Alaska Miner, The (Newspaper) - September 4, 1939, Fairbanks, Alaska SECTION TWO THE ALASKA MINER SECTION TWO Vol II No 37 Fairbanks Alaska September 4 1939 Price lOe Station Is Big Birthday Of Party at Long LONG CREEK Via Ruby Alaska Aug birthday party was held in the company recreation hall here Thanks to the efforts of Delegate i in honor of Mayme Esmond Long Anthony J Dimond in cooperation Creek Mining Company cook Rag the Alaska Miners Association i nor Berg dragline operator and Bob Lou Joy Fairbanks radio operator Deacon resident of Long Creek is permitted to continue his were Jack Koski Hans ency service to mine camps in the TiBeson MiMa and Bozo Ethyle Interior I Cuddling Mr and Mrs Geo Lee Earlier in the season the Federal j Alma Russel Mary Sweetser Lester Communications Commission had Sweetser Mr and Mrs John Honny ruled Mr Joy and other amateurs Tim Scannel Dolly Milligan Art out of service by the stringent My Brodder Al of regulations which were ex Hagen the punch server Al not designed for Alaskan conditions Burke Dan McGinty Albert Peter The Alaska Miners association son Frank Johnson Chan Walker worked to rectify the matter for Jack Flannigan road commission many mine camps in the outlying foreman and crew districts were without radio contact j Dancing and lunch lasted to the when Mr Joy was no longer wee hours of the morning and were mitted to handle emergency com enjoyed by all Apprised of the situation Delegate Dimond at Washington D the miners case to the FCC arid the War Department This week the delegate sent the following good news to Frank O Farrell of the Miners Association It is highly satisfactory to know that continuance of the senice will not be objected to either by the War Department or A copy of a letter from T J Slo secretary ofthe O Tanell as a fuller explana tion The letter to Delegate Dimond j reads as follows I Acting furnished in the letter addressed to you from Mr Frank OFarrell Alaska Miners j Association this office has inquired of the War Department concerning the operation of amateur station at Fairbanks Alaska by Mr Louis F Joy Information received from the War Department as a result of tele graphic inquiry to Alaska indicates that Mr Joy is performing valu able services in emergencies and the War Department recommends thai j Mr Joy and other amateurs in the i vicinity of Fairbanks be permitted j to continue these emergency con tacts in view of which the Com mission has no objection to Mr Joy using his station for handling emer gency Filings Are Made For 2 Homesteads Two homestead filings aad a tim listed Fri day afternoon at the tT S land of fice in this city The homestead axe Harry E Honious 160 acres near mile 7 on the Richardson Highway Kenneth O Fireoved 160 acres near Mile 8 Richardson Highway The timber permit was issued to Usibelli of The per mit calls for 10 cords of fuel wood and linear feet of mining timber A deposit of was made Anchorage News Items Daughter Born to Smithwicks Mr and Mrs Robert Smithwick are the parents of a daughter Mr Smithwick is employed on the fed eral building construction job Handles Office Work Cal W Butler has been placed in charge of the Anchorage office of the Division of Fire Control of the Forestry Department W J Mc Donald supervisor for forest fire protection announced Mr Butler j has been in southeastern Alaska for j the past three years and in senice of the forestry department j in Alaska for the past 18 months Copenhagen Denmark has the largest harbor on the Baltic Quartet Plans To Hydraulic hi Koyukuk Preparing for opening of large hydraulic operations in the upper Koyukuk next spring a Fairbanks mining quartet has a shipment of j equipment and machinery includi ing a D4 Caterpillar tractor on the way to the Middle Fork of the Ko six miles above Wiseman Partners in the venture who have staked 10 claims in the section are Carl Rudberg Hans Feiss Lawrence Adelman and Earl dozer will be flown into the district Rudberg who with Feiss has spent the past two months prospect ing in the upper Koyukuk reports the ground runs 75 cents to the square foot and 30 inches to bed rock A dozer is expected to arrive here from Seattle soon to be added to the equipment already on its way The The four partners plan to winter in Wiseman They will be accom northward by Dan Kirk who j will be camp cook Kirk just arrived j here after cooking for the Alaska Road Commission at Miller House j the past season Note To Be Guests Her el Mr and Mrs Robert L Judd of Salt Lake City Utah who are mak ing a three weeks tour of Alaska will arrive in Fairbanks on the reg ular passenger train tomorrow and will be visitors here for several days Loris T Oldroyd director of Ex tension Service for the University of Alaska left for Anchorage a short time ago where he planned to meet the visitors and direct their itiner ary to the Interior by way of Pal mer and Mt McKinley Park Mr Judd is a prominent member of the Utah bar with offices at Salt Lake City and is also an official of the Church of Jesus Christ of Lat ter Day Saints commonly known as the Mormon Church Mrs Judd is a daughter of Heber J Grant presi dent of the Both Mr and Mrs Judd are ac speakers and have been invited to speak at the coming Sun day night services of the local branch of the Latter Day Saints These services are scheduled to be held in the Elks at P to which the public is invited It that one mission of the Judds on this trip is to study the ag possibilities of the Ter of Alaska with a view to en other members of the to come North aad establish arm homes here While in Fanbanks Mr and Mrs Judd will spend some time at the home of E Peterson superintendent of the University farm Mr Judd and Mr Peterson are college mates and friends of longstanding Assistant District Attorney Har ry O Arend who is also a friend of the Judds is arranging to have a Tanana Valley Bar Association luncheon Monday noon to honor the visiting barrister Colonel Lees Wife Dies In Auto Crash Mrs Sarah Ann Row Lee of Vancouver Barracks was killed Friday in an automobile col on a highway near Woodland according to an Associated Press dispatch received by the Fairbanks The colonel was driving the car in which he and Mrs Lee were riding He was not hurt She was crushed under the car Two persons in the other bile involved in the collision were injured Col Lee was in Fairbanks several weeks ago in connection with the Tanana and Chena flood control project He is division en gineer of the Armys Engineer Corps with headquarters at Vancouver Barracks The division has tion over all Army engineering proj ects in Alaska Tract Scales Here Arrangements have been mace for immediate installation by the Alaska Railroad of track scales here for the weighing of freight cars The scales will be south of the engine house on Garden Island A M Truesdell bridge and build ing engineer and George Col well acting chief engineer of the rail road have been in Fairbanks for severs days Mr Truesdell will leave this afternoon for Anchorage On the way he will give attention to work in his department along the line Mr Colwell expects to stay in Fairbanks until late in the week Col O F Ohlson general man ager of the railroad will be here about the middle of the week The track scales to be installed here are the first for the railroad at this terminal They have been brought from Nenana where they originally were in use There are track scales at Anchor age and Healy Silver State Congressman Due in City i i Congressman James Grace h am Democratic representative from the Stats of Nevada where he was formerly governor was expected to arrive in Fairbanks late this aft According to word received here the legislator who is a member of the House Committee on Appropria tions was to fly here from Juneau His anticipated visit is eyed with expectancy in this section as the Congressman has long been ated with mining development in the Silver and he himself is a trained mining engineer Public Career j The Nevadan whose native state is actually Kentucky was governor j of Nevada from 1923 to 1927 He later published the Nevada State Journal and was elected to the 74th j 75th and 76th Congresses A graduate of the University of Kentucky Scrugham served as Nevi ada state engineer was commis sioned a major in the U S Army in 1917 promoted to rank of tenant colonel and became one of I the incorporators of the American Legion As a Legionnaire he was com mander of the Nevada Department in 1919 and was elected national the following year New National Air Record Set By Aviatrix BURBANK Aug Cochrane set a new national air record for kilometers flying from Burbanks to San Francisco and return at speed of miles per hour Rainy Pass Flight Is Beautiful Ordinarily it only takes a couple of hours to fly to Fairbanks from Anchorage but not so in the flight which Cecil Wells head of Wells Alaska Motors completed Sunday from the Railroad City Nine hours after leaving Anchorage he arrived in Fairbanks However it is easily explained Flying with Pilot Oscar Winchell of the Star Air Lines Wells first flew to then to Folger then Ruby and at long last Fairbanks For the first time Wells went thru Rainy Pass and it was an er from the standpoint of different kind of Alaska scenery Cutting the Alaska Range at an altitude of about feet flying thru a regu lar corridor of mountains Socks of sheep and herds of moose were es pied frequently But the terrain is so different from the average Sown over that Mr Wells commented on the fact saying it was the most beautiful flight he had ever made Mr Wells flew to Anchorage last Thursday Four other passengers including Harold Strandburg super intendent ol two placer mines inthe lower river country and manager ol the Star Air Lines were on night Nome Mirier With Injured Eye Flies To Hospital Here With a piece of steel in the left eye Olson was flown from Nome for treatment in St Josephs hospital in this city He is employed by the United States Smelting Com pany on Seward Peninsula Carl Eller from Valdez also has entered the hospital He is receiv ing medical attention Mrs Ray Langlo and recently born son have left the hospital Sluicing To Start Soon Sluicing operations will be in progress in a few days on the sold placer ground of John and associates on Central creek ia country according to A W Conradt who has just re turned from a weeks visit to the property The hydraulic plant is near com Mr Conradt said Tha ditch is finished Seven thousand feet of pipe is in Five men are employed and the equipment includes a tractor and a Mr Conradt did not travel over much of the Goodpaster area on his recent trip but there is considerable activity he asserted On the Tibbs creek side Ernest N Patty has a crew prospecting the gold quartz property owned by Wil liam Eisenminger The surface is being opened with a dozer Tha work is in immediate charge of Bruce Thomas
