Northwest History. Aviation 8. Contest, United States.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1937
• Subjects: Alaskan; Anchorage; Oscar Neilson; guessing contest; prognosticating; Tanana river; astronomers; Blondy Miller; Juneau; Nenana; Yukon; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Aviation; Pacific; Alaska
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/86687

Lucky Alaskan Hopes To Win. LUCKY ALASKAN HOPES TO WIN ANCHORAGE, Alaska (IP)— Oscar Neilson of Anchorage, co-winner in last year's all-Alaska ice guessing contest, said Friday he's going to repeat on prognosticating the exact minute when the ice starts breaking up in the Tanana river this spring. "It all depends on the cycles this year," he said—an explanation he declared would be simple to amateur astronomers even though hazy to interviewers. "If the cycles are right, I've got her figured out to the day, hour and minute," he said. But he declined to reveal his guess. Neilson split $32,500 contest .prize money with his partner, "Blondy" Miller, last spring—the same amount going to a group of Juneau men who also guessed 12:58 p. m. April 30, as the time the ice would start moving at Several of the "hot-stove league experts" in hotel lobbies and general merchandise stores here, contend the ice will start moving out to the Yukon early this year—maybe even before the record date of April 26, set in 1926.