PIONEER WOMEN TO ASSIST
AT THE ROOF GARDEN
Women of the Pioneer Auxiliary
will assist the Pioneer men, for
the Roof Garden, on the following
committees:
Program — Charlotte Hunger
ford, Emily Boucher, Mrs. Wm.
Cameron.
Fish Pond — Mary Honsberger,
Emily Boucher, Lillie Lewis and
Lyda Rohn.
Wheel of Fortune — Emma
Cameron, Grace Edman, Jennie
Fjazier and Violet Glass.
Bingo — Bev. Morgan, Barbara
Martin, Jane Perkins, Mary Ellen
Walsh.
Prospector Cakes — Edith Ar
nold, Elizabeth Hermann, Louise
Bockman, Bev. Blanning.
Cake Raffle — Christie Wald
heim, Louise Walsh, Helen Dun
bar.
Dance — Charlotte Hungerford,
Eleanor Osborne.
Refreshments — Janet Douglas,
Bonnie Hahn, Louise Maakestad.
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Former Anchorage Man
Sentenced for Swindling
PHILADELPHIA, Ml — A for
mer Anchorage firm operator
was sentenced yesterday to a year
and a day in federal prison on a
charge of swindling 50 persons of
more than $9,000 in a mail fraud
scheme.
Theodore S. Challingsworth, 44,
who has six children ranging in
age from 10 months to 16 years,
was sentenced toy U. S. District
Judge William Kraft Jr.
The government said that Chal
lingsworth had placed advertise
ments in various nationally dis
tributed magazines, promising to
deliver merchandise which he
never did.
Besides the jail sentence, the
judge placed Challingsworth,
whose family now lives in Phila
delhpia, on five years’ probation
beginning after he is released
from jail. He also was ordered
to make restitution.
Challingsworth was in Alaska
until late 1958. He pleaded guilty
at his arraignment late last year.
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“CAPTAIN BILLY MOORE”
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“FOOL’S GOLD”
by Ted Jordon
NEW EDITION OF . . .
“ALASKA FISHES AND ANIMALS”
by Dufresne
TWO NEW CHILDREN’S TITLES . . .
“VICTORY AT BEAR COVE”
by Pederson
“PIONEER OF ALASKA SKIES”
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Fireworks Factory
Blows Up, Killing
Owner, inMaryland
HAVRE DE GRACE, Md., UP) —
A heap of smoldering rubble lay
over a 10-acre site today — the
aftermath of a fireworks com
pany explosion that claimed the
owner’s life.
Fortunately, 63 employes had
ample warning and fled from
the series of blasts yesterday at
the Havre De Grace Fireworks
Co., and only two were injured.
Three housewives on the street
or in their'homes also were hurt.
The charred body of owner
James A. Fabrizio, 33, was found
in the ruins of the building. He
so badly burned, identification
had to be made through dentures,
a belt buckle and ring.
Another death was blamed on
the explosions, which shook this
northeastern Maryland town and
did extensive damage to nearby
homes.
Nellie Stansbury, 62-year-old
Negro, who had a history of
hypertension, died from shock or
a heart attack.
Damages to the plant and
homes totaled around $500,000.
Firemen did not immediately
determine the cause of the fire
which wiped out 22 of the 25
buildings.
ADDED ATTRACTION . . .
PRINCETON, N. J., UP) — Tick
ets for Saturday night’s “Voodoo
Valentine Dance” at the Prince
ton University campus were mov
ing slowly until the student or
ganization sponsoring it came up
with a new promotional idea.
The price of the ticket is still
$4.75, but for an additional 25
cents the sponsors will supply a
date.
The girls — 150 of them — are
from Centenary College, Hacketts
town.
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Commercial Airline Chiefs
Testify Against Bill to
Allow Free Competition
JUNEAU, UP! — Fly-by-night
operators would arrive in Alaska
like ducks, a commercial airline
spokesman said yestedday at a
hearing called toy the Joint Sen
ate-House Judiciary Committee.
Ray Peterson, of Northern Con
solidated Airlines, said if a bill
favored by pilot carriers should
pass, some private aircraft opera
tors would “come north with the
ducks, skim off the cream on the
lucrative routes, destroy the sub
sidy and fly back south with the
ducks.”
Peterson, Robert Annis, Juneau
attorney, and Richard Gilbert of
Alaska Airlines, testified in favor
of a Senate bill, which would
prohibit so-called “pilot-opera
tors” from competing with fed
erally-certified carriers on heavily
used routes.
Passage of the bill favored by
the pilot carriers would bring un
restricted competition on the lu
crative routes and endanger the
federal subsidies now granted the
established carriers, the trio
maintained.
The subsidies average about
one-seventh of the more than 70
million dollars paid annually by
the federal government for air
line subsidies, Peterson said.
“Alaska’s 225,000 population
gets an average of $80 a person,”
Peterson said. “The average is
about 33 cents a person for the
rest of the country.”
He said the federal subsidies
have brought stability to the air
line situation in Alaska, which
has enabled the carriers to pro
vide better service.
Annis argued further passage
of the pilot-favored bill would
disrupt the existing transportation
patterns established over the past
20 years, and would endanger the
basic system.
BOOZE IN CUSTODY . . .
DANVILLE, Va., UPI — Ebeneza
Booze was convicted in U. S.
District Court Monday of posses
sion of illegal whisky.
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Alaska Rail Rate
Hike Laid to
Higher Labor Cost
WASHINGTON, W) — The gen
eral manager of the government’s
Alaska Railroad has indicated
wages will have an important
bearing on rate increases.
Robert H. Anderson told a
House Appropriations Subcom
mittee that Alaska railroad wages
have been tied almost directly to
the national negotiations between
Class 1 railroads and labor or
ganizations. *
"Present indications,” Anderson
said, “are that an additional
three-year round of increases sim
ilar to the last settlement will
have the inevitable result of sub
stantial rate increase on the Alas
ka Railroad.”
Anderson said the road’s pas
senger service is a losing propo
sition. A study on passenger in
come indicated it costs $1.50 to
take in 50 cents, he said.
Asked about raising the rates
until they are self-supporting,
Anderson observed that the
road’s enabling act directed it to /
assist in the development of
Alaska.
“We feel that to raise passenger
rates to the point where they
would be compensatory would
'hinder the development of Alas
ka,” he said.
Anderson also told the commit
tee the road showed a net income
of $343,801 in 1959 and that the
forecast for the current year is
a net surplus of about $100,000.
BOV SCOUTS OF AMERICA
Nome Directory
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon at
North Star Dining Room
Russell Hermann, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. I
Order of Eastern Star
Ruth Reed
Worthy Matron
Verna Mickelson
Seerotary
Meets first and third Mondays
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Meets First and Third Thursday
of Each Month
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Aak Craft
President
Herto Jerks
Secretary
Wednesday Luncheon
Parent-Teachers Assn.
Meets last Tuesday of every
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