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The Nome Nugget
Nome, Nome County, Alaska
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Pearse Walsh, president of the Chamber of Commerce, receives a letter from the Asst. Secretary of Defense stating that the Air Force has selected locations for 1963 missile complexes, but soil borings have been completed in other areas including Alaska, Hawaii, and Guam for future plans. Local correspondence on a possible Sawtooth Range site is under consideration.
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Pearse Walsh, president of the Chamber of Commerce, is in receipt of a letter from the Asst. Secretary of Defense in Washington, D.C., Department of Installations and Logistics, concerning missile sites.
The letter states that the Air Force has already selected locations for all the missile complexes included in the fiscal year of 1963. However, test soil borings have been completed in a number of other areas for consideration in future siting plans and part of this program is in Alaska, Hawaii and Guam.
The correspondence sent from here on the possibility of a site in the Sawtooth Range is up for consideration.
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Domestic News Details
Primary Location
Sawtooth Range
Event Date
Fiscal Year Of 1963
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Outcome
test soil borings completed in various areas; local correspondence up for consideration
Event Details
Pearse Walsh receives letter from Asst. Secretary of Defense concerning missile sites. Air Force selected locations for 1963 fiscal year complexes. Soil borings completed in other areas including Alaska, Hawaii, and Guam for future plans. Correspondence on Sawtooth Range site possibility under consideration.