PROeLAMATION
WHEREAS, the President nf rt •*. j
orable John F. Kennedy has nrr i States, the Hon
24, 1962 as Y’ 33 proctaimed Wednesday, October
. a a UNITED NATIONS DAY
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(Jnited^NaUons organization,’ uphold tt**** • member of the
national peace, economic development ' s princ*ples °f inter
as factors for the advScemenoi * “*..**“ development
NOW, THEREFORE r wiLLTTM%an^PA0MeSS:
of the State of Alaska, do hereby um- atl “ Governor
Wednesday October 24, ,962. in the nfanSr p ™r?M°byP™T
dent Kennedy and call upon the officials nf thra cV * ,
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appropriate observance ot'the rcoSln''1'™'”' mcouraSe
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/s/ WILLIAM A. EGAN
Governor
ATTEST:
/s/ HUGH J. WADE
Secretary of State
University Scientist
Studies Noisy Aurora
“Noise from auroras?”
This is a question which may
be answered this winter by
Gene Wescott, the Geophysical
Institute, University of Alaska.
The National Science Founda
tion recently granted $22,800
to the University of Alaska for
research by the young scient
ist.
In explaining the research
project, Wescott said.
“There are persistent tales by
Arctic residents that during
quiet winter nights sometimes
the brilliant auroral displays
FiraBM Saw
Uaig Ban
A barn on the Clyde Oberg
farm on Fishhook Road was
damaged to the extent of about
$1,000 in a hay fire Tuesday.
The building was covered by
insurance, the owner said.
The Palmer volunteer fire
department answered the call
with two trucks, then asked
for assistance from the Butte
volunteers, who sent three
trucks. The fire, started when
sparks flying from a welding
machine Oberg was operating
outside the barn ignited hay
inside the building, was a very
difficult one to extinguish, fire
men said.
“I’m amazed that they were
able to save the building,”
Oberg commented.
The local farmer estimates
that he lost about $2500 in feed
and bedding.
RALPH RIVERS TO
VISIT HERE TUESDAY
U. S. Rep. Ralph River will
visit the Matanuska Valley area
on Tuesday, Oct. 23, Democra
tic party officials announced
this week. He will arrive in
the area about 10 a.m., with
a luncheon scheduled in his
honor at the Frontier Cafe at
noon.
He will be the guest of Was
illa democrats at a coffee hour
at the Wasilla library from
2:30 to 3:30 p.m., with all in
terested area residents invited
to attend.
A dinner in the congress
man’s honor is tentative, u
ned for the evening at the Wii
low community hall.
can be heard as a crackling or
rushing sound. To many other
persons who have witnessed
the auroral lights, the displays
are eerie and silent. Enough re
liable reports of auroral sounds
exist to warrant a complete
scientific investigation. The
NSF funds will make possible
a program to capture the elu
sive sounds on tape.”
Westcott explained further,
“A very high quality conden
sor microphone, mounted with
a parabolic reflector, has been
purchased and soon will be
listening skyward.”
In order to know what fre
quencies to listen for, Wescott
is seeking to contact individu
als who have heard the auror
as in the past, especially from
anyone who has heard or hears
sounds from an aurora this
winter. Wescott asked that
anyone who has heard the aur
ora write to him at the Geo
physical Institute, University
of Alaska, College, Alaska, and
give details of the time of year,
temperature, wind, description
of color and size of aurora, and
what the noise sounded like.
The scientist added, “One
feature of auroras that has been
reported is that dogs often be
gin to howl during displays.
Since it is well known that
dogs can hear higher pitched
sounds than most humans, it is
important to find out if per
sons who hear auroras have ex
tended hearing, which is the
ability to hear higher pitched
sounds.”
Gsuncil Asks Bits
For Removing
At a special meeting Oct. 16,
the Palmer city council instruc
ted the city manager to call for
bids on an outside stairway for
the city hall, a coal bin, coal
stoker, and basement remodel
ing construction. Bids will be
opened at the Oct. 23 meeting
of the council (next Tuesday).
Other business conducted at
the meeting included approval
of pay for the election judges.
Lighting for the airport was
also discussed, and several
items were recommended for
consideration at the regular
meeting of the Council on Oct.
23.
jjSKBWSW*
MEA representatives will go
to San Francisco next week to
discuss the possibility of ob
taining private financing for a
mine-mouth generation plant,
Phil O’Neill, president of the
MEA board of directors, said
Tuesday.
The San Francisco trip will
follow the regional meeting of
the National Rural Electric Co
operative Association at Eu
gene, Oregon on Oct. 22 and
23, which will be attended by
O’Neill, MEA attorney John
Shaw, Ivan Branton, board sec
retary, and Mason LaZelle,
manager. At Eugene they will
meet with Richard Woods, REA
assistant administrator, and
Gerald Diddle, REA area direc
tor, to discuss the status of the
pending loan to MEA.
“MEA feels that if the coal
industry as we now know it is
not to become a thing of the
past, a mine mouth plant must
be constructed,” O’Neill said.
"There is a distinct possibility
that the power market in the
Anchorage area may be lost to
other fuels, since transporta
tion costs must be added to the
price of coal used there in gen
eration. The loss of the coal in
dustry would have a great ef
fect on the economy of the Ma
tanuska Valley, and on MEA
ability to provide service in
the future. Therefore, we feel
that all avenues must be inves
tigated which might lead to
construction of such a plant.”
Private capital might very
well provide as cheap a means
of financing a plant as REA
funding Could, O’Neill said. He
explained that REA does not
normally allow a "turn key”
operation, wherein one firm
could contract to build the en
tire plant, guarantee its opera
tion, and turn it over to the us
er complete. REA procedure re
quires that engineering and
construction be accomplished
by unrelated firms, and all
plans and specifications be ap
proved by REA. The difference
in cost between plants con
structed under the two differ
ing criteria might be as much
as $2 million for ,a plant size
of 22 megawatts.
■EAFmm Layoff
(Continued from page !)
I basic cost of power out of Ek
lutna the MEA manager said.
"The feeling of the board of di
! rectors was that a rate increase
; would have been required to
j absorb the extra cost. Since the
i Cily-MEA contract offered
power at no increase, it was
felt that there was no alterna
tive but to refuse the contract
offer. However, MEA will offer
to contract with GEA on a
straight power purchase agree
ment for the 2000 KW which
was offered.”
REA has been requested to
release the conditional agree
ment on the loan to MEA on
the basis of the City of Anch
orage-MEA contract, the man
ager said.
He emphasized that MEA
has offered to join CEA and
HEA in a generation and trans
mision cooperative recommend
ed by REA, and that HEA and
MEA have already formed a G
and T organization which CEA
has not to date joined. REA has
indicated that money is avail
able for an initial installation
of 22 megawatts of generation,
with the future addition of an
other 22 megawats. MEA has
suggested to CEA that a mine
mouth plant be built at Sutton,
where coal can be competitive
with other fuels for generation,
and is willing to cooperate fully
in any manner that will obtain
this end result.
"We are hopeful that REA
will see fit to release funds,
rather than to cause cessation
of construction and cutbacks in
personnel,” LaZelle concluded.
‘The board is unwilling to sub
scribe to an agreement which
would drastically raise power
costs, and would still offer only
a fraction of the extra capa
city which MEA will need in
1969.
“Senators Gruening and Bar
tlett and Congressman Rivers
have been most helpful in as
sisting MEA to carry the pro
blem directly to the Adminis
trator for a decision, and we
are hopeful that an early solu
tion to the problem may be
found.”
Stsveas Says Alaska
Only Stats Hat
Rscaiviitg Finis
Ted Stevens, Republican
candidate for U.S. Senator said
in Petersburg, last night that
Alaska is the only state that is
not receiving Federal Inter
state Highway funds. Even Ha
waii is included in the Inter
state highway fund authoriza
tions.
“There can only be one rea
son for this,” said Stevens,
“lack of action and influence
by Alaska’s representatives in
Washington. On September 14,
1961, more than a year ago,
Alaska’s Junior Senator intro
duced a statement in the Sen
ate calling for Federal help to
construct roads in Alaska. To
this date, nothing has been
done, and Alaska was the only
state excluded from Inter
state Highway fund authoriza
tions. If the ferry system con
nects the lower ’48 with Alas
ka, it should certainly be in
cluded in these funds before
Hawaii should. However, our
junior senator spends his time
campaigning in Alaska rather
than tending to Alaska’s busi
ness in Washington.”
T^e U.S. Secretary of Com
merce studied the need for ex
tension of the National System
of Interstate and Defense
Highways in Alaska and Ha
waii. He recommended that 50
miles be added to the Interstate
System in Hawaii but stated
that “neither the present con
ditions nor anticipated further
developments for the next 15
to 20 years warranted the des
ignation of any interstate mi
leage in Alaska.”
Stevens added, “As your
U.S. senator, I will work vig
orously for the inclusion of
Alaska in Federal Interstate
Highway funds.”
Kazooklik Services
To Be Held in Nenana
The body of Diane Kozook
lik, who died Saturday at Sut
ton, will be returned to her
home in Nenana on Saturday.
Mrs. Kozooklik, 31, is sur
vived by her husband George
of Nenana and a son Alfred, 11,
who lives in a foster home in
Anchorage,
Funeral services and inter
ment will take place in Nena
na. Jack Tyone of Sutton will
accompany the body to the in
land town.
Mrs. Kozooklik has lived in
the Sutton area for the past
two years.
REW COCKTAIL LOURfiE MAKES DEBUT AT WASILLA
eszm
THE WASILLA COCKTAIL BAR and Liquor
Store plant a grand opening tomorrow
evening, beginning at 8 p.m. Proprietors
John and Jean Polis invite their friends
for the first night festivities, which will
continue until ???. Above is pictured the
interior of the new bar.
Mrs. Mu Clements Is U N Chairman
Mrs. Max Clements has been
appointed United Nations Day
chairman for the City of Pal
mer, according to Ralph Moore,
mayor pro tempore.
The Palmer League of Wom
en Voters plan to observe
United Nations Day with a
display in the window of Bet
ty’s Dress Shop. They are also
sponsoring an essay contest for
Palnu-r high school students,
which closes tomorrow.
Mrs. Noel Woods, Mrs. Max
Clements, Mrs. George Fow
ler, Miss Myrtle Bang, Mrs. L.
F. Martin and Mrs. James Hur
ley plan to attend a state
committee meeting of the
League of Women Voters in
Anchorage on Saturday.
ASC CHAIRMAN
VISITS VALLEY
Darrell L. Baird, chairman of
the Alaska Agricultural stab
ilization and Conservation
Committee and prominent Tan
ana Valley farmer, said yester
day in a visit to the Frontiers
man office that representation
for the farmers of our state
to the legislature must be of
prime importance to all per
sons interested in agriculture.
"Agriculture and the Alaska
farmer must necessarily play
an important part in this, state’s
development,” the Fairbanks
official said. "The Palmer area
is the only one successful in
sending to the legislature a
man currently oriented to agri
culture problems and needs.
"This continued representa
tion is very important to agri
culture throughout Alaska. Re
turning the present represen
tative to the Palmer area is
important to the continued de
velopment and representation
of rural Alaska.”
Baird visited Palmer and the
Valley on Oct. 16 and 17, con
ferring with local farmers on
last summer’s emergency grass
reseeding program and on com
modity credit loans. During his
visit he attended the Palmer
County ASC meeting. Members
of the local committee are Ar
nold Carson, chairman; Roland
Snodgrass, vice chairman; and
Raymond DePriest.
Seattle produced five gover
nors, Tacoma two and Spok
ane, Bellingham, Puyallup,
one each.
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