Oddly Enough
h ^LEMHDER THE GREAT
HAD A SPEAKING HORN
' WITH WHICH He COULD
ASSEMBLE HIS TROOPS
from ernes arounw
HIS HORN WEIGHED
\ ABOUT SO POUNDS AND
WAS THE \ENGTH
Of A LANCE.'
^JhE FIRST DICTATING MACHINE now in the
Smithsowan institute was invented in taoi by beu and
TAINTER, 26 YEARS BEFORE THE DICTAPHONE TRADEMARK WAS
COINED. OUT OFJHI3 CRUDf PROTOTYPE OREW FIRST THE
DlCTATATlNG MACHINE INDUSTRY AND LATER THE
I PHONOORAPH INDUSTRY.
irk* DICTAPHONE
PICTET RECORDERS
WEIGH ONIV 2 POUNDS
II OUNCES. MEASURE ONLX
6*»~X«tt*X2;uSf TIN/
transistors AND
BATTER)' POWER. RECORD
FORA FUU HOUR AND
CAN BE USED AMT WHERE.
Magnuson Makes
Recommendation
On Freight Rate
Chairman Warren G. Magnuson
<D-Wash) has recommended to the
Senate that the Interstate Com
merce Commission prepare recom
mendations for legislation to reg
ulate traffic moving to and from
and within Alaska to end ruinous
competition between the Alaska
Railroad and truckers operating in
the territory.
Senator Magnuson submitted the
LEC&L advertisement
NOTICE OF HEARING
FINAL ACCOUNT
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN That the
undersigned. Administrator ol the Estate
ol EBBA N MAYBEN, Deceased, has
filed his Final Account, and the Probate
Court for the Fairbanks Precinid. Fourth
Division, Territory of Alaska, has fixed
ten o'clock a m. on the 24th day of Oc
tober 1956. at the Ofice of the United
States Commissioner at Fairbanks. Alaska,
as time and place for henring and settling
same. At said time and place said Court
will also adjudicate who are the heias of
said decedent and will make an order
for final distribufion of said estate. Ail
persons having objections thereto should
appear or file them in said Court at or
before said time.
CHARLES R. MAYBEN
Administrator
Fins* Pub: Aug. 23, 1956
i-asi rrio: *>epi. aj, iwo
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
All persons having claims against the
Estate of LAWRENCE HENRY SMITH,
deceased. Probate No. 1984. in the Pro
bate Court for the Fairbanks Precinct,
Fourth Division, Alaska, will please pre
sent same, with vouchers, to my attorney
below designated, within six months after
date of the first publication of this notice.
FRANCES CECELIA SMITH,
•Executrix
Ralph J. Rivers
Attorney for Executrix
291 Hall Building L
P. O. Box 1991 ' *
Fairbanks. Alaska
First Pub: Augf ». 1956
Lgpt Pub: Sept. 13. 1956
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
The University at Alaska invites bid
quotations for the cleaning of all glas!
inside and outside in windows and doors
of the buildings located on the University
campus, listed as follows:
1. Main Dormitory
2. Club Dormitory
3. Student Union Building
4. Harriet Hess Hall V
5. Eielson Memorial Building
6 .--Library
7. Main Classroom Buildine
8. School of Mines Building
9. Water Tower Windows
10. Geophysical Institute .
11. Andrew Nerland Hall
12. President's residence
13. Stuart Hall
A11 quotations must be on the wfrais
of individual buildings with the uTWr
standing that the University will select
the actual buildings to be serviced after
receipt of ihe quotations. All work musl
be sccomi :shtd between September 1
end 15. 1956. Sealed bids should be sen!
to the Office of the Comptroller, Box
613, Colleg . Alaska. Bids will be opened
at 11:00 ...m., Thursday, AuguA 30, 1956.
One Pub: Aug. x3, 1956
recommendation in a report by the
Senate Committee on Interstate and
Foreign Commerce of which he is
chairman. The committee held
hearings in the Territory last fall.
The Chairman said that for many
years the railroad was dominant in
tendering transportation in Alaska
but with the development of high
ways and motor vehicles, motor
carriers now compete vigorously for
certain portions of the railroad's
business.
"Wishing to maintain its position
1 of dominance the Alaska railroad
; has. according to testimony, fol
lowed a policy of lowering its rates
j on traffic on which the motor car
; riers compete.’’ the report said. "In
the areas and on the products where
competition is not present, rate lev
els are generally maintained un
disturbed. The situation is not suh
| ject to proper control because there
is no regulation of rates on freight
moving within the Territory of Al
aska. The Railroad is free to cut
! under the truckers rates and the
truckers free to retaliate. This is a
; state of affairs that can only lead
to disaster for the motor carriers
because the railroad has non-com
; petitive business on which losses on
| competitive traffic may be re
i oouped.”
Magnuson said that transporta
| tion offered by public carriers
j should be subject to some measure
i of competition but net to the un
: controlled competition now present
in Alaska.
Farthest North Creeps'
Club Is Organized
Newest organization to be formed
i in Fairbanks is the Farthest North
Creeps. Gordy Shaw, chief creep,
and Bunny Boots, janitor.
The head creep. Gordy. may be
'heard over Radio station KFRB
nightly from 5>06 to 6 p.m., except
Saturday and Sunday, aad is rap
idly attaining an ever increasing au
dience of listeners; people who like
humor “corny” or otherwise, so
long as it is home-grown or pro
duced. A few years more and Gordy
should be in the “big-time.”
To become a member of the Far
thest Nor#i Creeps, phone, write
or wire in such request to the
Chief Creep, KFRB, Fairbanks, Al
aska.
Miss Shirley Kries, forth grade
teacher at Denali school, arrived
home Seturday with Pan American
after visiting for the summer with
her parents in Havre, Montana.
Seattle Dentist
Conducts Dental
Clinic In City
Dr. Arne Lauritzen of Seattle, one j
of the keynoters at the recent den
tal convention here, offered a short
course to 14 members of the Alaska
Dental Society on occlusion and ar
ticulation in natural teeth.
The subject of the course is one ,
of the latest advancements in den
tistry and is a method which is ben
eficial in preserving the natural
teeth and also in the success in
! construction and use of dentures, j
j The course was concentrated post j
I graduate study in a three day per
iod.
Dr. Lauritzen, who was born in :
Denmark and educated in Europe
and the U.S., is nationally recog
| nized for his work and has received
| many honors.
HANS JENSEN'S LAST
RITES ARE HELD FRIDAY
Funeral services for Kans Jacob
i Jensen, old timer who died at St.
Joseph's hospital last Monday, were
] conducted at the Fairbanks Mem
j orial Chapel Friday by the Pioneers
j of Alaska, igloo No. 4. j
Burial took place at the Pioneer's i
plot in the Birch Hill cemetery.
There are no known survivors to
the old time Alaskan, who was liv
ing here at the Steel Hotel.
EDWIN IVERSONS VISIT
SON, DAUGHTER-IN-LAW
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Iverson of
• Anoka. Minnesota are currently the
j houseguests of their son and daugh
; ter-in-law. Mr. and Mrs. Don Iver
son at 1230 Ninth avenue Court.
The Iversons have been visiting
here for the past several weeks and
will be leaving soon. Iverson, now
| retired, was with the Farm Home
! Administration in Anoka as a coun
j ty supervisor for many years.
EDITORIAL
Missing
Recent report of a young man missing since June 1955 when
he headed for the Brooks range to hunt and trap brings again
to the fore the real need for a closer tab on individuals, es
pecially Cheechakos who go alone into the wilderness. There
have been many unsolved mysteries of lost persons. Alaska is
a vast region and can be relentless at times, while kindly at
others.
Canada has a somewhat better system of keeping track of
those who leave the beaten paths and of searching for them if
they fail to return when expected.
Power of Press Ads
If any one still wonders .just how valuable the newspaper is
as an advertising medium for retailers—in this era when other
media are competing vigorously for business—he would do well
to study a survey made by the Bureau of Business Research of
Michigan State University.
The survey deals with the effect on retail sales of last De
cember's newspaper strike in Detroit. It shows that a gain in
over-all sales in the Detroit metropolitan area during the strike
period was due to buying in the suburbs. Sales in the down-town
area actually declined by $35 million.
Editor & Publisher says editorially: "The Michigan State
analysis ... is one of the greatest testimonials for newspaper
advertising that has ever been written . . . It . . . adds to the
growing volume of data showing that wherever a community is
deprived of its newspapers all business suffers.
“. . . when general business conditions are good, customers
do not just naturally gravitate to a store. They have to be
attracted by advertising, particularly newspapers. They do not
react if the. sales messages and/or the newspaper is missing.
Newspapers are essential to the economic well being of the busi
ness community.’’
That goes for the smaller papers as -well as the larger ones—
and for the villages as well as the metropolitan centers of popula
tion.
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