Alaska to
Participate in
Century 21
JUNEAU — An offer by the
National Bank of Commerce, Seat
tle, to give Alaska free space in
a building the bank is construct
ing on the Century 21 grounds in
Seattle was accepted today by
Gov. Wm. Egan.
Egan made the decision after
polling members of the Legis
lature to determine if they would
support a supplemental appropri
ation of up to $175,000 during the
next legislative session.
The money would be used to
equip and staff an Alaska exhibit
in 3,000 square feet of space in
the NBC Bldg. * '
Twenty-five members of the 40
member House of Representatives
gave unqualified approval to the
proposal and 12 members of the
20-member State Senate said they
would vote for the appropriation
without qualification, Egan said.
While the total cost of staffing
and equipping the exhibit has been
estimated at $175,000, Egan has
expressed hopes that contribu
tions from industry and indi
viduals within the state would
cut the actual cost to Alaska far
below that figure.
Egan said a number of firms
have already offered financial aid
or services which would trim the
state’s costs.
Preliminary plans call for the
Alaska exhibit to include a por
trayal of the 49th State’s past,
present and future, through the
use of displays and exhibits.
The Seattle exposition is sched
uled to open in April and continue
for six months. Attendance esti
mates have run as high as 10
million.
“We are delighted to hear
Alaska will be represented,’’ Ewen
C. Dingall, general manager of
the World’s Fair, said in Seattie.
“Alaska was an important part
of the Aiaska-Yukon-Pacific Ex
position here in 1909 and Alaska’s
participation in the World’s Fair
next year is welcome news.’’
ALASKA LEADS
NATION QV TB CASES
» JUNEAU <*> — The State De
partment of Health and Welfare
Said today Alaska led the nation
in the number of new tubercu
losis cases reported during 1960.
Alaska's case rale was 98.2 per
100,000 of population, while the
national rate was 30.7. Utah had
the lowest rate, 7.9 cases per
100,000 population.
Manufacturer Settles Out
Of Court Suits Charging
Defective Polio Vaccine
Anchorage Republican
Announces Candidacy
For Governorship In 1962
SOLDATiNA UP) — Verne Mar
tin, an Anchorage attorney, yes
terday announced his candidacy
for Governor of Alaska, on the
Republican ticket.
Martin made the announcement
during a speech at a Republican
rally here in which he charged
that Gov. Wm. Egan, the Demo
cratis incumbent, has used state
highway construction as a political
football.
“Egan has deliberately held up
the road program so that the en
tire three-year program could be
constructed during the one sea
son of 1962,” Martin said.
“In 1962, the year (Egan) must
seek re-election, there will be $100
million worth of road construc
tion throughout the state and Egan
hopes that voters of this state,
with their pocketbooks bulging,
will forgive and forget.”
Martin also said recent events
have indicated Egan was “putting
real pressure on the oil industry
to either assume the full finan
cial responsibility for running the
government of Alaska or get out
of Alaska.”
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Archaeologist
Uncovers Ancient
Village at Safety
A University of Alaska asso
ciate professor of anthropology
and geography revealed that pre
liminary study of archaeological
material indicates that one of the
largest Eskimo villages known
in North America existed long
ago near Nome, Alaska.
Prof. Frederick Hadleight West
investigated the site during iue
summer under a $11,500 grant to
the state university from the Na
tional Science Foundation.
The site of the investigation
extends nearly a mile and is 15
miles east of Nome, near Safety
Lagoon, Professor West stated. He
and his assistant completely exca
vated one house and obtained
numerous side blades and end
blades of flint from implements
used by the villagers when the
settlement was occupied approxi
mately 2,500 years ago. Some 450
other house-depressions await
further scientific work, Professor
West added.
Preliminary studies further in
dicate that the site is related to
the Norton culture which, in turn,
is related to but pre-dates the
Ipuitak culture at Point Hope,
Professor West explained. The
Ipuitak culture is well-known
among scientists and other re
searchers for tiie knowledge it
sheds on the culture of Alaska's
early Eskimo inhabitants. “All
these cultures, including that at
Safety Lagoon, are important in
gaining an explanation of the ori
gin of the Eskimo,” The arch
aeologist said.
Professor West’s work at Safety
Lagoon is part of a program to
survey the southwest coast of the
Seward Peninsula to determine
the kinds of people who inhabi
ts ted the region in the past. Safety
Lagoon is located on the south
stele of the Seward Peninsula,
toward Norton Sound.
6HX0NA, Italy <I> — The fur
ious rash of skfodUwing activity
hereabouts is easily explained:
Skindiving instructor Luigi San
vitale says he recently found a
giant oyster containing a black
pearl the size of a pea. fl/*
Trouble Delays
Orbiting of
Chimpanzee
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (if) —
Spacecraft trouble has delayed an
attempt to orbit a chimpanzee and
virtually wiped out United States’
hopes of orbiting a man this year.
Project Mercury officials called
off Tuesday’s scheduled chimp
launching after a test Sunday dis
closed a gas leak in the space
capsule’s in-flight control system.
Ibis necessitated removing the
two-ton craft atop the Atlas
booster rocket, which is on the
launching pad. Inspection, repair
and replacement will take at least
a week, perhaps as much as two
weeks.
Authoritative sources reported
the spacecraft trouble was a leak
in the hydrogen peroxide gas sys
tem which controls the position
of the vehicle in flight. The gas
is highly corrosive and could have
damaged electrical or other sys
tems.
Successful completion of the
chimpanzee shot this week was al
most a must if the National Aero
nautics and Space Administration
was to have a chance of rooketing
a human astronaut into orbit In
1961.
A minimum of four weeks is
required between Mercury-Atlas
launchings to qualify all systems.
Such a schedule can be met only
if all checkouts are perfect, some
thing not yet achieved in prepa
rations for Mercury firings. ?
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Peace Corps Exams
To be Given Here
On November 28 and 29
Postmaster Margaret P. Bohrer
announced today that the en
trance test for the Peace Corps
will he given on Tuesday and
Wednesday, Nov. 23 and 29.
Within a few days information
showing the place and time for
the examination in this area will
be posted on the bulletin board
in the post office.
If you are interested in taking
the test, be sure and watch for
complete information at the post
office.
Postmaster Bohrer added that
she would inform the press when
the information has been re
ceived.
MONKEY'S BODY RECOVERED
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. 'JS —
Searchers have found the body of
a small squirrel monkey killed
in the explosion of an Atlas mis
sile.
The Atlas, with the 1V6-pound
monkey named Goliath in Its
nose, blew up 30 seconds after
it was launched Friday on an in
tended 5,000-mile test flight.
Large pieces of the wrecked
missile were retrieved from the
floor of the Atlantic Ocean about
100 yards offshore. Goliath's
body, discovered in the tangled
debris Sunday, was unmarked ex
cept for a spot of blood on the
head.
-- WEATHER REPOST
Mostly cloudy with occasional
snow. Lowest temperature ex
pected tonight 12, the high tomor
row 25.
In the past 24 hours: higheit
temp. 23, lowest 10. Sunrise at
8:30 am., sunset at 3:01 pm.
A year ago today: highest temp.
18, lowest 9. Extremes on this
date since 1907: highest 37 fat
1937, lowest -15 in 1958.
Dr. Wm. Whitehead
Recommended to Replace
Peratrovich in State Senate
WRANGELL Ufi — The South
eastern Alaska Democratic Dis
trict Committee has recommended
that Dr. William Whitehead, Ju
neau. be named to replace Frank
Peratrovich in the State Senate
if Peratrovich is appointed area
director of the Bureau of Indian
Affairs, as expected.
Peratrovich, a Klawock mer
chant, is president of the Senate.
He is now in Washington, D.C.,
conferring with federal officials
on the long-expected BIA appoint
ment.
Whitehead, a Juneau surgeon,
is a former member of the State
Judicial Council. He started medi
cal practice in Wrangell some 30
years ago.
The Senate seat held by Pera
trovich will be one of the Senate
seats open in the 1962 elections.
It is a southeast Alaska at-large
seat.
Egan Not Satisfied With
Fisheries Agreement
JUNEAU l* — Gov. Wm. Egan
said today he was far from satis
fied with actions of the Interna
tional North Pacific Fisheries
Commission at its eighth annual
meeting in Tokyo last week.
“It is certainly disappointing to
me that agreement wasn’t reach
ed toward moving the abstention
line west of its present location
at 175 degrees west longitude,”
Egan said at his regular Monday
morning news conference.
Under provisions of the Inter
national North Pacific Fisheries
treaty between Japan, Canada and
the United States, Japanese sal
mon fishermen are restricted from
fishing east of the abstention line.
American fishermen want the
line moved father west, claiming
Japanese high seas fishermen take
many salmon of American stock in
the areas where they are now per
mitted to fish.
"This is all wrapped up in the
State Department,” Egan said,
“and sometimes I wonder just
how much is left for the American
I commissioners to decide.”
Asked to comment on the rec
ommendation of Wendall Kay,
Anchorage attorney and chairman
of the State Democratic Central
Committee, as a replacement for
John H. Clawson of Anchorage
on the commission, Egan said:
“The appointment is a State
Department decision. As an attor
ney and former member of the i
Legislature, Kay would be well
versed on the impact commission '
decisions might have on Alaska.” j
OPPOSE PEACE CORPS
TOKYO titl — A U.S. offer to
send Peace Corps members to
teach English in Japan was criti
cized today by the Education
Ministry and a leftist teachers’
union.
A spokesman for the ministry
indicated the Japanese were mif
fed at being considered for Peace
Corps aid—a program aimed to
help underdeveloped nations.
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Drowning* Taka Most Lives
| JUNEAU tin — Alaska’s acci
dental diudh rate during 61 the
period train 1950 to 1900 was 126
per 100,000 of population, the
Health and Welfare Departments
Statistics Bureau said today.
Drowning took the most Uvea,
837. Motor vehicle accidents
claimed 392 liyfci ar td 968 persons
died In tires. Deaths also occur
red from poison, firearm* acci
dents, falls and oth^ reasons.
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Molotov Fades
Into Secret Depths
Of Soviet Society
MOSCOW UR — Former Foreign
Minister V. M. Molotov disap
peared into the secret depths of
Soviet society Sunday as if he
had ibeen dropped into a wall.
Gray and aged, he came from
Vienna by train with his gray and
aging wife, to face a purge by
which the Communist party hopes
to wipe out a little more of the
memory and a few more of the
sins of the Stalin regime.
He came clearly without re
straint. Not a public official came
to greet him at the train. If he
had chosen freedom, he could have
remained abroad.
A iew piamsciotnes policemen
showed up at the station., but they
kept well back of the crowd of
Western correspondents who came
to question Molotov. The questions
were met by the same “nyet"
with which he had beaten back
approaches to East-West agree
ments after World War II.
“iLet’s change the subject,” said
Stalin’s longtime associate when
asked about his reported expulsion
from the party and Premier
Khrushchev’s denunciation of him
at the recent Soviet Communist
Party Congress.
“We had a fine trip,” said his
wife, Paulina. “Many of the pas
sengers came to our compartment
to say ‘goodbye and good luck.’"
Except for the foreign news
men, only the couple’s daughter,
Svetlana, and her husband were
on hand to greet them. Molotov,
now 71, showed no outward con
cern at the question mark hang
ing over his future. Seemingly
relaxed, he talked with his daugh
ter and son-in-law about their
children.
Germany to Pay 73 Polish
Women For Atrocities
Perpetrated by Nazis
WARSAW, Poland W> — The
Polish Red Cross says West Ger
many has agreed to pay compen
sation to 73 Polish women used
as medical guinea pigs by the
Nazis during World War II.
The agreement arranged by the
International Red Cross in Ge
neva is the first providing West
German compensation to Nazi
concentration camp victims be
hind the Iron Curtain.
The 73 women will receive
from $6,250 to $10,000 each de
pending on the extent of their
physical handicaps resulting Iran
medical experiments performed
on them in the Ravensbrueck and
Dachau camps.
Polish Red Cross officials said
today they are drawing up addi
tional lists of other Nazi victims
of medical experiments.
A major role in the negotia
tions for compensation to die
Ravensbrueck and Dachau vic
tims was played by Norman
Cousins, chief editor of the Amer
ican magazine, The Saturday Re
view. Cousins sponsored a fund
drive in 1999 that brought a group
of Polish women victims to the
United States for medical treat
ment.
Powered Ski Poles
COLOGNE, Germany UR — The
latest gimmicks to cope with col
lisions on ski dopes are electrical
ly powered ski poles with e but
ton on the handle to work a horn
signal. They go on display at a
sporting goods fair this week.
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