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JESserrs
''The All-Alaska Weekly"
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FAIRBANKS, ALASKA
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Regents Made Wise Decision..*
The Board of Regents of the University of Alaska is
to be commended for its forthright action in behalf of
the Pioneer Park. The Board considered all sides of the
controversy surrounding the location of the Park and
came up with what this newspaper believes to be the cor
rect decision.
It takes courage for a group such as this to resolve
sutfr-'a -question. It would have^been far easier to "pass
the buck" and forget about it.
Once again, the Regents have shown themselves to
be a group of capable and progressive men and women.
Overall, they are doing a tremendous job for Alaska and
the University.
Boating Safety Imperative . . .
With the boating season upon us, it is time for all of
us to give pause on the subject of boating safety. Far too
often, people jump into a boat and go zooming up the
river without taking time to think about possible emer
gencies.
Let's a^l THINK before we go boating. Let's be safety
conscious at all times.
Swimming Program Is Great...
Tremendous response has greeted the resumption
of swimming at the old YMCA pool. The City of Fairbanks,
Ft. Wainwright and all others concerned are to be com
mended for opening the pool this summer.
Not only the children of this area, but the adults as
well, were literally hungering for a place in which to
swim. Let us hope that some means will soon be found
to keep the pool open all year long.
In the meantime, everyone using the facilities of the
pool seems to be having a wonderful time. The response
has been gratifying to those who worked so long to bring
the summer swim program into reality.
We Need A Real Clean-Up . . .
In our eyes, the clean-up program in Fairbanks has
been a dismal failure. As long as we have our present
attitudes, this condition will continue.
It is about time for a REAL clean-up campaign, not
for a few weeks, but the year around. People visiting Fair
banks deserve more for their money than the many un
sightly piles of junk that are peppered throughout the com
munity.
It is true that Fairbanks has improved immensely in
this respect in recent years. But there is still plenty of
cleaning up to be done.
let's Make Tourists Welcome...
The predictions of tourist officials in the Fairbanks
area are indeed encouraging. Practically everyone "in the
know" predicts this summer will break all records as far
as tourism is concerned.
Indeed, it seems, Alaska is coming of age regarding
this important industry. The airlines, bus companies, trav
el services, State of Alaska and all others concerned, have
been doing the best job ever.
Let's throw out the welcome mat to our summertime
visitors. If they have an enjoyable visit, many of their
friends will be here next year. Let's show them what the
term "Golden Heart City" really means.
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Yessir. there is a whole series
of charts and graphs an stuff
like that on . . . ‘‘Fertility Ra
tios” . . . whatever that means.
(Shore sounds intresting tho.)
Wal, it turns out that the fer
j tility ratio in Alaska is the j
j highest in the United States! 1
kin see it note on the tour fold
ers . . . ‘'Come to Alaska, the 1
iState with the highest fertility
ratio in America
Anyways, they break the re
port down to the various regions
in Alaska, an guess what? An
chrudge is the most fertile city
in America. (You might hav
knowed they would be first.)
Fairbanks (we is alw'ays a lit
tle behind) is lower than the
Alaska fertility ratio average,
BUT we is STILL higher then ■
the rest of the United States.
(An furthermore, I utinerstand
Mike is campainm on a platform
what says Fairbanks will soon
be catchin up to the rest of
A 1 si olf n I
Sav. the BUCKWHEAT IN
j STITUTE is in really pore
i shape. Our special FLOOD KITS
jjist got here. So . . .
FLOOD KIT SPECIAL: We
; is, for a limited time only, offer
(in Fairbanks Flood kits at dirt
I cheap prices. Buy now an save
yer kit for next spring’s News
Miner Flood.
This kit has everything you
need when the flood strikes. For
example. (1) (and most im
portant) “I have been rescued
certificate” signed by a bona
fide helicopter pilot: (2) A boat i
with wheels on it: (3) A Dewey -
Bricker button to remind you of
the “good ole days”: and (4) a
copy of the News-Miner what
will tell you how bad off you |
are.
There is more, much more,
but I am in a hurry an kin only
hit the high spots. We has gotta
move those kits out of the
BUCKWHEAT Warehouse to
| make room for our “Clean Up"
j Kits what is comin soon, so we
will sell our Flood Kits at sacri
fice, clearance, close out, goin
out of bizness prices, plus
freight.
In tact, as with all Alaska
merchandise, the kit is FREE.
(But its the freight, you know).
Anyways, we will give the kits
away free to anybody that kin
recite Herbert Hoover’s pros
. perity speech by heart. Also,
you has got to turn in all yer
pots what has chickens in em.
Oh, those Clean Up Kits is
really gonna be dandys. Be
shore an watch this column for
the Big Time when the kits ar
rive. Fairbanks will never be
the same after they gits here.
CLUE: The kits uses Uranium
in em. (The factory tried to
substitute hydrogen, but we said
that wouldn’t be necessary.)
The kits are due to arrive here
on July 4th.
Oh. the tourists is really
j pourin in an we loves em. It
• seems they is alwuz dressed in
i GREEN suits an dresses, don’t
lit?
\ All the travel agents is pre
dictin a record year an our Digi
tal Computer says two things:
(1) The travel agents is right;
an (2) the republicuns is tryin
to figger out some way of takin
credit for it.
Wal, I see that Jack took ole
Vic Richardson’s advice about
the tax slash. Yessir, last Thurs
day (we predicted it the day be
fore) he come out in favor of
a tax cut. (Jack is startin to
sound jist like Wendil Kay.)
Gittin back to the tourists,
they will shore be happy to see
all the beards what everybody
is growin for Golden Days. (We
are sellin magnifyin glasses to
the tourists what come over to
Jessin’s plant to see Colin Mick’s
red beard what he says he is
growin.)
f
cUm Washington
Merry-Go-Round
•y DREW PEARSON
Bombing airplanes for insurance doesn't pay; McN
mara-Zuckert squash competition closed for year: Sovie
American lunar race.
WASHINGTON—Bombing an air
plane to collect insurance doesn’t
pay.
Those cold-blooded and fiendish
enough to take other people’s lives
for the purpose of collecting insur
ance for their families or them
selves. don’t seem to know this,
which apparently is why there have
been so many bombings of passen
ger planes.
But along with their cold-blooded
plotting against the lives of inno
cent people they should consider the
fact that insurance companies are
not obligated to pay off when a
plane is bombed and furthermore
the bomb always leaves telltale evi
dence behind.
Structure distortion, the odor of
cordite, black smudges and the resi
due of shrapnel always point to the
work of a bomb. As a result not
one insurance company has ever
paid off. Furthermore all the bomb
ers are now either dead or in prison.
The Score
Here is the record:
Nov. 1, 1955. at Longmont, Colo.—
Bomb exploded on United Airlines
en route to New York to Seattle. 44
filled. John Gilbert Gc?ham con
victed and died in the gas fchamber
for having placed a bomb in the
baggage compartment in an effort to
kill his mother and claim her $250.
000 estate. He took out $37,500
worth of life insurance on his
mother. The insurance was not paid
July 25, 1957, at Daggett, Calif.—
Saul F. Binstock. carrying $125,000
insurance blew himself out of the
lavatory of Western Airlines en
route Las Vegas to Los Angeles
The insurance was not paid. The
plane landed at George Air Force
Base with no injuries to other pas
sengers.
Jin. 6 I960, at Bolivia. N.C.—34
persons killed when National Air
lines plane crashed as the result ol
a bomb explosion in the passenger
compartment which blew Julian
Frank out of the plane 16 miles
from where the wreckage came
down. Frank was reportedly in busi
ness difficulties. He had taken out
an $875,000 insurance policy favor
ing his wife a year prior to the ac
cident. The insurance was not paid
May 22, 1962, at Unionville, Mo.—
45 dead in a Continental Airlines
crash. A bomb had been placed un
derneath the wash basin. Thomas G
Doty of Miriam, Kans., took out a
$375,000 life insurance policy. Gen
eva Fraley of Independence. Mo., is
said to have had one for $75,000. The
two were traveling together.
On Nov. 16, 1959, over the Gulf ol
Mexico, a National Airlines plane
i crashed, killing 42, believed to be
the work of a bomber. The final
report when it comes will list the
cause as unknown. A National
i plane, a DC-7, en route from Miami
to New Orleans, disappeared with
no wreckage ever found, though
some debris and bodies were re
covered from the Gulf. The name
of one passenger. Dr. Robert Vernon
Spears, against whom criminal abor
tion charges are pending in Los An
geles, was on the passenger list, but
Dr. Spears was later found in Phoe
nix. Ariz., driving a car belonging
to a Mr. Taylor, who Spears admifl
ted had taken his place on the!
Spears has a long criminal recorl
and was sentenced for taking Tai
lor’s auto across state lines.
April 17, I960—John Henry Gn
placed an incendiary home-rt
bomb in family luggage aboaij
United Airlines DC-3 bound froi
Los Angeles to San Diego,
bomb smoked, and was discovers
Grant was sentenced from one
twenty years for attempted mu
and failed in his attempt to coll
the $25,000 insurance on his
and two children, who were pasi
gers.
That’s the record. And the moi
people realize the facts in the
ord, the fewer attempts will
made to murder innocent people i
the air.
Pentagon Squash Casualty
The big inter-service sports riv
ry that the public hears about is tluj
famous annual Army-Navy fo
game. But the sports rivalry tb
public doesp’t hear about takes pli
in the Pentagon gymnasium
tween two top officials—Secret®
of Defense Bob McNamara andSa
retary of fhe Air Force Gerie'Zudj
ert.
They play squash, and their are!
no more determined, do-or-diej
give-’em-hell squash players in thej
nation’s capital than these twoexa
utives. When they play, woe be itl
to anyone who gets in their way-|
including themselves.
Secretary McNamara, aged
should have the edge over Seen
tary Zuckert. aged 50. but this is]
not the case. McNamara has neva
yet defeated Zuckert for a set.
Last week, however, he succeeds
in putting Zuckert out of the ruft
ning for the balance of this yearj
He fell on Zuckert's right ankle.
The secretary of the Air Ford
has been in a cast ever since,
ankle was broken. It was all aci
dental, of course, but it indicate
how intense is the sports rivalry!
tween top executives of the Defcn
Department.
Note — Secretary of Agricultu
Orville Freeman, who also pla
squash, always loses to McNama
Perhaps it’s because he's been ab
sorbed with the Billie Sol Estt
case.
Race for Moon
Both American and Russian spac
surface. Asked about this lunar con
petition, a top U.S. space authonl
explained privately: “It remit"
me of the freshmen in the Canadia
north woods, who frantically beg*
chopping firewood for the winte
Before chopping any more, one di
cided to check with a near-by
dian chief about the outlook »<
winter.
“The chief replied solemnly:
ing to be hard winter. White man
woods chop heap wood.’
DAIRY MONTH
A proclamation has been releas
from Gov. Wm. A. Egan's off!
proclaiming the month of June
“Dairy Month in Alaska.
Both American and Russian spac
scientists are planning to build
base on the moon’s harsh, holtfl
MASONIC TEMPLE
Masonic Temple, 809 First Ave. Dial GL 2-2836
Tanana Lodge No. 162 F&AM
Stated Communication, Wednesday, June 13, 8:00 P.M.
Elmer A. Lanstra Worshipful Master
Forbes L. Baker, Secretary
Midnight Sun Chapter No. 6, O.E.S.
Second Friday of Each Month
Pearl Scherer, Worthy Matron
Mary Helen Chaddon, Secretary