NAVY WIVES REBEL OVER
FITNESS REPORT RATING
WASHINGTON UPl — The Navy,
possibly sniffing a mutinous gale
blowing from the bridge tables,
has reversed engines on a fitness
report for rating officers’ wives as
teammates for their husbands.
The report, the Navy announced,
will be posted until its wording
can be adjusted.
The form is going to be reviewed
personally by Navy Secretary Fred
Korth.
His review and the rewording,
the Navy reported, “is aimed at
eliminating any implication that the
new form is in any sense a rating
for wives and dependents.”
The purpose of the report, the
Navy contended, was to provide
“essential information on the ef
fectiveness of officer-wife teams, as
representatives of the Navy and the
nation on foreign stations.”
A fitness form for assessing the
conduct and work of officers has
been standard procedure in the
Navy for years. When the new
form was prepared it had been ex
panded to provide comment by
senior officers on the suitability of
husband plus wife as a team.
There was immediate and sharp
reaction.
Some wives worried they would
be rated by the senior officer’s
Wife, instead of by the senior of
ficer.
Said one captain’s wife when the
report was disclosed: “I am simply
1 stunned. What sort of big brother
thought this one up? The same
kind of mind is going to produce j
a fitness report on the children
one of these days.”
The reports have been printed
and their effective date is April
30. The Navy expected to be able >
to make the changes by then.
It said, “when the language is i
| adjusted to conform more clearly |
with the intent of the new section
—helping to assure that suitable
families are sent abroad — the
necessary instructions will be is
sued.”
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Dark-Hatred New Englander
Crowned America's Junior Miss
MOBILE, Ala. W — A pretty,
dark-haired New Englander who
is fond of sports wears the crown
of America’s Junior Miss for 1962.
Jean Leslie Allen, 17, daughter
of a pediatrician at Providence, R.I.,
was chosen Friday night from
among 51 high school seniors from
every state and the District of
Columbia.
Tears welled from her blue eyes
as the colorful robe was wrapped
about her shoulders and the crown
placed on her head. Her first
thought after she was named?
“That $6,000 scholarship,” she
said.
The scholarship is good at any
college she selects.
First runnerup was Glenellen
Cooper, 17, Garden Grove, Calif.
She won a $4,000 scholarship.
Margaret Virginia Morton, 17,
Roanoke, Va., was second runner
up and won a $2,000 scholarship.
U.S. Air Force F-102 Jet
Fighters Arrive in Saigon
SAIGON, South Viet Nam OR-—
Four U.S. Air Force F-102 jet
fighters arrived in Saigon Friday
but there was no hint from Ameri
can military sources they will be
used in combat in the South Viet
namese war against Communist
Viet Cong guerrillas.
“F-102’s are occasionally deployed
to South Viet Nam and other free
world nations for continued profi
ciency training of US. Air Force
crews,” an American military state
ment said. “These deployments also
serve to train allied ground and
control personnel in handling of
high-performance aircraft.”
It said the planes were tempor
arily stationed at Saigon Interna
tional Airport with the approval of
the South Vietnamese government.
NOTICE OF
MUNICIPAL ELECTION
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that the Annual Municipal and
School Board Election will be
held Tuesday, April 3, 1962 at the
City Hall, Nome, Alaska, for the
purpose of electing the follow
ing officer's to-wit:
MAYOR
THREE MEMBERS OF NOME
COMMON COUNCIL FOR
TWO YEAR TERM
CITY CLERK
ONE MEMBER OF SCHOOL
BOARD FOR FIVE YEAR
TERM
ONE MEMBER OF UTILITY
BOARD FOR FIVE YEAR
TERM
A qualified voter must be at
least nineteen (19) years of age;
a citizen of the United States; a
resident of Alaska for one yeari
and of the City of Nome for thirty
(30) days prior to date of elec
tion.
Polls will be open at 8:00 o'clock
un. and close at 6:00 o'clock p.m.
Robert F. Scott,
City Clerk
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Lauds Appropriations Committee
For Money For Smog Control
DETROIT UPi — The Automobile
Manufacturers Assn, says the
House Appropriations Committee
took a step in the right direction
when it added $1 million to the
Public Health Service budget for
research into the automobile’s con
tribution to smog and cure for it.
But, at the same time, the asso
ciation said the committee had
unjustly criticized the automotive
industry’s private research and de
velopments in the control field.
The group said the industry had
“long advocated more research by
public agencies, both locally and
nationally, on the nature of air
pollution problems in individual
communities.”
The group also pointed out that
with 1963 models all American cars
will come equipped with positive
crankcase ventilating systems that
recirculate unburned fuel through
the engine, rather than vent them
directly into the atmosphere.
ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS
Projecl No. Alaska 61-C-901-A11
City of Nome
Nome. Alaska
Separate sealed bids for pro
viding all labor, materials, equip
ment, etc. necessary for alterations
and additions to the Nome Grade
School will be received by Mr.
Conrad Potter, on April 9th at the
office of Superintendent of Schools
until 9:00 o'clock p.m.. Alaska
Standard Time, Zone 3, (Bering
Sea Time) 1962, and then at said
office publicly opened and read
aloud.
The information for Bidders,
Form of Bid. Form of Contract,
Plans. Specifications, and Forms
of Bid Bond and Performance
Bond may be examined in the
office of Linn A. Forrest, Archi
tects, A.I.A., located at 622 Hem
lock Way, Juneau, Alaska: Super
intendent of Schools' office a)
Nome, Alaska; Associated Gen
eral Contractors, Inc., 215 W. Har
rison Street, Seattle, Washington;
Associated General Contractors
Inc., Central Building, Anchorage,
Alaska. Copies may be obtained
at either the office of the Archi
tect or Superintendent of Schools
upon payment of $20.00 for each
set. Any unsuccessful bidder, upon
returning such set promptly and
in good condition, will be refund
ed his payment, and any non
bidder upon so returning such a
set will be refunded $20.00.
The owner reserves the right
to waive any informalities or to
reject any or all bids.
Each bidder must deposit with
his bid, security in the amount.
I form and subject to the condi
tions provided in the Information
for Bidders.
Attention of bidders is particu
larly called to the requirements
as to conditions of employment
to be observed and minimum wage
rates to be paid under the con
tract.
No bidder may withdraw his
bid within 30 days after the actual
date of the opening thereof.
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JACKIE TOURS TWISTING,
HISTORIC KHYBER PASS
KHYBER PASS, Pakistan UP) —
Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy toured
twisting, historic Khyber Pass Sat
urday and visited a post on the
border which has been closed for
six months because of feuding be
tween Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Bearded tribal leaders in flowing
trousers and turbans that had gold
en fringes around the bottom and
plumes of starched feathers, wel
comed her with two gift sheep at
a traditional ceremony.
Mrs. Kennedy, in accordance with
custom, merely touched the silk
decorated animals in token of ac
ceptance, and the tribesmen then
led them away to be slaughtered
for their feast.
The chief made a brief speech of
friendship for American aid, and
Mrs. Kenney replied, “You don’t
have to tell me that.”
The wife of the United States
President may also have set a fash
ion note. She was wearing Pakistan
President Mohammed Ayub Khan’s
karakul cap, his parting gift when
she left Rawalpindi, Pakistan’s new
capital. She wore it slanted over
the left eye.
The hat, called an astrakham, is
of the overseas cap style made
famous by the late Mohammed Ali
Jinnah, founder of Pakistan, and is
often called a “Jinnah Cap.”
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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 yeax
next preceeding the date of decla
ration — EXCEPT that a candi
date for the Utility Board mus
have been a resident of the Cib
of Nome for at least 2 years an<
must have attained the age of 2
years at the lime of his election
Deadline for filing is 5 o'ciocl
p.m. March 26. 1962. Filing fe«
is $10.00.
Robert F. Scott.
City Clerk
DRIVER OF ILL-FATED
SCHOOL BUS-TRAIN CRASH
FOUND INNOCENT
I GREELEY, Colo. MR — Duane
' Harms, 23, driver of a school bus
in which 20 children were killed,
was found innocent Saturday of
involuntary manslaughter by a jury
which deliberated all night.
The slender defendant, his wife
Judy and his parents received the
jury’s decision without much show
of emotion.
Harms said “I’m too tired to talk"
and other members of his family
echoed his words. They had re
mained in the courtroom all night
and declined to make any other
comment immediately.
Judge Donald Carpenter had
ruled that only two verdicts were
possible — innocent or guilty of
involuntary manslaughter. This is
the killing of a person “without
intent to do so, in either the com
mission of an unlawful act or in an
unlawful manner.’’
Earlier in the trial Judge Car
penter ordered that a manslaughter
charge against Harms be changed
to involuntary manslaughter.
Harms’ bus was smashed in two
by a Union Pacific passenger train
near here on Dec. 14. Seventeen
other children were injured and
Harms escaped with a slight head
cut.
The state had contended Harms
was guilty of criminal negligence.
10 NEGROES WILL BE ON
PRIMARY BALLOT IN SOUTH
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.tf*— County
Democratic leaders have agreed to
put the names of 10 Negroes on
the May primary ballot for coun
try party posts — 2 of them with
out opposition.
“So to speak, we are as good
as elected,” Orzeil Billingsley Jr.,
one of the Negroes, said of himself
and Arthur Shores,
t The other eight Negroes have
r opposition in their races for posi
l tions on the Jefferson County CBir
5 mingham) Democratic Executive
• Committee.
: A federal court suit by the Ne
>! groes seeking to force the party’s
acceptance of them as candidates
was dismissed on the basis of the
1 agreement.
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