Pink and Green Geese
Should Be Reported
To Wildlife Researcher
COLLEGE, Alaska, May 14—If
Alaskans start seeing pink, green
and yellow geese, they shouldn’t
ihurriedly take the pledge.
Instead, they should notify Dr.
John L. Buckley, head of the co
operative wildlife research unit
aft the University of Alaska.
Today he said that U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service personnel
cooperated with the California
department of fish and game to
provide a means of tracing geese
on their northward migration to'
breeding grounds.
Accordingly, they dyed lesser
•snow geese pink, later migrating
lesser snow geese green, and Ross’
geese yellow.
A pink snow goose was spotted
in a flock of 125 on May 8 30 air
miles west of Fairbanks. This is
•Che first dyed goose known to
have been spotted in Alaska.
Dr. Buckley would like to hear
about others. He promises not to
raise a skeptical eyebrow—pro
vided, of course, that he doesn’t
receive reports about purple, or
ange and blue geese.
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I Fight Manager Socks
Sportswriter for Writing
Uncomplimentary Stories
SPOKANE, W*—A fight mana
ger, who evidently resented some
uncomplimentary stories written
about his fighter, struck a sports
writer in the dressing room of the
Coliseum here last night.
Bob Johnson, who writes for
the Spokane Chronicle, was cut
and bruised about the face and
had his glasses broken.
Dressing room witnesses said
the punch was thrown by Chuck
Woods, manager ot lightweight
Bobby Woods.
Johnson said Manager Woods
hit him after complaining that
Johnson’s pre-game articles in the
Chronicle had held down the size
of the crowd.
Bobby Woods, who usually calls
Spokane his hometown, was upset
by Russ Tague of Iowa in a unani
mous decision.
The crowd was a small 1,500.
WEATHER FORECAST
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I expected tonight 28, high tomorr
row 35.
Court Upholds Lifetime
Suspension of Wes Santee,
U.S.’s Top Mile Runner
NEW YORK, UP) — The state
supreme court today upheld the
Amateur Athletic Union’s life
time suspension of Wes Santee,
the country’s top miler and Olym
pic hope, but sharply criticized
amateur officials for fostering lax
observance of the rules.
Justice Walter Lynch, in hand
ing down his judgment on the
controversial case, said:
“He (Santee* has eliminated
himself as an amateur athlete,”
the justice said, “but not without
an assist from some of the guard
ians of amateur athletics.”
Santee, whose 4:00.5 mile last
year was the fastest ever run by
a United States athlete, was sus
pended by the AAU Feb. 19 on
charges of professionalism.
The runner, a graduate of the
University of Kansas who now is
an officer in the Marine Corps,
was accused of taking money
above allowable expenses to com
pete in certain meets.
Santee fought the suspension on
the grounds the AAU committee
which banned him was without *
jurisdiction and the AAU had
knowingly violated its rules in the
cases of other athletes.
Legislative Council Meets
In Ketchikan May 23-25
JUNEAU — Chairman Richard
J. Greuel, Fairbanks, has called
a meeting of the Legislative Coun
cil in Ketchikan May 23-25. The
meeting has been called to con
tinue Council studies relating to
election laws, liquor legislation,
local government problems, and
other subjects that are being
studied by the Council. Also, new
requests for legislation that have
been presented to the Council
since its last meeting in February
will be considered.
The Legislative Council is a
permanent committee of eight
Alaska legislators from all parts
of the Territory which meets
periodically to study legislative
problems that are expected to
come up at the next legislative
session. The Council recommends
a legislative program on the basis
of its studies and public hearings.
Members of the Council in ad
dition to Chairman Greuel are
Senators James Nolan, vice chair
man, Wrangell; Ralph J. Rivers,
Fairbanks; Earl Cooper, Anchor
age; and Representatives Burke
Riley, Haines; Wendell Kay, An
chorage, and Edith Bullock, Kot
zebue.
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Alaska Will Help
Measure Fallout
Of H-Bomb Tests
JUNEAU — Alaska will parti
cipate in the nationwide radia
tion surveillance network to
collect radioactivity readings dur
ing the nuclear tests at Eniwetok
this spring, according to plans re
ceived by the Alaska Department
of Health from the Health, Educa
tion and Welfare Department in
Washington.
William Ray of the U.S. Public
Health Service is scheduled to ar
rive in Juneau today for a one
week training program for Alaska
observers in use of equipment for
determining amounts of radioac
tivity in the air. Representatives
of the Alaska Health Department,
the Arctic Health Research Center
at Anchorage, and other agencies
will attend the training sessions.
The monitoring program is op
erated by the USPHS under a
joint working agreement with the
Atomic Energy Commission. Thir
ty-nine monitoring stations locat
ed in cities across the country will
collect the radioactivity informa
tion for varied scientific uses.
In addition to its uses by the
AEC, the information is needed by
the photographic industry, scien
tists conducting experiments with
low-level radiation, and meteor
ologists.
Weather Summary
For April, 1956
April brought the usual transi
tion from “deep freeze” to “break
up.” From much below normal
early in the month (-27 on the 5th
was the second coldest ever re
corded here in April) tempera
tures rose rapidly, and heavy
runoff took place during the last
10 days.
Snake River ice has not gone
out, but large cracks have ap
peared, and there are many pools
of open water over the ice. The
ground near town remains snow
covered, but the mountains north
of town have about 50 percent of
their slopes exposed.
The average monthly tempera
ture was 17.2—3.8 degrees cooler
than normal. The highest temper
ature was 41 on the 23rd. The
lowest was -27 on the 5th.
A single U.S. rocket engine now
under development produces more
jet horsepower during its short
running time than the total horse
power output of the giant Hoover
Dam for the same period.
Nome Directory
NOME ROTARY CLUB
George Bayer, Pres.
Joe Kroninger, Sec
Thursday Luncheon
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Tuesday Noon
STAN MORGAN, President
ALASKA CHAPTER KO. 1
Order of Eastern Star
Meets 1st k 3rd Monday of each month
Betty Edwards
Worthy Matron
Helen Dunbar
Secretary
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ANVIL LODGE
Harry A. Lewis, WJL
X^,/^ \ Norvln W. Lewis, Sac.
Meets 1st and 3rd Thursday each oM*h