Blodgett Asks N.W. Road
Maintenance Be Handled
On Competitive Bid Basis
JUNEAU, Wl—A resolution ask
ing that road maintenance work
in the Northwest District be han
dled on a competitive bid basis
was introduced in the House yes
terday by Rep. Bob Blodgett.
Blodgett said that “as a result
of poor equipment, road main
tenance in the Northwest District
is not being properly performed,
and the costs of what is 'being
done approach $2,000 a mile.”
He said heavy road equipment
in the district supplied by the
Division of Highways presently
“consists of one AC Caterpillar
shipped into Nome in 1949 and
one leaning-wheel Adams grader
of World War I vintage.”
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1 Jncocked Bear Meat
Causes Trichinosis
Among Bethel Natives
JUNEAU, Feb. 25 — Three
Bethel hunters killed five black
bears whose meat they shared
with friends and family and 13 of
them became ill with trichinosis,
according to a report submitted
to the Department of Health and
Welfare laboratories. The diagno
sis was made by physicians at the
Alaska Native Health Service
hospital at Bethel where the pa
tients were treated.
The bear meat was eaten by
many people who did not go to
the hospital for treatment, the re
port stated, but among the 13 seen
by the physicians some were very
ill and remained hospitalized un
til in January or more than two
months after eating the meat.
Trichinosis has been found at
other times in bears in many
parts of Alaska, and residents are
warned to cook bear meat very
thoroughly. Like pork, bear meat
infected with the larvae which
cause trichinosis must be cooked
long and well in order that the
organisms are destroyed by heat.
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J COEe* COMMUTES TO EUROPE AS AIR
{stewardess between college classes
Marie Louise Hurley, a CCNY coed during the week and a
Pan American stewardess on jet flights to Europe over weekends,
at work in the college library (above), chats with a classmate in
front of the College’s Lincoln Monument at Shepard Hall (bottom
left) and leaves a jet liner at a Paris airport (bottom right).
Marie Louise Hurley, a junior
at the City College of New
York, commutes to Europe be
tween classes.
On weekdays she attends
class as a psychology major like
any other undergraduate. But
on weekends she flies to Europe
and back as a stewardess with
Pan American World Airways.
A slim, attractive young
woman, Peggy, as she’s known
to friends and fellow students,
was born in Louisiana where
she attended Baton Rouge High
School.
After spending two years
training to be a nurse, she de
cided to become a doctor and
enrolled at the University of
Tennessee’s medical branch in
Memphis. Afterwards she trans
ferred to Louisiana State Uni
versity as a premedical student.
“In 1954 I took a long look at
myself,” she says. “I decided I
wanted to see what the world
was like first, before tying my
self down to a permanent
career.”
She applied to Pan Am and
was accepted. After completing
a seven week training course
she was assigned to an overseas
route. During the next few
years Miss Hurley flew all over
the world, including: Central and
South America, the Pacific, the
Orient and Europe.
Her schedule is a busy one.
She attends classes from Mon
day to Thursday. On Friday
morning at 8:30, she travels
from her apartment at 23rd St.
and 6th Avenue in Manhattan—
bringing her college textbooks
with her—to Idlewild Airport
where she makes her pre-flight
preparations. At 10:00 A.M. the
Boeing 707 Jet Clipper on which
she serves takes off and flies
non-stop to London, and then to
Brussels and Dusseldorf, where
it lands at midnight European
time.
She spends most of Saturday
studying. On Sunday morning,
the plane leaves at 8:45 from
Dusseldorf airport, landing at
Amsterdam and London before
making the over ocean hop to
New York. It lands at Idlewild
at 1:00 P.M., New York time.
The rest of Sunday is given
over to further study.
A junior, she hopes to be
graduated in 1962, or earlier if
she attends summer classes as
she did last year.
How does she feel about her
career as an airline stewardess?
“I love it,” she says. “It has
given me an opportunity to see
the world and learn about peo
ple that I would never have had
otherwise. Quite frankly, I think
any girl could profit by serving
as a stewardess, at least for
a time.”
Dr. Patty Says
(;«ld Mines Being
Squeezed to Death
SEATTLE. LP — The fabulous
gold mines of Alaska are being
squeezed to death in an economic
vise. Dr. Ernest N. Patty told the
Alaska Division of the Seattle
Chamber of Commerce.
Dr. Patty, who is president em
eritus of the University of Alaska
and a leading authority on min
eral resources of the 49th state,
warned that except for oil and
gas, the outlook for the Alaska
mineral industry is not healthy.
The gold resources that gave
Alaska its wealth at the turn of
the century are being immobilized
by an economic vise, Patty said.
The immovable jaw of the vise is
the fixed price of gold. The mov
able jaw is the rising cost of
operations.
No Important Mines Remain
Not an important underground
gold mine remains in Alaska,
Patty said. Alaska’s prewar pro
duction of $20 million a year in
gold has slipped to $6 million.
Most of this comes from dredging.
Unless conditions change Patty
foresees a further slip to $3 mil
lion a year by 1965.
Mining of some other metals is
suffering from foreign competi
tion in mines financed by Ameri
can investments or aid programs
and worked by relatively cheap
labor, Patty said.
An exception is the successful
platinum operation at Good News
Bay. Alaska also has a good deal
of mercury mining.
Where prospectors once ranged
with pick and backpack, Patty
observed, airplanes and helicop
ters now fly with magnetic re
corders seeking the magnetic
“anomalies” that may tip them off
to mineral wealth in the earth
below.
The last great iron find, in the
Dillingham area of 1957, was lo
cated in this fashion by the
McNees Asks BIA Cooperation
In Vocational School Construction
JUNEAU, MB— A joint resolu
tion asking the Bureau of Indian
Affairs to cooperate with the state
in the construction of vocational
education facilities for natives
was submitted in the Senate yes
terday by Sen. John McNees.
UNEXPECTED VISITOR
According to the “Midnight
Sun” Diomede School paper it is
believed that Diomede was visited
by an unknown visitor. His foot
steps were in the snow and other
signs indicated he had been on
the beach there. They believe that
he may have been caught on
moving ice and landed there un
expectedly.
SPORTS LAUGH . . .
When Rocky Graziano was just
breaking in as a fighter, he made
his first trip to Chicago for a
fight. Soon after arriving he call
ed a friend in New York, and
complained:
“I don’t think I’m going to like
Chicago. Everyone here is from
out of town.”
Humble Oil Co. These iron stocks
have been investigated closely,
but they are of such marginal
quality that they must lie idle
until it becomes more profitable
to mine them.
Japan is Minerals Customer
Japan is interested in iron,
though, and Alaska may find a
market there for iron as well as
the coal, whose great Alaskan re
sources are only lightly tapped
at present. Patty said:
“We are going to work closely
with the Japanese, who are short
of a lot of basic materials.”
Oil and gas explorations remain
Alaska’s greatest modern hope for
mineral wealth, Patty said. All
I major oil companies are inter
i ested. They are spending $30 mil
lion a year in explorations and
continuing to make valuable
finds.
S ,*n B ad PhDios
Questions State Revenue
Projection Through 1966
JUNEAU, UP—Sen. Brad Phil
lips, Anchorage Republican, told
the Senate Tuesday that a rev
er ue projection submitted to the
legislature Monday does not sup
port Gov. Egan’s $59 million bud
get for fiscal 1962.
The revenue projection covered
the fiscal years 1961 through 1966.
Compiled by the State Depart
ment of Administration, it show
ed that total state income would
increase from $42,887,718 to $58,
596,248 during that period.
Phillips, who last week told the
Senate he would not vote for an
other appropriation measure until
he knew where the funds were
coming from, said the revenue
projection “points out the serious
concern many of us have about
our financial condition.”
Sen. John McNees, Nome Demo
crat, took the floor after Phillips
and said:
“This revenue projection pre
sents nothing new to the mem
bers of the Finance Committees.
We knew we were going to have
to face this critical period.”
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as you may think. In New Eng
land a monthly magazine, printed
entirely in Latin, has 30,000 sub
scribers around the globe.
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