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Tour Industry
Leaders Present
Promotion Plan
JUNEAU, i/Pi — A stormy con
ference on Alaska’s tourist in
dustry broke up at noon today
after leaders in the field pre
sented the state with a plan for
the tourist program for the bal
ance of fiscal 1961.
The program is a multi-faceted
plan including recommendations
for industry promotion, general
advertising, consumer promotion,
small resorts and promotion.
The program was mapped out
by.some 70-80 leaders of the tour
ist industry in Alaska before Lee
A. Johnson, state Director of
Tourism and Economic Develop
ment.
Among major recommendations
were the following:
That the state establish a pro
gram of invitational tours for
travel writers. The tours would
be designed to fit the needs of
the individual writer taking part.
That delegates to the Western
Regional Meeting of the American
Society of Travel Agents at Har
rison Hot Springs, B.C., April 30
May 2 be invited to tour Alaska
following the convention.
That the state Division of Tour
ism promote an Alaska Week
throughout the country in early
May, and that the tourist in
dustry have its own Alaska Week
in February or March for adver
tising purposes.
That Alaska adopt a tourist
program similar to that of the
Hawaii Visitors Assn., based on
12 months of operation each year,
not just aimed at the summer
tourist season.
That semi-disposable displays
be prepared by the Division with
the aid of the tourist industry for
use by airline offices and travel
agents around the country.
That a complete guide of re
sorts in Alaska be prepared, list
ing what facilities each has and
what activities are available to
the visitor at each resort.
That the efforts of the Divi
sion’s news bureau be directed to
placing items of interest about
Alaska in news media outside of
Alaska, rather than aiming at the
Alaskan reader.
That schools of hospitality be
conducted for persons whose
work takes them in direct con
tact with tourists.
One tourist executive, Charles
B. West of Seattle, said the legis
lature should be asked to approve
a minimum appropriation of
$250,000 for tourism in fiscal 1962.
The meeting ended on a peace
ful note. Angry statements made
yesterday were forgotten, at least
on the surface, as the tourist ex
ecutives worked on their recom
mendations.
Democrats Will Recommend
Man For Beltz's Senate Seat
To Gov. Egan On Dec. 8
December 8 is the date set for
the Democratic Committee of this
area to meet and make a recom
mendation to Gov. Egan of a per
son to the coveted seat of Bill
Beltz in the State Senate. Chair
man Les Bronson said yesterday
that several names are already
under consideration.
Sen. Beltz’s term would have
run until January 1963, but who
ever is appointed will hold the
office only until the next general
election.
Eskimo Scouts Will
Participate In Kennedy
Inaugural Day Parade
JUNEAU, UP)— The State hopes
to send two platoons from Alas
ka’s Eskimo Scout Battalions to
participate in the inaugural par
ade for President-elect John F.
Kennedy Jan. 20, Gov. William A.
Egan said today.
Egan, who plans to attend the
inauguration of Kennedy himself,
said he has also asked the De
fense Department to permit the
Elmendorf Air Force Base Band
from Anchorage to represent the
State in the inaugural parade.
Egan said the two platoons of
Scouts, one from the 1st Scout
Battalion and the other from the
2nd Scout Batalion, haven’t been
selected as yet. The Scouts would
be flown to Washington in a Na
tional Guard plane.
There is also the possibility,
Egan said, that one of the three
dog teams Eskimo Scouts main
tain might be sent to Washington,
too, but the governor said no de
cision on this has been made.
Heintzleman Will Head
Alaska March of Dimes
B. Frank Heintzleman, former
governor of Alaska and a lead
ing figure in Alaska’s progress
and development, will lead Alas
ka State volunteers in the New
March of Dimes next January.
The appointment to head the
March of Dimes campaign against
birth defects, arthritis and polio
in the State of Alaska was an
nounced today from New York by
Basil O’Connor, president of The
National Foundation. Governor
Heintzleman succeeds Dr. Ernest
N. Patty, former president of the
University of Alaska, to this im
portant volunteer post.
In accepting the appointment
Gov. Heintzleman said, “The New
March of Dimes next January
will emphasize the need for great
er public understanding of the
problems of birth defects, arth
ritis and residual polio. Few of us
realize how many Americans are
affected. One out of every 16
babies is born with a significant
birth defect and at least 11 mil
lion Americans have arthritis or
rheumatism.
“The prevention of birth de
fects and arthritis are the new
goals that have been added to the
March of Dimes’ continuing fight
against crippling diseases and the
March of Dimes is on its way to
solving these problems with the
same skills that were brought to
bear against polio,” he concluded.
Kennedy’s Margin Over
Nixon is 180,180 Votes
WASHINGTON, UP) —Although
Republicans were challenging the
Nov. 8 election results in some
areas, President - elect John F.
Kennedy held a margin of 180,180
votes today over Vice President
Nixon.
Only 181 precincts, scattered
among six states, remained unre
ported in those figures, based on
official returns from 31 states
and unofficial tabulations in the
other 19.
The totals at this point gave
Kennedy 34,120,496 votes and
Nixon 33,940,316. The total for
the two already surpassed 68 mil
Republicans were charging that |
Republicans were charged that
in some precincts in Texas and Il
linois, more votes were tabulated
than the number of registered
voters.
New Orleans
Mothers Blockade
School Integration
NEW ORLEANS, UP> — Federal
judges smashed Louisiana’s legal
roadblocks to school integration
today but screaming, running
housewives kept up their stub
born blockade.
The boycott of the integrated
schools tightened, leaving the
four six-year-old Negro girls vir
tually in segregation for the third
day this week. Only two white
girls attended William Frantz;
none McDonough No. 19 school.
Under this public tension, three
federal judges stood firm, order
ing integration to proceed as de
creed by U.S. District Court.
In so doing, the judges leveled
the barrier of interposition — a
theory under which the state
places its sovereignty between the
Federal government and the
people.
And the judges issued tempor
ary injunctions to keep Gov. Jim
mie Davis and practically every
state official from interfering.
The city of New Orleans —
known around the world as a
pleasure point —stood riven by
the passions of segregation. On
Bourbon Street, the bars and strip
joints prepared for another night
of drinking and Dixieland.
At the uptown home of Dr.
James F. Redmond, superintend
ent of schools, and at his down
town office, post office employes
delivered hundreds of plain en
velopes, each containing a one
dollar bill. The largesse was
started flowing by a group that
wanted to show their respect for
Dr. Redmond.
The legislature, which finally
came up with the November pay
of the ciy’s teachers, failed to pay
Dr. Redmond.
A mother picketing William
FYantz School greeted announce
ment of the court’s decision with:
“It doesn’t mean a damn. We
are going to have segregated
schools.”
Police Say Alessio
Kidnapers were Bunglers
SAN DIEGO, l/P—Kidnapers of
rich sportsman Anthony Alessio
were bunglers who “left trails a
mile wide,” a police official says.
Five suspects have been ar
rested. Federal agents believe one
or two more members of the gang
may still be at large. About
$83,000 of the $200,000 ransom
paid for Alessio’s release has been
recovered.
Alessio, one of seven brothers
prominent in Southern California
business circles, was kidnaped in
San Diego at gunpoint by two
men on Nov. 22, released un
harmed more than 24 hours later
after the ransom was paid.
Three persons were arrigned
here yesterday on a state charge
of kidnaping which is punishable
on conviction by life imprison
ment with possible parole after
7V4 years because the victim was
unharmed. Arraigned were James
Robert Gorman, 29, escaped con
vict; his wife, Ruby, 30, and Sel
ma Marrone, 25. Each was held in
lieu of $210,000 bail.
Two others were arrested yes
terday. They are Richard Lee
Hoffman, 24, named by the FBI ■
as one of the gunmen who ab
ducted Alessio from his drive
way, and Frank Marrone, 31, a
convicted Alaska murderer await
ing appeal.
World Helps Winston
Churchill Celebrate
His 86th Birthday
LONDON, UP)—The amazing Sir
Winston Churchill got up today
as he had forecast to celebrate his
86th birthday — a sentimental
event that was being hailed
around the world.
It was only 15 days ago that i
Britain’s wartime leader tripped
over a rug in his bedroom and
fractured a small bone in his
back.
For an 86-year-old man—who’s
had heart attacks, pneumonia and
other ailments—his rapid recov
ery is just short of staggering.
Friends and admirers, the high
and the humble from all over the
earth flooded the statesmen with
greetings and gifts.
Hyde Park Gate, the quiet little
dead-end street on which he lives,
was jammed with traffic as birth
day remembrances rolled in on
a tide of delivery trucks and
bicycles.
They came from Queen Eliza
beth II, President Eisenhower, i
foreign rulers, potentates, old |
friends, little children—and even |
junk man Chris Shephard, who
drove his horse and cart to
Churchill’s door to offer good
wishes.
The indestructable Churchill
celebrated the day with a 100
pound cake soaked in his favorite
brandy.
UNNERVING
ONTARIO, Calif., UP)—Answer
ing the doorbell, a housewife trip
ped over her son’s toy gun and
picked it up.
The salesman she encountered
turned pale and ran, vaulting a
3-foot fence.
Mrs. Bernard Pennine told pol
ice yesterday that she discovered
her son, Jimmie, 15, had put on
the front door a sign reading:
“We shoot every third sales
man, and the second one just
left.”
Bullock Set to Start
Barge Service to Hawaii
(Fairbanks News-Miner(
HONOLULU — A pioneer in
Alaska’s sea-river barge service
has announced operation with a
20 to 25 per cent reduction in
freight rates.
Jack Bullock, president of Pa
cific Inland Navigation Co. of
Vancouver, Wash., said the first
barge will leave the northwest on
Jan. 1, arriving Honolulu Jan. 16.
Bullock said he will soon file
tariffs with the Federal Maritime
Board. The tariffs will include
fully-insured bills of lading from
20 to 25 per cent less than exist
ing rates.
Present rates of $36 per 1,000
board feet on bundle lumber
would be reduced to $28.80 de
livered to Honolulu docks, Bul
lock said.
Pacific Inland operates some
45 barges and 30 tugs. The com
pany owns Barge 539, largest in
the world.
Bullock spent 25 years in Al
aska where he pioneered barge
service for the DEW line. He con
trols Yutana Barge Lines, cover
ing 1,400 miles of river operation
on the Yukon, and the B & R
Tug and Barge Co. operating be
tween Nome and Point Barrow,
and the Selawik, Noatak and Ko
buk rivers.
Bullock also owns and operates
fuel terminal installations and
tank farms along the West Coast.
Three Local Men
Overdue Between
Nome and Galena
Moose hunters Bob Workman,
Ed Randell and Vernon Carlson
are believed to be lost in the area
between Koyukuk and Koyuk in
a plane owned by Randell but
flown by Workman.
When they became overdue
yesterday afternoon about three
o’clock, a flight was made by a
C-123 of the Air Force out of
Galena on the route the plane
was believed to have followed.
Galena to Koyuk to Ungalik, and
then it returned to Galena.
Pilot O. Allen, out of Galena,
made a search to Nulato but was.
forced back by the weather clos
ing in. A helicopter on a routine
training flight went to Koyukuk,
where the plane was reported
sighted yesterday morning, but no
other points including bush sta
tions of ACS and Granite Moun
tain, report having seen or heard
the plane.
Dick Forsgren is standing by
at Galena with a CAP Beaver
awaiting favorable weather and
another CAP pilot, Sutherland of
FAA is ready at Moses Point to
join the search.
The search is being directed
from Nome by Lt. Col. Dusty
Rhode of CAP, with three planes
standing by. The plan is to make
Moses Point the search headquar
ters when the weather improves.
The men on the lost plane are
known to have part of a moose
aboard. They were well dressed,
carried hunting gear and the
plane carried survival equipment.
It is felt here that unless they
are injured, they should be able
to provide for themselves.
The area to be searched will
be between Koyukuk and Koyuk.
Egan Accuses ‘Times’
Of Intimating He Is
Anti - Anchorage
JUNEAU, Uft— Gov. William A.
Egan yesterday accused the An
chorage Daily Times of attempt
ing to lead residents of Anchor
age to believe that he, Egan, is
anti-Anchorage.
In a trwo-page statement read at
the opening of a 10 a. m. news
conference, Egan said statements
that he has accused Anchorage of
promoting sectionalism in Alaska
were “utter falsehoods.”
“ . . . the ‘Anchorage Daily
Times’ has more than once car
ried such items in an obvious at
tempt to lead Anchorage citizens
to believe that he, Egan, is anti
Anchorage,” Egan’s statement
said.
The governor, normally jovial,
was deadly serious as newsmen
filed into his office. With few
words of greeting, he waited until
they had seated themselves, then
he said:
“I have one thing I would like
to say.”
Picking up two typewritten
sheets of paper, apparently cor
rected several times from visible
pencil marks, Egan started to
read the statement without fur
ther preliminaries.
The statement said “the type of
sectionalism” which he deplores
is that wherein commercial pur
veyors of the written word brain
wash their readers on a daily
basis to a degree where citizens
□f one area unwittingly begrudge
the good fortunes of another
area.”