Hunters -- Spare
Those Cranes!
By ALAN COURTRIGHT
Sam Harbo, Fish and Game De
partment biologist, reports that
he sighted a crane with a broken
leg flying over the Safety Lagoon
flats the other day. The chances
are that the leg was broken by
a gunshot, since rumor has it that
these big birds are a favorite tar
get for some local hunters.
Sandhill crane are those big,
ungainly-looking creatures which
emit sounds like a chorus of ado
lescent bullfrogs. Their culinary
qualities are supposed to be ex
cellent, although I wouldn’t know
from personal experience. These
qualities, unfortunately, were also
recognized, by our forefathers,
who shot so many of them that
the big birds have been on the
protected list for many years.
As will be Obvious to anyone
who has been out in local marshes
during the past few days, the
population of cranes is now in
a pretty healthy condition. Al
though there may appear to be
enough of them that a few
wouldn’t be missed, the fact re
mains that they are protected by
Uncle Sam, and there is no open
season on cranes, sandhill or
otherwise. Whether the popula
tion has now, or will soon reach
the point where they can again
be declared legal game is more
than anyone seems willing to say.
I saw a couple of thousand of
them pass high overhead last Sat
urday on the marsh, and the sight
was stirring enough that the
thought of “meat!” never even
crossed my mind, although I have
in the past wondered what a
crane would taste like. Let’s hope
that others also are content to
look, at least until the big birds
become legal game.
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Three Beauties Tie In
Talent Compe^ion Of
Miss America Pageant
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J., MP>—An |
unprecedented three-way tie cli- j
maxed the talent competition of
the Miss American Pageant Wed
nesday night.
Talent winners were Miss Pen
nsylvania, Miss Connecticut and
Miss District of Columbia. At the
same time, Miss Washington took
the swimsuit award and all four
contestants were thus assured of
at least a $1,000 scholarship.
Miss Pennsylvania, 21-year-old
Lois Janet Piercy of Springfield,
Pa., won the judges’ favor in art
and music.
A tractor figured in Miss Con
necticut’s efforts.
Spectators craned their necks
as Diana Martha Klug, 21, of
Torrington, Conn., rumbled on
stage atop a tractor, which she
is proficient in operating.
Virginia Noble Pailes, blonde,
21-year-old Miss District of Col
umbia, won acclaim for her ren
dition of “It All Depends On
You.”
Miss Washington; Sharon Joyce
Vaughn, 21, of Seattle won the
swimsuit competition in a white
bathing costume. Miss Vaughn is
a senior at the University of
Washington, stands 5 feet 7 inches
and measures 36-22-36.
On Saturday night, Miss Am
erica herself will be crowned as
successor to this year’s title hold
er, Mary Ann Mobley of Brandon,
Miss. With the title goes $10,000
in scholarships and an estimated
$75,000 in personal appearance
dates. The “losers” will split up
$26,000 in scholarships.
Tin Study Report
Now Available
A report of Seward Peninsula
tin deposit studies has been re
leased by the Bureau of Mines.
The studies were made in the
Ear Mountain area of the penin
sula, about 105 miles north of
Nome and 20 miles south of j
Shishmaref. Copies of Report of j
Investigation 5493, “Tin Placer.
and Lode . Investigations, Ear I
Mountain area, Seward Penin
sula,” can be obtained by writing
the publication-distribution sec
tion of the Bureau of Mines at
4800 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh 13,
Pennsylvania.
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Appeals Court Affirms First
Degree Conviction of Murder
SAN FRANCISCO, OP) — The
U.S. Court of Appeals Wednesday
affirmed the first degree murder
conviction and life sentence of
Mrs. Barbara Luella Rivers for
the slaying of her husband, Paul,
in Sitka, Dec. 3, 1957.
Parts of Rivers’ dismembered
body were found in the sea and
on a beach near a Sitka hotel.
All substances are made up of
from one or more of about 90 dif
ferent kinds of simple materials
known as elements.
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Bitter Notes Are
Exchanged By
India and China
NEW DELHI, OS’)—A bitter ex
change of notes between India
and Red China was laid before
Parliament here Thursday and
Prime Minister Nehru said Pre
mier Chou En Lai’s latest letter
added fuel to the border crisis.
“Step by step their policy has
become more rigid,” Nehru said.
Each nation accused the other
of aggression and each demanded
that the other withdraw its forces
from frontier areas whose owner
ship is in dispute. India offered
one concession — to make the
Longju area a temporary no man’s
land pending negotiation.
Both sides renewed their claims
to Longju, the isolated post which
Red Chinese troops seized nearly
two weeks ago in a gunfight with
Indian frontier guards. The Chi
nese warned India against trying
to retake it.
In his letter Chou charged that
Indians, not the Chinese, actually
were the “trespassers” in border
incidents, and were “shielding
Tibetan rebel bandits” along the !
frontier. Many Tibetan refugees !
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S*a Board of Education
Meet? In JunCau Sept. 21
To Select Candidates
The State Board of Education
will meet in Juneau Sept 21 to
nominate its choice for appoint
ment as Alaska commissioner of
education.
Robert Baldwin, president of
the board, said about six per
sons—he did not give the exact
number — were under considera •
tion. The list includes educators
from both Alaska and other states,
he said.
The six were selected from a
list of about 50 applicants for the
$17,000-a-year post, Baldwin said.
The actual appointment of a
commissioner will be made iby
Gov. Egan from nominations by
the board.
The appointment is expected be -
fore Oct. 3, when the Department
if Education—as provided for in
a state reorganization law passed
by the first Legislature—must be
activated.
Baldwin did not name fht half
dozen candidates under consider
ation. Presumably, however, the
list includes the name of Howard
Matthews of Juneau, the present
commissioner of education who is
seeking appointment under the
reorganized department.
At least two nominations lor the
post must be made to the gover -
nor by the board.
The list of applicants was cut
from the original 50 at a one-day
board meeting at Anchorage a
week ago.
Baldwin said the Juneau meet
ing later this month would in
clude personal interviews with
the remaining candidates.
Notice of Hearings on Economic Regulation
and Control of Intrastate Air Commerce
Pursuant to Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 12. Alaska
State Legislature, First Session, and at the direction of th«
Governor of Alaska, public hearings will be held to hear
testimony regarding air transport needs, the relationship of
intrastate air commerce with interstate, foreign, and other air
commerce, and the need and desirability of regulation and
control of intrastate air commerce. Hearings will be held as
• follows: Fairbanks, September 22, Federal Building; Nome.
September 23, Federal Building; Anchorage, September 25,
' Loussac Library; Juneau, September 30, Senate Chambers.
A. H. ROMICK, Commissioner of Commerce
P. O. BoJc 1441, Juneau, Alaska
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