Mountain Airstrip
Named After Geo. Kitchen
George M. Kitchen, owner
operator of Anchorage Air Serv
ice, has been honored by having
a mountain airstrip named for
him. Kitchen Field is situated on
top of Mt. Susitna, 36 miles west
of Anchorage. The name chosen
for a flight strip at Trans-Alaska
Telephone Co.’s Mt. Susitna com
munication facility is in apprecia
tion of Mr. Kitchen’s many flights
carrying personnel and material
to the remote site.
Kitchen Field has recently been
granted the approval of the Fed
eral Aviation Agency, however,
the strip is the private property
of Trans-Alaska and is not open
to the public except in case of
emergency. It is at an elevation |
of 4,250 feet and is very short i
and narrow. The runway is par- j
iially " improved, the main im- j
provements being the removal of i
the “larger” boulders and some |
grading. Further improvements to |
the strip are planned, but at the
present it is extremely hazardous. J
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Nine out of 10 men who start |
to grow a beard give up within j
a week.
Alaska Men Attend
Course in Techniques for
Building Fallout Shelters
Two Anchorage men are attend
ing a two-week course at Port
Hueneme, Calif., as a part of a
program to survey Alaskan com
munities needs for public fallout
shelters.
The school sessions are preli
minary to a national Civil De
fense program that his been start
ed recently to determine how
much adequate shelter space ex
ists for the nation’s population.
The shelters will enable those
protected to survive the deadly
effects of fallout from a nuclear
attack which otherwise they may
not be able to survive.
Two district employes, Robert
E. Lyle, and Edward IM. Johnson,
both professional engineers, at
tended a course in the techniques
to be used in making the shelter
surveys. The course was held in |
August at Fort Belvoir, Va., and j
covered subjects as “The Radia
tion and Biological Effects of
Fallout Radiation,” “Shelter
Evaluation,” and “Shelter Im
provement Methods.”
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Nixon Decides to Run for Governor
. . . Does Not Seek Presidency in ’64
LOS ANGELES W — Richard
M. Nixon’s decision to run for
Governor of California in 1962—
and not seek the Presidency in
1964—-provided all the makings
for a slambang campaign.
The 48-year-old Republican who
I just missed the White House last
year set a militant tone in his
long-awaited announcement on
Wednesday night. But so did his
opponents, both- Democratic and
Republican.
Nixon sized up Democratic Gov.
Edmund G. Brown as “that ami
able but bungling man.” He prom
ised a campaign that would “beat
Pat Brown to a pulp.”
“The government, that State
House in Sacramento, is in a mess
and somebody has to clean it up,”
he told a televised news confer
ence.
Keep the Spaghetti
On the Plate Leon ! . . .
LONDON UF> — Problem: Who
puts the sauce on the spaghetti—
the waiter or the chef?
Spanish waiter Louis Leon’s
solution landed him in court Wed
nesday charged with assaulting1
the chef.
Leon, waiter in a swank Soho
Restaurant, thought it was his job.
Greek chef Coumis Achilaes said
it was his.
So Leon emptied a plate of
spaghetti all over the chef’s head,
the court was told, and followed
up with a swipe with a silver
dish. The chef had to have 17
stitches io close the head wound.
The court freed Leon on condi
tion he keeps the spaghetti on the
! plate in the future.
VOICES SUSPICION . . .
LONDON <*> — Dr. Donald
Soper, ex-president of Britain’s
Methodist Conference, voiced the
suspicion Wednesday that more
than half the church members are
drinkers.
He said he also has reason to
believe that perhaps 30 per cent
of Methodist preachers tipple a
bit.
In an article in the church
| magazine Methodist Recorder Dr.
| Soper added: “I respect a minister
j who openly disagrees with tee
j totalisrn, and says so to his con
; gregation. What ‘bothers me is the
j person who keeps his occasional
i glass to himself.”
i U.S. banks last year handled 13
! billion checks. Whatever happen
ed to cash? Is everybody mad
at it? -
Stung toy a question on his per
sonal finances, Nixon said he had
been threatened and warned that
“every dead cat and every old
story would be thrown up and
used against me.”
“Let me just say that nobody
is going to frighten me. Nobody
is going to drive me out of this
contest.”
Accepting Nixon’s challenge.
Brown declared his candidacy
would galvanize majority Demo
crats into “a fighting crusade."
Democrats hold a 1.4-million lead
in registration.
“I welcome the opportunity to
confront Richard Nixon in a cam
paign that once and for all will
retire him to private life,” BrmMi
said in a pfess statement.
The Governor said Nixon’s an
nouncement “means simply that
he will be a candidate for Pres
ident again in 1964”—midway in
the four-year state term.
Nixon said flatly, “I shall not
seek the Presidency in 1964,” but
he did not absolutely remove him
self from another try.
New York Gov. Nelson Rocke
feller said he has not eliminated
Nixon as a potential candidate
for the GOP Presidential nomi
nation in 1964.
Speaking to reporters at Buf
falo, N.Y., Rockefeller commented
that a draft “will always be a
possibility.”
State Republican leaders, open
ly backing Nixon over three other
announced GOP candidates, were
plainly jubilant that he had
agreed to run. But they faced
the prospect of intraparty strife
over the gubernatorial nomina
tion.
Former Gov. Goodwin Knight
gave notice he’s in the GOP race
to stay. So did the Assembly Mi
nority Leader, Joseph C. Shell of
Los Angeles. The fourth candi
date former Lt. Gov. Harold J.
Powers, was unavailable for com
ment.
Knight, who gave way to for
mer Sen. William Know land’s
Nixon-supported candidacy and
withdrew from the race for gov
ernor in 1958, gave this advice to
Democrats in a televised inter
view: Register Republican nexi
year so you can vote against Nix
on in the June primary.
Californians will be able to
vote only for their own party
candidates in that primary for the
first time in modem history.
Cross-filing, which allowed office
seekers to run on both tickets,
was repealed by the 1959 Demo
cratic Legislature.
Sitka Arranges Sale ol
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Municipal Revenue Bonds
The city of Sitka has arranged
for the sale of $3,800,000 senior
lien municipal revenue bonds to
the New York Life Insurance Co.
and other institutional investors.
New York Life has purchased
$1,000,000 principal amount of the
bonds end the remainder will be
acquired by other investors.
Proceeds of the issue will be
used to retire construction bank
loans and provide working capital
for the new city-owned hydro
electric plant, the final step in a
two-stage construction project.
The first stage comprised the com
pletion of a low dam to impound
water sufficient to meet the in
dustrial requirements of the $66
million Alaska Lumber & Pulp
Co. plant. The second stage in
cluded a high dam to serve the
generating plant and transmission
lines connecting it to the distribu
tion systems of Sitka as well as
the United States Public Health
Service facilities at Mt. Edge
cumbe.
Financing was arranged through
Foster & Marshall, Inc., of Seat
tle, Schwabacher & Co. of San
Francisco, and New York Life’s
West Coast regional investment
office.
U-2 Planes to Check
Fallout South of Australia
CANBERRA, Australia UP) —
The U.S. Air Force wil conduct
air sampling operations with U-2
planes south of Australia in No
vember, Defense Minister Athol
Townley said, to detect nuclear
fallout. v
PUFFS AWAY . . .
ANN ARBOR, Mich u*—Eighty
seven years of smoking apparently
hasn’t hurt Rocco Disderide. His
doctor says he doesn’t need to
quit.
Disderide puffed a slender cigar
Wednesday as he observed his
104th birthday, and attributed his
longevity to “not having worked
very hard.”
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