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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN AT. ASK A—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
64th Year No. 148
NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1963
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Council Toils Overtime
on Vital Issues j
The Nome City Council met on J
Wednesday night and passed Or
dinance No. 427 which provided
for redemption and retirement of
Nome Light and Power Utility
bonds and the issuance of $145,
000 in revenue refunding bonds
to cover the retirement of those
bonds. This was done in order to
obtain a more favorable rate of
interest to the city.
The School Board members were
present at this meeting, and pre
sented their new budget to the
Council. The Council plans to meet
with the School Board again on
about the 20th of this month
The Council unanimously voted
to withhold comment on any fi
nancing offer by the HHFA in fa
vor of a loan arrangement through
the Government Statistical Cor
poration. This firm has advised the
Mayor that the necessary $475,000
can be loaned to the city and that
this interim financing will cost
the city about 3 per cent, plus
other fixed costs, which will be
charged by the corporation. This
is known as bond flotation and is a
normal practice in municipal bond
sales, according to the Council.
Mayor Wilke advises that he
FAIRBANKS COMMITTEE
SEEKS DESIGNATION AS
EXPOSITION SITE
The Fairbanks Centennial Com
mittee is seeking to have Fair
banks designated as the site of the
Centennial Exposition.
Reasons for such designation, ac
cording to an account in Jessen’s
Weekly, include the historic past
of the area, the scientific activities
of the University and NASA, and
the availability of Pioneer Mem
orial Park as a site.
“Our goal is to sell Fairbanks
as the site for the Centennial,” co
chairman William Waugaman said.
“Let’s concentrate on the first
phase of the project — selling
Fairbanks.”
Co-chairman of the Fairbanks
Committee with Mr. Waugaman is
Mr. Curtis E. Boone.
ALEX MacINNES, Manager of
Loinen Commercial Company, en
tered the M-M-M Hospital Wed
nesday night. He plans to go out
side the first part of next week
on business, and for further med
ical treatment of an internal
disorder.
USE CHRISTMAS SEALS
FIGHT TUBERCULOSIS
and other
Respiratory Diseases
has been on the telephone most
of the night, and off and on for
the past several days in an effort
to work out the final details on
this financing.
The city has until December 27
to raise the $475,000 needed to
match the HHFA grant.
Mayor Wilke announced that
since the sewer and water pro
ject is now eminent he will call
on the Alaska State Housing
authority to make a survey of the
city. The State Housing Authori
ty has a low income housing pro
gram which can be implemented
in Nome, according to their past
statements, now that the sewer
and water situation has been
remedied.
BOO-BOO !
If you think your eyes are go
ing bad after reading the gobble
degook about Gary Beatty —
under the head of School Board
news — in Wednesday’s paper,
don’t fret.
What we meant to say is that
I Mr. Beatty is quitting to attend
school. As soon as business picks
up we are all going to be fitted
for cheaters (the old fashioned
kind, not what today’s woman
boasts).
In the meantime less coffee and
instead, Milltown on the hour.
Funds Approved for
Small Boat Harbor
JUNEAU — Funds to con
struct Sitka’s proposed Crescent
Bay small boat harbor have been
approved by the Senate-House
conferees, Rep. Ralph Rivers said
yesterday.
The amount to be made avail
able for fiscal 1964 will be $921,
000, with the total estimated cost
$993,000, Rivers advised the As
sociated Press in a wire from
Washington.
When finished the harbor will be
able to accomodate at least 425
boats.
Rivers said it was expected that
both the House and the Senate
would give speedy approval to the
Conference Committee report.
Mrs. Kennedy Purchases
Home In Georgetown
WASHINGTON UP) — Mr?. Jac
queline Kennedy has purchased a
home in Georgetown just across
the street from the home she is
now occupying. It was announced
by Mrs. Kennedy’s news secretary
that the widowed First Lady plans
to move in with her family in the
middle of January.
It’s a three-story red brick
house, with 14 rooms. It was built
in 1794. No purchase price was
announced, nor would the owners
discuss the deal.
Mrs. Kennedy and her children
now are occupying a home loaned
to them by Undersecretary and
Mrs. Averall Harriman. The for
mer First Lady moved in last Fri
day.
When Animals Talk
All animals in Switzerland are
said to be able to speak at mid
night Christmas -Eve.
Search Underwav
For ’64 Jr. Miss
The search is on once again for
Nome's Junior Miss.
This contest, sponsored by the
local JayCees, will culminate the
third week in January, when the
winner is chosen at the City High
School.
Announcement of the contest, a
highly popular activity last year,
was made by Dick Deems, chair
man of the JayCee Pageant Com
mittee.
The local Junior Miss title is giv
en to the high school senior be
tween the ages of 16 and 19 who
best typifies the ideal American
teenager. Judging includes per
sonality, talent, scholastic achieve
ment and personal appearance.
Local girls competing in the con
test this year are JoAnn Croell,
Alice Arnold, Sally Ailak. Gloria
Carlson, June Oman.
The girl chosen as the local
Junior Miss will be presented
with prizes and travel to Anchor
age in February for the state
finals.
| The state winner then will com
pete in the national finals in
March at Mobile, Alabama. The
national winner shares in the
many prizes including America’s
Junior Miss Scholarship fund.
National sponsors of the Amer
ica’s Junior Miss Pageant, Inc.,
are the Coca-Cola Company, Bob
bie Brooks, Inc., and Eastman
Kodak Company.
Weather Report
Cloudy today and tomorrow,
with chance of freezing drizzle.
Snow tonight and tomorrow. East
erly wind. 15 to 25 miles per hour,
becoming Southeasterly this even
ing. Little change in temperature.
Nome data last 24 hours as of 7
a.m. today: Precipitation .03 inch.
Month total .70 inches Tempera
tures — highest 20, lowest 8. Max
imum wind 20 miles an hour from
the East-Northeast. Sunrise at 9:53
a.m., sunset at 1:58 p.m.
Comparative daia — Tempera
tures year ago today: high 19, low
-9. Extremes on this date since
1907: Highest 37 in 1932, lowest
-25 in 1935.
Kins Island Hunter Adrift On Ice
Romauld (Komokenna) Ketaxec is drifting on the ice some
where off King Island today. A weak radio contact from King
Island to the Nome National Guard about noon yesterday estab
lished the fact that he is missing. Residents believe that he is
West of King Island, and may be drifting Northerly. He is appar
ently alone.
The Air Force at Elmendorf Air Force Base has initiated a
search, and have a C-54 in the air. Vivien Airlines is also on the
alert for the missing man. Search conditions in the vicinity of King
Island are poor due to unfavorable weather.
Civil Air Patrol aircraft from Kotzebue joined the search and
flew along the coastline. I wo Air Force helicopters have been
dispatched from Fairbanks. 1 he rescue plane is criss-crossing the
Bering Sea in an effort to locate the hunter. The choppers are
standing by and the one which is closest will be sent to the scene
when Ketaxec is found. Fie is believed to have a rifle, knife and
matches.
★ LATE FLASH ★
It is reported that the Air Force bus located Ketaxec, and made
an emergency drop of survival gear from their C-54 aircraft. I bey
will send out a helicopter to pick him up in the morning.
JayCees Offer Rides for Blood Typing
Tomorrow morning, Dec. 14,
from 9 a.m. ’til Noon, the Nome
Jaycees will work in cooperation
with the staff at the M-M-M Hos
pital in an effort to afford resi
dents of Nome the opportunity to
benefit themselves and the com
munity as a whole by participat
ing in a drive to record blood
types of any residents who do not
already have their type on record
at the Hospital.
Dr. Robert Fensterinacher, Hos
pital Administrator, states that at
the present time, only about 250
persons have blood types recorded
at the Hospital. Ready access to
! this information about ALL resi
dents in the area can be of great
importance in some cases.
Arrangements have been made
to have a portion of the hospital
staff prepared to take care of par
ticipants in this program in rapid
order, so that the time required
for each person is very slight.
Transportaton from home to the
Hospital and return will be fur
nished upon request for anyone ^
desiring to participate in this
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Spencer Strand Succumbs in Conn.
Word has been received of the
passing of Mr. Spencer Strand,
missionary builder of the Evan
gelical Covenant Church. Mr.
Strand passed away, Dec. 11, at a
hospital in New Haven, Conn.,
where he had undergone surgery
for a heart ailment the same day.
Spencer Strand was born in
Connecticut March 13, 1927. He
came to Alaska in the fall of 1951,
coming first to Nome, where he
helped in the building of the local
Covenant Church. He also built
churches in Unalakleet, Koyuk,
and Hooper Bay; a parsonage in
Scammon Bay, a boy’s dormitory
and gymnasium at the Covenant
High School in Unalakleet, two
homes for KICY personnel in
Nome, and aided in the plans, con
struction and remodeling of other
buildings. During the summer of
1962 he supervised the construe
tion of the Anchorage Covenant
Church.
Mr. Strand was well known not
only as a builder, but also as a
Boy Scout leader. He was Scout
master of Local Troop 63 for ap
proximately five years.
On October 14, 1952, he was
united in marriage to Miss Arlene
Anderson, also a Covenant mis
sionary, in Unalakleet.
He is survived by his wife and
four children, Gerald, Merriam,
Janice and Daniel; his parents and
one brother. He leaves also a host
of friends throughout Western
Alaska. Any correspondence to the
Strand family may be addressed
R. D. No. 2, Woodstock, Connec
ticut. The funeral will be held in
Woodstock Saturday afternoon.
program. These free rides may be
obtained by calling 2586 between
8:45 a.m. and 12 noon on Saturday
and one of the Nome JayCees will
pick you up at your home — take
you to the Hospital — and, fol
lowing the blood-typing, return
you to your home.
“The City of Nome is fortunate
to have such a fine Hospital, pro
viding the outstanding services for
which it is noted,” commented Pat
Durrett, JayCee member, “Its staff
is here to furnish us with medical
aid and treatment. The least we
can do is assist them by making
this small effort which can yield
such great benefits.”
BENNETT WEDS
JUNEAU t/P — The Bureau of
Indian Affairs’ area office here
yesterday disclosed that Director
Robert L. Bennett and Cleota
Braybov, a social worker for the
area office, were married in Los
Angeles Dec. 9.
It was the second marriage for
both Bennett and the new Mrs.
Bennett.
An invitational reception for
the couple is to be held by BIA
personnel tonight.
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THAW You
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» The Harpoon «
Hoop fans shook as Nome
refs let Nanooks down.
Is discrimination drib
bling away??