Larry Landry Elected
Chairman of Alaskan
Command Advisory Board
Mr. Larry Landry, Anchorage
businessman, was elected chairman
of the Alaskan Command Advisory
Board at that organization’s first
meeting at the Alaskan Command
headquarters at Elmendorf Air
Force Base on Friday, Aug. 17.
Organized by Lt. Gen. George
Mundy, USAF, Commander in
Chief, Alaska, the Alaskan Com
mand Advisory Board’s member
ship includes prominent Alaskan
business and professional men.
Gen. Mundy said he had high
hopes that the Advisory Board
would serve as an important vehi
cle for the two-day exchange of
information between the leaders
of civilian and military communi
ties in Alaska — he added: “1
know it will assist me and my
Army, Navy and Air Force Com
manders materially in the dis
charge of our civic repsonsibilities
to the residents of Alaska.”
The Alaskan Command Advisory
Board actually supplements on a
“state-wide” basis, similar advisory
boards already organized on a base
or post-community basis in major
population centers in Alaska.
The ALCOM Advisory Board
will meet on a quarterly and “as
needed” basis. The board’s pri
mary function will be to identify
common interests of civilian and
military communities to the end
that recognizable problem areas
may be resolved through joint
civilian-military leadership and
planning.
Members of the Alaskan Com
mand Advisory Board include
Boyd Harwod of Nome.
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V. Stefansson,
Noted Arctic
Explorer, Is Dead
; HANOVER, N.H. (/P> — Vilhjal
j rnur Stefansson, one of the last
sled dog explorers and also one
of the world’s foremost Arctic sci
entists and historians, died yester
day at 82.
The explorer, born in Manitoba
of Icelandic parents, predicted
years ahead of the fact that the
North Pole would become a cross
roads for air travel between Ameri
ca and Europe. He also foresaw
that submarines would travel un
der the Arctic ice pack.
Stefansson, who once thought
of making poetry a career, spent
10 winters and 13 summers in the
far north in the 13 years prior to
his retirement in 1919 from active
exploration. Since 1947 he had been
Arctic consultant at Dartmouth
College and curator of the Stefans
son collection of Polar Literature.
Dartmouth boasts that the col
lection — 25,000 bound volumes
and 45,000 manuscriots — is the
Western world’s largest library
about Polar regions.
Stefansson suffered a stroke a
week ago at a dinner for an old
friend visiting Darthmouth. Eske
Brum, chief of Denmark’s Minis
try for Greenland. He died early
Sunday.
Only a week before his stroke,
Stefansson completed the first draft
of his autobiography.
He wrote 24 books and more
than 400 articles about the far
north. His worked covered anthro
pology, geopolitics, economics,
language, medicine, ethnography
and religion.
The Stefansson collection began
with 300 books given to him by
the American Geographical So
ciety of New York. In 1935 Dart
mouth purchased the collection
from the explorer.
Stefansson’s major Arctic expedi
tion took him to the MacKenzie
River delta in Canada. When the
expedition’s ship became icebound
and could not meet him. the ex
plorer spent a winter with the
Mackenzie Eskimos. He adopted
their clothes, food and work habits
i and studied their language.
I. ’ the 7 i -year-aid Lachc
\ jor married Evelyn Schwartz
Baird, his research assistant. Mrs.
Stefansson now is librarian of the
! Stefansson collection. There are
! no children.
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Hep. Miller:
No Reason to
Panie Over Red’s
Two Men In Orbit
Geoffery Gould
WASHINGTON it? The chair
man of the House Space Commit
tee Saturday measured Russia’s
orbiting of twin cosmonauts against
U.S. space achievements and con
cluded there is no reason to panic.
T don't think they showed a
lot of this flight.” Rep. George P.
Miller, (D-Calif.), said in an inter
view. Russia’.; big accomplishment
was putting the two men in orbit
and bringing them close to gcther,
he said.
‘•The;’re well ahead in tha' in
spect. But we can meet that in a
couple of years. We’ll be A
when Titan III is ready,” he added.
Miller disclaims any special
knowledge of astronautics. But he
committee authorizes the ...• ney
each year for the National A- ro
nautics and Space Administr, ' ion,
which runs the U.S. space program.
As chairman, he is kept well in
formed by the men in govern
ment who know most about the
U.S.-Russian space race, and sees
no need for any radical change
in the U.S. space program.
The $500-million Titan III, a
combination solid and liquid fueled
boosters, is slated to go into opera
tion in late 1964 or early 1965.
Of Russia’s double orbit. Miller
said, ‘‘It was pretty tricky, and
they did it.” But he added:
“They did not show that they
had a bigger booster than before.
The vehicles were about the same
size as their earlier ships. The
orbits weren’t any higher than pre
vious ones.”
“There’s no place for compla
cency.’’ he said, “but we haven't
panicked.”
If a crash program were neces
sary to catch up, he said, it would
have been started.
“But I don’t see what we would
gain. It takes time to develop these
things,” Miller added. “You can’t
go in and buy tins hardware off
a shelf.”
in purely selenium a spec is o!
space exploration, Miller said he
is convinced the United States is
leading, and that European sci
entists he has talked to tell him
the same thing.
He pointed to tlu diversity of
American space experiments in
fields the Russians have not touch
ed, such as the Tiros weather satel
lite that sends back photos of
hurricanes, the Telstar communi
cations satellite and navigational
satellites.
He said that when Russia cloes
something spectacular in space the
American public tends to forget
the major break-throughs in
weather forecasting, communica
tions and other fields.
“It’s like the politician’s night
mare,’’ he said. "The fellow who
comes to you and says, 'I know
you got me a job last month and
you got my brother-in-law a job
last year, but what have you done
for me lately’?”
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Anti-Religious Essays
I By Mark Twain to Be
Published At Last
NEW YORK A . eric, of
ant .-religious essay.- written by
Mark T vain in Ins later year.: will
be made public next month.
The pieces, humorous in style
but venomous in viewpoint, will
be published by Harper -C Row
in a volume entitled “Letters from
the Earth.”
The essays had been withheld
by Twain's daughter, Clara Cle
mens Samossoud, who had felt
part of the material presented a
distorted view of her father's ideas
and attitudes.
Mrs. Samossoud, 88, an invalid j
who lives in Mission Beach. Calif., j
was reported Thursday to have
reed recently to the publication
• >n die grounds that Mark Twain
belonged to lac world and that
’ ublic opinion has become more
tolerant.
The essays to be published were
written during a period of per
sonal tragedy in the life of Mark
Twain whose real name was Sam
uel Clemens. He had lost his wife
and a daughter, and was dec ply
in debt. Twain — known around
the world for “Tom Sawyer,”
“Huckleberry Finn” and other
characters he wrote about — died
in 1910.
In the opening section of “Letters
from the Earth.” Twain, in the
guise of Satan, writers reports to ;
archangels Gabriel and Michael. He j
describes the inhabitants of the
earth as long-suffering victims of
their own ludicrous religious be
liefs.
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Sen. Morse Hasn't
Given Up Hope on Passage
Of College Education Bill
WASHINGTON T - S < n.
Wa.vm Mot so, of On : >,n, :iy !:<■
ha.- not given up hope f >r j ./ -
ago of the college equea'ion Iji 11
hut that its prospect, i.mv do
not. look bright..
Morse, chairman of tb<- Senate
House conferee:- on th« tr • rue.
ure, said he ha- no plans ai the
moment to call a . Te r me Vng
on the long-deadlocked lege la -
lion.
‘‘I don’t, plan to do that un’il it
pptar v. e can get together on
a bill," he sairl in reply to ques
tions. "We haven’t betable to
do it so far.”
The Kennedy administration had
been counting on the college-aid
measure as the one part of its
badly battered aid - to - education
program likely to be written into
law by this Congress.
But. in the conference, the me -
ure ran into a church school con
troversy of the kind which has
stalled the bill to aid grade and
high schools since Morse steered
it through the Senate in May 1961.
The House in January passed a
bill to provide $1.5 billion for col
lege classroom facilities, 60 per
cent in the form of grants and 40
per cent loans.
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