Seattle Center Readies Itself as
Successor of C-21 for Coining Summer
Editor’s Note: A year ago the
Seattle World’s opened in an at
osphere of excitement and en
thusiasm and its six-months run
turned out to be a substantial
success. Now the Seattle Center,
the Fair’s successor, is getting
ready for a summer operation it
hopes will attract 2Vfc million
visitors. This story tells of the
plans.
By Dale Nelson
SEATTLE (£”> — The Denmark
Pavilion will be an arts and crafts
center, the Bubbleator will be in
the food circus and the girly shows
will be just a memory.
But the 74-acre grounds of the
1962 Seattle World’s Fair will be
open for business this summer
under much of the same manage
ment. ,
Century 21 Center Inc., the non
profit group formed to make per
manent use of the facilities of the
Century 21 Exposition, will throw
the gates open to the public June
1. In future years, summer ac
tivities will start earlier.
It will cost nothing to get in.
And unlike the Fair, which made
a small profit, the Seattle Center
is expected to operate at a loss
for about five years.
Ewen Dingwall, general man
ager of the Fair who has been
hired as executive director of the
Center, says about 2 Vz million
visitors are expected. The Fair
recorded 9,696,000 admittances.
The biggest response to maga
zine advertisements for the Cen
ter has been from California, as
was the case with the Fair.
Some highlights of the planned
summer at the center program,
as outlined by Dingwall on the
eve of the first anniversary of the
opening of the Fair:
Most of the buildings which
housed foreign exhibits will be
used for free activities, such as
the working demonstrations of
northwest arts and crafts in the
former Danish Pavilion. Others
will include a photography center
and a World’s Fair Museum.
The former National Guard
Armory, turned over to Seattle by
the 1963 legislature, will be the
Food Circus as it was during the
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Fair. There will be gift shops
on the lower level, food stands on
the main floor and a restaurant
on the balcony. There will be
seating for about 1,000 on the main
floor, compared to the inadequate
750 during the Fair. Dingwall says
the food will be better, too.
The Coliseum, being converted
to a sports and convention arena,
won't be ready until 1964. The
Washington state theme exhibit
which was in it has been removed.
The Bubbleator, an elevator which
took fairgoers up into the exhibit
100 at a time, will operate between
the different levels in the Food
Circus.
The Show Street buildings, which
housed girly shows and other en
tertainment acts, have been torn
down and won’t be replaced.
The International Fountain will
be gushier. One hundred nozzles
are being added to the 132 which
operated last year. Eventually, the
Center hopes to increase the num
ber to 500, the maximum for which
the fountain was designed.
The two restaurants or either
side of the fountain will be open.
Later, the Center hopes to have
a restaurant in the Denmark Pa
vilion. Also in the future, planned
for 1964, is major re-landscaping
of the fountain area.
The Amusement Park will be
expanded into the area around the
Space Needle—“in an attractive
park-like setting rather than the
carnival atmosphere we had dur
ing the Fair.” Dingwall says the
Center has spent about $750,000 on
rides.
The Center will continue to use
the High School Memorial Sta
dium for outdoor events, renting
it from the Seattle Public Schools
Long-range plans call for the sta
dium to be replaced by a parking
garage.
The Seattle Art Museum wil
mount a free exhibit of Pacifii
Northwest art in the former Unit
ed Kingdom Pavilion, now under
going a $10,000 remodeling job.
There will be an artificial lak
200 feet long and 150 feet wid
at the base of the 600-foot Spac
Needle, with water cascading int
it from a pool.
The Pacific Science Center, for
merly the U.S. Science Pavilion
will be open six days a week oi
possibly seven. It’s open onlj
weekends now. Admission, free
during the Fair, is $1.00 for adults
50 cents for children, or $2.00 pei
family. The center, which drew up
to 30,000 visitors a day during the
Fair, now gets about a 1,000 e
weekend.
Alaskan Physicians
Will Gather in Anchorage
For Annual Convention
Physicians from all parts of
Alaska and workers in allied medi
cal fields will assemble in An
chorage from Wednesday, May 21
through Saturday, June 1 for the
annual convention of the Alaska
State Medical Assn. Approximately
15 out-of-state speakers, many of
them world famous in their re
spective fields of medicine, will
present papers during the sci
entific sessions which will be held
in the ballroom of the Anchorage
Westward Hotel.
Among those attending will be
William Hillman, M.D., professor
of orthopedic surgery, Vander
bilt University, Nashville, Tenn.,
speaking on “the Function of the
Prosthetics Team.”
Dr. Robert Fenstermacher is
serving on two committees for
study of fee schedules and medical
problems of outlying districts.
In October, a professional re
pertory theater will open in the
playhouse and tour the Pacific
Northwest in a 30-week season. Di
rector Stuart Vaughan, who has
made a name with Shakespearean
and other productions in New
York, has indicated he will lean
to the classics but include contem
porary plays. He has been recruit
ing an acting company of 15 in
New York.
I Dingwall, operating with a staff
of 31 which will be expanded in
the summer, promises a year
around operation with a major ex
position-type event every few
years. Center officials are cur
rently thinking of a 1967 expo
, sition to mark the completion of
the Inter-American Highway.
“In time we expect to operate
! in the black,” says Dingwall, who
has been concerned with fair
1 grounds operations since he was
: hired to start planning for the
- j Fair in 1957. Several of his stafl
- ! held key posts during the Fair.
I He is hopeful the city will tak<
2 over the Monorail from downtowi
e Seattle. Alweg Rapid Transit, tin
e | present operator, reports the train
o I have carried 202,061 passengers ii
the last five months—enough t<
- pay expenses. During the six^
, month Fair they carried 7,351,000
The Space Needle is attracting
about 1,720 visitors a day—rough
ly 10 per cent as many as during
the Fair—according to manager
Hoge Sullivan. Jack Borg, mana
ger of the Eye of the Needle Res
taurant, says the restaurant is
serving about one-third as many
customers as last summer.
“We are equal if not ahead of
what we anticipated we would
do,” says Sullivan. “Our parking
and access facilities are very in
adequate, and the way the Seattle
Center has it figured out we’re
hardly going to have any parking
at all.”
Dingwall, who vetoed a proposal
for a parking lot near the Needle
and moved it about a block away,
said the original plan “would have
made it impossible to develop a
park-like setting.”
The Sky Ride, giving visitors a
cable car trip over the grounds,
will be in business under manage
ment of the Center instead of the
private operator who ran it dur
ing the Fair.
But wear your walking shoes.
Center officials have decided it
won’t be feasible to have surface
transportation around the grounds.
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Cuba Reveals Five
Unexploded Bombs Found
Near Oil Refinery
HAVANA Oft — Havana news
papers Saturday displayed pic
tures of five unexploded bombs
they said were dropped on a state- 1
owned oil refinery Thursday night
by a marauding aircraft.
Four of the bombs looked like
home-made weapons with lard
buckets as casings. The fifth bore :
the marking in English: “Practice
Bomb 100 Lbs.”
The Cuban government, report- 1
ing the raid by a twin-engine
airplane, said Friday night the
bombs failed to explode.
(Alexander Rorke Jr., an Amer
ican photographer who said he
flew with the raiders, reported in
Washington Friday the explosives :
went off but apparently did no
damage to oil tanks.)
The aircraft appeared to have
sneaked over the refinery with
engines cut. Residents near the
refinery said they heard no planes
Thursday night.
The raid raised some doubts
over the effectiveness of Russian
radar installed near the refinery
last year.
The state refineries, taken over
from Esso and Shell, are on the
east-central shores of Havana, a
relatively short distance from La
Cabana Fort where scores of field
and anti-aircraft guns are in place.
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Dog licenses for year ending
March 31. 1964. are now available
at the City Clerk's Office.
Male Dogs $2.00
Female Dogs $3.00
All dogs over 10 months of age
! must be licensed.
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s Pub: April 26, 29, May 1, 3, 1963.
J NOTICE
Sales Tax Reports on retail
sales and services for the quarter
ending March 31, 1963, must be
in the City Clerk's Office by
Tuesday, April 30, 1963.
Robert F. Scott,
City Clerk
Pub: April 24, 26, 29, 1963.
Rocky Just Smiles . . .
And Says, “No Comment”
NEW YORK (*> — Gov. Nelson
A. Rockefeller smiled and declined
comment today on a published re
port that he will marry recently
iivorced Margaretta Fitler Mur
ahy May 18 or 19.
A copyrighted story in today’s
'lew York Mirror quoted an un
dentified friend of the Rockefeller
‘amily as saying:
“The date will be Saturday, May
18, or Sunday, May 19. The ccre
nony will be performed at a Pro
estant Episcopal church . . .”
Rockefeller, potential 1964 GOP
^residential candidate, met re
Dorters as he left for Cincinnati
'or a Republican dinner tonight.
Asked how he felt about the
speculation and interest in his pos
sible marriage, he said: “It’s a free
country. You have to expect that
;f you’re in public office.”
In answer to a question on what
ae plans to do during a three
week gap in his schedule next
nonth, he said: “Don’t you ever
take a vacation?” He said he has
no specific plans for the three
weeks.
There has been considerable con
jecture about the possible mar
riage plans of the 54-year-old gov
ernor and the 36-year-old social
late. The governor has refused to
comment on Mrs. Murphy’s div
orce four weeks ago—just as he
refused to discuss his own divorce
13 months ago after 31 years of
marriage.
NO CHANGE IN REGULATIONS
IN TAKING WATERFOWL
There has been no change in the
treaty or regulations relative to
the prohibition against taking
waterfowl between March 10 and
Sept. 1, according to Ray Wool
ford, acting regional director, Bu
reau of Sport Fisheries and Wild
life, Juneau.
“Bureau personnel will be con
ducting patrols and surveys in all
areas of Alaska as usual,” Wool
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