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The Nome nugget., 1950-11-01
John Boettinger. Leaps To Death
Continued from Page One) dose of sleeping pills.

(COntlnueQ rom rage OneI dose of sleeping pills.
 After his divorce in August, 1949, from the Presidents daugh- ter, he was remarried. He left two notes, one of them illegible, the other addressed to his present wife. It said:
 Good night, darling, we love you"
 Mrs. Anna Roosevelt Boettiger, now living in California, charged desertion in her divorce from Boettiger. The two had worked as team in publishing newspapers in Seattle and Phoenix, Ariz.
 Custody of their only child, John Boettiger, Jr., was awarded to her. She has two other children Eleanor "Sistie" and Curtis "Buz- zie" Dall by former marriage to New York investment barker Curtis Dall.
 For the last year, Boettiger has been partner in a Park Avenue public relations firm.
 Thomas Swanson, the firms president, said Boettiger had suf- fered nervous breakdown week ago. He had since been under the care of a male nurse, Joseph Payne, at his suite in Manhattan's Hotel Weylin at 40 E. 54th St.
 Informed of the death, Elliott Roosevelt son of the late Presi- dent and Boettiger's former, brother-in in-law, said he informed his mother, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt.
 Naturally we are both very shocked Roosevelt said. "It is a tragic thing"
 Boettiger's present wife, the for mer Mrs. Virginia Daly Lunn of Phoenix, Ariz., was reported en route, having been told of the sleeping pill episode.
The Nome nugget., 1950-11-01

FAIRBANKS, (P)-The 17-year old son of former attorney general Ralph Rivers, was listed as Fair banks 20th polio victim in it's cur rent epidemic.
 He is Julian Rivers, president of the high school student body and a member of the school bas- ketball team. He was stricken ill Saturday and was hospitalized Sunday.
 The 20 cases have occurred since August 20.
The Nome nugget., 1950-11-01

Dean Alexander. daughter of MT. and Mrs. Houston Alexander, wh was injured while playing at school and suffered broken shoulder was taken by plane to Anchorage for observation by a bone specialist. She was accom- panied by her mother.
, 1950-03-16
FOR LEASE

The Virgin Islands Corpora
ton would like to receive
from interested parties propos
ais relative to the leasing of
its distillery and bottling plant
for a period of l year, starting
April !, 1850.
For further details contact
Virgin Islands Corporation
Christiansted, st. Croix
Virgin Islands, u. S. A..
, 1950-03-16
5 U B {
NOTICE

Savings Bank Book No. F 276
having been reported lost or
stolen, the holder thereof is
hereby requested to present it
to the Bank within twelve
(12) weeks from this date as
otherwise, the Book will be
cancelled and a new one issu-
ed in its place at the expira-
ton of this period.
Virgin Islands Natl Bank
Christiansted Branch
February is, 1850
, 1950-03-16
WEATHER FORECAST
for the
Virgin Islands u Puerto Rice

Mostly partly cloudy except be-
coming cloudy during scattered
showers today, tonight and Fri
day. Moderate easterly to east
northeasterly winds.
Maximum temperature 70
Minimum temperature -. 70
Precipitation:
"a hours ending midnight 0.O6
Total for month O.85
Total since January LIB
Total for March 1949 ...... SO
Relative humidity
at IL a. m. 60
Wind dir & velocity ENE 20
, 1950-03-16
SURVEY

composition, family income,
etc. It must be emphasized
that information given to emu
merators must be as accurate
as possible so that a true pic
ture as to type of housing, renS
tai cost, facilities, etc. needed
can be furnished to the Fede-
raj Public Housing Authority
in Washington, whose approx
al is requisite to any ALLEGATION
of Federal funds for the pro-
ject.
During the survey Informal
ton will also be collected to
be utilized in the city planning
phase Of the low-income hous-
ing project. Frank Martocci,
SA .FH Ea =
the contracted city-planner for
the Virgin Islands, has al
ready begun work on all
three towns of the Islands. Mr..
Martocci enjoys a high reputa-
ton in the city-planning field
in the United States and in
Puerto Rico, where he has
done master planning for the
Puerto Rico Planning Board
for the past seven or eight
years.
The current survey will be
supervised by Miss Clarice
Bryan who for the past three
months has ably assisted Roy
Bornn, Chairman of the Auth
ority, and Captain Joel Adams
in carrying out the mission of.
the Authority. IntervieWers in.
both towns are selected from
local residents.
Interviewers are being as
signed to visit homes in Chris
tiansted and Frederiksted to
obtain the information requir-
ed. They will have forms
which must be completely
filled for each family. All the
information listed on these
forms is absolutely essential
to the application, without
which it would be impossible
for our Island to qualify for
the tremendously valuable aid
which is available. All infor-
nation secured will be treated
as confidential, and the public
is urged to cooperate fully
with the enumerators.
Seward seaport record., 1950-02-03
Round n Bout Town
Rowing Reporter

The engagement of Miss Marian epher to John Offield was announced at a party given by Mrs. Mae Cute kunst, Friday, Jan. 27.
 The bride-elect is a surgical nurse at the Sanatorium and has lived in Seward since last August
 MT. Offield is an employe of the Alaska Railroad
 The couple plan to be mar ried some time this month.
 Mrs. Richard Myers enter tained the members of the Nim- ble Thimble Sewing Club last Monday.
 Alex Petrovich, postmaster of NaptoWne, Alaska, reports that the lowest temperature re- corded this winter was -43 de- grees.
 Ss
 Delmar Early and Richard Huson were expected to arrive on the Denali. They have been vacationing in the States.
 Baird French, Ed Cowan, Max Roger, and John Haapala drove to Homer recently. reporting a very interesting trip with good roads.
 MT. and Mrs. Ed Schneider will be hosts this weekend to MT. and Mrs. Vernon Coumbe of Soldotna, Alaska.
 The Coumbe's were school mates of MT. Schneider in Lom- bard, Illinois. They first came to Alaska last November, de- ciding to settle down and home stead on the Kenai Peninsula. They shipped their pickup truck to Moose Pass from An chorage and drove over the new Homer highway to their present home near Soldatna.
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 Mrs. Karl w. Earth and baby son Paul of Cordova arrived Fri day, Jan. 27, by plane to visit Mrs. Barth's parents, MT. and Mrs. c. c. Harrow, at the Sew ard Sanatorium. It was Baby Barth's first plane ride.
Seward seaport record., 1950-02-03

WHEREAS, February 8, 1850 is the 10th anniversary of the founding of the Boy Scouts of America, chartered by the Con- gress of the United States, as a program for all boys of Amer ica, and
 WHEREAS, the Boy Scout Program has affected the lives of 16,50O,O00 American boys and men since 1910, and now has an active enrolment of 2,300,0O0 and
 WHEREAS, the Movement is engaged in a Crusa ade to Strengthen the Arm of liberty by giving more boys a richer experience and increase it's use fulness to the nation and
 WHEREAS, the Boy Scouts of America, great force for train ing youth in right character and good citizenship, marks it's 10th anniversary by great National Scout Jamboree at historic Val ley Forge, Pa, this coming summer;
 NOW THEREFORE, 1, Eugene Lanier, Mayor of the City of Seward in the Territory of Alas ka, do hereby proclaim the week of February 9th to 18th as Boy Scout Week." and do urge our citizens to recognize the unselfish, patriotic service being rendered to our communi ty by the volunteer Scout Lead CTS who bring the Program to the youth of our city, and in all possible ways, to further this wholesome youth program, and help the City of Seward to be adequately represented at the great National Scout Jamboree this year.
 IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF,
 I have hereunto signed my
 name officially and caused
 the Seal of the City of Sew
 ard to be affixed, this 3rd day
 of February, 1850.
 EUGENE N. LANIER, (SeaD Mayor of the City of
 Seward, Alaska.
Seward seaport record., 1950-02-03
BOWLING EXHIBITION FOR POTLATCH

Bob Forsyth announced that there will be a bowling exhibi- tion in Dreamland Bowl Satur- day morning from 1000 till 1900 o'clock. Top notch bowl CTS about town will display their skill and show how to win league games with big scores.
 Cold weather and high winds may give all but the most en- thusiastic ski addicts the idea that warm, inside sport like bowling is more comfortable, so everybody is welcome to the exhibition.
Seward seaport record., 1950-02-03
Sncwshoe Theft Brinqs Stiff Sentence

Merle Starr and Max New, both of Seward, were sentenced to six months in jail, with three months of the sentence suspend ed, in Commissioners Court, Wednesday, Feb. l, by Deputy U. s. Commissioner Anna B. Southard.
 The young men, both under 21, were charged with having stolen a pair of snowshoes on January IT, belonging to John H son, homesteader, r Homer. He had left them, ac- cording to custom, standing in the snow beside the highway.
 Starr and New sold the snow shoes in Seward the following day, claiming to have found them, but without attempting to find the owner.
 Max New has no previous police record, but Starr has been in court on several occa- sions for traffic violations. He made verbal appeal for retrial.
Seward seaport record., 1950-02-03
CITY WELCOMES PENINSULA VISITORS

On behalf of the people of the City of Seward, we take this op- portunity to welcome all those residents of the Kenai Peninsula and elsewhere who attend this First Kenai Peninsula Potlatch.
 Much time and effort has been expended by SeWardites in an effort to assure a good and inter esting time during this festival It is our hope that those who make the long trip from the out lying communities will not be disappointed.
 The entire program has been planned with a view toward en- tertainment of local people as well as visitors and the commit tee promises a maximum of fun and entertainment at.a minimum of cost.
 Let's get out and get acquaint- ed with our neighbors from out of town, and those here at home, too.
 Thanks, folks, for your whole hearted cooperation.
Seward seaport record., 1950-02-03
HIGH WINDS WORRY POTLATCH COMMITTEE

A 35 mile wind Thursday with gusts up to 50 mph, caused some damage about town, and a great amount of worry to off cials of the Potlatch committee
 Mrs. Howell reported that wires to Anchorage were down at noon yesterday and she had had no contact with the Weather Bureau there at the time. The temperature had dropped to IT degrees by afternoon, but indi- cations Cat least her hopes) seem ed to be that the wind would drop by noon today.
 A plate glass window in the Alaska Shop was shattered Thursday morning; blanks, two by-fours, car stakes, roofing, trash cans and paper floated through the air with equal ease. Telephone and power men were alerted and firemen uneasy The same high winds were re- ported on the Chain Wednesday
Seward seaport record., 1950-02-03
70 Years Growth
 With kenoi Peninsula Roods and Highways

The 1850 mid-century year is an appropriate time for us to look back at the progress made in the construction of roads on the Kenai Peninsula during the last 50 years. As far as we know the first road of any consequence that was built on the Peninsula was the Johnson Pass road which ex- tended 30 miles from Mile 34 on the Alaska Railroad to Sun rise on Turnagain Arm. This road was constructed by the Alaska Road Commission in 1906 as a wagon road and was used to freight in supplies from the railroad to the mining camps near Sunrise and Hope.
 In 1909 a sled road, later inn proved to wagon road, was built from Moose Pass via Sum- init Lake to the forks at the junction of Canyon Creek and Six Mile Creek (now Mile 58) where it connected with the Johnson Pass road.
 Progress 10 1898
 Between the years 1904, when Seward was first settled, and 1920, when road construction in the Chugach National Forest was taken over by the Bureau of Public Roads, 512 miles of road were built by the Alaska Road Commission from Seward north towards Kenai Lake Dur ing this period the Seward Radio Station road (now the airport roaO and the Nash Road were built. In 1920 the increas- ing demand for good roads caused the inauguration of a
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Seward seaport record., 1950-02-03
kusiIof Means ''Lund of Grass"
By NANETTE GROVER Sixth Grade. Kasilof

The meaning of Kasilof is Land of Grass" It comes from the Russian name "kussilof."
 The total population of Ka- silof is about 90 people in all, including 25 children.
 This year the Territorial school has reopened and there are ten children attending.
 In 1882, cannery from Old Sitka was transferred to "Kus- silof' on Cook Inlet. This was operated by the Alaska Packing Company of California. This company continued to function until the year 1924.
 Fur Farming Started in 1918
 There were few white people living at Kasilof until in 191G when the first silver fox farm ing was started. By 1925, ten prosperous fox farms had been built and continued until the 1922. During the height of fur industry at Kasilof live fox were shipped all over the world and hundreds of pelts were put on
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Seward seaport record., 1950-02-03

When out scouting for news today someone told me to tell the folks the wind is going south" No plane travel today on account of that thar wind MT. Frank Hielo from Moose Pass had an emergency opera ton last Sunday night and is recovering nicely.
 Mrs. Dorothy Edgington is feeling fine after her operation.
 E
 Mrs. George Brauillard is leaving for Anchorage to be with her husband who is i'll at the Anchorage hospital. They will take a trip to Tacoma, Washington, as soon as MT. Brauillard is able to travel.
 MT. Brauillard installed the heating plant in the new Seward school and also in the school at Kenai.
 Mrs. Lawrence Whitmore en- tertained at bridge Thursday afternoon.
 Some of the folks about town helped Vance Hit celebrate his birthday Wednesday, Feb. l.
 g
 Tommy Mover, manager of the Standard Oil Go. in Dutch Harbor, is in town for a few days visiting friends.
 ss
 Mrs. Harriet Dick had a birthday Feb. 1st. Mrs. Emma Renwald gave her a beautifully decorated cake. More of her friends remembered her with gifts and that evening she en- joyed a chop suey dinner at Murphy's.
 MT. and Mrs. Herman Reich man returned from Fairbanks Wednesday and plan on living in Seward for the rest of the season. Just before Christmas Mrs. Reichman had a nice trip Outside. She visited her parents in Oakland, California.
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 The Rainbow Girls are hav- ing a pot luck supper for the members and their guests at the Masonic Hall Thursday evening
Seward seaport record., 1950-02-03
Railroad Lifeline Of Inferior

First man to railroad in Alas ka was Walter Jones. He drove the first spike on the old Alaska Central Railroad in the spring of 1904. The pioneer Alaskan came to the Territory in 1903 with a party of 30 railroad men and worked for Alaska Central for four years. The first spike was put in at the Seward dock.
 When Jones arrived at Seward on August 28, 1903, the towns population consisted of three families. He helped lay out the present toWnsite of Seward.
 Private Don Blitch, Captain Glenn, for whom the Glenn Highway was named, and It. J. C. Castner were responsible for finding route for railroad through Alaska.
 In 1914 the railroad came to Alaska, but it was not until 1923 that one could travel from Sew ard to Fairbanks by rail. Alaska Railroads Historical Highlights:
 Authorized ,...--.... Mar. 12, 1914 Surveys begun .--------. June 1914 Final selection of
 route -...--.....--.-,..---- Early 1915 Actual construction
 begun ---.------------..--- May 191 3 Alaska Northern (71
 miles, bought ..--.-...---.----- 1916
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Seward seaport record., 1950-02-03
$50 REWARD OFFERED BY IZAAK WALTON LEAGUE

The Seward Chapter of the Izaak Walton League of America is offering $50 reward for in- formation leading 10 inc appre- hension and conviction of the person or persons who killed a COW moose in the vicinity of Mile 36 on the highway the fore part of the week of Jan. 29. 1850.
Seward seaport record., 1950-02-03

The Rainbow Girls are hav- ing a pot luck supper for the members and their guests at the Masonic Hall Thursday evening
Seward seaport record., 1950-02-03
LUTHERAN SERVICES

Lutheran Church services will be held Monday, Feb. 6, at 8 pm. at the Seward Lutheran Church with Rev. A. o. Ode gaard in charge.
Seward seaport record., 1950-02-03
Mayor Procloims Boy Seouf Week and 'ChiIdrens Dental Eeol+h Week

This is the first official Chil- dren's Dental Health Week for Seward and the sodium fluoride application program is being brought here by the railroad unit of the Alaska Department of Health to coincide with the observance of this week
 PROCLAMATION
 Whereas: The children of our community are our future citi- zens in whom are based all our hopes and aspirations; and
 Whereas: The conditions of the teeth of our children con- tribute great deal to their health and vigor; and
 Whereas: The dentists of our community, and the Alaska De- partment of Health are unself- ishly vigilant and patriotic in their concern for the dental health of our children;
 Now, therefore, as Mayor of the City of Seward, and since Feb. 9th has been proclaimed as Childrens Dental Health Day by the American Dental Asso- ciation, I hereby proclaim the Week of Feb. 9th as Childrens Dental Health Week for Seward. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and Seal this 3rd day of Feb. 1850.
 EUGENE N. LANIER. (SeaD Mayor of the City of
 Seward, Alaska
Seward seaport record., 1950-02-03

Following is the schedule for the adults who wish chest x-rays at The Railroad Unit. The chil- dren 12 and over, and the high school students will be- taken directly from their classes.
Evening star., 1950-01-22

White Sole event. Gigantic savings everything from sheets
speovers towels spreads the like Of which haven't
years. Star values white goods values big took months
market searching bring the very best quality every lowest price!
Yes seconds and euo the group while e-he sovnes
greet! If you're thrifty You'll this opportunity
TO stock up oil your linen closet needs! IA
Evening star., 1950-02-06
Scientists Ask Truman
To Revise Atom Policy.
With Stress ON Politics.
By the Associoied Press

NEW YORK, Feb. GA group
of atomic scientists yesterday
called on President Truman to
set up new commission to study
atomic energy policy-with en-
phasis on politics.
The Federation of American
Scientists, representing $500
scientists, many of whom worked
on the atomic bomb, urged that
the President act without delay."
1t said the proposed commits
sion should re-examine "the whole
issue OF our atomic policy" in an
effort to develop some real hope
OF breaking the present stubborn
deadlock"
The Federation's council also
said the American people should
know that "if we build H-bombs
the Russians will build them also. y
No Thought of Peacetime Use
I'VE must have no illusions of
security based on monopoly of a
super weapon" the statement
added.
DR.. Hugh C. Wolfe, chairman
OF the Federation and professor
OF physics at Cooper Union. said
that none of the scientists have
thought of any peacetime use of
hsslonable hydrogen"
The kind of energy that an H
bomb would release, he said was
only the kind that would 90 into
a bomb-a split and it's
over with"
Urging establishment of the
new commission, DR.. Wolfe said:
"As long as we stick to atomic
energy as an isolated issue, we
are not going to get anywhere
We must consider it also as g.
political question to be settled be-
tween the United States and Rus
sla, with the possibility of eco
nomlc concession on our part in
Evening star., 1950-02-06

blasting for an Asiatic irrigation
project.
Later he said this explosion had
occurred, but there has been no
confirmation from any other
source.
More A-BOmb Blasts.
Mr.. De Courcy said today the
Soviet scientists will touch off a
series of IL more atomic blasts
starting March 3. He did not
specify whether these would be
hydrogen or atomic bombs.
He placed the site of the blasts
as latitude 40 degrees 20-30
minutes north, longitude 80 de-
grees 1920 minutes east" This
would be approximately at the
border of the Soviet Asiatic Re
public of Kazakh and the Chinese
province of Sinkiang.
Mr.. De Courcy is now in Mar
rakesh, Morocco. His statement
today was issued from his home
at Gerard's Cross, Buckingham
shire,
Evening star., 1950-02-06
German Paper Says
Fuchs Never Hid His
Leftist Convictions
BY the Associated Press

BERLIN, Feb. 6.-The British
controlled German newspaper Die
Welt said today that DR.. Klaus
Fuchs, naturalized British scien-
t1st accused of giving away atomic
secrets to Russia, had been in
terested in left-wing politics since
boyhood.
The 38-year- -old, German-born
Fuchs, master mind of the British
governments atomic effort, was
jailed last Friday in London on
two charges of leaking research
secrets to a potential enemy.
Die Welt said he was known in
his native city of Kiel as "the little
red fox"-but only because of the
color of his hair. Earlier descrip-
tions of Fuchs have described him
as dark-haired.
He never concealed his political
feeling from any one," the news
paper added. -,
Fuchs is scheduled for trial next
Friday in London.
History of Family Given.
Die Welt gave the history of
the Fuchs family:
The father, Emil Fuchs, for
merly was professor of theology
at Kiel Pedagogical Academy. He.
had two sons, Klaus and Gerhard.
and daughter.
When Hitler seized power in
1888, the professor lost his posi-
ton because he was a socialist
and Quaker He was imprisoned
for a month.
A promising mathematics and
physics student, Klaus obtained
a British scholarship to attend
Oxford. His decision to emigrate
from Nazi Germany stemmed en-
tirely from his left-wing political
convictions, which he scorned to
hide. There was no question of
racial persecution; his family was
accounted Aryan under the Nazi
racial laws.
Klaus's sister married a worker
who was thrown into Torgau
concentration camp in 1888 by
the Nazis. After long period,
the husband escaped with the
help of his wife, who provided him
with civilian clothes for his flight.
Sister Committed Suicide.
Although her husband regained
his liberty, her marriage collapsed.
She took her own life in grief.
The brother. Gerhard, was ar
rested by the Gestapo in 1887 for
Illegal activities and sentenced toI
long imprisonment.
Their father left Germany in
1943 for Switzerland. Although
he was in his 70s he completed
two books while in temporary ex-
lie: "Leonhard Ragaz prospect of
Our Time)" and christianity and
Socialism"
After the wars end in 1945 Prof
Fuchs returned to Germany and
visited in Frankfurt and Berlin.
He then received an invitation
from the University of Leipzig, in
the Soviet zone, where he now is
professor of theology,