Press Award..
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Winners in other categories were:
S. Sgt. Volney Snyder. Air Force,
outstanding individual story in a
weekly newspaper; Bob Arnold.
KHAR, best radio news reporting;
Evan White, best television news
reporting; best television sports
coverage, Jack Cross, KTVA.
Best newspaper sports coverage,
; PFC. Nick Peter, Ft. Richardson;
Ibest women’s program on radio.
Ruth Briggs, KNIK-FM; best
women’s program on television,
Norma Goodman, KTVA; best wom
en’s section in newspaper, Betsy
Woodman, Anchorage Daily News;
:.best news and feature photographs,
Larry Crackel, Daily News-Miner;
best feature story in newspaper.
Terry Brady, Daily News-Miner
outstanding house organ, Railbelt
Reporter, Alaska Railroad: best
free lance writers, George C.
Ameigh, Jr. and Yule Chaffin for
book entitled, “Alaska’s Kodiak Is
land."
Three trophies were awarded to
Hews media for outstanding service
to the state: KENI Radio, Anchor
age: the Daily News-Miner for its
•ogress edition; and KTVA-TV.
Anchorage.
Training in Alaska
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*9r electronic training, to return to
Alaska for jobs with BMEWS, Dew
line, White Alice, NASA, FAA, and
pi Kate communications companies.
Thus, far, 50 have entered training,
many of whom have now graduated.
Now the University of Alaska and
the State Employment Service, with
giants from the federal government,
ale going to offer 48-week electronic
training course at the University of
Alaska. The course will start on
June 3 and Dr. John Tryon, head
of the University’s Department of
Electrical Engineering will be in
charge.
While the University will be in
charge of giving the training, the
State Employment Service—with
offices in Fairbanks, Anchorage,
Ketchikan, Juneau, Petersburg.
Sitka, Soldotna, and Nome — will
be in charge of selecting 40 persons
from those who apply.
The training is open to both na
tives and non-natives. “We’d like
to have at least half of the class
natives,” said Dr. Tryon.
Heads of household will be given
first priority but single persons are
also urged to apply. “Time is of the
essence in applying." explained a
member of the Employment Service,
“We would like to get applications
in by April 27, if possible.”
Natives who are not selected for
the forthcoming course at the Uni
versity beginning on June 3 may be
considered, if desired, for RCA
electronic training at Los Angeles,
California.
The Bureau of Indian Affairs says
a group of 40 will be sent to the
RCA Institute on August 15 and
another group of 40 the following
February.
The main qualifications for the
electronics technician course is a
high school diploma or ability to
pass a high school equivalency test
and, of course, interest in electronics
work.
The course at the University, Dr.
Tryon explains, will concern not
only electronics but with physics,
mathematics, typing, technical writ
ing for reports and instructions,
business administration, social sci
ence, and economics.
For those selected, grants of vary
ing amounts depending upon the
individual cidcumstances, will be
given for travel and living expenses.
For heads of households, grants will
be made for the subsistence of their
families.
Dr. Tryon explains that the main
significance of the forthcoming pro
gram is that it will “train Alaskans
in Alaska for Alaskan jabs."
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long series of telephone calls to
find the Secretary's name. First, we
called the State Department of
Health and Welfare. They didn’t
know. Then we called the office of
the Public Welfare Supervisor; he
didn’t know either.
“I hope you don’t print we didn’t
know,” replied the secretary.
Then we called the public library,
knowing it has a public service of
looking up critical information.
But the library checked the World
Almanac and found only Ribicoff’s
name. The librarian on duty said
she would check furtheh and call
back if she could find the name.
But she didn't call back.
Suggestions
Then we called the Information
Office of the University of Alaska.
The person on duty suggested Or
ville Freeman, but we immediately
discounted him. We recognized
Freeman as the Secretary of Agri
culture. Then the person suggested,
Dr. Frances Kelsey, the woman who
banned a drug from the IT.S. market
that later was proven to cause de
formities in babies. We still weren’t
convinced.
Then we called the office of the
Fairbanks Independent School Dis
trict but no one there could come
up with the Secretary’s name. Then
we called the Education Department
of the University of Alaska. There
was a long pause while the answerer
consulted a professor but he, too,
could not think of the Secretary’s
name.
Newsmen Know Not
Then we were told the Daily
News-Miner whould have the an
swer. We called there, but the news
members on duty didn’t know his
name either.
“A man just called a few minutes
ago wanting to know the same
thing,” replied a staff member.
Name Found
Finally, when we were almost to
the point of going out of our minds,
we called the State Mental Health
Office and the secretary on duty,
Mrs. Lotte Davey, proved she had
all her wits about her.
“Why, his name in Celebrezze,”
she said, “How could anyone forget
anybody with a name like that!”
“I don’t know his first name or
how to spell it,” she added, but she
kindly referred us for that informa
tion to a Mr. Canon, social worker,
with the U.S. Health Department.
“Of course, I know Secretary
Celebrezze,” said the social worker,
“He’s our big boss in Washington.”
Canon then briefed us fully on the
Secretary.
Replaced Riblcoff
Anthony J. Celebrezze was ap
pointed last July by President Ken
nedy to succeed Abraham A. Ribi
Anthony J. Celebrezze
coff as Secretary of Health, Educa
tion, and Welfare when Ribicoff
resigned to run for U.S. Senator in
Connecticut.
Secretary Celebrezze, who is 51,
was bom in Anzi, Italy, while his
parents were visiting the place of
their birth. He attended public
schools and John Carroll University
in Cleveland. He received his law
degree in 1936 from Ohio Northern
University.
Celebrezze worked as an attorney
for the Ohio Bureau of Unemploy
ment Compensation, served in the
Holikachuk Leader Passes Away
Shortly Before Dream Fulfilled
By Wilbert Nicholas
Holikachuk G'oorespondent
HOLIKACHUK, March 28—Sorry
for my long delay in writing to
you people. I have been very busy
lately. I have been beaver trapping.
In your previous letter you want
ed me to send some legend stories.
I haven’t as yet written any, al
though we have some very good
legends here. In the future, I will
send you some stories of that na
ture.
I am now sending you an article
of a very good man who recently
passed away from this village. He
died at the Alaska Native Hospital.
Anchorage, on March 19. 1963. The
body is here now and we are all
Mail Plane
Crash Lands
At Savoonga
By John Kulowiyl
Savoonga Correspondent
SAVOONGA, April 4—Last Tues
day, April 2, Wien's mail service
aircraft made a crash landing in
front of this village about half a
mile out on the ice. Both the pilot
and his passenger survived but the
pilot had a slight cut on one hand.
The weather was calm but foggy
and the visibility was about 2 to
3 miles.
The pilot circled Savoonga several
times making sure of the location
on which he wished to land. On
the final landing approach the en
gine died suddenly while they were
still about 100 feet in the air, the
pilot said. They crashed against a
big pack of ice.
The day the aircraft crashed lots
of people heard the engine stop
suddenly and some saw it coming
down when it crashed.
The pilot's name is Thor Tjont
veit, and the passenger is Lt. Kemp,
who is stationed at Northeast Cape.
April 4—Weather today is warm,
clear. Lots of open water but no
game.
1 home waiting for the burial which
will be on Sunday, March 30.
* # *
Old Man's Dream
This man, Louis Deacon, who
passed away, was credited for the
move of this village, which will
start in a couple of months. This
person, who was once chief, was
the first person who wanted the
move of this village about 20 years
ago.
From then on, the move was
brought up from time to time, but
due to the lack of knowledge of
some things involved in a move of
this size, it wasn’t started until last
year when the plans were laid.
Louis Deacon, at one time, mov
ed his family on the Yukon and
built a house and made a garden,
hoping other people would follow
him and do the same. For reasons of
different sorts the people neglect
ed to follow his example. Last year,
the talk was circulated around the
village, and the people then decided
to move to the location on the
Yukon River.
Strong Leader
Louis was not only a strong lead
er in the functions of the village,
but was a leader in our Indian
customs and traditions. lie always
told us to be proud of our tradi
tions and ways of our people passed
down for many, many generations.
With his passing away, our In
dian ways here will, no doubt,
vanish more rapidly — a sad situa
tion indeed.
Preparations for the move are now
being made. The actual move starts
in about three months. And. Louis,
whose dream it was, had to pass
away only months before the move
starts.
Louis is survived by the follow
ing persons: his widow. Olga: sons.
Mountain and Bede. Holikachuk:
daughter, Mona. Shageluk: foster
children now living at the home,
Ina, Harold, and Thomas. Also, he
raised Harriet Nicholas, my wife,
and Wilfred Deacon, his nephew.
He has grandchildren in Anvik.
Shageluk, and Holikachuk.
Bills Proposed to Allow Juneau
Village to Obtain Land Titles
Residents of the Juneau Indiar
Village may soon receive title to
their lands, due to the efforts of
the Alaska Congressional delega
tion.
Senator E. L. “Bob” Bartlett and
Rep. Ralph J. Rivers have intro
duced bills into both the Senate
and House authorizing the survey
and establishment of a townsite for
the village.
The villagers have been unable
to form a townsite because their
community is located both on up
lands and on filled-in tidelands.
The formation of townsites on
tidelands is now impossible because
the act which governs the estab
lishment of native townsites makes
no provisions for tidelands and be
cause a 1960 ruling of the Interior
Department solicitor states that the
tidelands were not transferred to
the Territory of Alaska by the Land
Act of 1957 or to the State by the
Statehood Act.
Since they have not been able to
form a townsite, the Tlingit In
Navy during World War II. and
was elected twice to the Ohio State
Senate.
At the time of his appointment
to the cabinet, he was serving an
unprecedented fifth term as mayor
of Cleveland.
The Celebrezzes haye three chil
dren, Anthony, Jr., a senior at the
U.S. Naval Academy, Jean Anne,
and Susan Marie.
Somehow, the Tundra Times staff,
feels there is a moral in this story
for all of us.
dians living in the community are
unable to gain title to their lands,
and thus can't even own their own
homes.
The Senate Interior and Insular
Affairs Committee last week gave
its approval to Senatcr Bartlett’s
bill and the Subcommittee on In
dian Affairs of the House Commit
tee on Interior and Insular Affairs
is expected to report favorably on
the Rivers bill soon.
! School Named
After Delaware,
Not Sioux Indian
Historical information has re
cently come to the Tundra Times
that a new school building built
three years ago at Bethel was named
after a Delaware, not a Sioux, In
dian.
In its March 4 issue, the Tundra
Times carried a story that the school
was named after John Kilbuck, be
lieved to be a Sioux Indian and
missionary or government official
at Bethel about the turn of the cen
tury.
An alert historian at the Uni
versity of Alaska has pointed out
an article about Kilbuck appears
in the Geographic Dictionary of
Alaska, published by the Depart
ment of Interior in 1902.
According to author of the article,
Marcus Baker, Bethel was founded
on the lower Kuskokwim near or at
the native village of Mamterilek by
two missionaries, William H. Wein
land and John H. Kilbuck in 1885.
Marcus says Kilbuck was a Del
aware Indian, a missionary and
teacher at Bethel, and that in 1898
a Mr. Spurr named a range of
mountains east of the lower reach
of the Kuskokwim River after Kil
buck.
The Tundra Times always wel
comes precise information to correct
ambiguities in its articles.
Letter to Editor
Nome. Alaska
April 6, 1963
Dear Sir:
I am writing to you about John
Kulowiyi, your Savoonga corres
pondent. I do not know whether
you know this man. but I hope that
you do.
Recently a fellow worker of ours
I was killed in a plane crash and to
day I received the following note
from Mr. Kulowiyi. In this note
John has given a man an epitaph
fit for a king: and only a man with
the heart of king could have written
such an epitaph.
The note:
“I've heard of Jack Davis. And
I’ve heard of the crash that day.
George, I’m sorry to have lost one
hand again for us and others. He
did his duty to the people. Also we
don’t always live forever to work
on this earth. We have limited
time. Again, I’m very sorry to hear
that.”
Signed: JK
I do not know anything nicer
that a man could say about a man
than. "He did his duty to the
people."
Ycurs truly,
George Markham
Indian Custom
Youth Persuades Friend
Not to Shoot Raven
By George Jennings Gale
of Healy Fork
The other day, someone in Healy
was going to shoot a raven. But his
Indian companion persuaded him
not to do so. The Indian lad claimed
that the raven was trying to talk,
as it was the spirit of some Indian.
But at that, Indian values have
something that is good for mental
health. For Indianism stands for a
belief in many gods but only one
supreme spirit. He can be obtained
through prayer and sacrifice.
Immortality of the soul is deter
mined by his life. The body is the
temple of the soul and is to be
fasted when the spirit seeks better
light. Men must take care of their
own people. A murderer must be
marked for life or put to death.
Complete truthfulness, cleanliness
of soul and body is essential. Prom
ises are bonds. Songs and dances
are beautiful.
Indians believe, if they steal, the
weakness of the party they steal
from will go into the thief. But
should you make a fair trade of a
gift, you will gain some of the
strength and virtues of the other
party, and son on.
The dog, wolf, owl, raven, and
crow, can all understand some
Athabascan and are trying to learn
to talk the Indian language.
White men of 1898 picked up
many virtues from the local Indian3.