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of candidates to clerks of courts
would come five days later. The
date for the primary is April 24.
“We worked every angle to pro
vide for direct primaries,” said
Committee Chairman Robert Mc
Nealy, “but it’s only administra
tively possible if there is no slip
up at any point along the line. We
(committee members* would de
side to use the primary election
method but we think there’s a
vary slim chance it would work.”
The only other possibilities of
holding primaries, McNealy said,
would be through (1) staging a
special election, using convention
funds; <2* wating for the 1958
primaries.
Ho pointed out, however, there
is not enough Constitutional Con
vention money left for the first
■course and the second alternative
would kill the plan, based as it is
on immediacy.
Delegates still were ironing out
details of the plan when the ses
sion was adjourned at 7 p.m.
Pan Am Lowers Fares
For Military Personnel
WASHINGTON UP)—Pan Amer
ican World Airways said Friday
it would slash roundtrip fares for
military personnel between Paci
fic and Alaska areas and the Uni
ted States from 10 to 30 percent
starting Feb. 26.
The 10 percent discount will
apply for travel between Hawaii
and Alaska and the U.S. The 30 ,
percent reduction will apply be- j
tween U.S. possessions in the Pa
cific area, or countries in the
Orient and Australia, and Hawaii
or the mainland.
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Jacob Ahwinona, Chester Topkok,
Blanche Walters.
Actors, Politicians
S Suggest How to
Say tirrough’
FAIRBANKS, UPV—New York
actors and politicians—from Basil
Rathbone to Thomas E. Dewey—
have tried to help Alaska out in
finding a suitable pronunciation
for "burough,” the name to be
given the political subdivisions of
the future state.
Delegates to the Constitutional
Convention here decided last ,
week it should be pronounced
“burro”—a new twist to an old
word listed for pronunciation in
Websters as “burrow.”
George McLaughlin, delegate
from Anchorage, revealed to the
convention that a New York City
editor, Joseph Martin of the Daily
News, had queried citizens of his
city in an attempt to help the
Alaskans out.
“I tried such illustrious vowel
droppers as Basil Rathbone, Al
fred Lunt and Charles Laughton,”
Martin said. "And in the exacting
field of phonetics I put the ques
tion to two outstanding experts.
They disagreed.”
Martin then cited the opinion
of Dr. Philip Gove, general editor
of the 1954 edition of Webster’s
International Dictionary, who
said:
"The correct pronunciation
would be the one that prevails in
Alaska, not New York.”
Laughton said, “I was born in
England in a place called Scar
borough and we pronounced it as
in a rabbit burrow.”
James J. Lyons, Bronx Borough
president said “I pronounce the
word as buro, same as the burros
used in Alaska during the gold
rush.”
Martin said a box score on the
various pronunciations shows:
Burrow 3, burra 1, buro 7, and
burro, 8.
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Constitutional
Convention News"
For Saturday
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FAIRBANKS, UP>—Saturday,
with only nine days left before
facing an inflexible deadline,
delegates had voted six articles
as a permanent part of the pro
posed Alaska State Constitution
as they started their days work.
The bill of rights article went
through the final passage Friday
with unanimous acceptance.
No protest was made during the
third reading of the suffrage ar
ticle over the voting age, now
definitely set at 19. Having fought
it every inch of the way through
the second reading, opponents ap
parently decided against the final
effort, clearly futile.
The major criticism of the leg
islative article was centered on
three provisions—origination of
impeachment proceedings in the
Senate instead of the House, veto
by joint assembly of the legisla
ture rather than separtely by each
house, annual sessions with no
set time limit and a large assem
bly, 40 members in the house and
20 in the Senate.
All convention delegates and
members of the staff look the
worse for wear but the worst
beating is being taken by the nine
members of the Style and Draft
ing Committee.
They work early in the morning
before the assembly convenes
each day and after it adjourns at
night. On this committee arfe four
lawyers, an agriculturist, a min
ister, an editor, a city planner,
and a bank cashier.
With seven substantive articles
yet to be considered for final pas
sage, the delegates Saturday had
no hope for a light schedule this
week.
The signing of the document is
to take place Feb. 5.
Marchioness Closes
Fish Shop After 25
Years Selling Seafood
CARDIFF, Wales, —Mary
Louise, the dowager Marchioness
of Queensberry, pulled down the
shutters of her fish shop for the
last time Saturday—after 25 years
of serving seafood to local resi
dents.
The doughty peeress, born the
daughter of a Cardiff fishmonger,
said she is giving up the family
business for reasons of health.
She is in her sixties.
Her first husband was a fish
monger who died during World
War I, leaving a small fortune.
Mary Louise then moved into
society and in 1918 married the
10th Marquess of Queensbury.
When he died two years later
she came back to live over the
fish shop and carry on the busi
ness.
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