Point Hope Has 21
Telephones In Service
In 1962, the Eskimo village of
Point Hope purchased 21 recon
ditioned telephones to add to 4
telephones already in the village.
Point Hope now has a useful tele
phone system with all 25 tele
phones on one party line. Each
phone owner has his assigned
number of rings, ranging from one
short ring up to five short rings,'
with combinations of long and
short rings in between. When one
phone rings, all phones ring.
Sixteen of the phones are the
Army EE-8 Field Type. They use
two regular flashlight batteries for
power. The other nine phones are
Wall Magneto Type.
The telephone owners shared the
cost of one mile of neoprene wire
and purchased their own phones.
Would Remove Commissioner
JUNEAU —Legislation which
would permit the State Board of
Education to remove, on its own,
the Commissioner of Education
was introduced yesterday in the
House by Rep. Jim Parsons.
Letter-size and Legal File Holders
Available at the Nugget
Heavyweight Fighters'
Training Camps Are
A Study In Contrast
MIAMI, Fla. — The training
camp of the fighters getting ready
for the heavyweight title match
April 10 is a study in contrasts.
Champion Sonny Liston lounged
on the beach of a resort hotel rest
ing his twisted knee.
Challenger Floyd Patterson plug
ged through a day-long workout
that sweated off five pounds in
the privacy of Tropical Park race
j track.
Liston’s adviser, Jack Nilon, said
the champion would get back to
training in a couple of days and
be ready for the once-postponed
fight. Liston has worked out only
four times and sparred only once.
Patterson, who drove 32 hours
non-stop to Miami over the week
end, went into his first workout
Monday with a vengeance. He
started at dawn with five miles
of slogging and continued through
a two-hour afternoon round with
a sparring partner and the bags.
He sparred three rounds with
Ray Lopez, a 6-foot-3, 225-pound
Cuban, staggering him in the first
two rounds and leaving him grog
gy with body punches in the third.
Patterson’s trainer, Dan Florio,
said that Patterson looked good,
too good. Florio said he was afraid
J that Patterson was nearing his
' peak, although the rematch is still
more than a month away.
Fine Job Printing at the Nugget
Laurie Kingik of Pf. Hope
Downs Large Polar Bear
(Point Hope News)
Hunting by dogteam 45 miles
from Point Hope (near Cape Lis
bourne>, Laurie Kingik shot a
large polar bear on Feb. 21. This
was the first bear killed by a
resident of Point Hope for three
years, although trophy hunters
have killed a large number from
planes based at Point Hope each
year.
Mr. Kingik was away from the
village for one week on this trip
and reported that he saw only the
one bear but many tracks.
Records at the Pt. Hope Native
Store show the following bears
killed by local residents in other
years: In 1959, 17; 1958, 25; 1957,
23. Don Foote reports that about
70 were killed by Pt. Hopers in
1954-55. He reports 35 for 1955
56.
A large number of polar bear
hunters are expected to visit Pt.
Hope during March and April to
hunt bears by plane.
Resolution Calls for Coast Guard
Cutter Stationed at Bristol Bay
JUNEAU Uft — A resolution
asking the Coast Guard to station
a cutter in Bristol Bay during the
four - month commercial fishing
season each year was approved by
the Senate Tuesday.
The resolution said the 1,000
1,500 small boats or commercial
fishing vessels which operate in
the bay are oft-times in danger
from perilous tides, variable winds
and sudden storms.
NIKITA'S SON-IN-LAW WILL
HAVE AUDIENCE WITH POPE
ROME UP> — The Italian Com
munist newspaper L’Unita says
Alexei Adzhubci, Soviet Premier
Khrushchev’s journalist son-in
law, will attend the special audi
ence tomorrow at which Pope
John XXIII will receive the
Balzan Peace Prize.
Adzhubei, chief editor of the
Soviet government newspaper Iz
vestia, is in Italy on a 10-day
visit. The Vatican issued a gen
eral invitation to newsmen to at
tend the audience.
The Pope was chosen March 1
for the $51,000 Balzan award be
cause of his efforts to reconcile
the world’s nations and religions.
Khrushchev warmly praised the
award.
No Offensive Weapons
HAVANA W — Prime Minister
Fidel Castro’s brother Raul claims
there aren’t any offensive weap
ons in Cuba because those based
in Soviet Union can rain destruc
tion all the way across the At
lantic.
Armed Forces Minister Raul
Castro also told a cheering crowd
Monday night that even if the
United States doesn’t want any
more Cuban refugees, “as far as
we are concerned the more who
leave the better.”
You may be showing your own
ignorance if you call a girl a dumb
blonde. In an IQ test of over 5,000
women, natural blondes scored
slightly better than brunettes or
redheads.
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Supersonic Airliners
Would Have to Carry 300
Passengers to Pay Off
LOS ANGELES l/R — Tomor
row’s faster-than-sound airliners
must carry 300 to 400 passengers
if they are to pay off, an airline
executive said yesterday.
Currently planned supersonic
transports would carry only 100
to 150 passengers and the increased
cost of operation makes this econ
omic suicide, W. C. Mentzer, Unit
ed Airlines vice president, told
the American Society of Mechani
cal Engineers.
“If the supersonic transport is
to have a prayer of economic
success,” Mentzer said, “it must
be big and the economic eviron
ment must make the operation
of the big supersonic transport
planes feasible.”
Mentzer said the greatest weak
ness of the proposed British
French supersonic transport is its
small size—100 passengers.
“Present U.S. designs tend to
carry about 150 passengers—about
the same as today’s subsonic jets,”
he said. ”1 suggest that if the
supersonic transport is to thrive
economically in the mid-1970s and
1980s an economic environment
must be created which will allow
300 to 400 passenger airplanes to
be used effectively.”
GOLD DIGGERS LEAGUE
High team series: Fakers 2159,
Outsiders 2133, Flyers 2095.
High team game: Outsiders 767,
Fakers 758, Flyers 731.
High individual series: Men, B.
Emmons 540, D. Deems 538, G.
Beaty 486. Women, M. Chaloupka
476, H. Ray 474, L. Oliver 457.
High individual game: Men, D.
Deems 199, B. Emmons 196, G.
Lienard 188. Women, M. Chaloup
ka 199, H. Ray 176, L. Oliver 168.
It was Irving S. Cobb who ob
served, “Learn all the rules, every
one of them, so that you will know
how to break them.”
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Meets First and Third Thursdays
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Parent-Teachers Assn.
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Meets 1st and 3rd Wednesdays
Don Lyle, Pres.
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