★ ALASKA NEWS IN BRIEF ★
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River area will begin this year.
Plans for construction of the hub
airport were announced at the Alas
ka Division of Aviation's airport
managers conference here. Exact
site was not announced.
HEINTZwMAN SOUTH
JUNEAU — Former Governor
Frank Heintzleman has left Juneau
for the Pacific Northwest and East
Coast cities to confer with public
agencies and private interests on
prospective Alaska industrial pro
jects.
MORE CLIMBERS
ANCHORAGE—Two more expe
ditions have announced immediate
pi' cl i »•*>>* jvrt McKinley.
They are the Joint Service Alas
ka ijxpfcuuion, wrucii includes nine
members of the British Armed
Forces, and the Boyd Everett Jr.,
group from New York.
POOR RUN
PETERSBURG — Continual sur
veillance of the Stikine drift gill
net fishery both on the grounds and
through weeklv catch anpivci? in
dicates the area is experiencing the
weaxest King sarmou run on leooru,
the Alaska Department of Fish and
Game said last week.
BACK IN ALASKA
ANCHORAGE—Mrs. Jeanne Lau
rence, widow of the famous painter,
Sydney Laurence, and an artist in
her own right, is back in Anchor
age for the summer. In recent trips
Outside she visited with members
of her family in France.
NEW CONTRACT
SEWARD—A new contract which
will bring ILWU Alaskan long
shoremen under the West Coast
agreement currently in force be
tween the union and the Pacific
Maritime Assn., has been ratified
by a vote of 118-16 by Seward Lo
cal 60.
BIG TRIUMPH
ANCHORAGE — Two German
mountain climbers and an Alaskan
mountaineer have conquered previ
ously unsealed Mt. Russell in the
Alaska Range in a triumph of en
durance over tremendous odds.
The climbers, Dr. Klaus Ekker
rin and Peter Hennig. both members
of the German Alpine Club, and
Rob Goodwin of Girdwood, survived
an ordeal of more than two days
without food, liquid or sleep in
making the final climb to the sum
mit of the 11,670-foot peak on the
McKinley Park boundary.
WELCH CHAIRMAN
SEATTLE—Walter Welch, news
director for radio station KJNO.
Juneau, was elected chairman of
the Alaska Associated Press Mem
bers Assn, at the group’s 1962 con
vention.
VOLCANOLOGISTS
ANCHORAGE—A party of vol
canologists left Anchorage last week
for Katmai National Monument to
spend the next 10 to 12 days study
ing craters in that region.
Dr. Haroun Tazieff, professor at
the University of Brussels, organ
ized the gipup. He is accompanied
by his wife, a biologist from the
Pasteur Institute in Paris. Three
other men make up the party.
Am TO FARMERS
WASHINGTON—Farmers in the
Matanuska Valley of Alaska, hard
hit by winter kill of bromegrass,
will be eligible for federal aid in
reseeding.
The Alaska congressional delega
tion said the Farmers Home Admin
istration approved emergency con
servation assistance for the area be
cause of severe losses in grassland.
UNUSUAL STOWAWAY
ANCHORAGE—“It’s the first time
anything like this happened to me
in 28 years,” said Ray Peterson,
president of Northern Consoli
dated Airlines.
Last week in a 206-pound box
marked, "Fragile—Canned Goods,”
two NCA employees found a very
much alive 20-year-old youngster
consigned to Dillingham.
ALASKA CARS
EDMONTON — Alaska Railroad
box cars are making their first ap
pearance on Canadian rail lines.
Six cars from the northern rail
way have arrived at Prince Rupert,
B.C., with the first return docking
of Canadian National Railways’
“•quatrain” service which links
The Alaska Railroad with lines on
the continent.
MOODY SWORN IN
ANCHORAGE—Former attorney
general Ralph Moody Friday was
sworn in as the new Superior Court
judge for the third judicial district.
At a joint session of the Supreme
and Superior Courts, Judge Moody
took his oath of office and donned
his black robe. After the ceremony
he immediately took the bench and
began executing his judicial duties.
BIG LOAN
ANCHORAGE — A $2.5 million
loan to Chugach Electric Assn.. Inc.,
has been approved by the Rural
Electrification Administration in
Washington, D.C., for construction
of a 10.000-kilowatt plant at Bernice
Lake about 10 miles north of Kenai.
Job Opportunities
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I. TV Repairman, in-town, com
mission
2. Dental Assistant, Female
3. Farmhand with carpentry ex
perience, out-of-town
4. Salesmen and Saleswomen, must
have car
5. Housekeepers and Babysitters.
Female—live in
6. Cook. Male, out of town, 5 years
experience
8. Cook, combination, Female, out
of-town
9. Beauty Operator Female — li
censed
10. Auto. Body Repairman, metal.
6-10 yrs. experience
II. Meat Cutter, experienced
12. Cake Decorator, experienced
To apply for these and other non
listed jobs, visit the Alaska State
Employment Service located at 310
First Avenue. Office hours are from
8:30 to 12 noon and one to five in the
afternoon, Monday to Friday. Call
GL 6-8651.
Interior Airivays
Gets Certificate
Interior Airways has been grant
ed an air commerce certificate for
scheduled air service between Fair
banks and Clear.
The Fairbanks firm, run by
James Magoffin, was granted the
first such certificate from the Di
vision of Air Commerce of the Alas
ka Public Service Commission.
SHOWING THEIR HEELS — Both cowpoke and his horse will be
reaching for the sky again, at the annual North Pole Rodeo, June
16 and 17. Shown here is Buck McAdams riding Litlle Joe in last
year’s thrilling event.
NORTH POLE RODEO COMING
Plenty of action, thrills and spills
are in store for the throngs of visi
tors to the 4th annual North Pole 1
Rodeo, June 16 and 17 at the same
old corrals located about a half
hour motor jaunt down the highwav
to that progressive, up-and-coming
metropolis of North Pole. (South,
not North!)
Stock has been imported from
the wilds of Nebraska and Calgary.
Horses and steers will probably be
mild and gentle by the time Alas
kan cowpokes and cow girls get
through with them.
Among the many features will be
the barrels of fun racing by indi
viduals of all ages and sex; saddle
and bareback riding; junior bull
riding, calf roping, pole bending
where riders weave between poles,
steer riding and the clown bronco
buster!
Another big feature will be the
shooting exhibition by “Rusty”
Hammer of Los Angeles. “Rusty”
is a master of precision shooting
with side arms and rifles, using
Colts revolvers and Winchester
rifles.
Naturally, there will be the good
i
Earl Butcher's
r.
HUNTING & FISHING GAMP
At Mile 22 — On Tangle Lakes
Denali Highway — McKinley Park Road
You’ll Enjoy It Here!
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BOATS - CABINS — WEASEL TRIPS
GROCERIES AND
CHEVRON PRODUCTS
old Midway, bigger and better than
ever, where games of chance may
be indulged in, and refreshments,
of course, for the young and not so
young.
Harvey Drake is the energetic
chairman of the whole shebang,
ably assisted by a group which has
worked for weeks getting every
thing in shape, and the sponsors are
once again that bunch of communi
ty boosters, the North Pole Lions
| Club, of which there are none bet
ter working for worthy causes.
Let’s go, neighbors!
Courtesy:
L Fairbanks Heai.h and Safety Council
Gravel pits can be death trap. .
I Swim only >v> sunerihsed places!
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Now that baseball, tennis ani
golf are underway for the seasor,
swimming will be next . . . As
1 the Health Department already has
warned, gravel pits usually a-i a
host to germs which cause swim
mer’s itch and other discomforts . .
Gravel pits also are dangerous i 1
that there is no way to determine
what may l ave been dumped in
them over the winter to provide
obstacles for divers . . . Save you:
self a lot of grief and do your swim
ming in supervised pools or ap
• proved areas like Harding Lake . . .
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TELEVISION: There has been a
I change in time and day ci the
KFAR-TV public service Fairbanks
Health and Safety Council telecast.
Beginning this week the Council
telecast on Channel 2 will be at
5:30 p.m. Friday. The program will
feature an interview on state traf
fic laws and the new anti-litter lav/
between Capt. William Trafton,
Alaska State Police, and Jim Couch,
Council director ot public relations.
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A recent National Safety Council
j study of boating accidents, dis
| cussed in the summer issue of Home
[Safety magazine, cites failure t>
wear lifesaving vests or similar
devices as the “number one deadly
j error for boaters.-’ The report de
| clares that 98 per cent of those who
drown annually would survive—if
I they were wearing a life saving de
vice . . . JSC . . .
A paper for the people.
Around Town with First National
Stanley W. Groff
Stanley W, Groff, division
manager for Prudential Insurr
ance Company of America, was
born in Granger, Wash., August
8, 1913.
Stan's father is a retired farm
er who migrated from southern
Illinois to Washington in 1906,
married Mattie Walker, and
homesteaded in.Hanford. Wash.,
the present atomic site. They
now reside in Tacoma.
As a boy attending school in
Granger, Groff worked • i after
school in the local markets and
learned to be a meat-cutter andt
salesman. During the moose and
sheep hunting season Stan is.
still i called in to- do the., meat
cutting for his friends.
Ire ,1938 Groff; entered into the
insurance business as an-> agent
for Acacia Mutual of Tacoma. ,
and then quit this job to take . ,,
one during World War . Ilsas a production engineei m the Se
attle-Tacoma shipyards. _,
Groff accepted a position as life insurance supervisor foi
Benefit Association of Railway Employee of Chicago ir) ia4i':
and in this job traveled extensively throughout the Umteo
States,!. .
While, working as a roving trainer for insurance agents
Groff met and married lone LaRue, who was a registered nurs<
in Tacoma General Hospital. They have a.daughter. Judy, who
graduated as an honor student from Fairbanks High School
and has just finished her freshman year at the University o.
AIss^b
Groff was ultimately stationed with-the Railway insurance
company in Ft. Worth, Texas, serving the southwestern states.
Tiring of spending most of his time in the air and away from
his family. Groff took a job as a manager for Cal-Western In
suranee Company in Ft. Worth and was transferred to Taccma.
in 1952. ,. ... , .
Groff came to Fairbanks in 1958 on a vacation to visit his
brother Bob. who is asst, vice president of the First National
Bank of Fairbanks. He liked the looks,of the country from i
business viewpoint, went back to Tacoma, and brought back hi
family and joined the Prudential family. They live at 410 6th
Avenue.
What are Stan's hobbies?
We'd like to say hunting and fishing, but Stan nods hi
snd savs. “I don’t like to ki’l anvthim? — I iust corn.'
cutting the meat and plucking the feathers for my friends.”
Open Your Account at First National—Everybody’s Rank!
First National Bank
“First In Strength.' Size and Service Since 1905”
Banking Facility. Clear. Alaska
Banking Facility. Ft. Wainwright
Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporsd-on