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lived in Harriet Hess Hall. The girls
living there have sent her a letter,
but others would be welcomed.
HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Tanana Yukon Historical Society
will hold its monthly meeting April
26, Thursday, at 8 p.m. at the Birch
Park Recreation Hall on lower Sec
ond Avenue.
Officers for the coming year will
be elected at this time. There will
be a guest speaker following the
business meeting and refreshments
' will be served. All members are
urged to attend and the public is
invited to be present.
PASKVAN CHAIRMAN
Thomas Paskvan was elected
chairman of the Park, Recreation
and Cemetary Commission for 1962,
at the Commission’s April 13 meet
ing. Paskvan will succeed Jim Bis
choff, who resigned when he moved
outside the City limits to his home
stead.
HEINLEINS SOUTH
Mr. and Mrs. John Heinlein and
son Daniel will leave for the Mid
west soon for a year's stay at least.
Resident of Graehl for the last
three years, Heinlein, following his
discharge from the Air Force, took
lip carpenter work, then joined the
staff of the Fairbanks Body Shop.
The young couple have purchased
a pickup truck for the drive down
the highway. They will purchase a
new car “outside.”
TRAFTON TO JUNEAU
Captain William Trafton of the
- Alaska State Police left last week
end for Juneau where he is attend
ing a commanders’ conference this
week.
The trip wasn’t all vacation, how
ever, as he took along three prison
ers from the local jail to serve sent
ences in Juneau.
LOCAL LOAD LIMITS
The Highway Division announces
that on Thursday at 8 a.m., 75 per
cent of gross loads at 35 miles per
hour will go into effect on the Alas
ka Highway, Richardson Highway,
and all paved roads in the immedi
ate Fairbanks area, with the excep
tion of the Steese Highway.
Fifty per cent of gross loads and
35 miles per hour will go into effect
on the Steese Highway and all lo
cal paved roads in the Fairbanks
area.
WINS TRIP
SFC Julio Otero, Headquarters
Battery, 15th Artillery, Ft. Wain
wright, was the winner of two round
trip tickets to the Seattle World’s
Fair last Friday in a drawing fea
tured during the Fairbanks Winter
Carnival.
The winning ticket was drawn by
Mrs. Jean Wilson of Alaska Airlines
on a program on KFAR-TV. A ticket
had been drawn previously, but no
winner appeared to claim the prize.
EMERGENCY OPERATION
Joel Malde, 12-year-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. Melvin Malde, 835 Fifth
Ave., underwent an emergency ap
pendectomy at St. Joseph's Hospital
last Friday. Joel is a 6th grader at
Barnette School.
SPINAL FUSION
William Broderdrop was released
from Lit. Joseph’s Hospital last week
after undergoing a spinal fusion
here.
Broderdrop, who is on the State
Division of Highways staff at Tok,
returned to Tok with Mrs. Broder
drop.
STUDENTS SOUTH
University of Alaska Students
Frances Degnan of Unalakleet, and
William Hensley of Kotzebue left
yesterday for Utah, where they will
participate in the National Indian
Youth Assembly at Brigham Young
University.
The two were selected for the trip
by members of the student chapters
of the Alaska Native Brotherhood
and Sisterhood at the University.
COLP ON TRIP
Douglas Colp, well known mining
engineer, left for Juneau last week
en route to attend a session of sec
tional delegates to the American
Institute of Mining and Metalurgical
Engineers in Seattle.
On his way, Colp stopped off in
Petersburg to visit his mother and
sister. Colp will also attend the
Northwest Conference of the AIME
during his trip.
ON HONOR ROLL
Nationwide recognition was re
ceived recently by George D. Wal
ton, representative of the Olympic
National Life Insurance Company in
Fairbanks, through his nomination
to the All-Star Honor Roll of The
Insurance Salesman, leading maga
zine in the life insurance industry.
Break-Up Times
For Dawson Ice
Mrs. B. W. Charman of Dawson,
Yukon Territory, sent the following
dates of the ice break-up times of
the Yukon River at Dawson from
1955 to 1961. They are:
May 13, 1955 Unrecorded
May 7, 1956 4:03 p.m.
May 9, 1957 2:48 p.m.
May 4, 1958 2:11 p.m.
May 15, 1959 1:01 p.m.
May 4, 1960 6:50 p.m.
May 9, 1961 4:29 a m.
Jessen's Weekly wrote a few
weeks ago to the Dawson Chamber
of Commerce, which in turn re
ferred the letter to Mrs. B. W. Char
man, Regent of the Dawson City
Chapter, Bear Creek, Dawson, Y.T.,
of the Imperial Order Daughters of
the Empire and Children of the
Empire, Junior Branch.
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struetion of an oil drilling platform
in the middle of the inlet.
STATE SURPLUS
JUNEAU — Figures compiled by
the joint Senate-House Finance
Committee show that Alaska's gen
eral fund balance will be approxi
mately $4 million at the end of
fiscal 1963.
HIEBERT OUTSIDE
ANCHORAGE—A. G. Hiebert is
leaving on Friday for New York
City for his annual business trip to
the big city. He is president of Tele
vision Stations KTVA and KTVF.
“MONTANA RED” DEAD
PALMER — Graveside services
were conducted last Tuesday at the
Palmer Cemetery for Charles
“Montana Red” Shy, 86. who died
at Valley Presbyterian Hospital
April 18 after a lengthy illness.
ARMY BEEF-UP?
ANCHORAGE—Army units of the
49th State may be “beefed up” in
the near future if Army Secretary
Elvis J. Stahr Jr., has his way.
The high cabinet officer told
newsmen Alaska has an “unex
plored potential” as a dafense bas
tion and will be utilized more as a
training ground in next year’s
I maneuvers.
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WIN ROUND
KODIAK—The State of Alaska
won the first round in its battle
against foreign-encroachment on
state-claimed waters when a Jap
anese herring fishing fleet agreed
to withdraw from the disputed Shli
kof Strait.
SUFFERS BURNS
ANCHORAGE — A 24-year-old
substitute school teacher suffered
i burns over 75 per cent of her body
when a grass skirt which she was
wearing to a party was ignited by
a candle.
Victim of the accident was Janet
i Bredehorn, who is reported in seri
' ous condition at Providence Hospi
tal.
SUPPORTS SEIZURE
WASHINGTON—Sen. E. L. Bart
1 lett, D-Alaska, has defended Alaska
Gov. William A. Egan's seizure of
Japanese fishing vessels as being
; in the interests of the entire United
States.
NARROW ESCAPE
SEWARD — An unemployed Se
ward school teacher narrowly es
caped death here last week when an
unknown assailant shot at him four
times through a basement window
of his home.
One of the bullets struck James
Watts, 48, in the upper left arm.
EASTER RAID
ANCHORAGE—Anchorage police
staged an Easter morning raid on a
Fairview residence and arrestdd 21
persons in alleged gambling activity
there.
REJECT OFFER
JUNEAU—The City Council ha*
rejected the offer of A-J Industries.
Inc., to sell to the City of Juneau the
A-J hydroelectric generating anc
transmission system and other prop
erty on the mainland side of the
Gastineau Channel.
POLLOCK RUNNING
ANCHORAGE—Sen. Howard. Pol
lock has announced that he will run
for the office of governor on the
Republican ticket.
, In making the announcement. Pol
lock became the third Anchorage
resident to throw' his hat into the
Republican gubernatorial ring. The
others are attorney Verne O. Mar
tin and Dr. Milo Fritz.
SUCCEEDS MICHAFLIS
WASHINGTON—Maj. Gen. Ned
Dalton Moore, veteran of 32 years
Army service, has been named to
succeed Maj. Gen. J. H. Miehfaelis
as commanding general of U.S.
Army forces in Alaska.
Moore is now serving as director
of reserve affairs and readiness
plans in the office of the assistant
secretary of defense for manpower.
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