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Entered at second class matter October 14. 1943. at the
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THERE OUGHT TO BE A LAW
1^1 R LEGISLATORS’ SPECIALTY’ is making lots of new laws,
^ some good and some not so good. There is one they have
overlooked.
There should he a law or regulation that before an official
is removed from the Second Dictrict, which is the most remote
from the capital of our state, that a replacement should be on
hand. Even year at least one official is moved to another part
of the state or leaves the state, giving plenty of notice ahead of
time, leaving a vacancy, a gap in the sendee he or she renders.
Some time later a replacement comes, and must start from
scratch, without the proper orientation from a predecessor, causing
further costly and sometimes embarrasing delay, as they fumble
to grasp some of the peculiarities of northwestern Alaska.
Within the last month there were three such changes. Our
Superior Court Judge was transferred to Anchorage to help out
there. ITiey had other judges and should have been able to get
along without ours until we had one. The itinerant public health
nurse, Corinne Kerfoot, completed her tour of duty — her re
placement is coming." State Sanitarian George Markham left
yesterday—no replacement has been named.
In addition to the curtailment of necessary services there
are those funds for their maintenance which should have been
spent in northwestern Alaska—which we suspect are channelled
to other parts of Alaska.
Our legislators should see to it that there are some changes
made to correct this intolerable situation.
50 Additional Staterooms
For Alaska's Ferries
SEATTLE tP — The three Alas
ka state ferries will come south
this winter for installation of an
additional 50 staterooms aboard
each vessel.
Capt. Maitland, retiring senior
master of the Alaska ferries, said
Wednesday bids are being prepared
now on the job. It probably will
be done here, he said. He estimated
total cost at a million dollars.
The MV Malaspina will be first |
to come south, in September, for
the two-month conversion job,
Capt. Merklev said, she will be
followed, in turn, by the Taku
and the Matanuska.
After conversion, each ship will
have sleeping accommodations for
128 passengers, in 64 staterooms.
Staterooms have proved to be the
crying need, Merklev said, in a
ferry system whose tremendous
success has surprised everyone.
The original staterooms could not
accommodate the passengers who
needed sleeping space.
New staterooms will be smaller
than the present ones, more like
roomettes. They will replace some
of the ferries’ reclining chairs and
part of the public cabin space.
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Khrushchev Views
Quake-Razed Skopje
SKOPJE. Yugoslavia UP> — Near
ly 100,000 persons lined the ruined
streets of Skopje Thursday as So
viet Premier Khrushchev drove
I through miles of wasteland left by
the July 26 earthquake.
Under a blazing sun Khrushchev
stopped to thank a 500-man Soviet
team for their help in clearing the
rubble.
He also talked with survivors of
the disaster which killed more
than 1,000 persons and turned
Skopje into a ghost city.
President Tito, and his wife and
Mrs. Khrushchev accompanied the
Soviet leader on the flight from
Belgrade to the devastated Mace
donian capital.
Skopje was the first stop after
Belgrade on Khrushchev’s 15-day
“working vacation” in Yugoslavia.
LAND FOR EXPANSION
WASHINGTON tP — A bill to
permit Alaska to select units as
small as 160 acres from national
forest lands, credited to it under !
the Statehood Act, was approved
yesterday by a Senate Interior j
subcommittee.
Committee officials said that
Alaska has a total of 400,000 acres
of national forest lands under pre
sent law. The minimum size for
tract withdrawing by the state is
5,760 acres.
Under the pending bill the state
may take as little as 160 acres for
use when a town wants to expand.
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— BRANCHES IN KOTZEBUE and BARROW —
Barry Says He
Will Support “Rocky"
ATLANTA — Sen. Barry
Goldwater says he would support
Nelson Rockefeller if the New York
, governor won the Republican
nomination for President in 1964.
“The country can’t stand an
other four years of Kennedy,” he
said Thursday after replying yes
' to a direct question on possible
support of Rockefeller.
This was believed to be the first
time the Arizona Republican, who
also is a prominent possibility for
the GOP Presidential nod. has said
he would support Rockefeller.
The New Yorker has not said
whether or not he would back
Goldwater if the nomination should
go to the Arizona senator.
Top Ten Tunes
Allen Sherman’s recording of
“Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah”
has moved into the No. 1 spot in
Cash Box magazine’s latest listing
of the nation’s ten best-selling
tunes.
Here are first ten best sellers:
1. Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah,
Allen Sherman.
2. My Boy Friend’s Back, The
Angels.
3. Fingertips, Little Stevie Won
der.
4. Candy Girl. The Four Seasons.
5. Blowin’ In the Wind, Peter,
Paul and Mary.
6. If I Had a Hammer, Trini
Lopez.
7. Judy’s Turn to Cry, Lesley
Gore.
8. More. Kai Winding.
9. Mocking Bird. Inez Fox.
10. Heat Wave, Martha and Van
dellas.
Separate Dormitories . . .
CHIGWELL, England lb — Mau
rice and Sylvia Clark, newly mar
ried vegetarians, are spending
their honeymoon in separate dor
mitories.
He shares a cabin with 19 men
at a vegetarian camp. She sleeps in
the girls’ hut.
Sylvia, 22, explained: “We book
ed for this camp before setting our
wedding date but then decided to
come here anyway for our honey
moon.”
Wrong Badges . . .
GALLUP, N.M. — There was
only one thing wrong with new
badges delivered to the Gallup
Police Dept. Thursday.
They bore the state seal of Ari
zona, not New Mexico.
YESTERDAY'S BASEBALL
American League
Cleveland 7, New York 4
Boston 11, Chicago 2
Kansas City 6, Washington2
Baltimore 5, Los Angeles 1
National League
Pittsburgh 9. Chicago 3
San Francisco 8, Milawukee 6
St. Louis 3, Los Angeles 2
Pacific Coast League
Denver 4, Oklahoma City 2
Portland 5-2, Seattle 3-1
Salt Lake 6, Dallas-Ft. Worth 4
Hawaii 11, Tacoma 4
“Destiny shapes our ends, but
making ends meet is our own res
ponsibility.” —Arnold Glasgow.
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Seven Children
Perish in Home Fire
HIGH PRAIRIE. Alta. t*> —
Seven children ranging in age
from seven months to 12 years died
early Thursday in a fire which
razed their one-room frame house
on a country road 12 miles north
of here.
The only survivor was a 5-year
old boy, found burned and dazed
near the burning building. He was
brought to a hospital here in seri
ous condition.
Police said the children had been
left alone. The mother was in this
Alberta town some 180 miles north
west of Edmonton and the father
working somewhere in the Peace
River area. Names were withheld.
The mother collapsed when told
of the tragedy and was unable to
answer officers’ questions.
Terrorists Fire Home
MARCAY, Venezuela Lf' — Ter
rorists set fire to the home of an
.American Air Force sergeant with
a gasoline bomb Thursday, police
reported.
The attack on the home of Sgt.
Wm, Elliott of the U.S. Air Force
Mission was attributed to mem
bers of a pro-Communist terrorist
organization calling itself the
Armed Forces of National Libera
tion Fain. They have made pre
vious attacks on American homes
in recent months.
ADULT PHYSICAL FITNESS
WASHINGTON lb — The Pres
ident’s Council on Physical Fitness
unveiled a new program Thursday
to keep adults slim and trim by
exercising.
The new program is contained
in a booklet, “Adult Physical Fit
ness,” which is available from the
Government Printing Office for
35 cents. It is for both men and
women.
The program, which starts with
an “orientation program” of 10
exercises any adult should be able
to do, includes knee lifts, body
bends, sitting stretches and, for
men only, pushups.
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; Kennedy Opens the
Hangar Door for World's
Fastest Cargo Plane
WASHINGTON (F — President
Kennedy pushed a ceremonial sold
key yesterday marking the advent
of the world’s fastest cargo plane
and said that this means that “the
power of the United States will be
felt in behalf of the cause of free
dom all over the world.”
The chief executive participated
from the White House in roll-out
ceremonies for the first C-141 jet
military transport at Marietta, Ga.
The button pushing was to open
a hangar door at Dobbins Air Force
Base, to let the plane roll out.
The ceremony, Kennedy said,
marks the beginning of “a great
new effort to strengthen the se
curity of the United States.”
The swept-wing, four-engine jet
will be able to take off and land
on comparatively short fields.
The Starlifter is designed to fly
any ocean non-stop with a load
of 154 troops and a 70,000-pound
cargo.
KENAI DAYS WILL
FEATURE WHALE HUNT
KENAI OF — Both the past and
the future of this city will be em
phasized this weekend in the cele
bration of Annual Kenai Days.
The two-day event Saturday and
Sunday opens with the dedication
of the Standard Oil refinery at Port
Nikiski, and will include such
festive doings as a beluga whale
hunt.
Gov. Wm. Egan, other state of
ficials and leaders from the civic
and industrial areas of the state
will be on hand for the refinery
dedication.
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