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The Nome nugget., 1953-09-21
lOO-Ton C-lN Clobemaster Lands,
 Takes Off From Floating Ice Island
By ELTON c. FAY

THULE AIR BASE, Greenland, R-An Air Force C-124 Globe master, biggest transport plane in operation, landed and took off from T3, the snow-flecked float ing ice island just 100 miles from the North Pole.
 Newsmen who visited Thule last week talked with officials who helped plan and carry out the daring landing of the 100-ton plane which stands as high as a three-story house.
 The giant transport made the flight from Thule to T3, 800 miles to the north, in May to carry in a tractor and other heavy equip ment. At that time T3 had a land ing strip 5000 feet long, on which there was about three feet of light newly fallen snow. The ice island has been used for two years as ' a weather observation base.
 Motion pictures of the landing showed the big transport touch down, lurch dangerously as the snow gripped the wheels, then settle back on its wheels. The full force of it's propellors, turned to reverse pitch, stopped the planes roll toward the end of the strip and the cliff-like edge of the is land.
 The tractor was rolled down the ramp of the plane, started up and used to clear the runway of snow so the transport could make it's takeoff run for the return to Thule.
 The usual supply flights to the floating island are by ski-equip- ped CAY, two-engine airplanes dwarfed in size and weight by the C-124.
 The island boasted a 6,000-foot landing strip, as long as many commercial airfields in the US, until a few weeks ago.
 The runway was on the surface of a fresh water lake, formed by the thawing of ice during the po- lar summer and frozen to a depth of several feet in the winter.
 But something happened to the lake. The water drained away and the runway was gone.
 Some Air Force men are in clined to blame scientists among the personnel at T3 for the loss of their long runway. They say the scientists bored holes into the bottom of the ice island, through the lake, to determine ice thick ness and that when the spring thaw came the lake drained away through the test borings.
 The ice island now has only a 2,5OO-foot runway, enough to land the specially equipped C-47s but much too short for another at tempt to use the giant C-124s.
The Nome nugget., 1953-09-21
R Al DIO PROGRAM M ARMED FORCES RADIO SERVICE - NOME FIELD

1O:05-You be Weatherman 10:30-Lucky U Ranch 10: 55-So1itary Singer 11:O0-Curt Massey 11:15-Lina Romay II: 30-Honor Roll of Jazz 11:45-the Bob & Ray Show 12:00-This I Believe 12:05-Bob Hope Show 12:30-Platter Parade
 1:00-Steve Allen
 1:15-HillbiI1y Jamboree 2:00-News
 2:15-FrancesFarewe 2:30-Radio Music Hall 3:00-Heard at Home 3:30-DoWn Memory Lane 4:00-News
 4:O5-Baseball Game
 5:30ABud's Bandwagon 6:00-NeWs
 6: 6:15-Sportscope
 6:30-Rev. Romp, Requests 7:30-Cavalcade of Amrca 8:00-Great Gildersleeve 8:30-Bing Crosby
 9:00-December Bride
 9:30-Suspense 1O:00-Requestfully Yours 11:00-World News 11:15-Play Boys 11:30-At Ease 12:00-One Night Stand 12: :30-Music from the Mite 1:OO-Sign Off
The Nome nugget., 1953-09-21
MISSES HER FORTUNE"

UTICA, NY, RAThe victim sought police aid in locating a client accused of stealing $37O and a diamond ring. The com plainant identified herself as a fortune teller.
The Nome nugget., 1953-09-21

Richard Barnes. summer visitor who made many friends among the teen-agers, is attending the Baptist College in Phoenix, Ariz.
The Nome nugget., 1953-09-21

notifying 14,OOO at three of it's plants not to report for work on Monday.
 Chrysler blamed shortage of trim material from supplies for it's Plymouth cars for the shut down.
The Nome nugget., 1953-09-21

The average passenger car in the United States uses about $50 gallons of gasoline year.
The Nome nugget., 1953-09-21
Monday

4:O5-Baseball Game 5:30-Bud's Bandwagon 6:0O-News 6:15-Sportscope 6:30-Rev. Romp, Requests 7:3O-Portrait of a City 8:0O-Ozzie and Harriet 8:30-Gordon McRae Show 9:0O-Meet Millie 9:15-Bell Ring 9:30-FBI in Peace & War 10:00-Requestfully Yours 11:O0-World News 11:15-Jo Stafford 11:30-Music Master Works 12:O0-One Night Stand 12:30-Music from the Mite 1:00-Sign Off
 Tuesday 6:30-Tennessee Ernie 6:45-Rise and Shine 7:OO-NeWs
 7:15-Rise and Shine 8:00-NeWs
 8:O5-Rise and Shine 8:30-Morning Devotions 8:45-Ronnie Kemper 9:00-Jack Kirkwood 9:15-Bell Ring 9:30-You Name It I0:00-John Conte
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-01-10

The appearance of the Syracuse
football team in the Orange Bowl
will mark the first poSt-season
bowl contest for any Syracuse
grid squad.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-01-10
Colleges Will
Decide NCAA
Power Today
BY ARTHUR EDISON

WASHINGTON R-The nations
colleges decide today whether they
want to give the National Cole
gate Athletic Association (NCAA)
more power to police sports.
With the argument over televi-
sing football out of the way, TEN.
porarily at least. the NCAA winds
up its 47th annual convention by
voting on a batch of proposed
amendments to ISIS constitution.
The bulk of these amendments
deal with enforcing NCAA rules
The proposed changes are com.
plex-it takes a page and half of
print to list them-but the objective
is pretty well stated by the mem
bershlp committee, the NCAA's en-.
forcement agency:
These suggestions are designed
to strengthen the administrative
and enforcement machinery of the
various conferences and NCAA to
the end that these agencies can
successfully meet the challenge be-
fore them"
Yesterday the NCAA took a cou-
pie OF steps which put a little more
status into the status quo.
No matter what college presi-
dents may think, college athletic
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-01-10
CONCH CAGERS FACE GESU HERE TONIGHT
freshman Bakehnl~ Sets Np Scoring Record With 10 P0ut

officials are all for continuing post
season football bowl games.
A recent poll of presidents
showed a majority against bowl
games, but in the NCAA voice
vote not one mo" was heard.
The vote on televising football
games for next year was exactly
according to predictions:
For controlled televiSion 172.
Against controlled television Is.
The convention, in a secret bal
lot, was adopting a report pre-
pared by its TV committee. The
details of the 1853 program must
be worked out by a new commit
tee, to be named sometime after
this convention closes.
But the new committee isn't GO
ing TO have much of a chance to
get lost. It's course was carefully
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-01-10
SEC Basketball
RaceIsH Hot One
BY JACK SlMMS
Associated Press Sports Writer

Associated Press Sports Writer
It's a wee bit crowded today al
the top of the Southeastern Confer.
ence basketball standings, but to.
nights activities will probably thin
the ranks.
Coach Joel EaveS' Auburn Tigers
opened their Conference season
last night and skidded past the
Georgia Bulldogs 64-59. Auburn now
has an 81 mark in all games.
Junior center Bob Miller started
in place of regular Bob Fem, and
it was Miller who made the differ
ence. He pushed % points through
the hoop for the Tigers.
Guard Zippy Morocco got 80
points for the losers and set a
single game individual Georgia
scoring record.
The victory put Auburn in a tie
with Tulane for second place in
the SEC race. LSU and Florida are
at the top of the heap, each with
two Conference victories.
Five games, four of them Con
ference engagements, are SEIZED
uled for tonight.
LSU, a preseason pick to win
the crown, goes against MissisSip-
pi State at Starkville. Bob Petit,
SO Tiger all-SEC center last sea-
son and LSU's big gun again this
year, will probably miss the game
because of a virus infection. With
out Petit the Tigers may be in
for real trouble.
Coach Cliff Wells Tulane Green
les, who downed Vanderbilt 1858
last Saturday in their only SEC
game, take on Mississippi in Ok
ford. The Rebels fell before Ten
nessee S1-71 in their only league
contest. A victory for Tulane would
establish the Greenies as a top
contender for the league crown.
Georgia Tech, winner of only one
game in eight tries, faces Wander
bilt in Nashville. The. CommodoreS
have lost three road games but
have won all six of their home
games.
Alabama and Georgia are both
looking for their first SEC victory
in contest at Athens. The Tide
has suffered two Conference set
backs and Is in the cellar. Geor-
gas only league game was with
Auburn last night.
Tennessee entertainS Davidson at
Knoxville in one that won't affect
Conference standings.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-01-10
Sports Roundup
BY ED c0RRIGAN
(For GAYLE TALBOTl

NEW YORK Up - If you think
John Landry, the Australian young
Ster who intends to run the four
minute mile before long, is the
only bloke among the track set who
is shooting for the proverbial stars
you're wrong.
Maybe it's contagious, but Nal
Whitfield, late of the United States
Air Force, is going Landry two
better. Marvellous Nal, the Olym-
pic 8OO-meter champion twice run
ming, thinks he can set records in
the 500, 600 and 1,OOO-yard events.
If he does, he'll hold four world
titles, since he already has a share
in the 1892 half-miIe record with
Sidney Woodserson, the English
man.
Well, Whitfield probably is one
of the most serious athletes in
training these days, and if he says
he can turn the trick, you've got
to take him seriously. But he GER
tainly has been no great shakes
indoors the past few years.
II intend to remedy that impress
sion, though" he said. after all
l was in the service 912 years and
| didn't have much time for train
ing. Then when l began to lose
everyone said my long stride was
not suited to indoor running"
He said he had to unlrearn some
of the things he learned on this
side of the Atlantic.
You know, in this country we
usually swing out around the
turns. But when I was in Ger
many recently, l learned that
could do better by sticking right to
the curb of the track. 1t was a rev.
elation to me and | think it prob.
ably will help me in my efforts
to break the records"
The American indoor season
opens this Saturday with meets
in New York and Washington.
will start in New York
in the 600.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-01-10
Auburn Back To
Go Under Knife

MONTGOMERY, Ala, R-Doc-
tors today will try to repair an
injured knee which kept Vince
Dooley, Auburn back, out of play
most of the 1852 football season.
Dooley is star basketball play
err but is being held out of the
current season because of the oper-
alton. The Mobile youth will be
a senior this fall.
After starring in Auburn's open
ing game with Maryland. Dooley
injured his knee in the following
tilt with Mississippi The operation
Is to repair damaged knee cart.
ilage.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-01-10

Tulane'S 1883 varsity football
schedule calls for seven South
eastern Conference foes plus
Michigan and Army.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-01-10
Psse u THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Saturday, January 10,
Pro Pete Fleming Leads
Bling Crosby Golf Tourney
By RUSS NEWLANn

PEBBLE BEACH, Calf. R-The
unexpected becomes the expected
at Bing Crosby's links clambakes
land so reformed prizefighter
turned pro golfer led the field to.
day into the second round of the
54-hole $4,000 tournament.
Pete Fleming, 35-year-old for
mer leather pusher, took the top
spot with his fine six-under-par Sc
yesterday. Punching Pete, who
won go of IS boxing matches as a
Hot Springs, Ark, welterweight in
his earlier days, carded a Snappy
1892.
That showed the way to such
stars as former U. S. Open Cham
pion Lloyd Mangrum, and present
open kingpin Julius Boros, among
others.
Mangrum, winner of the big Los
Angeles Open last Monday, carded
first round 81 and teed off today
tied with Jack Burke Jr., second
leading money winner last year,
and with Jim Terrier, San Fran
cisco champaigner.
Open Champion Boros, from
Mid Pines, N. c., who topped 'em
all in money earnings in 1852,
started his second round in a five
way tie at SO.
Crooner Crosby, who pays all
the bills for this pro-amateur in
Vitational and gives the profits to
charity, probably wouldn't be sur
priSed if Fleming won. Things hap
pen in his personal golfing party.
Last year, the second round was
washed out by a heavy rain. A
few years ago, a prominent golf
official was clouted by an irate
player because of personal differ
enceS.
Following the first four pro
leaders into the second round were
GO shooters: Ed Furgol, st. Louis;
Art Doering, Cincinnati and Doug
Ford, Harrison, N. Y.
Grouped close up along with
Boros at So were Bob Watson,
White Plains. N. Y; Cary Middle
coff, Memphis; Bill Nary, Los An
geleS: and John GeertSen, San
Francisco.
Jimmy Demaret, last years pro
winner, started his second round
in 20 bracket which included Joe
Moore Jr., White Plains, N. Y;
Lawson Little, Pebble Beach; Roy
Moe, Spokane; Ted Knoll, New
Hartford, N. Y; Ton Bolt, Dur
ham, N. c.; Joe Kirkwood Jr.,
Grossinger, N. Y; John Bulla,
V ernOna, Pa; John Barnum,
Grand Rapids, Mich; Fred Haw-
kins, Ell Paso; Marvin bud"
Ward, Great Falls, Mont; Walter
Franklin, Mich; and |
Chuck Congdon, Tacoma, Wash.
The field will be cut to the so |
ow teams after today's round.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-01-10

Ralph H. Young, Michigan
State Director OF Athletics, was
an associate track coach for the
1882 US. Olympic team.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-01-10
Locals Seek To
Bounce Back In
Win Column In
Battle With GeSll

The Key West High School court
squad and the GeSu of Miami five
will be matching identical records
lOnight when they meet on the
high school hardwood in a battle
slated to get underway at 800 p.
n.
Coach Win Jones' aggregation
will be fighting for a chance to
Jump back into the win column
after absorbing 52-35 loss at the
hands of Pompano on Tuesday
evening there.
The ConchS rank as slight favorit-
es in tonight's contest due to the
fact that they are performing on
their home court for the second
time in the current season.
ut will be a close One," Coach
Win Jones averred today, "but if
we can find the right combination
and click for four quarters, we can
win tonight"
Gesu will be tough one for the
ConchS, however. They are the 1852
District Champions when they
whipped the crack Pompano five
into a tough battle and then went
into the semi finals for the state
Glass B title last year.
Both Key West and Gesu have
lost tits TO Homestead by identi-
cal scores in the current campaign.
Gesu will have the advantage in
height with the Conchs boasting of
just one man, Jimmy Solomon, who
goes over the six foot mark. They
also have considerably more ex-
perience than the locals.
The Key West foul shooting is
one bright spot in the picture. In
heir loss this week to Pompano,
they clicked for 13 out of 20 foul
shots. II was this department that
kept them in the running in the
early stages of the ballgame when
they sank eight out of nine from
the foul line.
Bob Sawyer, who has played
s. e fine basketball to date for
I . ConchS will get the nod to
{ t at center with Jimmy Solo
! and Lucy Gonzalez going to
I Gst at the forward positions
) Logun and Glynn Archer will
! see a lot of action at the
{ 4 spots.
Jayvee squad will meet the
Il .9ran Church five in a pre-
lin nary game slated to get under
way at TOO p. m.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-01-10

DR.. Hartley Price. director and
coach Of the Florida State Uni
versity gymnastics team, was
born in Brisbane. Australia.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-01-10
|USO-NCCS TOPS
Navy Wives
Bowling Loop
By rRupY COCHRAN

After a two week intermission
the ladies were back in the alleys
to wrap up the first half of the
bowling league. Although the USO-
Noes surrendered three points to
the NavSta CPO team, they had a
sufficient lead to retain the first
place position.
The NavSta CPO try as they
might remained in the cellar by
only one point, but they did have
the good fortune to cop the high
scratch team game for the week
with total of 744.
The three high single games
were: June Garfield l79; Ginny
KoraSka 172; and Edith Holt :
ITO. June's score of 459 was high
triple for the week and OpDev-
Sta took high scratch team set with
a 1866.
The league high scores have not
been topped. which are:
League High Single June Cam
field 218
League High Triple Ruby Cal
dwell SIS
High Average. lst half Ruby
Caldwell Isl
League High Scratch Team Game
USSO-NCCS 1863
League High Scratch Team Set =
US0-NCCS 234l
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-01-10
Feat Performed
AS Ashland, Ky.
Team Topples
BY DAVE DILEs


| RIO GRANDE, o. IA modest
young man who once feared he
would never be strong enough tc
play basketball today held the ma.
TONS individual collegiate scoring
record with the amazing mark OF
116 points in a single game.
He is Clarence Bevo) Francis,
6-foot, 9-inch freshman center for
tiny Rio Grande College. Francis
amassed 116 points last night on
AZ field goals and % free throws
as Rio Grande toppled Ashland
(Ky) College here 150-85.
The $50 points gave Rio Grande
the national record for team
scoring, eclipsing the total estab-
lished by Beloit College a few
years ago.
BeVO'S performance erased the
previous Individual small college
high of 81 set in 1941 by Jack
Duncan of the same Rio Grande
College. Paul Arizin holds the ma
jor college record of IS points,
scored with Villanova in 1949.
Believe-it-or-not Bevo, who won't
graduate from high school for two
days, spurned offers from 60-odd
schools to enroll at Rio Grande,
which can count only 81 full-time
students.
Now, after IS straight wins and
903 points which makes him the
country's leading scorer, Francis
says he's more sure than ever
before that 1 did the right thing
in coming to Rio Grande."
The 20 year old phenomenon,
married and father of a 5-month-
old son, lacked a couple of high
school credits when he came to
Rio Grande last fall. So he's been
catching up" on his high school
work while maintaining a &C"
average in the required number
of college courses.
Bevo'S only year of high school
basketball was played at Wells
vile, o., under Newt Oliver, who
also gained nationwide promi-
nence in basketball at Rio Grande.
Francis suffered from anemia for
two years and an eligibility ruling
kept him out another high school
season.
When Oliver accepted the coach
ing job at the little Southern Ohio
school, Bevo told his coach he
wanted to go along, Oliver tried
to discourage the lad who had
scored TIC points as a high school
senior and had been named to the
All-Ohio squad.
Oliver said he told Bevo, you'll
be better off at a big school, and
you're sure to make AIl-America."
Bevo learned his basketball by
practicing most of his weekends
for three years in an old barn
near his home. Bevo said he and
several other youngsters worked
at odd jobs to help pay the cleo
trio bill for lights in the barn.
Wed go up to the barn every
Friday night and wouldn't come
put again until Sunday night
playing basketball most all the
time" Bevo said. Wed even buy
food and take it up there, and we
slept in the hay"
Bevo says his teammates de.
serve the credit for his success.
IF they didn't give me- all the
breaks they do. | don't know where
I'd be-" he said after last nights
breaking performance.
Il don't care much about the
All-America team, but would
ike to play in Madison Square
Garden with my Rio Grande
cam" he added.
With this years schedule only |
half completed and three years of |
remaining, it appeared
good bet that the big boy is not I
through revising the record books
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-01-10
'Castellani Whips
Jones Fri. Night

NEW YORK R-Rocky Castel-
lani's next step up the road toward
the middleweight title is a Feb. 6
date with Pierre Langlois of Paris.
The faSt-stepping boxing master
from Luzerne, Pa, got past Ralph
(Tiger) Jones, "the upset king"
from Yonkers, N. Y. last night by
winning a split decision in a To-
round 60 before $50 paying $16,-
746.
Castellani weighed 159, Jones
154.
Johnny Vaught. head football
coach at Mississippi, introduced
the Split-T attack to the Deep
South in l947.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-01-10

marked out in advance by the con-
vention.
AS a result. the average tele-
vision fan probably will see about
the same program he saw last fall.
Then only one game was tele-
vised nationally each week, and
no team was allowed to appear
nationally more than once.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-01-10
Boxing Results
By The Assoeiated Press

BY The Associated Press
NEW YORK-Rocky Castellani,
1894, Luzerne, Pa. outpointed
Ralph Tiger" Jones, 154l4, Yon-
kerS, N. Y. 10.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.-Roy
Andrews, IS9, Boston. outpointed
Sonny Luciano, 142, Paterson, N.
j. 10.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-01-10
Sports Mirror
BY The Associated Press

hy The Associated Press
TODAY A YEAR AGO - Jerry
Coleman, star second baseman Of
the New York Yankees, was re.
called to active duty by the Ma.
rine Corps.
FIVE YEARS AGO - Belmont
Race Track announced that the
value of the Jockey Club Gold Cup
was increased from SIS, 900 to $500,
300 for the 194S season.
TEN YEARS AGO - Francisco
Segura defeated Billy Talbert. 4.6.
81, So, &c, 6-3. in the Pan Amer.
lean tennis finals.
TWENTY YEARS AGO - Cor.
nell announced its abandonment OF
all sports in intercollegiate com
petition, excluding basketball. for
The remainder of the season.