SAFETY CONTEST WINNERS
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junior, led slogan contestants of
the Catholic Parochial School Sys
tem in a clean sweep of top honors
in the 19G2 annual Fairbanks Health
and Safety Council slogan contest.
The contest theme was winter
» hazards and Miss Keim’s winning
slogan, in the high school category
was. “She wore no boots; We heard
a groan. Slipped on ice; She broke
a bone!”
John Cruikshank, fifth grade, Im
rnaculate Conception School, sub
mitted the top slogan in the five to
eighth grade group: “He walked
across the river once too often. Now
you'll find him in a coffin.”
Among contestants in the grade 1
to 4 group. Clare Marie Johnson. |
an Immaculate Conception third
grader, took the honors with: 1
“Watch your step on ice and snow, j
help keep the accident rate low!" |
Pupils of Barnette and Denali j
grade schools also participated in
Article Features
Mushing Champs
Winners of the North American
Grand Championship Sled Dog
Races, the women’s championship,
the junior title races for 1962, and a
“singing” dog with a critical team
mate are featured in a six-picture
spread on sled dog racing appear
ing in the June issue of The Alas
kan Sportsman.
This pictorial record of the 1962
title races is the work of Jim Couch,
veteran Alaskan writer-photogra
pher.
Dr. Roland Lombard and Mrs.
Jean Bryar, winners of the grand
championship and women's titles.
Bob Stroecker, Carol Lundgren and
Wayne Christie, winners of the five,
three, and one-dog junior events,
respectively, are featured.
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ject of his slogan is not necessarily
confined to winter. Bill Moriarity,
a fifth grader at Barnette School,
prompted the judges to create a spe
cial award “for bravery” in the slo
! gan contest with this advice: “Stay
| alert. Stay Alive. Please don’t let
I your wife drive!”
Trophies were presented to each
of the three grade-level winners and
to Moriarity during last week's
Health and Safety Council telecast,
when the winners were introduced
by Jim Couth. Council director of
public relations. Mrs. Jay Dennis,
Council president, presented the
awards.
Kiwanians Slate
Work Camporee
At Harding Lake
The Fairbanks Kiwanians and
families will have a camporee May
26 and 27 at Harding Lake Church
Camp.
Ed Christiansen, chairman of the
boys and girls committee, said that
Kiwanians and interested persons
should report to the camp Saturday
and Sunday equipped with their
carpenter tools and “a vast will to
i work" to complete a partially fin
ished dorm.
According to Jack Dahl, public re
lations chairman, the Kiwanians
want to help with the progress of
the official community camp by do
nating both money and labor. They
are giving more than $600 in mater
ials for the building, and furnish
ing meals and sleeping facilities for
members of the work party. A Sun
day afternoon picnic will climax
the camporee.
Newspaper delivery boys are
needed NOW at Jessen’s Weekly.
Around Town with First National
WILLIAM OLLIKAINEN
William Ollikainen is truly a
man of many letters — he’s Fair
banks Postmaster, and an avid
stamp collector.
Ollikainen has collected stamps
for the past ten years although f
he has been associated with Fair- 1
banks' Post Office for more than >
26 years. His special sets are |
first issue and commemorate f
stamps.
The Postmaster was born in
Negaunee. Michigan, but moved
with his family to Canada and {
then Minnesota when he was a ;
small child. In 1912, his father, ;
John Ollikainen. left the United
States to prospect for gold in
Alaska. Several years later Ol- |
likainen’s mother died and he
and his two brothers went to
live with their grandparents.
Because he wanted to see his
father in 1936 “Bill” came to
Fairbanks and spent six months mining with his father at
Sheep Creek. Then in 1936 he was hired by the Fairbanks Post
Office as a custodian under Bob Sheldon who was then post
master.
From then until now he has worked continuously at the
Post Office except for 2V2 years which he spent in the Air
Corps at Ladd Field, now Ft. Wainwright. When he was dis
charged from the service in 1945 he was made acting clerk in
charge of the Post Office and then promoted again in 1948 to
Superintendent of Mail. In 1957 he was made Assistant Post
master. .
Ollikainen’s appointment as Postmaster in charge of Fair
banks came in 1959.
His wife’s name is Margaret. The couple were married last
fall in Seattle where she was born and raised. The Ollikainen’s
reside at 209 7th Avenue.
In his rare free time when he’s not collecting stamps or
attending meetings of the Dorman H. Baker Post of the Ameri
can Legion, Ollikainen enjoys hunting and fishing. He says
that his favorite game catch is moose, and he occasionally hunts
caribou.
Open Your Account at First National—Everybody’s Bank!
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 Corporation
Alaska Airlines
Completes Large
Finance Program
Alaska Airlines has completed
financing of its reequipment pro
gram with the negotiation of a 4-1
million dollar loan from the Peo
ples National Bank of Seattle and
the Irving Trust Company of New
York, plus an additional 1.3 million
dollar loan from insurance com
panies, it was revealed today by
President Charles F. Willis Jr.
According to the airline executive,
the new financing will improve the
company's working capital position
and its cash flow requirements. Wil
lis said the reequipment program in
cluded the purchase of seven Gen
eral Electric jet engines for its Con
vair 88M which had been under
lease from that company.
He also confirmed that the air
line has arranged financing with
United Airlines for two Convair
440s recently acquired from that
company for its Alaska Airlines
intra-Alaska routes.
Thieves Strike At
Lumber Company
During Weekend
Enterprising and somewhat care
less thieves made off with nearly
$1,200 in cash from the Independent
Lumber Company safe over the
weekend, according to reports from
City Police.
A quick inventory of the safe’s
contents made about 4 p.m. Mon
day afternoon revealed that $1,193.24
was missing from two cash boxes in
the safe.
The inventory also revealed that
the safecrackers were a little care
less. A deposit bag containing $2000
in cash, which was lying right next
to one of the cash drawers was over
looked, as was an envelope contain
ing $118 in cash, which belonged to
Jeff Studdert. A total of approxi
mately $200 in small bills and
change was left in the two cash
drawers as well.
Police believe the thieves gained
entrance to the building through
the back door. They said the six
foot floor safe was broken into
sometime between Saturday night
and Monday morning.
Alumni Dinner To
Fete Graduates
A dinner honoring the 1962 gradu
ating class of the University of
Alaska is planned for Monday, May
28th, according to Doug Huber, vice
president of the Fairbanks Universi
ty of Alaska Alumni Association.
The dinner is to be held at 7:30 p.m.
at the Officers’ Club. Fort. Wain
wright, with a social hour preced
ing. fror 6:30 till 7:30.
ANDERSON COPS BOAT RACE
The great, annual Yukon River
700 mile Marathon race is scheduled
to start Saturday, June 9 at Circle
City, and wind up at Fairbanks the
following day.
A shakedown race was run off
last Sunday—on the Chena River,
from Graehl Landing—and featured
river boats, hydros and utility out
fits. This race extended to the mouth
of the Chena and return, a distance
of 24 miles, and was won by Bud
Anderson. Fred Pitcher took second
place and Merrill Hakala, third.
Perk Perkins took the 36 inch
class. In the pleasure boat class,
Marvin Marth won first place, Bud
Hilton second, followed by Ole
Rohrbaugh, Bill Steward and Don
McVeigh.
In the utility class Bob Hager took
first and Die Heidrick second.
In the unlimited hydro race, Ran
dy Kalkins won with no competi
tion. Jay Rank spun out when he
hit a wave, and Doc Dunlap failed
to start.
River conditions in the Yukon
compelled the first postponement
of the 3-year-old Marathon Classic.
Up and down the Chena, many
hundreds of people watched Sun
day^ first riverboat race of the
season. It was a colorful sight, au
tomobiles and people lining both
sides of the river and on bridges,
with speed boats and occupants in
bright colors and garb.
POSTMASTERS MEET
SEWARD—Plans for the seventh
annual convention of the Alaska
Chapter of the National Association
of Postmasters, to be held in Seward,
Alaska, on June 6-7-8, 1962, were
announced today by Chapter Presi
dent Michael Shepard, Anchorage
| postmaster.
Representatives of the Seattle
Regional Office who will participate
are Controller Paul Beckey; Vince
Broze of the Transportation Office;
and Inspector in Charge Robert Clif
ton. Inspector Ken Johnson and
Field Services Officer Byrant Bra
dy of Anchorage will lead postal
seminars.
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