Eskimo Olympic
Games to Be
Held in Fairbanks
The first annual Eskimo Olym
pic games are to be held in Fair
banks July 19 through the 22
sponsored by Greater Fairbanks
Inc. Several Alaskan communities
will be invited to participate. It
is hoped that a queen representing
the following villages will take
part in the 4-day celebration:
Nome, Unalakleet, Kotzebue, Pt.
Barrow, Ft. Yukon, Tanana, Ne
nana, Minto, and Tok Junction.
Round trip transportation will be
'furnished to the queens from their
respective villages to Fairbanks
and all expenses while they are
in Fairbanks. To qualify, the
queen contestant must be single,
at least 16 years of age, and be
of Eskimo or Indian blood. All
queens must be selected prior to
July 10 and names of the winners
sent to the Greater Fairbanks Inc.
office in Fairbanks.
The following have been asked
to send teams in the blanket
tossing contest: Nome, Kotzebue,
Pt. Barrow, and Fairbanks. Each
is to send a team of two con
testants, one man and one woman.
Transportation and all expenses
will be taken care of by the com
mittee.
In addition, the best Eskimo
dance team will be selected and
the following have been asked to
participate: Nome, Kotzebue, Pt.
Barrow, and Fairbanks. A maxi
mum of six people is to be
chosen to representing each com
munity dance team. Here again,
round trip transportation and ex
penses for the 4-day celebration
will be paid by the Fairbanks
committee. The winning dance
teams are to be chosen not later
than July 10 and the Fairbanks
committee is to be notified at once.
An Eskimo decathilon athlete
is to be chosen representing Nome,
Pt. Barrow, Pt. Hope, Ft. Yukon,
Tanana, Minto, and Nenana. This
athlete is to participate in three
or more of the following events:
1. Eskimo high-kicking, 2. Spear
throwing, 3. Eskimo wrestling,
and 4. Finger pulling contests in
addition to the above listed con
tests, there Will be other events
such as a muktuk-eating contest,
yoyo competition and many more.
It is hoped that the first Alas
kan Olympic Games will find
many willing participants. From
all indications a great amount of
interest has already been de
veloped. Life Magazine has in
dicated they may send reporters
to cover the event as well as sev
eral other national publications
and TV outlets.
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Saturday — June 10th
Communist Party Will Not
Cooperate With Ruling
To Register Membership
NEW YORK UP) — The head of
the Communist party in this
country said yesterday the party
will not comply in any way with
the U. S. Supreme Court ruling
that the parly must register as
an arm of a foreign power.
Gus Hall, the party’s general
secretary, said the ruling Mon
day “asks the Communist party
to commit suicide. We are not
going to cooperate.”
He said officers of the party
would prefer to spend the rest of
their lives in jail rather than be
tray the trust of the membership
by making their names public.
The high court ruled that the
party must register under the
Internal Security Act of 1950 as
a representative of a foreign
power, and list its members, of
ficers and financial records.
Dashing Duke of Kent
Weds Country Girl
YORK, England UP» — The dash
ing Duke of Kent yesterday
brought Miss Katherine Worsley
—a country girl and a commoner
—into the British royal family as
his bride in Britain’s wedding of
the year.
Forty-six TV cameras record
ed the service at the 1,334-year
old Anglican Cathedral.
The service was attended by
Queen Elizabeth II and a glitter
ing guest list of foreign royalty.
The ceremony was performed
by the Archbishop of York, Dr.
William Ramsey.
It was the second consecutive
wedding of a member of the royal
family to a commoner.
The bride, a fair-haired for
mer tomboy with a turned-up
nose, is the daughter of a well
to-do squire, Sir William Worsley.
She is 28, three years senior to
the Duke.
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