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Entered as second class matter October 14. 1943. at the
post office at Nome, Alaska, under Act of March 3. 1379.
Voire of the People
A MM TING Of 1 SKI MO PI-OP1 1! was held last week in
Kot/ehue with delegates selected from villages throughout
Northwestern Mask t h\ the \ssoctation ot American Indian Af
fair'', who paid the tares and expenses tor the delegates. Officials
of the Bureau of Indian \ffairs from W ashington, O.C., were in
attendance, this was the second such meeting, the first having been
held sesera! month:, ago. Both meetings were called lnupiat Paitot.
intc* precd :■< man ' t\ ■ (tic's i h ~/7./g " as the- were initiated
to work on land claims for the I.skimo people.
Hie intentions of this sponsoring organization max Be good,
hut h -w much more good the\ could uo h\ basing each village
selec it ():: >: l\ j't< .euL.firt through It’s On 1 i ".vwc;/, who
woul 1 he the \oice ot the I skimo p.ople. How miuh better it
would he it liadcr, of each communitv, regardless of color, he
incited to participate. Alaskar.s of Northern Alaska work together
for a common goal which is building the econ.mn ot this area
without discrim1 v.tion. (Cooperation and development go hand in
hand md am outside interest which would work ’gainst such a
unified progress is rot helping the i skimo people or Maska.
ibis opinion i> not new or original, as Jatnz.s Officer. \ t.
Commissioner of the Bid., voiced the same idea at the lime meet
ing and the protest of the Ullage of Barrow, one of the most
prog i.e towns in the n >rch. was firm and emphatic against the
wax cse meetings are held. This is surelv the voice of the people.
Bru-ns improve TIv'i?*
Manners at Yellowstone
YELLOWSTONE N A T I O XAL
PARK, Wyo. 4’ — Ti e bears of
Yellow .~a re National Park im
prove i their manners and their
tempers this year.
Park officials reported theta
were 42 persons clawed by beats
in the park, a drop of 14 from
1961. There were 239 reported
cases of damage to personal prop
erty by the bruins in 1961 as com
pared to only 112 incidents this
year.
Tite bears combine with the
natural wonders of Yellowstone to
attract millions of visitors to the
park
L. S. Garrison, park superintend
ent. said numerous summer show
ers surprisingly contributed to th '
decrease in bear trouble. He said
the showers combined with above
average snowfall last winter to
produce a good crop of vegetation
and berries.
Thus the bears didn't rely so
much on handouts from the road
side or campgrounds for their
meals. Most of the injuries oc
curred when tourists atempted to
fet'd the bears.
rleasant Voyage . . .
LONDON vP> — The good ship
Stratheden sailed toward New
Zealand Friday carrying 84 single
girls and 101 bachelors.
They were among 81a British
subjects emigrating to the com
monwealth islands.
As the Stratheden was about to
au up her anchor in a London
(W one of the bachelors, William
,, arfe°«i ^ Sa'C'' ' the 1°°^ °*
ose j spinsters, this is going tc
be a very pleasant voyage ”
Three of the girls-two blondes
and a redhead — said they Werc
actually fleeing from English men
"But I have no objection to a
husky sheep farmer,” said a sec
retary, Lillian Jones, 21.
Dancer Maris Collins, returning
to the southern latitudes after •
London engagement, said in si:
weeks in London she didn't mee
a single interesting boy.”
Among the bachelors was om
named Errol Flynn. But he wa:
only a year old and traveling with
his mother.
“A few people who achieve famt
grow—most of them swell.”
— Woodrow Wilson
‘'1 , \ir Foree F -10 (»' s
Held Training Exercise
At Caic Canaveral
CAPE CANAVERAL. Fla. W —
The Air Force mustered 24 F-106
fighter-interceptor jet planes at
Patrick Air Force Base today in
what an official called a routine
I mobile training exercise.
Military aircraft in such num
bers are a rarity at Patrick, whose
main function is to support Cape
Canaveral missile activity.
Asked about the planes, the Air
Force Information Office at Pat
rick said they were on a “routine
mobih training exercise which the
Tactical Air Command periodic
ally indulges in, in testing the
! reflex action of its aircraft and
crews.”
MAMMOTH BONES
UNCOVERED ON FARM
EAU CLAIRE. Mich. UP» — Ex
perts from the University of Michi
gan have been called in to study
bones, believed to be those of a
mammoth which lived thousands
of years ago. which were found
on a farm near here Thursday.
A crane engaged in the en
largement of an irrigation pond on
the Wesley Prillwitz’ farm un
covered the bones from mud under
six feet of water.
The bones included tusks and a
>kull measuring 28 inches across
the brow. There also were what
appeared to be leg bones. Ama
teur archeologists established their
identity.
GUERRILLAS ARMED WITH
.50 CALIBER MACHINEGUNS
SAIGON, Viet Nam UP) — U.S.
helicopter companies are being
warned by bulletin board notices
that a Viet Cong anti-aircraft
j company with four .50 caliber ma
chineguns is operating somewhere
not far from Saigon.
The heavy machinegun’s range
, ar,h destructive effect are lethal
: i against helicopters and low-flying
l j planes.
I The Communist guerrillas have
> been in possession of .50 caliber
. j guns, all captured from govem
: ment forces, since early this year.
I
In I960 the U.S. gas and oil
industry spent $773,530,000 drill
ing 17,577 dry holes in search of
fresh fuel sources.
Ifeintzleman:
Proposed (iapilal
Move Would Be
A Great Mistake
FAIRBANKS eb "Alaskans
who are fully convinced that the
early development of our natural
i resources is essential to the growth
: of the state believe that the build
ing of a proposed new capital city
would be a great mistake.” former
Alaska Governor Frank Heintzle
j man said in Fairbanks Saturday.
"In fact, even a proposal alone
to do so is damaging,” he added.
Heintzleman, who has been
1 working to bring new' industry in
to Alaska since he left the gover
| nor’s office m 1957, made his
: remarks during a visit to the
interior.
Raises Doubis
He said lie believed the initia
tive petition to be voted on Nov. (1
raises doubts among industrialists
and investment firms as to the
fiscal responsibility of the new
: state, and prospects for future
reasonable tax programs.
"If adopted,'' said Heintzleman,
"its effect on the use of any cur
rent surplus tax receipts as they
may occur and on the bonding
ability of our state and cities for
essential public facilities during
the next quarter century would
be disastrous.
"The State-appointed Planning
Board of three years ago set the
cost of these necessary public
works in the next six or eight
years at more than 148 million
dollars now estimated for the pro
poser) capital setup.
"jin*- v
No New Industries
"In addition, the new capital
i city would bring no new industries
into the state and would merely
draw its residents <at the very
least 7,500' from other Alaska
communities, especially Juneau
and Anchorage.
j "Any available state funds over
j and above the cost of the custo
mary administrative functions and
j necessary public facilities and serv
: ices should be used to do the
things which will help directly to
develop our natural resources and
thereby meet the crying need for
more and permanent industrial
plants and payrolls.
“Many of our sister states and
foreign countries are spending
millions in efforts to bring into
productive use the very same kind
of resources we have to offer,”
i Heintzleman said.
Costly to Replace Facilities
"Wo are bound to be eclipsed
| in this competition if we obligate
j ourselves for years ahead to pay
ing for a highly costly new state
capital to replace facilities in Ju
neau that are already in existence
: and fully adequate for the fore
| seeable future.”
Heintzleman said industrial de
: velopment will require Alaskans
to explore and inventory the great
variety of natural resources, make
these resources accessible through
thousands of miles of access roads,
install electric power stations to
! operate resource processing plants,
i and present the development po
tential material to industrial con
cerns, investment houses and en
gineering firms.
‘‘We should also keep the state
in such financial position that we
can offer short-term tax cuts and
other incentives for new enter
prises needed to sustain commu
nities that are stagnant or dying
because of lost industries,” he said.
“Many of our mining towns and
some of our fishing villages may
require such public help.”
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Soviet Union Makes
Inquiries for Purchase
Of !20 Japanese Ships
TOKYO id1' — The Soviet Union
lias made inquiries for the pur
chase in Japan of 20 ships worth
$100 million, Mitsubishi Shipbuild
: ins; Co. reported Saturday.
Mitsubishi, the world’s leading
ship builder, said the Russians are
interested in freezer vessels and
10,000-ton class freighters.
The Soviet Union's Ship Import
Corp., however, has made similar
inquiries in the Netherlands and
Sweden, Mitsubishi said.
If negotiations here are success
ful. a contract will be signed even
within the course of 1962 between
the Soviet corporation and a group
of Japanese firms including Mit
subishi Shipbuilding Co., Ishikawa
jima-Harima Heavy Industry, Hi
tachi Shipbuilding Co., and Mit
; subishi Nippon Heavy Industry, a
spokesman said.
VFRY MUCH ALIVE
BTJFFAI.O, N.Y. (,-P> Railroad
" orkl*tiH trying to figure
it out Saturday: How a chicken
survived eight days in a refriger
ator ear loaded with frozen tur
The chicken, still verv mueii
alive, arrived with the turkeys Fri
day from South Dakota, a refriger
ating company official said. No
body knew how it got on the
train.
The temperature in the car
ranged between six and eight de
grees below zero.
HEAVYWEIGHT LAVORANTE
HAS THIRD BRAIN OPERATION
LOS ANGELES (/B — Attend
ants at California Luthern Hospital
say Argentine heavyweight Ale
jandro Lavorante is ‘‘holding his
own” after undergoing his third
brain operation.
The curly-haired fighter has been
in a coma since he was knocked
out in a bout with .Johnny Riggins
of San Francisco here Sept. 21.
The latest surgery was perform
od Thursday night.
Dr. Do Witt Fox, the sur .eon
in charge, said afterward that the
opt ration successful.
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