N\ ulsli Looks To
Siberia Flights
Pearse M. Walsh, a Nome Scna
t°r ar'd veteran airline employe,
stated in Juneau that Wien-Alaska
Airlines, of which he is Nome sta
tion manager, is “looking forward
to the day we can serve Siberia.’’
The stall ment came as a result of
the linking up of Juneau and
Whitehorse with a teletype and
bush - telephone communications
network the airline maintains
throughout Northwestern and Arc
tic Alaska.
Walsh, in Juneau for liaison work
on the Wien take-over from Pan
American, has been extremely cri
tical in the past of the lack of Air
Defense in Alaska. This past year
he telephoned Secretary of De
fense McNamara direct as a result
of Russian aircraft overflying Alas
ka. But Walsh now states, “I
think that the thaw in Russian
American relations is setting in,
especially with the worsening of
Chinese-Russian relations.”
According to the Nome Demo
crat, son of a pioneer Alaskan
family, “we now land at Gam
bell, on the northeastern tip of St.
Lawrence Island, and that is only
25 miles from Siberia.” A lessen
ing of tensions plus the sale of
American wheat to the Soviet
Union indicates that there may
be a general opening of trade be
tween “ourselves and the Rus
sians,” according to Walsh. If
this is the case, “we stand ready
to serve as a carrier through the
‘back door’ to the Soviet Union
and wo happen to have the ex
perience for the job,” Walsh noted.
Wien Alaska was established in
1924 and serves both the Northwest
and Arctic coasts. Their communi
cations network, a brainchild of
Ed Parsons, not only is the “muk
luk telegraph” for most of Alaska’s
Eskimo communities but also is,
through their Barrow station, the
“eyes” of transpolar flights by in
tercontinental airlines. Parsons is
the assistant to the General Man
ager of the airline.
Wien Alaska hopes to make their
take-over of the Juneau-White
horse-Fairbanks run later this
week, but have yet to make a defi
nite announcement due to formal
lack of approval on the part of the
Canadian government.
KEFAUVER LEFT $300,000
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. </P> —
An inventory of the estate of the
late Sen. Estes Kefauver shows
he was worth about $300,000 when
he died last August.
The estate includes $13,000 worth
of stock in the nation’s drug indus
try which he was investigating.
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Nome School Offers
Adult Evening Courses
The Nome Public Schools will
again sponsor evening adult edu
cation classes this winter and
spring. Courses now being readied
are:
Creative Writing — Taught by
Mrs. Alice Osborne. Ten 2-hour
sessions. Fee $7.50. The fundamen
tals of article writing for maga
zines and newspapers.
Public Speaking — Taught by
Mrs. Alice Osborne. Ten 2-hour
sessions. Fee $7.50. The fundamen
tals of speech, individual assign
ments for speaking. Guide to more
effective conversation.
Office Practice — Taught by Mr.
Milton Johnson. Ten 2-hour ses
sions. Fee $7.50.
Sewing for the Family — Taught
by Mrs. Sharon Bell. Ten 2-hour
sessions. Fee $7.50. This course
will start after Christmas with em
phasis on making Easter outfits
for men and women.
Costume Design and Construe
tion—Taught by Mrs. Sharon Bell.
Ten 2-hour sessions. Fee $7.50.
Design and construction of
clothes with the Midnight Sun Fes
tival in mind.
Persons interested in these
courses, please call the School Of
fice at 2426. Classes will begin be
fore Thanksgiving or as soon as
ten or more persons enroll.
Adults desiring to take courses
not listed, will please call and state
what courses they wish to take and
arrangements will be made to offer
any course in which 10 or more
people are interested.
f'A.\ Coaches C.A.P.
11 Survival Techniques
Ray Caudle, Station Manager of
the FAA and Gene Farland. Flight
Specialists, provided Civil Air Pa
trol Cadets and interested students
with a highly interesting program
at the regular C.A.P. meeting Mon
day evening.
Observing FAA’s 5th anniver
sary, Gene Farland, assisted by
John Savage demonstrated and ex
plained emergency survival equip
ment for pilots and plane passen
gers. Mr. Farland expertly ex
plained the planning of shelter,
signaling for help, conserving en
ergy and how to bring about res
cue while caring for the needs of
warmth, food and comfort.
The Flight Specialist exhibited
the items one should always carry
in a plane, and gave many life
saving tips.
1 The second part of the program
, was a film presented by Ray
Caudle, assisted by Lloyd showing
j the film “Flight.”
Members of the Nome High
School Aerospace Class attended
by invitation with their Instruc
tor Coach Ray Tinjum.
Station Manager Caudle invited
all present to attend the anniver
sary celebration of the FAA Build
ing next Saturday.
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Legislative Council Ends
Seward Deliberations
The Slate Legislative Council
wound up its current round of
meetings at Seward on Oct. 25.
The meeting, chaired by senior
• member Son. Lester Bronson, aired
the water use act, the business li
cense tax, and the municipal code,
among several topics on its
agenda.
Attended by Rep. Bruce Kendall
of Anchorage, Rep. Cole of Sew
ard, Rep. Baggen of Fairbanks,
Sen. Kilcher of Homer and Sen.
Coghill of Nenana, the committee
met before nearly all of the mem
bers of the Municipal League
which was meeting in Seward dur
ing this time.
The next round of meetings will
get underway at Juneau on No
vember 6 and the group will jour
ney from there to Sitka, Wrangell
and Petersburg for night meetings
in these cities.
State Exports Climb to
17.4% Over ’62 Period
Alaska’s exports to other coun
tries for the first seven months of
1963 were 17.4 per cent higher than
those for the same period in 1962.
The export of U.S. domestic pro
ducts from the Alaskan customs
district totaled $16,794,959 through
July, 1963. This was an increase
of $2,490,297 over the comparable
1962 volume of $14,304,662.
The export of timber products
accounted for 83.3 per cent of the
1963 shipments as compared to 81.7
J per cent last year. Total pulp ex
< ports this year have reached $12,
303,848, exceeding last year’s sev
en-month total of $10,347,539 by
$1,956,309. The 1963 lumber and
loir exports have reached $1,685,
656 as compared to $1,332,390 in
1962.
Shipments of goods to Japan con
tinue to dominate exports. The ,
seven-month total for 1963 was I
$13 245,655 as compared to $10,- ;
341.483 for the same period last
year. Pulp shipments make up the
major portion of the Japanese ship
ments. totaling $11,189,116 this
year, to date, against $8,711,460
in seven months of 1962. The 1963
lumber and log shipments to Japan
total $1,681,806 against $1,325,290
last year.
Exports to Canada through July
31 totaled $2,203,565. However,
$1,966,354 of this was in petroleum
products which were not processed
in Alaska but merely transhipped
through the customs district.
KORTH STRIKES BACK
WASHINGTON UP>—Fred Korth,
who is resigning as Navy secre
tary, has challenged Secretary Mc
Namara's decision to install con
ventional rather than nuclear
power in a new aircraft carrier.
Korth told the Congressional
Atomic Energy Committee that the
decision by McNamara portends
conventional engines in ships to
come.
He said the failure to build more
nuclear vessels would be tragic for
surface striking forces in the next
decade and beyond.
Switzerland bans commercial
television on Sunday.
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Liquor Agent Suspension
Request Okayed
JUNEAU (.-TV—Chris Katsekures,
a Fairbanks liquor enforcement
i agent accused by a bar owner of
seeking protection money, has
been suspended from duty, at his 1
own request, pending the comple- '
tion of an investigation.
The Alcoholic Beverage Control
Board office said today Katsekures
pended from further duty until the
investigation has been completed,
and that his request has been ap
proved.
Morris Shkolnik, a Fairbanks
bar owner, convicted last week of
serving alcohol to a minor, testi
fied that Katsekures had asked
him, Shkolnik, for protection
money.
Katsekures denied the charge in
court and accused Shkolnik of at
tempting to bribe him.
The ABC said last week that
Katsekures had reported an at
tempted bribe to the ABC and
to State Police at Fairbanks.
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IDENTIFY MISSING MEN
WASHINGTON Ut) — The Army
has identified two U.S. officers
and an enlisted man as missing in
South Viet Nam.
Apparently they are the three
Americans reported as believed
captured in a fight between Viet
Name government forces and Com
munist guerrillas yesterday, 40
miles southwest of Saigon.
The Americans arc: Capt. Hu
bert Versage of Baltimore; 1st Lt. j
James Rowe of McAllen Tex.; and :
Sgt. Daniel Pitzer of Spring Lake,
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Air-Lanes Champ!
The “Zurbaran”, named after
the famed Spanish painter o£
the 17th century, is the new
“champion” of the trans-Atlan
tic air-lanes. This sleek Doug
las DC-8 of the Iberia Air
Lines of Spain fleet recently
established a record in a his
tory making non-stop flight.
The aircraft flew from Long
Beach, California to Palma de
Mallorca, off the east coast of
Spain, a distance of 6390 miles
in 10 hours and 30 minutes.
While Iberia’s regular route
between this country and
Europe is only between New
York and Madrid, the plane
won the speed “blue ribbon”
during the delivery flight to
its home base.
The “Zurbaran” joins five
other DC-8’s named for famous
painters in daily flights be
tween America and Spain and
from Spain to South American
countries.
Many people erroneously be
lieve miracle drugs have solved
the problem of tuberculosis, a
scourge through the centuries. Ac
tually, it is still one of the most
widespread human ills, afflicting
some 50 million people throughout
the world, and killing 10,000 year
ly in the United States alone.
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NOTICE
Real Estate Examinations will be given
November 30, 1963, at Anchorage, Kodiak,
Fairbanks, Ketchikan, Sitka, and Juneau.
Written application must be filed with A.
H. llomick. Commissioner of Commerce, P. O.
Box 2259, Juneau, not later than November
25, 1963.
Information may be obtained from any
member of the Real Estate Examining Board.
Verion E. Haik. P. O. Box 1517, Anchorage;
Bud F. Meyeres, 527 Third Avenue, Fairbanks,
or from the Department of Commerce, P. O.
Box 2259, Juneau.