STARTING EARLY—Little Dwayne Andrew Hopson, two and a half
year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Steve Hopson of Barrow, is shown
performing on a Baldwin organ owned by his parents. Steve Hopson
bought the organ from Grant Chapman, owner of the Music Center
in Fairbanks. The organ is believed to be the farthest north instru
ment of its kind in the world. The $2000 organ was transported by
Wien Alaska Airlines last year and was delivered by dog sled to the
Hopson home during a blizzard, "Much to the curiosity of many
people in Barrow,” Grant Chapman said.
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Equipment Flown In
Because of the time element, it
was not possible to get the equip
ment for the Barrow system on
the North Star; consequently, it will
be flown in.
In addition. Tundra Telephone Co.
will bury 20.000 feet of cable nec
essary to connect the village and
construction camps with the long
lines of the Distant Early Warning
System.
No Operators
When the system becomes opera
tional. a person in Key West Flori
da if he knows the telephone num
ber of a Barrow resident will be
able to dial him directly without
going through any operators.
The reverse will not be the case,
I for some time at least, until the
I Alaska Communications System be
t comes prepared for direct dialing.
The Tundra Telephone official
I promised when the Barrow system
became operational later this year,
Tundra Times will be one of the
first places called—free of charge.
Ditto also said his company was
negotiating with several villages
for installing telephone systems but
because of competition, he declined
to name them specifically.
Wireless System
He did say that he was negotiat
ing with state and federal govern
ment agencies to set up a wireless
radio-telephone system for the vil
lages in a 100-mile radius of Bethel.
Under the proposed system, villages
would be able to punch digits and
connect with Bethel numbers and
punch other digits to connect di
rectly with a long distance opera
tor in Anchorage.
The Bethel Telephone system was
started on July 6, 1961 with 60
subscribers; today it has 200. Ac
f cording to the mayor of Bethel, the
I town has not one thing to complain
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about the service. During a flood at
Bethel last year, trouble was ex
perienced by only about three users
and people were able to communi
cate although homes were flooded
i and transportation was only by
I boat.
The McGrath system which was
started last year has 40 subscribers
and the Unalakleet system will start
tomorrow with 60 subscribers. Kot
zebue’s telephone system is part of
the Trans-Alaska network and
Nome's system is privately owned.
No Collection Problem
According to Ditto, Tundra Tele
phone Co. is very pleased with op
erations so far. ‘‘The amazing thing
is we don’t have the bill collection
problems that big cities have.”
Ditto for eleven years worked for
the Bell Telephone Co., then worked
as operations and maintenance su
perintendent for the last 18 DEW
Line stations stretched across Can
ada, then for a year was resident
engineer at Elmendorf Air Force
Base before deciding to go into bus
iness for himself.
Katherine Chukan
Weds Melvin Brown
Melvin Brown and Katherine
Chukan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Gordon McCormick were marired
at Naknek, Alaska, on August 15,
1963. The wedding reception was
held on Thursday, August 15, at
eight o’clock p.m. in the Naknek
Hotel.
Melvin is the son of a well-known
teacher, Mrs. Emily Ivanoff Brown.
Katherine attended high school at
the Sheldon Jackson Junior College
in Sitka, and Melvin graduated from
Mt. Edgecumbe High School.
Both were students at the Univer
sity of Alaska.
DEWIine...
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employ until the new basic manning
is met.”
Guilfoyle said he had read an ar
ticle in the July 1 issue of Tundra
Times which stated: “At Barter Is
land alone, it was reported that
10 out of 13 Eskimo employees were
slated to lose their jobs.”
He said the report was incorrect
and it was “most regretable it was
published without verification from
Federal Electric Corporation”.
“As a matter of fact, during June
and July there have been 9 resig
nation and 1 discharge among our
indigenous employees with the result
that this manning fell below au
thorized fiscal year 1964 allowances.
One of the resignations was at
tributable to an “excess” condition,
he said, but this employee had al
ready been returned to employment
with the company.
Guilfoyle said Federal F.lectric
had always had much more than a
passing interest in DEW Line native
employees and had gone to great
lengths in their interests.
“We have employed from the first
days of the DEW Line a number of
these people in a ‘contract status as
mechanics, clerks, and teletype op
erators, as well as reserving alrriost
all the unskilled position for them,”
he said.
In accordance with Air Force in
structions, he said FEC had already
turned off the Doppler Radar at
the eight Alaskan intermediate
sites and that eight native laborers
employed at these sites would be
transferred to jobs at other loca
tions.
CORRECTION
The Tundra Times slip was show
ing in the last issue. We inadvertent
ly said Wiley Post and Will Rogers
crashed 19 years ago, when in fact,
they crashed 28 years ago. We beg
the pardon of all our readers.
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More Than $100 In Prizes
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entries will be exhibited there. Jury’s decision will be final.
7. Each Alaska native amateur artist, male or female, from 10 to 80 years of
age is eligible to enter from one to six black and white drawings. Limit is
six from each artist.
8. Drawings must have signature in pencil of artist, easily read, fat the lower
right hand corner and in the left hand corner in pencil the name or title
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