MIJSH IN’
THROUGH
WASHINGTON
Associated Press Special Service
WASHINGTON (TP — It is esti
mated that from 1954 through
the year starting next July 1,
subsidies to Alaska Airline com- I
panics will add up to $65,473,000.
Sen. E. L. Bartlett said the fig
ures were submitted to the Sen
ate Appropriations Committee re
cently.
The Alaska subsidy total for
the 1962 fiscal year is estimated
at $9,185,000, he said.
In the decade through last year,
Alaska’s population jumped 75.8
per cent to 226,167, according to
final figures in a Census Bureau
report on population characteris
tics. The complete report of final
figures from the 1960 census is
to be published in a month or
two.
The average number of per
sons in each of Alaska’s 57,250
households is 3.49, a slight increase
from the 3.25 per-household fig
ure in 1950. However, 9ince 1950,
the number of households in
creased 84.4 per cent.
The report points out the de
finition of households was
changed slightly for purpose of
the 1960 census but that this prob
ably had little effect on the com
parability of the 1960 and 1950
statistics on the number and com
position of households.
Of Alaskans 14 years or older
last year, 98,779 were married
and 39,992 were single. The num
ber of married persons increased
80.2 per cent since 1950.
Men outnumber women in the
49th State. There were 128,811
males in the state last year com
pared with 96,356 women.
For marriage-minded fellows,
the figures aren’t too encourag
ing. The report numbers among
those 14 years and older last
year 30,756 single males and only
9,236 single females.
The state’s population is made
up of 174,546 white persons, 14,
444 Indians and 28,637 members
of other races. The white popula
tion increased 88.1 per cent from
1950, the non-white population
44.1, which includes a 2.5 per cent
increase in the number of Indians.
Alaska has quite a few people,
but it also has a great deal of
territory which makes the popu
lation density figure out to four
tenths of a person per square
mile. Compare that with the 812
persons per square mile in Rhode
Island, the most densely popu
lated state.
Anchorage had the largest popu
lation in the state last year at
45,237, an increase of 293.1 per
cent since 1950. Fairbanks was j
second at 13,311 residents but j
the percentage increase was a ;
whopping 300.5 per cent there. j
TB Deaths Drop in Japan
TOKYO (TP — Tuberculosis
deaths among Japanese dropped I
from 122,000 in 1950 to 32,000
last year, the Welfare Ministry
reports.
GLUE POT
Soda Fountain
CIGARS, CIGARETS
TOBACCO
CANDY
FRESH ICE CREAM
EVERY DAY
Sen at * Kilts Motor
Veit it !e ’ey ipc Tax
JUNEAU UT> — The State Sen
ate yesterday rebuffed efforts to
increase motor vehicle excise
taxes by some $800,000 a year.
A set of amendments offered
by the Senate Finance Committee, '
to bring on the excise tax in
creases to House Bill 210, was
turned down by the upper cham
ber on a voice vote.
The major increase would have
been a boost in the excise tax on
passenger automobiles from $20
to $30 a year. The amendments
also called for increases in the
license fees for other vehicles.
The Senate also turned down
a bid to boost the license fee for
small trailers from $4 to $10 a
year.
The amendments were part of
a Democratic leadership plan to
increase the state’s tax take by
some $3.6 million a year in an
effort to meet anticipated fi
nancial problems in fiscal 1963.
Bomb Blast Shakes
Paris Stock Exchange
PARIS (.P — A bomb blast at
(he Paris stoc;v exchange shook
the center of Paris yesterday and
injured a dozen persons, two
gravely.
Ofiicials sai i the explosion was
caused by a piastic bomb of the
type used by rightists to express
opposition to President Charles
De Gaulle’s efforts to bring peace
to Algeria. These bombs, of a
putty-like consistency, can be
shaped around any handy object.
The blast went off in a wash
room and blew through a brick
wall into an adjoining trading
room, showering debris among
brokers. The room was still
crowded although trading had
stopped about 15 minutes earlier.
Glass shattered down from
windows. The second floor of the
building was thick with smoke
and dust as coughing and gasping [
traders and employes went to the j
aid of the injured.
X-Ray Unit Will Detect
Bombs in Airline Luggage
BALTIMORE, Md. UP — An ol
L 'la! of the Westinghouse Elec
t' C Corp. reported that his com
pany has developed a portable
X-ray unit to check airline lug- l
gage for bombs.
Edwin H. Seim, manager of |
the Westinghouse X-Ray Division,)
said however, that any film car- J
rich in the luggage would be !
ruined by exposure to X-rays.
TRUSTY PLUG . . .
SAN FRANCISCO UP — The
San Francisco Art Museum an- j
nounced it would honor Fire Hy
drant No. 12, the trusty plug that
continued pouring water during
the fire and earthquake of 1906
after water mains throughout
San Francisco had been broken
or drained.
The commission said a brass
plaque would be placed next to
the hydrant, at 20th and Church
Streets.
Women are the greatest magi
cians. Some make men of fools,
others make fools of men.
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
OF THE STATE OF ALASKA
SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT
NO. 1100
NOTICE OF HEARING OF FINAL
HEP >RT AND ACCOUNT AND THE
DETERMINATION OF INHERITANCE
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE
OF
CHARLOTTE MARIE SWANBERG,
deeca or!.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
Grace S. Edman and Nels Swanberg.
Jr., Co-Administrators of the above
named estate, have filed their final
report and account with the above
named court, and that the 23rd day of
May, 1961. at the hour of 2:00 p. m.
of said day, at the office of that court
then designated to hear probate mat
ters, in Nome. Alaska has by court
order been fixed as the time and place
for a hearing on said report and ac
count; and also at such time and place
the court will determine and adjudicate
the beneficiary of this estate as set
forth in the will of decedent.
Objections, if any there be, to said
report and account will be heard at
such time and piace.
Dated this 20th day of March. 1961
GRACE S EDMAN,
Co-Administrator
NELS SWANBERG. JR.
Co-Administrator
Publish March 22. 29, April 5, 12, 1961
Save with Pan Arris new family fares
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Fact is, with Pan Am’s new Family Fare Plan,
you can save enough cash to pay for most of your
vacation expenses. You can fly right from Fair
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the Caribbean. You can stay as long as you like,
too. And won’t the kids be excited about their trip
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What can you save? Well, if there are four in
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