First Truckload
Of Mail Heads
North to Alaska
SEATTLE (£> — A big truck
trailer carrying 22,300 pounds of
second, third and fourth class
mail for Alaska rolled north
through British Columbia today
in an inaugural trail run to Fair
banks.
Riding with two drivers was
William J. Hartigan, Asst. Post
master General in charge of trans
portation.
The schedule calls for the Gar
rison Fast Freight truck to reach
Fairbanks at 2 p. m. Friday, cut
ting three days off the usual time
for delivery of all but first class
mail to Alaska. First class goes
by air.
The truck pulled out of the
Seattle Terminal at 6:25 p. m.
Monday night, leaving nearly six
hours early because of damage
Bto a bridge over the Tanana River
near Big Delta, Alaska.
James J. Symbol, regional post
office director, said the extra time
was allowed in case the mail has
to be unloaded, taken over the
bridge in a smaller vehicle and
transferred to another large truck
on the opposite side.
Symbol said late word from
Big Delta indicated the bridge
might toe repaired by the time
the heavily loaded mail truck ar
rives there Friday morning.
The four-times-a-week overland
mail run from Seattle to Fair
banks will continue for a year
on an experimental basis, after
which the department will decide
whether to make it permanent.
Hartigan said before his de
parture he was making the maid
en trip “to gain a better insight
on the entire question of moving
the mails to Alaska ... to view
ing the problems first hand.”
Second, third and fourth class
mail all had moved previously
to Alaska by boat.
The truck route goes through
Dawson Creek, Fort Nelson and
Watson Lake, B. C., Whitehorse,
in the Yukon Territory, and Snag
and Big Delta in Alaska.
Symbol said Canadian Customs
officials at Snag had agreed to go
on duty two hours early at 4 a. m.
to accommodate the mail truck
and prevent any delriy.
Editor’s Note: Rep. Ralph J.
Rivers has informed The Nugget
that mail for Nome, Kotzebue and
Point Barrow will be included on
the experimental mall run.
Keith Ksdrean left yesterday
for Seattle where he will attend a
family reunion with four brothers
and a sister. It will be the first
such reunion in 20 years for the
Heureen clan.
Four Alaska Villages
To Receive $9,500 in
Depressed Area Funds
JUNEAU UP — The allocation
of $9,500 in state depressed area
funds to the villages of Shish
maref, Koyuk, Tununak and
Lower Kalskag was announced
today by Gov. Egan.
The funds will be used to help
pay for labor costs involved in
Public Works projects at the four
westward villages.
Shishmaref will receive $2,000
for use in digging and casing a
well, repairs to the main street,
drainage ditch excavation and
collection of rubbish.^
Koyuk will receive $1,500 for
rebuilding the boat dock, repairs
to streets and paths and repairs
to the village’s airstrip road.
At Tununak, $4,000 will be used
for construction of walkways, dig
ging waste disposal pits, construc
tion of a wellhouse and com
munity boardwalks and repairing
electric lines and poles.
The $2,000 allocation to Lower
Kalskag will be used for excava
tion of a fire trench and waste
disposal pits, construction of a
float for pontoon planes and fil
ling swampy areas in the village.
Hungary’s Government
Gets a Major Reshuffle
VIENNA UP — Premier Ferenc
Muennich has been removed in a
major reshuffle of the Hungarian
government, radio Budapest an
nounced tonight.
Janos Kadar, first secretary of
the Communist party, took over
as premier.
The announcement said the re
shuffle was carried out to
strengthen government leader
ship in Hungary.
Several other members of the
government were also removed
or changed their posts, the radio
said.
Muennich was given the post
of state minister, which had been
Kadar’s title in the- government.
GyuJa Kallai, who had been a
first deputy premier, was demoted
to fourth deputy. '
Catholic Kindergarten
To Open In October
Father Nevue has received the
advice that the teacher for the
Catholic kindergarten will arrive
later this month. The school,
which was started last year, will
reopen in October, he said.
The new teacher will be Jeanne
Ileber of Valley, City, N.Y.
Mrs. Robert Oliver and two
children returned' home this week
having spent the entire summer
travelling in the west. She states
it was a wonderful vacation and
the children particularly enjoyed
visiting Disneyland.
U.S. Will Have to Re-Do
Research on Fallout
At Project Chariot Site
FORT COLLINS, Colo. ltf> — A
scientist said here Monday cur
rent Russian nuclear testing will
make it necessary for American
investigators to re-do their re
search on the effects of fallout in
Northwestern Alaska, site of a
projected harbor excavation un
dertaking at Cape Thompson with
nuclear explosives.
The statement was made by
Dr. John Wolfe, head of Environ
mental Research for the Atomic
Energy Commission. He is attend
ing a symposium on fallout or
ganized by the American Insti
tute of Biological Sciences at
Colorado State University.
Intermittently for three years,
biologists and other researchers
have been measuring the radio
activity of the various forms of
life in that region. They want to
know exactly how much radio
activity exists there so they can
measure the extent of any
changes that might come if sev
eral nuclear devices are exploded
in the excavation process. The
current Russian tests have raised
the fallout level in that area,
making previous studies outdated
as reference data.
Mother's Club to Hold
Installation of Officers
The Nome Mother’s Club will
hold its installation of officers on
Sept. 14 at 7:30 p. m. at the City
Hall.
All members are requested to
attend and visitors are welcome.
VISITS HERE
Mrs. Marie Galleher, mother oi
Richard Galleher is visiting for a
few days here with her son and
family from her home in Seattle.
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East Germans Warns U.S.
Not to “Play War
Games” at Border
BERLIN UPl — The East Ger
man Communist regime warned
the U. S. Army yesterday not
to “play war games” for tele
vision cameras on the border in
Berlin.
The Communist party news -
paper Neues Deutschland rejoiced
that “ears had been boxed” be
cause a Jack Paar TV show had
been filmed on the border at
Friedrichstrasse last Thursday.
The Berlin command’s informa
tion officer was removed and an
infantry colonel admonished for
showing up with 13 enlisted men
to participate in the filming.
“What does an American tele- \
vision director do when he wants
to film war scenes and there is
no war taking place?” asked an
editorial in the Communist paper.
. “He stages war games. So that
the set owners in the USA can i
seen genuine ‘extras’ Mr. Jack
Paar rented a 50-man unit of the j
American occupants of West Ber- I
lin and stationed them right on
the national border of the GDR
(East Germany) in Friedrich
strasse, to be filmed in warklike
equipment.”
“What would have happened if
in the heat of the war games one
of them accidentally pulled the
trigger? Have we not emphati
cally declared that it is not advis
able to carry out war games and
provocations on our border?”
Any. Gen. Moody to Visit Nome
Ralph Moody, Attorney General
for the State of Alaska is sched
uled to make his first visit to
Nome either tomorrow or Friday,
according to information received
by the District Attorney, Robert
Erwin.
GUEST OE CHAMBER
Lerhardt J. Grcthe, of the Red
Devil Mine and new owner ol
the (Lost River Tin Mine was a
guest at the Chamber meeting
Monday, having been doing some
exploratory work at Lost River
this summer.
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2nd Federal Court
To Displace Superior Court
In Fairbanks Fed. Bldg.
JUNEAU iff) — Firm proposals
for the location of a new state
office building in Fairbanks will
be presented to the Fairbanks
City Council tonight, Commis
sioner of Administration Floyd
Guertin said.
The state has announced its in
tention to call for construction
and then lease a building near
city and federal government of
fices in ihe Fairbanks Urban Re
newal project.
The state called for bids on the
building early this summer, then
rejected all bids when the lowest
proved to be for a building out
side of the city limits.
The state now occupies space in
the Federal Building in Fairbanks
but under the existing federal -
state agreement, the state must
vacate all of the space it occu
pies in the building by June 30,
1964.
Complicating the situation was
the recent appointment of a new
federal district judge for Alaska,
Raymond Plummer, who will be
stationed in Fairbanks, at least
for the time being.
The presiding federal judge,
Walter Hodge, asked the state to
vacate the space it occupies on
the third floor of the Fairbanks
Federal Building to make room
for Plummer’s court and related
offices.
Judge Hodge’s request will
force the state to acquire quar
ters for one of the two Superior
Court judges assigned to Fair
banks and also space for the
Nome Superior Court judge, who
often is assigned temporarily to
Fairbanks, until the new building
is ready for occupancy.
X15 ROCKET PLANE
THROTTLES TO 3.654 MPH
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE,
Calif. (ff>—Flying "by guess and
by gosh” because of technical
problems, a Space Agency pilot
nonetheless pushed the X15 rock
et plane to a record speed of 3,645
miles an hour Tuesday.
Jel Airliners Temporarily
To Use Ft. Wainwright Runway
JUNEAU Iff) — Pan American
World Airways and Alaska Air
lines jetliners will be using Ft.
Wainwright Army Air Base while
Fairbanks International Airport is
closed temporarily to jets, the
Public Works Department said
yesterday.
Milton L. Dormer, aviation. ad
ministrator, said the jets will use
Wainwright while work crews at
Fairbanks International apply
seal-coating to the runway.
312 until September 17 when the winter schedule
i will be announced.
\ The evening Flight 309-310 has been discontinued j
as well as the 507-508 Polar Sea Tour flight.
Wien Alaska Airlines, on behalf of the personnel
I of the Nome station, sincerely thank the towns
people of Nome for the wonderful cooperation