Astronaut Glenn
Fills U.S. Need for
40-Year-Old Hero
By Hal Boyle
NEW YORK m — At last the
country has what it long needed
—a good middle-aged hero.
Astronauts John H. Glenn Jr
fills the bill perfectly.
By orbiting the earth three
times last week he did more than
merely lift America’s scientific
prestige in the eyes of the rest
of the globe.
«e maae every middle-aged
man in the nation stand half a
head taller—and feel like there
was a place in the world for him
after all.
Yes sir, Lt. Col. Glenn of the
U.S. Marines made middle age
downright respectable in the land
which for too long has placed too
much emphasis on the value of
being young.
John Glenn has been dry behind
the ears for some time now. He is
40, has acquired a few wrinkles,
and shows considerable scalp.
Men Over 40 Rejected
If two weeks ago he had sought
a new job, many firms would
have automatically rejected him
because of his age. Many have a
policy against hiring new men 40
or over. Such men are regarded
as “too old.”
Too old? At 40 John Glenn,
who still conditions himself by
running two miles a day, made
the greatest leap into space of
any American in history. He gave
us all a badly needed lesson —•
that the judgment and skill which
come with maturity are at least
as important as the blind self
confidence and raw courage that
go with youth.
Traditionally, from Alexander
the Great to Romeo, we have
tended to expect our heroes in
both war and love to be young
men. At least those who win re
nown by individual feats in
action.
Sven Thomas (Stonewall) Jack
son, one of the most admired lead
ers of the Civil War, was dead at
39.
Sgt. Alvin York, the most pub
licized hero of the first World
War, was a young man. In the
second World War, Audie Murphy
had won about every combat
medal in the books before he was
old enough to vote.
Accent on Youth
Perhaps because we still think
of ourselves as a young people,
the accent on youth has been al
most as pronounced in peace as
in war in this country. He have
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the expense of the middle-aged
and the elderly.
Thus parents come to stand in
awe of their own children, and
many of us begin to think that
growing old is the worst of all
diseases—if not a .positive crime.
We cling desperately, and often
ridiculously, to youth as though
it were a salvation in itself—and
all beyond it darkness. And the
rest of the world sensibly laughs
at us for this national obsession.
At 40, Glenn did more than
prove himself. He opened a new
vista of hope to millions of time
fearful men and women by show
ing them that achievement and
heroism are not the property of
youth, but are available at any
age.
From now on any teen-ager who
doesn’t show proper respect to our
years and gray hairs is likely to
get himself bopped.
For in all us middle-aged there
is a hero trying to get out—if
he can only find the way.
NOME SANITARY
SERVICE
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Four Airlines Plan to
Charter Flights to C21
SEATTLE {ffi — Four charter
airlines announced Tuesday they
will bring visitors to the Seattle j
World’s Fair from both inside
and outside this country at bar
gain rates.
United States Overseas Airlines,
Wildwood, N.J.; Standard Air
ways, San Diego, Calif.; Blatz
Airlines, Burbank, Calif.; and
Columbia Airlines, Woodland
Hills, Calif., said they have 30 to
50 planes operating out of Boeing
Field, including DC-3s, DC-4s,
BC-6s and Constellations.
Amns T-Tpafrirlr nrpcirfpnt nf Tn.
ternational Transportation Equip
ment Lessors, Inc., said new low
fares for individual passengers
would be offered from major U.S.
cities and Anchorage and charter
service would be available from
all parts of the world at a pas
senger cost of four cents a nautical
mile.
Sample domestic one-way fares
to Seattle were listed as: New
York, Philadelphia. Boston or
Washington, D.C., $99; Miami,
$121; Chicago, $77; Los Angeles,
$44; and San Francisco, $35. The
Anchorage fare has not been set.
Round trip charter prices from
overseas include: Tokyo-Seattle,
$344; Geneva-Seattle, $384, and
Buenos Aires-Seattle, $480.
Heacock said the program was
arranged as a demonstration of
the need for supplemental carriers
and their ability to do a job.
Div. of Health Issues
Flood Warnings to
Northern Half of State
The State Division of Health,
Fairbanks Branch of Sanitation
Services issued a warning re
minder to all communities in the
northern half of the state.
Suburban residents and village
communities in low lying areas
of interior rivers should prepare
for unusually high water and gen
eral flooding conditions during
spring breakup this year.
Safe drinking water and food
supplies for emergency use should
be stored by all residents in
quantities sufficient for a two or
three week period. If water sup
plies are flooded, drinking water
should be boiled or otherwise
chemically treated for personal
health protection.
The Division of Health is co
operating with other state, fed
eral and local agencies to develop
additional public warnings to
interior residents to expect ex
ceptionally high water this year.
Como Has New Grandchild
SOUTH BEND, Ind. W — Perry ]
Como has a new grandchild—his
first—to sing about.
Hie singer left for an engage
ment in {Miami Monday after a
weekend visit with his 6-pound
granddaughter, Melanie Roselee .
Como, bom Saturday. The birth
escaped notice because the mother ,
registered in St. Joseph’s Hospi
tal under her maiden name, Mel- '
anie Adams.
•Ronald Como, the baby’s father,
was back in class at the University <
of Notre Dame. i
The mother was Miss Elkhart
of 1961. She and Como were mar
ried last Aug. 11 on the Notre
Dame campus.
Automobiles kill and cripple
more U.S. children than any dis
ease.
BIBLE BAPTIST
CHURCH
• SUNDAY
Sunday School—10:00 a.m.
Morning Service—11:00 a.m.
Evening Service—7:00 pjm.
• WEDNESDAY
Bible Study ahd Prayer
Meeting—7:00 p.m.
f FRIDAY
Boys and Girls Good News
Club 40 am. 6c 3:00 pm.
Youth Fellowship—7:00 p.m.
$800,000 Survey of
Alaska Road Needs
Is Before Congress
WASHINGTON UFi — Alaska is
in urgent need of a comprehensive
highway planning and construc
tion program, spokesmen for the
State told a Senate Public Works
Subcommittee Monday.
The committee heard testimony
on a resolution by Sen. Ernest
Gruening which would authorize
$800,000 for a Commerce Depart
ment survey of Alaska highway
needs.
Gruening said Alaska was left
out of federal highway programs
for many years and “this long
awaited first step” is extremely
important to the new State.
Have No Road Sysiem
“In Alaska, five of the seven
largest cities, including Juneau,
the capital, have no road system
which leads to any other place”
and “the majority of Alaska’s
communities are not connected
with any others by highway or
railroad,” Gruening testified.
The resolution was endorsed by
Sen. E. L. Bartlett; Rep. Ralph
Rivers; Clarence Martin Jr., Un
dersecretary of Commerce for
Transportation; Gov. Wm. Egan
in a statement presented by Hugh
Wade, Secretary of State, and
Richard Downing, Alaska Com
missioner of Public Works.
Martin told the committee the
resolution has full administra
tion backing “right up to the top”
and that it would provide "a
significant beginning for the de
velopment of Alaska.”
The Commerce Department, he
said, could start work on the sur
vey immediately if funds were
available. “Alaska today has no
need which is as crucial or as
restrictive on the development of
its economy as the lack of roads.”
Governor's Views
Regarding the governor’s views,
Wade said it was not his purpose
to “come here and cry ‘poor
mouth’. We do not want nor do
we ask for special treatment. But
we do want to be placed on an
equitable basis with our sister
states.”
He said the federal aid high
way program was started in 1916
but that it was not until 1956, and
jn a restricted basis that Alaska
first shared in its benefits.
However, both he and Gruen
ing pointed out during that period
Alaskans were subject to all taxes
imposed to finance the program.
He said the state has appropri
ated large sums for road and
narine highway programs and will
;ontinue to do so “but,” Wade
added, “we need some help if we
are to overcome the handicaps im
posed in past years.”
(Downing outlined Alaska’s needs
vith figures that .put the estimated
:ost of building and maintaining
in adequate highway system for
Uaska during the next 15 years
it $1.7 billion.
Some Parisian restaurants now
>ffer diners a whiff of oxygen as
in appetizer.
GLUE POT
Soda Fountain
Cigars—Cigarettes
Tobacco
Candy
Fresh Ice Cream
Every Day
Depressed Area Fund
Bills Calling for $700,000
Reported Back to Senate
JUNEAU Ul) — Companion bills
which call for the appropriation
of $700,000 for the State’s de
pressed area program through
June 30, 1963, were reported back
to the Senate by the Finance Com
mittee Tuesday.
A majority of the seven-man
committee recommended that both
measures be approved by the
upper chamber.
The first measure, SB244, would
make a supplemental appropri
ation of $200,00 for the depressed
area program for the balance of
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The second bill, SB245, would
appropriate $500,000 for the pro
gram for fiscal 1963, beginning
July 1.
Sens. Howard Bradshaw, John
McNees and Pearse Walsh all
recommended that SB244 pass the
Senate.
Republicans Vance Phillips and
John Coghill recommended do
not pass. Committee Chairman
James Nolan voted no recom
mendation.
On the $500,000 appropriation,
Nolan joined Phillips and Coghill
in a do not pass vote, While Brad
shaw, McNees, Walsh and Met
calf voted a do pass recommenda
tion.
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
FOR THE STATE OF ALASKA
SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT
NO. 62-1 P
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE
OF
WILLIE NAYAKIK, Deceased.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the
undersigned, Steve Hopson, was on the
27th day of January, 1962, by an order
of the above-entitled Court appointed
Administrator of the Estate of Willie
Nayakik, deceased; that he there-upon
qualified as such administrator in the
manner required by law, and all creditors
of and persons having claims against
the said decedent are hereby required to
present their claims, with the necessary
vouchers, within six (6) months from
the date hereof, to the undersigned at
the office of his attorney Thomas J.
Balone, Box 111, Nome, Alaska, which
office the undersigned hereby designates
as his place of business in all matters
connected with the said estate.
DATED at Barrow, Alaska this 5th
day of February, 1862.
STEVE HOPSON,
By Thomas J. Balone
Pub: Feb. T, 14, 31, 28, 1963.
I PUBLIC NOTICE
CITY LICENSE STICKER
CODE OF CITY ORDINANCES
Sec. 18-6. City Slicker—Required.
It shall be unlawful for any
person lo drive or operate any
motor vehicle upon any street in
the City without having attached
upon such vehicle a license pre
scribed and issued by the City and
in pursuance of rules and regula
tions hereinafter prescribed.
Sec. 18*7 (2) The license when
issued shall consist of a pre
scribed paper sticker and the
owner, operator or driver of
any licensed vehicle shall at all
times during the year for which
issued license permanently
stuck on and attached to the
windshield of the vehicle for
which it was issued; provided
that where the vehicle has no
windshield, such license shall
be permanently stuck on and
attached inside the vehicle
here it may be viewed.
Sec. 18-8. Same — Regulatory
under police power.
The licenses provided fox here
in are regulatory under the police
power of the city and are to pro
vide revenue for the governing,
management, supervision and reg
ulation of motor vehicle and motor
vehicular traffic within the City,
THE ABOVE ORDINANCES,
FOR THE 1962 CITY STICKERS,
SHALL BE ENFORCED BEGIN
NING ON THE 1STH DAY OF
MARCH, 1962. THESE STICKERS
ARE PURCHASED FROM THE
CITY CLERK DURING THE
WEEK DAYS.
Robert W. Oliver,
Chief of Police
Pub: Feb. 21, 28, March 3, 14,
1962.
Tile flue epidemic of 1918-19
was among the most disastrous in
history. It afflicted half a billion
people, took some 25 million
lives.
NEW SCHEDULE
Effective September IS, 1961
Monday & Friday Fit. 309/310
Lt; Fiirbialn
•:00 un. Ar: Kotzebue
6:50 aon.
Lti Kotzebue
*:W Bum. Ax: Mem*
I0t20 un.
Lw: Nome
2:40 pan. Ax: Fairbanks
6:25 pan.
Wednesday Fit. 309/310
Ly: Fairbanks
8:00 aja. Ar: Kotzebue
9:20
Ly: Kotzebue 10:00 aon. Ax: Noma
11:00
Ly: Noma
3:50 pan. Art Fairbanks
7:35 pan.
Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday
Flight 311/312
Ly: Fairbanks
8:00 aon. Ar: Noma
9:05 aon.
Ly: Noma
10:00 aon. Ar: Kotzebue
10:50
Ly: Kotsebue 11:20 a.m. Art Fairbanks
2:30