7lh Special Forces
\\ i*I Test Alaskans
Cold Weather
One of the most unique roles to
be played during Exercise Willow
Freeze will be staged by members
of the 7th Special Forces (Air
borne!, from Fort Bragg, N. C.
Training conducted by this
group will be in accordance with
its mission, testing the operation
under cold weather conditions.
The group consists of approxi
mately 100 men who will be split
into two groups. One group will
be stationed at Camp Denali at
Fort Richardson, while the other
will be divided into five 11-man
teams to operate at Nome, Wales,
Point Hope, Kotzebue and Gam
bell.
The five smaller teams will
operate independently, carrying
out their own phases of the opera
tion. Each team consists of a
commander and an executive offi
cer as well as an operations ser
geant and an intelligence ser
geant. In addition, there are two
medical aid men, two demolitions
specialists, two weapons special
ists and two communications men.
All of these men are cross
trained so they can fill any other
job in the team in the event this
becomes necessary.
The mission of Special Forces
is to infiltrate behind the enemy
lines by land, sea or air; to or
ganize, train, supply, control and
direct a force for guerrilla action.
They are highly trained special
ists in an unconventional type of
warfare.
Maj. Joseph Thomson command
ed a five-man advance party to
Alaska in November to train with
Air National Guard pilots. The ob
ject was to give the pilots train
ing in getting the men out of the
aircraft over a drop zone. This
was the first time ANG planes
were used for actual tactical
troop drops. Practice was held at
Claxton Drop Zone, Fort Richard
son and at Nome.
The main body of the Special
Forces group, commanded by Maj.
Thomson, arrived in Alaska in
early December, and the five
man teams were sent almost im
mediately to Fort Greely for cold
weather indoctrination. They will
remain at Fort Greely until the
opening of the maneuver.
Special Forces stresses small
unit integrity, and instructors at
the Cold Weather and Mountain
School have tried, wherever pos
sible, to maintain this unit co
hesion.
This marks the second time that
Special Forces have operated in
Alaska, having operated for a
short period during Exercise Lit
tle Bear in 1960.
This year, the group will be
operating away from the actual
maneuver area, and will be work
ing with members of the 2nd
Scout Battalion, Alaska National
Guard.
Operations of the force will
bring to fore the “One Army”
concept; regular Army being para
dropped by Air National Guard
to work with Army National
Guard during Exercise Willow
Freeze.
This operation is scheduled
here in Nome Feb. 9 and 11.
TV TOWER IN MOSCOW
WILL BE 1,664 FEET HIGH
MOSCOW UPl — Work has begun
on a Moscow TV tower to be
nearly as high as the Empire
State Building. Tass, the Soviet
News Agency, said yesterday the
tower will be 1.664 feet high. The
Empire State Building is 1,694
feet, including its TV antenna.
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Audit Committee
Unahle to Locate
Airport Fund^
JUNEAU l/P* — Legislative Au
dit Division Supervisor George
Morrison testified yesterday his
auditors were unable to locate the
Airport Construction Revolving
Fund in the books of the Division
of Aviation.
Morrison’s testimony came on
the third day of an exhaustive
investigation by the Senate into
Legislative Audit Committee re
ports on various state agencies.
Sen. R. J. McNealy, who
brought out that Morrisson is not
a certified public accountant, al
though testimony was offered in
dicating Morsison had done a
large share of the work on the
Aviation Division’s books for the
Audit Committee, asked:
“In your examination of the
records of any department, did
you find any shortage of funds?”
Morrison replied:
“I would say the records of
some were such that we could not
find some funds.”
McNealy’s question was later
tied specifically to the Airport
Construction Revolving Fund. The
Legislative Audit Committee has
called the books of the Division
of Aviation “inauditable.”
Robert L. Dyer, Legislative Au
ditor, told the Senate there are
actually three Airport Construc
tion Revolving Funds, one for
the period prior to June 30, 1959,
which was replenished automat
ically from aviation fuel taxes,
and separate ones for fiscal 1960
and fiscal 1961.
The Senate questioning of var
ious witnesses was particularly
intense in regard to the unauthor
ized transfer of funds appropri
ated by the Legislature for speci
fic purposes, including travel
funds.
Witnesses Called to Testify
During the course of the 3-hour
afternoon session, the Senate call
ed as witnesses Mrs. Elaine Doore,
an employe in the Department of
Education’s accountant’s office;
Richard J. Penrod, the chief ac
countant for the department;
State Librarian, Helen Dirtadian;
and assistant education commis
sioner, Theron F. Borden.
All four were questioned close
ly about a statement in the Leg
islative Audit Committee’s re
port which indicated that the
State Attorney General’s office
had orally cleared the transfer
of travel money to other pur
poses.
Miss Dirtadian told the Senate
she was the one who actually re
quested transfer of the Travel
Funds to other purposes. She said
she did so because had the Travel
funds remained unspent, the
state would have lost federal
matching funds of 2-1.
Sen. John Coghill, Chairman of
the Legislative Audit Committee,
expressed concerned at the lack
of compliance by a majority of
state agencies with a request by
the committee two years ago for
an inventory of equipment.
“When it comes time again to
appropriate money for equip
ment, I’m going to be pretty
stingy,” Coghill said.
Science has found that a new
born baby is 77 per cent water . . .
Most veteran fathers we have
talked to feel this figure is too
low.
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Actor Held on
$50,000 Bond for
Back Alimony
J
ORLANDO, Fla. M — “This is
a nightmare,” actor Cameron
| Mitchell said of the circumstances
1 that are keeping him in Orange
"ounty Jail under $50,090 bond
because his former wife says he
I is delinquent in alimony pay
ments.
Unless he can raise the bond
j he may lose the starring role in
j a 39-week television series called
| “The Beachcomber” being filmed
i here.
Mitchell, 42, failed in two ef
j forts for freedom. Circuit Judge
! Frank A. Smith said he could see
| no substantial guarantee the actor
| would remain here under juris
I diction of the court unless the
; high bond remained in effect.
“Why can’t I talk?” Mitchell
kept asking his attorneys during
the hearing.
After the judge ended the hear
| ing, Mitchell fell to his knees
; with hands clasped.
“Please, your Honor,” he cried,
j “In the name of Jesus Christ —
my father was a minister — let
1 me talk, please. My very life is
at stake.”
Judge Smith ordered Mitchell
taken from the courtroom.
The TV and movie actor ap
parently will remain in Orange
County Jail until March 6, when
a hearing is scheduled on his
wife’s complaint, unless he raises
! the $50,000 bond.
One of Mitchell’s attorneys said
| so far as he knows the actor
“doesn’t have enough to put up
a SFino bond, much less $50,000.”
Mitchell said he gave his wife
everything when they separated
5Vfc years ago after 16 years of
marriage.
“I have nothing now,” he told
a reporter.
He said he has to pay his wife
about 40 per cent of his gross
income under an interlocutory de
cree issued in California last
May. Papers filed in the case in
dicated he was ordered to pay her
24 per cent.
“I have to live too,” he said.
“Forty per cent for her, 10 pe
cent to an agent, 5 per cent to a
manager — it all comes to about
128 per cent.
“I paid her $2,050 a month for
five years. I come from a poor
family. When I think of these
sums of money she’s spending, I
get sick inside. That’s all we
used to fight about was money.”
His wife Johanna, daughter of
a wealthy meat packer lives in
Pacific Palisades, Calif., with
their four children.
RULE CHANGES ! ! !
DIMONDALE, Mich. —
Special rules have been drawn up
for two benefit basketball games
planned between the Ladies of
Dimondale and Potterville to
benefit the March of Dimes.
Rule changes specified:
1. No long fingernails.
2. All rings must be removed.
3. Ladies must control their
tempers.
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Importation of Reindeer
Provided a New
Industry for Alaska
By Robert Grant
Although reindeer were into
1 duced into Alaska in the last ten
years of the 19th Century, few
people know a great deal about
the industry. Here are a few ran
dom statements that might be of
interest:
Originally, approximately 1,200
animals formed the nucleus, most
of them being in the vicinity of
Teller.
The main purpose of importa
tion was to provide food for Es
kimos in view of the threatened
game depletion and provide an in
dustry for Eskimo people.
All reindeer in Alaska are
owned by Eskimos or by the U. S.
Federal Government.
Skins are utilized for bedding
and the making of garments. The
meat, including heart, liver and
tongue is used for food, some of
it being sold in commercial mar
kets.
Reindeer can be used for pack
| ing. A few are still used for
drawing sleds for herd camps in
winter.
Some live reindeer are sold to
I purchasers in the lower 48 states
I each year for display purposes.
The average grown reindeer in
Alaska stands about lOVfc hands
I high (42 inches). An adult steer
or bull, four to five years of age !
may stand near 50 inches tall. A
good steer in prime condition
killed in November may dress 200
, pounds.
Reindeer fawns at birth weigh
from 7 to 16 pounds and will
double their birth weight in 14
to 16 days.
A small well-balanced herd
• 1,200) reindeer) on the Alaska
mainland can be expected to show
a 55 to 60% fawn crop each sea
son. The percentage is calculated
on the number af adult females
only. Some yearlings will general
ly have fawns also.
An old U. S. Department of
Agriculture bulletin, no longer in
print, lists 200,000 square miles
of range land in Alaska especial
ly suited to raising reindeer. The
bulletin states that “the carry
ing capacity of such an area
should be approximately 4,000,
000 reindeer.”
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Wisecrack of the week: Asked
by his wife and three children
what he wanted for his birthday,
actor Walter Slezak sighed, “a
chance to use the telephone.” 11
SERVING YOUR FAMILY
TO PREVENT
CRIPPLING DISEASES
Statement of Dr. Albert B. Sabin,
who developed the Sabin oral polio
vaccine through research supported
by the March of Dimes:
"I wish to express my appreciation
to The National Foundation for
its faith in my work, expressed
through grants of March of Dimes
funds totaling $1,500,000. (
"For 22 years The National Foun
dation’s broad medical research
program has opened new doors in
the whole field of virology. It was
these breakthroughs that made
antipolio vaccines possible.
“I wish also to express my thanks to
the American people, whose con
tributions to the March of Dimes
made it possible for The National
Foundation to support my work."
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Gem lore: In ancient days the
diamond was thought to protect
its owner against poisoning . . .
and aristrocrats wore an emerald
an their forehead to cure them of
aye diseases.
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