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Alaska Congressmen Working To Name
Prominent Landmarks for State Heroes
By FRITZ WIITI
(Associated Press Special Service)
WASHINGTON, UP) — The huge
new State of Alaska is dotted with
outstanding landmarks and its
Congressional delegation feels it’s
time to name some of them for
prominent people in Alaska his
tory.
The delegation enthusiastically
endorses the re-naming of 7,600
foot Knife Peak as “Mount
Griggs” in honor of Dr, Robert
F. Griggs, 77, who explored the
Katmai National Monument early
in the century.
The Board of Geographic Names
has approved the honor for Dr.
Griggs, now a professor of biolo
gy at the University of Pitts
burgh. and has reserved the land
mark for him. Its policy is not to
name sites for living persons.
Names mentioned for early con
sideration by Senators Ernest
v Gruening and Bob Bartlett and
Representative Ralph Rivers, are:
General William (Billy) Mit
chell, early air power advocate
and prophet of Alaska’s strategic
air importance. Mitchell spent
part of his early Army career in
Alaska.
Anthony J. Dimond, long-time
Alaska delegate to Congress who
also served as a federal judge at
Anchorage and was mayor of Val
dez for a time. Originally from
Palatine Bridge, N. Y., Dimond
went to Alaska in 1905 and was
a strong spokesman for statehood
and construction of the Alaskan
highway. He died in May, 1953.
James Wickersham, another
Alaska Congressional delegate
and federal judge, who argued
for statehood before the turn of
the century. A historian, Wicker
sham’s library at Juneau is con
sidered one the finest on the his
tory of the territory and state.
Born at Uatoka, 111., Wickersham
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Clarence Rhode, for many years
Alaska director of the Fish and
; Wildlife Service, who disappeared
last fall with his son and pilot
while on a flight in the Brooks
Range in northern Alaska. No
trace has been found of the three.
Gruening believes prime consid
eration should be given to Mitchell.
In his book “The State of-Alaska,”
the senator recalls it was Mitchell
who told a House Military Affairs
| committee in 1955 that “I believe
in the future he who holds Alaska
will hold the world.”
“Alaska is the most central
place in the world for aircraft,
and I think it is the most impor
tant strategic place in the world,”
Mitchell said at that time.
Gruening suggest Mt. punter be
named for Mitchell. At 14,850 feet
it is the third highest in Mt. Mc
| Kinley Park and higher than any
in the other 48 states.
Gruening says the mountain
was named by Dr. Frederick A.
Cook for a “Miss A. F. Hunter of
Newport,” and adds it is not known
who she was.
Another mountain that should
be named for an Alaskan, in
Gruening’s opinion, is Mt. Foraker,
at 17,000 feet the third highest in
I Alaska. It was named, says Gruen
[ ing, after “an Ohio Republican, a
United States Senator whose only
notable relation to Alaska was
opposing and aiding in the defeat
of a bill to grant Alaska a dele
gate” in 1904. ,
DEW Line Refurbishing
Sub-Contract Let to Texan
PARAMUS, N. J., OP) — The
Federal Electric Corp. announced
; today the award of a $450,288 sub
j contract to Brown and Root, Inc.,
of Houston, Tex., for building re
habilitation and painting work at
Distant Early Warning (DEW) line
sites in Alaska.
Federal Electric, service organi
zation of the International Tele
phone & Telegraph Co., has been
operating and maintaining the
3,000-mile DEW Line radar net
j work since it was put into opera
I tion in 1957.
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Iceland’s Fish May
Be Key to Ousting
Reds in N. Atlantic i
REYKJAVIK, Iceland, UP) —
Iceland has fish for sale. If it has
its way, the United States will buy
a lot of it and thereby help this
nation, a link in the North At
lantic Defense system, build its
economy and diminish any depen
dency on the Soviet Union.
A group of frozen food experts
here from the United States
agreed that the Icelandic fish is
fine tasting food.
“We’ll buy all we can get, just
j freeze it right, package it right
and make the price right,” said
Walter Meier, frozen food broker
from Milwaukee.
Meier indicated the flow of Ice
landic fish to the United States
may be stepped up considerably.
As it stands now, the United
States seems to have won the
battle for Iceland’s political sup
port but the need is to cement
the thing from an economic view
point. The fishing industry, rep
resenting 97 per cent of Iceland’s
exports, is the key.
Government people say the
foreign reserves accruing from
work on the NATO airbase are
useful but they want American
support for the island’s principal
economy and the one it will have
to live on under all circumstances,
cold war or peace.
Says the foreign office through
its varying officialdom:
“Back up the fishing export
market, help us build roads, power
plants, industry that will go for
ward eternally.” Officially the
government cannot say these
things, Icelanders being too proud
to hold out their hands, but this
is what they believe.
PROOF OF INNOCENCE
NEW YORK, UP) — Arthur
Camper, 42, identified by a grocer
as one of a pair who held him up
for $350 two weeks ago, had a
perfect alibi. He was in jail, await
ing sentence for auto theft. He was
cleared Monday of any connec
tion with the holdup.
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Elephant Walk Blocked
Since Hannibal's March
LE PLANEY, France, W) — Jum
bo the traveling elephant headed
slowly back home yesterday. Her
handlers’ attempts to re-enact
Hannibal’s historic crossing of the
Alps foiled by a landslide every
body overlooked.
British historian John Hoyte
started climing with Jumbo a
week ago to prove that Hannibal
could have taken the 7,300-foot
high Clapier Pass in his elephant
assisted invasion of Italy in 219
B. C. Other historians believe the
Carthaginian used lower passes
near the Mediterranean.
After covering 72 miles and
climbing from 726 feet to 7,150,
Hoyte discovered on arrival here
Monday that the pass had been
blocked for som time by a slide.
The historian said he hoped to
find another route through which
to maneuver Jumbo back to her
home in the Turin, Italy, zoo.
Coal Research Agency
Sought in Congress
WASHINGTON. UPi — The Sen
ate passed a bill authorizing
spending two million dollars the
first year on a big new research
program aimed at helping the ail
ing coal mining industry.
It would create a new agency,
the Coal Research and Develop
ment Commission, to handle the
program. The bill goes back to
the House for consideration of
Senate amendments.
Drowned in One Foot of Water
GOSHEN, N. Y., UP> — Morris
De Groat, 57, drowned in a foot
of water Monday. He tripped over
a wall and fell into a small
stream, fracturing his skull.
Yummy . . .
FORT WORTH, Texas., UR —
Lucille Bridges of Brenham, Tex.,
mixed vanilla ice cream, pecans,
whipped cream, cherries and pret
zels, and set the concoction afire.
Sound terrible?
It must have tasted good, be
cause judges gave the 16-year-old
girl the title of “Fountaineer of
’59” at the Texas Pharmaceutical
Association convention Monday.
Her winning entry was called
a “satellite sundae.”
Western Nations
Reach Accord
GENEVA, (#> — The Western
foreign ministers reached speedy
agreement yesterday on a revised
document setting forth their posi
tion on a Berlin truce arrange
ment.
Western officials said the sum
mary reiterates that the West will
maintain it cannot consider any
time limits on Western rights in
Berlin. The revision will be
handed to the Russians when talks
resume Wednesday.
The foreign ministers made
two changes in the proposals ad
vanced first on June 16. The main
one suggests that the United Na
tions monitor radio broadcasts in
East and West Berln to check for
propaganda durng the truce per
iod. The second simply revises
some of the language in a section
declaring Western rights in Ber
lin will remain in force until
Germany is unified.
MONDAY BASEBALL SCORES
National League
Milwaukee 5. Pittsburgh 2.
Cincinnati 8, St. Louis 3.
American League
Baltimore 5, Detroit 2.
Boston 4, Cleveland 0.
Kansas City 7, Washington 6.
Pacific Coast League
Phoenix 5-5, Spokane 4-7.
Salt Lake 2-1, Vancouver 1-2.
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