Folksy Old-Time Star
A1 Pearce Passes
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. UP>—
A1 Pearce, who delighted radio au
diences as Elmer Blurt, the sales
man who knocked on doors and
said, “nobody home, I hope, I
hope, I hope,” is dead at 62.
The folksy oldtime star died
Friday of complications from an
ulcer operation.
Investments and the radio ca
reer that began in 1926 in San
Francisco brought him millions.
He was best known as master of
ceremonies of his own variety
show, “A1 Pearce and His Gang.”
Its characters included Tizzie
Lish, a screechy-voiced spinster
who gave recipes and talked of
eternally hoped-for romance, and
Arlene Harris with her brezzy
monologues concerning husband
George.
Besides Blurt, Pearce played
EB of EB and Zeb, a rural-style
comedy pair. The past two years
he had been doing TV commer
cials.
Alaska Airlines Shows
A Net Profit of
$695,158 for 1960
SEATTLE (4*1 — Alaska Airlines,
Inc., in its annual report to stock
holders, points up a record net
profit of $695,158 for I960 or
$1.09 per share of 636,218 com
mon shares outstanding.
The net profit figure a non
operating income of $99,139.
In 1959 the company had a re
stated loss of $220,753.
Operating revenues in 1960 also
reached an all-time high of $9,
405,955, a gain of 17 per cent
from 1959’s figure of $8,029,072.
i Charles F. Willis, president,
described 1960 as “a remarkably
eventful year” for the company.
Alaska Airlines bought its first
pure jet aircraft, streamlined its
route structure to strengthen its
l mainline trunk operations, estab
j lished a new training center for
its own and other airline person
1 nel, and negotiated a final per
; manent mail rate with the Civil
Aeronautics Board.
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68-Year-()ld Man
\Y ins All-Expense
Paid Trip to Alaska
BELLINGHAM, Wash. —
The pages of the past will come
alive again for a 68-year-old
Bellingham man ill with throat
cancer and his bride of 47 years
when they board a jet liner for
Alaska this summer.
Clarence Gordon Shea, who
spent more than a quarter of a
century in Alaska, learned in a
telephone call he had won an
eight-day, all-expense trip to
Alaska for two and a $1,000 cash
prize.
The contest, sponsored by the
Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce,
was for the best letter of 50 words
or less telling why the writer
would like to visit Alaska.
Shea, who went to Alaska with
his father as a boy of six in the
gold rush days of ’98, headed his
entry “Twlight Dream.”
“Back to my boyhood home,
God’s country, the northland,”
he wrote. “. . . Maybe some old
prospectors left to shake my hand.
... To see the modern buildings
where our cabins once stood. I
was the first white child carried
over Chilkoot pass to Dawson —
by man — now to be carried by
jet.”
Shea said he lived with his
father in gold camps throughout
Alaska but never made his home
in Fairbanks. In 1911, though, he
made a 1,400-mile round-trip by
dog team from Iditarod, in the
West-Central area, to Fairbanks.
He was a deputy marshal and
Indian agent during his stay in
Alaska. He moved to Seattle in
1925 and was a captain in the
Washington State Patrol before
his retirement.
Shea and his wife, Ida, live
here in a house trailer. He only
recently returned from Vancou
ver, B. C., where he received co
balt treatment for his throat
cancer.
Bible Baptist Church
To Have Special Showing
Of “Suicide Mountain”
There will be a special showing
of the motion picture, “Suicide
Mountain,” tonight and tomorrow
night, at 7:30 at the Bible Baptist
Church. This film is the thrilling
true story of the conversion of a
Japanese couple who contemplated
suicide at the mountain. Also
(known to the Japanese as Suicide
Mountain).
This true story describes in de
tail how a simple gospel tract led
to the conversion of this Japanese
man and his wife right at the
time they were about to take their
own lives.
This film is of feature length,
filmed in Japan, in color, and in
the midst of breathtaking scenery,
is a heart touching, soul stirring,
miraculous, Evangelical story that
you will long remember. The
showing will be FREE and NO
OFFERING will be taken. This
film IS NOT a doctrinal nor a
denominational motion picture.
It is free to the public and
well worth your time to see.
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Record-Breaking B-/58
Bomber Crashes Near
Paris—Claims Three Lives
PARIS iff) — A supersonic B-58
bomber crashed and burned Sat
urday killing all three crewmen
aboard. It was just eight days
after setting a new transatlantic
record of 3Ms hours.
The U. S. Air Force bomber,
called the Hustler, crashed in a
farm field about 10 miles north of
Paris. It had just taken off dur
ing an International Air Show at
Le Bourget Air Field. It swept
past the control tower, then dis
appeared.
The plane crashed about 800
yards from the nearest home.
The kerosene fuel caught fire,
sending up flames and smoke.
Huge craters, some three or four
yards across, were cut into the
ground by plummeting wreckage.
About 10 fire trucks were soon
at the scene playing their hoses
on the wreckage.
The B-58’s flight May 26 was
to celebrate the 34th anniversary
of Charles A. Lindbergh’s solo
New York-Paris flight.
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
FOR THE STATE OF ALASKA
SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT
No. 60-20P
NOTICE OF FINAL HEARING
In the Matter of the Estate of
JOHN KARAMETROS, Deceased
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the
Administrator with Will Annexed of the
Estate of John Karametros. Deceased,
has filed his Final Account and the
Superior Court, State of Alaska, Second
District, has fixed 10 o’clock, a.m., on
the 28th day of July, 1961, at the Court
room of the Presiding Judge at the
Courthouse, Nome, Alaska, as the time
and place for hearing and settling same.
At said time and place said Court will
also adjudicate the heirs and legatees
of said decedent and will make an order
for final distribution of said estate. All
persons having objections thereto should
appear or file them in said Court at or
before said time.
Dated at Nome, Alaska, this 26th day
of May, 1961.
/s/ HUGH GILBERT
Judge of the Superior Court
Publish May 29, June 5, 12, 19. 1961.
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SBA Announces Revised
Leaflet Explaining
Coverage of Loans
Edward T. Brelm, branch man
ager of the Small Business Ad
ministration for this area, an
nounced today that copies of a
revised leaflet explaining the
broadened coverage of the agen
cy’s limited loan participation
plan are available on request at
the local SBA Office, located at
610 C St., Anchorage, Alaska.
The revised leaflet points out
that SBA’s share in one of these
loans may now be as much as
$25,000 or 75 per cent of the
total amount of the loan, which
ever is the lesser. Previously, the
SBA share was limited to $15,000.
These loans are made entirely
through and serviced by banks,
with the bank taking at least 25
per cent as its share in the loan.
Maximum maturity of these loans
is 5 years, with a monthly re
payment schedule, including prin
cipal and interest.
The maximum interest rate on
SBA’s share of these loans is 5*/ij
per cent, except in areas classi
fied by the U. S. Department of
Labor as having a substantial la
bor surplus. In these distress
areas, the SBA interest rate is
4 pef cent.
Financial troubles break up
many marriages, but prosperity
is no guarantee of marital hap
piness. Wealthy America has the
world’s highest divorce rate,
money-poor Ireland one of the
lowest.
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DAILY SERVICE
FAIRBANKS
— NOME —
KOTZEBUE
Flight 311 DAILY Flight 312
Lv. Fairbanks *8:00 a.m. Ar. Nom» 9:10 a.m.
Lv. Nome 1:30 p.m. Ar. Kotzebue 2:15 p.m.
Lv. Kotzebue 2:45 p.m. Ar. Fairbanks *5:35 p.m.
Flight 309 Flight 310
DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY
Lv. Fairbanks * 2:30 p.m. Ar. Kotzebue 4:05 p.m.
Lv. Kotzebue 5:00 p.m. Ar. Nome 6:10 p.m.
Lv. Nome 7:00 p.m. Ar. Fairbanks *10:55 p.m.
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* Alaska Standard Time—All other times Bering Standard
POLAR SEA TOURS
--- Start June 5 ---
Twice weekly -- Nome to Barrow
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