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Dog Races Get
Underway at
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1:00 p.m. Saturday
At one o’clock tomorrow after
noon the Nome Dog Derby will
start from in front of the N. C.
Store, going east to Steadman
and out Steadman.
Drivers will be drawing for
place at 10 a. m. in front of the
Alaska' Airlines Bldg.
Today Barrow Morgan and W.
Cameron rechecked the race
course to be sure that the wind
and snow has not displaced or
covered the markers for the trail.
Mushers registered to date are:
Tom Tocktoo, Nome; George
Auliye, Elim; Isaac Okleasik, Tell
er; Doc Harris, Kotzebue; Ed
Punguk, Golovin; Larry Westlake,
Kiana; Dave Walluk, Nome;
Paul Tocktoo, Nome; Richard
Gallahorn, Kotzebue; Alfred
Adams, Koyuk and Aaron Simon,
White Mountain.
A chartered plane from Kotze
bue is expected today with five
more teams. There are some
teams in town who have not reg
istered yet. Between 20 to 25
teams are expected to compete.
The second heat will leave from
the same starting place on Sun
day at 1:00 p. m.
A big Eskimo show is planned
for Saturday night at the school
and a Mushers Banquet on Sun
day evening at the Seaview Room
when the trophies will be pre
sented.
The Jaycees will have a rein
deer barbecue scheduled in front
of the Alaska Airlines Bldg.,
stated Bob Hardwood. He also
said the reindeer race planned
would not materialize this year,
tout possibly next year.
Stowaway Discovered
On French Airliner
ANCHORAGE OPi — Interna
tional Airport Police and the FBI
here acknowledged today that a
Frenchman who had stowed away
in the baggage compartment of
an Air France jet plane was dis
covered in Tokyo and is being
returned to France.
Air France and U. S. Customs
officials here refused to give out
any information about the man
or the circumstances, however.
During a refueling stop here
today on a flight from Tokyo to
Paris, the stowaway was placed
in custody of immigration offi
cials, it was learned.
One airline official said the jet
plane baggage compartment gets
“very cold” during flights but
they are pressurized and a certain
amount of iheat escapes into them
from the passenger compartment.
There was no indication of
what the 12,000-mile free flight
will cost the imaginative traveler
in a French law court.
ARCTIC CLUB RACES START 1:00 P. M. IN FRONT OF N. C. STORE
Dog Races Saturday, April 1st
ALL TEAMS MUST REGISTER AT MORGAN & SON
Investigation Underway
In Plot to Kidnap
Presidents’ Daughter
PALM BEACH, Fla. M —
United States Secret Service
agents are investigating reports
that group of pro-Castro Cubans
have been plotting to kidnap
Caroline Kennedy, 3-year-old
daughter of the President it was
learned today.
U. E. Baughman, Chief of the
Secret Service, told a reporter:
“I will not deny or confirm
the reports.”
However, it was learned on ex
cellent authority that the service
has been investigating kidnap
plot reports for about a week.
President Kennedy, his wife
and two small children — Carol
ine and John Jr., — are in Palm
Beach for the Easter holiday. He
arrived yesterday. Mrs. Ken
nedy and the children arrived
from Washington Monday.
Security precautions have been
tightened around Caroline, but an
informed source said the young
ster’s normal movements have
not been restricted.
Asked about reports of an in
vestigation at a news conference,
White House Press Secretary
Pierre Salinger said:
“The Secret Service gets in
formation from time to time on
the President and his family
which requires a routine investi
gation. There is such a routine
investigation now underway.”
Resolution Calls for Ban on
Soviet Crabmeat Until Proper
Fishing Gear Is Used
JUNEAU GP) — A resolution
asking the federal government to
reinstitute a ban on the importa
tion of Russian crabmeat until
the Soviets quit using gear out
lawed by the United States was
introduced in the Senate yester
day.
The resolution said the Russians
are using tangle nets, otter trawls
and other types of beam trawls
which American fishermen are
not permitted to use, as a con
servative measure.
House Approves State
Motor Vehicle License Rates
JUNEAU (iW — The House yes
terday approved a bill redefining
the state motor vehicle license
rates.
The measure sets the license fee
for trucks weighing 3,800 lbs. or
less at $25, and for trucks weigh
ing 3.800 to 12,000 lbs. at $50.
Air Base Terminated Because
Of "Hostile" U. S. Attitude
CAIRO Iff) — Saudi Arabia’s
finance minister, Prince Tala Ben
Abdel Aziz, said his government
terminated the American conces
sion at Dhahran Air Base because
of loans the United States is giv
ing Israel and a “hostile” U. S.
attitude toward Arab causes. The
minister held a news conference
while on a visit to Cairo.
Easter Observed
With Age-Old
Eli lire h Rites
Easter will be observed Sunday
with age-old church rites and
with sunrise services in outdoor
beauty spots ranging from moun
tain tops to canyon rims.
The occasion, marking the i
Rise of Christ, is a joyous one in
religious services.
It is a happy time in another |
sense too, for it usually marks
the advent of spring weather and ‘
gives the church-goers a chance
to appear in Easter parades.
In Washington, the famed
cherry tree blossons are expect
ed to reach the height of their
beauty by Sunday. The annual
spring influx of tourists who
want to see them has already
begun.
President Kennedy and his fam
ily will be in Palm Beach over
the Easter weekend and will not
be on hand for the traditional
Easter Egg Roll on the south lawn
of the White House on Easter
Monday.
Across the land, sunrise serv
! ices will be conducted in natural
settings such as the south rim
of the Grand Canyon in Arizona
and in the Garden of Gods, near
! Colorado Springs, and the park of
l Red Rocks, west of Denver.
One of the more colorful ob
servances will begin Saturday
night when the people of Fred
ericksburg, Tex., will light “Easter
Fires” in surrounding hills for
the 114th year,
The custom dates back to the
pioneering era when early Ger
man settlers pacified children by
telling them that the campfires
of hostile Indians really were set
by th° Easter bunny to cook and
dye their Easter eggs.
One of the earliest outdoor
Easter day services in the nation
will be at 4:45 a. m. in the
Cathedral of the Pines atop a hill
at Ri"dge, N. H. Observers at last
year’s service, attended by about
6,000 persons, noted automobile
registration plates from 32 states.
House Completes Action
On Road Matching Funds
JUNEAU l/P) — The House com
pleted legislative action today on
a measure, which appropriates $1
million for state matching funds
for new highway construction.
The bill requires that empha
sis be placed on connecting cen
ters of population to the exist
ing rtate highway system that are
not now connected by road or
that will not be connected by the
proposed state ferry system.
“This will be used on the Fair
banks-Nome Road,” Rep. Bob
Blodgett told the House.
The money will come from the
$23 million dollar Ferry-Road
Bond issue already approved by
the Legislature.
RUSK RETURNS FROM
HIGHLY PRODUCTIVE
SEATO MEETING
WASHINGTON UP — Secretary
of State Dean Rusk today re
turned from what he called a
“highly productive” SEATO meet
ing on the Laos crisis and im
mediately prepared to report to
President Kennedy.
The Secretary of State arranged
to report to Kennedy by tele
phone from the State Department.
The President is on an Easter va
cation in Palm Beach, Fla.
Rusk declined to say whether
or not he is optimistic about the
possibility of a peaceful settle
ment of the troubles in strife
ridden Laos.
He noted that the Russians have
not yet replied to a British peace
plan proposal.
The important thing to have in
Laos, he said, is a cessation of
hostilities, whether or not under
a formally proclaimed cease-fire,
so that the negotiations for a
peaceful solution can get under
way.
In advance of Rusk’s arrival,
high official sources said this
country, is standing firm on its
condition that a halt in the shoot
j ing must precede any internation
| al conference.
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Senate Okays Resolution
To Start Construction
Of Fairbanks-Nome Road
JUNEAU UP — A resolution
setting forth as legislative intent
that $1 million of the $23 million
Ferry-Road Bond issue be used to
start construction of the Fair
banks-Nome Road was okayed by
the Senate yesterday.
One half of the $1 million would
be used for right of way and sur
vey costs and the other $500,000
would be used to start actual
construction, from both ends of
the route simultaneously.
Careful on Choice of Words . . .
BATAVIA, N. Y. UP — Police
radio dispatchers here are extra
careful in their choice of words.
The First Methodist Church says
its public address amplifier picks
up police calls when squad cars
are nearby.
Tourists \ iew
Ancient Rituals
In Jerusalem
JERUSALEM, Jordan Sector iff)
— In the streets of old Jerusalem
today tourists from Illinois and
Iowa wearing wash ’n wear suits
followed the procession of the
way of the cross commemorating
Christ’s trial, death and cruci
fixion.
This evening as the sun sets a
bearded patriarch in a white,
flowing robe will stand on a stone
block on the slopes of Mount
Gerizim chanting from ancient
scriptures. When he pronounces
the word “kill” 12 knives will
flash and 12 sheep will be
slaughtered.
The two contrasting scenes
dramatize the diversity of reli
gious devotions in the Holy Land
during Easter 1961.
The bearded patriarch is high
priest of the almost extinct Sam
aritan community which still ob
serves the feast of the passover
in exactly the same way Moses
commanded in the Old Testa
ment.
| There are only 345 Samaritans
' remaining in the once-flourishing
I community.
But the Samaritans have clung
to rigid observance of the pass
! over in the most minute detail.
Their passover this year fell
on the same day as Good Friday.
On this occasion every Samaritan
alive is expected to gather on
Mount Gerizim — the Samaritans
sacred sanctuary near Nablus,
Jordan.
Lutherans Oppose Use
Of Federal Funds
For Church Schools
ST. LOUIS UP! — The Board of
Parish Education of the Lutheran
Church-Mission Synod has issued
a statement saying it opposes use
of federal funds to assist church
schools, pay teacher salaries, build
facilities or buy equipment.
The board said yesterday: “Any
government that allocates funds
must therefore concern itself with
the use of these funds and must
control their use.”
Easter Sunrise Service — School Auditorium
April 2 — 7:00 A. M.
Prelude . Rev. Harriet E. Brown
Invocation . Rev. Arthur Zylstra
HYMN
“All Hail the Power of Jesus Name” . Congregation
Old Testament Scripture Reading . Rev. Everett Bachelder
SOLO
“On a Rugged Hill” . Mrs. Glen Lenert
TRANSLATED STORY
“Up from the Grave” . Native Group
Easter Message . Rev. Robert Leight
HYMN
“Christ the Lord” . Congregation
Benediction . Rev. John Maakestad
Public Cordially Invited to Attend at Invitation of
NOME MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION