Fairbanks Daily News-Miner from Fairbanks, Alaska • Page 6

Daily News-Miner, Wednesday, Dee. 9, 1959 MATTER Central is at the intersection of the Circle Hot Springs Road and the Steese Highway. It is a trading center and the location of a Bureau Public Roads maintenance camp. best but there just aren't enough men and proper equip- By MRS. EO GELVIN Haas-Miner Correspondent Winter has been mild so far, with only a few days of 20 below zero, about eight inches of snow, and no winds.

Tom Kennedy of the BPR replaces Earl Stout on road clearing this winter. Earl, a long-time BPR grader man, is retiring. Helen and Les Stevens are working on their Snack Shop and have logs ready for a new addition. After closing his mining operations on Deadwood Creek, Paul Bittner is at home here for the winter. Last week, Jens Langlow pfi Switch Creek visited via his Model A.

Future visits will be on foot the nine miles to here from his cabin. Jens, one of the few oldtimers remaining in this district, is 78 years old. Summers, he operates a small placer mine. Back for the winter from Fairbanks is Roy Lawrence. Roy visited Hank Martin on Portage Creek and reports Hank is doing fine.

George Parker is staying at Circle Hot Springs for the winter. Owners of the spring, John and Ruth Berdahl, report the new ski tow is almost completed. Skiers coming down the slope will wind up at the front door of the World Famed Japanese Qeophysicist Due To Visit University msnt to do the job. Tourists were very disappointed to travel so many miles over good roads and then become bogged down at the very end of the farthest north highway. Only half thejj One of the world's foremost geophysicists will arrive today on a three-day visit at the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, Dr.

C. T. Elvey, director of the institute, announced today. The visitor is Takesi Nagata, D. professor of geomagnetism and director of the Geophysical Institute, Tokyo University; scientific member of paleogeophysics on the International Committee on Geophysics, successor to the International Geophysical Year Special Committee; secretary of the Japanese National Committee for IGY; and a co-worker with Dr.

Elvey on many projects connected with the IGY and its successor. Dr. Elvey is the scientific member for aurora and airglow of the ICG. Dr. Nagata is particularly known for his research' on rock magnetism and in 1953 published a book titled "Rock Magnetism" which was wit- ten in English, His official purpose in coming to the University of Alaska is to discuss purchasing IGY auror- al data from the World Data Center Auroral Instrumental located at the Geophysical Institute.

The Japanese National Committee' for IGY is extablishing a complete IGY Aeronomical Data Center in a new building attached, to the Science Council of Japan. The data will be compiled on aurorae, geomagnetism, ionosphere, cos- mh rays, air glow and solar activities. In addition to his official conferences, Dr. Nagata will deliver two public lectures. The first will be Qn Thursday, Dec.

10, at 8 p.m. The talk is entitled "Physics of Active -Volcanos" and is sponsored by Sigma Xi, a scientific honorary society. Dr. F. D.

Parker, chairman of the University of Alaska Division ofj Science and Mathematics, is) president of Sigma Xi. Dr. Nagata's second lecture will be on Friday, Dec. 11, at 3:30 p.m., in the Brooks Memorial Mines Building au- ditorium on campus. The title of his talk is "Magnetism of the Earth's Crust." Further details on either talk can be secured from the Geophysical Institute staff, telephone 3367 or 4964.

In addition to visiting with Dr. Elvey, Dr. Nagata will meet with another geophysicist who worked with him on international projects. He is Dr. Masahisa Sugiura, asso- ciate professor of geophysical ersearch at the University of Alaska.

This is Dr. Nagata's first trip to the Uni: of Alaska. He is coming to Alaska from Argentina by way of Washington, D. C. Four times as many men as women commit suicide.

amount of tourists reachec Circle City this year as com pared to last year. In the past several weeks, the mail plane has been flying in turkeys and fresh produce from Fairbanks for Thanksgiving dinners. The far north joins with her sister states, as it always has, in the "traditional day of thanks for all things. Airlifting Yule Mail Authorized ANCHORAGE, Dec. 9, (Special) Airlift of first class Christmas mail between Anchorage and the other states has been authorized' by the Civil Aeronautics Board.

The service is expected to hotefand'the'adjacYnt Indoor I f. tart in about a week Uncon i i rirmp "swimming pool. Ginny Ed Gelvin have completed the log addition of two rooms and a partial basement to their house and are 'now busy building furniture. Most of the men in Central are taking advantage of the mild weather and little snow to cut firewood for personal use. Nov.

21, Johnny Berdahl, 10, firmed reports are that it will start Dec. 13. Alaska Airlines, said it "had been authorized to participate in the program." At least two other air carriers, Northwest Orient Airlines and Pacific Northern Airlines, are expected to carry mail to and from Anchorage also. Not all first class mail necessarily would go by air, and StanleyGelvin, 9, were enjoying a dog sled ride near the Gelvin. home when they carry amounts for which cargo space was available.

Alaska Airlines said the CAB order is "destined to re- spotted a bull moose in the brush. They raced back iU Roy Lawrence's cabin to telll he the burd on postal m- him the good news as st alIatinTls flnrt al franc: had no winter meat as yet. In a short time, Roy had his moose, and Ed Gelvin hauled it in with Swamp Buggy. The rack measured 67 inches. Donna and Bob Hutchinson wrote from California, where they are vacationing, to say they are enjoying themselves stallations and postal transport facilities during the holiday season." The airlines said that Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield stated that "that there is every indication the peak load will be greater than ever before." Anchorage Postmaster Michael Shepard said his office had not received confirmation but" miss Alaska.

They will re- of ft service yet, but it is turn in the spring, probably! accompanied by a' mother who has never been to Alaska. Representing the Democrats of this area at the Democratic meeting in Fairbanks were Jerry Rivard of Central, Walter Roman of Miller House, and John Berdahl of Circle Hot Springs. It appears the Steese High. way, an important road of the Interior, serving approximately 125 year-round residents and seven businesses between Miller House and Circle City alone, has been overlooked in the road appropriations for the state. Not mentioning the tourist trade, this road is used by many Alaskans who complain- of narrow, winding, brush covered curves, frost boils, and all around maintenance.

This is no reflection on' the BPR men who work hard and do their Weighty Thought BALTIMORE UK If anyone 'offers you 200 pounds of any coin, take Carl C. Burke's word for it and chose quarters. Burke says. you would get $3,657 in quarters, as compared to only $3,636 in halves and a paltry $2,617 in silver dollars. Nickel was considered a comparatively rare metal un- -til the part of the 19th Century, 'when extensive ore deposits were discovered on the island of New Caledonia in the South Pacific.

The island remained the world's chief source of nickel until early this century, when Canadian production surpassed it. Shepard also said the last shipment by Alaska Steamship Co. which probably can be distributed before Dec, 25 is on the ship leaving Seattle Dec. 15 and arriving at Sew- Srd the 19th or 20th. Another mail shipment due to arrive Christmas eve cannot be distributed in time, Shepard said.

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