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ARRIVALS ft DEPARTURES
To Fairbanks: Joe Griffith, Bob
Thomas, Porter Lockard, Law
rence Chapman, Albert Mueller,
Charles Scrivner, Joe Rychetnik,
B. Salter, Donald Lindstrom, J.
Petre, Russell Bolton, LeRoy
Younkins, and Neil Bay.
From Fairbanks: Betty Gustaf
son, Robert Coffey, William Davis,
B. F. Gamer, Howard Jones, and
Evan Hawks.
To Kotzebue: Lloyd McKing
tock.
... From Kotzebue: J. Greenhaw,
B. Cook, Jimmie Mitchell, James
Gilham, and Albert Mueller.
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Eskimos Hold
Meetings at Barrow
BA1KROW OB — Delegates from
the major Eskimo villages of in
terior and northern Alaska met
I here yesterday to open a general
conference on native problems.
The conference —■ first of Its
kind ever to be held—has been
named ‘‘Inupiat” by the Eskimo
people, meaning ‘‘the great gather
ing of the Eskimos.’’
Delegates reported on prob
lems from individual areas.
It was set up by the Associa
tion of American Indian Affairs,
a private association dealing with
all kinds of Indian and Eskimo
problems in the (United States.
The sessions will be devoted to
assisting the Eskimos in their ef
forts to organize and deal\ with
the many problem* confronting
them today.
Miss Laveme Madigan, execu
tive secretary of the association,
is in Barrow attending the con
ference.
The chairman of the conference
is Guy Okakok, from Barrow, and
the secretary is Frank Degan,
from Unlalkleet.
WEATHER FORECAST
Continued cloudy today and to
night and cooler. Lowest temp,
expected tonight 0 to 5, the high
tomorrow 15 to 20.
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Gov. Egan Protests
Navy’s Plan to Use
Seabees at Adak
JUNEAU UR — Navy plans
I to use Seabees for $10 million in
construction work at the Adak
Naval Station in 1982 drew the
fire of Gov. Wm. Egan yesterday.
Egan protested the Navys plans
in a letter to John Connally Jr.,
Secretary of the Navy. A copy of
the letter was sent to (Labor Sec
retary Arthur Goldberg.
Egan said he understood civilian
workmen were to be excluded for
security reasons.
“Some time ago,” Egan wrote,
‘<the Air Force dispensed with the
use of military personnel on its
construction projects in Alaska,
and since then has relied on civil
ian contractors and laborers for
both construction and mainte
nance work.
“Their installation I believe in
many instances are comparable
to the Navy’s program with re
gard to the need for rigid se
curity.
“ft has not been brought to my
attention that construction work
accomplished by civilian labor on'
numerous highly secret installa
tions in Alaska has in any way
proven to be detrimental to the
security of the United States of
America.”
If civilian labor could be em
ployed on the Aleutian work, Egan
said, it would be a “major factor
in alleviating the critical jobless
situation which now prevail^ in
Alaska — particularly in the An
chorage-Fairbanks areas where
most of the state’s population is
| concentrated.”
Marine Recruit Arrested |
For Stealing Gold Coins
SAM DIEGO,
Marine Corp^^
ed by agents of
day on charges
coins in Fairbanks.
Thomas Vigue, 21, was charged
in an FBI complaint with taking
the 22,546 in coins while work
ing as a cargo handler for Alaska
Airlines. The coins had been sent
to an Alaska firm from Switzer
land, the FBI said.
Vigue sold 36 of the coins in
Everett, Wn., and threw the rest
into a river, the FBI said.
The coins were stolen Jan. 18.
Vigue joined die Marine Corps
Aug. 25.
California Travel
Agents Entertained at
Alaska Sourdough Party
HOLLYWOOD ® — More
than 300 Southern California
travel agents and a dozen travel
writers were entertained last"
night at an Alaska Sourdough
party arranged to promote inter
est in Alaska travel next summer.
The guests wore Sourdough cos
tumes and ate Alaska muktuk,
Reindeer, king crab, salmon and
wild berries. Entertainment was
provided by Mr. and Mrs. George
Whaley, formerly of Kotzebue but
now of Hawaii, Mr. and Mrs.
Chester Seevek of Kotzebue and
airline stewardess Flora Dora
Girls.
The party was sponsored by
Alaska Airlines, West Tours Inc.,
Wien Alaska Airlines and the
White Pass and Yukon Route.
JACKIE TAKES A SPILL
MIDDLEBURG, Va. UFi — Mrs.
John F. Kennedy had a slight
spill at a jump while riding with
the Piedmona Hunt near Upper
ville, Va., today.
But, a close friend said it was
nothing serious and the White
House reported later that Mrs.
Kennedy “is fine.”
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Gov. Egan Asks CAB
To Drop Restrictions
On Stopover Privileges
JUNEAU UP) — Gov. Wm. Egan
today disclosed he has asked eli
mination of Civil Aeronautics
Board restrictions against exten
sion of stopover privileges in Alas
ka to through passengers on for
eign air lines.
Present restrictions, Egan said
in a letter to chairman Alan Boyd
I of the CAB, deprive the state of
tourist revenues and subvert
President Kennedy’s People to
People program.
Some 42,000 passengers a year
travel through Alaska on foreign
air carriers, Egan estimated. He
said if only 5 per cent would stay
in Alaska for 10 days additional,
tourist revenues accruing to Alas
ka would amount to about $1 mil
lion a year.
Egan said many of the esti
mated 10 million persons who will
attend the Century 21 Exposition
in Seattle next year will be
| traveling the Trans-Polar Route
! and “many others undoubtedly
would do so if the stopover re- j
striction were removed. . .”
In a separate letter to director
Voit Gilmore of the UJS. Travel
Agency, asking'that agency’s help
in eliminating the stopover re
strictions Egan said:
“It appears to me that here is
a readily made market for United
States’ travel, consisting of more
than 40,000 persons annually who
are already in the United States
but who are prevented from ex
tending their travels by reason of
an artificial restriction com
pletely without merit and con
trary to the demonstrated inter->
ests and purposes of our nation.”
HAS HO SHELTER
PHILADELPHIA UP) — Atty.
Gen. Robert F. Kennedy, brother
of the President, has no family
fallout shelter.
At a news conference last night,
he said he plans no shelter until
a federal policy is established
leading toward shelters for every
one.
| New March of
Dimes to Finance
Patient Program
The January 1962 New March
of Dimes will help finance an ex
panding patient aid program to
provide more skilled medical care
at the community level for victims
of crippling birth defects and
arthritis Mrs. Steffen Andersen,
chairman of Sah Yung Ah Tim ,
Mim, said today.
She just returned from a pre
campaign meeting of volunteer
leaders of the state’s national
foundation chapters held in An
chorage, Nov. 13, with Burr Gib
son, national director of fund
raising for the March of Dimes.
The volunteer delegates reacted
with real enthusiasm to the
March of Dimes new patient aid
program. This involves setting up
special treatment centers in large
medical centers or evaluation,
clinics at community levels to
treat victims of birth defects and
arthritis. The centers are fi
nanced directly by March of
Dimes chapters or groups of
chapters.
“In each center there is a team
of medical experts such as doc
tors, nurses, physical therapists,
occupational therapists, medical
social workers and many others,”
she added. “Like polio, birth de
fects and arthritis often cause
crippling and other complex med
ical problems. They need a team
approach for proper treatment.
We are sure the public will re
spond to this program through
generous support of the March
of Dimes in January.”
Late in August of this year
t a special treatment center-clinic
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ashington Hoe
Sehool for chll
delects, she ex- 1
supported finan
i daily by 55 Chapters of the New
■ March of (Dimes in Washington,
Alaska and Idaho.
Dr. David Shurtleff, medical di
rector of the clinic at the Uni
versity of Washington Hospital,
was the keynote speaker at the
meeting. He reported that over 70
small patients with bir*h defects
had been seen at the March of
Dimes supported clinic since it
first opened on Aug. 24. These
children were referred to the
clinic by their local physicians.
Dr. Shurtleff said.
Ideas were discussed to make
the traditional January March of
Dimes in Alaska a success. New
I materials for the 1062 drive were
demonstrated. Special films were
shown pointing up the enormous
problems brought on by birth de
fects, arthritis and polio.
“Few of us realize how many
Americans are affected by these
diseases."
“One out of every 16 babies is
bom each year in this country
with a significant birth defect
and at least till million Americans
have arthritis or rheumatic
disease.
"One of -file main hopes for
preventing this crippling lies hi
the Manfh ,^f Dimes medical re
search program. Another weapon,
in addition to patient aid, is the
health scholarship program de
signed to train students in the
health fields.”
The slogan for ihe January
March of Dimes, reflecting the
organization’s success against
polio, is “Your Dimes Will Do It
Again."
The Women of the Methodist
Church are holding a Bazaar
Workshop tonight at 8 o’clock at
(the LWY Community Center.;
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