National Guard Assn.
Conference to Be Held
In Las Vegas Oct. 2-5
Officers of the Alaska Army
and Air National Guard will at
tend the 83rd General Conference
of the National Guard Assn, of
United States at Las Vegas, Nev.,
Oct. 2-5, 1901.
Included in the state’s delega
tion to the conference are:
Maj. Gen. Thomas P. Carroll,
Adjutant General of Alaska NG,
of Juneau; Col. Fred Reger, Asst.
Adjutant General, Army, of Ju
neau; Col. Charles W. Casper,
USP & FO for Alaska, of Anchor
age; 'Lt. Col. William E. Elmore,
Asst. Adjutant General, Air, of
Anchorage; Lt. Col. William H.
Crawford, State Maint. Officer,
of Anchorage.
Maj. Gen. William H. Harrison,
Jr., Assn,. President, has . an
nounced that Secretary of the
Army Elvis J. Stahr, Jr., and Gen.
Curtis LelMay, Chief of Staff of
the Air Force, have accepted in
_ vitations to address the delegates.
Approximately 3,000 Army Na
tional Guard officers and their
guests will attend the conference
which will be held at the beauti
ful, new Convention Center in
Las Vegas. The conference sched
ule calls for five business ses
sions, with two scheduled for the
opening day and one each on Oct.
3, 4, and 5.
Marked Decks . . .
DES MOINES UP) — Marked
decks are an innovation at the
Mid-American-Canadian Regional
Bridge Tournament here tout they
belong to only one player, John
Larsen of Bloomington, Minn.
Larsen is blind.
Larsen brought along his own
cards—32 decks marked in Brail
le—so he could compete in the
play of duplicate bridge.
In playing Larsen gets only
these other assists: His partner
reads off cards in the dummy only
once; opponents identify each
card when it is played.
This is Larsen’s first tourna
ment outside his home state. He
is 30, married and father of three
children. He has been blind since
an accident when he was 18.
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Nome School
To Hold Adult
Reading Course
Conrad H. Potter, School Su
perintendent, announced that a
special adult evening course in
reading is being planned if
enough interest is shown. Two
other courses, shorthand and typ
ing, have had a very good re
sponse and will commence this
•week.
The reading course will begin
on Tuesday, Oct. 10 and will meet
every Tuesday and Thursday.
These days are tentative and may
be changed upon the decision of
those enrolled.
The size of the class has also
been tentatively set at 20. There
fore, the first 20 who enroll will
be considered the nucleus of the
class. You may enroll by calling
2479 (Mr. McCormick’s office) and
indicating your desire to parti
cipate.
The reading course being of
ferred is designed to help each
student improve his present read
ing performance both in rate and
comprehension. Each student will
have the opportunity to advance
in reading skills as fast and as
far as his learning rate and his
learning capacity permit. All
learning and teaching activities
during the course will be com
pletely individualized. There are
no tests required for grading pur
poses as no grades will be given.
The basic units of work foun
dational to the course will be Sci
ence Research Associates Labora
tories \yhich are designed to pro
vide a sequence of materials of
gradually increasing difficulty so
that each student can seek and at
tain progressively higher reading
levels.
Classes continuing from this
first level course are being plan
ned for next semester.
The tuition charge will be $7.50
for a 55 hour course. The en
rollees will also purchase their
own supplies for the course which
will cost approximately $1.50.
Other classes of particular in
terest to men are being planned,
including Outboard Motor Main
tenance and Carpenter Skills Ex
tension. Details will be an
nounced when the final plans are
completed.
Two UAL Jets Make
Safe Emergency Stops
CHICAGO UFl — Two United
Air Lines DC-6 jet planes carry
ing a total of 148 passengers made
safe emergency stops Friday
night. One landed at Chicago, the
other at Edwards Air Force Base,
Calif.
The plane that landed at Chi
cago’s O’Hare International Air
port with 68 persons aboard had
one of its four engines out. It
was on a scheduled nonstop New
York to Denver flight.
The other plane had 80 aboard
and was bound from New York to
San Francisco. Crewmen said it
suffered a complete hydraulic
failure, The huge craft rolled
nearly three miles down a run
way before stopping.
Pilots Raise Safety
Question of DC-8 Jets
Hydraulic System to FAA
MIAMI, 'Fla. UP) — Six hundred
Eastern Air Lines pilots say they
will stop flying DC-8 jets in three
days if the Federal Aviation
Agency doesn’t assure them the
plane’s hydraulic system is safe.
The pilots raised the safety
question to a telegram sent Fri
day night to Najeeb Halafby, FAA
Director, by Council 18 of the
Air Line Pilots Assn.
“Silence on this question will
force us to suspend operation on
DC-8 aircraft which is used on
Eastern Air Lines within three
days,” the telegfam said.
The protest was a result of a
new FAA regulation requiring
pilots to answer 10 true-or-false
questions on the Douglas DC-8
hydraulic system.
Capt. John D. Payne, Chairman
of Council 18, said that the safety
of the system is an FAA matter,
not the pilots’ responsibility. He
indicated that the test might be
used to blame pilots for a crash
when the real cause might lie
elsewhere.
Payne said the DC-8 hydraulic
system has been under scrutiny
because of several failures. The
pilots could tie up at least 15
DC-8 flights which come and go
from Miami daily.
From the Suggestion Box
WASHINGTON UR — Secretary
of Commerce Luther Hodges said
Friday he has been told of a way
to reduce the use of paper towels
by his employes.
Addressing the Radio-Television
News Directors Assn., Hodges
said a Commerce Department
worker recently submitted the fol
lowing suggestion:
’ ‘‘If everyone washing his or her
hands and using paper towels for
drying would shake their hands
and say *splat, splat’ before using
a group towels, I’ll bet the cost
I of towels could be cut in half. Try
I it: You’ll find it takes one towel
instead of several.”
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Hunzakuts Live to
A Ripe Old Age
NEW YORK W! — In the state
of Hunza in northwestern Kash
mir live the Hunzakuts, and they
usually live to be from 80 to 110
years old.
They show no signs of senility,
heart disease is almost non-ex
istent, and cancer is rare.
Dr. J. Milton Hoffman of Mount
Vernon, N.Y., president of the
National Geriatrics Society, spent
four weeks in Hunza trying to
find out the Hunzakuts’ secret
of long life. He returned by plane
Sunday indicating that it is prob
ably not one secret but many.
The Hunzakuts are farmers who
work outdoors all day at an alti
tude of 8,000 feet, tilling unusual
ly rich soil, and they drink plenty
of water which appears rich in
minerals.
Their diet contains little meat,
and their main dish is apricots.
They use very little tobacco, and
use wine only for medicinal pur
poses.
They go to bed when it gets
dark, and get plenty of rest.
During the day they preach and
practice brotherly love—and are
completely non-competitive.
EAST GERMANS IMPOSE
CURFEW ON BORDER AREAS
HOF, Germany (0> — East Ger
man authorities imposed a curfew
on border areas in a new move
to make the Iron Curtain escape
proof, Bavarian police said Fri
day night.
They said they have learned
the restrictions would effect all
East Germans living in a 500
yard zone along the border. At
the same time, police reported
preparations seem under way to
evacuate all residents of this zone
and to level their houses.
East Germans Fie® to West
BERLIN Uff — More than a
score of East Germans managed
to escape to West Berlin over the
weekend despite strengthening o:
the Communist border barriers
West Berlin police said today. De
fectors included at least five Com
munist policemen.
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Three Boy Scouts Set
Record Time on the
Marathon to Athens Route
ATHENS, Greece <e — Three
American Boy Scouts Saturday
covered in record time the 26
mile Marathon to Athens route
on which a Greek warrior won.
glory in 490 B.C.
The scouts’ time—six hours and
28 minutes—was declared to be a
record for scouts, bettering by
nine minutes the record set last
year in a similar event.
Professional runners have made
the run in less time, but there J*
no record of the original run by
the Greek warrior who raced
from Marathon to Hadian’s Arch
to tell Athenians of the Greek
victory over invading Persians.
The ancient warrior, who raced
in full armor to bring the glad
news, dropped dead from exhaus
tion.
The record-makers were John
Affolter of Corvallis, Ore., whose
father works in the Greek Pro
ductivity Center here; Ken Cald
well of Knoxville, Tenn., whose
father is a member of the Ameri
can Military Mission here, and
Emil Lawrence, of San Francisco.
All are 14 years old. They were
among some 50 scouts who cover
ed the route.
The Marathon run for scouts
is becoming an annual event*
partly in honor of Marathon,
which has been chosen as the site
for the Scouts’ World Jamboree
in August 1963.
Arctic Aeromadical Laboratory
To Bo Sot Up at Ft. Wainwrighft
WASHINGTON Uh — The Ahr
Force moved Saturday to cen
tralize its space medicine re
search.
It announced establishment of
a new Bioastronautics Division
which will have headquarters at
Brooks Air Force Base, San An
tonio, Tex.
Combined under this new di
! vision will be the Aerospace Med
ical Center at Brooks, employing
about 4,100 civilian and military
personnel, and Arctic Aeromed
ical Laboratory employing 50
I people at Ft. Jonathan Wain
i wright, Alaska.
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NEW SCHEDULE
Effective September 18,1961
Monday & Friday Fit. 309/310
Lv: Fairbanks 8:00 a on. Ar: Kotzebue 8:50 aon.
Lv: Kotzebue 9:30 sum. Ar: Nome 10:20 ami.
Lv: Nome 2:40 pan. Ar: Fairbanks 6:25 pjn.
Wednesday Fit. 309/310
Lt: Fairbanks 8:00 a.m. Ar: Kotzebue 9:20 amu
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Lt: Kotzebue 10:00 am Ar: Nome 11:00 am
Lt: Nome 3:50 p.m. Ar: Fairbanks 7:35 pan.
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Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday
Flight 311/312
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Lt: Fairbanks 8:00 a.m. Ar: Nome 9:05 am
Lt: Nome 10:00 a.m. Ar: Kotzebue 10:50 am
Lt: Kotzebue 11:20 a.m. Ar: Fairbanks 2:30 pan.