AIR FORCE ORDERED
TO SUSPEND DISPOSAL
OF SURPLUS PROPERTY
JUNEAU (/P> — Gov. Wm. Egan
said yesterday he had been no
tified that an Air Force order con
cerning the disposal of surplus
property had been suspended pend
ing a hearing by a House subcom
mittee.
At the same time, Egan asked
members of Alaska congsessional
delegation to join with him in a
vigorous protest against the pro
posed program.
The order would require all ma
jor air commands to dispose of
surplus equipment either by sale
or exchange, with proceeds to go
for replacement of the equipment.
Egan said the order “would pose
a grave threat to the continued
existence of Alaska’s surplus prop
erty program under Public Law
152.”
Under this program, the state
has obtained equipment for use by
schools, hospitals and for Civil De
fense purposes.
“The public benefits which have
been derived from this program
throughout Alaska far outweigh
any possible revenues which might
accrue to the Air Force by reason
of its sale or exchange of surplus
property,” the governor said.
Egan said he was advised of the
rescinding order pending subcom
mittee hearings by Rep. Rlaph
Rivers. The hearings will be held
before a House Government Opera
tions Subcommittee.
Frozen to Death Instantly
CAHOKIA, 111. <*> — A ship
building company employe was
frozen to death almost instantly
Wednesday when a relief valve
popped open and sprayed him with j
liquid ammonia being unloaded j
from a barge.
John Fernandez, 27, was dead
on arrival at a hospital in East St.
Louis. Fernandez, the father of two
children, was an electrician.
Officials of the firm said Fer
nandez was working with two other
men, feeding the liquid ammonia
under pressure at 28 degrees bdnw
zero into a chemical company line.
THE CHURCH OF
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(Motrmon)
Sunday Services 12 Noon
Book of Mormon Class
SUNDAY AT 4:00 PM.
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Across From Nome School
Telephone — 2402
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
FOR THE STATE OF ALASKA
SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT
NOTICE OF FILING COMPLAINT
STATE OF ALASKA, Plaintiff,
vs.
COFFEE CREEK MINING COMPANY,
and all other persons, Defendants.
CIVIL ACTION NO. 62-3
TO: Coffee Creek Mining Company;
and all .other persons, owner Is) and
party (ies) in interest described in the
complaint and in the declaration of
taking in this action.
I. This notice of filing complaint is
herewith served upon you pursuant to
Rule 71A(d), Federal Rules of Civil
Procedure, as adopted by reference by
Sec. 1, Ch. 134, SLA 1960. The delivery
of this notice and its service has the
same effect as the delivery and service
of summons and complaint under Rule
4, Rules of Civil Procedure, State of
Alaska.
II. You are hereby notified that a
complaint has heretofore been filed in
the office of the Clerk of the Superior
Court for the Second Judicial District at
Nome, Alaska, for the taking of certain
property hereinafter described in which
you have or claim an interest.
III. The property to be taken in which
you have or may have an interest is
necessary for: construction of a Federal
Aid Highway designated as Alaska Proj
ect No. S-145112) Coffee Creek, 4 Miles
North of Neva Creek by the State of
Alaska.
IV. The tract to be acquired in which
you have an interest is decribed in the
complaint, which description is attached
hereto as an exhibit.
V. The person (s) known to have or
claim an interest in the property (is)
(are): Coffee Creek Mining Company,
and all other persons.
VI. The interest in the property to be
taken is an interest in fee simple ab
solute.
VII. The plaintiff will, at the time of
filing its complaint, file its declaration
of taking of said land, thereby vesting
title in fee simple absolute to said land
in the State of Alaska and will deposit
in the registry of the court the estimated
compensation therefor. The amount esti
mated to be just compensation for the
parcel in which you have or may have
an interest is: Fifty and no/100 Dollars
($50.00).
VIII. The authority for the taking is
found in Title 57, Ch. 7, ACLA 1949, as
amended by Ch. 91. SLA 1953 and Ch. 9,
SLA 1957; Ch. 58, SLA 1953, as amended
by Ch. 84, SLA 1955; and in Ch. 152,
SLA 1957.
IX. You are further notified that if
you desire to present any objection or
defense to the taking of your property
you are required to do so by filing an
answer pursuant to the provisions of
Rule 71A, Federal Rules of Civil Pro
cedure. If no objection is filed within
twenty (20> days, then an Order to Sur
render will be signed and issued by. a
judge of the Superior Court.
X. Eut without filing an answer, you
may serve on the plaintiff’s attorney a
n o t ic e of appearance designating the
property in which you claim to be in
terested. Thereafter you will receive no
tice of all proceedings affeting it. At
the hearing before the three commis
sioners to be appointed by the court to
determine the issue of just compensation,
whether or not you have previously ap
peared or answered, you may present
evidence as to the amount of the com
pensation to be paid for your property
and you may share in the distribution
of the award.
DATED at Fairbanks, Alaska, this 9th
day of March, 1962.
Virgil D. Vochoska.
District Attorney,
Second Judicial District
ISSUED this 13th day of March. 1962.
Clerk of the Superior Court
By Suzanne K. Fagerstrom.
Deputy
Pub. March 16, 23, 30. 1962.
It was Samuel Johnson who
observed, “Every man has a right
to utter what he thinks truth, and
every other man has a right to
knock him down for it.”
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12 Homes Damaged
In Juneau by Wind
Swept Avalanche
JUNEAU CP) — An avalanche
apparently triggered by a violent
windstorm swept down from the
top of 3,500-foot Mt. Juneau yes
terday and damaged 12 houses in
this Alaska capital city of 6,800
persons.
The 200-yard-wide slide, and the
force of wind ahead of it, shoved
houses from foundations, tore off
roofs and snapped trees and light
poles.
The bulk of the 200-foot-wide
slide stopped just short of a resi
dential street but it generated a
destructive, snowball-laden wind
that damaged houses and snapped
trees and light poles.
The only injury reported was to
one housewife who suffered minor
glass cuts.
The slide hit at 5:30 a.m. when
most residents were asleep.
Mt. Juneau stands at the north
east outskirts of the city.
“The house started to shake,”
said F. G. Nottingham, whose home
was knocked from its foundation.
“There was a great flash. I guess
it was the wires going out. My
first thought was that it was an
earthquake.”
One wall of Nottingham’s house
was blown out by force of the
avalanche - generated wind. The
front door was blown out, all but
one window knocked out and three
to four feet of snow packed in the
front room.
j Thought It Was Explosion
“I thought is was an explosion,”
said Mrs. Harvey Wilson.
Back windows of her home were
blown out and a tree 18 inches in
diameter tossed across the roof.
The bulk of the snow stopped
before it hit any houses and the
main damage was from wind set
up in front of the fast-moving ava
lanche.
‘‘It hit like compressed air,” said
one observer.
The slide hit hardest at houses in
the $25,000 to $30,000 range along
Behrends Ave. on Juneau’s north
side.
The apparent cause of the giant
slide was an east wind, estimated
at 50 miles an hour in Juneau and
at perhaps twice that velocity at
the mountain top.
It apparently built up an over
hang of snow that broke off and
started the slide.
The woman who suffered minor
glass cuts was Mrs. T. E. Larman.
Her home was damaged extensively.
Amazed by Force of Wind
Observers were amazed by the
force of the wind set up ahead of
the slide. For three blocks beyond
where the main avalanche stopped,
wind-blown snow was strewn
several inches deep. It was packed
hard, as though it had been there
for weeks.
There are frequent small ava
lanches on Mt. Juneau, which rises
abruptly from the edge of this
waterfront city, but usually they
are not near the residential district.
One slide last week took out
power lines south of the city.
Most of the small slides occur
near the top of the mountain and
cause no damage.
Alaska’s capital city has had
several destructive slides in ths
past, but none in recent years.
The worst was in November
1936, when 15 persons died in a
giant earthslide off Mt. Roberts.
It occurred after rains that totaled
more than 24 inches in a month.
In January 1920 a big landslide
resulted from collapse of earth
at the entrance to the Alaska Ju
neau Mine. Incomplete files list
one dead, seven hurt and several
missing in that landslide.
T/T
SENATE ASKS DOCTOR TO
APOLOGIZE FOR REMARKS
MADE ABOUT ALEUTS
JUNEAU UP) — A special Senate
Committee Wednesday asked that a
public apology be made by a Public
Health Service doctor stationed at
St. Paul Island for his remarks
concerning the Aleut people.
A letter was written to Howard
Baltzo, Director of the Marine
Mammals program of the Bureau
of Commercial Fisheries, and was
signed by Senate President Frank
Peratrovich and the three members
of the special committee.
The letter protested remarks
made by Dr. Hugh Walker in a
letter to the editor which appeared
in the Daily Alaska Empire in Ju
neau last Sunday.
The Senate Committee said it
objected specifically to Dr. Walker’s
remarks that the Aleut as a people
are “morally, spiritually and cult
urally degenerate,’ and that the
white man was “technically su
perior.”
“We do not subscribe,” the com
mittee said “to the theory that any
Alaskan group, native of otherwise,
are either degenerate, technically
inferior or miserable.”
The letter also was signed by
Sens. A1 Owen, Brad Phillips, and
Vance Phillips.
OUR SAVIOR'S
LUTHERAN CHURCH
John L. Maakesiad, Pastor
S U N D AY
Sunday School 9:45 a.m.
Morning Worship 11:00 a.m.
Luther League Committee
2:30 p.m.
Evening Service 7:30 p.m.
T U E S D AY
Christian Study Class 2:30 p.m.
Confirmation Classes 7:00 p.m. |
WEDNESDAY
Mid-Week Meeting 7:30 p.m.
Eskimo Service
Choir Practice 3:30 p.m.
T H U R S D AY
Kindergarten 10:00 ami.
Luther League 7:30 p.m.
F R I D AY
Women of Church Circles
2 & 7:30 pun.
I Kennedy to Spend Weekend
In Bing Crosby Home
PALM DESERT, Calif. — This
tiny community 100 miles south
west of Los Angeles gets a second
guest of Presidential rank when
John F. Kennedy arrived today. .
Former President Dwight Eisen
hower made his first visit here dur
ing his tenure. He liked it so well,
he returned after he left the White
House. He and his wife Mamie are
spending the winter in a modern
house at Eldorado Country Club.
In contrast, President Kennedy
will spend the weekend in antique
splendor.
Although no official announce
ment has been made, it is known
that he’ll be the guest of singer
Bing Crosby. The Crosby home,
modem on the outside, is a treasure
trove of furnishings from San
Simeon, the castle retreat of the
late newspaper publisher William
Randolph Hearst.
NOTICE
Declaration of Candidacy forms
for the City Election may be ob
tained at the City Clerk's Office.
A candidate must be at least 19
years of age, a resident of Alaska
for at least 2 years and of the
City of Nome for at least 1 year
next preceeding the date of decla
ration — EXCEPT that a candi
date for the Utility Board must
have been a resident of the City
of Nome for at least 2 years and
must have attained the age of 25
years at the time of his election.
Deadline for filing is 5 o'clock
p.m. March 26, 1962. Filing fee
is $10.00.
Robert F. Scott,
City Clerk
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