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Vol. 21, No. 9
Wednesday, February 28, 1962
Fairbanks, Alaska
ALASKA NEWS
IN BRIEF
BRISTOL BAY CRISIS
JUNEAU — Governor William A.
Egan departs Friday for Seattle to
confer with Bristol Bay fish packers
concerning the coming crisis in
Bristol Bay. According to fishery
experts. Bristol Bay faces a serious
economic plight this summer due
to an anticipated sharp decline in
the salmon runs.
Egan hopes, while in Seattle, to
persuade non-Alaskan fishermen
from making the trek to Bristol Bay
this summer. After conferring in
Seattle. Egan will go to Naknek
and Dillingham to hold public
meetings on the matter.
FAIRBANKS COURTHOUSE
JUNEAU—Artz, Ellis and Stark,
an Anchorage firm, has entered the
lowest lease bid to provide a State
Office and Court Building at Fair
banks. The company’s bid totaled
$39,340.00 a month based on a 20
year lease.
SIGNS CENTURY BILL
JUNEAU—Governor William A.
Egan has signed into law a bill
making available $137,000 in State
funds for Alaska’s participation in
the Century 21 Exposition in Seattle.
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By Buckwheat Charley
Wal, them Germans has final
ly went an did it . . . they has
caught up with the russiuns in
the outer space race. . . .
Cot a letter the other day
frum my cazin, Dr. Wehrner
Von Buckwheat. (I wuz named
after'him.) He is the man be
hind the man what pushed the
button on the big Glenn space
flight.
Wal, he wuz allowing like him
an all his pals frum the V-2
days went an had a little glass
of schnapps after the flight wuz
all over. They wuz all watch
ing TV when the presidint give
Col. Glenn his medal.
They way my cuzin explained
it in his letter, they really din’t
catch up to the russiuns at all
• . . just to the other german
rocket shooters what the rus
siuns captured after the war.
(When the russiuns was still
our frends.)
UATiU_,liNF5: On Feb. 14.
Jessun’s had a story what said
“J. C. Penney company TODAY
announced.” On Feb. 16. anoth
er paper what is printed across
the crick had a story what said
“J. C. Penney company TODAY
announced”.
THEY DID IT: The legisla
ture has went an past the gov
erners hill what sez we don’t
hai> to pay our thirty bucks for
mn- auto licenses til the end of
May.
SCOOP! SCOOP! SCOOP!
Here is the really real inside of
the inside dope on the plans of
the Grand Ole Party in Alaska.
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AT THE BONSPIEL — Jessen s reporter-photographer Cohn Mick
caught this action shot at the recently concluded Fairbanks Inter
national Bonspiel. The Skip is shown in the follow-through as the
rock slides down the sheet. Some 70 rinks and 280 curlers partici
pated.
CURLING BONSPIEL SUCCESS
Despite unusually high tempera
ures and soft ice, Fairbanks’ 25th
Annual International Bonspiel end
-■d successfully Monday. The event
vas culminated with the awarding
af the “International Trophy” to the
Swede Biomberg rink from Dawson
City. Y.T.
The women’s first event was won
by Elizabeth Hanson of Inuvik, who
skipped a team originally regis
.ered to Shirley Garland.
The men’s second event was won
by a Fairbanks team, skipped by
Clarence Renkoski. The women’s
second-event was won by an Inuvik
team skipped by Elizabeth Hansom
The Grand Aggregate titles were
won by Elizabeth Hanson’s Inuvik
rink and Grant McCoy's team from
Fairbanks.
Slow Ice
Due to the unusually slow ice,
there was insufficient time to play
out the third events in the regular
manner. Instead, each member of
the contesting rinks was allowed
! to take one pot shot for the center
! of the house, and the rock was
measured from the center.
Utilizing this system, the 20 games
in the third event were played off
| in about an hour and a half. Joe
McLean of Garrison skipped his i
team to win by landing a rock 1 *4 I
inches closer to the center of the j
house than did his competing team.
The women's third event was won
by Mary Jones.
Despite the warm weather, the
Bonspiel was considered to be one
of the most successful ever held.
More than 70 rinks, made up of 280
players competed in the events.
More than half of the entries were
from Canada.
The only blight on the Bonspiel
i was the warm weather, which final
j ly forced the Fairbanks Curling
Club to install a refrigeration unit
at the rink on Second Ave. to keep
the sheets in condition for the
games, which were held around the
clock.
Democratic Chieftain Calls
Politics Motive 'Pure Bunk'
“When the proponents of these bills declare that the purpose
is to take the area ‘out of politics,’ they are talking pure bunk.”
That’s what Democratic State Party Chairman Wendell P.
Ivay told Senate President Frank Peratrovich in a strongly worded
etter opposing bills which would place Boards at the head of
principal departments of the State^
government. I
Kay was speaking specifically
about measures concerning the De
partments of Education, and Fish l
and Game. Both have passed the
House and are now before the Sen
ate.
Speaking in his official capacity
as Party Policy Chairman, Kay
lashed out at the bills as running
“contrary to the theory of the Alas
ka Constitution.”
Real Meaning
Referring to tne oft repeated
phrase that enactment of the mea
sures would take the departments
out of politics. Kay stated “What
they really mean is that the par
ticular Director or other executive
w'ants to escape from responsible
supervision of any kind.”
Kay then referred to his own ex
periences with the Board System
from territorial times. He recalled
that he had served for a time “as
the Executive Director of one of
them.”
Based on his own personal ex
perience both as a director of a de
partment headed by a Board, and
as a territorial Legislator, Kay
pointed out the fallacy of the Board
System argument.
“No group of part-time members,
serving a few days out of the year,
no matter how conscientious, can
do the job of supervision and con
trol that is needed in these im
portant fields,” Kay stated.
Kay's statements put the Demo
cratic Party organization in solid
opposition to the Board System in
general, and to the twro specefic
Board bills now before the Legisla
ture.
When the two measures passed
the House several weeks ago. they
had the complete support of Re
publican Legislators plus a minori
ty of the Democratic House mem
bers.
The issue of the Board System
played a major role in the 1958
HIGHWAY INVESTIGATION GRINDS ON
JUNEAU (Special) — One
night shortly after the special
Senate investigation of the State
road program began, committee
chairman R. J. McNealy (D
Fairbanks) drew a hearty laugh
from a crowded gallery by ex
pressing his hope that the in
vestigation would end soon
enough to permit the committee
to leave Juneau with the rest
of the Legislature.
In the intervening weeks the
transcript of testimony has in
creased by many volumes, the list
of witnesses remaining to be called
has likewise increased, and the hu
mor in McNealy’s remark is fast
evaporating.
The Senate committee will com
plete its fifth week of work tomor
row night and the end is not yet
on the horizon.
McNealy has hopefully predicted
that the investigation will be over
by March 16, but there are doubts
that this will prove a realistic dead
line.
Unpredictable Chapter
In many ways the special Senate
investigation has been one of the
most unpredictable chapters in the
history of capital-city politics.
THE WEATHER
High Temp.: 36. Feb. 24
Low Temp.: -1, Feb. 27
Ave. Temp.: 23, exactly normal
Precip.: .14; 2.1 snow; 33” snow on
ground
Outlook: Fair, temperatures near
normal
Sunrise: 7:05 a.m.; Sunset: 5:05 p.m.
10 hours daylight, gain of 7 minutes
77 earthquakes recorded this week
within a 200 mile radius of Fair
banks. according to the Coast &
Geodetic Survey. x
It began as an inquiry into the
status of the State’s road-building
program, but the original purpose
has received little attention during
the course of the hearings. Most of
the testimony given thus far has
been devoted to one question: was
there justification for removing
Thurman D. Sherard as director of
the Division of Highways.
Lost somewhere in the shuffle is
: the fact Governor Egan decided to
replace Sherard a week before the
Legislature convened. Sources close
to Egan said he would have readily
accepted Sherard’s resignation many
months earlier.
Sherard spent 14 hours on the wit
ness stand attempting to prove that
he was merely a ‘’scapeboat,” and
that if anything is wrong with the
road program the blame belongs
elsewhere.
During his testimony Sherard
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gubernatorial election. The same
issue promises to again play a ma
jor role in this year's balloting
contest.
Claims Of Natives
Are Dismissed
By BLM Manager
Protests by Alaskan Natives filed
with the Bureau of Land Manage
ment in the Fairbanks area have
been dismissed by the Manager of
the Fairbanks Land Office.
The protests involved approxi
mately 207.000 acres in the Minto
area, 2.274.000 acres in the North
way area and 1,684.000 acres in the
Tanacross area. The protests had
been made by the Area Director of
the Bureau of Indian Affairs in
behalf of the native groups.
The protest was against the lands
being selected by the State of Alas
ka under the Alaska Statehood Act.
The native groups asserted that
they held possessory rights in the
areas selected.
The Land Office Manager dis
missed the protests on the jurisdic
tional ground that he had no au
thority to adjudicate the claims.
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