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Chilkat Indian Dancers
To Be Featured at
Fur Rendezvous
The famous Chilkat Indian dan
cers from Port Chilkoot, with
their director, Carl Heinmiller, in
Southeastern Alaska will be fea
tured entertainers during the 1962
Fur Rendezvous, it was announced
by Richard Beaulieu, president of
Greater Anchorage, Inc.
Making their first appearance
in Anchorage, the Chilkat troupe
will give eight performances, Feb.
20 through 25, in the Sydney
Laurence Auditorium. Tickets for
the show will be available at
Greater Anchorage, Inc., head
quarters in the Visitors Log Cabin
at Fourth and F.
With the exeception of Hein
miller, all of the dancers are
young people of high school and
college age and are members of
a non-profit corporation known
as Alaska Indian Arts (formerly
Alaska Youth, IncJ.
They have appeared on radio,
television, stage and screen. In
1959 the dancers toured the west
ern states and were featured in
the Seattle Seafair, the Oregon
Centennial and culminated their
year by winning the grand prize
at the Inter-Tribal Indian Cere
monials at Gallup, N.M. Their
competition at the Gallup festival,
the “World Series of Indian
Dances,” was against some 400
performers representing 40 dif
ferent North American tribes.
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Sen. Gruening
Supports Gold
Subsidy Proposal !
Associated Press Special Service
WASHINGTON (ft — Sen.
Ernest Gruening supported a gold
subsidy proposal Monday aimed
at increasing the nation’s gold
supply and reviving the domestic
gold mining industry.
He became a co-sponsor of a
bill that would direct the Secre
tary of the Interior to make in
centive payments of up to $35 an
ounce to domestic miners of new
gold until the nation’s reserves
reach $23 million.
Gruening told the Senate that
last February the nation’s gold
supply was $17.5 billion and on
Feb. 5 this year, it was about
$16.8 billion.
Gruening said that although the
cost of producing gold has stead
ily increased, the price of gold
is still set at $95 an ounce.
He said that in 1050 and 1960,
the Alaska mining industry pro
duced about 160,000 ounces of
gold each year, but that the 1961
production is estimated at 113,000
ounces. \... *
The incentive program, Gruen
ing said, “would probably result
in a doubling of the 1961 gold
production in Alaska and assure
continuation at that level in
future years.”
Gruening said he is “more than
a little concerned” over figures
he cited from the 1960 Minerals
Yearbook saying the United
States produced 1,679,000 ounces
of gold in 1960 compared with
11 million estimated ounces by
the Soviet Union.
WAGES AND HOURS ACT
SIGNED INTO LAW BY EGAN
JUNEAU Uh — Bills revising
the state’s wages and hours ad
and boosting the state minfan^
wage were signed into law by
Gov. Wm. Egan yesterday
The first measure lists ex
emptions from the state wagei
and hours act and eliminates th<
Fair Labor Standards clause front
the state act.
The second measure increase)
the state minimum wage front
$1.50 to $1.75 per hour.
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By Frits Witti
Associated Press Special Service
WASHINGTON W — The De
fense Department is considering
a proposal that a Polaris sub
marine base be established some
where along the Alaska coast.
The Alaska congressional dele
gation wrote to Defense Secretary
Robert McNamara about the mat
ter after receiving suggestions
from the State asking that such
a base be located there.
There has been talk about put
ting such facilities in Hawaii and
the Puget Sound area.
The Alaskans asked McNamara
for information and added they
would “like an opportunity to
urge the advantages of an Alaska
site after we have heard from you
in general on what is planned.”
They were told the Department
would look into the matter and
advise them further as soon as
possible.
Transfer of ACS
Putting it mildly, Sen. E. L.
Bartlett was upset by an an
nouncement the other day con
cerning the Alaska Communica
tions System.
The Army announced — and
then withdrew the announcement
— that the system was being
transferred to the Air Force next
July 1.
The next day a Defense De
partment spokesman said the
transfer had not been approved
and that the announcement was
“premature.”
Bartlett set out his view of the
matter in a telegram to Defense'
Secretary Robert McNamara.
“So far as I am aware,” said
Bartlett, “the transfer decision
was arrived at without a single
word of consultation with the
Governor of Alaska, any of the
civilian authorities of the State
government of Alaska or any
member of Alaska's congressional
delegation.”
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transfer of authority and juris
diction from one branch of the
military service to another the
secrecy . . . might be forgiven,
even if not understood,” he added.
Bartlett said that as an Alaska
senator who sits on the Armed
Services Committee he “might
have entertained the expectation,
up to the time of proof to the
contrary, that I would be advised
of such a basic decision affect
ing my State.”
He said the system for over
half a century has never served
the military exclusively and
added:
“Throughout its existence . . .
the ACS has supplied and is sup
plying telegraph and telephone
service first to the civilian com
munity of the Territory of Alaska
and now to the State of Alaska.
“1 think Alaskans have a right
to resent the manner of making
the decision, and perhaps the de
cision itself.
“As one Alaskan and as a
United States senator, I do.”
Teen-Ager Solos Without
Benefit of Flying Lessons
RATON, N.M. UD — A teen
aged Texan flew solo in his
father’s airplane Monday from
Amarillo, Tex., without permis
sion and without benefit of fly
ing lessons.
David House, 15, the pilot, and
a companion, Craig Adcock, 10,
both of Amarillo, were jailed
overnight at the request of
i David’s fother, Walter House. No
i charges were filed,
i Young House landed at Crew’s
Municipal Airport 15 miles south
i of Raton.
i “I landed out on the prairie
three times on the way over here
just to see if I could do it,” David
I told police.
.Taint Resolution Asks
Withdrawal of BIA
From State of Alaska
JUNEAU rn — A join resolu
tion asking the' gradual with
drawal of the Bureau of Indian
Affairs from the State of Alaska
was introduced in the Senate yes
terday by Sen. A1 Owen.
The resolution said the “con
tinuance of the program of race
segregation emanating from the
policy and program of the Bureau
of Indian Offairs” is a “serious
divisive force in the political and
social life of the State of Alaska.”
The resolution asks that the
withdrawal of the BIA from
Alaska be completed in 15 years
“to the end that all citizens of
Alaska may live and be treated
as first-class citizens of a sover
eign state and not the wards of
a bureaucracy which maintains
itself by keeping its charges in
a dependent and second-class
status.”
Measure Changes
Expiration Date for
Motor Vehicle License
JUNEAU t/R — This year’s
license plates will be good until
May 31 under terms of a bill
which passed the House yesterday.
The measure changes the ex
piration date for motor vehicle
registration and plates from Dec.
31 to March 1, and the date when
new licenses must be displayed
from Feb. 28 to May 31.
Prior to final passage, the
House amended the bill to include
an emergency clause which would
make it effective this year. It
now goes to the Senate.
The bill was introduced by the
Rules Committee at the request
of Gov. Wm. Egan.
In his accompanying letter,
Egan asked for the deadline ex
tension to provide relief for the
substantial number of Alaskans
who are unemployed during the
winter months.
Women now make up nearly
one-fifth of the membership of
U.S. labor unions.
Senate Affairs Cwnmictee
Turns Thumbs Down on
Beard of Education Bill
JUNEAU UP) — The Senate State
Affairs Committee, by a 3-2 vote,
recoVnmended today against pas
sage of a bill which would make
the State Board of Education the
administrative and fiscal head of
the Department of Education.
(Recommending “do not pass”
were Committee Chairman W. O.
Smith, Sens. Lester Bronson, and
A1 Owen.
Recommending that the bill
pass were the committee’s two
Republican members, Sens. Elton
Engstrom and Brad Phillips.
The bill was sent along to the
Health, Education and Welfare
Committee for further study.
Under the provisions of the act,
the State Board of Education
would select the Commissioner of
Education, subject to the approval
of the governor and legislature.
The Commissioner would then
serve at the pleasure of the Board
of Education.
The bill passed the House Feb.
7 on a vote of 27-13.
JUDGE GILBERT HERE
Judge Hugh Gilbert of the Sec
ond District Superior Court re
turned yesterday and is busy with
conferences on pre-trial matters.
He will be here until Friday when
he will return to Anchorage to
assist in the Third District Court.
BABY GIRL FOR BRONSONS
Mr. and Mrs. Dean Bronson
are the parents of a baby girl
born Thursday, Feb. 8 in An
chorage. Dena Lee now joins her
two sisters Lisa and Tina.
FAIRBANKS ICE CARNIVAL
Part of the Fairbanks Ice Car
nival which is being held this
year from March 17-4&5 will honor
the City Hostess, Eva McGowan,
hostess at St. Patrick’s Day Ball
will provide fun and merriment
for Alaskans and visitors alike.
She will reign with the Carnival
Queen as well as the Queen Re
gent chosen by the Pioneers of
Alaska.
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