Westward Hotel where
they will stay during their visit
here.
Following this, they will return
to Elmendorf AFB where they
will receive a mission briefing on
the Alaskan Air Command and
tour the facilities of the 317th
Fighter-Interceptor Squadron plus
those of the Strategic Air Com
mand’s 4158th Combat Support
Group. That evening there will be
an informal reception, again spon
sored by the Anchorage Chamber
of Commerce, followed by a no
host dinner, all at the Anchorage
Westward.
The second day of their visit
will be taken up with the aerial
tour of the command and the visit
to Nome which will include a mo
tor tour of the city, lunch at the
North Star Hotel with local civic
leaders including State Senator
Lester Bronson and Nome Cham
ber of Commerce President Frank
Couch, followed by Eskimo dances
and blanket tossing under the di
rection of Paul Green, noted Es
kimo choreographer and interpre
ter of Eskimo culture.
Bringing the day’s activities to
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a close, Gen. Reeves and Gen.
Jensen, along with their staff offi
cers and ladies, will host a recep
tion and dinner that evening at
the Elmendorf Officer’s Open Mess
with Lowell Thomas Jr., as the
main speaker.
Departing Elmendorf the fol
lowing morning, the group will
proceed to the second stop on their
itinerary, the Boeing Aircraft Co.,
at Renton, Wash., where they will
tour the company’s huge main
plant and facilities.
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Ray Heinrich Here for Unloading
Ray Heinrich, Marine Superin
tendent for B & R Tug and Barge
Co., at Kotzebue, arrived in Nome
Saturday. Along with Ray was
his wife and daughter Kelly.
The B & R’s Avik is in Nome
to accept some 200 tons from the
TALKEETNA for forwarding to
Kotzebue, and Mr. Heinrich will
supervise cargo handling.
TALKEETNA ANCHORED
The TALKEETNA arrived in
the Nome roadstead at about 8:45
am. Saturday. Included in her
cargo of some 2,300 tons she has
aboard seven autos, one snow cat
and a tractor.