Stale Senator
Elton Engstrom
Passes Suddenly
JUNEAU (JP — State Sen. Elton
E. Engstrom, who represented Dis
trict D (Juneau-Yakutat) in the
upper chamber, died Wednesday
night after a brief illness. He was
57.
Death came to the Juneau Re
publican in Juneau’s St. Ann’s
Hospital, where he was taken Mon
day night. He collapsed and never
regained consciousness.
Born in Wrangell in 1905, Eng
strom graduated from high school
there and then attended the Uni
versity of Washington.
He then joined in the Engstrom
family fishing business and became
a prominent figure both in Repub
lican party politics and in the fish
ing business.
At the time he died, he was
president of Engstrom Bros. Co.,
a fish brokerage firm.
Engstrom once served as Cen
tral Committee Chairman for the
Republican party, during territor
ial days, and as mayor of the com
munity of Douglas in 1943 and
1944.
He was elected to a four-year
term in the state Senate in 1950,
then lost in a bid for re-election in
1954. In 1960, he regained his seat
by a one-vote margin over Demo
crat Thomas Stewart of Juneau.
His wife Thelma, who died in
1957, was elected to the Territorial
House of Representatives in 1946.
Survivors include two sons, Lt.
Elton E. Engstrom Jr., Ft. Ben
ning, Ga., and Alan. Engstrom, a
student at the University of Califor
nia; and two brothers, Lennie
Engstrom of Sitka and Adolph Eng
strom of Seattle.
Legislature Recesses;
Pays Its Respects to
Sen. Elton E. Engstrom
JUNEAU M — The Senate limit
ed its session to a bare six minutes
Thursday, in honor of Sen. Elton
E. Engstrom, (R-Juneau), who died
Wednesday night.
The House also met briefly and
then adjourned out of respect to
Engstrom.
Before adjourning, the Senate
listened quietly as President Frank
Peratrovich described Engstrom
as a “fair and dedicated man in
every respect.”
“Sen. Engstrom’s seat will be
hard to fill.”
In the House, Rep. Wm. Board
man said tribute to Engstrom and
asked that the lower chamber ad
journ for the day in his memory.
“We all mourn the loss of a
friend,” added Rep. Dora M.
Sweeney.
Senate Measure Calls for a
New Department of Aviation
JUNEAU UP) — Legislation which
would create a new department of
aviation was introduced in the Sen
ate Wednesday by Sens. Lester
Bronson, Pearse Walsh and Neal
Foster.
The new department would re
place the Division of Aviation
which now exists within the De
partment of Public Works.
The commissioner of the new
department would receive a salary
of $17,000 a year, under the pro
visions of the bill.
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JFK Orders Resumption of
Nevada Tests When Russ
Call Off Test Ran 'T'alks
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
WASHINGTON W— President
Kennedy is ordering resumption of
preparations for a new under
ground nuclear test shot in Nev
ada following breakdown of talks
with Russia on a test-ban treaty.
Secretary of State Dean Rusk
told a news conference today that
the President’s decision was taken
after Soviet representatives gave
notice in New York yesterday that
they wanted to call off further test
ban discussions until the re-open
ing of the disarmament conference
at Geneva Feb. 12.
Rusk refused to speculate pub
licly on the motives for the Soviet
decision to break off the nuclear
test ban talks, or on whether So
viet Premier Khrushchev was
prompted in taking this step by the
split between French President De
Gaulle and the other Western
allies.
The simplest adequate explana
tion, he said, is that the Soviets
really believe that an elaborate
disarmament inspection system is
unnecessary, and that their offer
of two or three on-site inspections
represented a real concession to
the United States.
Rusk made what amounted to a
new plea for East-West agreement
on a test ban as a first step toward
disarmament; but, despite his em
phasis on continuing hopes for pro
gress, he conceded that the talks
of the past three weeks got no
where.
U.S. Would Pay 15 Pet. of Cost
On Enginering of Hwy. Projects
WASHINGTON — The fed
eral government could pay up to
15 per cent of the cost of engineer
ing on federal-aid and highway
projects under a bill introduced in
the House and Senate yesterday.
The measure would amend the
federal aid highway act which now
limits to 10 per cent the federal
payment for such engineering
costs.
The measure was introduced by
Sens. E. L. Bartlett and Ernest
Gruening and Rep. Ralph Rivers.
EXERCISE TIMBERLINE
The Dept, of the Army’s Exer
cise Timberline will be conducted
in the Gulkana area from Feb.
7 thru 21. Approximately 8,000
troops will participate in the man
uever.
One company of the Alaska Na
tional Guard will be participating,
Co. C. 1st Scout Bn., 297th Infantry.
Co. C is commanded by 1st Lt.
John Schaeffer Jr. of Kotzebue.
From Nome participating will
be: Maj. Robert Steele, Capt. Wm.
Caldwell and Lt. Ron Engstrom.
Pekanlingok Angi, one of the
few remaining Russian-born St.
Lawrence Island residents, who had
the misfortune of breaking her
leg, was transferred to the Public
Health Hospital in Anchorage.
Admitted to the hospital: San
dra Radcliffe. Discharged: Fred
Walker, Pekanlingok Angi, Joyce
Galleher.
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SARANAC, N.Y. W — Michel
Adams entered the woods Wed
nesday to hunt rabbits. He left with
three bears whose weight totaled
less than three pounds.
Adams, a 27-year-old plumber,
told the State Conservation De
partment he came upon a thicket
near this northern New York com
munity and found a 250-pound bear
that had just given birth to three
cubs.
Adams was on snow shoes, and,
when the mother bear growled
and charged, he knew he couldn’t
outrun her.
He fired nine rounds from his
.22-caliber rifle, and the bear
dropped dead at his feet.
He said he then picked up the
three cubs, each weighing less than
a pound, drove to Plattsburgh and ;
gave them to a conservation offi- 1
cer.
Robert Jarvis, district game pro
tector, fed the cubs and placed
them under a warm lamp.
He said he thought their chances
for survival were fairly good.
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plagued much of Alaska for the
past few days lifted for the most
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fog still persisted in the Bethel
and Aniak areas, the Cook Inlet
and the eastern portion of the gulf
coast.
A weak cold front moving
southward from the Arctic slope
brought snow to the interior and
westward to Norton Sound. Skies
were generally cloudy over the
Panhandle.
Overnight temperatures ranged
from minus 21 degrees at Barter
Island to 42 at Kodiak. Yester
day’s high was a mild 54 degrees, j
also at Kodiak.
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