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ALASKA NEWS
IN BRIEF
22 ADMIRALS
ANCHORAGE — Twenty-two An
chorage seamen became admirals in
the Anchorage Outfall Sewer Yacht
Club Saturday by braving the sup
posedly treacherous waters of Cook
Inlet in small boats.
The new admirals manned six
“yachts" on a trip from the Port of
Anchorage to Homer. It was a one
stop voyage. All the craft refueled
at Kenai early Saturday after a
late Friday start.
DISASTER AREA
JUNEAU — The Farmers Home
Administration has designated the
Matanuska Valley as a disaster area
in which farmers are eligible to re
ceive emergency conservation as
sistance to replace permanent brome
grass acreage killed by winter
weather. Gov. William A. Egan
was advised. An estimated 7’5 per
cent of the 5,500 acres of brome
grass in the area was winter-killed,
according to information received
from agriculture officials.
EXPORT AWARD
WRANGELL — Wrangell Lumber
Company. Alaska’s largest export
mill, this week was notified that it
had been designated to receive
President Kennedy's “E-for-Ex
port” Award for its contribution to
the United States’ export expansion
program.
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By Buckwheat Charley
Boy, you got to hand it to
them folks at Barrow. They has
got plenty of spunk. Last year
they come close to a shootin war
with the fish an game fellers
over eider ducks an now they
hav even “one-upped” that one.
Yessir, the whalers up there
has gone an harpooned a U. S.
Navy submarine! (It really hap
pined, it really did.) Here this
submarine wuz comin up to the
top, an it looked jist like a real
whale . . .
Then the fellers in two of the
Barrow whaling boats really got
excited, cuz they figgered they
wuz gonna snare a nice parcel
of blubber. Zing . . . Zing . . .
went them harpoons. (Needless
to say, the harpoons wuz ruint,
and the sub never knew it was
hit.)
Boy, there was shore some
red faced whalers in Barrow
that nite.
Ya know, I was readin the
editer’s big planning report
what Eagle E.il s^nt him that
he has bin writin tiiem editorials
about. He is real excited about
all the jobs an population there
is gonna be in Alaska.
Not me, there is too many
people in this Camp already, as
far as I is concerned. BUT . . .
there WAS some interesting ma
teriul in that economic report
tho, which he overlooked.
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THE WINNER — Boat No. 5, sponsored by Bill’s Service and the
Mecca Bar and captained by Marty Gray swings around towards
the bank after winning the Yukon 700 Marathon in 17 hours, 19
minutes, and 3 seconds. Bob Hager and Bill Berry rounded out
the crew on the winning boat.
Usibelli Gets Coal Contract;
$4 Million Year Predicted
Usibelli Coal Mine, Inc., coal
sales should reach over $4 million
during 1963-64, William Waugaman,
manager of the company predicted
today.
Waugaman’s announcement came
after a report was issued last week
by the Naval Fuel Supply Office in
Washington stating that it planned
to spend an estimated $4,144,000 for
coal in Alaska during fiscal 1963.
The office stated that it was in
the process of negotiating the pur
chase of 579,000 tons of coal for use
by Army and Air Fqj-ce installations
in the Fairbanks and Anchorage
areas.
Local Girl Falls
In National 6Bee9
Beatrice Slotnick 13 - year - old
daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Herman
Slotnick of the University of Alas
ka, was eliminated in the 12th
round of the 35th annual National
Spelling Bee.
She had managed to go through
the first day, in which 39 contestants
were eliminated, but was eliminated
the second day when she was un
able to spell valetudinarian. (She
replaced the e with an i).
The contest wras held in Washing
ton, D.C.
THE WEATHER
High Tenon.: 79, May 9-12
Low Temp.: 40, May 6-8
Ave. Temp.: 59; 1 above normal
Precip.: None
Outlook: Fair- and mild Saturday
and Sunday.
Sunrise: 1:03 a.m-; Sunset 10:41 pan.
21 hours, 38 minutes of daylight,
a gain of 4 minutes.
82 Earthquakes recorded this week
within a 200 mile Radius of Fair
banks, according to the Coast &
Geodetic Survey.
Waugaman today stated that the
coal contracts for the Fairbanks area
have been signed and sealed. He
said that Usibelli had contracted to
supply a total of 359.000 tons of coal
to military installations in the area.
Breakdown of the totals are: Eiel
son AFB, 130.000 tons; Ft. Wain
wright, 167,000 tons; and Clear
BMEWS site, 64,000 tons.
“This is the largest coal contract
we’ve ever received,” said Wauga
man, “and it will make the biggest
production year we’ve ever had.”
THIS WEEK IN
FAIRBANKS
CYSEWSKI DIES
Lewis “Bud” Cysewski, long time
Fairbanks resident, was found dead
in his home Monday morning, ap
parently a victim of a heart attack.
Cysewski, owner of Fairbanks
Automotive, had worked with vari
ous trucking firms, including Alas
ka Freight Lines, before opening
his business here in 1948.
He is survived by his wife
Bonnie and the couple's three chil
dren.
PRUDENTIAL MAN HERE
Lewis C. Yount, Northwest Man
ager of Prudential Insurance Co. of
America, with headquarters in Se
attle, arrived here last night via
jet from Anchorage. Yount will
confer here with Stanley W. Groff,
division manager of the company,
and agents before returning to
Seattle. He is registered at the Tra
velers Inn. In December Yount was
awarded a citation from Pruden
tial’s home office for leading pro
duction in ordinary life sales over
all other branches in the United
States.
TRAFTON TRANSFERRED
The transfer of Captain William
Trafton of the Alaska State Police,
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Property Owners View
Revised Paving Project
The Fairbanks City Council's resolution to cut the property
owners’ share of Fairbanks’ Paving Project No. 1 clown from two
thirds to half of the cost and spread the payments out over a 20
vear period met with mixed reactions from property owners
in the area.
Many of the owners stated they would like to see their share
City May Face
Water Shortage
With Hot Weather
If the hot weather keeps up Fair
banks may be in for water ration
ing said Mayor Joseph Ribar at
Monday's City Council meeting.
The mayor stated that water usage
had already reached a peak, al
though it ws still early in the
summer.
L. L. Glascoe, assistant MUS
manager stated that during the past
few days Fairbanks residents have
been using more water than the
MUS has been able to process. He
said that although the problem is
not yet acute, if the hot weather
keeps up and City residents con
tinue to use as much water as they
have in the last week, a shortage
may develop.
If a shortage develops, he added,
the MUS will either have to let
untreated hard water into the
mains or enforce some form of wa
ter rationing. Letting hard water
into the mains would not be detri
mental to health, however; it would
make washing much more difficult.
Udall Designates
Seven Alaskan
Historical Sites
Seven areas of Alaska have been
declared eligible for designation as
American historical landmarks,
through action taken last week by
Secretary of the Interior Udall.
Included in the areas are: the
Erskine House at Kodiak, built by
Alexander Baranof in 1793; Old Sit
ka, six miles north of the present
community, where Baranof and his
party landed and founded a trading
post: the Russian-built St. Michael’s
Cathedral at Sitka, started in 1848:
the Russian Mission Orphanage at
Sitka, built in 1842; the site of Bara
nof’s Castle at Sitka, where the Rus
sian flag is lowered each year and
the American flag raised in sym
bolic commemoration of the acquisi
tion of Alaska in 1867; the fur seal
rookeries on St. Paul Island in the
Pribilofs, which produced an esti
mated 6 million sealskins valued at
$75 million between 1786 and 1909;
and Skagway, which was founded in
1897 and has, according to the In
terior Department, “the largest and
finest collection of original buildings
reflecting the atmosphere of the
gold rush period.”
The seven designations were made
under the Mission 66 program of
the Interior Department. The pro
gram includes a survey of historical
sites, buildings, and monuments.
cui even more, but would accept
the 50 per cent share, as they felt
the City could not or would not
accept any more of the burden.
C. L. "Lindy” Lindberg, one of
the property owners’ chief spokes
men Monday night, said. "Personal
ly, I’d go for that one <the 50 per
cent plan),”
Best Can Get
Larry Meath, another one to
speak out against the project, stat
ed that he still felt one third would
be a more fair share for the proper
ty owners, but added, “I’m afraid
that’s the best we'll get out of the
City.’’
William Green, another spokes
man at the Monday night hearing,
said, “I thought it came out as well
as could be expected. With the facts
presented. I don’t think the City
i can afford to pay more than 50 per
cent. I think they gave as much as
they can.”
Green went on to say he felt the
project had been very poorly han
dled. He said he felt the Council
should have held a public hearing
with the property owners before
the project was passed, and had this
been done, much of the delay we
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