Alaska-Seattle
Outboard Race
Began Yesterday
The Ketchikan - Canada - Seattle
outboard marathon, which, began
yesterday, has attracted eleven
entries. The race will be run in
100-mile legs, two each day at
speeds of about 50 miles an hour.
The 700-mile race is sponsored
by the Northwest Marine Indus
tries, lnc.r and is intended to dra
matize the tremendous boating op
portunities along the Inside Pas
sage. The event is scheduled to
terminate at about 4:30 p.m.,
August 2 at the new Port of Seat
tle Shilshole breakwater.
Five of the motorboats compet
ing were brought to Alaska aboard
the Alaska Steamship Company
motorship Susitna; three others
from the United States and three
from Canada cruised north under
their own power. The eleventh is
from Alaska.
School Beginners
Must Show Proof
It’s not that teachers are doubt
ing Thomases but because the law
requires it that kindergarteners or
first graders entering Alaskan
schools for the first time must
present proof of age, F. E. Eester,
director of the Vital Statistics
bureau said this week.
If entering kindergarten, a child
must be five years of age on or be
fore the first day of November
following the beginning of the
school year, and six years of age
if entering the first grade.
Parents of Alaskan-born children
may obtain a plastic birth card by
writing to the Bureau of Vital
Statistics, Alaska Division of
Health, Alaska Office Building,
Juneau, stating the child’s name,
date and place of birth, and par
ent’s names. The request must be
accompanied by a postal money
order for $2.00 and should be
made several days in advance of
the date needed, Mr. Kester said.
Alaskan-born students going out
side to school or college will also
find the wallet-size plastic birth
card a convenient form of propf
of date and place of birth, he said.
The Naval Ordnance Laboratory,
Silver Springs, Md., employs 3,000
persons to develop, evaluate and
improve new weapons for the Uni
ted States Fleet. Of these 1,000 are
college graduated engineers and
scientists.
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