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the arrival of Shell Oil Co.’s “Eu
dora.”
OPEN SOON
ANCHORAGE — The newly-con
structed Alaska Psychiatric Institute
in Anchorage will open for patient
service in September. Administra
tor Paul K. Potter has announced.
The construction of the building
was completed in April and hiring is
being done currently for the 222
employes needed. The institute now
has a staff of 17.
WAGE PACT
KETCHIKAN — The Ketchikan
Pulp Co. and the Pulp & Sulphite
Union have signed a new 1-year
working agreement under which the
more than 300 unicn members re
ceived a 10-cent package increase.
FBI WARNING
ANCHORAGE—State Police have
been alerted to watch for three per
sons wanted by the Federal Bureau
of Investigation for multiple bank
robberies who may be headed for
Alaska.
Two of the three—Bobby Randall
Wilcoxson and Albert Frederick
Nussbaum—are on the FBI’s list of
the 10 Most Wanted Criminals.
CHANGE DISTRICTS
NOME—Judge H. Gilbert has an- ;
nounced that the Bethel District ]
will be added to the Second District j
for the next court term and Barrow
will be transferred to the 4th Dis
trict Court at Fairbanks. He said
that this change should be beneficial
and more economical and practical.
THIRD WOMAN
ANCHORAGE — Frances Cham
berlin has become the third woman
to successfully scale Mt. McKinley.
The woman was among two par
ties of mountain climbers who came
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out of Mt. McKinley National Park
late last Friday. The other party
conquered a previously unclimbed
peak, Mt. Russell.
FIRST PRIORITY
KETCHIKAN — Tourism should
have first priority in a promotional
sense of both Alaska and British
Columbia, the Ketchikan Chamber
of Commerce was told last week.
Speaker was John Morrison of
Prince George, B.C., president of
the Associated Chambers of Com
merce of Central British Columbia.
KLM BACK
ANCHORAGE—Royal Dutch Air
lines (KLM) has resumed polar jet
flights through Anchorage after a
suspension of jet service since
October.
The renewed service is with modi
fied DC-8 jets equipped now with
fan jet engines and with modified
wings.
HOBBS NEW B.M.
KETCHIKAN—Carl H. Hobbs has
returned after a year in Fairbanks
and has taken over as business man
ager for the Ketchikan Independent
School District.
ANDREWS STABBED
ANCHORAGE — H. (Andy) An
drews, 53. a Democratic candidate
for the state House of Representa
tives, was hospitalized with a stab
wound last week.
His wife. Elainore Bertha An
drews, was booked at city jail on
a charge of assault with a deadly
weapon.
LONG TRIP
WHITEHORSE. Y.T.—Three Alas
kans have started down the Yukon
River on a 2,500 mile trip which
will lake them to the Eskimo village
of Unalakleet.
Making the trip, which they ex
pect will take approximately six
weeks, are Mr. and Mrs. Franklin
Blocksom of Anchorage and Claude
Wynand of Talkeetna.
AGIN* BILL
ANCHORAGE—The Greater An
chorage Chamber of Commerce
board of directors has voted to op
pose passage of the King-Anderson
medical care bill, which is being
pushed by President Kennedy's ad
ministration in Congress.
BOROUGH PETITION
JUNEAU — The local Boundary
Commission has notified Secretary
of State Hugh J. Wade it has ac
cepted a petition for the incorpora
tion of a second class borough in
the Bristol Bay area.
PLAN AiPROVED
JUNEAU—Gov. Wm. A. Egan was
advised of approval by the Area
Redevelopment Administration of
the over-all economic development
plan submitted for the Kenai-Cook
Inlet area.
Approval of the over-all plan is
a necessary preliminary to an area's
nua’ification for special assistance
offered in the form of grants and
loans under the ARA program.
A LOT OF CRAB
JUNEAU—The total king crab
catch in the Aleutian Islands area
was 6 202.997 pounds in the nine
months through March 1962, more
! than three times the 1.993,409 pounds
! taken in the same area during a
| comparable period a year before.
CRUISER, FIRST PRIZE
VALDEZ—The Paci?c Mariner
"Machete" is now on display at the
boat house at Valdez, a beautiful red
and white cruiser valued at about
$4,000. It will be the prize that the
Valdez Chamber of Commerce will
raffle this summer at the end of |
the 10th Annual Silver Salmon !
Derby.
CONTACT FOR JOBS
JUNEAU — Labor Commissioner j
Gil Johnson at Juneau urged resi- ;
dents desiring full-time and sum
mer employment with the various ,
agencies of the state government to ;
contact local offices of the Alaska
State Employment Service.
Johnson said the Employment i
Service is the recruiting arm for
needed manpower in state govern- '
ment positions. The service has job
openings for employment with the j
State of Alaska in a wide variety ;
of positions in various parts of the |
state. The Fairbanks office placed
226 persons in jobs during May.
STATE-WIDE SESSION
VALDEZ—This town will be host
on June 23 to the organizational ;
meeting of the state-wide Mental
Health Association to be held for
the purpose of coordinating the
activities of the Fairbanks, Anchor
age and Tasuna Mental Health As
sociation Chapters.
ALASKA RANKS 23RD
JUNEAU — Alaska ranked 23rd
among the states in the amount per
capita is expended for public assist
ance in 1961, according to figures
just reported by the Bureau of
Family Services of the U.S. Depart
ment of Health, Education and Wel
fare.
The money Alaska spent for pub
lic assistance, figured on population
basis, averages out to $9 per capita
or a dollar less than the national
average of $10 per capita.
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Steamship Heads
Considerable credit was paid D.
j. Skinner, president of the Alaska
Steamship Co., by Worth Fowler,
oresident of American Mail Line, at
» recent meeting of the National
defense Transportation Assn, at
Seattle.
Fowler described Skinner, and
lack Dant, head of States Steam
ship Co., as “men who were willing
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nents in U.S. merchant shipping
iespite the lack of forseeable pro
sit.”
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