$3.2 Million Bid for
Astronaut’s Personal
Space Stories Withdrawn
CHICAGO liP) — Withdrawal of
a $3.2 million contract bid to the
nation’s 16 astronauts for personal
stories of their space flights has
been announced by Field Enter
priser Educational Corp.
Corporation President Bailey K.
Howard, in a statement Monday,
said the publishing firm hadn’t
been able to “obtain a meeting
of minds’’ with the National Aero
nautics and Space Administration.
“Following our most recent con
versations with officials of NASA,”
Howard said, “we have reached
the conclusion that further nego
tiations would be futile.”
The space administration, while
not a party to the contract, had
assumed responsibility for passing
on its provisions. The proposal,
announced last January, drew im
mediate congressional and press
criticism.
Involved were 16 astronauts, in
cluding the original seven. The
contract would have been for
flights in the two-man Gemini cap
sule, slated for next year, and in
the Apollo capsule designed to
carry the three-man expedition to
the moon.
Field Enterprises Educational
Corp., which publishes the World
Book Encyclopedia, had offered to
establish a non-profit company
which would have paid the astro
nauts $32 million over a 10-year
period or until the first moon land
ing.
Book, magazine, newspaper, tele
vision, radio and motion picture
rights for both project Gemini
and project Apollo would have
been covered in the proposed con
tract.
New Vice President
Robert B. Fulton, M.E., well
known in Alaskan mining and ex
ploration circles, has been elected
a vice president of Newmont
Mining Corp. Bob has been very
active in nearly all parts of Alaska
in recent years as engineer in
charge of Newmont’s various ex
ploration and development pro
grams.
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LESSONS IN RELIGION
Jesus said the truth will make
men free. Pilate before delivering
him to his fate on the cross asked
Jesus the philosophical question
‘ What Is Truth?” No answer was
given as Jesus did not involve
himself in the theological or phil
osophical exercises current in that
day. He gave the truth and it was
the people’s repsonsibility to re
cognize it and accept his teachings.
They chose instead to accept his
feeding of the multitudes with
loaves and fishes and the curing of
the sick while following the lead
ers of religion and the hereditary
forms of worship current amongst j
them. When the leaders of reli
gion, the chief priests, asked their !
Roman masters to carry out the !
death penalty because they labeled
him a false prophet the people
went along with their decision.
True religion, we have found
out, is knowledge of God revealed
to us through the divine prophets.
Abraham freed the people from
the error of worshipping idols
which were man-made creations.
Moses freed the people from the
tyranny of the Egyptian masters
and instituted laws which govern
ed the well-being of the society of !
that time. The ten commandments
are found in the civil law of al
most every country in the world
today. Every reasonable person
will admit that they are for our
own benefit. Jesus, through the
Christ spirit, the word of God,
showed us how to free ourselves
from the prison of our own lower !
nature and attain salvation in this
world and the world to come by
following that word of God.
Baha U’ Llah has taught that
the only glory of mankind is the
freedom from the tyranny of the
forces of nature which we have
successfully achieved through the
application of science to control
our environment, freedom from
the tyranny of other men who
seek to impose their will upon
the individual, and freedom from
the tyranny of our own lower na
ture which debases the noble na
ture God has endowed each of us
with.
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18 Traffic Fatalities In Alaska
JUNEAU OP* — Traffic accidents
during 1963 claimed the lives of 18
persons in Alaska through last
Friday, the Department of Public
Safety reported today.
The traffic death toll through
the same date a year ago was 17.
The department said fires killed
16 persons in the state during the
same period, compared with 12 in
1962.
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Bison Now
Available for
Private Ownership
Robert A. Rausch, Regional Su
! pervision Game Division, an
nounced that the Alaska Dept, of
Fish and Game has completed
I regulations providing for the
; transfer of 35 or fewer bison to
private ownership.
Persons interested in obtaining
bison should apply in writing to
Walter Kirkness, Commissioner,
Dept, of Fish and Game, Subport
Bldg., Juneau, Alaska, prior to
July 30, 1963. The application
should include the following items:
The name of the person or persons
desiring to obtain bison, the exact
location where the bison will be
held, a description of the provi
sions for maintaining positive con- i
frol of the bison, the number and
sex and age composition of the
animals desired (no person or per
sons will be awarded more than
six bison), the purpose for request
ing bison, and the system they
desire in marking their bison.
The bison will be available at
Delta Junction on or after August
10, 1963. Persons receiving bison
must be prepared to accept them '
upon 48 hours notice after Aug. 10.
The recipients of the bison will be
required to provide transportation
and crating for the purpose of
moving the bison from Delta to
their final destination. Finally,
those persons receiving bison must
enter into an agreement specify
ing the conditions under which
the bison may be held.
Prospective applicants are cau
tioned that bison are not domestic
animals. Experienced gained dur
ing past operations in the Delta
Junction area suggests that mature j
bison are extremely difficult to i
contain and when harried, can be *
dangerous. Structures destined to I
retain bison will of necessity re
quire considerable expense and
effort in their construction.
, Salmon Derby to be Held
In Juneau July 26-27-28
JUNEAU — An estimated ■
1,200-1,500 salt water fishing buffs i
are expected to converge on Ju- J
neau July 26-27-28 for the 1963 !
edition of the Golden North Salmon
Derby.
Based on the average weight
of the winning fish during the
first 16 years of Alaska’s No. 1
angling contest, the winner this
year should hit the scales, dressed,
at about 44Vi pounds.
The biggest fish ever entered in
the derby since it started in 1947
was the 59 pound 3 ounce King
boated bv Henry' Tacholsky of Ju
neau in 1957.
While last year’s winner, a 29
pound 2 ounce fish entered by
Bill Overstreet of Juneau, was a
relatively lightweight entry, early
season indications are that 1963
could be the year of the big fish.
Sports fishermen have been
catching Kings in the 30 to 40
pound class since early spring,
topped by a 53 pound lunker land
ed by Irv Hagerup of Auke Bay
on June 15.
Prizes for the top fish entered
in the derby, sponsored by the
Territorial Sportsmen, Inc., of Ju
neau, range from autos down to
$5 merchandise prizes, with a
total of more than $20,000.
Proceeds from the derby are used
for improving outdoor sports fa
cilities in the Juneau area and for
a scholarship fund for local young
sters.
The derby committee has asked
out-of-towners planning to take
part to make boat and housing
reservations as early as possible.
SBA Loan to Mining Company
The Small Business Administra
tion has approved a bank-parti
cipating loan to Flat Creek Placers
of $40,000. If not the first, this
is one of the very few loans by
the SBA to mining companies in
Alaska.
18-Year-Old Youth
Faces Death for Murder
j RENO, Nev. (P — Thomas Loo
F3can faced death in the Nevada
gas chamber after being convicted
of first degree murder Monday in
the April 5 dismemberment-slay- 1
ing of Sonja McCaskie, 24, former
Olympic skier.
The 18-year-old high school
youth, described at his trial as a
rejected, unloved boy, stared at
the jury foreman, Joseph Dettling, \
as the death penalty recommenda
tion was read.
Dist. Judge Grant Bowen set
July 15 for sentencing. Dist. Atty.
Wm. Raggio said the judge must
follow the jury’s recommendation.
Defense attorney Harry Ander
son said he probably will appeal,
depending on whether Bean wants
a chance to escape the gas cham
ber. He said the boy, son of an
itinerant salesman, had made a j
second attempt on his life in Wa- !
shoe County jail last Tuesday. The
first try, a wrist-cutting episode
in May, was disclosed by a sheriff’s
deputy on the witness stand dur
ing the trial which began June 24.
The attorney never refuted
Bean’s admission that he strangled
Miss McCaskie, a native of Elgin,
Scotland, raped her and then dis- j
membered her body.
Can you name any English word
other than “facetious” which in- I
eludes all the vowels in alpha
betical order?
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$649,450 Accelerated
Public Works Program
For Three Alaska Cities
JUNEAU tfr — Grants under
j the federal Accelerated Public
Works program totaling $649,450
for Alaska have been approved,
Sen. E. L. Bartlett said Tuesday.
In a wire to the Associated Press
at Juneau, Bartlett said the largest
grant, $399,450, will go to Dilling
ham for water system work.
Other grants included:
Kodiak — $62,500 for the con
struction of sewer facilities.
Cordova — $38,000 for an ex
tension of the Cordova dock.
Wrangell — $64,000 for a per
manent bulkhead and closing fill
area on Front Street.
Fairbanks — $35,000 for an ex
tension of telephone lines; $30,000
for electrical distribution system
work; and $20,000 for construction
of a new shop building.
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now for $200 on up, and if you
tell her it's a beaver coat she
probably won’t be able to tell the
difference.
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