ARRIVALS * DEPARTURES
From Fairbanks: Mary Pilcher,
George Kost, Chuck Fagerstrom,
Ron Senungetuk, A5”1®110 Muller*
and Mildred Douglas.
To Fairbanks: Thomas Kosky,
Joe Parter, Larry Daw, Rachel
Sperry, Norma Atoruk, Sandy
Foster, and J. Jamison.
From Kotzebue: Norma Atoruk.
To Kotzebue: George Miller.
Dean Alexander Home
Arriving home from the U of
Alaska is Dean Alexander, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Heuston
Alexander. Dean is a freshman.
MMM HOSPITAL
Admitted: Keith Larsen, Car
rol Foster, Wm. Curran, Sharon
Unterwagner.
Discharged: Wm. Patakac, Roy
Avessuk and Annie Dodamain.
Christmas Cards Stolen
DETROIT UR — The 40 postage
stamps Joseph Boehenek bought
in a drug store yesterday failed
to serve their immediate pur
pose. From Bochenek’s parked
car a theif stole a paper bag con
taining 40 addressed Christmas
cards he had intended to mail.
TAKES rr BACK r . .
WASHINGTON — Gen.
David Shoup has sent “warmest
personal greeting^” to all Ma
rines and their families — but
the message sounded as though
he is taking it all back the day
after Christmas.
The Marine Commandant’s
Christmas greetings went out over
the Naval communications sys
tem and ended with this sen
tence:
“This bulletin canceled 26 De
cember, 1961.”
Red China Supports
India’s Invasion of Goa
TOKYO on — Red China’s gov
ernment Tuesday announced sup
port for India’s invasion of Portu
guese Goa.
Radio Peiping announced the
government has issued a state
ment “supporting the Indian gov
ernment in recovering Goa.”
This contrasted with an editor
ial in the official Chinese Com
munist paper Ta King Pao in
Hong Kong, which called the in
vasion an attempt toy Prime Min
ister Nehru of India “to regain
his sagging prestige among na
tions of the African-Asian bloc.”
Ta King Pao, however, had up
held India’s right to recover Goa,
challenging Nehru’s motives
rather than his methods.
The paper did not condemn the
invasion as such, in view of Com
munism’s basic anti-colonialist
policy- But Red China’s current
animosity toward India was re
flected in editorial ridicule of
Nehru and his motives.
Communist China and India
are having a verbal battle over
the Chinese-Indian border dis
pute.
WORK FOR RELIEF . . .
PLAINFIELD, N.J. — A
“Work for Relief” program, in
which abletoodied men collecting
relief payments will be used in
the city’s snow removal work,
has been announced by Mrs. Ruth
Dudley, assistant Relief Board
director. j
She also said Monday thit tls.
board is screening women who are
one relief to determine how many
could toe assigned work as baby
Alaska Reaps Record Harvest of
$14,681,489.33 in Oil Leases Bonuses
ANCHORAGE rn — The State
of Alaska reaped a harvest of
$14,681,489.33 in oil lease bonuses •
on a number of tideland tracts at
a sealed bid lease sale yesterday.
A total of 76 tracts, including
several upland tracts for the,
University of Alaska were offer
ed. State lands included 255,708
acres in 68 tracts.
No bids were received on 13
tracts but 119 bids were made on
the remaining 53 units offered.
The University lands brought
bids totaling $171,560.
A crowd of interested specta
tors and oil company representa
tives crowded the City Council
Chambers of the Z. J. Loussac
Library and some of the bids
brought loud gasps from the
crowd.
The greatest response came
when a combine of Standard Oil
Co. of California, Shell Oil Co.
and Richfield Oil Corp, bid $2,
500,371 on a Cook Inlet tract
(S-<13-6-8) and lost it to Pan
American Petroleum Corp.’s bid
of $2,502,000, opened seconds
later.
All the largest bids were for
tide and submerged lands
along the west side of Cook Inlet
where Pan American is current
ly drilling two wells in absolute
secrecy.
Other tracts bringing high bids
in excess of $1 million were S-l?
3-2 that went to Standard-Shell
Richfield for $1,00,302, S-13-6-18
that went to the same combine
for $2,300,322, and a pair of tracts
that brought the highest bid of
all from Pan American. S-13-5
49 and S-13-6-21 went to Pan
American on a bid of $2,554,000. I
The bundle of bonuses, largest
In the state’s seven lease sales
to date, far exceeded the figure
of $8 million that Gov. Wm. Egan
said the state would need to avoid
serious financial difficulty next
year.
At the time of the announce
ment, even some of Egan’s oil ad
visers doubted that such an
amount could be obtained.
The threat of an Interior De
partment claim on a portion of
the land was also expected to
dampen bidding but this was
cleared up before the bidding
deadline and rumors of an oil
strike by Pan American on West
Forelands may have offset the
problem of ownership conflict.
Before the bid opening, Com
missioner of Natural Resources
Phil Holdsworth explained the
ruling giving the land to the
state and said a check will be
made with the Interior Depart
ment before any future sales.
Holdsworth also announced
plans to hold the next state lease
sale in July, 1062, and said nomi
nations to tracts will be made
by May 1 so the companies will
have ample time to assess the
land offered.
Mrs. Don Foster, who has been
secretary to Judge Hubert Gil
bert, left yesterday to make her
home in- Seattle where her hus
band is now employed by Jonas
Bros.
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i BIRTHS DECLINE IN 1960
WASHINGTON UP — There was
a decline in births in 19ti0 but
the Public Health Service thinks
there may. be a record number of
babies bom this year.
In 1960, there were 4,257,850
births registered, about 4,000 few
| er than in 1959, said the Service.
I Hie Service, in announcing the
: 1960 births Monday, said infor
mation indicates there will be
aippreciably more births in 1961
than in 1960 and probably as
, many as in 1057—4,308,000—
which is the record year.
The latest unabridged diction
ary lists 100,000 new words and
meanings that have developed
i over the last quarter century,
i marking the greatest growth of
tile English tongue in history.
Dec. 18 I
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