A Great Gift . . .
WASHINGTON UP — President
Kennedy said America’s great gift
of natural resources wealth pro
vides the foundation upon which
defense of freedom rests.
Calling anew for development
of these resources and conserva
tion of wildlife areas, the Presi
dent added: “Our future great
ness and strength will depend
upon the continued abundance of
these same natural resources.”
Kennedy expressed these views
in a speech at the dedication of
the new Headquarters Building of
the National Wildlife Federation,
observing the 25th anniversary
of its founding.
"IT WASN'T LEGAL" . . .
NEW YORK UP — Mayor Robert
Wagner’s ban on private auto
travel after last month’s snow
storm was “the best thing that
could have happened to the city,”
says Magistrate Benjamin Schor.
There was one thing wrong with
it, however. The mayor’s not a
cop, and it wasn’t legal, the Magi
strate says.
Schor handed down that ruling
in throwing out a charge against
Henry Haladay who deliberately
drove to work to test the ban and
was charged with failure to obey
an official order of the mayor.
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i Suspend Search for
IWissing Fishing Boat
JUNEAU (iPl — Search was sus
pended Saturday for the 46-foot
fishing boat “Western”, missing
since Wednesday with at least two
men aboard.
Coast Guard district headquar
ters said two days of air search
had disclosed no trace of the ves
sel and it was feared the boat had
foundered in the heavy winds
and high seas.
The vessel was torn loose from
its anchor in Russian Bay on
Kodiak Island and swept out to
sea in a heavy storm Wednesday
evening.
The Western was owned by
Dave Murphy. It was not known
whether Murphy was aboard.
The two persons known to be
aboard were identified by the
Coast Guard as Nick Saracroft of
Seldovia and Norman B. Bowen
of Kodiak.
MORE READERS
NEW YORK UP) — Editor & Pub
lisher reports that daily news
paper sales throughout the coun
try increased by more than half
a million copies the past year.
The trade publication’s year
I book figures covering the period
'ended Sept. 30, 1960, show that
| 312 morning newspapers and
i 1.459 evening papers had a total
daily circulation of 58,881,746—
a gain of 582,023 copies.
The country’s 563 Sunday news
papers, however, suffered a de
I cline, selling 47,698,651 copies
, which was 149,826 fewer than a
!year ago.
Now you can finally sav
GOOD-DYE
to all washing cares
Take the afternoon off ... or
an hour . . and we'll do the
washing and drying
NOME U-WASH
— PHONE BLACK 1 —
— MACHINES DO YOUR JOB! _
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Cold War Heroes
Hold First
News Conference
By Adren Cooper
TOPEKA, Kan. UP) — The story
of two cold war heroes, Capts.
John R. McKone and Freeman B.
Olmstead, raised new questions
about the fate of three fellow
crewmen missing since their
RB-47 reconnaissance bomber was
shot down by the Soviets last July
1.
Answering questions publicly
j for the first time since their rc
| turn from a Soviet prison, the
■ two Air Force officers calmly
1 told about the brief air battle that
I heightened international tension
for months.
They revealed that the RB-47
previously described as unarmed,
had two 20-millimeter cannons i
the tail and that they returned
the fire of the Soviet Mig jet
fighter that sent the RB-47 down
in flames.
The story of the RB-47 firing
back at its attacker was one in
teresting phase of the incident
revealed for the first time by the
two fliers, but many mysteries
j about the mission remained un
solved. McKone and Olmstead
skirted many salient questions
about the objective of the mis
| sion, what happened to the three
j missing crewmen and what in
formation they gave the Russians.
The two poised young men told
about extreme hardships in their
' Soviet prison, saying they had
I little more than hope and faith
in God to sustain them for seven
months.
They were treated as criminals
by the Soviets, they said, but were
never brought to trial. They told
of what seemed like endless in ter
| rogation, cold, solitary cells with
! lights burning 24 hours a day
I and a diet which took 40 pound'
j off each man. Then suddenly thej
were released without explana
j tion.
New from the maternity ward
Women who smoke a great deal
! during pregnancy usually have
smaller babies than those whe
smoke lightly or not at all.
Skagway Has A
Museum in the Making
The town of Skagway is in the
process of restoring its court
house to use as a museum and city
hall. The Garden Club is land
scaping the grounds surrounding
the building.
They would like to have a tree,
shrub or plant from every part
of Alaska and are asking the co
operation on their project from
an organization in Nome. The
planting will be done in the spring
of 1962. '
Anyone wishing to contribute
may contact either Mrs. Tunley
of Skagway Garden Club or Mrs.
Paul Haggland, Fairbanks of the
Alaska State Federation of Gar
den Clubs.
"HELP US . ,
SALT LAKE CITY UP — Mrs.
Lynn Roberts of the Utah Auto
j mobile Assn, opened an envelope
i to turn over license plates to a
customer.
There were two stamped plates
inside and a blank upon which
was scrawled: “Help us . . . John
Turner is holding us against our
will, and has made slaves out of
us making these license plates.
John Turner is Utah State Pri
son Warden. He said it was a
prank by some inmates in the
prison which makes Utah’s license
plates.
RARE PAIR
WARSAW, POLAND UP —
Cross breeding of a female brown
bear and a male polar bear has
produced a rare pair of cubs at
the Lodz City Zoo, the Polish
Press Agency PAP reports.
Ice Pool Dates
I Since 1917, when the Pooi
was started, the ice has gone
j out at Nenana as follows:
1917— April 30 .11:30 a.m.
1918— May 11. 9:33 a.m.
1919— May 3. 2:33 p.m.
1920— May 11.10:45 a.m.
1921— May 11. 6:42 a.m.
1922— May 12. 1:20 p.m.
1923— May 9. 2:00 p.m.
1924— May 11. 3:10 p.m.
1925— May 7. 6:32 p.m.
1926— April 26 . 4:03 p.m.
1927— May 13. 5:42 a.m.
1928— May 6. 4:25 p.m.
1929— May 5. 3:41 p.m.
1930— May 8. 7:03 p.m.
1931— May 10. 9:23 a.m.
1932— May 1.10:15 a.m.
1933— May 8. 7:30 p.m.
1934— April 30 . 2:07 p.m.
1935— May 15. 1:32 p.m.
1936— April 38.12c58 p.m.
1937— May 12. 8(04 p.m.
1938— May 6. 8:14 p.m.
1939— April 29 . 1:26 p.m.
1940— April 20 . 3:27 p.m.
1941— May 3. 1:50 a.m.
1942— April 38 . ?:28 p.m
1943— April 28. 7:22 p.m
1944— May 4. 2:08 p.m
1945— May 16. 9:41 a.m.
1946— May 5. 4:40 p.m.
1947— May 3. 5:50 pjm.
1948— May 13.11:13 pan.
1949— May 14.12:38 p.m.
1950— May 6. 4:14 p.m
'951—April 30 . 5:54 p.m
1952—May 12. 5:04 p.m.
IQ53—April 29. 3:54 p.m.
1954— May 6. 6:01 p«m
1955— May 9. 2:13 p.m.
1956— May 1.11:24 B.m.
1957— May 5. 9:30 a.m.
1958— April 29 . 2:56 p.m
1959— May 8 .11:26 a.m.
1960— May 2 . 7:12 p.m.
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YOUR UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA — 1972 — When
the University of Alaska received a $30,000 grant from
two “ouUside” foundations, the institution hired a team
of unbiased educational consultants to formulate a long
range plan for Alaska’s university. The above is a model
of the campus as it will appear one decade from now.
All unnumbered buildings in this photograph are dor
mitories, campus apartment houses and faculty resi
dences. Numbered buildings are as follows: 1. Field
House; 2. Gymnasium; 3. Auditorium and Museum; 4.
Fine Arts and Humanities; 5. Academic and Adminis
tration (existing); 6. Engineering (existing); 7. School
of Mines (existing); 8. Food Service; 9. Dormitory (ex
isting); 10. Dormitory (existing); 11. Dormitory (ex
isting); 12. Women’s Dormitory (existing); 13. Aca
demic: 14. Geophysical Institute (existing); 15. Stu
dent Union; 16, to 20 Academic; 21, 12-unit apartment
house (existing) ;22,12-unit apartment house (existing).