Top Flycaster To
Appear At Annual
Sportsmen’s Show
Leonard Hopkins, International
Tournament Flycasting Instructor,
will be featured at the Sixth An
nual Tanana Valley Sportsmen’s
Sports Show Saturday and Sunday,
June 2 anci 3.
Hopkins will be on hand through
out the show to demonstrate both
fly and spin casting and to offer
suggestions to local fishermen to
improve their skill. Those interested
in receiving pointers are urged to
bring along their own spinning and
fly fishing tackle.
Hopkins was formerly an instruc
tor with the Chicago Flycasting
Club, and is famed for his skill
with a fly rod.
Displays and exhibits bv all the
local sporting goods dealers will
also be featured at the two-day
show.
Many valuable door prizes will
be awarded during the festivities,
including an all-exoense naid fish
ing trio to the Arctic via Wien Alas
ka Airlines.
The show will be held on the
grounds of the Tanana Valley
Sportsmen's Club on Airport Road.
Business Offers
Cranes For Rent
Clark Ingrain announced today he
is starting a new truck crane rental
business.
Using a Lorain truck crane, In
gram said he will have an outfit
capable of making a 30 ton lift,
which should handle most jobs.
The crane has an 80 ft. boom and
a 25 ft. jib.
Location of the business is at 520
Craig Ave.
Ingram has spent the past 11
years in and around Fairbanks rig
ging and erecting steel for such
companies as Morrison-Knudsen,
Peter Keiwit and Sons Co., Reed
and Martin, Burgess Construction
Co. and Don Early. ,v
The name of the new firm i$
Alaska Truck Crane Rental. &
MEN ON THE MOVE — “Red” Boucher and volunteer members of
Carpenters’ Local 1243 have been hurrying this week to finish the
concession stand-first aid station at Memorial Park in time for the
opening at 6 p.m. tonight.
LIONS TO HOLD BIG DANCE
XJoor prizes galore and the music
of Harry Quest’s band will high
light the Lions’ Explorer Dance
Saturday night at the Elks Club.
The hall will be decorated with
over 15,000 balloons and 1.100 ser
pentine streamers, to help create a
festive mood.
Door prizes for the event include:
an imported Austrian ski sweater
from the Ski Shop, a Zebco fly reel i
Tickets are $3 per couple and
can be obtained from members of
the Fairbanks Lions Club; Stan j
Davis, in the main concourse of the
Northward Building: or at the door.
Posters for the dance were do
nated by Willard Jones of Clear, :
and tickets were donated by Jes
sen’s Weekly.
Colt League Season Gets j
Started At Improved Park I
The 1962 Colt League baseball season gets off with a bang
today at 6 p.m. when the Sach’s Men's Shop team tackles the Pan
Alaska team at Memorial Park on lower Second Ave.
The league includes boys in the 15-16-17 age bracket, who
have graduated from Pony League.
For the past two weeks, civic minded area residents have
been working feverishly to finish’
various improvements to the park.
New bleachers have been com
pleted, raising the seating capacity
from 1,000 to about 1,500. The ex
terior of the press box has been im
proved, and a large table has been
constructed inside for the comfort
of the press.
Final Stages
A new. large combination conces
sion stand and first-aid station is
also in the final stages of comple
tion.
Red Boucher reported that the
concrete block dugouts had not yet
been built, as all brick and block
layers from Local No. 2 are out on
jobs. On Monday, however, he
added, the Army came to the rescue,
offering the assistance of Army
block layers.
Boucher pointed < ut tb't although
the improvement program is well
past the halfway point, it still isn’t
completed. The new. all-electric
1 scoreboard for the field hasn't ar
rived yet, and proposed concrete
restrooms have not yet been built.
Boucher paid high tribute tp mem
bers of Carpenters Local No. 1243,
for volunteering their time and la
bor to helD on the park He had spe
cial commendation for carpenters
Virgil Layton and Jim Chandler,
who have been working steadily
on the park for the nast two weeks,
without any pay. “The carpenters
have been a tremendous help," ha
added.
DANGEROUS OUTING
Following up a citizens complaint,
police officers discovered two ycun<»
boys out “boating” on the Chena
on May 22. The pair were floating
on the river behind Aurora Motors
on a raft made of 2x6s. The boys
were warned of the possible dan
F°rs and their parents were advised
of their activities.
uuni rionucr sporting uooas, run
ner for two at the Riviera Boatel,
dinner for two at International Air
port, a gift certificate from Sachs
Men's Shop, a hairseal cap from
Saario's, and two sheets of free
bowling from Alaska Lanes.
Two chokecherry trees from
Northern Lights Nursery, one
month’s free haircuts from the In
ternational Airport Barber Shop, a
free car wash from Explorer Post
47, two rodeo tickets from the North
: Pole Lions Club, and a cribbage set,
' Kabar fish knife, bottle of cham
pagne, and a hunburst wall decora
tion donated by various area resi
dents.
Lions Club members emphasized
that this dance is not a teenage
dance, but that proceeds from the
jinnee will go to Vrsath Activities
sponsored by the club.
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