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Vol. 1, No. 24 _ Monday, Sept. 23, 1963 Fairbanks, Alaska
RAMPART DAM DEFENDED BY GRUENING, SUNDBORG (See Pg. 5)
U A ASKS POLLUTION l&B
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INDIAN GIRLS STUDY NURSING—Anna Grant of Tanana, left, has completed her nurse’s training at
the Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, while Phyllis Alexander of Nenana, right, is just beginning
her course. Both young ladies hold all-expense scholarships provided by the Society of Colonial Dames.
Interested persona in these scholarships can obtain information by writing to Pennsylvania Hospital,
School of Nursing, Eighth and Spruce St., Philadelphia 7, Pa. This is the Nation's first hospital, found
ed in 1751, and has an outstanding reputation as a place for the training of physicians and nurses. The
picture of Anna and Phyllis was taken at the facide of the nurses residence.
—Tundra Times Photo by Theodore B. Hetzel
Senator Puzzling
In Efforts to Stop
Russ Fishing Here
Alaska's junior senator. Ernest
Gruening, in a bit of difficult to
understand maneuvering, has seem
ingly contradicted his own stand
or» nuclear testing, in an effort to
stop Russia fishing off Alaska’s
coast.
Gruening is reported to have sent
President Kennedy a telegram ques
tioning the reliability of the nu
clear test ban agreement between
the U.S. and Russia; in light of the
Soviet habit of breaking agree
ments.
He then is reported to have spe
cifically pointed toward the Soviet
invasion of U.S. fishing waters, par
ticularly off Alaska.
His attitude toward the test-ban
agreement follows a' statement pub
lished in his newsletter to Alaskans
earlier this year, in which it was
noted that the senator is a co-spon
sor of a bill that would ban all
nuclear tests that contaminate the
amosphere and the ocean.
‘‘What kind of nest befoulcrs are
we becoming?” Senator Gruening
asked, when announcing his sup
port of the bill.
In relation to the test-ban treaty.
Senator Gruening has been quoted
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Rampart Area Villages Turn
In Maps Denoting Land Use
Four Yukon Flat Athabascan In
dian villages have compiled and
turned in maps showing ancestral
aond current use of the Flats for
subsistence.
The villages are Beaver, Stevens
More Arctic Oil
Land May Soon
Be Up for Bid
Any day now Secretary of Inter
ior Stewart L. Udall could put a
notice lh the federal register to
open a portion of 16 million acres on
Alaska's north slope to oil and gas
leasing, the Tundra Times has dis
covered.
In an interview with Tun
dra Times, Governor Wliliam A.
Egan said that a previous agree
ment under which the Interior De
partment was to give the state 60
days notice of a proposed land with
drawal has been canceled.
The agreement was canceled dur
ing negotiations with John A. Car
ver, Assistant Secretary of Interior,
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Village, Birch Creek and Canyon
Village, Beaver and Stevens are on
the Yukon River. Birch Creek is on
Birch Creek, south of Fort Yukon
and Canyon Village is on the Por
cupine River, near the Canadian
border.
The maps were made up on stand
ard U S. Geological Survey maps,
and returned to Sandy Jensen in
Fairbanks. She will rc-copy the
maps, and copies will go to in
terested federal and private agen
cies. All but Canyon Village are
known to be in the proposed Ram
part Dam inundation area.
Each map shows the route of old
and current trap trails: cabins;
moose trap pens: burial grounds:
fish camps; and other locations the
people use to make a living.
The Birch Creek map was com
piled under the direction of Law
rence Martin. The Beaver map was
made by Turak Newman. Neil
Simon handled the Stevens Village
map, and Richard Martin compiled
the Canyon Village map.
Stevens Village and Beaver have
been established for some time.
Birch Creek is the re-settlement of
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Radiation, Ice Fog Study
Program Requested of AEC
A proposal to establish a full scale air pollution laboratory to study
radiation and ice fog, among other things, has been sent to the Atomic
Energy Commission by Gov. William A. Egan, acting on a submission
by Dr. William R. Wood, president of the University of Alaska.
Gov. Egan has told the Tundra Times that Glenn T. Seaborg. chair
man of the AEC said he would give the proposal serious consideration.
The Governor also said Washington level aid on the project is being
given by Sen. E. L. (Bob) Bartlett.
The proposal calls for the basic laboratory to be established on the
University of Alaska campus, at College, near Fairbanks. There has
been no cost figure given for the lab.
Anxiety for such a lab has been increased in recent weeks with
accounts of the way radioactive fallout from Soviet and U. S. nuclear
testing in the atmosphere has caused contamination of a unique Arctic
food chain.
This food chain involves lichen and sedges, (plants that absorb radio
active materials,) caribou and reindeer, that eat the plants, and finally
I humans, that eat the animals.
Good Year for
Fire Control
The 1963 forest fire season in
Alaska has ended, with the Bureau
of Land Management saying it was
one of the most successful years on
record.
Much of the credit for the season
was given to more than 700 native
men who were called upon to fight
blazes in remote areas.
There were 206 fires recorded on
the 225 million acres of public do
main and state selected land pro
tected by the BLM. The fires burned
14.336 acres, or an average of 70
acres per fire, according to BLM
officials.
This compares with an average
burn of nearly one million acres per
year for the past 25 years. In the
dry summer of 1957 more than five
million acres of timber and tundra
went up in smoke.
According to Dennis E. Hess,
chief. Branch of Protection of the
BLM. the good record for 1963 was
the result of fast initial attack, more
smokejumpers, good support by
borate bombers and work of na
tive ground forces.
In addition. Hess noted that in
tensive training, better weather
forecasting and favorable weather
at critical times were also helps.
First Native FCAs
The 1963 season marked the first
time that native men were hired
by the BLM in the responsible fire
control aid (FCA) positions.
Ed Mayo of Fairbanks, MacAr
thur Peter of Fort Yukon and John
Andrews of Holy Cross were all
employed. Peter and Mayo worked
in the Fairbanks District and And
rews in the Anchorage District.
The three all had previous emer
gency firefighting experience. And
rews had formerly been employed
as a camp boss and crew boss.
Mayo had worked with the Fair
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Gov. Egan Might
Seek Third Term
On Point of Law
A one-month delay in Alaska
statehood back in late 1933 and
early 1959 may pave the way for
Alaska’s governor, William A. Egan,
to run for a third term.
And in an exclusive interview
with Tundra Times, Egan, with a
twinkle in his eye, said he was ser
iously considering doing just that.
Though he pointed out a lot
could happen in the next three years
that could change his mind, he also
pointed out that there was nothing
i legally to stand in his way of
throwing his hat in the governor's
, race in 1965.
If Egan should decide to run
again, and were reelected, in all
probability, he would be the only
Alaska governor ever to be elected
to serve more than two terms.
Egan told Tundra Times that
Alaska had taken a forward step
and provided that the state admin
istration would take over on Decem
ber 3, 1953 in order to give the gov
ernor a few weeks to review prob
lems with outgoing officials.
President Eisenhower didn't sign
the statehood proclamation until
January 3, 1959.
“Although the constitution pro
vides that each governor shall be
limited to two full terms, my first
turn was not a full term. If I should
decide to run again, it would be
legally in order,” Egan said.
“If President Eisenhower had
signed the proclamation one month
earlier, this would not be the case.1'