Smoky the Bear
PaveSpWay for High
Parachute Drops
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE,
Calif. MR — Smoky the bear has
shown it’s possible to be ejected
safely from a B-58 bomber going
more than 1,000 miles an hour at
an altitude of more than 8V2 miles.
A man probably will try it next,
perhaps in a few weeks.
Smoky, a 125-pound American
black bear with brown fur, was
hurled from a B-58 Friday as it
raced at 1,060 miles an hour 45,000
feet over this desert test center.
His ejection capsule, an aluminum
enclosure about five feet high and
two feet across, parachuted slowly
to a scrub-covered bombing range
and made a gentle landing, cushion
ed by shock absorbers on the out
side.
Smoky seemed to find the ride
quite bearable — although he really
didn’t know what was going on. He
had been tranquillized before the
plane took off, and he was still
dozing when he came down.
The purpose of the test was to
help perfect an ejection capsule
that will provide oxygen and pro
tection from windblast for fliers
who have to bail out of fast bomb
ers at high altitudes.
CWO Edward Murray, 47, of
Dayton, Ohio, tested the capsule
Feb. 28, but was ejected at a lower
speed, 565 mph, and at a lower
altitude, 20,000 feet. A smaller
bear was successfully ejected March
21 from a B-58 going 870 mph.
Bears have been used in the
tests because their spinal columns
and internal organs are similar to
those of man.
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Gov. Egan Handed
Supplemental
Appropriations
Totaling $7 Million
JUNEAU UP) — The legislature
handed Gov. Wm. Egan supple
mental appropriation bills adding
up to a tidy $7,712,565.91 before
it adjourned yesterday.
The supplemental appropriations
are in addition to the general ap
propriations bill for the coming
fiscal year, which provides for ex
penditures amounting to $69,432,
198 during the 12 months com
mencing July 1.
One of the supplemental appro
priations for fiscal 1962 includes
$3,963,298 for highway construction
and maintenance. Another pro
vides $217,490 for highway ad
ministration.
Highways also received a supple
mental of $160,039 to pay for re
construction of its accounts since
July 1, 1960, and for a study and
revision of its entire accounting
system.
Other major supplementals pro
vide $956,000 for a pay increase
for state employes and $560,000
for aid to dependent children, gen
eral relief medical care, the care
of prisoners, juvenile probation
and the adult conservation camp.
There were other supplementals
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figure.
The legislature approved a $450,
000 supplemental appropriation for
state aid to incorporated school dis
tricts during fiscal 1962. It also
set aside $119,000 for state parti
cipation in Seattle’s Century 21
show.
Another $150,000 was earmarked
for the rural development, disaster
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ing the current fiscal year; $378,
000 for completion of the new
gymnasium at the University of
Alaska; $195,000 to pay for the
state primary and general elections
this rail. .
Other supplemental tallied off
to a low of $302.05 to repay Na
tional Guardsmen for losses of per
sonal property in. a plane crash
near Yakutat several years ago.
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• Deluxe Mukluks
• Parkas and Huffs
• Ivory Carvings
• Photography
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CAMPAIGN
COMMENTS
BY VERNE O. MARTIN
Republican for Governor
At this time I feel I should
comment on the Wasilla Youth
Camp hearing. Frankly, it was
a testimonial circus, a white
wash, rather than an impartial
hearing. Most of you are aware
of the charges made against con
ditions at the camp, brought to
me by reliable and competent
witnesses because the Egan ad
inistration had ignored prior re
ports. They hoped I could force
a public hearing. There was a
hearing, but no attempt was made
by Mr. Charles Pfeiffer, director
of the Youth and Adult Authority,
to contact me for the names of
witnesses.
In other words, it is apparent
Mr. Pfeiffer “hand-picked” those
who were to appear before the
citizens committee. The evidence
on both sides was not heard, and
so how on earth could a decision
be rendered? It would have been
the committee’s right to judge the
story told with witnesses, but
could they judge impartially and
fairly when they did not hear
all the facts?
By this failure to demand
testimony by the witnesses who
originated the charges, inesti
mable harm was done by the
boys now in the camp and those
who will be there in the future.
These boys deserve every chance
to become industrious, worth
while citizens, and through the
Wasilla whitewash, they were
denied this chance.
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JOHNNEE BARTLETT SETS
UP BABY SITTING SERVICE
FOR SEATTLE C21 VISITORS
Among the many busy people
getting ready for the World’s Fair
in Seattle, is another former Nome
resident, Johnnee Bartlett, wife of
Stanley K. Bartlett.
Johnnee, her son, Keith Bartlett
and her sister-in-law, Babe Bartlett,
are setting up Bartlett Baby Sitting
Service, at 216 Queen Anne Ave.
North, just a couple of blocks from
the Coliseum entrance to the Fair.
Johnnee came to Nome first as
a nurse at Maynard Columbus Hos
pital. Then worked later for the
Nome Drug Store. In 1941, Babe
Bartlett, at that time Babe John
ston, came to Nome for three
month vacation.
Stanley and Johnnee were mar
ried in Nome in 1942, and remain
ed here until 1943 when they were
transferred by Pan American to
Fairbanks. They returned to Nome
with their two-year-old son in 1946.
Their daughter, Johnnee, was bom
in January of 1949 and they left
Nome in June of that year.
Since leaving Nome the Bart
letts have made several trips back
to visit friends. Their last visit
was in 1958.
Babe and her husband own the
Chestnut Apartments at 1427
Chestnut St., Everett, Wn.
Besides helping with the many
phases of setting up the Baby Sit
ting Service, Babe is kept busy
helping her husband repaint and
refurnish their apartments in pre
paration for renting them by the
night or week during the World’s
Fair.
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EXPERT REPAIRS
ANNOUNCE WINNERS IN
MATHEMATICS CONTEST
COLLEGE — University of Alas
ka mathematician Francis Parker
announced the winners, individual
and team, in the Alaska section of
the National Mathematics Contest
First place winner in the team
scores is West Anchorage High
School which also has the first
place individual winner, David A.
Judd. The 13th annual mathematics
contest examinations were given
on March 8 in the 17 competing
schools.
Team scores were based on the
thre highest individual scores
tallied in each school. The top 10
high school team scores are:
1. West Anchorage, 2. Juneau
Douglas, 3. East Anchorage, 4.
Lathrop (Fairbanks), 5. Ft. Greely,
6. Palmer, 7. Nome, 8. Ben Eielson
(Eielson AFB), 9. Petersburg, 10.
Monroe (Catholic, Fairbanks).
The high scorer in each of the
17 high schools entered and their
schools include: David P. Grant of
Nome.
Provide $2,200,000 General
Obligation Bond Issue for School
JUNEAU UFi — The House gave
its okeh Wednesday to a bill pro
posing a $2,200,000 general obli
gation bond issue for the construc
tion of a vocational school in the
Kodiak-Aleutian area.
The proposition will be placed on
the November general election bal
lot for a vote of the people.
The measure passed 26-14 after
lawmakers beat back amendments
which would have permitted pro
ceeds from the bonds to be used
at any vocational school, includ
ing die proposed facility at Nome.
Backers of the measure argued
that the entire region embraced
by the Kodiak-Aleutian Islands
Senatorial District has only one
high school, which is located at
Kodiak.
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