Copper Firm Establishes
$1,000 Mining Scholarship
For University of Alaska
COULEGE—Dr. Ernest N. Pat
ty, University of Alaska president,
has announced that Kennecott
Copper Corp. established a con- I
tinuing $1,000 scholarship in min
ing engineering at the university
effective with the fall 1957-58 se
mester. The firm also will provide
an additional $1,000 to the school.
Earl H. Beistline, dean of the
school of mines, announced that
the first scholarship will go to
William Fuller, junior student
from Milwaukee, Wis.
The following criteria are used
to select the winners: proficiency
in studies, enthusiasm, leader
ship, cooperativeness, initiative,
ambition, good health, sturdy con
stitution, and financial need.
The dean said the $1,000 addi
tional grant will be used to es
tablish a school of mines founda
tion for the purpose of publishing
books, pamphlets, and other ma
terial of importance to the mining
field.
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House Group
Says Air Force Is
Wasting Air Hours
WASHINGTON MWThe House
Appropriations Committee Tues
day said the Air Force is wasting
too many air-hours “boring a hole
in the air from distant point to
distant point.”
The air-boring, the committee
sa'd in a report on the 1958 de
fense appropriation bill, is done
under the guise of what it said
were needlessly long flights des
ignated as “training missions.”
In an effort to cut down on
what it called “junketing that is
done under the guise of so-called
proficiency flying,” the commit
tee told the Air Force to cut its
projected flying hour program for
1958 by 500,000 hours, from
9,400,000 to 8,900,000 hours
It called for elimination of “any
unessential use of military air
craft for so-called junketing of
military and civilian personnel.”
The committee did not say
whether tnis “major economy
move” would affect members of
Congress, many of whom use mil
itary planes in their annual “offi
cial inspection” trips to the four
corners of the world during con
gressional recesses.
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Finally — Success
Failed in business '31
Defeited for Legislature ’32
Again failed in business ’33
Elected to Legislature ’34
Sweetheart died ’35 *
Had nervous breakdown ’36
Defeated for Speaker ’38
Defeated for Elector ’40
Defeated for Land Officer '43
Defeated for Congress ’43
Elected to Cc<igress ’46
Defeated for Congress ’48
Defeated for Senate ’55
Defeated for Vice President ’56
Defeated for Senate ’58
Elected President ’60
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This, believe it or not, is the
record of Abraham Lincoln.
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Gov. Stepovich Gets Big Welcome
Upon Returning to His Home Town,
FAIRBANKS, (jP>—A sober-faced
young Fairbanks attorney who
will serve the next four years as
Alaska’s youngest and first na
tive-born governor, received a
tumultuous welcome on his re
! turn to his home town Monday.
The first words of Mike A.
Stepovich, 38, to a crowd of sev
eral thousand cheering residents
were that he is praying to fulfill
the territory’s expectations and
possibilities.
Stepovich landed at Fairbanks
International Airport at 6 p.m
after a flight from Seattle and
Portland. He had visited relatives,
including his mother, in Portland
over the weekend.
Stepovich, a seasoned veteran ■
of the Territorial Senate, was
greeted with a 17-gun salvo by
the Army’s Yukon Command,
three military bands, an Alaska
National Guard drill team, terri
torial Republican leaders, and his
wife, Matilda, and five of their
seven young children.
Crowds lined the highway from
the airport to downtown Fair
banks to watch the car caravan
bring Stepovich to the business
district where a reviewing stand
awaited him.
Introducing the new governor
was Alaska GOP national com
mitteeman, Walter J. Hickel of
Anchorage, who had been named
along with Stepovich as one of
three party choices of the post.
Hickel told the audience “I’m
glad Mike got the appointment,
Alaska won when they got Mike.
He’s our first native-born govern
or. Nothing else matters.”
The GOP committeeman added
if the people of Alaska will stand
behind him, Stepovich will be one
of the greatest, if not the greatest,
governors Alaska has had.
The new governor declared
Alaska had been given a great
deal. Land, he said, is the key to
opportunity, and Alaska has 375
million acres.
"They promised in Washington
to do everything they could for us
to release land as they can,” he
stated.
“They’re all for us back there.
They know the word Alaska.”
Stepovich also predicted early
statehood for the territory and
said he was greatly encouraged at
the attitudes of both President J
Eisenhower and Secretary of the j
Interior Seaton toward Alaska, i
Three Men Drown
When Practical Joke
Turns to Tragedy
PITTSBURGH. N.H., (tf—Three
men drowned yesterday when a
practical joke turned to tragedy.
The victims were David Doo
lan, 39. William Cantin, 65, and
Wilfred Marsh, 47.
Doolan and Cantin were the
fathers of eight children each.
Napolean Scott, 67, who was
rescued after clinging to an over
turned boat more than an hour,
said he, Cantin and Doolan were
fishing when Marsh hailed them
from shore and asked for a ride
across the pond.
After picking up Marsh, Scott
said. Marsh told them he was a
. game warden and asked to see
their fishing licenses. Scott said
a scuffle ensued and the boat cap
sized.
Conservation officials said that
Marsh is not a member of the
Fish and Game Department.
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GOLDEN
MEMORIES
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By G. R. GOSHAW
Jafet Lindeberg, cne of the
three founders of Nome, will be
83 years old this September. He
resides in San Francisco.
Eric Lindbloom, one of the
other founders, would have been
100 years old this year had he
lived.
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I remember the first charter
members of Igloo No. 1, Pioneers
of Alaska, when they paraded
from west to east on Front Street,
going to the St. Lawrence Hotel
building, which was the first Pio
neer Igloo.
Each member carried a shovel
and a pack on his shoulders and
a gold pan held out in front of
j him. I stood inside of the J. F.
I Geise Hardware Store where I
worked at the time. Each marcher
was in his parka as it was cold
j and windy.
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Drought Areas
Get Relief From
Heavy Snow, Rain
j
The Weather Bureau, U.S. De- '
partment of Commerce, reported j
last week that the first four I
months of 1957 have brought
more rain and snow to some loca
tion? in the big drought area than
these same locations got during
all of 1956. Bureau climatologists
said that over thousands of square
miles the soils nowtare wet deep
er than they have been for five ;
years.
All this moisture has produced
some cautious, but perhaps justi- j
tied, optimism among millions of
people in the central and southern |
plains that the five-year drought j
may have ended. Nevertheless, no !
one can vet sav with assurance i
1 I
that the widespread drought has |
finally ended.
Despite the widespread rains
recently in the Southwest, a small
core of the drought still remains!
in the Pecos cattle country in I
western Texas. The floods in j
Texas during the recent weeks all •
j occurred in the eastern two-thirds
I of the state.
Aitho the climate so far this
! year has been wetter than aver
1 age, it will take a long time to re
build appreciably the under
ground water storage.
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Lydia Fohn-Hansen
Given Agriculture Dept.
Superior Service Award
Mrs. Lydia Fohn-Hansen of
College yesterday received the
Dept, of Agriculture Superior Ser
vice Award in special ceremonies
held in Washington D.C.
Mrs. Fohn-Hansen of the Uni
versity of Alaska Extension Ser
vice was awarded for “conceiving,
initiating, nurturing, and conduct^
ing family education against al
most insurmountable problems,
thereby fostering a more abun
dant life for rural and urban
Alaskan settlers.”
Ketchikan Would Rebuild
Hydro Development
WASHINGTON, UPt—The City
of Ketchikan filed a proposed
amendment with the Power Com
mission Monday to its license for
a hydroelectric project on Revil
lagiedo Island. The city wants to
reconstruct the existing develop
ment at an estimated cost of
$100,000.
Power generated by the rede
veloped project would be used in
the city’s distribution system.
Isaac Eben returned to Nome
Monday from Unalakleet for a
brief business trip. He is doing'
construction work in Unalakleet. 1
Cub Scout Den Mother
Of Year Is Blind
SAN FRANCISCO, WV-San
Francisco’s Cub Scout den Mother
of the Year is blind.
Mrs. Donald Benedict was pre
sented with a scroll of apprecia
tion last night by Mayor George
Christopher. She has mothered
Cub Pack 345 for three years with
the help of her Seeing Eye dog.
Her 10-year-old son, Gilbert, is
one of the pack.
Mrs. Benedict lost her sight
while a WAC sergeant in World
War II.
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