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THE SCARY SEASON
7,
Heir Born to Shah of Iran
TEHRAN, Iran, UPi — Queen
Farah Dibah gave birth to a son
today, giving the Shah of Iran an
heir after three marriages.
Cannons boomed out a 41-gun
salute to tell waiting crowds that
at long last a successor to Iran’s
peacock throne had been born.
The Shah has a daughter by his
first marriage, but women cannot
succeed to the throne in Moslem
Iran.
Daughter For Peter Castels
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Castel are
the parents of a daughter born at
the hospital on Oct. 28.
Emma Lyle, one of Nome’s fa
vorite octagenarians, was dis
charged from the hospital and is
home again.
GM Will Spend $1.25 Billion in '61
NEW YORK, UP) — General
Motors Corp. will spend $1.25 bil
lion on plant, machinery, equip
ment and tooling in the United
States and abroad in 1961, chair
man Frederic G. Donner said to
day.
Donner said the spending plans
of GM, world’s largest manufac
turing concern, testify to “our
faith in the continued economic
progress of this country and of
the free world.”
Spending plans, Donner said,
were based on the expectation
that sales of domestic and foreign
built passenger cars in the United
Siates next year should reach 7
million units “if consumer in
comes continue to rise and con
sumer confidence is sustained.”
A New Day For Gold Miners?
(Juneau Daily Empire)
YOU CAN TALK ABOUT the price of gold all you
you want and ponder over the ups and downs of
the London market, but the men who knew gold in
their days as no others knew it still cling to the hope
that the old days can come back.
One such man is 88-year-old Walter Hamilton,
the recently elected president of the International J
Sourdoughs.
He condemns the fact that gold was “frozen” at
$35 per ounce, and predicts great things if the gov
ernment ever sets gold free.
Now we don’t pretend to be the monetary expert
that he is, but he does relate an interesting story:
“Between ’97 and 1926 gold rose, with other com
modities, from $15 to $35 per ounce. When the “ton
of gold” reached the Pacific Coast from the Klondike
it electrified the world of the “hungry nineties” and
while helping ail the world, started an era of pros- i
perity on the Pacific Coast such as it had never known.
“Individual prospectors swarmed over Alaska and
the Yukon, and millions of dollars came to our coast
cities each year for goods.
“But when gold, under the influence of interna
tional money pirates, who themselves, had never
produced a dollar, was frozen at $35 an ounce and
costs of transportation continued to climb and al
though the greater part of the north had never been
scratched, they could not keep going and only big
dredging and hydraulic companies could continue
operations.
“When gold is set free at $75 or more per ounce,
a new day of prosperity will come to this coast and |
prospectors will again swarm to Alaska and the Yukon ;
Territory.”
We hope so, Mr. Hamilton. We hope so.
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ELECTION NOTICE
To the qualified electors of the
Slate of Alaska:
Notice is hereby given that
pursuant to Chapter 83, SLA 1960,
and the Proclamation of the Gov
ernor of the Stale of Alaska, and
in conformity therewith, a Gen
eral Election and a Special Elec
tion will be held on Tuesday,
November 8, 1960, between the
hours of 8 A.M. and 8 P.M., for
the purpose of electing
A President and Vice President
of the United States
A United States Senator
A United Stales Representative
Ten (10) State Senators
Forty (40) State Representatives
And to elect:
A Stale Senator for District E
to fill a vacancy
A State Senator for District M
to fill a vacancy
And to vote on the following
questions:
Six Bonding Propositions, Ch.
169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, SLA
1960.
Location of polling places and
precinct boundaries are posted in
three places in each voting pre
cinct in all election districts.
Information regarding polling
places and precinct boundaries is
available for Northwestern Dis
trict at office of Election • Super
visor, Carrie M. McLain, Box 36.
Nome, Alaska, phone Red 128.
Dated this 25th day of October,
1960.
Hugh J. Wade,
Secretary of State
Publish Oct. 31, Nov. 4, 6, 1960.
SNOW-TIME IS HERE!
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NEW ALASKA STATE CHAMBER BOARD — Members of the
new Alaska State Chamber of Commerce board of directors elected
officers at an early breakfast meeting posed for this photograph.
Shown here in bottom row, left to right: Roy Selfridge, Ketchikan,
outgoing secretary; Don Hoover, Nome (1-yr. term); Edith Bullock,
Kotzebue (3 yrs.); Bernice Stokke representing Ernest J. Haugen,
Petersburg; Ray E. Alderton, Tok (1 yr.l; and Bob Baker, secre
tary-treasurer, Anchorage (3 yrs.); Middle row left to right: Everett
—Nows-'Miner Photo
Boulden, Ketchikan (2 yrs.); Larry Urbach. Seward (1 yr.); Don
Dickey, chamber manager; and Pearse Walsh. Nome (1 yr.). Top
row, left to right: Robert Jernberg, Ketchikan, outgoing president;
A1 Seeliger, Fairbanks, western vice president (2 years); John Gib
bons, Kodiak (3 yrs.); Jack Ferguson, Anchorage (2 yrs.); P.S. Ganty.
Pelican (1 yr.); Jerry Nerland, Fairbanks (3 yrs.); and C. W.
Snedden, Fairbanks, president (2 yrs.). Elected as eastern vice
president but not attending is B. Frank Heintzleman.