“Muktuk” Marston Ready to March
With Scouts in JFK’s Inaugural Parade
JUNEAU UP) — Col. M. R. (Muk
tuk) Marston, the man who or
ganized Alaska’s famed Eskimo
Scouts, will ride with Gov. Wil
liam A. Egan in the Presidential
Inaugural Parade Jan. 20, Egan
said today.
The governor’s car will head the
Alaska section in the Inaugural
Parade for President-elect Ken
nedy. Behind Egan will come the
Elmendorf Air Force Base band
and 82 members of the 1st and
2nd Eskimo Scout Battalions.
Marston announced in Anchor
age Tuesday that he had been
asked to lead the marching scouts,
but Egan said today National
Guard regulations would not per
mit Marston to do so.
Egan said he had arranged with
the Inaugural Committee, through
the office of Sen. E. L. Bartlett,
however, to have Marston to ride
in Egan’s car.
Egan said Marston apparently
had misconstrued the language of
a recent letter from Egan appoint
ing Marston an honorary officer
of the Scouts and had interpreted
it to mean he was being invited
to march with the Scouts.
Egan said in his letter to Mar
ston:
“. . . in recognition of your
accomplishments throughout the
then territory of Alaska, during
World War II, in organizing the
Eskimos of Alaska and providing
military training for them, I am
pleased to confer this honor upon
you.
“It is fitting that you, who
welded the outposts of the Alas
ka Territorial Guard into fight
ing and tactical units, be present
when these outstanding men of
Alaska’s 1st and 2nd Scout Bat
talions march down Pennsylvania
Avenue in the Presidential Inaug
ural Parade at our nation’s capi
tal on Jan. 20, 1961.”
Marston plans to wear the hair
seal parka he wore as leader of
the Scouts in the Inaugural Pa
rade. His hair seal trousers are
now are part of the Cook Inlet
Historical Society Exhibit in the
Z. J. Loussac Library here.
Marston began the task of or
ganizing the Scout Units of the
Alaska Territorial Guard in 1941.
They performed invaluable serv
ice in the .following year when
the Japanese gained a foothold
in the Aleutians and through the
remainder of the war.
The Scouts were not paid —
all were volunteers. Marston re
ferred to them as “Human Radar.”
Their mission was to observe and
report all enemy activity. They
were to harass the enemy should
they encounter the Japanese but
fall back if outnumbered. They
were the eyes and ears of the
Army in the Arctic.
Marston made his headquarters
in Nome. “I furnished ammuniti
tion and guns to the Scouts —
there was no complaint either,”
he said. “For the first time they
were recognized as equals.
They’re the greatest Arctic Scouts
we could have.”
It was the Alaska Scouts who
first reported the Japanese bal
loon attacks on North America,
Marston said. These balloons,
some carying bombs, were drifted
across the North Pacific by the
Japanese. Air currents carried
them over Alaska and into the
Pacific Northwest.
Marston said that 18 of the first
21 balloons sent over came down
in Alaska and were picked up by
the Scouts. The first reports of
the balloons were dismissed as
lacking credibility. But an Eski
mo Scout on the Yukon River
brought one down with his rifle.
He cut away a section of the
balloon bearing Japanese char
acters and forwarded it to the
Army.
The Army then began an im
mediate investigation of the bal
loon reports, Marston said. “Our
greatest fear was that the Japan
ese would use the balloons for
germ warfare,” he added.
An Alaska Native Service school
teacher on Attu, a new recruit,
was the first scout casualty of
the war, Marston said. The man
had promised to send word of
any attack. He was killed in the
act of sending out a message of
the Japanese landing on Attu.
Turning again to the coming
parade, Marston said he was try
ing to get the Scouts into mukluks
for it, although such footgear is
not regulation.
They will bring up the rear of
the parade, marching just ahead
of the last-place Hawaiian dele
gation. The Hawaiians will be
wearing traditional dress, he said.
“With the Scouts wearing white
parkas and mukluks, it would
make quite a contrast.”
Mamie and Ike Plan
To Visit Japan in October
WASHINGTON UFl — President
Eisenhower said Thursday he and
Mrs. Eisenhower hope to visit
Japan later this year.
He gave that word to Yasujiro
Tsutsumi, former speaker of the
Japanese Diet, during a half hour
visit at the White House.
Gen. Lyman L. Lemnitzer,
chairman of the U. S. Joint Chiefs
of Staff and a personal friend of
Tsutsumi, told reporters about the
President’s statement.
Serving as a spokesman for the
Japanese industrialist and legis
lator, Lemnitzer said the specified
purpose for Tsutsumi’s visit here
was to invite the President and
the First Lady to Japan.
Lemnitzer said Tsutsumi had
brought 78 volumes of signatures
of Japanese asking the President
to visit their country to make up
for the cancellation of his sched
uled visit last June. That trip
was called off because of Japan
ese demonstrations against the
visit.
There have been reports that
the President and Mrs. Eisenhower
would travel to Japan by ship
next October.
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JFK's News Conferences
Will be Carried on
Live TV Networks
PALM BEACH. Fla. UB — John
F. Kennedy’s first news confer
ence as President will be held in
Washington the evening of Jan. 25
and will be carried nationwide
on live television and radio.
The announcement was made
by Kennedy’s Press Secretary,
Pierre Salinger, who had an
nounced earlier that Kennedy
would set precedents by holding
i news conferences at night from
time to time, and permitting'the
TV and radio networks to broad
cast them live.
President Eisenhower’s sessions
with newsmen have been filmed
and recorded for use later the
same day on TV and radio. Only
one of his conferences was on ^
live television.
Salinger said Kennedy’s first
news conference, five days after
he takes office, will be carried
on TV and radio by NBC, CBS,
ABC, and on radio by the Mutual
Network and various independent
stations.
The press secretary added that
all the networks are reserving
the half hour starting at 6 p. m.
EST, for the broadcast. He added
that the long-standing custom of
reporters deciding when to end
the conference will continue, but
he did not know whether the net
works will keep the session on
the air if it should run more
than 30 minutes.
BILL INTRODUCED
TO LEGALIZE SPANKING
DENVER UP) — A bill to legal
ize spanking of pupils in schools
was introduced in the Colorado
House by two members who have
a total of 18 grandchildren.
The sponsors are Reps. John
Streltzer and James O’Donnell.
The measure exempts teachers
from any lawsuit over inflicting
reasonable and moderate punish
ment. The bill bears an emer
gency clause saying its passage is
necessary “for the immediate
preservation of the public peace,
health and safety.”
GERMAN WOMEN HAVE
EXPENSIVELY CLAD LEGS
DUESSELDORF, Germany UP)—
German women had the most ex
pensively clad legs in the world
last year, the Stocking Fashion
Institute claims. It said the
average West German woman
over 15 used 13 pairs of stockings
in 1960 compared to the Ameri
can women’s 12.
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Gov. E"an Stresses Vital Need For
A State Ferry System, Mental Health
By Ward Sims
Associated Press Staff Writer
JUNEAU OP) — The 1961 Legis
lature will be asked by Gov.
Egan to move quickly in providing
for the establishment of a State
Ferry System.
The state’s chief executive
terms the proposed Ferry system
as “one of the key foundations
of economic progress in Alaska.”
“We need and must have this
system if we are to have the
economic progress in Alaska of
which we are capable.
“We must have an integrated
Highway System and this is the
only way we can achieve it in
the foreseeable millions of dollars
into the economy of all of Alas
ka.
“It will boost employment, it
will result in increased tax rev
enues for the state and it will
create likelihood of new industry
becoming interested in Alaska.”
The voters, last Nov. 8. passed
a $23 million bond proposal to
finance a State Ferry System and
to pay for road work.
.. Egan said he does not plan, at
least at the present time, to rec
ommend to the Legislature where
the road money should be spent,
or how it should be spent.
The Bond proposal specified
that the bonds were to be sold
under rules and standards estab
lished by the Legislature.
The battle of the budget, Egan
said, will determine the extent
of the state’s fiscal 1962 Pioneer
Access Road Program, which the
governor described as “one of our
really worthwhile programs.”
The last Legislature appropri
ated one million dollars for the
construction of Pioneer Access
Roads.
i The State’s capital improve
I ment program, too, the governor
! said, will depend to a large ex
[ tent on the administration’s suc
I cess in matching expenditures
| with revenues.
He said there was several capi
tal improvements, including com
pletion of the Valdez Mental
Health facility, which would be
recommended through general
fund expenditures.
“Vital, needed improvements
for some schools also are under
study,” the governor said. “The
Valdez Mental Health project al
most definitely will have to be
carried through to completion.”
Dr. Lee McKinley writes that
he will be in Nome again Jan. 20
and 23 for dentistry. Anyone wish
ing an appointment may do so by
calling Main 78.
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FAIRBANKS TO NOME (Via Kotzebue)
EACH MONDAY and FRIDAY — FLIGHT 309
Lv. Fairbanks *7:30 a.m. Ar. Kotzebue 8:20 am.
Lv. Kotzebue 9:00 am. Ar. Nome 9:45 a.m.
EACH WEDNESDAY — FLIGHT 309
Lv. Fairbanks *7:30 am. Ar. Kotzebue 9:00 am.
Lv. Kotzebue 9:40 a.m. Ar. Nome 10:45 am.
FAIRBANKS TO NOME
EACH TUESDAY and SATURDAY — FLIGHT 311
Lv. Fairbanks *7:30 a.m. Ar. Tanana *8:05 am.
Lv. Tanana *8:15 am. Ar. Galena *8:55 a.m.
Lv. Galena *9:25 a.m. Ar. Nome 9:25 a.m.
FAIRBANKS TO NOME (Direct)
EACH THURSDAY — FLIGHT 311
Lv. Fairbanks *7:30 am. Ar. Nome 8:40 am.
NOME TO FAIRBANKS (Direct)
EACH MONDAY — FLIGHT 310
Lv. Nome 10:45 am. Ar. Fairbanks *1:55 p.m.
EACH WEDNESDAY — FLIGHT 310
Lv. Nome 4:30 pm. Ar. Fairbanks *8:40 p.m.
EACH FRIDAY — FLIGHT 310
Lv. Nome 2:00 p.m. Ar. Fairbanks *5:10 p.m.
NOME TO FAIRBANKS (Via Kotzebue)
EACH TUESDAY and SATURDAY — FLIGHT 312
Lv. Nome 10:25 p.m. Ar. Kotzebue 11:10 am.
Lv. Kotzebue 11:50 am. Ar. Galene *1:45 pm.
Lv. Galena *2:00 pm. Ar. Tanana *2:40 pm.
Lv. Tanana *2:50 p.m. Ar. Fairbanks *3:25 pm.
I EACH THURSDAY — FLIGHT 312
Lv. Nome 9:40 a.m. Ar. Kotzebue 10:25 am.
Lv. Kotezebue 11:05 a.m. Ar. Fairbanks *1:55 pm.
(*) Alaska Standard Time. All other times Bering Standard