the COMPTON QUIZ
By Keith Roberts,
Director, Information Service Ri
Test • your knowledge with
these questions and answers
from the pages of Compton’s
Pictured Encyclopedia.
1. How fast can a duck fly?
2. What member of the grass
family grows 100 feet tall ?
3. What legendary man sold
his soul to the devil ?
4. W h a t is considered the
oldest musical instrument ?
5. What animal has a hide an
inch and a half thick ?
6. Who started the first cir
culating library in Amer
ica?
7. Are there any poisonous
mammals ?
8. What birds have had a
monument erected to them ?
9. Who is called the “father
of American football”?
10. How big does a halt In.',
grow ?
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Summer
Library Hours
SATURDAY MORNING
10:00 to 11:30 a.m.
WEDNESDAY EVENING
7:30 to 9:00 p.m.
Kegoayah Kozga Library
Upstairs in City Bldg.
KFQl'FSTS FOR ABSINTH
BALLOTS RUTS S ILAMi FA'
JUNEAU iT) — Secretary of
State Hugh Wade’s Office said
yesterday it has handled 504 re
quests for absentee ballots for the
Au;;. 14 primary election and the
number of applications is rising
steadily each day.
Magistrates and Deputy Magi
strates around the state have also
issued absentee ballots, but Wade’s
Office said no actual count on the
number of absentee ballots issued
in this manner was available here
as yet.
Wade attributed the increase to
the availability of new postcard
application forms, which can be
obtained in each of the some 250
post offices located in Alaska.
Jack McFarland, State Elections
Director, said he did not expect
total absentee voting to run as
high in the coming primary as it
did in 1060, when 3,530 absentee
ballots were cast in the primary
and 5.331 in the general election.
McFarland said the establish
ment of 36 new precincts will per
mit many persons who formerly
did not have a place to cast their
votes in person on election day to
do so this year.
The ballot for the Aug. 14 pri
mary carries the names of candi
dates for Governor, Secretary of
State, U.S. Senate, U S. House of
Representatives, State Senate and
State House of Representatives.
There are no referenda or initia
tives on the primary ballot.
Scout Battalions to
Receive National Attention
The famed Eskimo Scout bat
talions of the Alaska National
Guard soon will be making an ap
pearance on nation-wide television.
At the suggestion of the Infor
mation Office of the United States
Army, Alaska, the Army Pictorial
Service is planning a film story on
the Scout units and the part they
play in the nation’s defense pro
gram.
When completed the film will
be showm as one of the Army’s
“Big Picture” televised series.
SUPERIOR COURT
Wm. Okpealuk, who was serving
a suspended two-year sentence for
concealing stolen property, was
sentenced to 9 months in jail with
the former sentence revoked.
How’s This for Progress . . .
ALASKA’S FIRST ELECTED STATE GOVERMENT
HAS LAUNCHED THE FIRST REAL PROGRAM
FOR DEVELOPMENT OF RURAL AREAS IN
ALASKA’S HISTORY.
> More than one hundred communities helped through
rural development program.
i Drainage systems, sidewalks, community buildings,
floats, well houses, bus stop shelters constructed.
> Comprehensive program developed to provide rural
school children with adequate educational opportunities.
> Bush airports, waters and harbors projects
constructed.
i Pioneer access roads pushed into valuable
resource areas.
HERE IS A RESPONSIBLE PROGRAM TO IMPROVE
A LONG-NEGLECTED AREA OF ALASKA LIFE.
On August 14 vote for the man who has provided
Alaska with sound, progressive leadership.
Re-elect Governor
WILLIAM A. EGAN
THE MAN YOU CAN TRUST
—sponsored and paid for by Egan for Governor Committee
' Americans and
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NEW YORK </P> - Americans
i'il a look at Europe. and Euro
; poans got a look at Die United
■ State- Monday in the first ex
1 change of live television programs.
Pleasure was expressed on both
! sides of the Atlantic, as the ohce
i formidable distance between the
j two continents shrank to the size
| of a home television screen.
The distance was bridged elec
tronically by the Telstar satellite,
which enabled the television men
to beam sie.nals across space from
continent to continent in milli
seconds.
The result was international
television programming — a n d
good programming at that. Missing
however, was any hint of the com
petition that usually pervades the
fields of entertainment. Each side
rooted for the other’s success.
This nation’s program w first.
For 20 minutes it gave Eurooe
swift, panoramic g 1 i m p s c s of
American life including the Statue
of Liberty, a baseball game, a
Presidential news conference, a
busy expressway in Detroit, a
summer theater, hula dancers,
astronauts, the United Nations, the
Seattle Fairground and the chiseled
faces on Mt, Rushmore.
Eui’ope reciprocated with pic
tures of Big Ben in London, a
Paris street scene, a Swedish maid.
Sicilian boats and fishermen, a
riding school in Vienna. the
Square of the Republic in Belgrade,
the opera in Rome, a scientific
center in Geneva and the heart of
industrial Germ any.
The American program went
over big in Europe. One London
newspaper called it “the greatest
| showr on earth, and in space." En
thusiastic comment came from
Germany, Spain, France, and
elsewhere on this continent.
Reception of the American show
was good in Europe, and reception
of the European show was good
1 here, although the Last minute or
so of tlie 20-minute European pro
gram was lost to American view
ers as Telstar dropped below the
horizon.
McNAMARA SAYS AID TO
VIFT NAM IS PAYING OFF
PEARL HARBOR (/P> — Defense
Secretary Robert McNamara says
the South Vietnamese are “begin
ning to hit the Viet Cong insur
gents where it hurts most — in
winning the people to the side of
the government.”
McNamara wrapped up a 12
hour secret session with top U.S.
military and diplomatic leaders
Monday with the same reassurance
he has voiced in the past:
“Our military assistance to Viet
Nam is paying off.”
He said the problem now is to
place U.S. material and support
where “it will do the most good.”
Among those meeting with him
were Kenneth Young, U.S. Am
bassador to Viet Nam; Gen. Paul
D. Harkins, Commander of Amer
ican military forces in Southeast
Asia; and Adm. Harry D. Felt,
Pacific Military Commander.
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! LONDON .? Pr id,..,* Ken
nedy'.: renewed pledge against de
valuin fh<* dollar jerked the rue;
| from under gold mining shares
' Monday, and speculators on the
London exchange scrambled fran
I ticall.v to unload.
Leading shares, which have
been rising for month.- in the be
lief ihe United States would event
ually have to raise the official gold
rice of $35 an ounce, fell as much
as 6 and 7 points at a crack.
Toward midday millions of dol
lars had been wiped off the- paper
value of various gold mining
stocks.
Kennedy’s pledge was made
under dramatic circumstances Mon
day night as part of the live tele
vision broadcast from America to
Europe via the Telstar satellite.
Speculative buying of gold
mining shares has been prompted
by the continuing drain on the
U.S. Fort Knox reserves. It was
widely believed abroad Washing
ton would be forced to stern the
drain by raising the price it pays
for the metal.
A similarly inspired speculative
rush to buy actual gold on the
London free exchange took place
last year, but the bubble burst
when Kennedy said the official
price would not be raised.
Snoring Is Revolting . . .
BELFAST, Ireland sF — The
president of the British Medical
.Assn, told the association's annual
congress Monday night that he is
astonished some*me hasn't found
a cure for snoring.
"Surely plastic surgeons could
tig,’ ten up whatever structure it
- tliat gees slack with age,” Dr.
Ian Fraser said.
"Sn ’ling is much more revolting
as • -rooked no.-e ,.r projecting
ears.”
>1 X. Hi XRY !)\X'()R>! i \ K
()l IDAHO rI IIIRs
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Sen. Heft) •> ( D • r . . a k. a
:i heart attack at 67.
Hi- ‘iff four if i hirri u:,; nsciOUS
| Monday night ;n the C :n of
‘..fir aaiitimnt and in v. as dead
on arrival at Georgetown Univo-r
. ity Hospital. A .-on. War : C.
Dworshak. .aid the senator had
.• offered heart trouble in re-tent,
.'■•ears. Funeral services will be- held
Thursday with burial in Arling
ton National Come-cry.
Dworshak was the fourth con
servative Republican senator to
d;e vvilhin eight months. The
-•tiers were Styles Bridges New
Hampshire, who died last Novem
ber, Andrew Schoeppel of Kan
sas. who died in January, and
Francis Case of South Dakota, who
died last month.
Davor.-hek's dead left * - S
ate alignmen* at 64 Derm cr.m- . 1
ka Republican.'.
Speculation arose that Gov,
Robert F.. Smylie. the Rej ublican
nominee fur a third four-year
term as governor of Idaho, might,
resign and arrange to be appoint
ed Dv. e.rshak’s Successor in the
Senate.
Tile death apparently means
there will be an election this fall
it', Idaho to fill the four years re
maining in Dworshak's term.
Dworshak -.va- one of the Sen
ate's - .r'd.-! a i rkers. In the 1953
54 Ceiu'i he answered eve: y one
of the 261 roll calls.
Tin: NOMi NUGGET
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ARCTIC COAST TOUR I II 311/312
IMil.Y THROl Gil 'l.i'l! M:il R I f
Lv. Fa:rhanks *8:00 a.m. Ar. Nome 9:10 a.m.
Lv. Nome 1:30 p.m. Ar. Kotzebue 2:13 p.m.
Lv. Kotzebue 2: *5 p.m. Ar. Fairbanks :'s5:35 p.m.
POLAR SEA TOUR Fit 307/308
THREE TIMES A WEEK JUNE 4 THROUGH SEPT. 3
BETWEEN NOME AND BARROW VIA KOTZEBUE
ON TUESDAY, THURSDAY AND SATURDAY
Lv. Nome 8:43 a.m. Ar. Kotzebue 9:t3 a.m.
I-v. Kotzebue 10:13 a.m. Ar. Barron 1:23 p.m.
Lv. Barrow 2:00 p.m. Ar. Kotzebue 3:10 p.m.
Lv. Kotzebue 3:40 p.m. Ar. Nome 4:40 p.m.
30 n.m.
ji'N! i THROUGH SHPT. 5
i v. I airbanks *3:00 p.m. \r. Km -e'vie
I.v, Kotzebue t:30 p.m. Ar. Nome
Lv. Nome 6:15 p.m. Ar. Fairbanks
* AUnkt' Stiin \nd l ime. All other tinns Birin
5:15 p.m.
; '!:25 p.m.
Shu/Jard
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