Fairbanks Is
Host To Many
Insurance Men
(Continued from page 1.)
attle, Portland and San Francisco
are in attendance at the conven
tion and will be seeing Alaska for
the first time.
Duncan spoke at the opening ses
sion at 10 a.m. this morning. The
groups will meet in executive ses
sion beginning at 1:30 p.m. At 3:00
p.m. a tea for the ladies attending
the convention, as well as the wives
©f agents who are here will be held
at the John Butrovich home at
1039 Fifth avenue. Gould and Gould,
Inc., will host a cocktail party at
6:30 p.m. tonight at the Travelers
Inn.
Tomorrow's events include sev
eral featured speakers and a meet
ing of the new officers. New stand
ing committees will also be ap
pointed.
A banquet at 7 p.m. at the Trav
ellers Inn will wind up activities
tomorrow.
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City Installs
bOOOth Phone
In Binkley Home
A missent utilities cheek that my
steriously appeared in Jackson,
Miss,, helped to start a chain of
| events resulting in a lively presen
' tation of the 5,000th telephone in
Fairbanks.
Recipient of the gold and ivory
instrument, donated by the Auto
matic Electric Sales Corp., was Jim
Binkley, owner of the riverboat
“Discovery" who lives on Universi
ty avenue in College. His number
is 7000.
At ceremonies Wednesday mor
ning at the Binkley home, a call
was put through to Jackson's May
or, Allen C. Thompson, by Fair
banks' Mayor Douglas Preston. Al
so participating in the call was
Frank Mapleton, general manager
of the Municipal Utilities System,
who extended birthday greetings to
Bryant Horne, Jackson's utilities
personnel director.
Jackson was selected for the first
call on the new’ phone because of
the goodwill extended Fairbanks as
a result of the receipt of a check
from Mrs. C. W. Guinn of 1532
Turner street.
The check, drawn on the Alaska
National Bank in the amount of
$27.19 by Mrs. Guinn, was in pay
ment of her May utilities bill. It
W’as addressed simply to "Municipal
Utilities System, City.” It had a
three-cent stamp on it and arrived
in Jackson in the time it w’ould
take an air mail letter to reach
there. The check reached Jackson
on the 13th of June,
When Horner received the check
a w’l-iter for the Jackson paper,
Jerry Proctor, was in his office,
discussing some business. They both
thought the incident interesting so
Proctor wrote an article for his pa
per.
The check was returned to Fair
banks along with a copy of Proc
tor’s story, and a notation that there
is no Municipal System in Jackson,
other than the water supply.
After more correspondence be
tween the officials of both compan
ies, it was decided that a call from
Fairbanks to Jackson on the 5000th
telephone installed here would be
of interest to all concerned.
The telephone was actually in
stalled last week, but the company
doublechecked to make sure just
which phone was actually number
5.000.
Also speaking from this end were
Col. George LaBreche, Ladd's new
base commander; Gen. John H. Rug
gles. North of the Range Army
Commander, and R. A. “Dutch”
Derr, Chamber manager.
The commemoration of this in
stallation marks a real occasion for
Municipal Utilities. The former tel- !
City Manager
Says Hospital
Is To Stay
(Continued from page 1.)
that could be realized in the near
future, as Sister Superior sees it,
would be to acquire Territorial
funds, which would have to be
matched by local funds. The sum
of these two amounts could then
be matched by Hill-Burton funds.
“Building on our own is simply
out of the question" she said. The
new wing of the hospital has not
been paid for as yet. and it would
be impossible to get another loan at
this time, she emphasized.
Slankard said that he "was fav
orably impressed" with what he
saw on his inspection tour. He
stated that he believed that the sit
uation had been magnified and
elaborated upon, and that it was
not as bad as lias been reported.
On his inspection tour Slankard
covered the entire hospital, includ
ing the timbers under the base
ment floor, and the wiring in the
attic. He said that he was pleased
with the effort made to operate
within the means of the hospital
budget in an old building of that
type, that it was very well kept,
clean and painted.
One of the points on which the
hospital was condemned was that
the operating table was not port
able in case of fire. Slankard dis
agreed with this report, in that he
stated that he saw the table, which
was on wheels, being moved.
The building inspector also found
fault with a fire escape which has
ephone exchange was completely
destroyed by fire on Christmas Eve
of 1946. It was more than six weeks
after the fire before even partial
telephone service could be resumed.
At that time a two position switch
board was installed in the basement
of the old telephone exchange build
ing. Service was limited to eight
party lines, with the exception of
some few essential places.
In the latter part of October of
1947 a six-position switchboard was
flown in from Chicago, installed in
the City Council Chambers, and
finally put into operation in De
cember of that year. With about
1,85® telephones, service on one,
two, and four-party lines was re
established.
In 1951 a new telephone building
was constructed and a modern dial
system was put into operation. At
that time approximately 2.200
phones were connected to the sys
tem, with a capacity of 4,500 phones.
In March of this year central
office switching equipment was
added which allowed service to
2000 more phones. The system is
now studying methods to give addi
tional capacity.
a screen door with hooks at the
top and bottom. The city manager
reports that the hooks are on the
screen to prevent some hospitalized
youngsters able to walk around,
from falling out of the door In
case of fire, the screen could be
easily knocked out, he said.
The hospital's board of directors
met Tuesday night and discussed
the situation. They will make a re
port which will be forwarded to
Slankard. He will take the matter
into consideration with regard to
possible solutions. The hospital has
also retained a local architect and
an attorney to survey the needs of
the building and to recommend nec
essary improvements in order to
meet the required standards. Slank
ard will meet later with the board.
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Paid Adv.
Episcopal Men
To Meet Here
The Episcopal Men's Parish Con
ference will be held at the parish
house at 1028 Second avenue begin
ning at 6 pm. on Saturday. Regis
tration will start at 6 p.m. and din
ner will follow at 6:30. Principal
subject of discussion will be the role
of men in the life of the parish.
Opening session of the conference
will start at 7:45 pm. and close at
10 p.m. Sunday morning at 8 a m.
the session will resume with com
munion service and will last all
day. The closing session will be
held at 6:30 p.m. Monday evening.
Dinner will be served at that time.
Jack Halley and V. B. McClure,
both of whom were delegates to the
conference at Anchorage last week,
will conduct the conference.
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