Scientists Probe Arctic
Ocean Floor to Learn
About Earth's Crust
WASHINGTON OP — Scientists
of the Interior Department’s Geo
logical Survey are probing the i
floor of the Arctic Ocean from a
floating island of ice this summer,
seeking to learn more about the
earth’s crust.
The department told Tuesday of
a unique project, supported by the
Office of Naval Research, in which
numerous measurements and
samplings of ocean floor sediments
are being made to obtain a record
of the heat flow from the earth’s
interior to the surface.
Working from Fletcher’s Ice Is
land, far north of the Arctic Circle,
geophysicist Waughn Marshall and
an assistant, Eugene Smith, lower
a special coring device through
13,000 feet of near-freezing Arctic
waters and use a special tempera
ture-measuring hypodermic needle
on the collected samples.
The ice island, 55 miles in area
and 150 feet thick, is sometimes
referred to as T3. It has been a
base of scientific observations
since 1952. It drifts slowly around
the Arctic Ocean in a clockwise
direction, taking five to ten years
to complete a circuit.
The survey’s probes are made
through a hole cut in five-foot
thick sea ice in one of the island’s
embayments.
Marshall said that the coring de
vice penetrates the ocean floor
sediments to a depth of 10 feet with
temperatures recorded at three-foot
intervals along the 10-foot probe.
All data are recorded in a film
strip in the head of the instrument.
The coring instrument is brought
to the surface so that thermal
conductivity studies can be made
using the hypodermic needle.
Communist Incursions In
South Korea Seen As
Start of Aggressiveness
WASHINGTON OP — A State
Department spokesman held open
the possibility yesterday that the
new Communist incursions into
South, Korea are “linked to wider
developments” of Red aggressive
ness in Asia.
Press officer Richard Phillips
noted the reported Red Chinese
buildup along the Indian border
and what he termed continued
Communist pressures in Viet Nam
and Laos.
He declined to speculate wheth
er the developments reflect the
Communist split with Russia over
the Soviet call for “peaceful co
existence,” or Peking’s disapproval
of the U.S.-British-Soviet test ban
treaty.
The Chinese Reds say a hard line
should be pursued against the
West.
The North Koreans are follow
ers of the Peking line.
Seven Survive Crash
GANDER, Nfld. OP — Seven
members of the crew of a U.S.
Navy plane survived a crash and
scrambled to safety before it burst
into flames after it nosed into a
highway near the international
airport Tuesday.
The men, based at the U.S.
Navys’ Argentia Early Warning
Base, received injuries described
as minor.
The plane, a Super Constellation,
was practicing takeoffs and land
ings.
LONDON OP — British auto
race driver Sterling Moss finally
passed his test Monday to drive a
motor scooter after flunking it the
first time last month.
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| Soviet Nuclear Blast Last
December Cripples
i U.S. Space Satellite
ST. LOUIS t/F — A Russian nu
clear blast detonated in space dur
ing the Soviet test series that
ended last Dec. 24 crippled the
electronic equipment of an Ameri
can space satellite, the St. Louis
Globe-Democrat said Tuesday.
In a copyrighted story from its
Washington bureau, the Globe
Democrat said the satellite is be
lieved still orbiting the earth, but
its communications and control
equipment ceased to function after
the Russian test.
The effects of the blast have
never been made public by United
States authorities, the paper said,
but are known to the Russians
through their monitoring of Amer
ican satellites.
The Russians presumably now
know a great deal about how to
knock out any American satellites,
whether sent up for photographic
work or weather observation or
for other purposes, the Globe
Democrat said.
The paper said that Russian
knowledge of how to paralyze a
satellite without having to hit it
directly also would give them a
head start toward designing some
type of protection for their own
satellites.
YESTERDAY'S BASEBALL
American League
New York 6, Kansas City 2
Chicago 5, Washington 1
Baltimore 9, Detroit 0
Minnesota 6, Boston 3
Los Angeles 6, Cleveland 4
National League
St. Louis 7, Cincinnati 5
Milwaukee 9, Chicago 2
Pittsburgh 8, Houston 1
New York 5, Los Angeles 1
San Francisco 5, Philadelphia 0
Pacific Coast League
Spokane 4, Oklahoma City 2
[ Seattle 5, Hawaii 4
Portland 8, Tacoma 5
Dallas-Ft. Worth 6, Denver 3
Salt Lake City 15, San Diego 12
Free Suit of Underwear
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (S) — The
new 3-year contract signed by the
International Brotherhood of
Teamsters at a local firm guar
antees each member one free suit
of insulated underwear a year.
The members, who also got a
pay increase, work for the Mer
chants Ice and Cold Storage Co.
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be sure she knows whal lo do
in case of fire, says the National
Board of Fire Underwriters.
Your siller should be taken
through the house and shown
to different routes of escape. If
fire occurs, she may then select
an alternate route if one of them
is blocked.
Make it clear to the sitter
that if there is a fire, she should
get the children out of the house
first, and then call the fire de
partment.
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For Insurance
Nome, Alaska
Maj. Gen. Hurley, State
Department Critic,
Dies In His Sleep
SANTA FE, N.M. UP — Maj.
Gen. Patrick J. Hurley, World War
II ambassador who claimed that
U S. State Department policy con
tributed to the Communist con
quest of China, is dead at the age
of 80.
Hurley died in his sleep Tues
day night at his home, apparently
of a heart attack. He had not been
ill.
Before he quit in 1945 as am
bassador to Chiang Kai-Shek’s
government and retired from the
army, he had been secretary of
war in President Hoover’s cabinet
and a diplomatic troubleshooter
for President Franklin Roosevelt.
Hurley’s wartime role in China
got back in the news in March
of 1962, when the State Depart
ment released its secret China
papers of 1943.
The papers included a report
from Hurley to Roosevelt saying
that Chiang Kai-Shek had grave
doubts about attending the Yalta
conference with Soviet Premier
Joseph Stalin because of Stalin’s
desire to communize China.
Hurley quit in protest when
President Truman implemented
the Yalta agreement, under which
Russia entered the war against
Japan. He called the agreement a
blueprint for a Communist victory
in China.
A throat specialist says execu
tives with tenor voices often strain
their vocal chords by trying to
bark commands in baritone. Why?
Because the public expects exec
utives to have a deep, command
ing voice.
Ike Sails For Europe on
“Adventure In Nostalgia'1
NEW YORK </P — Former Pre
sident Dwight D. Eisenhower set
out with his wife Mamie, today
aboard the liner Queen Elizabeth
for “an adventure in nostalgia.’’
The five-star general, who di
rected the World War II Allied
invasion of Europe, will view old
scenes in England and France’s
Normandy beaches.
The former President said he
was making the trip in connection
with the filming of a Columbia
Broadcasting System television
documentary on the “D - Day”
landings of June 6, 1944.
The Eisenhowers are scheduled
to return to New York Aug. 15
aboard the liner United States.
In answer to a question, Eisen
hower said he preferred not to
comment on the partial nuclear
test ban reached by the Soviet
Union, Great Britain and the U.S.
until miltary men and scientists
have expressed their views.
HEARINGS SCHEDULED
JUNEAU UP) — The Legislative
Council said today it has sched
uled a public hearing on business
taxation in Alaska for Oct. 15-16
in Juneau, immediately prior to
the annual meeting of the State
Chamber of Commerce.
The council said it plans addi
tional hearings during October and
November in Anchorage, Seward,
Kodiak, Nome, Fairbanks, Ketchi
kan, Wrangell, Petersburg end
Sitka, on dates to be announced.
Ihiblic hearings on business tax
ation in the state were directed
by the last legislature, following
the issuance of a council report on
the business license tax.
SUMMER SCHEDULE
FAIRBANKS — NOME — KOTZEBUE
FLIGHT 311/312 DAILY
Lv: Fairbanks 8:00 a.m. Ar: Nome 9:05 a.m.
Lv: Nome 1:30 p.m. Ar: Kotzebue 2:15 p.m.
Lv: Kotzebue 2:45 p.m. Ar: Fairbanks 5:25 p.m.
FLIGHT 309/310 DAILY
FAIRBANKS — KOTZEBUE — NOME
Lv: Fairbanks 4:30 p.m. Ar: Kotzebue 5:10 p.m.
Lv: Kotzebue 6:00 p.m. Ar: Nome 6:45 p.m.
Nome 7:45 p.m. Ar: Fairbanks 10:55 p.m.
Flight 501/502
NOME — N.E. CAPE — NOME
Monday, Wednesday and Friday
Lv: Nome_10:10 a.m. Ar. N.E. Cape 10:45 a.m.
Lv: N.E. Cape 11:05 a.m. Ar: Nome 11:40 a.m.
Flight 507/508
NOME — KOTZEBUE — PT. BARROW
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
Lv: Nome 10:15 a.m. Ar: Kotzebue 11:15 a.m.
Lv: Kotzebue 11:45 a.m. Ar: Barrow 2:55 p.m.
Lv: Barrow 3:30 p.m. Ar: Kotzebue 4:40 p.m.
WEDNESDAY - FRIDAY - SUNDAY
Lv: Kotzebue 8:00 a.m. Ar: Nome 9:00 a.m.
' FIRST IN ALASKA”