Robert Opland Is New
Aide to Fairbanks D.A.
Robert N. Opland, new assistant j
district attorney under District
Attorney William Taylor, arrived |
in Fairbanks last week and as
sumed his duties immediately.
Prior to coming to Fairbanks,
Opland was district magistrate in
Anchorage. From 1957-59 he was
U.S. Commissioner there.
He came to Alaska in 1938 at
the age of 10 and made his home
at Igloo. He received his J. D.
degree from the University of
North Dakota in 1955. Prior to
becoming U. S. commissioner at
Anchorage, he was in private
practice at Cordova.
Mrs. Opland and three children
will join Mr. Opland at Fair
banks in about a month.
Scientist Questions
Wisdom of Space Race
DALLAS, Tex., UP)—Dr. James
R. Killian says that the United
States might be unwise in spend
ing billions of dollars to launch a
man into space.
Killian, board chairman of the
Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology, spoke at a conference on
science and education in the U.S.
and the Soviet Union.
Killian was special assistant to
President Eisenhower for science
and technology from November,
1957, until he resigned last July.
He said the United States
should pursue its own objectives
in space science and exploration
and “not let the Soviets choose !
them for us by copying what they
do.”
“It may be argued that our man
in space program can hardly be
justified as a competitor with the
Soviet man in space program for
world prestige,” Killian said.
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EMILY POST DIES
NEW YORK, (/P) — Mrs. Emily
Post, 87, internationally famous
authority on the social graces,
•died Sunday at her East Side
home.
MMM HOSPITAL
Tolbert Scott was re-admitted
to the hospital. Also admitted was
Harry Boone and Clark Redda
way.
ISLANDERS WILL LEAVE ON
MS NORTH STAR OCT. 4
King Island and Diomede Is
land residents who plan to winter
on their home islands are sched
uled to depart on Oct. 4 on the
MS North Star which is due to
arrive here the middle of the
week.
Jump The Gun
CAMDE, Ark., l/PI—A 1961 Ford
made an early debut here. A thief
broke into the Sizeland Motor Co.,
local Ford dealer, and stole one
of the new models Friday.
It was found some time later
parked on a side street.
The new models were to be
shown Sept. 29.
PAA Jet Pilot Banfe
To Attempt Solo
Flight Around the World
LOS ANGELES, UR — Airline
pilot Chuck Banfe is taking 10
days off to fly around the world,
alone.
Banfe, 41, and the father of five
will head east from Honolulu Oct.
15 in a Beechcraft Bonanza load
ed with 275 gallons of fuel and
dozens of orchid leis. He’ll leave
during Honolulu’s “Aloha Week”
and will deliver leis around the
world.
Banfe, whose home is in Palo
Alto, Calif., announced his plans
at a news conference here.
He flies jetliners on Pacific
routes for Pan American World
Airways. His plane is a Bonanza
converted to twin engines and a
2,800-mile cruising range.
The last such solo flight in a
light plane was by Peter Gluck
mann in 1959. His flight, from
San Francisco, covered 22,000
miles — the same distance Banfe
hopes to cover. Gluckmann has
been missing since April 27 on a
flight from Tokyo to New York.
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U.S. Space Scientist
Believes Russians
Lose Astronauts
By VERN HAUGLAND
Associated Press Aviation Editor
SAN FRANCISCO, i*» — Brig.
General Don Flickinger, head of
the medical part of the Air Force
i Astronaut selection and training
program, said he personally be
I lieved the Russians have killed
I some of their astronauts in un
| successful attempts to put man
I into space.
, Flickinger said the Russians
j probably had hoped to win pro
I paganda points by orbiting nian
: ned space vehicles at the time of
j Premier Khrushchev’s visit to the
United Nations.
I He added he does not believe
; they have had any successes.
Flickinger also reported a pool
of 19 to 20 highly selected in
j dividuals already has been cho
! sen for the U.S. Dyna-Soar space
I glider program. This is in addi
tion to the seven Mercury astro
nauts training in the civil space
program. The first experimental
flights of the Dyna-Soar are about
three years away,
j Flickinger reported there were
i considerable differences of scien
tific opinion as to what was act
ually in a 5-ton space vehicle
which the Russians said contained
j a dummy. They tried to retrieve
| it from space by firing reverse
| thrust rockets.
j The Soviet capsule apparently
j flew off at 180 degrees and is still
| in orbit.
Dress For The Occasion
FREEHOLD, N.J., UP> —Durrell
Johnson, 22 of Brielle, wore a
tuxedo in Monmouth County
Court Friday.
After pleading innocent to a
charge of breaking and entry, he
explained his formal garb: “My
lawyer said I should dress well
out of respect for the court.”
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Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon at
North Star Dining Room
Pearse Walsh, President
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