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Moore, in Graehl, while here. Mrs.
Moore is his mother. Toby reports
Mrs. Mosley and children are happy
and in excellent health.
YOUNG OUTSIDE
Frank L. Young, who is employed
at Ft. Wainwright, and an oldtime
Fairbanksan, left over the weekend
for Indianapolis, Ind., where he will
visit his brother Tommy, who lives
in the Hoosier city.
Today both Frankie and Tommy
will be witnessing the running of
the famous Indianapolis auto race.
Young will return to Fairbanks in
about two weeks.
1VTVHR TO NORWAY
John Myhr, owner of Alaska Mo
tors, left Saturday for a trip via
Pan American to Oslo, Norway,
where he will visit his parents.
Myhr, the Rambler dealer in Fair
banks, expects to be gone about two
weeks.
FIRST CRUISE
Capt. Jim Binkley of the River
Boat Discovery began the first of
his season's cruises last Saturday
down the Chena. The official open
ing of his increasingly popular
river cruises is today. Memorial
Day.
McGATHAN BACK
Cy McGathan, long time Hamilton
Acres resident, returned to Fair
banks last week after spending the
winter in the far south.
HUBER TO STANFORD
Douglas Huber, associate profes
sor of mining engineering at the
University of Alaska will leave for
California late this summer where
Huber will study at Stanford Uni
versity under a John H. Wheeler
fellowship and a grant-in-aid schol
arship from the University. Huber
will be accompanied south by his
wife Ann, and the couple’s three
children, Richard, Robert and Kath
eryn.
ELKS HERE
E. Robert Haag, state president
of the Alaska Association of Elks;
and Stanley Wilson, District Deputy
West, visited last week’s meeting
x>f Fairbanks B.P.O.E.
LICENSt DEADLINE
Area residents are reminded that
tomorrow. May 31, is the deadline
for the purchase of automobile and
truck licenses in Alaska. Licenses
may be obtained from the-loeal of
fice of the State Department of
Revenue, located on the second floor
of the Lathrop Building.
THOMAS TO CONCLAVE
Don Thomas of College will be
among the 2,500 delegates attending
the national convention of Waddell
& Reed, Inc., national distributor
of the United Funds group of mu
tual funds. Representatives from all
over the nation are expected to at
tend the convention June 1 and 2
in Kansas City. Mo.
The United Funds group of mu
tual funds has assets of over $ll/4
billion and is the fourth largest such
group in the nation.
LIFT RESTRICTIONS
The Department of Highways an
nounced Friday that restrictions
have been lifted on Airport Road
and on College Road to Esther Sid
ing.
SOCIETY FORMED
At a recent local meeting of the
Tanana Valley Bar Association it
was voted to form a legal aid so
ciety; about 30 local attorneys will
pai acipate.
The primary purpose will be to
aid indigent persons. An office is
to be set up and each week a dif
ferent attorney will be available for i
a few hours each afternoon at
which time counsel will be given.
SENATOR’S AIDE HERE
Miss Laura Olson of Senator Er
nest Gruening’s staff, arrived in
Fairbanks today to learn first hand
some of the agricultural problems in
the Tanana Valley. Miss Olson is
accompanied by Floyd Higbee, depu
ty administrator of the Farmers’
Home Administration, and William
H. Rower of the Federal Crop In
surance Corporation.
The trio al9o visited the Matanus
ka Valley, the Kenai Peninsula, and
Kodiak.
INDIAN. READING CLUB
The Fairbanks Public Library an
nounces a summer reading program
for children who have completed
4th grade. No dues—no meetings—
just read.
When joining the Indian Reading
Club, members receive a club but
ton. When two books have been
read, members get their Indian
head-bands. For each book read
after that they receive a feather for
their head-bands.
The club will end August 25. A
party will be held after Labor Day
for all members.
SOCIAL SECURITY MAN
It's social security time again.
Ray Williams. SS field representa
tive will be in Fairbanks Monday,
June 4 through Friday, June 8. He
will.be at Room 1 in the Post Office
Building from 1 p.m. until 5 p.m.
Anyorie'ifr ?aWbdhks arljggis.
urged to make a note of WilliSffls'
{fjnf / fjji > .I.r
visit if they wish to file a stSw&l
securffy claim or have a questfon
about social security.
WINS AWARD
Daniel Renshaw, senior in mining
engineering. University of Alaska,
received the American Institute of
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Fur a
Ceaning
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for
YOUR PRECIOUS FURS
Complete repair and
remodeling service
MARTIN VICTOR FURS, INC.
Manufacturing Furriers
Swedish Fur Craftsmen for Three Generations
Phone GL 2-3032
Fairbanks, Alaska
506 2nd Ave,
Mining and Metallurgical Engineers,
Alaska Section, pocket transit award
as the engineer who shows the most
promise of contributing to the min
eral industry.
SET COMP HEARINGS
Hearings on disputed claims will
be heard by the Alaska Workmen’s
Compensation Board in Fairbanks.
The hearings will be held in Car
penters’ Hall on June 18-19.
HOME EC COURSE
Judy McKinley. University of
Alaska junior in home economics,
will take part in a four weeks
course of the Danforth Fellowship
program. The course includes two
weeks in St. Louis and two weeks
at camp in Michigan.
WATER STUDY
Quantity and Quality of Surface
Waters of Alaska. 1960. is the title
of a Geological Survey Water-Sup
ply Paper 1720. just received in Fair
banks. The 122-page book was pre
pared in cooperation with the State
of Alaska, under the direction of the
U.S. Department of the Interior.
FAMILY DEPARTS
Mrs. Marily Thrift and her 10
year-old son Carl, left Fairbanks
recently. Mrs. Thrift joined her
husband. Charles, who was recently
appointed Police Chief at Wrangell.
Carl Flew to Hillsdale. Calif., where
he will visit with his grandparents.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Thrift, until the
fall school season.
FUNERAL SERVICES
Funeral services will be held
tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. at the Fair
banks Memorial Chapel for Irene
Fouquette, who died last Saturday
in St. Joseph Hospital.
Mrs. Fouquette’s husband died
here bnly seven weeks ago on April
7, after undergoing surgery.
BOAT RACES TODAY
The Fairbanks Outboard Associa
tion will open the racing season
today with pit races at their racing
pit located lVz miles south olt the
Richardson Highway.
The pit races will substitute for
the Yukon 700 Marathon, originally
scheduled for Memorial Day, but
canceled due to the condition of the
river and the Steese Highway tc
Circle.
OPEN HO,USE
The Fairbanks Trap and Skeet
Club will have an open house today
at the club grounds located at Mark
Acreg, 7 Mile on the Steese.
There will be team and exhibition
matches until 3 p.m., followed by
Earl Butcher's
HUNTING & FISHING CAMP
At Mile 22 — On Tangle Lakes
Denali Highway — McKinley Park Road
Opening Day June 9
BOATS - CABINS - WEASEL TRIPS
GROCERIES AND
CHEVRON PRODUCTS
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McKinley park now open
The McKinley Park Hotel opened
last Saturday; Robert Vaughan, ho
tel manager, and his staff had been
busy for days getting the hotel ready
to accommodate visitors in the best
tradition of Alaska.
In addition to hotel accommoda
tions, eight-hour wildlife tours are
available to park visitors. Following
an early Sourdough breakfast, mod
ern buses will leave the hotel daily
for the 130-mile tour to Eielson
Visitor Center and return.
A service station where motorists
may obtain lubrication and repair
service as well as gasoline and oil
is located on the park road near the
hotel. Campers will be able to pur
chase food supplies, including fresh
produce and meats at the grocery
store adjacent to the service station
For those who wish a light snack
or a full meal, the hotel dining room
will be open from 7:30 a.m. to 10
a.m. for breakfast, from 11:30 a m. to
2 p.m. for lunch, and from 5:20 p.m.
to 8 p.m. for dinner.
Removal of ice and snow from
the park road was difficult this year
but road crews expected to have
the road onen to Eielson Visitor
Center by June 1.
The Denali Highway approach to
the Park is expected to be open
for private car travel by June 1.
Additionally, the Alaska Railroad
will provide daily train service
: from Anchorage and Fairbanks to
1 an open period when visitors can
try their hand, coached by club
members.
LITTLE LEAGUE
The Fairbanks Little League will
open its season today with a jam
boree at Lions Field.
Opening ceremonies begin at 1
p.m., followed by three games:
i Northward Drug Cardinals vs. Pan
: American Jets; First National Bank
Bulldogs vs. the Elks Dodgers: and
the Quality Meat Tigers vs. the Cen
tral Labor Council Red Sox.
The regular season will onen
tomorrow at 6 p.m. with a double
header. The Dodgers will play the
Cardinals and the Red Sox will fight
the Bulldogs.
UNIVERSITY GRANT
The Community Facilities Admin
istration yesterday announced that
the University of Alaska will're
ceive a $1.2 million College Housing
i Loan to build a main dining hall
i which will serve a complex of four
I dormitories, housing over 600 stu
: dents, according to the Alaska Con
gressional Delegation.
McKinley Park Station throughoi :
the summer.
Superintendent King staled that
improvements to the park road1,
would continue during the season.
Short sections of the road between
Sanctuary and Tcklanika Rivers
will be under construction, an:;,
while subject to short delays, wi._
be open to traffic at all times.
Indications are that Mount Mc
Kinley National Park will attract
visitors from the smaller states as
well as from foreign lands during
the 1962 season. Many will coir i
after seeing the attractions at th?
Seattle World's Fair. Hotel Manag •
Vaughan suggests that anyone desi. -
ing to stay at the hotel should mak?
their reservations in advance of a -
rival at the park.
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