Pilot Art Johnson and
Passenger Missing On
Flight from White Mt.
Art Johnson, Wien pilot and
Alaska legislator, is reported
I missing with a patient for the
hospital from White Mountain.
I The patient is Nora lone.
He reported in at 5 minutes to
11 this morning over Solomon and
. that was the last communication
H from him.
Two weasels are standing by,
Wk ready to leave on a search mission
§& as soon as the weather abates.
|||| Other air traffic is held up due
to the heavy storm with Alaska
H| Airlines’ flight, which arrived this
g|# morning, standing by to go to
Kotzebue, and Wien’s plane is
m standing by at Kotzebue, waiting
if to get into Name.
Two bush planes, piloted by
Porter Lockhard and Harold Pil
cher, who left Nome this morning
if landed at Teller and Kotzebue.
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Fullmer 3-1 Favorite to
Keep Middleweight Crown
»LAS VEGAS, Nev. UP) — The
critics’ concensus today was that
rugged Gene Fullmer and Benny
(Kid) Paret will travel the full
15-round distance in their fight
tomorrow night for Fullmer’s
share of the world middleweight
championship.
Spokesmen for Fullmer. 30,
from West Jordon, Utah, and his
rival from Cuba, who holds the
undisputed welterweight title,
seemed to rfgree.
Fulmer is a 3-1 betting favorite.
At stake will be his National
Boxing Assn, crown. It WHI be
his seventh defense since he won
the title from Carmen Basilio in
San Francisco Aug. 28, 1950.
Paret’s welterweight title will
not be at stake. As far as the
Nevada State Athletic Commis
sion is concerned, and apparently
the NBA as well, Paret, 24, will
reign over both the divisions if he
beats Fullmer.
$31 Million in Work
'rojects Slated for
Alaska in 1962
ANCHORAGE UP — Military
and civil works projects valued
at some $31 million will be con
structed within Alaska in 1962
under the administration of the
Army Engineers, the Alaska Dis
trict Office of the Engineers re
ports.
The planned military and civil
works construction program for
next year is approximately the
sape in valuation as the 1961
program.
The Alaska district office said
1962 military construction within
the state will amount to slightly
more than $28 million. Civil works
construction, primarily small boat
harbors, will total approximately
$3 million, a Army spokesman
said.
Henry D. Cherry Suffers
Fatal Heart Attack
Henry D. Cherry, 60, who has
been Nome’s barber since 1949
suffered a heart attack while at
work Wednesday and died shortly
after at the MMM Hospital.
“Cherry”, who came to Alaska
in 1932, has had barber shops
in Ketchikan, Fairbanks and An
chorage before making his home
in Nome.
He is survived iby his wife,
Helen. He was a member of the
Elks Lodge in Fairbanks.
A graveside service has beer
announced for tomorrow after
noon at 1:00, at Belmont Poin
(Mislay: |p.' •i
WEATHER OUTLOOK
Snow and blowing snow with
easterly winds 30 to 40 mph with
stronger gusts. Low tonight 25,
high tomorrow 25-30. In the Iasi
24 hours: High of 24, low of -16.
Max. wind 40 mph from east
northeast. Sunrise at 9:45 am.,
sunset at 2:03 p.m. Temps, a year
ago: High of 37, low of 31. Ex
tremes on this date since 1907:
High of 40 in 1934, low of -24 in
1916.
SHINE, MISTER? The above picture deplete the latest Lions
Club project to rake money ior charity, with Lion President
Don Perkins giving a shoe shine to Rotary President Herb
jeniisu The Lions are in business on Friday evenings at the
Aukruk Bowling Lanes. There is no set dharge ior a shine,
each person giving what they leel is Just payment, and the
Lions in nsm will use the money to support their Sight Conser
vation program and the PTA's School Milk Fuad. Tonight the
"shiners** at your service will be Don Perkins and Ed MorecaL
ABC Board Says
It’s Legal to Ship
Prepaid Liquor
The State Alcoholic Beverage
Control Board held a hearing here
Wednesday afternoon at the Su
perior Court Boom with Bill Ray
presiding, assisted by Bill Boehl
and Keith Rischl.
In his opening statement, Mr.
Hay stated the hearing was call
ed to get expressions of public
interest relative to liquor control
on three Specific problems: Club
licenses, juveniles and liquor, and
the controversial problem of ship
ping liquor into communities
which have voted themselves dry.
The first speaker was Paul
Mandeville, who asked an opinion
of the Board on the legality of
accepting orders for liquor by
mail with check accompanying the
order and he was informed it was
legal as there was nothing in the
law against personal possession of
liquor.
Ed Merdes, attorney from Fair
banks, representing the city of
Kotzebue proposed a ballot for
Kotzebue, whereby the people
would have a choice of three ways
to handle their problem: For or
against the sale of intoxicating
liquor; a legalized liquor store
controlled by the community with
proceeds for youth activities; or
for or against a “bone dry” com
munity.
In support of such a ballot sev
• eral members of the Council spoke
up, headed by their Mayor Bess
Cross. Speakers included Tony
Joule, James Hayes, Mary Good
win and Don Moline.
Fred Crane, attorney from Fair
banks, Kotzebue and Nome, who
stated he was a Kotzebue resi
dent, reviewed the court record
on cases relating to liquor and
offered several suggestions. It was
his belief that businesses should
be allowed to sell drinks to be
consumed on the premises, rather
than taking the bottle home. He
suggested that a place be insti
tuted where only ibeer was sold
and another for hard liquor.
He further stated that those
who wanted the community “dry”
and those who wanted it “wet”
would each have to give a little
and compromise on what was good
for the town.
The constitutionality of a dry
community in a wet state was dis
cussed.
Roger Wright, 4th Grade teach
er in the Nome School, spoke at
length on the moral aspects of
the sale of liquor.
INHUMAN TREATMENT . . .
NEW ALBANY, Ind. UR — “This
will 'give us a chance to know
each other better,” Edgar Bach
man told his wife and four chil
dren when they started experi
mental living in a fallout shelter
Oct. 18.
Mrs. Bachman blamed an al
lergy when she left the shelter a
week later with the youngest
ebiki.
But she told a different story
in the divorce suit die filed yes
terday—cruel and inhuman treat
ment by her husband, an unem
ployed state worker.
U.S. to Touch
Off Underground
Blast Sunday
CARLSBAD, N.M. Iff) — On
Sunday, U.S. scientists will touch
off an underground atomic blast
keyed to the Bible:
“. . . and they shall beat their
swords into plowshares.”
The sword this time is nuclear
explosives, the H-Bombs and A
BomJbs unleashing deadly blast,
fire and radiation.
The great new goal is to turn
these tremendous energies into
peace-time work horses, in the
Plowshare Program of the Atomic
Energy Commission.
Nuclear explosives might blast
out great harbors or canals, or
crush great stretches of ore-bear
ing rock.
Hie heat trapped underground
might generate electric power.
Radiation could create rich har
vests of radioactive atoms in
valuable in medicine, industry,
agriculture, and for science.
The Sunday explosion is the f
first step to test such possibilities,
and will be the world’s first i
known blast intended purely for ,
peaceful purposes. Foreign news- :
men and observers will be among
the witnesses.
I The ABC dug a million-dollar
I hole a quarter mile under the New
1 Mexico desert near here to ex
plode a nuclear device equal to
5,000 tons of TNT. That’s V* the.
energy of the Hiroshima bomb.
Experts do not expect it to blast
a crack up to the surface, or to
release any fallout into the air.
They dug a shaft 1,200 feet
straight down, then a horizontal
tunnel 1,116 feet through salt rock
ending in a chamber at the end
of a fishhook bend.
Officials are confident the blast
will not disturb the Carlsbad
Caverns, 34 miles to the west, or
potash mines or gas wells in the
general area.
But playing it safe, the caverns
won’t have any tourists under
ground at zero hour, set for 10
a.m., and potash miners working
on Sunday will be above ground
also.
From Project Gnome, as this
shot is named, scientists hope for
much new knowledge, and have
designed elaborate experiments.
Emergency Medical Care
WASHINGTON UP) — The gov
ernment is developing a 12-lesson
course to teach Americans how
to provide emergency medical
care for victims of a nuclear at
tack. It is expected to start in
some areas early next year.
DO THIS ONE I . . .
NEW YORK UP) — A group of
school athletes visiting deputy
mayor Paul Screvane’s City Hall
office were doing calisthenics yes
terday to dramatize President
Kennedy’s physical fitness pro
gram.
Suddenly, Screvane himself
squatted down and did a one
legged deep-knee bend.
“Let’s see you do this,” said
the wiry 47-year-old deputy
QMifQf*
The school athletes couldn’t.
_
Alex Maclnnes Named
Manager of Lomen
Commercial Co. Here
Alex Maclnnes, agent of iLomen.
Commercial Co. Division of Alaska
Steaxrapship Co., has been appoint
ed manager of the division here,
effective Dec. 1.
At the same time the Lomen
Co. becomes the Bering Sea re
presentative of Alaska Steam, J.
F. Zumdieck, assistant general
manager of the line said.
I Maclnnes replaces James O'Sul
llivan, who resigned after pur
1 chasing the Unalakleet Trading
Post.
A native of Ontario, Canada.
' Maclnnes first Joined the Lanen
organization in 1941. He was ap
pointed manager of the firm’s
general store and lighterage plant
at Golovin is 1942, He became
manager of Lomen’s Nome sales
office in 1945, general manager
in 1950 and agent in 1960.
Before going to Alaska, Mac
lnnes was auditor for the Port
of Port Angeles, which he served
from 1926 to 1938.
Lomen Commercial Co. \vjvww
purchased by Alaska Steam in
1957 and became a division of the
line in 1958.
The Lomen Co. is the distribu
tor for Standard Oil products and
markets a line of mining equip
ment and coal and lumber for the
Bering Sea area.
Maclnnes is well known to
Nomeites as a musician, being a
fine organist. He rebuilds and
iunes pianos as a hobby. Another
of Mac’s hobbies, according to
people also are supposed to be
know, is the knitting of the Mac
lnnes tartan, which, on this side
of “the pond” is hard to get.
“Mac” is also a well known
horticulturalist and has classified
and “preserved” many of the
area’s edible berries.
FRESH AIR and BEER . . .
COX’S COVE, NCd. UR — Fish
erman Peter Patrick, who believed
that beer and fresh air made a
long life, died yesterday at the
I age of 112.
Patrick said recently his life as
a fisherman was hard, but that
this was compensated for by “lots
of beer and lots of time in the
fresh air.” He celebrated his 112th
birthday with several bottles of
beer.
He is survived by his second
wife, Rebekah, SI, and two sons.
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