Consolidated Freigihtwa?
Lew Bidder on Mail True
Contract to Alaska
SEATTLE Iff) — Consolidatf
Freightways, Inc., was appare
low bidder today for a new coi
tract on extended and stepped-i
Alaska mail truck service fro
Seattle to joint terminals at Fai
banks and Anchorage.
James Symbol, regional pos
master, said the award for tl
entire run will ibe for one ye£
starting next April 14, and th
service will be for six days
week.
Symbol said he would ar
nounce the amount of the su<
cessful bid when the contract :
let.
Drastic !
ST. LOUIS, Mo. UP) — Th
United States should detonate “
clean weapon just off the three
mile limit of Soviet territory” t
show the world we mean busi
ness, says Frank Corley, Repub
lican National Committeeman fo
Missouri.
Corley urged that action if Rus
sia continued harassment of A1
lied aircraft in the air corridor
to Berlin.
He said, “right now the worl<
needs a shock. It’s time the work
—k-the ' hundreds of nations tha
think they are dealing with an
other Neville Chamberlain —
learned that the United State:
means business.”
Corley spoke Friday night be
fore the annual dinner of th<
Missouri Republican E d i t o r i a
Assn.
WOMAN CONDUCTS
PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
NEW YORK m — Nadia Bou
langer, the only woman ever b
have conducted the New Yorl
Philharmonic Orchestra, return
ed to that role Friday at Camegi
Hall.
She first conducted the Phil
harmonic in 1939 She will appeal
with the orchestra at Carnegh
Hall?for a week in-commemora
tion of her approaching 75th
birthday.
It's as difficult to stay in col
lege as it is to get out. Only
three out of five college fresh
men remain to win their sheep
skin.
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Ohio Wins Trip to Alaska
In Fund Raising “Race”
WASHINGTON M — Thre<
winners were announced toda:
in the nearly year-long Repub
lican women’s “Pyramid Race” t<
raise funds for the 1962 electior
campaign.
Thousands of women partici
pated. Each was loaned a dollai
bill by the Women’s Division ol
the Republican Committe and
told to pyramid it any way they
saw fit—parties, gimmicks and
whatnot.
The winners were awarded free
round-trips to Hawaii, Alaska
and the Virgin Islands.
Mrs. Clare B. Williams, assistant
chairman of the National Commit
tee, announced the winners in
cluded Mrs. Golda Edmonstron,
Columbus, Ohio, for returning
the most money from the original
dollar investment by making and
selling miniature slacks with com
partments for storing a pair of
slippers. She gets two tickets to
Alaska and back.
The National Committee has au
thorized continuation of the drive
for another year. How much
money was raised the first year
was not announced.
Nome “Market Basket”
Shows Increase During
Last Quarter of 1961
PALMER UP) — The average
price for a market basket con
taining 40 food items dropped a
little more than one per cent
during the quarter ending in De
cember, the University of Alaska
Agricultural Extension Service
reports.
The price of the basket aver
aged $22.25 in the nine cities for
which prices were available,
ranging from a low of $19.68 at
Ketchikan to a high of $27.21 at
Nome. The cost of the basket at
Seattle was $17.22. The national
average was $10.29.
Food prices in Alaska during
the final quarter of 1961 ranged
from $1.50 lower at Fairbanks
to an increase of 48 cents at
Nome.
SWIM TO IfcE&OM
BERLIN m — Two East Ger
mans took advantage of a violent
storm to make a midhightswim
to the West, police reported Sat
urday.
Gale winds and icy sleet forced
East German guards to like
cover. The two men slipped
quietly into a Stretch of water on
the border and swam to the West
ern shore. They were picked up
exhausted and shivering with cold
and taken to a hospital.
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BRANCH OFFICE
Printed forms
Downing Wants
To Testify Again
r By Virginia Sims
Associated Press Sta‘f Writer
> JUNEAU UP) — Commissioner
, of Public Works Richard Down
ing asked the Senate’s special In
vestigating Committee Friday
night that it recall him for fur
ther testimony.
The request came in a letter,
dated Feb. 16, which was read
into the record by Committee
Chairman R. J. McNealy.
The letter was produced after
Thurman Sherard, ousted Director
of the State Highways Division,
completed his case after six hours
of testimony before the commit
tee in three nights.
“In my testimony, I refrained
from casting stones at Sherard in
the interest of not damaging his
professional reputation,” Down- 1
ing wrote. J <
But, Downing said, Sherard’s;
report of a conversation between j 1
the two during the last part of j!
January was a “misrepresenta- <
tion of fact.” j
Sherard had told the commit- 1
tee the night before of a con- <
versation with Downing which
took place on Jan. 25 in which :
Downing told Sherard he was
going to be dismissed. At that
time, Sherard said he asked
Downing if he wanted to fire
him, or thought he should be
fired. In each instance, Sherard
said, Downing answered “no.”
Friday night, in winding up his
testimony, Sherard told the com
mittee he thought his division
had done well and that he was
proud of it.
“But it hurts sitting here with
a big program just about get un
derway —a nd then waiting for
someone else to get the credit.” 1
Monday, February 19, 1962
Peter Gatz Resigns As
Commissioner of Revenue
JUNEAU UFJ — The State’s
Commissioner of Revenue, Peter
Gatz, Saturday submitted his
resignation to Gov. Wm. Egan,
effective Feb. 28.
In his letter of resignation, Gatz
said he was quitting state service
for “personal reasons.” Gatz did
not indicate what his future plans
were.
Egan said he was accepting the
resignation “with the greatest
regret.”
“Commissioner Gatz has per
formed his duties in a most
capable manner and has welded
:ogether a Department of Revenue
which has been a credit to the
entire State,” Egan said.
Robert Stevenson, now Deputy
Commissioner of Revenue, was
iesignated by Egan as acting
Commissioner of Revenue.
Gatz served 18 years as an In
ernal Revenue Service officer in
rairbanks before being named as
Commissioner of Revenue for
Uaska in June, 1959. He for
nally took over his state duties
m July 1, 1959.
Gatz paid tribute to all of the '
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SEATTLE UR — Prince Philip
of England will visit the Seattle
World’s Fair June 1. British Con
sul General Geoffrey H. S. Jack
son announced today.
Jackson said the Prince had
accepted an invitation by Wash
ington Gov. Albert Rosellini to
attend the Fair.
The visit will be in connection
with Philip’s trip to Vancouver,
BjC., June 2-6.
During the Prince’s stay here
he will inspect the British, Cana
dian and U.S. exhibits at the
Fair, be guest of honor at a re
ception and banquet sponsored by
the Seattle Branch of the Eng
lish-Speaking Union and tour the
Boeing Co. plants.
employes in the Revenue De
partment.
“I commend them for effective
ly carrying out their respective
and in some cases extremely dif
ficult jobs,” Gatz said.
Gatz is the second commissioner
to resign in the past month.
On Jan. 27, Dr. Theo Norby,
State Commissioner of Education,
announced his resignation, ef
fective June 30.
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