Prizes Increased
For Dog Races
At Fur Rendezvous
Anchorage will see the biggest
cash prizes in the 25-year history
of its annual February Fur Ren
dezvous when Greater Anchorage,
Inc. puts an estimated $14,000 at
stake in connection with the
World Championship Sled Dog
Races, President William Strand
berg announced today.
Of principal interest to the
public will be an award of $5000
in cash—first prize to the lucky
winner of a sweepstakes on the
dog races.
Strandberg also announced that
Greater Anchorage, Inc., has in
creased prize money for the dog
mushers themselves from the
traditional $6500 to $7000, in
keeping with the importance of
the race as a world championship
event. ,
Dates for the Fur Rendezvous
will be Feb. 21 through 26, with
the sled dog races to take place
on the final three days, Feb. 24
26. An estimated 25 to 30 of the
world’s finest dog mushers will
start their teams from in front of
the City Hall in downtown An
chorage and will follow a 25
mile course into the country. They
will finish each of the three-day
heats at the same point from
which they started.
Buyers of the one-dollar sweep
stakes tickets will be eligible for
the top prize of $5000 in cash,
second prize of $500, third award
of $150, or additional prizes of
$25 which will be awarded to
those who hold tickets on the re
maining entries. Each ticket
drawn will be an automatic win
ner, with the total amount of the
cash awards to be dependent upon
the number of teams which are
entered in the championship
races.
One ticket will be drawn on
each entrant, but no competing
musher will be eligible for a
sweepstakes prize.
In competition for the $7000 in
racing money, the field of mush
ers will vie for cash awards on
each heat as well as on the basis
of total elapsed time.
The $7000 will be pro-rated atl
$750, $1100 and $1500 for 1st, 2nd
and 3rd day heat money respec
tively. Total elapsed time awards
for the top seven mushers will
account for the remaining $3650.
Winner of the 1960 World
Championship Race in Anchorage
was Cui Bifelt, of Husila. Bifelt,
a first-time winner in Anchorage,
proved his victory to be more
than mere luck when two weeks
later he took top honors and an
other pocketful of cash in the
Northern American 70-mile Clas
sic at Fairbanks.
Mushers who are interested in
entering the Fur Rendezvous Race
may obtain additional information
by writing Greater Anchorage,
Inc., at Box 773, Anchorage, Alas
ka.
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Lt. Col. J. B. Swindal
Kennedy’s Personal Pilot
WASHINGTON UP) — The Air
Force has tapped Lt. Col. J. B.
Swindal to be President-elect Ken
nedy’s personal pilot.
The 41-year-old veteran of
World War II now commands the
special air mission unit at An
drews Air Force Base, Md., that
operates the three jet aircraft as
signed to the White House.
Although the Air Force has
proposed Swindal for the job, the
President-elect must give his per
sonal okay before the assignment
becomes official. As Chief White
House Pilot, Swindal would suc
ceed Co. William G. Draper who
has been President Eisenhower’s
pilot.
Draper is expected to be trans
ferred to Alaska as deputy com
mander of a jet fighter-inter
ceptor wing.
Swindal is a native of Birming
ham, Ala. He entered the Air
Force shortly after the outbreak
of World War II and served in
the China-Burma-India Theater,
flying men and military supplies
from India to China over the
Himalayan hump.
Swindal finished out the war
as a ferry pilot on the north At
lantic run and later flew 51 mis
sions during the airlift of sup
plies into Berlin when the Com
munists sought unsuccessfully to
isolate that city from the West.
Swindal stands six feet and
weighs 170 pounds.
Abominable Snowman
Is a Myth
SAN FRANCISCO UR — A
biologist member of Sir Edmund
Hillary’s recent Himalayan ex
pedition says the Abominable
Snowman is a myth.
“It’s been a fascinating story
and I hate to be the one to
destroy it,” Lawrence Swan of San
Francisco State College said to
day. Swan was one of two biolo
gists who accompanied Sir Ed
mund into the Himalayas in
search of the Abominable Snow
man or Yeti, as it is known to the
Nepalese.
Sir Edmund recently returned
with two sclaps the natives said
were taken from Yeti. Swan, a
Himalayan Fauna expert, says
that the hair on the scalps is
fake and that the Abominable
Snowman never existed.
“It’s time someone set the
record straight,” he said.
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City Officials and
Arctic Native Brotherhood
Discuss Problems
The Officers and Directors of
the Arctic Native Brotherhood
met with City Police, Jail Of
ficials, State Court Officials, and
members of the Legislature last
week to discuss rumors circu
lating in the city regarding pos
sible indiscriminate arrests, jail
procedures, and court actions. Al
though no decisions were reached
by the A. N. B. regarding actions
of the officials involved, it was
decided that further study of the
matter would be made.
City Police and Jail Officials
and Officials of the State Court
system were cooperative in ex
plaining their duties and in
answering questions. They indi
cated an appreciation for interest
and asked that the ANB continue
to show interest by talking to the
police about arrest matters, by
visiting the jail, and by attend
ing the Magistrate’s Court.
Among the items discussed, was
the'problem of arrests and hand
ling of drunks and disorderly
persons in and around the bars
of Front Street! Many instances
were cited by the officials, where
prisoners were given better treat
ment than ordinarily considered
appropriate. Facts and figures are
open to the public in the Magi
strate’s Office, indicate a decrease
of average monthly arrests since
the period covering 1954-1958. In
the future general meetings of
the A. N. B., the above mentioned
officials will be asked to come
as guest speakers to help clarify
many of the questions in the
minds of the members.
A LATE TRAIN
TAIPEI — The express from
south Formosa carrying 500 pas
sengers was more than an hour
late reaching Taipei because:
The train hit a cow. The en
gineer got out to negotiate a
settlement with the owner. In
the confusion, the assistant en
gineer started the train without
the engineer. The engineer had
to flag a taxi to catch up with
his train at the next station.
Item from the animal world:
The spotted skunk has an odd
trait. When excited, it stands on
its hands.
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A LADY GOVERNOR
FOR THE BAHAMAS
LONDON t/PI — A close friend
of the royal family said today
that Queen Elizabeth II is con
sidering appointing Princess Mar
garet governor of the Bahamas.
It could be a happy solution to
a delicate and increasingly un
easy situation, what to do with
Margaret and more particularly,
her husband. Antony Armstrong
Jones has been unemployed for
the last seven months since his
marriage into the royal family.
If Margaret became governor
of the jewel-like British Crown
Colony in the Atlantic off the
Florida coast, her husband would
naturally share her life. It could
be a busy one.
Lt. Col. John Eisenhower
To Attend War College
WASHINGTON UPl — Lt. Col.
John Eisenhower will go to the
Army War College in Pennsyl
vania after his father leaves the
White House.
He has been serving as a mili
tary assistant at the White House
since 1958.
The younger Eisenhower’s name
appeared today on a list of 162
officers selected to attend the
class at Carlisle Barracks, Pa.,
starting Aug. 17.
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Broke in Two Tanker
Arrives in Port
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. UR -
The stern section of the broken
American tanker Pine Ridge is
moored to a pier here ending a
tragic voyage that started last
week in New York and was to
have ended in Corpus Christi,
Tex.
Two tugs pulled the hulk to this
shipbuilding center.
Aboard the section was the last
member of the crew, the chief
engineer, John Richart of Wil
mington, Del., who remained
aboard what is left of the 10,417
ton tanker to protect salvage
rights of the ship’s owners.
The Pine Ridge broke in two
last Wednesday in heavy seas
100 miles east of Cape Hatteras,
N. C. and 28 crew members were
lifted to safety Thursday by heli
copters.
Seven members of the crew, in
cluding the captain, are missing
and presumed dead.
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