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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
63rd Year No. 53
NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1962
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Alaska Federation of Women’s Clubs
Hold 4th Biennial Convention Here
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The 4th Biennial Convention of |
the Alaska Federation of ^omen’s
Clubs got underway last evening
with the arrival of a charter flight
from Anchorage, followed by a
Board of Directors’ dinner meeting
at the home of Mrs. Don Hoover.
A charter from Fairbanks was
cancelled this morning.
Official opening of the two-day j
meeting started this morning at
the Pioneer Hall with Rev. Law
rence Nevue giving the invocation
and the presentation of colors was
made by the Senior Girl Scouts.
Maybelle Lenert sang the Star
Spangled Banner and a welcome
address was given by Sen. Pearse
Walsh, president of the Nome
Chamber of Commerce.
Mrs. J. D. Martin, president of
the AFWC introduced guests and
officers and convention reports
were given by Mrs. Don Hoover,
convention chairman, and Mrs.
C. P. Hahn, credentials chairman.
State officers making reports
included: Mrs. J, D. Martin of
Anchorage, president of AFWC; I
Mrs. L. J. Marek, first vice presi
dent, Anchorage; Mrs. Maurice
Kelly, secretary, Douglas; Mrs.
Rita Hunt, treasurer, Anchorage.
A buffet luncheon was sawed
at noon at the Pioneer Igloo, cour
tesy of the Nome Arts Club mem
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chairman.
Mrs. Ralph Fondell gave a read
ing during the luncheon and the
Alaska Flag song was sung by
Bunny Huffer and Opal Baldwin.
The afternoon session was sched
uled to have speaker Roger Pegues
of Juneau, to speak on the borough
system.
This evening Carrie McLain will
present a program of “Nome, The
Tent City” in pictures. This will be
at the Pioneer Igloo and anyone
interested may join the Home Arts
Club and its guests at 8:00 p.m.
The Beta Sigma Phi will serve re
freshments.
Atty. Gen. Moody
Named to 3rd Dist.
Superior Court
ANCHORAGE (* — Gov. Wm.
Egan yesterday tapped State Atty.
Gen. Ralph Moody to fill a vacancy
on the Superior Court bend? in the
Third Judidal District.
No successor to Moody as the
state’s top law officer was named.
Moody win replace Superior
Court Judge J. Earl Copper, who
was retired" from the bench earlier
this year for physical reasons.
The 47-year-old Moody will take
over Cooper’s seat on a date
mutually agreeable to the judges
of the Third District Superior
Court and the new appointee, Egan
said.
Moody, a native of Vance, Ala.,
received his law degree from the
University of Alabama. He first
came to Alaska in 1946 as an at
torney for the Army Corps of En
gineers, after serving with the
Army Signal Corps during World
War H.
He also acted as an Asst. US.
Attorney here and as dty attorney
for Anchorage. fv ?
He served as majority leader in
Saturday morning the conven-1
tion will be called to order at 9:00
with Louise Maakestad giving the
invocation. Reports will be given
by department chairmen. Mrs. W.
S. Brooks, Fairbanks, on conser
vation; Mrs. Stanley Thomson,
Anchorage, on education; Mrs.
John Mielke, Anchorage, on fine
arts; Mrs. Clifford Hartman, An
chorage, on home life; Mrs. Everett
Mauger, Fairbanks, on internation
al affairs; Mrs. Larry Landry, An
chorage, public affairs.
Saturday at 12:30 p.m. the mem
bers of the Home Arts Club will
be hostesses in their own homes
for the delegates and registered
members.
At 2:00 p.m. Rep. Grace Johnson
will address the convention.
At 4:00 p.m. the visitors will en
joy a tour of Nome as far as pos
sible, due to conditions of roads.
At 7:00 p.m. a banquet and in
stallation of officers will' be held
in the Seaview Room with Mrs.
Don Hoover as toastmistress; Sen.
Pearse Walsh as speaker.
Awards will be announced at the
dinner by Mrs. J. D. Martin, presi
dent and Mrs. A. E. Craft, presi
dent of the Home Arts Club, will
conduct the installation of new
state officers.
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The Clock Is Set
_FAIRBANKS Wi — The official
clock and the tripod were erected
on the ice at Nenana at 6 pjm.
yesterday, according to Donald
Clark, Nenana Ice Classic manager. I
The tripod is connected to the
clock and when the ice moves out
on the Tanana River, the tripod
moveirient trips the dock and
records the official time of the
breakup. More than 150,000 guesses
at $1 each have been made on the
exact time of the breakup. The
winners will divide $84,000.
Clark reports that the Nenana
River, which joins the Tanana
about a half mile down river from
the Nenana, has completely broken
up and that at its confluence with
the Tanana has forced a channel
along the left bank of the Tanana.
‘“Other than that,” Clark says,
“there’s nothing new to report.”
Old-timers are still predicting
at least a week yet before the
breakup. Some believe that it may
be the latestest breakup in 45
years of the guessing contest.
The latest date of the breakup
was in 1945 when the ice went
out on May 16.
FILE BERYLLIUM CLAIMS
' Bear Creek Mining Co., a subsi- I
dary of the ’Kennicott Copper Co.,
have been busy filing claims at
Lost River for Beryllium. George 1
Moerlin, engineer for the operation
passed through Nome from Lost 1
River yesterday. i
A COMPLETE WRECK
The American Legion Hall is ii
shambles. Light fixtures are ton
from the ceiling, over 250 45 RP1V
records are smashed, all window!
are broken, and everything mov
able destroyed.
This is the worst example a
known to have ever hap
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The American Legion has beei
generous in the use of the club fo:
the young people, making it avail
as the use was no
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Talk of Merger
NEW YORK W — Talk of a
merger joining Pan American
World Airways and Trans World
Airlines into a billion dollar corpo
ration stirred the financially ailing
air carrier industry today.
Confirmation of the discussions,
labelled “exploratory,’’ i n j e c ted
new uncertainties into an already
confused picture.
Pam Am operates exclusively as
an international carrier, with glo
bal routes totaling over 70,000
miles. It dominates the busy North
Atlantic airways.
TWA has a combined domestic
international operation, but is gen
erally classified as a domestic line.
Pan Am, which long has sought
in vain for a foothold on the main
land reportedly has been talking
merger also with Braniff, Delta,
National and possibly other domes
tic trunk lines.
Similarly, TWA has been linked
with Braniff, Delta and Conti
nental.
Hearings on the largest airline
merger ever proposed, that of
American and Eastern Airlines,
will begin in Washington Thurs
day before the Civil * Aeronautics
; Board.
The nation has 11 major domestic
trunk carriers — those with im
portant long distance operations.
The scramble for new alignments
has increased within the last, sev
eral months against a background
of heavy financial losses. In 1961,
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a group ran nearly $37 million in
the red.
On top of that, they have been
grappling with a king-size head
ache in financing the extremely
expensive transition from piston
engined equipment to jet aircraft
costing $5 million and more apiece.
CONSIDER RECALL
OF NON-COMBAT TROOPS
WASHINGTON UP) — Sen. John
Stennis, (D-Miss.), told the Senate
today that defense officials are
considering recall of some 40,000
non-combat troops now in Europe.
Stennis, chairman of the Watch
dog Senate Defense Preparedness
Subcommittee, urged that this be
done as a means of curbing the
outflow of dollars and improving
the combat ratio in UJS. armed
forces.
“It is my conviction that well
considered action along these lines
would be beneficial in many ways
and would result in strengthening
both our military and financial
posture," Stennis said. ^
U.S. Touches
Off Fourth Shot
WASHINGTON — The United
States fired a middle-sized nuclear
ievice in the atmosphere near
Christmas Island in the Pacific to
iay. It was the fourth test of the
current series.
As in the three earlier tests, the
ievice was dropped from an air
plane.
The announcement said the de
tonation was “in the intermediate
field range,” which means it prob
ably was between 100 and 500
rilotons.
The third shot erf the series, fired
Wednesday, was of low megaton
force. A megaton is the equivalent
rf one million tons of TNT.
The United States began the test
Economic Study
Of Nome Highway
Is to be Made
Commissioner of Highways, D.
A. McKinnon, said an agreement
has been executed with the Uni
versity of Alaska, Institute for
Business, Economic and Govern
ment Research, to study economic
factors relating to the selection of
a highway route between Central
and Western Alaska.
McKinnon said the route is on
the federal-aid highway system
with termini at Nome and Fair
banks and the purpose of the study
will be to provide data for the
selection of intermediate points
along the route.
Basic economic data will be
sought concerning natural re
sources, tourism and recreational
attractions, and population trends.
Each of these sets of data will be
analyzed as to past and present
status, potentials for future devel
opment in relation to state and
world markets and population
trends, and the role of highway
transportation effecting desirable
changes.
The study is being financed with
highway planning funds.
THE LADY MUST PAY
MILWAUKEE, Wis. UP> — Mars
Ellen Benson, who skipped Sun
day morning union meetings to at
j tend church services, has agreec
to pay a $5 fine assessed by tin
union.
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fine and court costs of $4.50 aft€
a pre-trial conference yesterday
The suit was brought by Loca
356 of the United Papermaker
and Paperworkers Union, whicl
said its By Laws provided tha
any member missing three out o:
five meetings must be fined.
Mrs. Benson admitted missinf
the meetings, but said she consider
ed church more important. Counts
Judge Robert Meich praised hei
motives, but said that past court
decisions made it clear the union
had the right to asses the fine.
Kennedy Urges
A Free World
Two-Way Trade
NEW ORLEANS, La. UP) — Pres
ident Kennedy urged America to
day to spurn timidity and lead
the free world into a genuine At
lantic partnership of expanding,
two-way international trade.
The choice confronting the na
tion in May 1962, Kennedy said
in a prepared address, is “to trade
or fade.”
More trade, the President in
sisted, will mean more jobs, more
national security, and bulwarked
foreign policy. And the tools to
obtain them, he said, are in a leg
islative kit — his proposed trade
expansion law now before Con
gress.
The arguments were old ones,
but the phrases were new and so
was the setting for them — a new
$ 10-million wharf in America’s
third greatest port.
“I know of no occasion,” Ken
nedy said, “where the topic and
the location of a Presidential ad
dress so neatly fit together.”
The President flew down from
Washington to make the address*
accept a key to the city, and then
fly on to Elgin Air Force Base in
western Florida to watch the Air
Force display its might.
New Orleans
speech, Kennedy spelled out what
he considers some old and new
economic facte of life which, bt
said, require America’s moving
ahead.
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To Hold Election May 8
FAIRBANKS (M — The Young
Republicans and Young Democrats
of the University of Alaska plan
to hold a preferential election May
8.
The students of the university
will be asked to express their pre
ferences for candidates running for
the top two state offices and far
Congress.
Western Governors Urge Guard
Units Be Maintained at Top Strength
ANCHORAGE, May 14 tff> — The
Western Governor’s Conference
wound up its 1962 meeting today
with adoption of a resolution urg
ing that the Army National Guard
and Air National Guard be main
tained at top strength.s
The resolution asked that the
Army National Guard be set at
not less than 400,000 men and that
the Air National Guard be set r«t
not less than 72,000.
Adoption of the Guard resolution
came on the heels of a highly
critical speech by Gov. George D.
Clyde of Utah, in which he said
a recently announced plan to re
duce Guard strength “refutes any
logic or reason.”
Another major resolution ap
proved by the governors dealt with
the loss of Atlantic Coast markets
by Western lumber producers. The
resolution urged federal legisla
tion to place western lumber pro
ducers on an equal footing with
Canadian producers.
Another series of resolutions
dealt with problems currently faced
by the western mining industry.
All resolutions were approved
on a tentative basis, pending their
okeh by a majority of the 15 mem
bers of the conference. Only five
of the governors were on hand
when the resolutions were adopted
today. Hie other 10 governors will
he polled by mail.
Gov. Paul Fannin of Arizona was
elected chairman of the Western
Governors’ Conference for the
63 term and Gov. Edmund G.
Brown of California was elected
vice chairman.
James Williams, Director of the
Alaska State Division of Mines
and Minerals and chairman of the
Western Governors Mining Coun
cil, told the governors:
“We report again that the criti
cal and strategic mining industry
of the western states is declining
and will continue to decline under
the prevailing conditions and Cir
cumstances.” ^
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WEATHER OUTLOOK
Cloudy with occasional snow oar
fog. Little change in temperature.
In the last 24 hours: High of 34,
low of 25. Max. wind114 mph from.
WNW. Sunrise at 3:18 pna., sun
set at 8:38 pm. Temps, a year ?
today: High of 12, low of 2.
tremes on this date since IS
High of 49 in 1953, low of -1 in.
1949.
At Nenana today it was cloudy
with a temperature of 41 above.