Theresa Hoover
Church Women to Hear
Noted Field Worker,
Theresa Hoover, Tonight
The Women’s Division of Chris
tian Service will welcome Ther
esa Hoover, field worker, this eve
ning at a dinner at the LWY Com
munity Center.
Miss Hoover is a graduate of
Pjilander Smith College. She has
had in addition special work in
religious echication at Garrett Bib
lical Institute. Until engaged as
field worker by the WSCS, she
served under the Little Rock
Methodist Council in Arkansas.
She has been actively connected |
with the women's work in that I
area, and has held local offices in j
the Woman’s Society. She has
helped to organize new societies j
and conduct study courses.
Miss Hoover is an excellent
speaker, clear and convincing, ac
cording to those who have heard
her, and all women in the com
munity who are interested should
take advantage of her visit to
meet with her this evening.
Reservations can be made with
Esther McCoy or Mrs. Robert
Baldwin.
Prime Minister U Nu
Resigns to Work for
Party Reorganization
RANGOON, Burma, UJV-U Nu,
Burma’s Prime Minister for eight
years, resigned yesterday to de
vote all his time to reorganization
of his party, the socialist Anti
Fascist People’s Freedom League.
His successor as head of the
government is U Ba Swe, former
defense minister and vice presi
dent of the AFPFL.
U Nu has followed the neutral
ist policies urged on Southeast
Asia by Prime Minister Nehru of
India, but never has hedged in
his criticism of Communism.
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LEGISLATOR COMMITS
MULTIPLE MURDER
OF 7 AND SUICIDES
ER KINE, Alberta, UP—Royal
Canadian Mounted Police have de
cided an Alberta legislator shot
his wife, their four children and
two men in his farm home and
then turned the murder weapon
on himself.
Police found the body of John
E. Clark lying face down in a
mudhole only 600 yards from the
farmhouse where the other bodies
were discovered Sunday. A bullet
wound gaped in his head and a
.22 rifle lay at his feet. The body
was clad only in nightclothes.
The Mounted Police were re
ported to be Satisfied the case
was one of multiple murder and
suicide.
Farm folk returned t-*'- the
homes they .had fled after discov-'
ery of the seven bodies in Clark’s
isolated farmhouse touched off a
wave of terror.
Clark, 41, had suffered several
nervous breakdowns. He had rep
resented the Stettler district in
the Alberta legislature since 1952.
Woman Learning to
Drive Wrecks Car
And Kills Teacher
DETROIT, IP—A woman learn
ing to drive wrecked her car and
killed her teacher Monday night.
Mrs. Alice Dixon, 44, told police
she was practicing in a super
market parking lot and became
excited when another auto started
to enter as she was leaving. Her
foot hit the accelerator instead of
the brake.
The car slammed into the other
auto head-on, then shot across a
street intersection into a parked
truck.
Mrs. Eddie Mae Clark, 48, who
was teaching Mrs. Dixon how to
drive, was killed. Mrs. Dixon and
her husband, Wilbur, 56, who was
in the back seat, were injured
seriously.
Officers said Mrs. Dixon did
not have a learner’s permit and
would be held for investigation of
involuntary manslaughter.
INVITATION FOR BIDS
Sealed bids, in duplicate copy will be
received by the Director of Aeronautics,
Department of Aviation, Territory of
Alaska, Room 202, Glover Bldg.. Anchor
age, Alaska, until 10:00 a.m. on June 8,
1958, and then publicly opened and read
for furnishing all labor and materials
and performing all work for construction
of an Airport Landing Strip near Point
Hope, Alaska.
Plans, Specifications, and Project Doc
uments may be obtained from the above
address. A deposit of $25.00 will be re
quired to insure their return.
Guarantee will be required with each
bid in the amount of ten per cent
(10 pet.).
Performance bond will be required for
an amount not less than fifty per cent
(50 pet.) of the contract. Payment bond
will be required for an amount of not
less than fifty per cent (50 pet.) of the
contract.
Partial payments will be made monthly.
Bids must be submitted upon the
Proposal Form and the successful bidder
will be required to execute the Standard
Form of Contract for Construction.
Envelopes containing bids must be seal
ed and marked as follows:
•'Bid for Point Hope Airport:
Project No. 9-50-061-5601
To be opened at 10:00 a.m.,
June 8, 1956.”
The right is reserved, as the interest
of the Territory may require, to reject
any and all bids, to waive any informal
: ity in bids received, and to accept or
I reject any items of any bid, unless such
i bid is qualified by specific limitation.
Territory of Alaska
Department of Aviation
By: Herman Porter.
Director of Aeronautics
i Publish May 9, 16, 23, 30, June 6, 1956.
14 ASTA Guests
Will Have Brief
Visit Here Friday
Arriving Friday in time for a
special luncheon of the Chamber
of Commerce at the Bering Sea
Club will be 14 members of the
American Society of Travel
Agents who are touring the ter
ritory.
As only two hours has been al
lotted for their stay in Nome, the
program originally planned has
had to be curtailed, but the time
will be used to show them as
much as possible of the most his
toric places in Alaska connected
with the Gold Rush as well as
Eskimo lore and buture.
Scheduled to be in the party are
T. J. Donovan, Carton Travel Bu
reau, Chicago, president of the
ASTS; A. Edgar Parent, vice pres
ident, and Mrs. Parent, Gaulin
Travel Service, Woonsocket, R.I.;
A. L. Simmons, secretary and past
president, Simmons Tours, Inc., of
New York City; William McGrath,
executive vice president, ASTA,
501 Fifth Ave., New York City;
Also Marjorie Lynch, Water
bury Travel Agency, Waterbury,
Conn.; Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Hemp
hill, Hemphill Travel Service, of
Los Angeles; Thomas Broderick,
Transmarine Tours, Inc., 500 Fifth
Ave., New York City; George
Carlton, Carlton Travel Service,
Kearney, N.J.; Irvin M. Frankel,
The Travel Mart, Atlanta, Ga.;
William A Semler, the Akers
Folkman Co., Cleveland, Ohio;
Walter Fruehauf, Globe Travel
Service, Chicago; Mr. and Mrs.
Harold Martin, Travel Service,
Inc., Berkeley, Calif.; Charles B.
West, Arctic Alaska Tours, 926
Vance Bldg., Seattle; Mr. and Mrs.
Alex Lucas, Lucas and King Ltd.
Travel Service, Hamiltoh, Ont.
Ole Swenson’s Body
Found on Bank of Yukon
FAIRBANKS, 01V-The body of
Ole Swenson, who vanished on a
.flight to his wedding late last fall,
was found on a bank of the Yukon
River Monday.
Swenson and Garfield Hanson,
his pilot, disappeared on a flight
from Tanana to Galena, where
Swenson was to have been mar
ried. The wide search for them
lasted almost a month.
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