Mrs. Alfred Lomen to
Represent Alaska at J
WICHE Conference
The University of Alaska has
received word that Mrs. Alfred
J. (Mary Elizabeth) Lomen will
represent the State of Alaska at
the Western Interstate Commis
sion for Higher Education Confer
ence on the out-cf-state student
in western colleges and univer
sities.
The conference will be Nov. 30
and Dec. il in Denver, Colo., and
' citizens from the 13 states in
WICHE will attend. (1) Should
one state “subsidize” the edu
cation of other states’ students?
(2) Should out-of-state education
al opportunities toe severely, limit
ed and each state develop an in
sular educational system; and (3)
How valuable to a college are stu
dents from many geographic and
cultural backgrounds?
In reviewing material for the
conference, Mrs. Lomen noted
that she will be the only woman
among the 13 representatives from
the WICHE member states. Re
source persons and WICHE staff
members will bring the total con
ference group to 20.
WICHE commissioners for the
state of Alaska who suggested
Mrs. Lomen for this position in
cluded John Miller, DDS, Anchor
age; Dr. Theo Norby, State Com
missioner of Education; and Dr.
W. R. Wood, president, University
of Alaska.
The, conference is being financed
by funds made available by the
Carnegie Corp. of New York.
Steve Andersen and
Tommy Johnson Named
Deputy CD Directors
Mayor Wilke lias named two!
men as Deputy Directors of Civil
Defense for the City of Nome.
The mayor himself will be the
nominal: head of the program and
the deputies are Steffen Ander
sen and Thomas Johnson.
Andersen has been acting, in the
capacity of deputy director for
the area CD plan but now he Will
devote his efforts to. the city’s
program.
Andersen and Johnson expect
to call their first public meet
ing very soon.
Beta Sigma Phi to Honor
New Members with Tea
Beta Sigma Phi will have its
annual tea to honor new mem
bers on Sunday afternoon at the
residence of Mrs. Stanley Mor
gan. New members to be honored
are Janet Caldwell, Peggy KelH
her, Ellen Jones, Sharon Harwood,
Agnes Walsh and Donna Morgan.
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BID NOTICE
Bids will be received in the
Office of the City Clerk until S
{turn. Monday, Nov. 27, lSei foe
furnishing the following:
Welding Vfc • In. reinforcing
steel to Dl track pad grous
ers.
all labor, material and coats to be
included in bid. Specifications in
City Clark's Office. The City re
serves the right to reject any or
all bids.
Robert fV Scott,
City Clerk
Pub: Nov. 17, 24, 27, 1961.
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Dog Racing to Be
Highly Competitive
For 1962 Season
Alaska’s greatest outdoor spec
tator sport, dog mushing, is slated
this year to produce one of the
most fiercely competitive and
most exciting season? in north
land racing history. And the fun
won’t be limited to Alaskans.
Many an out-of-state visitor will
line the trails as his favorite
parka-clad driver commands,
“Mush you Huskies” to a team of
charging, eager, yelping race dogs.
One of the “grand old names”
of mushing is the Alaska Dog
Mushers Assn., Inc., of Fairbanks.
Sponsors of the North American
Championship Sled Dog Derby,
the association has announced
March 16 through 25 as the dates
for the 17th annual running of
this snowtrail classic.
For the drivers, a strong lure
of the competition will be $15,000
in prizes, a purse which guar
antees participation by crack
teams and drivers, not only from
Alaska but from Canada- and the
“south 49” states as well.
More exciting to the spectator
than the money, however, is the
lure of the racing itself, the op
portunity to see men and animals
in action, perpetuating Alaska’s
hardiest sport. Particularly color
ful — and like a page out of
Jack London or Rex Beach — are
the Eskimo and Indian racers and
their families together with their
dogs, sleds, and other gear.
More than 400 dogs raced in
the 1961 championships.
A final lure to the north, if one
is needed, is the scheduling of
Fairbanks annual Winter Carnival
during the same period. After-the
races carnival activities will in
clude a dance, torchlight parade,
fireworks, Hans Urinker race, the
Miss Alaska-Miss Universe pag
eant, and dozens of other activi
ties.
Win
ter OarnWal, the mittehtrs. asso
ciation has scheduled prelimin
ary races for Jan-. 1, 14, and 28,
Feb. 1, and March 4. Similar
races during January thru March
will also be held at Anchor Point,
Anchorage, Homer, Kenai, Nome,
Tanana, and Tok.
John Rina has arrived from
Sheyma to assist here in the of
fice of the U.S. Weather Bureau.
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Victoria’s Bell
Returned After
Ten Year Absence
The 91-year-old Victoria bell
returned to Seattle, recently after
an absence of nearly ten years.
Those were quiet years for this
bell that has sounded out the
watches during the historic life
time of the “Old Vic” . . . while
she rushed troops to the relief of
Gen. “Chinese” Gordon in Africa
. . . while carrying men and
mules in support of the Spanish
American War in the Philippines
. . . while hustling thousands of
prospectors to the Klondike . . .
and while helping keep Alaska
supplied for over half a century
and during two world wars.
The decade of silence for the
old bell was not her choice. Her
tongue was muted while she was
enshrined aboard the Cunard
Liner Parthia. And any belle that
can’t talk is apt to be a bit sulky,
particularly when, like the Old
Vic bell, she has so much to
peal aibout.
“Sheer resentment was probably
the reason the bell broke loose
from her hanger while being ship
ped back here from Liverpool,”
said Sid Havman, manager of the
service department of the Alaska
Steamship Co., said. “But she will
ring again before she is present
ed to the Seattle Historical So
ciety,” he promised. “Our shops
will see to that.”
The Cunard Steamship Co. re
turned the bell at the request of
D. E. Skinner, president of Alas
ka Steam. He had given it to
Cunard in 1952 for a special mem
orial aboard their Parthia, built in
1948, since the Victoria was the
first Cunard liner to bear the
name “Parthia.”
The Victoria was launched the
Parthia in 1870 at Dunbarton-on
the-Clyde toy W. Denny & Co. She
was at first a crack Atlantic liner
on the London-New York rim.
Schooner rigged, she boasted a
new mechanical marvel, a com
pound engine with shaft that
could be disconnected to idle the
propellers when there was a good
wind.
Like her owners, the Victoria
engines and rigging changed sev
eral times as did her routes. She
served far and wide, Great Britain
to Australia, South America to
Singapore.
In 1887 the Victoria came out
of Vancouver, B.C. to become the
first Canadian Pacific liner. She
entered the Alaska trade in 1900
and became a unit of the Alaska
Steampship Co. fleet in 1908.
After having been laid up for
several years, the Victoria pas
senger accommodations were re
moved and she came out in 1940
as strictly a cargo carrier to help
for the last time in a war effort.
She was decommissioned finally
in 1052.
But the Old Vic whistle still an
nounces arrivals and sailings here
and along Alaska’s coast, hot of
the Vic, of course, but of the
Alaska Line steampship Iliamna
to which it was transferred.
“Before we turn the bell over
to the Historical Society, we
should have one final jam session
with the Victoria bell and
whistle,” Hayman said.
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