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Entered at second class matter October 14 1943, at «je
post office at Nome, Alaska, under Act of March 3, 1878.
The Passing of the Sturdy Bear
THE SINKING OF the old U.S.C.G. "Bear in the Atlantic
storm brings many memories to the older generations of
Nomeites.
It was the "Bear” which brought into Nome each spring for
many years before airplanes, the winter’s accumulation of second
class mail, parcel post, newspapers and everything except first class
mail which traveled overland during the winter by dog team.
Christmas presents which missed the October sailing in the fall,
the mail order packages and magazines. Tons upon tons of mail
filled the post office when the "Bear” arrived in port, usually
in May, through the ice.
It was the "Bear” which took doctors to the remote villages
and the Bears captain, who frequently performed marriages.
It was the "Bear” which carried the court of justice to isolated
places in the Arctic.
The old barkentine, which w^as also an ice-breaker, was as
hardy as the early pioneer and passes along with sturdy individuals
who stayed to make northern Alaska their home.
Commie Congress
In Latin America
Plans Swift Retort
By William Ryan
The Castro-Communist alliance j
in Latin America plans a swift
retort to the challenge of a New
Beal for the Western Hemisphere,
laid down at San Jose, Costa Rica,
by President Kennedy.
Communists of the hemisphere
gather next Thursday in Rio de
Janeiro, in what will be called
“the Continental Congress in De
fense of Cuba.” I
The principal aims will be to
plot more aggressive strategy to 1
step up the pace of revolutionary
activities, and to rekindle mass
sympathy for Fidel Castro’s re
gime.
Moscow propaganda has been
paying much attention to this
congress. It claims that “hundreds
of organizations, political and so
cial personalities, and plain people
of Latin America” are rallying
to the Castro banner.
In one respect, Moscow’s sup
port of the congress is an answer
to the Red Chinese, who have been
accusing Premier Khrushchev’s
party of timidity in pushing revo
lutionary violence in underde
■ veloped areas. It also can serve
the Soviet party as a weapon fox
countering Peking’s influence it
Latin America.
The Communists and Castroists
—the terms are virtually synony
mous — will use the congress to
inventory their assets and pros-1
pects. Positions of the parties and
revolutionary situations, country
"by country, will be under micro
scope analysis in the back-room
meetings, while the oratory in the
congress hall lays down a smoke
screen.
The Rio meeting is expected to
come up with some sort of blue
fwint for action.
If the congress follows Mos
cow's general directives for such
enterprises, with what the Krem
lin calls “the new logic of scienti
fic Communism,” it will map out
those areas where violence will
P®y off and those areas where
struggles lor electoral and econ
omic power offer the prospects of
better dividends.
U.S. Gold Stocks
Take a Dip at '62 End
By the Associated Press
United States gold stocks drop
ped only §6,400,000 in the last
quarter of 1962, the Treasury re
ported.
This small fall in that three
month period raised to §832,900,000
the net sale of gold in international
dealings for the year as a whole.
That compares with §820,000,000
i in 1961 and §1,700,000,000 in 1960.
At the year’s end monetary gold
stocks stood at $15,900,000,000.
So far this year, the drain on
United States gold has amounted
to some §100,000,000.
Counting §57,000,000 in gold sold
for industrial, professional and
artistic purposes, the overall de
crease for 1962 amounted to $890,
000,000.
In international transactions,
France was the biggest buyer. With
a particularly large call last sum
mer, France drew $459,000,000 in
gold altogether.
-all for $200,000 In
National Advertising of
Canned Salmon Industry
JUNEAU 15) — The Senate Com
merce Committee today submitted
a bill calling for an appropriation
of $200,000 for national advertising
’ canned salmon, in cooperation
* with processors.
under the provisions of the bill,
the state money would be matched
on a 50-50 basis, with funds pro
vided by the canned salmon in
dustry.
Three representatives of the
Alaska canned salmon industry
had asked the legislature earlier
this year to approve a three-year
$4,500,000 joint state-industry ad
vertising program to boost sagging
sales of canned salmon.
Under the industry proposal
canned salmon processors would
have put up $1,500,000 of the cost
of the three-year program and the
state would have put up $3 mil
lion.
THE
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Bob Leight — Missionary Pastor
Mildred Banfield
Sworn In as New
Member of Senate
JUNEAU W — Mrs. Mildred
Banfield, the mother of two small
daughters, was sworn in at 10:05
a.m. yesterday as a member of
the State Senate, bringing the
upper chamber to its full 20
member strength.
The oath was administered by
Senate President Frank Peratro
vich.
Mrs. Banfield, the wife of a
prominent Juneau attorney, was
appointed to the Senate late Mon
day by Gov. Wm. Egan.
Egan’s appointment was quickly
confirmed by the four Republicans
in the upper chamber. Under the
law, they had the right to approve
or disapprove of his appointments.
Mrs. Banfield assumes the seat
left vacant Jan. 30, three days
after the current legislative session
started, by the death of Sen. Elton
Engstrom. The unexpired term
runs through 1964.
Long active in Republican party
circles in the Juneau area, Mrs.
Banfield was the fifth appointment
sent down by the governor.
The four previous appointments,
all turned down by the Republi
cans in the Senate, were Albert
White, Elton Engstrom Jr., and
Mrs. Wilma Rhodes of Juneau and
William Feero of Skagway.
After Feero’s appointment was
rejected, the four Senate Republi
cans and Egan held a series of
meetings to try and come to a
meeting of the minds on the Senate
vacancy. j
While Egan’s letter of appoint
ment did not indicate that Mrs.
Banfield’s appointment had the ad
vance approval of the four Republi
cans, their quick action in ap
proving the appointment suggested
strongly that Egan was assured of
smooth sailing in the upper cham
ber.
In the roll call among the four
Republicans, quick “ayes” were
clicked off by Sens. John Butro
vich of Fairbanks, John Coghill
of Nenana, Brad Phillips of An
chorage and Vance Phillips of
Mountain View.
Mrs. Banfield is the wife of
Norman Banfield of Juneau, whom
she married in 1951. They have
two daughters, Nancy, 10, and
Julie, 8.
She first came to Alaska in 1946,
serving as an accountant and
bookkeeper for several Juneau
firms.
She served as vice chairman of
the Republican State Central Com
mittee in 1956 and at the present
time is vice chairman of the GOP
Juneau House District Committee.
Of her appointment, Mrs. Ban
1 field would comment only:
ine only thought I have is that
I am thankful the situation in the
Senate has at last been resolved,
so the Juneau-Yakutat Senate Dis
trict can have representation in the
State Senate.”
A marketing survey showed
hat most popular grocer’s tag
today is 49 cents. A decade ago it
was only 25 cents.
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By The Case
Senate Refuses to Accept
Measure from House
Because of Deadline Date
JUNEAU (*> — The Senate re
fused to accept a so-called planned
parenthood bill from the House
yesterday, on the grounds it was
transmitted after the deadline for
transmittal of personal bills had
passed.
The measure, HB70, was hand
ed to the Senate secretary at 6
p.m. Wednesday, after the Senate
had adjourned for the day. Wed
nesday was the deadline for the
transmittal of personal bills.
The Senate voted to return the
bill to the House after Senate ma
jority leader R. J. McNealy said
a strict application of the rules
left that procedure as the only
course of action open to the upper
chamber.
The bill, authored by Rep. War
ren Taylor, instructs the Depart
ment of Health and Welfare to
prepare and disseminate material
on planned parenthood.
ARIZONA WOMEN ARE
ON THE WARPATH
PHOENIX, Ariz. Off — The nine
women of the Arizona House of
Representatives are on the war
path.
The top of the Speaker’s ros
trum was covered yesterday with
handbags of all shapes and sizes.
A sign on the rostrum read:
“House Memorial 3 on the de
bate calendar of else.” It was
signed, “the women.”
House Memorial 3 urges Con
gress to repeal the luxury tax on
the sale of handbags. The women
claim handbags are the same as
pockets in a man’s trousers and
thus a necessity, not a luxury.
Second Military Plane
Skims Pacific to Safety
After One Engine Fails
^ TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE,
Cal. (JP> — A military air trans
port service plane with 76 pas
sengers, inbound from Hawaii with
one engine failed, landed safely
at Travis AFB yesterday.
The No. 3 engine failed and
was feathered over the Pacific as
the four engine C-118 was coming
in at about 14,000 feet. It des
cended to around 7,000 in the
course of the uneventful finish of
the trip.
Coast Guard and Air Rescue
units from Hamilton Air Force
base went to escort the C-118 but
it had no more difficulty.
This is the second military pas
senger aircraft to report engine
trouble within the past two days.
The first one turned back to
Hawaii Tuesday with 85 passengers
aboard after losing its two star
board engines almost half-way to
the mainland.
Americans traveled an average
of 4,100 miles last year — 1,000
miles more than they did a decade
ago.
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Anchorage Couple Escape
Injury In Plane Crash
EDMONTON, Alta. UP) — A pilot
with a week-old license and his
wife escaped uninjured Thursday
when he crash-landed his single
engine aircraft on a highway
about 25 miles west of here.
James A. Wash, of Anchorage,
was on his first long-distance trip
when he became lost and decided
to land on an empty stretch of
highway because his fuel was run
ning law.
“I picked a stretch of highway
without any cars on it and was
making a routine approach when
the wheels snagged a power line
or something.”
His $6,000 Cessna 150 is be
lieved to be a total wreck. Wash
said it was not insured.
“I’ll never know why we didn’t
flip over when we snagged the
wire, but we landed on the road
and the wing tip caught a road
side post, swinging us around.”
Wash and his wife were on their
way from Anchorage to Winnipeg
for a vacation.
J.C. Penny Store
Opens In Anchorage
ANCHORAGE UF>—Huge crowds,
estimated by store officials as “at
least 10,000 and possibly twice
that number” attended the opening
of the five-story $1.5 million J.C.
Penny Co. Store here yesterday.
It is the firm’s first store in Alas
ka.
“Volume sales were better than
our expectations,” Robert Grier,
store manager said today.
Shoppers patiently lined the
store on three sides as they waited
for the opening. About 100 union
pickets from all major labor un
ions moved quietly along the side
walk past the customers. They
carried signs declaring their sup
port for the Retail Clerks Union
which is seeking to organize the
store’s employes.
A school holiday, due to the
state teachers’ convention here,
contributed to the large crowd. Big
crowds filled the new store again
today.
"SNOWTOWN, N.Y."
WATERTOWN, N.Y. W — The
eve of spring brought rain to
Watertown, but a letter was de
livered correctly to “Snowtown,
N.Y.”
Miss Lillian Costantino of
Watertown received a letter bear
ing only her name, her street ad
dress and the “Snowtown” appel
lation, earned by Watertown this
winter because more than 150
inches of nsow has fallen.
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