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Walking Blood
Bank Vital To
Everyone in Nome
Blood transfusions as a safe
procedure was not possible before
the discovery of the blood groups
in 1901. At that time Landsteiner
demonstrated that according to
whether the red cells contain one
agglutinogen (A), or another (B),
or both (AB), or neither (O), hu
man blood could be classified in
four groups.
Discovery of the Rh factor in
1940 contributed greatly to the
further safety of blood transfu
sions and was recognized as the
most frequent cause of erythro
blastosis fetalis or jaundice of the
newborn.
Since 1940 many other factors
have been discovered but are
mainly important only in medico
legal work and seldom cause dis
ease.
The blood typing survey in
which ABO and Rh factors are
being typed was off to a good
start yesterday with almost a
hundred people participating.
Everyone is urged to stop in
today or tomorrow to have his
blood typed even if it was typed in
the 1952 survey, because the rec
ords of that survey are too out
dated and confusing to be of
much value today.
The place is the Grand Jury
Room in the Federal Building,
that’s upstairs. And the hours are
from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and from
5 to 7 p.m.
Networks Propose
Candidates Meet
Face-to-Face In Fifth
NEW YORK, (jffl—The television
and radio networks have proposed
that if the presidential candidates
decide to hold a fifth debate they
should meet face-to-face without
a panel of questioners.
The networks, in telegrams to
the television advisers of Sen.
Kennedy and Vice President Nix
on, suggested that each candidate
make a statement on an agree-on
subject, with each getting time for
rebuttal.
The men could question each
other, with a moderator keeping
the time—and the peace.
This format originally was sug
gested by the networks but was
turned down by the candidates.
The nominees have reached no
agreement on a fifth debate.
Indications Point To Very
Heavy Absentee Vote
JUNEAU, UP) — All indications
point to an extremely heavy ab
sentee vote in the No. 8 general
election, Secretary of State Hugh
Wade said today.
Wade said he had been advised
that absentee voting was parti
cularly heavy in the small native
villages of the westward and in
terior.
In southeast Alaska, some 250
absentee ballots have already
been cast, with many more appli
cations being received and filled
daily, Wade said.
In the 1958 general election,
840 absentee ballots were cast in
Southeast Alaska.
While Wade did not have the
absentee count todate from South
central, Central or Northwestern
Alaska, he said he had been ad
vised absentee balloting in those
ares was also running heavy.
League of Alaskan
City Support Bonding
Proposals On The Ballot
Mayor Steffen Andersen of
Nome, president of the League of
Alaskan Cities, has called upon
officials of all member cities, urg
ing active support of the $23 mil
lion state bond proposal for roads
and for ferry systems in the
Southeastern and Cook Inlet
areas. This is the largest of the
six state bond proposals appear
ing on the ballot for the general
election Nov. 8.
Andersen pointed out that the
League of Alaskan Cities was the
first state-wide organization to
urge authorization of the proposed
Southeastern marine highway sys
tem in a resolution adoped by the
1956 League Convention. And at
every annual convention since the
League’s organization in 1950, he
reminded, the extension and im
provement of the highway system
in Alaska has been a major ob
jective.
Member cities of the League,
which will convene in Sitka this
year November 10 - 12 for their
tenth annual convention are: An
chorage, Cordova, Douglas, Fair
banks, Haines, Hoonah, Juneau,
Kake, Ketchikan, King Cove, Ko
diak, Kotzebue, Nome, Palmer,
Petersburg, Port Chilkoot, Sel
dovia, Seward, Sitka, Skagway,
Valdez and Wrangell.
Federal Reserve Board
Will Provide $2.1 Billion
Lending For Christmas
WASHINGTON, WV—The Fed
eral Reserve Board today announ
ced plans to add about $2.1 billion
to the lending power of the na
tion’s banks and to provide an
extra $1 billion in currency for
the Christmas buying season.
The board announced it will act
on Nov. 24 and Dec. 1, to reduce
the amount of money which banks
in the reserve system must set
aside as reserves.
Funds not used as reserve are
available for lending.
A Reserve Board spokesman
said the moves are to meet rising
cash and credit needs between
Thanksgiving and Christmas and
to carry out a 1959 law relating to
bank reserves.
Gov. Egan Invites Iowa
Banks Invest In Alaska
DES MOINES, Iowa, —Gov.
William Egan made a sales pitch
today for Iowa investment capital.
Speaking before some 4,009
members of the Iowa State Bank
ers Assn., Egan outlined Alaskan
accomplishments since statehood
and described the resources of the
49th state.
Then he said:
“It would be nice to feel that
there may be among my captive
audience today, one or more rep
resentatives of banking institu
tions with excess funds which
might be available for investment
in Alaska, for frankly the lack
of investment capital is probably
Alaska’s major shortcoming to
day.”
The Alaskan governor said that
while the problem was not unique
“in Alaska this problem is prob
ably greater than elsewhere, how
ever, because of the increased de
mand for investment funds aris
ing from the development of new
businesses and industries in a
relatively new country.”
Anchorage C of C
Opposes Bonding
For Roads, School
ANCHORAGE. UP—Greater An
chorage Chamber of Commerce
directors yesterday unanimously
opposed the $23 million bond is
sue which would provide for two
state ferry systems.
The specific projects to be paid
for by the bond issue are not cov
ered by specific allocations, the
board objected, adding that the
state cannot affford the expendi
ture at this time.
Directors also commented that
they favor a ferry system for
Southeastern Alaska but feel dif
ferent financing is needed.
The bond issue to be presented
to the voters Nov. 8 states only
that the general obligation bonds
would pay for “acquiring, con
structing, equipping and making
necessary capital improvements
to state ferries and ferry facilities,
and roads and highways.”
It has been generally under
stood, the directors were told, that
$15 million would be spent on a
ferry in Southeastern Alaska, to
run from Prince Rupert to Haines,
$3 million on a ferry between Ko
diak, Anchorage and Homer and
$5 million on unspecified road
work.
In other action the directors ap
proved bond issues for building a
gymnasium at the University of
Alaska and for matching federal
hospital construction funds but
opposed bonds for construction of
state office buildings in Anchor
age and Fairbanks and for build
ing a vocational education school.
The stands were taken after the
board talked with Richard Down
ing, Commissioner of Public
Works, who declared that South
eastern was entitled to communi
cation between its cities, since
road construction is not feasible
in that area.
The state may have to subsi
dize the system for more than
the two years anticipated by its
promoters, but Downing added,
“We’re subsidizing every road in
the state in maintenance funds.”
Alaska Census
Figures Released
A more recent preliminary re
port on the Alaska census has
been issued by the U.S. Depart
ment of Commerce. The new fig
ures show a total state popula
tion of 224,094, a gain of 95,451
over the I960 count. This is a
74.2 per cent increase.
Population was enumerated by
election districts.
District 23, Nome, had 5959;
Dist. 21, Barrow, 1974; Dist. 22,
Kobuk, 3563, and Dist. 24, Wade
Hampton, 3125.
In the tally compared with 1950
three towns lost population. They
were Cordova, Petersburg, and
Seward. All others gained.
Nome had 2,296 compared with
1,876 in 1950—a 22.4 per cent gain.
The Ultimate—Texas Style
DALLAS, Tex., UP) — “Do you
have a couple on your Christmas
list for whom it is “utterly im
possible” to buy a gift?
Try “His and Her Airplanes,”
suggests the new Christmas gift
catalogues just released by Nei
man Marcus, the Dallas specialty
store.
His is a 7 - place Beechcraft
Super G17 priced at $149,000.
Hers is a 4-place Beechcraft Bon
anza, priced at $27,000.
Chamber Told All Bonding
Propositions Necessary
For Development of State
Senators John McNees and Les
Bronson both strongly urged the
passage of all bonding proposi
tions on the Nov. 8 ballot, at the
Monday meeting of the Chamber
of Commerce. McNees gave a
thorough analysis of the bonding
program and what it means to the
development of the state.
The bonding of the state for a
total of $39.5 million should bring
a return, stated McNees, of $152
million in matching funds. When
questioned on what assurance
there was for $5 million for the
Nome-Fairbanks road, out of
Bonding Proposition No. 2, Mc
Nees frankly replied that there
was no assurance, as the last leg
islature could make no promises
for the acts of the next legisla
ture. However, he claimed, a let
ter of intent was left, indicating
that the $23 million should be
divided as follows: $15 million for
Southeastern ferries; $3 million
for ferries for Homer and Kodiak,
and $5 million for a primary road
“east-west” (Nome-Fairbanks).
L. E. Hough, area director for
BPR, attended the meeting and
was given a hearty welcome as he
took his usual place at the table.
Rev. John Maakestad invited
the members of Chamber to an
open house next Sunday after
noon at which time they would
view the recently completed sec
tion of the Lutheran Church con
tained the quarters for the min
ister and the Sunday School and
social rooms.
Increased Southeastern
Ferry Service Forecast
For Coming Summer
JUNEAU, UP)—‘The State Divi
sion of Highways said today it is
studying the possibility of insti
tuting daily ferry servce between
Juneau, Haines and Skagway dur
ing the 1961 tourist season.
This year, the ferry operated on
a schedule that provided general
ly only four round trips weekly
between Juneau and Haines and
normally only one round trip a
week between Haines and Skag
way.
T.D. Sherard, chief of the State
Division of Highways, said the
possibility of operating a small
ferry on the Haines-Skagway run
was being investigated.
Sherard said a small ferry
would provide more frequent ser
vice at less cost between Haines
and Skagway and at the same
time free the ferry Ghilkat for
more frequent runs between
Haines and Juneau.
In any event, Sherard said,
more ferry trips between Haines
and Juneau would be scheduled
next year.
Alaska-Yukon Pioneers Will Hold
Annual Banquet Nov. 5 in Seattle
SEATTLE, UPi — The Alaska
Yukon Pioneers and the Ladies of
the Golden North will hold thtir
annual banquet Saturday evening,
November 5, in the Arctic Club.
The present lodge is a direct
descendant of the old Order of
Yukon Pioneers, organized at
Forty-Mile, the first mining camp
on the Yukon, about 1894 by Geo.
T. Snow, later of Seattle.
The Alaska-Yukon Pioneers’ or
ganization was organized about
1910 by James O’Neil, a pioneer
of the Juneau, Dawson and Fair
banks areas.
Who Is Bidding Up
Price of Gold On
London Market?
By SAM DAWSON
AP Business News Analyst
NEW YORK, MV-Who is bid
ding up the price of gold on the
London market? Monday morning
it shot up above $40 an ounce
again — $5 more than the U.S.
Treasury selling price.
After gold’s wild rise Thursday
to nearly $41, the U.S. Treasury
flatly said it wouldn’t raise its
buying or selling price and the
London free market subsided Fri
day with gold closing around $37.
The central banks of other na
tions could sell gold on the Lon
don market, taking the $40 to buy
gold from the U.S. at $35, and
pocket the $5 profit.
Wall Street bankers say that
last week at least there was no
sign that any central banks were
involved either in buying the
gold or in supplying it to the
market.
There is every sign that the
United States is firmly discour
aging any such run on its gold
stocks. Wall Street bankers doubt
if any friendly nation would go
against Washington’s wishes at
this time, since such a devalua
tion of the dollar might upset all
world foreign exchange markets,
as well as playing into Soviet
hands.
American speculators could be
selling and buying gold on the
London market. But they can’t do
so here as the law permits sales
only for art and industrial pur
poses or to other governments
and their central banks, or to
i some international monetary
bodies.
But Americans can, and have,
bought and sold gold through
Swiss banks, where their trans
actions can be confidential. Am
ericans also can buy gold bars
in Canada, but can’t bring them
back home.
U.S. Election Uncertainties
Some American buying could
be tied to the uncertainties of the
American election. Talk of deval
uation if the Democrats win —
talk which Senator Kennedy has
denied—could lead American fin
anciers to seek gold as a hedge.
Devaluation of the dollar be
fore the election by a Republican
administration would play into
Democrats’ hands—and not even
Europeans think that remotely
likely.
But the biggest demand for gold
on the London market is believed
to come from European, Mideast
and Far East speculators, who
have been in and out of the world
gold market for years—and from
peasants in many lands who turn
to gold whenever doubts are aired
about the value of currencies.
Such doubts today are tied to
the fear that no matter what the
U.S. Treasury says it will be
forced to devalue the dollar.
The reasoning (all of which is
denied by the Treasury) is:
1. That a deepening recession
could put the Treasury into de
ficit financing again, reviving in
flation;
2. That the three-year excess
in the amount of money the U.S.
has been spending for imports,
overseas investments and foreign
aid over what it has taken in
from its exports and returns on
its investments could mean that
its steady loss of gold will con
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