Second Alaskan
Science Conference
At McKinley Park
< Plans for the Second Alaskan
Science Conference, to be held at
Mt. McKinley National Park,
September 4 to 8, now are well
A underway.
One entire day of the confer
ence will be devoted to section ,
meetings on Alaskan research in j
specific scientific fields. Several ■
outstanding Alaskan scientists j
have accepted invitations to serve
as chairmen of the various sec
tion meetings and their chairmen
include:
Section A—Agriculture, botany,
forestry, etc., chairman: Don L.
Irwin, director, Alaska Experi
ment Station, Palmer, Alaska.
Section B—Medicine, public
health, dentistry, etc., co-chair
,men: Dr. C. Earl Albrecht, com
missioner of health, Juneau; and
Major Andres I. Karstens, com
manding officer, aeromedical
laboratory, Ladd Air Force Base,
Fairbanks.
Section C—Zoology, wildlife,
etc., chairman: Dr. Neil Hosley,
dean-elect, University of Alaska,
College.
Section D—Geology, geography,
etc., chairman: William S. Twen
^ hofel, U. S. Geological Survey,
Juneau.
Section E—Geophysics, phy
sics, meterology, oceanography,
etc., chairman: Dr. Edward M.
Little, assistant director, Geo
physical Institute, University of
Alaska, College.
Section F—Anthropology, etc.,
chairman: Dr. Ivar Skarland,
professor of anthropology, Uni
* versity of Alaska, College.
Section G—Engineering, indus
MRS. I. M. SANDVIK OUTSIDE
Mrs. I. M. Sandvik, who recent
ly left for Gaston. Oregon, to see
her son Kent graduate from high
school, has extended her trip ac
cording to a letter received by
her sister-in-law, Mrs. Chet Sand
vik.
While in Oregon, Mrs. Sandvik
received word that her mother
had passed away. Mrs. Sandvik
quickly proceeded to Jefferson,
Indiana, for the funeral.
Going on to Minnesota for vis
its with friends and relatives, she
reported a meeting -with Drs.
Haines and Andrews who former
ly practiced medicine here in the
Valley.
trial science, aviation, etc., chair
man: Leo Saarela, Territorial
commissioner of mines, Juneau.
Section H—Sociology, econom
ics, education, etc., chairman: Dr.
Fred W. Wagner, department of
business administration, Univer
sity of Alaska, College.
Three or four major papers will
be presented by noted scientists
at each section meeting. The re
maining time in each section will
be given to a number of shorter
reports on scientific research
work currently in progress in the
Territory.
Research workers and student
investigators currently engaged
on scientific projects or planning
summer study in Alaska are in
vited to submit their names and
brief statements of their work to
the chairman of the section with
in which their activity falls as
soon as possible. Final titles and
a 200-word summary of the re
ports to be presented at the con
ference must be in the hands of
the chairman by August 1.
BARBERS UP IN AIR
OVER OPS THREAT
OF PRICE SHAVE
How the general ceiling price
regulation in Alaska would affect
the price of a shave and haircut
in Palmer still was unknown in
Palmer at the present time.
An OPS release received this
week from Juneau states that
“beauty and barber shops must
remain under price control”. The
Office of Price Stabilization
pointed out in a statement to the
Congressional Banking and Cur
rency Committee last week that
the beauty and barber business
was an 845 million dollar industry
and as such constituted a definite
factor in the cost of living.
In Alaska, under the general
ceiling price regulation, all Terri
torial barber and beauty shops
are permitted to charge the high
est price they charged during the
period December 19 to January,
25, 1951. Any increases since that
time are in violation of the regu
lation, Territorial OPS said.
In a canvass of barber shops in
Palmer, none had received infor
mation from the OPS indicating
how the regulation would affect
them. Palmer barbers all raised
their prices March 15 of this year.
“But the $2.00 hair cut price has
been in effect in the Anchorage
Barbers’ Union district of which
we are a part, for three years”, F.
W. Mullendorf of the Valley Bar
ber Shop, stated. “I don’t think
the price regulation will apply to
the individual shops, but to the
district for which the union con
trols prices”.
George Johnson of Johnson’s
Barber Shop, thought the long
standing Anchorage union price
would prevail despite Palmer’s
recent adherence to it, but he was
not so sure. “I just hope ‘they’
won’t put us in jail before telling
us which prices apply”, he said.
Bert McCool said if OPS tried
to enforce the old prices in effect
before March 15, he’d fight it in
court. “It would be discrimina
tion against Palmer barbers”, he j
insisted. “Our cost of living in ,
Palmer is as high as that in An- ,
chorage. Besides, the Anchorage j
union isn’t going to stand for |
‘scab’ prices”.
Angus McKechnie, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Loren McKechnie, Pal
mer, graduated from the Univer
sity of Washington, June 8, ma
joring in business management.
Returning to the Territory a
week ago, he accepted a position
as payroll cost-accountant clerk
with Peter Kewitt and Sons, con
tractors, at Ladd Airfield, Fair
banks.
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