Outbreak of Rabies
Reported at Scammon Bay
JUNEAU — An outbreak of
rabies in dogs and wild animals
at Scammon Bay has been report
ed and sanitation aide supervisor
Jack Davis of the Bethel area has
gone to the coastal village with
270 units of dog vaccine, Amos
Alter, chief of the Health and
Welfare Department’s environ
mental health branch stated Mon
day. He said one man bitten by
an animal involved in the out
break is hospitalized in Bethel.
Two dog heads submitted at the
Anchorage Public Health Labora
tory were proved positive by the
new fluorescent anti-body techni
que which is about two weeks
sooner than results could be ob
tained by older methods of identi
fication, Mr. Alter said.
For many years rabies has been
known to exist in foxes, wolves
and other Alaska wildlife, Mr. i
Alter stated, and a campaign for
vaccination of all dogs is carried
on cooperatively by the Division
of Public Health, U.S. Fish and
Wildlife, Air Force veterinarians
and the State Dept, of Agriculture
which provides the vaccine at cost.
He said that severe outbreaks of
rabies occurred in the winter of
1962 in several Yukon villages.
I C oughing uang . . .
TOKYO <P—Tokyo police have
arrested two men of a gang of
four who got around $28,000 sim
ply by coughing at the right time.
The other two are at large, pro
bably not coughing any more.
Police said the men for two
years successfully operated a rack
et in which they would accompany
applicants to driving license tests
and indicated by coughing the
correct reply to be encircled.
A Japanese driver’s test consists
of 20 questions. Three answers are
given for each and the applicant
marks the one he thinks correct.
The driving license “brokers”
would, for a fee, enter the exam
ination room with their applicants
and by prearrangement cough
once, twice or three times to sig
nal the right answer.
The “broker,” posing as an ap
plicant to be able to enter the ex
amination room, would intention
ally fail the exam in order to be
able to take it again, using a dif
ferent name each time. To further
allay suspicion the “broker” wore
a mask over his mouth, a com
mon practice in Japan for persons
with colds, and carried cough
medicine.
Police estimate about 2,000
drivers obtained licenses through
the gang.
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Bad Taster . . .
LARGS, Scotland UP>. — A
whisky-loving taxpayer has com
plained to the town council that
its water supply is spoiling the
taste of his drink.
The taxpayer whose name was
not disclosed, said he had to travel
30 miles, all the way to Glasgow,
lor the bottled water to mix his
drinks.
Robert Wilson, the municipal
water engineer, agreed that the
local supply has been tasting fun
ny lately but said all would be
well soon. He explained:
“The recent heavy snows are
melting and this is carrying a
taste of heather down from the
hills into our reservoir. It won’t
do the man’s whisky the slightest
harm.”
NOTICE TO PUBLIC
FAS 1411. the road between the
U.S.S.R. & M. Company power
plant and the Moonshine Water
Company pump house, above the
FAA Airport, will be barricaded
and closed to all traffic on April 1,
1963. This is due to the bridges
over Bourbon Creek and Dry
Creek being condemned as unsafe
and their replacement not being
considered in the best public in
terest at this time. 32
Obert R. Hyde,
Dist. Hwy. Engineer
KRANKS LEAGUE
High team game: Madcaps 669,
Frazzled Fraus 660, Laggards 652.
High team series: Madcaps 1916,
Laggards 1859, Frazzled Fraus
1843.
High individual game: Helen Ray
180, Lou Oliver 176, Pauline
Eberle 172.
High individual series: Helen Ray
488, Pauline Eberle 467, Lou Oliver
438.
GOLD DIGGERS LEAGUE
High team series Flyers 2203,
Fakers 2132, North Star 2063.
High team game: Flyers 779,
Fakers 736.
High individual series: men, C.
Glavinovich 558, P. Durrett 522,
G. Liennrd 522. Women, L. Oliver
471, M. Honsberger 452, S. Deems
438.
High individual game: men, P.
Durrett 206, C. Glavinovich 199,
G. Lienard 190. Women, F. Lienard
173, M. Honsberger 167, L. Oliver
163.
Laggards
Whirly Birds
Madcaps
Frazzled Fraus
W L
46 Vz 37V£
41Vfe 42
41 43
39 45
North Star
Outsiders
Flyers
Quartet
Polar
Fakers
W L
52 36
51 37
47 41
39 49
39 49
36 52
Two Women
Stowaway On
Carrier Kearsarge
SEATTLE — Fifteen hours
aboard a Navy carrier earned two
love-sick young women stowaways
30-day suspended jail sentences.
The two were caught on the car
rier Kearsarge Tuesday when one
of their sailor conspirators panick
ed and reported to his superiors
they were hiding in a dry provi
sions locker five decks down.
The stowaways were identified
by the FBI as Leotta Hope Buss,
23, of Port Orchard, Wn., an un
employed telephone solicitor, and
Sandra Sue Stettler, 18, of Ket
chum, Idaho, an unemployed
waitress. They had been living to
gether in a Bremerton hotel.
The Stettler girl was listed as
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Black, Ketchum. She was
bom in Anchorage, Alaska.
The suspended sentences were
given by U.S. Commissioner Wal
ter Reseburg Jr., Wednesday when
they appeared before him on stow
away charges.
The Kearsarge was taking on
ammunition at the Bangor Naval
Depot on Hood Canal before sail
ing for Long Beach, Calif., when
the stowaways had the whistle
blown on them.
Two sailors had helped sneak
them aboard at Bremerton Monday
night. One had the key to the
storeroom where they hid. But
when the second sailor was unable
to find his shipmate at Bangor
he became frightened and reveal
ed the escapade.
The FBI said the older woman
was in love with another sailor on
the Kearsarge and wanted to fol
low him to Long Beach. Her com
panion also had a Navy yen.
Sight Restored After 26 Years
OSTEND, Belgium UP) — Yvonne
Van Massenhove, 54, had been
happily married 26 years to a man
she had never seen. Now, after 32
years of blindness, two operations
have restored her sight.
But she will never see her hus
band. He died two weeks before
the last operation.
Nome Directory
BERING SEA LIONS CLUB
at the
Sven Larsen, Pres.
Tom Balone, Secty.
Meets Every Tuesday
at 7:00 p.m.
North Star or Polaris
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon at
North Star Dining Room
Frank Couch, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. 1
Order of Eastern Star
Verna Mickelson
Worthy Matron
Bev Morgan
Secretary
Meets First and Third Mondays
Anvil Lodge
No. 140
Werner E. Bohrer, W. M.
Norvin W. Lewis, See.
Meets First and Third Thursdays
Of Each Month
Nome Rotary Club
Roy Snyder
Psesldent
Marc Beauchamp
Secretary
Wednesday
Parent-Teachers Assn.
Meets Last Tuesday of Every
Month at School
Trank Couch, President
Harriet Amundsen, Secretary
— VISITORS WELCOME —
Pioneer Igloo No. 1
Meets 1st and 3rd Wednesdays
Don Lyle, Tree.
Chas. D. Jones, Secty.