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A Profitable Plan . . .
TUS COMMUNITY might profit from a plan on
fire hazard control now' in operation in Haines.
In (that community the Boy Scouts had a home in
spection project. Out of 44 homes inspected, 32 homes
reported they had never made any pre-arranged plan
on how to escape in case of fire. Other offenses noted
by the Scouts were rubbish accumulation; third, bad
smoking habits; fourth, matches in reach of small
children; and fifth, over fusing electrical circuits. All
hazards found were acts of neglect and carelessness
and could be corrected at no cost to the home owners.
The Boy Scouts were not only doing a civic serv
ice for their community but wepe being educated to
the fire hazards and therefore becoming better in
formed citizens of tomorrow. \
Axe! Wenner-Gren,
Swedish Industrialist
Dies From Cancer
STOCKHOLM Of! — Axel Leon- ;
ard Wenner-Gren, a Swedish
farm boy whose super-salesman
ship helped him amass one of the
world’s biggest, fortunes, died Fri- i
day of cancer. He was 80. j
The U.S. government estimated
his personal wealth at $1 billion \
several years ago, but Wenner-1
Gren repeatedly declined to offer 1
an estimate himself. I
“All that is required to make
a million dollars is hard work,
self-disciplined and common
sense,” he once said.
He died at the Red Cross Hos
pital here where his American
born wife, the former Marguerite
Gauntier, was reported under
treatment for an illness of an un
disclosed nature.
An operation earlier revealed
that the Swedish industrialist and
philanthropist was suffering from
a stomach tumor that had spread
to the liver. He had been under
treatment for about a month. The
couple had no children.
Pvt. Oksoktanik
Participates in
Exercise “Brandy Wine”
V CORPS, Germany (AHTNC)
—Army Pvt. Robert Oksoktaruk,
son of Mr. and Mrs. James Ok
soktaruk, Nome, recently parti
cipated in Exercise Brandy Wine,
a field training exercise involving
some 26,000 troops in Germany. |
The exercise was conducted to
train small unit leaders and test
tiie combat readiness of partici
pating units. Oksoktanik and
other members of his unit maneu
vered against an “aggressor"
force. They were supported in
the exercise by atomic-capable
and conventional artillery and
other combat logistical support
elements of V Corps.
Oksoktaruk, a driver in the 92nd
Transportation Co. which 1$ regu
larly located in Germany, enter
ed the Army in March 1961, com
pleted basic training at Fort Qrd,
Calif,, and arrived overseas last
August,, 'f;, .,
The 18-year-old soldier attend
ed Nome High School. Before en
tering tke Army, fee was employed
by the Northprn Metal Works.
Cold Wa* 6n UJL TV w&FZ
REYKJAVIK, Iceland UPt — A
cold war Jkges over American TV
in Iceland. The paly broadcasts
are from the UA. Keflavik Air
Base apd by popular demand Its
power was increased so programs
& could be seen here. Now the Com
munists contend Icelandic cul
ture is menaced and demand par
liamentary baa on U.S. TV.
Khrushchev Declares
Kremiin Will Follow Suit
If Nuclear Tests Continue
MOSCOW UPS—Premier Khrush
chev published a declaration Sat
urday night that, if any other na
tion proceeds with nuclear tests,
the Soviet Union will follow suit.
This seemed aimed specially at the
testing program of the United
States.
Khrushchev reiterated a So
viet position made clear earlier
this month in two ways. Ohe was!
a remark to newsmen by the Pre
mier Nov. 7 that “we will stop
when the others stop.” The other
was a statement published by the
official Tass news agency im
plying that the Soviet Union will
feel justified in continuing unless
the Western Allies halt all their
tests.
Khrushchev’s latest declaration
was made in a latter to Prof. John
Bernal, British head of the World
Peace Movement, barely 24' hours
after Arthur Dean, U.S. delegate
to the nuclear talks in Geneva,
said the negotiations opening
there Tuesday will not cause any
delay to the American testing pro
gram.
First Trip Outside . . .
SEATTLE (JB — Rado Kalezick,
77, here on his first trip outside
Alaska in 52 years, is neither
amused nor amazed by the big
city.
*Tve seen pictures and read
books,” Kalezick said. "I realized
what to expect.”
Kalezick, whose home is Cor
dova, conceded Seattle has
“grown” since he last was here
^llbere weren’t any cars here j
then. This traffic la over my!
head.”
Kalezick, who arrived last Mon
day by air, fat staying sit the Stew
art Hotel, gathering place of
many Alaskans. As to why he’s
here, he’s not too sure.
“I don’t know, he said. “I just
got the notion to take a trip.”
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UNALAKLEET
LODGE
and
RESTAURANT
Kotzebue Hospital
Dedication Date
Set for Nov. 30
By W. Joynei MacFarland
Associated l»ress Special Service
WASHINGTON IP — The
largest known building under one
roof north of 'the Arctic Circle
will (be dedicated by the govern
ment at Kotzebue Nov. 30, the
Public Health Service says.
The $30 million 50-bed hos
pital of the Division of Indian
Health is already in operation but
no formal dedication has been,
held. The building is a one-story
structure with a floor area of
approximately one acre.
Located 32 miles north of the
Arctic Circle and 150 miles across
the Bering Strait from Soviet
Russia, the service said the hos
pital has already attracted a few
elderly Siberians living on islands
in the strait. The Siberians cross
ed the ice and received outpa
tient treatment.
The project was a rather unique
one.
The contractor, Chris Berg,
Inc., had to adopt unusual means
to get construction materials to
the site. With only one scheduled
freighter to Kotzebue each year,
the concern barged all the ma
terials as soon as the ice melted
after it got the contract.
This operation started around
July 1, 1959. Since there are no
deep harbors in that part of the
country, the materials were light
ered by a shallow draft barge to
the beach. Heavy storms made
their operation quite difficult and
some loss of material was en
countered.
The first construction of neces
sity had to be a warehouse to
, safeguard materials and a camp to
hetsse employes.
Construction of the hospital was
complicated by the fact that the
entire area is composed of per
mafrost. In the Kotzebue area it
was found that the permafrost
was composed of about two-thirds
water and one-third silt, so when
it thawed it was quite mucky and
a serious handicap. Much of the
necessary trenching had to be done
in winter by thawing the perma
frost with steam points.
The water for the hospital is
provided by a distillation system
which converts sea water to fresh.
The sewage system had to be de
signed to meet the requirements j
of the Arctic location.
The hospital was built to pro
vide care for 7,500 Alaska na
tives — mostly Eskimos — in an
area of 98,000 square miles, in
cluding 28 villages.
Because many of the villages
are in remote and distant loca
tions and there is no surface
transportation into Kotzebue, a
radio medical clinic goes on the
air every evening at 6 o’clock.
The medical officer in charge
diagnoses illnesses and gives in
structions for treatment of the
sick by radio to the village scool
teachers.
■ It was Oliver Wendell Holmes
who observed, "Man has his will,
but woman has her way."
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[Sonic Booms Over
Heavy-Populated Areas
Produce Few Complaints
WASHINGTON UR — When it
Comes to sonic booms, what people
don’t know doesn’t seem to hurt
mem.
That was the gist of a report
Friday that secret tests of boom
effects over several big-popula
tion areas in the nation produced
surprisingly few complaints.
The boom occurs when a super
sonic aircraft exceeds the speed
of sound and sends shock-waves
earthward.
Officials in on the program said
that only since the initial test pro
gram was completed and people
became aware such tests were
going on did the complaints be
gin to come in.
Previously, it was reported,
when the public was unaware it
was being subjected to such tests,
•people paid little attention to the
disturbances.
The sonic boom study ended
Nov. 11. Most of the complaints
have come in since then.
The agencies refused to identify
the areas over which the tests
took place.
! Soviet Helicopter Lifts 16 Tons
MOSCOW — Tass said Sat
urday a Soviet designed Vintokryl
—a helicopter—had broken exist
ing world records by lifting a pay
load of 16 tons to an altitude ex
ceeding 8,310 feet.
Tass said documents on the
flight have been sent to the In-;
ternational Aeronautical Federa
tion. The machine was designed
by Nikolai Kamov.
To Train Jap Coal Miners
BONN, Germany — Fifteen
hundred young Japanese coal
miners will toe sent in batches of
120 over a three-year period for
training in West Germany under
a deal made here by Labor Minis
ters Kenji Fukunana and Theo
dore Blank.
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Siberia’s Fanners
"Get Fresh Official
Rebuke from Khrushchev
LONDON (A — Siberia’s farm
ers came in for fresh official re
buke Saturday at an agricultural
conference attended by Premier
Khrushchev in Novosilbirsz.
Moscow radio quoted First De
puty Voronov of the Communist
Party Central Committee Bureau
of the Russian Federal Republic,
as saying:
“It must be admitted, Comrade
Siberians, that as yet you are
making far from full use of the
riches and reserves of your fer
tile region. The spaces of the
Siberian lands are wide, but this
great source of the <people’s
wealth has been used as yet very
badly.
“What is the matter? First and
foremost, the unwise distribution
of the areas under seed. Even this
year, this distribution has hardly
changed for the better.
“There are also great defects in
the system of working the soil,
and in the methods of sowing food
and fodder crops. Therefore,‘very
many collective and state farms
are, year after year, obtaining
intolerably low harvests over
large areas.’’
REP. O'KONSKI CALLS FOR
INCREASE IN ARMY'S BUDGET
YAKIMA. Wn. UFt — Rep. Al
vin O’Konski, (R-Wis.), called
Saturday for a billion-dollar in
crease in the Army’s budget for
supplies and equipment to meet
standards he says are needed for
units recently called for active
duty.
He withdrew his demand for a
c o n g r e s sional investigation of
what he said were shortages and
mismanagement at Ft. Lewis, Wn.,
where his state’s 32nd Division is
stationed. He said nevertheless
a $25-million expenditure was
needed for that division alone.
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