Uranium Rush Starts In Alaska
Spurred By U. S. Offer Of Bonus
By JOHN J. RYAN
United Pre·» Siaff Correspond
ent
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (U.P.
—A $10000 bonus offered bj
^ the Atomic Energy Commissioi
to any prospertor locating a size
able deposit of uanium ha:
started Alaska's biggest "stam
pede" since the gold rush day:
of '98.
Prospectors roaming Alaska':
wilderness have discarded thci;
gold pans and sluice boxes
They're hunting the hills fo:
signs of pitchblende, gumite
carnotite and other uranium
φ bearing minerals.
B. D. Stewart, territorial com
missioner of mines, siad his of
fices have been besieged bi
prospectors seeking informatior
(in uranium. He said pamphlet;
prepared by the AEC givint
methods of locating and reco^
nizing minerals containing ur
anium are being distributed.
Gold Doesn't Pr.y
'The prospectors are hittin;
φ. for the hills in great numbers
but they aren't looking for gold,'
he said. "With the price fixe'
and production costs soaring
you can't make gold mining pay
"But a uratiium strike woulc
certainly pay. In addition to thi
bonus, the government is guar
anteeing minimum prices an<
even paying transportation cos4s
of the mineral in some cases "
Stewart said he expected the
rush to hit full swing next sum
mer when all prospectors v/ill
have assembled the necessary
gear and studied up on method?
of locating uranium.
"We know there are uranium
bearing minerals in the ter
ritory, but we don't know how
large the deposits are," he said
If uranium is found in large
quantities, future generations of
Alaskans may reminisce on the
"uranium rush days of '49."
Fisherman Lands Deer
Far Out On Lake
OSHKOSH, Wis. (U.P.)— An'
Oshkosh angler failed to get
any fish but he didn't come
home empty-handed.
R. J. Striztel was having lit
tle luck on Lake Winnebago one
morning when he spotted p.
young doe swimming several
miles off shore.
He rowed over, hauled her in
the boat and took her to shore
He turned the deer over to a
game warden.
Mukden has 300,000 starving
because of Communist blockade.
Japanese Pupils
And Teachers
Play Hookey
TOKYO (U.P.) — Japanese
school children who play hookey
have to be careful or they will
run into their teachers at the
swimming holes and pool halls
The situation is deplorable, ac
cording to ministry of eduction
officials, who made a private
check on schools and found 40
per cent of the teachers absent.
In one prefecture, 60 per cent
of the principals were playing
hookey the day the officials
dropped in unexpectedly.
It's probably embarrassing for
all concerned when the teachers
and pupils meet on the street
during school hours. Of course,
there always is the possibility
that they got together in ad
vance and decided to go to a
ball game.
High education officials give
ι the teachers an "out" by sug
gesting that some of the in
structors might have to skip
' school a few days each montn
and work at other jobs to make
a living.
However, it is admitted that
even school teachers probably
don't like being indoors when
the grass is green and the wat
er in the village pond is warm
The thing that really upsets
the ministry of education offi
cials is a report that teachers
in one school have been thi ow
ing sak2 parties during school
hours. Japanese sake is a potent
rice wine that gets quick re
sults when served hot.
Ministry of education offi
cials said these sake parties have
got to stop because it is undem
ocratic for women teachers to
wait on male colleagues by serv
ing drinks to them and "obey
ing their orders as though men
were supersior to women."
Pirate Gold, If Any,
Eludes Charleston
CHARLESTON. S. C. (UP.)—
Rumors and stories of buried
treasure here are as perpetual
as the gulls still wheeling over
harbor waters which once float
ed pirate ships of Teach, Bon
ney, and Bonnet.
Yet, a single copper coin of
the colonial government of
South Carolina is the only booty
ever located in this historic city.
Family treasures, buried in
haste during the Civil War, have
been turned up. But the gold
and jewels of pirate days re
main unaccounted for, except in
words.
During WPA days, workmen
on a street paving project re
portedly unearthed a pot of
gold. The treasure was said to
date from colonial times. It lat
er developed that only a few
coins were found in a glass jar.
It had been buried on the sito
of an old, abnadoned race track.
The story that silver "bits"
(the eighth part of Spanish
pieces of eight) were dug from
a drain was never proved.
Only the single copper coin Is
evidence of buried treasure.
Nobody Knows Horses
So Thay Have To Go
ROCHESTER, N. Y. (U.P.)—
The days of work horses at the
Monroe County penitentiary
farm are numbered.
The penitentiary superintend
ent, Thomas Owen, says the
farm's six two-horse teams are
on their way out because it's
a rare inmate these days who
knows how to handle a horse.
In past years, Owen says, in
mates assigned to the farm han
dled the horses competently. But
times change, and Owen thinks
he'll have to mechanize the
farm.
Excavators Find
Picture Of Life
7,000 Years Ago
BAGHDAD (U.P.)—The pos
sibility that monogamous mar
riages were the order of the
day in South Irak 7,000 years
ago is indicated in discoveries
made this season by an Iraq
Museum expedition._
The Iraqui archaeologists re
sumed excavations begun last
year at Tell Abu Shahrain, sit2
of ancient temple-dotted Eridu,
15 miles south of Ur-of-the
Chaldees. They came upon a
cemetery with tombs large
enough to accommodate more
than one body.
Liben (baked sand) built, thr
200-odd graves so far excavated
were, in many cases, found to
contain the remains of a man
and his wife, and sometimes
their child. The tomb ecidently
was re-opened after the firjt
burial to admit the others.
Pet Dog Buried
Aiie CALdvuiuis luuuu in υ 't;
instance upon the grave of a 15
year-old boy the perfectly pre
served skeleton of a dog, per
haps his favorite hound.
In a tomb containing a fem
ale's body they discovered for
the first time in the history oi
archaelogy the male version of
Woolley's famous "lizard" deity,
consisting of humand body with
lizard-shaped face, apparently
placed there to protect her in
another life. Another tomb
yielded what is perhaps the ear
liest clay model of a sailing boat.
The discoveries show that the
people of the region at that time
believed in a new life atter
death. They also indicate chat
monogamous marriages existed
then. The dead in the cemetery
were found lying at full length,
their feet pointing south-east
ward, with beautiful, painted
pottery as food containers, and
other possessions around them.
Once Island City
An ornamental waist-band, the
head-fringe of a dress, providea
some idea of the clothes in j
which the dead were buricc
when Eridu was an island city |
Legends contained in tablets :
excavated at the site show the ι
place, now surrounded by mileô]
upon miles of desert, to have I
been a Persian Gulf port in its |
day. One of them tells of Adatn,
legendary Sumerian fisherman,
whose sailboat was caught in a
violent storm· and he "summon
ed the wind and broke it wings."
It has hitherto been assumed
that the earliest settlers in the
drying delta of South Iraq were
those associated with A1 'Ubaict
period, 4500 B.C.-3800 B.C., de
riving their name from a mound,
near Ur, where traces of their
culture were first discovered in
1924.
But the Iraqi excavators came
this year upon an older culture.
Digging in the ruins of the stag
ed-tower temple, they came at
a strata some 30 feet beneath
the surface where the familiar
A1 'Ubaid pottery disappeared
all of a sudden, giving place to
a completely new class of ela
borately painted vessels.
Northampton
Court To Start
Jackson—Northampton County
Superior Court will open for
the August term the week of
August 2-7, with Judge W. H.
S. Burgwyn of Woodland pre
siding.
At a meeting of the North
ampton Board of Commissioners
Thursday afternoon the follow
ing jury list for the term was
drawn:
Gaston: Mrs. B. W. Rook, Wal
ter A. Owens and Burley P.
Wheeler.
Jackson: James Pierce, Rob
ert G. Summer, Raymond Parks.
Kirby: Garland D. Barnes, A.
M. Daniels, R. E. Turner, An
drew Vann, C. H. Revelle, Rog
er M. Futrell. Troy Martin,
Ralph Davis, L. T. Vinson, R. J.
Warren, L. E. Boone, Irvin
Mann, W. E. Martin.
Rich Square; H. K. Burgwyn,
R. C. Duke, C. V. Mitchell.
Roanoke: Vernice C. Davis,
Kermit Barnes.
Seaboard: W. L. Norvell, JB. G.
Long, John C. Edwards, ** John
Whitehead.
Wiccacanee: C. W. Burgess.
Laurence Wheeler, R. S. Overby,
Rufus Rose, Woodrow W. Da
vis, H. H. Davis.
Occoneechee: R. D. Taylor. Ζ.
L. Davenport, Jr.
CHILD COLORED BY
CRAYONS
San Mateo, Calif.—Diane Pas
torelli, 4, was rushed to a hos
pital when she started turning
blue. Investigation proved that
it was because she had been eat
ing colored crayons. Her condi
tion was said to be serious.
Genuine Panama hats are not
products of Panama, as their
name implies, but are made in
Ecuador.
Newport Socialities
Cherish Memories
NEWPORT, R. I. (U.P.)—Or.cc
a $9,000,000 Vanderbilt sho \
place, "The Breakers" has bee/
given to the Preservation Soc
iety of Newport County to be
come a sort of museum of higl·
society.
The big stone mansion over
looking the Atlantic once wa:
staffed by some 60 servants. I
has been unoccupied in recenl
years.
It contains many valuable
paintings and a famed mosaic ο
Pompeii.
Countess Lizio Szechenyi, wi
dow of a Hungarian diploma
and niece of Mrs. Corneliu<
Vanderbilt, gave it to the socie
ty.
Sheriff Told To Take
His Railroad Away
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (U.P.)
The Greene County court rulec
that John T. Pierpont mus
stick to sheriffing and give uj
engineering, at least on the
court house lawn.
Sheriff Pierpont installed £
toy train on the court house
lawn. He planned to operate i
for profit, the court said.
The sheriff said he wanted tc
charge fares to pay for the elec·
tricity.
Pierpont packed up his trair
and moved it to a skeet-shootini
range, which he also operates
United States study urge·
plant dispersal for safety in war
!i
News Of Soil
Conservation
By M. W. Shugart, Jr.
A. C. Wilcox of near Brinkley
ville, a cooperator of the Fish
ing Creek soil Conservation dis
trict, has recently had a fish
pond built on his farm. Mr. Wil
cox plans to stock his pond with
bream and bass. Technicians of
the Soil Conservation Service as
sisted in locating and surveying
this pond.
J. T. Cook of Brinkleyville is
another Halifax County farmer
who believes in contour culti
vation. Mr. Cook runs all his
rows parallel to the erraces and
says that by doding this he is
saving both his top soil and fer
tilizer.
W. B. Carroll of Tillery has
made application to the district
for a soil conservation plan to
be developed for his farm.
W. T. Clement has had a soil
conservation plan worked up for
his farm near Enfield. Mr. Cle
ment has seeded some of his land
to permanent pasture, terraced
his cropland, and is developing
an improved rotation for his
farm. These practices are in
cluded in a complete soil and
water conservation program.
Claude Warren, Sr. of the
Bowers Cross Roads section
seeded two acres of land to per
manent pasture last spring. La
dino clover and orchard grass
was seeded on this pasture.
Roller Skate Device
Fixes Flat Tires
NEW YORK (U.P.)—Ever find
yourself in the middle of no
where with a flat tire and 110
jack?
Mildred George did. She was I
determined that it wouldn't hao-1
pen again.
Mrs. Georgt announced her
antidote for that "get out and ;
walk to the nearest telephone ' I
business. She's invented a de- (
vice called na "auto skate."
It looks like an elongated rol) 1
er skate. It weighs 18 pounds
and has six wheels, with a cra
dle in the middle. There is alsc
a small detachable steel ramp.
When you get a flat all you
have to do is:
Put the ramp In front of the
flat tire. Attach the skate to the
front of the ramp. Drive on. De
tach the ramp. Drive to the
nearest gas station.
Texas Citrus Cheap But
Not Its By-Prodiicts
McALLEN, Tex. (U.P.)—Citrus
prices with grapefruit going for
as little as $2 a ton, were down
this season.
But not citrus by-products, es
pecially molasses made from cit
rus peel.
"When the Citrus By-Products
Co. opened its plant six years
ago molasses sold for $12 a ton,'
its manager, R. B. McLeash said.
"Now we get $47."
So far the molasses has been
used for animal feed but the
company is experimenting with
Northamptonians
To Decide On
Beer, Wine Sale
Jackson—Registration for vot
ing in the beer and wine refer
endum which will take place
September 1 in Northampton
County will begin August 7 and
will continue on August 14 and
21 at the various precincts in
the county, it was announced by
Chairman of the County Board
of Elections W. H. S. Burgwyn
Jr.
The election on September 1
will decide whether or not beer
and wine shall be sold legally
in Nortthampton County. The
referendum was called after a
petition was presented to the
County Board of Elections, sign
ed by 888 registered voters.
Chairman Burgwyn stated
that August 28 has been de
signated as Challenge Day.
No special registration will be
inaugurated, the chairman said.
Voters already qualified and
registered who voted in the last
election for a member of the
General Assembly may vote in
the coming election, he stated.
Those persons who have be
come of age or who in other
way are qualified to vote and
who are not registered, may do
so at the time set.
Meat production under Feder
al inspection for the week end
ed June 5 totaled 270 million
pounds.
processing it for human con
sumption.
SUGGESTED SCHEDULES FOR
BEACH TRIPS FROM ROANOKE R.
TRAfLWAVS TO
VA.BEACH
RETURNING
Leaving
Va. Beach
5:00 P.M.
7:00 P.M.
Midnight
ONE WAY $2.45—ROUND TRIP S4.45
(plus lax)
CALL UNION BUS STATION
For Schedules lo Moore's Lake
at Dutch Gap, Va.
THE WELDON JUNIOR
° CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Presents
THE SECOND ANNUAL
"MEET MISS WELDON"
WEDNESDAY,
JULY, 21
5 'Til 6
American Legion Center, Concert by Jimmy
Livingston and his Orchestra.
6 P. M.
American Legion Center — Brunswick Stew
Supper, $1.00 per plate — All you can eat.
9 'Til 1
YVeldon High School Gym — Crowning of
"Miss YVeldon" and . . .
DANCE
To the Music of
JIMMIE LIVINGSTON
' AND HIS ORCHESTRA
Admission:
$1.50 per person (including tax)
SEMI-FORMAL
ELFIN CAP—Sustaining the
mood of this summer's pop
ular close-cropped hair-do,
milliner Mago Hayes de
signs a pointed red felt hat
that sits far back on the
head with its brim at the
back. It is trimmed with
black braid and silk cord,
which ties beneath the chin
DON'T FAIL TO SEE
MADAM GAIL
American Palmist
Tells your past, present, and fu
ture. Gives never failing advice.
She CAN and WILL help you.
Permanently located between
Roanoke Rapids and Weldon
Look for hand sign
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