Alaska’s 1961 School
Enrollment Expected
To Top 42,000
JUNEAU, OP) —- Incomplete fig
ures indicate Alaska’s 1960 pub
lic school enrollment might go
over 42,000, the State Department
of Education said Tuesday.
With figures lacking from the
big Anchorage district and from
five other incorporated cities, dis
trict school enrollment for the
1960-61 school year was listed at
16,866.
Anchorage had 10,951 students
last year.
Enrollment in the eight on-base
schools operated by the state is
running about the same as last
year, when 7,387 students attend
ed on-base schools.
ACS Underseas Cable
Broken Tuesday Night
SEATTLE, Of) — The undersea
cable carrying telephone lines to
Alaska broke Tuesday night, cut
ting off 21 lines including the
major news wires. Service was
cut north of Juneau.
The ACS pinpointed the break
in Flat Bay, between Skagway
and Lena Point, but said the cause
had not -been learned by Wednes
day afternoon.
Maintenance personnel were
flown to the site from Juneau
and the cable ship Basil Lenore
sailed Wednesday afternoon from
Seattle. The vessel will take four
days to reach the site and repairs
are expected to take one day.
Service was rerouted, mean
while, via Helena, Mont., and Cal
gary, Alta., along the Alcan High
way to Dawson Creek, then to a
connection with the cable at
Whitehorse.
Cotton Picking Contest
BLYTHEVILLE, Ark., 0P>—The
National Cotton Picking Contest
has a contestant from Alaska.
Vernon Robinson of Sitka will
compete Friday with 100 or so
other cotton pickers for a $1,000
prize.
Robinson explained he has been
“practicing” by picking cotton in
southeast Missouri and northeast
Arkansas.
DEMOCRATS ATTENTION
There will be a meeting at the
City Hall Friday evening 8:00
p.m. of the Democratic Club for
the purpose of electing officers.
After the meeting the members
will listen to the broadcast of the
second presidential debate sched
uled for 8:30 Friday evening.
Home Arts Club Praises
Mildred Harwood For
Girl Scout Leadership
Mildred Harwood, whose lead
ership for the last 15 years in
Girl Scouting here and who re
tired this year from the Girl Scout
Board, was given high praise by
the members of the Home Arts
Club which has been the sponsor
of the Girl Scouts since 1947.
Through her efforts the Scout
movement has grown from one
troop to an organization of about
125 girls of several troops. As a
lone troop it was necessary to
have a local organization as a
sponsor, and through her efforts
and enthusiasm the Home Arts
took on this responsibility.
The present organization which
makes the Nome troops part of
the Farthest North Council with
headquarters at Fairbanks, will
not require this sponsorship, ac
cording to information presented
at the meeting.
Following the meeting, over
which President Esther McCoy
presided, the members who met
in the multi-purpose room of the
school, repaired library books be
longing to the school library.
New members were welcomed
to the civic group and were Max
ine Book, Walda Reed, and Mrs.
Beauchamp.
Turnabout
NEW YORK, lift — Comedian
Bob Hope’s face appeared on mil
lions of television screens Mon
day night, but his voice was Polly
Bergen’s.
For nearly five frantic minutes,
harassed NBC engineers struggled
to get Miss Bergan—appearing on
a rival CBS show—off Hope’s
NBC program.
It was all very confusing, at
least east of Chicago where the
mixup occurred.
Through a switching error in
the coast-to-coast telephone cir
cuits, a CBS rebroadcast of “To
Tell The Truth,” beamed to the
West Coast, was relayed back to
New York on NBC lines.
“To Tell The Truth,” a panel
show starring iMiss Bergen, among
others, was seen in New York an
hour ahead of Hope.
Hope got his own voice back
after four minutes and 20 sec
onds.
There will be an important
Arctic Native Brotherhood meet
ing on Thursday evening 8:00 p.m.
at the ANB Hall. All members
urged to attend.
— Jerome Trigg, President
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Juneau Voters Fail to
Decisively Decide On
Manager-Council Govt.
JUNEAU. UP — Juneau voters
gave their approval yesterday to
bond issues amounting to $1,130,
000 for civic improvement and to
a new charter which calls for a
city manager form of government.
The new city charter was ap
proved by a 775-676 vote.
Confusing the issue, however,
was an advisory vote asked by the
city council as to whether Juneau
residents preferred a mayor-coun
cil or a city manager-council form
of government.
The voters, despite favoring the
new charter, which calls for a
city manager, said they preferred
a mayor-council form of govern
ment, 640-480.
The council had asked for the
advisory vote for its guidance
should the voters turn down the
proposed new charter.
The conflicting vote shoved the
whole question right back to the
council to decide.
A $200,000 bond issue, one of
four, was given overwhelming
support for paving a 2,000 foot
extension of the runway at Ju
neau Municipal Airport and in
stallation of runway lighting.
Re-elected to the city council
were the three incumbent candi
dates, Fred G. Baxter, Roy Con
ners and Wayne Johnson.
NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER
A day “to turn to God in pray
er and meditation” will be ob
served throughout the United
States today.
Proclaimed by President Eisen
hower as Natidnal Day of Prayer,
Americans everywhere have been
called upon to observe this special
day and “turn to God.”
WEATHER FORECAST
Mostly cloudy with occasional
snow flurries and colder with
northwesterly winds 15 - 25 mph.
Lowest temp, expected to
night 20, the high tomorrow 35.
In the past 24 hours: highest
temp. 37, lowest 29. Max. wind
34 mph from the west. Sunrise at
6:26 a.m., sunset at 5rl6 p.m
A year ago today: highest temp.
42, lowest 31. Extremes on this
date since 1907: highest 52 in
1938, lowest 8 in 1919.
Library Services Act
Funds Allocated
Alaska’s share of the library
services act fund for fiscal 1961
is $49,191. Sen. Gruenir.g was a
co-sponsor of the amendment to
the act (now Public Law 86,679)
which extends the provisions for
an additional five years. Under
the program, library services are
made available to rural areas and
communities and to remote sites
or villages. The state’s amount of
matching funds, to be used with
federal grant, is $25,341.
NOTICE
Wien Airlines has moved their
operations to the Terminal at
Nome Field. The City Ticket Of
fice will remain open as usual.
All cargo will be received and
dispatched at the airport.
NOTICE
REPUBLICAN CLUB
BAKE SALE
N.C. STORE — SATURDAY
STARTING AT 10 A.M.
PIONEERS ATTENTION
An important meeting will be
held Oct. 5, the first of our winter
sessions. A full attendance is de
sired.
— Luther Dunbar, President
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