“Doc*’ Kearns
Fabulous Man of
Boxing Passes at 80
MIAMI, Fla. OP — Two months
ago Jack “Doc” Kearns, one of the
most fabulous characters of box
ing’s era in the 1920’s, said from
a hospital bed “tell the mob I’ll
be back soon. I think I’ll beat the
count. If I felt any better I’d
think it was a fix.”
Sunday, the man who managed
Jack Dempsey to the heayweight
championship and who is credited
with bringing the first million
dollar gate to boxing by making
it possible for women to attend
fights without any social stigma,
died at the age of 80.
Funeral services for Kearns who
in addition to Dempsey managed
Mickey Walker, Joey Maxim and
Archie Moore to world champion
ships, will be held Wednesday in
Coral Gables.
Kearns was a miner during the
Alaska gold rush, bartender, saloon
keeper, promoter, fight manager,
and ballyhoo artist supreme.
Only a handful of people knew
his real name was John Leo Mc
Kernan. His friends just called
him “Doc.”
The swift-talking Kearns, Demp
sey and promoter Tex Rickard
were responsible for boxing’s first
million-dollar gate. That was be
tween Dempsey and George Car
penter, the French “Orchid Man,”
and it drew a gross gate of $1,789,
238 at Jersey City, N.J., July 2,
1921.
Kearns made millions with
Dempsey and with Walker and
blew it all in high-styled living.
The Doc was one of the authentic
big spenders and lavish tippers.
Kearns and Rickard became
acquainted during the gold rush
in Alaska. Kearns, an aggressive
teen-ager from Waterloo, Mich.,
hopped a scow at Seattle bound
for Nome. It was in Alaska that
he met Rickard, and authors Jack
London, Robert W. Service and
Rex Beach. The Doc didn’t do
much digging. He was learning to
live by his wits even then.
Game Regulations Available
The 1963-64 edition of the Alas
ka Game and Guiding Regulations
are now available at the Depart
ment of Fish and Game Office
here.
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Seven Persons Killed as
Pilotless Plane Crashes
Into Family Picnic Area
WILLOW GROVE, Pa. (if) — A
pilotless Navy jet crashed on a
baseball field Sunday, then ca
reened in flames into a day camp
bathhouse, killing seven persons
at a family picnic.
Four children were among the
dead. The pilot of the jet bailed
out safely a half mile away.
One man was killed as the plane,
its wings ripped off when it
ploughed through trees, hit the
field during a sudden rainstorm.
Bodies of the other victims were
dug out of the levelled bathhouse.
At least 17 of the 125 or more
persons at the picnic were in
jured.
Capt. John Butler, Boiling
Springs, Pa., 30, a Marine Reserve
pilot, was headed for a landing
at Willow Grove Naval Air Station,
18 miles north of Philadelphia,
when something went wrong with
the Fury jet fighter.
A Navy spokesman said they
didn’t know what caused the mal
function, adding that it apparent
ly occurred in the electrical sys
tem.
The end of the airfield’s land
ing strip is only 500 feet from the
Green Hill day camp which the
picnickers had rented for their
annual reunion. They were mem
bers of either the “Roseman Cou
sins Club” or the “Weiner Family
Circle,” with parts of both groups
related to each other.
Butler, who is married, was in
seclusion. His commanding officer
Col. David Dancer couldn’t be
reached for comment.
Butler apparently had steered
his craft for what he believed was
an unoccupied field. A clump of
trees obscured the bathhouse and
adjoining two-story building.
Mr. and Mrs. Dick M.ller were
in this area over the weekend
while doing their assessment work
on mining claims which they hold
here. This is Mrs. Miller’s first
visit back in several years as they
make their home in Fairbanks.
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WINNERS NAMED IN
4TH OF JULY RACES
Following are winners in the
4th of July races. First, second
and third respectively:
25-yard dash (girls 5 to 7* —
Mida Savok, Gloria Olanna, Mary
Ann Norbert.
25-yard dash (boys 5 to 7> —
Wesley Perkins, Elton Walluk,
Wiley Otton.
25-yard dash (girls 8 to 9' —
Rose Amarok, Rose Ann Kingik,
Nancy Arnold.
50-yard dash (boys 8 to 9) —
James Towner, Robert Kasgnoc,
Joey Towner.
50-yard dash (girls 10 to 11) —
Mary Ann Brantley, Alice Wheel
er, Rose Mary Kasgnoc.
75-yard dash (boys 10 to 11 —
Johnny Schadler, Teddy Longlev,
Lester Keller Jr.
30-yard dash tnarried men) —
Roscoe Wilke, Jack Burkhardt,
Jacob Ahwinona.
25-yard 3-legged race ( boys 10
to 12» — Roy Otton and Gene
Oxereok, Wally Sanders and James
Gray, Paul Savok and Reggie
Tungwenuk.
25-yard 3-legged race (girls 10
to 12) — Rachael and Rose Mary
Kasgnoc, Harriet Kiyutelluk and
Rita Sockpick, Carrie Greene and
Virginia Reader.
25-yard 3-legged race (girls 7
to 9» — Mida Savok and Jewel
Nance, Susan Mclver and Bar
bara Schick, Mary Keller and Rose
Amarok.
25-yard 3-legged race (boys 7 to
9) — Joel and Nathan Bachelder,
Fred Savok and Wesley Perkins,
Kenneth Miller and Kenneth Mil
ler.
25-yard sack race (girls 10 to 12)
—Rose Mary Kasgnoc, Mary Ann
Brantley.
25-yard sack race <boys 10 to
12) — Lester Keller Jr., Wally
Sanders.
15-vard tricycle race( for 3-year
olds) — Diane Lienard, Florence
Ahnagonatoguk.
; 20-yard tricycle race (boys 4 to
; 5> — Mike Hahn, Nathan Perkins.
| 20-yard tricycle race (girls 4 to
, 5» — Loretta Wall, Mary Norbert.
50-yard bicycle race (boys 6 to
; 7) — Mike Schick, Dean Carter,
| George O’Connor.
| 50-yard bicycle race (girls 6 to
j 7) — Lynette Johnson, Alice Wall,
! Gloria Olanna.
! 75-yard bicycle race (boys 8 to
; 9) — Randy Hoogendorn, James
Towner, Tiger Mandeville.
75-yard bicycle race (girls 8 to
9) — Barbara Schick, Debbie
Wall, Mary Keller.
75-yard bicycle race (boys-girls
10 to 12) — James Gray, Jim
Wilke, Teddy Longley.
Shoe scramble (13 years and un
der) — Mina Picknalook, Alice
j Wheeler, Ruth Bernhardt.
25-yard egg race, married wom
en) — Florence Nagozruk, Lucy
Richardson, Lois Mclver.
25-yard egg race (single women) i
— Margaret Walsh, JoAnn Ko
makhuk.
Scooter race — Mike Straub,
Mike Thompson, Homer Hoogen
dorn.
Pie eating contest — JoAnn Ko
makhuk, Mike Thompson, Sarah
Attatayuk, Roy Otton.
Eskimo Games:
High kicking (men) — James
Picknalook, Sam Ahwinona.
High kicking (women) — All
tie: Lari Lowe, Mary Escholt,
Grace Aukon.
Blanket toss (men) — Jerry Ca
vota, Frank Ellanna.
Blanket toss (women) — Alice
Arnold, Lari Lowe.
The spider is the latest occupa
1 tional victim of the space age.
Spider webs once used as cross
hairs on optical instruments, are
being replaced by lines etched di
rectly on the glass.
BOTANIST SEEKS
LOCATION OF MT. TUMIT
Maxcine Williams, well known
Alaskan botanist, is back again
this week to continue collecting
the amazing number of plants to
be found here for her collection.
This morning she found several
plants of wild orchid.
She has been seeking informa
tion about a mountain in this area
which at one time was called Mt.
Tumit, with an elevation of about
2,300 feet, but which does not
appear on present day maps. She
is seeking the mountain because
that is where Charles Thornton,
an early day botanist, is said to
have located several botanical
specimens.
Anyone knowing where this
mountain is located may leave the
information at the Nugget.
3 Die in Greyhound Bus Crash
ARNOLD, Mo. (.'iP> — Three per
sons were killed and 60 others
injured when a Greyhound bus
skidded on a rain-slick highway
and plunged down a 35-foot em
bankment early Sunday near
Arnold.
The Missouri Highway Patrol
said only the bus driver escaped
injury.
Buddha, who at one time of his
life dieted on a grain of rice a
day, finally died of acute indig
estion.
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JFK >Iakcs Last-Ditch
Move to Avert
Railroad Strike
WASHINGTON W — President
Kennedy in a last-ditch move to
avert a threatened railroad strike,
summoned chief representatives of
railways and five operating unions
to confer with him tomorrow.
The President set a White House
meeting for 10:30 a m. with J.E.
Wolfe, chief negotiator for the
railroads, and three other industry
representatives along with presi
dents of the five unions.
The unions have announced they
will strike in response to the car
riers’ intention to introduce new
work rules Thursday. The n e w
rules could eliminate some 40,000
railway jobs.
Ornie McCarthy Circle will meet
Tuesday evening at 3 o’clock at
the Jess Woodward residence.
In the Superior Court for the State of
Alaska, Second Judicial District: In
the Matter of the Estate of JAMES
THOMAS SHERMAN. Deceased. No.
63-10 Probate. Notice to Creditors.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the
undersigned, Lizzie E. Sherman, was on
the 26th day of February, 1963, by an
order of the above-entitled Court ap
pointed Administratrix of the Estate of
James Thomas Sherman, deceased: that
she thereupon qualified as such Ad
ministratrix in the manner required by
law, and all creditors of and persons
having claims against the said decedent
are hereby required to present their
claims, with the necessary vouchers,
within three (3) months from the date
hereof, to the undersigned at the office
of her attorney, Thomas J. Balone, Box
111. Nome, Alaska, which office the
undersigned hereby designates as her
place of business in all matters connect
ed with the said estate.
DATED at Nome, Alaska, this 1st
day of July, 1963.
Lizzie E. Sherman,
Administratrix of the Estate of
James Thomas Sherman, deceased.
Pub: July, 1, 8, 15, 22, 1963.
SUMMER SCHEBUI
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FAIRBANKS — NOME — KOTZEBUE
FLIGHT 311/312 DAILY
Lv: Fairbanks 8:00 a.m. Ar: Nome 9:05 a.m.
Lv: Nome 1:30 p.m. Ar: Kotzebue 2:15 p.m.
Lv: Kotzebue 2:45 p.m. Ar: Fairbanks 5:25 p.m.
FLIGHT 309/310 DAILY
FAIRBANKS — KOTZEBUE — NOME
Lv: Fairbanks 4:30 p.m. Ar: Kotzebue 5:i0 p.m.
Lv: Kotzebue 6:00 p.m. Ar: Nome 6:45 p.m.
Lv: Nome 7:45 p.m. Ar: Fairbanks 10:55 p.m.
Flight 501/502
NOME — N.E. CAPE — NOME
Monday, Wednesday and Friday
Lv: Nome 10:10 a.m. Ar. N.E. Cape 10:45 a.m.
Lv: N.E. Cape 11:05 a.m. Ar: Nome 11:40 a.m.
Flight 507/508
NOME — KOTZEBUE — PT. BARROW
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
Lv: Nome 10:15 a.m. Ar: Kotzebue 11:15 a.m.
Lv: Kotzebue 11:45 a.m. Ar: Barrow 2:55 p.m.
Lv: Barrow' 3:30 p.m. Ar: Kotzebue 4:40 p.m.
WEDNESDAY - FRIDAY - SUNDAY
Lv: Kotzebue 8:00 a.m. Ar: Nome 9:00 a.m.
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