Voter Qualifications
Labeled Too Strict
FAIRBANKS. UP\ — The Alaska
Constitution was read aloud in
some interior precincts as a test
of voter qualifications in Tues
day’s election.
Alaskans can vote, the Consti
tution provides, if they can “read
or speak the English language.”
The estimated 15,000 Indians,
Aleuts and Eskimos are citizens
and have the same ballot rights
as others of voting age among
the new State’s 215,000 residents.
The Rev. Bob Green, Episco
pal minister at Tanacross, com
plained that election officials at
the village of Northway were
taking the constitutional provi
sion too seriously. He told the
Fairbanks News-Miner Indians
were being refused ballots if
they couldn’t read the constitu
tion’s preamble all the way
through without error.
The official Bureau of Census
estimates, for Alaska July 1, 1956,
was 206,000. Our current estimate
of population for Alaska is 220,
000. Of the 220000 approximately
50,000 are military.
NUCLEAR SCIENTIST
DEAD IN CALIF.
PALO ALTO, Calif. UPC-Ernest
O. Lawrence, nuclear fission
pioneer and Nobel Prize winner,
died last night after surgery at
Palo Alto Hospital. He was 57.
Dr. Lawrece had suffered ul
cerative colitis for years, his doc
tor said.
The director of the University
of California’s radiation labora
tory had joined other top-level
scientists at Geneva in an inter
national conference on scientific*
detection of nuclear explosions,
but was forced by illness to fly
home last month.
Dr. Lawrence Invented the
atom shattering cyclotron, an in
strument for converting one ele
ment into another, in 1930. His
first one cost $25.
He built one of the word’s great
scientific laboratories around his
cyclotrons on the University’s
Berkeley campus. The instru
ments played a key role in devel
oping the first nuclear bomb,
producing the first self-exploding
uranium 235.
From the laboratory, which
Lawrence has directed since 1936,
came numerous discoveries of the
nature of matter, new substances
to fight disease and promote ag
riculture, science and industry.
Dr. Lawrence won the Nobel
Prize in 1939 for his cyclotron
discovery.
NOTICE TO PIONEERS
A special meeting of Pioneer
Igloo No. 1 will be held Wednes
day Sept. 3. Matters of import
ance to be considered. A full
attendance is desired.
Axel Edmaii, President
Three Engineering
Scholarships At
Alaska University
Three $350 scholarships to stu
dy engineering at the University
of Alaska this year, have recent
ly been established by Alaska
Airlines o f Seattle, through
Charles F. Willis, Jr., the com
pany’s president.
One scholarship will go to a
graduate from each of three pub
lic high schools — Anchorage,
Fairbanks and Nome.
“This is a splended opportu
nity for some young student to
help defray university expenses,”
Dr. Ernest N. Patty. U. of A. pres
ident, said, “if speed is used to
apply and establish qualifica
tions by September 7.
Those interested in the grants
should, immediately, contact the
high school superintendent or the
main Alaska Airlines official in
one of the three cities.
The scholarships are for a
period of one year, and prefer
ence will be given to students
with an interest and aptitude for
study in aeronautical engineering
or commercial aviation admin
istration.
Selection for the grants will be
made by the University scholar
ship committee on the basis of
charcter, scholarship, and need,
after receiving nominations from
the high school superintendent.
Recipients of the Alaska Air
lines scholarship must maintain
a “B” average at the University
or the remainder of the grant
will be forfeited at the end of the
first semester. In future years the
selections will be made in the
spring so that the award winners
can be announced at .Jnigh school
commencement.
Lt. Bill Caldwell of the 1st
Scout Battalion, ANG, who has
been at tjie Infantry Training
School at Fort Benning, Ga., re
turned with his wife after a 3
months training period where he
took the basic infantry officers’
course.
M-Sgl. Wm. J. (Pappy) Gran
field of the Army Advisory Board
to the ANG, is retiring after 21
years’ service. Granfield, who
has been stationed here for
the past five years, and extended
a year ago, plans to remain
around here, he stated.
Jean Short, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. John Short, left yester
day for Fairbanks, where she will
have dental work done while
waiting for her parents, who will
leave later. The family will then
go down the highway to the
States for a winter Outside.
WEATHER FORECAST
Cloudy with rain, drizzle and
fog. Southwest winds, 15-25 miles
per hour, little change in temper
ature. Low tonight 40, high to
morrow 50.
ADMITTED TO THE HOSPITAL
Karen Thomas, Annette Pas
quan, Mischa Charles.
Discharged: Frank Scott Jr.,
Jack Bogue, Hazel Nuipok, Clin
ton Gray, Elizabeth Swbenna,
Margaret Rock, Lena Hoogendom
and infant, and Jack Hefner.
Seward Legion Man To
National Convention
SEWARD. UP) — For the first
time, Seward Post No. 5, Amer
ica Legion, wil be represented at
the national convention of the
American Legion.
The post, by one means or an
other, with have several delegates
at the convention but the most
colorful undoubtedly will be H.
Everett Hoy, past Commander of
the Seward post and currently its
historian as well as adjutant of
the Western district.
Hoy, who bills himself as “Old
Sourdough Bill,” will fly to the
convention at his own expense.
He wears a beard and will be
in full oldtime Alaskan style —
packboard, snowshoes, gold-pan
and six-shooter — empty.
Old Sourdough 'Bill is not quite
the real McCoy, however. He has
only been in Alaska 25 years.
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WHEN IN THE MARKET FOR EQUIPMENT AND TOOLS
XT WILL PAY YOU TO INVESTIGATE THE MANY LINES WE REPRESENT
Allis-Chalmers Mfg. Co. Tractors, Pumps
Belt Drives, Electrical Equipment
Baker Manufacturing Co.Dozers and Plows
DeLaval Steam Turbine Co... Pumps
Detroit Diesel Engine Die. .Diesel Engines
Gar Wood Industries .„. ’Dozers
Gates Rubber Company . Belts
Hobart Manufacturing Company . Welders
Hydraulic Supply Mfg. Company . Pipe
Jaeger Pumps, Compressors, Concrete Mixers
A. Leschen & Sons Rope Co. . Wire Jtope
Lincoln Engineering Co. Greasing Equipment
Mallory . Blocks
Onan ... Light Plants
Owaionna Tool Co... Hand Tools
Power Machinery Co. . Power Saws
S K F Industries .. Bearings
Smith Welding Equip. Corp. Welding Tools
Thew - Lorain Shovel Co. .... Cranes & Shovels
Thor.Pneumatic Tools, Electric Saws
Timken Roller Bearing Co. . Bearings
Willard Batteries . Batteries
Wisconsin Motors . Motors
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