Festival Highlights;
For 1963 Revealed J
At Chamber Meet !
Johnnie Stephenson Reardon pre
sented some of the highlights for
the 1963 Midnight Sun Festival
which she is heading for the Cham
ber at their noon luncheon Mon
day.
She stated that much interest is
being shown in the annual event
which is shaping up rapidly and
much enthusiasm is being shown.
She announced that Jim Blan
ning will head the entertainment
and show which was so tremendous
last year and the cast is in the
making.
An old fashioned marching
street band is in the making and
practice will start soon. She stated
that anyone who played even in
a school band years ago and are
very rusty are welcome and urged
to participate. Instruments are
being made available through the
school.
A barbershop quartet is in the
making also, she stated. Funds to
rejuvenate the old Eskimo games
are being raised by the giving
away of polar bear rugs.
Pete Reader introduced two
guests, Henry Hauschild and Burt
Proctor, electronic engineers, who
stated that they were here to con
fer with Mr. Reader on direct
dialing systems to any place in
the 50 states, which will be avail
able here in a few years.
iney stated tnat the local sys
tem is an excellent system and
that the owners are keeping up
on the new phases in telephone
developments so they will be
ready for direct dialing when the
time comes.
Mayor Don Hoover read an in
teresting letter in response to the
Brinkley TV report on which he
was interviewed by Nome-born
Brig. Gen. Elliot Bard, ret., whose
father was the fourth mayor of
Nome, with many questions about
the changes in his birthplace as
indicated in the Brinkley report.
His father opened a law office
in Nome in September 1899, “in
a room about as big as a dry goods
box and with a library that con
sisted of the Criminal Code and
the Code of Oregon.” He filled
the position of U.S. Attorney for
a year.
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Malaspina’s Vibration
Problem Can Be Solved
Without Major Expense
SEATTLE (iP) — The designer of
Alaska’s $10.5 million ferry fleet
expressed confidence here Mon
day that vibration problems of the
MV Malaspina can be solved with
out major expense.
Excessive vibration apparently
stems sporadically at certain critical
speeds from the super-charged ex
haust stacks of the ferry’s power
ful engines.
Officials said they will try to
correct the shiver at Ketchikan
by rearrangement and strengthen
ing of supports for the exhaust
piping.
Philip Spaulding, who designed
the ship for Alaska, described the
vibration as a defect that could
have been corrected in Seattle if
the normal time had been allowed
for sea trials.
The Malaspina’s twin 4,000
horsepower engines make her the
most powerful motor ship in the
American Merchant Marine,
Spaulding said.
The Coho, first ship of this gen
eral design, had twin 2,000 horse
power engines. Later vessels built
for the British Columbia ferry
system carry twin 3,000 horse
power engines.
Spaulding said:
“Every new ship that comes out
has problems like this. You can
not design an exhaust system to
be perfect. There’s no way you
can tell for sure until the ship is
run.”
The Malaspina’s sisters, the
Matanuska and Taku, now are
nearing completion at the Puget
Sound Bridge & Dry Dock Co.
Spaulding said any changes that
are necessary for the Malaspina
probably can be built into the
Matanuska and Taku without
trouble.
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Won't Harm Plant
And Animal Life
WASHINGTON — The Eski
mos of Northwestern Alaska can
rest assured that if a proposed
underground nuclear detonation is
ever touched off there, it won’t
harm them or the plants and ani
mals they live on.
This was the conclusion of a
committee of Atomic Energy Com
mission and other scientists in a
report released by the AEC Friday.
The committee had been set up
bv the AEC primarily to explore
whether “Project Chariot” — a
tentatively-proposed experiment to
set off a nuclear blast in the
Ogotoruk Creek area would be
hazardous to local inhabitants.
Chariot, if ever carried out,
would be part of the AEC’s “Plow
share” program to investigate and
develop peaceful uses for nuclear
explosives—such as digging har
bors and canals.
The AEC in releasing the report
stressed that no decision has been
made whether to go ahead with
the project. It said:
No nuclear detonations have
been scheduled . . . since some
data, expected originally from the
Chariot project, have been — or
may be — developed from other
nuclear excavation experiments.
“Furthermore, new data will
continue to be examined for their
possible influence on the place the
Chariot experiment may have in
the over-all Plowshare program.
The Commission, therefore, decided
in August 1962 to defer recom
mending that the President author
ize conduct of the experiment.”
Concerning the report itself, the
AEC said:
“As a result of careful review
and consultation with other sci
entists, the committee concludes
that, if the experiment were to be
carried out, any damage to plant
and animal life would be limited
to the area closely surrounding the
excavation.
The committee noted that there
would be some local changes as
might result from any large ex
cavation project, but the Eskimo,
and the species of plants and ani
mals from which he derives his
livelihood, would not be threat
ened.”
The committee’s studies, the AEC
said, have by-product value of
great potential significance to sci
ence in that the Ogotoruk Creek
area has now become “one of the
most thoroughly studied areas of
the world,” on scientific aspects
ranging from archeology to zoo
ology.
Evelyn Stevenson Named
Secretary lor Upper Chamber
JUNEAU (ff) — The state Senate
Tuesday adopted a report by its
Rules Committee recommending
the appointment of Evelyn Ste
venson of Juneau as secretary of
the upper chamber.
Named assistant secretary was
Hildy Lowell. Leslie Swanson was
named sergeant at arms. Both Mrs.
Lowell and Swanson are from
Juneau.
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Mrs. Richard Hunt,
kittle Sweetheart of
The Yukon, Is Dead at fil
WASHINGTON UP) — Mrs. Rich
ard C. Drum Hunt, once known
as the “Little Sweetheart of the
Yukon,” died Monday after a brief
illness. She was 61. The cause of
her death was not immediately
determined.
Born in Chicago, Mrs. Hunt as
a child went to Alaska where her
father became a gold mine owner
and she sang and danced at bene
fits for destitute miners.
After graduation from the Uni
versity of Washington she became
a reporter for the Seattle Post
Intelligencer and eventually its so
ciety editor.
Following World War I, she mar
ried Emil E. Hur.ia. After his death,
she married Richard Drum Hunt,
who survives.
U.S. Negotiates For
Military Bases In Spain
MADRID, Spain (A*) — A high
Spanish official predicted Tues
day smooth sailing in renegotiat
ing the terms of a treaty granting
the United States four military
bases in Spain.
The official said there was con
siderable misunderstanding arising
from Spain’s notice last week that
it wants to revise the terms of the
treaty due to expire in September.
This was the first official comment
since the notice reached Washing
ton.
“You may be sure Spain is not
going to ask anything impossible,
nor do we believe there will be any
great difficulty in completing the
negotiations,” the official said.
And So Goes Life . . .
LONDON <iW — William Yates,
j 58, itched and scratched for two
! nights because of powder his wife
put in his bed.
When the itch powder did not
drive her husband out, Mrs. Isabel
Yates emptied his bedroom of
furniture and put sand, bricks,
cement and an old fender in the
room.
She tried to attack him with a
broken bottle, dragged the washing
he had laundered into the mud,
threw his dinner in the garden,
emptied his hot water bottle in the
bed, shouted insults at him in the
local railroad station and accused
him of having an affair with an
other woman.
They married in 1948 and parted
13 years later.
Mrs. Yates didn't do all the at
tacking, Judge Charles Rees said
in Divorce Court Tuesday. Yates
was extremely jealous and accused
his wife of having affairs with
tradesmen who called at the house.
The wife claimed that he also
threw their television set out on
the lawn, loosened the stair carpet
to make her fall and beat her with
a part of the vacuum cleaner.
The judge granted divorce de
crees to both husband and wife
on grounds of cruelty.
No wonder American women are
so lovely. They spend about nine
million hours a week in the na
tion’s 110,000 beauty parlors.
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Flight 311/312
t Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
Lv. Fairbanks *8:00 a.m. Ar. Nome 9:05 a.m.
Lv! Nome 10:00 a.m. Ar! Kotezbue 10:50 a.m.
Lv. Kotzebue 11:20 a.m. Ar. Fairbanks *2:10 p.m.
Flight 309/310
Monday, Wednesday and Friday
Lv. Fairbanks *8:00 a.m. Ar. Kotzebue 8:40 a.m.
Lv! Kotzebue 9:20 a.m. Ar. Nome 10:05 a.m.
Lv._Nome 1:05 p.m. Ar! Fairbanks *4:10 p.m.
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departure times it is imperative that passengers check in at the
terminal one hour before departure lime:
On Monday, Wednesday and Friday, check-in time is 12 noon.
On Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, check-in time is 9:00 a.m.
NOME — N.E. CAPE
Flight 501/502
Monday, Wednesday and Friday
Lv. Nome 10:50 a.m. Ar. Nome 12:20 p.m.
Lv! N.E. Cape 11:50 p.m. Ac. N.E. Cape 11:20 a.m.
NOME — GAMBELL
Flight 509/510
Monday and Friday
Lv. Nome9:00 a.m. Ar. Gambell 10:20 a.m.
L\\ Gambell 11:00 a.m. Ar. Nome 12:20 p.m.
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