OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
64th Year No. 138
NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1963
Per Copy 15c
Thursday Conference Will Feature
Discussions on Civil Defense
The Superior Court Room of the I
Federal Building in Nome will be 1
the scene of a conference to be
held by Civil Defense leaders on
November 21 — Thursday — be
ginning at 8:45 a.m.
The University of Alaska, under
contract with the Department of
Defense, Office of Civil Defense,
will hold conferences for local gov
ernment officials and other influ
ential persons in nineteen Alaskan
cities and towns. The purposes of
the conferences are to stress the
continuing need for civil defense,
to reacquaint the participants with
current preparedness programs, to
re-emphasize the local responsibili
ties for survival measures, to as
sess the local civil defense posture
and, hopefully, to stimulate local
preparedness programs.
Representatives of the Univer
sity of Alaska, the Department of
Defense, Office of Civil Defense
and the State Division of Civil
Defense will constitute the confer
ence team. The afternoon workshop
sessions will be devoted strictly to
local needs.
The following schedule has been
set:
8:45 — Registration.
9:00—The Nuclear Age in Alaska
—University of Alaska.
Office of Civil Defense Respon
Peace Corps Member
Headed for Point Hope
Dr. Brenda Brush, assistant to
the Commissioner of the BIA in
Washington, D. C., and a member
of the Peace Corps, arrived in
Nome yesterday.
She plans to leave for Point Hope
today, and while there will meet
with the Village Council in an ef
fort to learn of problems in that
village. The Point Hope Village
Council had made a request for a
visit from the Peace Corps and
Dr. Brush will ascertain whether
the village will want and need
the services of a National Service
corpsman.
Dr. Brush will stay at Point
Hope for about two days. She plans
to stop at Kotzebue on her way
back to Nome and will hold a
meeting while there, probably on
Friday.
AEC Instruments Installed
In Science Department of
Nome High School
The Nome High School science
department received from the
Atomic Energy Commission last
several scientific instruments for
use in the department on a loan
basis.
Included in the scientific items
are a Cloud Chamber, an Elec
troscope, a Scaler-Ratemcter and
a kit for use of radio-active iso
topes in biology.
This type of equipment was
given to all teachers of science
who attended biology institutes
under the National Science Foun
dation grants this last summer.
Mrs. Dorothy Emmons, Nome
High School science instructor,
received the equipment after at
tending the University of Wyoming
Summer Session.
sibilities and Programs — De
partment of Defense.
10:30 — State Civil Defense —
Responsibilities and Programs —
State of Alaska.
11:15 — Local Civil Defense: The
Task Before Us, Actions Required
to Develop a Civil Defense Pro
gram — University of Alaska.
12:00 — Lunch.
1:00 — Workshops. The follow
ing subjects will be discussed in
three or more groups. Discussion
emphasis will be on local capabili
ties and planning. 1. Fallout She
ters; 2. Emergency Operations Cen
ter; 3. Warning; 4. Radiological De
fense; 5. Supporting Services, Fire,
Police, Health, etc. Conference
staff members will be available to
assist in the workshop sessions.
3:15 — Workshop Reports.
4:00 — Summary — University
of Alaska.
Rivers Plans to Visit
Nome on Thanksgiving
(Special to The Nome Nugget*
Congressman Ralph J. Rivers
said in Washington yesterday that
he will spend the Thanksgiving
Congressional recess in Alaska.
Rivers will be at Anchorage
Nov. 21, 22, 23 and 24; at Kodiak,
Nov. 25 and 26; at Nome, Nov. 27
and 28. and at Fairbanks, Nov. 29,
30 and Dec. 1.
Mrs. Rivers will accompany the
Congressman on this trip.
AWOL Sailors Held on
Bank Robbery Charge
SAN DIEGO, Calif. W — The
FBI says two sailors accused of a
$125,000 bank robbery in San Di
ego have been taken into custody
at Juarez, Mexico.
Agents in San Diego identified
the men as Victor L. Taylor and
Jeremia Terrence, both absent
without leave from the Miramar
Naval Air Station.
The robbery occurred Friday
at the Bank of America branch at
the San Diego Naval Station.
Courts May Test
SVlicies of College
Student Group
FAIRBANKS — Eight Univer
sity of Alaska students are threat
ening legal action against the uni
versity’s student organization in
protest of compulsory member
ship.
Four of the eight were elected
officers of the group — the Asso
ciated Students of the University
of Alaska (ASUA) — at a meeting
Tuesday night.
They quit in protest.
ASUA officers set aside $2,400
to finance legal counsel after hear
ing from the dissidents. The ASUA
has an annual budget of $63,000.
Some married students and
others living off campus have ob
jected to being forced to join the
group which they claim mainly
benefits campus residents. Fees of
$32 a semester are required.
The University’s board of re
gents enforce the ASUA’s com
pulsory requirements.
Learning a legal suit may be
filed, ASUA officers said that
membersrip in the ASUA is com
pulsory by university policies, and
that fees are collected and held
by the university, so to sue us
it would be to sue the university
itself.”
Gordon Reavis, a spokesman for
the protestors, declared: “We want
the ASUA to make policy changes
to bring us back to legal stand
ards. We do not have legal coun
sel and if the ASUA refuses to
make changes we will follow the
recommendation of our attorney.”
Last year the ASUA reportedly
lost $3,000 when it sponsored the
local appearance of a folk singing
group. This created ill feeling
among some students.
The dissidents are composed of
Reavis, Robert Betz, Mervin Mul
lins, Stuart Powell, Jerry Bowen,
Bill Elmore, Edgar MacDonald
and John Shuster, all seniors.
Weather Report
Continued fair this afternoon
and tonight. Low tonight -8. High
tomorrow 7.
Solons Seek BIA Help on Roads
(From Fairbanks News-Miner)
State Senator Lester Bronson,
D., Nome, told the News-Miner by
telephone last week he thought
Alaskans should encourage the
Bureau of Indian Affairs to assist
with Alaskan roads and other
projects.
The senator took sharp issue
with an item appearing in the
Insider, Nov. 11, which disclosed
the BIA was seeking a highway
engineer for work in Alaska.
According to Bronson, it was on
the invitation of the Alaska State
Senate that the BIA sent a man
to the state last summer to begin
a feasibility study of road prob
lems in Northwestern Alaska’s iso
lated regions.
The invitation, Bronson ex
plained, was contained in a reso
lution passed by the Senate (SR 23)
last session. This resolution de
scribed the isolation of the north
western Alaskan villages which
have no river-highway systems and
suggested that the villages and the
general area would be benefited
if they and their residents had a
secondary or lesser system of con
necting highways or roads.
Bronson said Robert Trier, chief
of roads for the BIA, went to the
Nome area last summer to look
over the area and begin the feas
ibility study.
“The BIA has $18 million a year
to spend on roads in Indian res
ervations in the states, and who
needs roads worse than the In
dian and Eskimo people of Alaska?
I feel they (BIA* are doing a lot;
of good things, and we are asking j
them to do a lot more things up !
here. We should back off from i
criticisms on something we don’t j
know about,” Sen. Bronson said.
Bronson suggested the BIA road '
program, if initiated in Alaska,
could even participate with the
state on the Nome-Fairbanks road, j
U-A Heady to Begin Building
Center for Aretie Research
(From the New York Times)
By LAWRENCE E. DAVIES
COLLEGE, Alaska, Nov. 9 — On
a magnificent hilltop site four
miles outside of Fairbanks, the
University of Alaska is preparing
to begin construction of the first
unit of a proposed $44 million Arc
tic Research Center.
As viewed by its planners and
put into words by Elmer Rasmu
son, an Anchorage banker who
heads the university’s board of re
gents, “The University of Alaska
will become the center of Arctic
and sub-Arctic research for a free
world.”
The concept is similar to that
which led to the creation of the
Soviet Union’s great research cen
ter, with a heavy concentration of
scientific talent, at Novosibirsk on
the Tarns-Siberian Railroad.
The university’s officials point
to continued emphasis on research
in Antarctica by this country, but
they hold that American efforts in
the Arctic and the sub-Arctic
have been less satisfactory.”
They note that the Russians have
taken a different view. Both the
Soviet Union and Canada, in their
opinion, show greater realization of
the importance of their northern
regions than the United States has
exhibited towards its own.
Dr. William R. Wood, the uni
versity’s president, enthusiastically
pointed out the site last week, on
the 2,250-acre campus of a biolog
ical sciences research building.
Alaskans, last fall, approved $3.5
million issue of general obligation
bonds for it. Construction is sched
ued to start next spring.
The site for the center is 100
miles south of the Arctic Circle.
Last week, in zero weather, with
the sun setting at around 3 p.m.
on a snow-blanketed landscape, the
aurora borealis, or northern lights,
offered a spectacular evening show
in the Fairbanks area. It empha
sized the university’s superior lo
cation for the study of aurora phe- j
nomena involving charged parti
cles ejected from the sun.
According to Dr. Victor Hessler,
whose color photographs of aurora
have attracted world-wide atten
ton among scientists, more work
has been done on optical aurora
studies here than elsewhere on the
North American continent.
The university is one of 11 world
data centers for observations made
during the International Geophysi
cal Year, 1957-58.
The aurora studies, along with
JOHN KOST AND LES KELLER
WIN TURKEY SHOOT MATCH
Turkey Shoot Chairman Les Kel- |
ler announces the following win- '
ners of the turkey shoot held at
the Q Club on Sunday, Nov. 17th.
The only winner of a turkey was
John Host who hit eight out of
ten.
Lion Les Keller got lucky and
took home a ham, having put the
shotgun BB closest to the center of
the card.
The Lions are asking — “Ro- .
tarians — Where were you? You
have one more chance to save
face: Sunday, Nov. 24th. See you
there?"
those of magnetic storms, polar
blackouts and glaciology, plus a
rocket program, have been pur
sued by the university’s Geophysi
cal Institute established by Con
gress in 1949.
Keith B. Mather, an Australian
physicist recently appointed head
of the institute by joint action of
the university and the National
Academy of Sciences, said activities
were being initiated in the fields of
seismology and volcanology.
“At a later stage,’’ he added,
“we may go into oceanography. We
can do unusual things up here
because of the complete cover of
Arctic ice. And the Navy is ex
tremely interested in the Arctic
for submarine activities.”
Dr. Kenneth M. Rae, vice presi
dent of the university for research
and advanced study, a Scottish
born oceanographer who has di
rected the university’s Institute of
Marine Science since its creation
by the state legislature in 1961,
said the $44 million figure ad
vanced for the Arctic Research
Center would cover buildings and
“modest logistic support” during a
seven-year period.”
The Federal Government is
counted upon for a considerable
part of the funds, especially since
Federal agencies such as the Pub
lic Health Service plan buildings
in the center area.
The Arctic Research Laboratory
at Point Barrow, directed by Dr.
Max Brewer, is operated by the
university for the Office of Naval
Research.
A new Institute of Arctic Bio
logy has been set up under the
direction of Dr. Laurence Irving,
an early director of the Barrow
laboratory, to study how man and
animals adapt to meet the rigors
! of the Arctic environment.
The university’s research activi
ties also embrace those in an In
stiti te of Economics and Govern
ment.
SPECIAL FORCES WILL
CONDUCT SUNDAY
FIRING AT NOME
Major William F. Murley, com
manding, advises that the 7th Spe
cial Forces Group will conduct
firing on the 24th of November,
in the vicinity of Basin Creek Air
Strip. The direction of fire will
be in a southeastern direction from
Basin Creek Air Strip.
All areas inside of the following
boundaries will be considered as a
danger area. Beginning at the
junction of Nome River and Basin
Creek, running east along Basin
Creek then southeast to the junc
tion of Hunker Creek and New El
dorado Creek, then south along
New Eldorado Creek to Nancy Lee
Creek, then northeast in a straight
ine back to the junction of Nome
River and Basin Creek.
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