DL £P u Of
Medicine
-By FELIX MARTWBANE2,MD-I
The First
PLASTER
CASTS
Early man may have made the
first “plaster” cast after seeing
how monkeys coated broken limbs
with mud, probaDly to relieve
pain.
When the mud dried it made a
primitive “plaster” cast!
© Copyright 1962, Felix Marti-lbanez, MD
Adapted from "The Epic of Medicine
Clarkson N. Potter, Inc. Publisher.
Flooded Eskimo Village
Evacuated By Helicopter
ANCHORAGE MV-One hundred
Eskimo villagers whose homes at
Koliganek Lake are being flooded
are being evacuated by Air Force
helicopters to Ekwok Village and
Stuyrok, both about 60 miles north
of King Salmon.
Evacuation of the Eskimos start
ed shortly before noon, the Air
Force announced. This was within
minutes after the plight of the
families was reported to the Res
cue Coordination Center at Elmen
dorf Air Force Base.
The flooding conditions are being
caused by the overflowing of the
Nushagak River. Koliganek is near
the confluence of the Nushagak
and Nuyakuk rivers, 250 miles
southwest of Anchorage.
Bill Nabors of Dillingham con
tacted the Rescue Coordination
Center after receiving a report
from a commercial pilot who spot
ted the Eskimos.
The helicopter being used in the
evacuation will carry 10 adults on
each trip. Based at King Salmon,
the helicopter is one assigned to
the Alaskan Air Command.
The United States now has 51
jnillion amateur musicians, more
than twice the number of only
j[0 years ago.
NOME
PLUMBING
SHOP
COMPLETE
PLUMBING SUPPLIES
DIAL
2511 Days 2485 Nights
• • •
Speaking Of
The Weather
By Raymond J. Crowley
WASHINGTON — When you
are shivering these cold days you
might cheer yourself up by think
ing of the poor Russians at a
Soviet Antarctic station called
Vostok.
That’s the coldest spot in the
world. The U.S. Weather Bureau
says the thermometer there regis
tered a global record by slumping
to 126.9 below zero on Aug. 24,
1960.
As for the North American Con
tinent, the most frigid weather ever
recorded was a mere 81 degrees be
low zero. That happened Feb. 3,
1947 at a forlorn airport station
called Snag in Yukon Territory,
Canada.
The record cold for the United
States was 76 below at Tanana,
Alaska, in January, 1886. Of
course, Alaska wasn’t a state then.
Guess which state has never ex
perienced below-zero weather. Not
Florida, as you might expect, but
Hawaii. Its record cold was 18
above zero at Haleakala, Feb. 9,
1941.
The mercury dipped to minus 2
degrees at Tallahasse, Fla., Feb.
13, 1899.
California has a lot of clement
climate, but it can get mighty
chilly up on those hills. Lowest
for this state was 45 below Jan.
20, 1937, at Boca.
A number of these bone-chilling
temperatures were recorded by un
sung, unpaid volunteers known as
“coperative weather observers.”
The Weather Bureau has some
14,000 of them.
They are civilians who do the
job for the love of it and for the
gold lapel pin, with 3-point dia
mond, which the Weather Bureau
awards them after 50 years of
service.
Blizzards, flood or hurricanes
cannot prevent them from fighting
their way outdoors to read their
official thermometer or precipita
tion gauges. They have been
chased by moose and menaced by
rattlesnakes.
The highest official temperature
ever recorded in the world was
136.4 at Azizia, Libya, North Africa,
Sept. 13, 1922.
As for the North American Con
tinent, the record is 134 degrees.
This was set July 10, 1913 at the
Greenland Ranch in Death Valley,
Calif.
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DUBLIN (iP — Something is
being added to the equipment of
the Irish bartender.
Some 300 barkeep apprentices
are taking course of instruction
calculated to make them experts
in such fields as:
“Is a man’s importance decreas
ing in the modern world?”
“What are the concrete impli
cations of creaturehood and im
mortality?”
Social responsibility.
World affairs.
International economics.
The classes are under the joint
sponsorship of the Barmen’s Union
and the distilleries and breweries
which plan to employ the appren
tices when they have learned their
business.
The idea of briefing the boys on
the deeper things of life was
prompted by the increasing tourist
trade.
A spokesman for the union said
absenteeism at the lectures has
been remarkably low.
The leading lecturer has been
the Rev. Desmond Reid of the So
ciety of Jesuits, who is attached
to the Catholic Workers College.
Trends and problems concerning
the “moral law,” “conscience and
free-will” and “justice and
charity.”
The budding barmen also have
heard talks by union officials on
more practical matters, including
punctuality, hygiene, attire and
good manners while working.
SEEK UTOPIA . . .
LONDON M — Jeffrey Forse, 21,
and his wife, Christine, 19, are on
their way to Australia’s great bar
rier reef to look for an island home
away from the rush of city life
and the threat of nuclear fallout.
Nineteen others are supposed to
join them after they’ve chosen an
island. The group community plans
to establish a life where there will
be no money and all work will be
shared.
The 21 were picked from 5,000
applicants from all over the world,
Forse said.
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
FOR THE STATE OF ALASKA
SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT
NO. 62-4 P
ORDER FIXING TIME AND PLACE
FOR HEARING FINAL ACCOUNT
AND PETITION FOR DISCHARGE
In the Matter of the Estate
of
SIDNEY CHAMPION, Deceased.
ROBERT W. OLIVER, Administrator
W. W. A. of the Estate of Sidney Cham
pion, deceased, having filed in this
Court his Final Account and Petition for
Discharge, praying that a day be ap
pointed for the hearing thereof. it is
hereby
ORDERED that the said Final Account
be heard before this Court in the Fed
eral Building at Nome, Alaska, on the
26th day of March, 1963, at the hour of
2:00 pjn., when and where all persons
interested in said estate may appear
and show cause, if any they have, why
said account should not be settled: and
at said hearing the Court will determine
what persons are to take the estate; it
is further
ORDERED that notice of said hearing
shall be given by publication of a copy
hereof, once a week for four consecu
tive weeks, in the Nome Nugget, a news
paper of general circulation at Nome,
Alaska.
DATED at Nome, Alaska, this 22nd
day of January, 1963.
/s/ Grace E. Herman,
Special Master of Probate
Pub: Jan. 23, 30, Feb. 6, 13, 1963.
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at Bermuda and think they have already arrived.” He knew’
Bermuda’s springlike weather, its pink sands, lush flora and
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Bermuda has changed since
Mark Twain’s day, but there’s
still only one word to describe
1 a vacation there—heavenly!
WINTER SCHEDULE
FAIRBANKS — NOME — KOTZEBUE
Flight 311/312
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday j
Lv. Fairbanks *8:00 a.m. Ar. Nome 9:05 a.m.
Lv. Nome 10:00 a.m. Ar. Kotezbue 10:50 a.m.
Lv. Kotzebue 11:20 a.m. Ar. Fairbanks *2:10 p.m.
Flight 309/310
Monday, Wednesday and Friday
Lv. Fairbanks *8:00 a.m. Ar. Kotzebue 8:40 a.m.
Lv. Kotzebue 9:20 a.m. Ar. Nome 10:05 a.m.
Lv. Nome 1:05 p.m. Ar. Fairbanks *4:10 p.m.
In order lo maintain a scheduled airline and conform to our
departure times it is imperative that passengers check in at the
terminal one hour before departure time:
On Monday, Wednesday and Friday, check-in time is 12 noon*
On Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, check-in time is 9:00 aon.
NOME — N.E. CAPE
Flight 501/502
Monday, Wednesday and Friday
Lv. Nome 10:50 a.m. Ar. Nome 12:20 p.m.
L\\ N.E. Cape 11:50 p.m. Ar. N.E. Cape 11:20 a.m.
NOME — GAMBELL
Flight 509/510
Monday and Friday
Lv. Nome9:00 a.m. Ar. Gambell 10:20 a.m.
Lvi Gambell 11:00 a.m. Ar. Nome 12:20 p.m.
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