Air Carriers, Land, Sea Transportation
Outfits Give Tourist a New Look at
Alaska's Frontier of ‘Icebox’ Fun
Not too long ago, you didn’t
hear much about the wintertime
when you talked to an Alaskan.
Not that Northlanders don’t enjoy
that season — far from it, they
love every cool minute. Rut there
was a feeling somehow that people
already had too strong a miscon
ception of the 49th State as a
land of year-around ice and snow.
The theory went something like
this: If you admitted the presence
of frigid temperatures during one
season of the year, the feeling
might get around that the state
never did warm up.
Suddenly, all that has changed.
Maybe it’s because so many thous
ands of past summer visitors can
now testify to Alaska’s warm sum
mer climate. Or maybe it’s simply
because there’s just too much fun
to be had in Alaska in winter. At
any rate Alaskans are touting
their state as a winter playground
as never before.
Even the carriers — or rather,
especially the carriers — axe do
ing it. Pacific Northern Airlines,
previously the only operator in the
winter tour field, again this year j
offers an entire brochure-full of
winter tours and destinations in
cluding a tour to the Arctic. Too,
the airline offers a ski-Alaska
folder listing every ski resort in
the 49th State. Alaska Airlines
dramatically enters the winter
tour competition with daily over
night excursions to Nome as well
as Kotzebue, north of the Arctic
Circle. Ice fishing, dog sled rides,
and Eskimo games and dancing
are only a few of the frigid-but
fun attractions in this package.
Alaska’s senior airline and one
long famous for its Polar-zone
lours, Wien Alaska Airlines '■will
mtroduce its own “Eskimoland
Snowtime Tour’’ next April with
daily overnight tours to Kotzebue.
Of particular interest to parka
clad visitors (the parkas being
xamished by Wien) will be a
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Masonic Temple. All visiting Ma
sons welcome.
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visit to a genuine ice-block igloo
and a chance to fish through the
ice of the Arctic Ocean.
A surface carrier offering a Win
ter operation for the first time
will be Alaska Hyway Tours
(Gray Line of Anchorage and
Fairbanks). This bus firm predicts
its sightseeing tours out of An
chorage and Fairbanks will fully
equal the summer program — if
not in visitor number volume then
at least in visitor fun and satis
faction. Out of Juneau, Gray Line,
too. has offered winter visits to
nearby Mendenhall Glacier —
whose lake in winter becomes one
of the nation’s largest skating
rinks.
Even the State of Alaska,
through its “Marine Highway”
ferry system, offers winter tours
through the Inside Passage of
scenic Southeastern Alaska.
Skiing and Alaska’s nearly
unique sled dog racing provide
vet more attractions for the cool
at-heart.
Clinching the appeal of Alaska
in winter is a season-long list of
local fairs and festivals which
include: Cordova Ice Worm Fes
tival, February 7-9; Anchorage
Fur Rendezvous, February 16-23,
Homer Winter Carnival, February
28 to March 1; Alaska Champion
Dog Races at Kenai, February 28
to March 1; International Airlines
Ski Festival, Alyeska near An
chorage, March 13-15; the 19th
Annual North American Cham
pionship Sled Dog Derby, Fair
banks, March 13-22, and the Nome
Dog Derby, at an as yet unde
termined date in the Spring.
The Alaska Travel Division, Ju
neau, will send information on
Alaska winter tours free upon
request.
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif.
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bert L. Agibnik, son of Mrs. Vir
ginia Agibinik of Unalakleet, Alas
ka, is serving with the Third Bat
talion. Fifth Marine Regiment,
First Marine Division at Camp
Pendleton,' Calif.
The battalion recently completed
a series of tactical readiness tests
to determine their combat readi
ness and military effectiveness.
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Methodist Women Plan
Special Friday Program
The women of the Community
Methodist Church are planning a
special program for this Friday
evening, Oct. 18. at 8. It is in
observance of the theme “A Call
to Prayer and Self-Denial.”
Ever since 1887, the year when
the Week of Prayer and Self
Denial was first observed, Metho
dist women have found renewal
and strength by setting aside time
in the fall of each year to give
themselves to daily prayer for spir
itual growth This year the special
projects designated for prayer and
self-denial gifts are the Campbell
House, Gary, Indiana, Wesley Com
munity House, Wt. Worth, Tex.,
Susannah Wesley Community Cen
ter. Honolulu, Hawaii: in India
the Medical Colleges, Educational
Fund and the Development of
Christian literature program.
Mrs. John Schadler and Mrs.
Howard DeVore are the committee
in charge of this program. Several
women are helping them to pre
sent this program Friday evening.
The committee wishes to invite
any interested women in the com
munity to attend.
Two Dead in Helicopter
Crash North of Alaska
WASHINGTON LP — Two Navy
officials have been killed in the
crash of their helicopter in the
Beaufort Sea north of Alaska.
The Navy Department at Wash
ington says the accident occurred
yesterday while the helicopter was
on a flight from the ice breaker
Staten Island.
The victims are identified as
Comdr. John Metschel of Seattle,
and Ensign James L. Wood of An
napolis, Md. Wood was the pilot.
The Navy says the helicopter
crashed on ice but broke through
and sank. The bodies were not j
recovered.
The Beaufort Sea lies north of
the Alaska-Yukon border.
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POSITION WANTED — Clerical
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FOR SALE — Furnished House on
3rd. Water system, tub bath, re
frigerator, Flamo range and
water heater. Easy to heat, and
comfortable. Phone 2532. tfc
SALE on Potatoes at $5 box —
While they last — Phone 2611.
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WASHINGTON i*» — Three
women lawyers from Louisville,
Ky., were admitted to the bar of
the Supreme Court yesterday, and
received an unusually broad smile
and a special little welcoming
comment from Chief Justice War
ren.
The women are Mrs. Maude
Hughett, who says she is close to
age 75; her sister, Mrs. Mae Strick
lin, age 80; and Mrs. Hughett’s
daughter, Josephine, who doesn’t
tell her age. They were presented
to the tribunal by a Washington
attorney, David Previant. Warren
told the women:
“It is a great pleasure to wel
come you to the bar of this court.
If you will proceed to the clerk’s
desk you may take the oath.”
The three women went through
the brief ceremony without saying
a word to the court, as is cous
tomary.
While Mrs. Stricklin felt she
probably was establishing an age
record for persons admitted, the
high court actually has admitted
persons older than she, even up
to age 95.
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Admitted — Loretta Tocktoo, Sar
ah Akeya, Donna L. Dickey.
Discharged — Eloise Ahwinona
and infant, Josie Okboak, Darlene
Opsekok, Genevieve T a t o o w i,
Agatha Sebwenna and infant,
Ralph A. Smith, Edna Ahwinona,
Marie Saclamana.
Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Dickey are
tiie parents of a baby boy born
October 15.
NOTICE
Grant Nelson will be in business
as Reardon Enineering and Nome
Specialty Sales for the winter.
REVIVAL
Nightly — 7:30 p.m. — October 17-27
at the
CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE
REV. PAUL MERKI — Evangelist
REV. EUGENE MORRELL — Pastor
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