Plummer, Parrish.
Bailey Appointed
To Judicial Posts
JUNEAU, UPl — The three law
yer members of the first Alaska
Judicial Council have been named.
Two of the appointments went to
lawyers originally selected for the
Council last September. The third
appointment went to Raymond J.
Plummer of Anchorage.
Plummer drew a one-year term
on the Council, to serve with Rob
ert A. Parrish of Fairbanks and
Ernest Bailey of Ketchikan. Par
rish was named for a 5-year term
on the Council and Bailey was ap
pointed to a 3-year term.
There eventually will be 7
members of the Council, which
is a body established by the new
state’s Constitution. The Governor
is to appoint 3 laymen to the ju
dicial group, and the 7th member
will be the man who becomes
Chief Justice of the Alaska Su
preme Court.
Among the duties of the Coun
cil will be the job of recommend
ing candidates for appointment to
the Supreme Court and Superior
Court judgeships in the state. The
actual appointments to the bench
will be made by the Governor,
from among those nominated by
the Judicial Council.
The three members were named
Saturday at Juneau by the Board
of Governors of the Alaska Bar
Association.
Last September, at a meeting
at Nome, the Board of Governors
named Parrish, Bailey and Har
old Stringer of Anchorage to the
council.
Local bar association groups
throughout Alaska called the
board’s action at that time pre
mature — and demanded that the
appointments be rescinded. The
board went along with the local
bar groups.
Last month the bar associations
held advisory elections to pick six
men as possible nominees to the
council — and the recommenda
tions were forwarded to the Board
of Governors.
Of the six men picked by the
local bar groups, only Plummer
was among the three appointed by
the Council.
They replaced Stringer, who
earlier had said he would not ac
cept appointment.
Red, White & Blue
Missiles To Deliver
Mail - Summerfield
WASHINGTON, UP) — As Post
master General Summerfield sees
it, the day may not be too far
off when air mail will be as ob
solete as the Pony Express.
In fact, he says, man is on the
threshhold of delivering rrjail by
guided missiles. Bright ones, too
- painted, red, white and blue.
Even before man reaches the
moon, Summerfield predicted Fri
day night, “your mail will be de
livered within hours from New
York to California, to England, to
India or to Australia, by guided
missile.
“If Congress provides us with
sufficient funds,” Summerfield
said, may be assured that
mail-carrying rocket missiles will
be painted with the traditional
colors — red. white and blue —
of which every American is just
ly proud."
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Arctic Village Church Fulfills Ancient
Inland - Eskimo Prophecy at Anatuvuk
ANATUVUK, UP) — A small log
church deep in a treeless Arctic
waste, stands as a symbol of a
new-found faith in God — and of
the curious fulfillment of an an
cient prophecy.
From earliest times, the tale
was passed down through gen
erations of the Nunamiut, or in
land Eskimos, that a Deliverer
would come to them and he would
be Ataanik, or Lord.
So when the Rev. William C.
Wartes, a Presbyterian mission
ary, landed his single-engine float
plane on the lake at Anaktuvuk
Pass and introduced himself, the
villagers nodded knowingly and
asked:
“What took you so long?”
The Nunamiuts also had been
told Ataanik would come when
the tundra was covered with “ka
tuk,” the Eskimo word for con
tainers. This part of the prophe
cy came true also.
The U. S. Navy had explored
for oil in the Brooks Range. Vast
expanses of tundra were dotted
with 50-gallon oil drums left be
hind when the Navy abandoned
its search for oil.
The Rev. Mr. Wartes first vis
ited Anaktuvuk. about 300 miles
southeast of Point Barrow, in
1952. On frequent flying trips, he
taught the villagers the lessons of
the Bible. In the summer he held
services outdoors, in the winter,
in sod huts.
It was his dream to build a log
church in the isolated village 2,
300 feet up in a saddle of the
Brooks Range along the migration
route of the caribou.
But the difficulties seemed al
most insurmountable. The timber
line was 25 miles down the John
River on the south slope of the
Brooks Range. Suitable stands of
spruce were another 10 or 15
miles beyond.
Men were few and the logs
could only be transported by dog
sled when the river wac frozen.
Tools and equipment had to be
flown in, piece by piece, from
Barrow.
Missouri Congressman Dead
WASHINGTON, UP) — Represen
tative George H. Christopher (D
Mo', an expert on soil conserva
tion, died Friday night of a heart
ailment.
The death of the 70-year-old
Congressman made the new House
lineup 282 Democrats and 153 Re
publicans.
Christopher, who represented
the district that included Inde
pendence, the home of former
President Harry S. Truman, firsr
come to Congress in 1949.
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The villagers, however, were
thrilled by the thought of having
a church building of their own.
Last spring, 14 village men
pledged their strength and dog
teams to haul the 275 logs needed
for the chapel. The Rev. Mr.
Wartes brought in carpentry tools
and a chain saw.
Then began the chore of felling
trees, cutting the logs to size and
hauling them by dogsled 30 or 35
miles up the frozen river. Some
were so heavy it took four men to
load them on the sleds.
As warm weather began to
melt the snow and ice, a num
ber of logs had to be carried the
last several hundred yards b&
hand. For a time, the Rev. Mr.
Wartes feared the logs never
would be collected by the time he
had completed his Alaskan mis
sion.
“But, as is often the case,” he
says, “God still answers prayers.
We had been praying hard for a
north wind and colder tempera
tures. Not only did the wind come
and the river freeze slick as a
skating rink, but there was an
additional blessing.
“The caribou came. When we
awoke they were all around us.
It was simple for the men to re
plenish completely depleted food
supplies.”
Finally, all the logs were gath
ered. Slowly through the summer
the 17V£-by-25-foot church took
shape. Handmade benches had a
seating capacity of 60. A five
foot annex in the rear held a pul
pit, a small organ and the Com
munion table.
The chapel was dedicated in
September after the Rev. Mr.
Wartes, his wife, and their six
children had returned on fur
lough to Seattle.
The 37-year-old flying parson
recently was reassigned to the
Olympic Peninsula community of
Sequim in Washington.
Behind him he left 43 converts
— nearly half the Nunamiut band
of 89 — in the hands of his re
placement, the Rev. John Cham
bers of Scotia, N. Y., and the vil
lage postmaster, Homer Meiana,
ordained a church elder last
spring.
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Wash. Trooper
Kills Armed Driver
In Gun Battle
ABERDEEN, Wash., — A pis
tol wielding Texan was shot and
killed Friday during a gun batle
with a state patrolman in a grav
el pit, about 18 miles northwest
of here.
John Lee Craig, 36, of Houston,
was killed when Patrolman How
ard Chapman opened fire after
Craig shot his own infant son and
wounded the officer.
Both the boy, David, 2, and the
patrolman were hit in the shoul
der, but neither was hurt seri
ously.
State Patrol Chief Roy Betlach
said Chapman found Craig in a
jeep parked in the gravel pit after
receiving a complaint that an
Ocean City, Wash., motel operator
had been beaten. With Craig were
his two children, the boy, and a
5-year-old girl. Chapman snatched
a revolver from the seat of the
jeep and ordered Craig to get out,
Betlach said.
The man stepped from the jeep,
drew another gun, shot Chapman,
then turned and fired at the chil
dren, he said. Chapman immedi
ately opened fire and killed Craig.
Doctors at St. Joseph’s Hospi
tal here said the boy was not in
serious condition.
The girl was turned over to ju
venile authorities. Betlach said
he believed Craig’s wife was in
Alaska, where Craig had worked
recently in the oil fields.
Chapman was released from the
hospital after a .38 slug was re
moved from his shoulder.
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I Pistol Brought To School
To ‘Show Off,’ Discharges,
Wounding 2 Ore. Students
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., UR —
The quiet of an English class at
Klamath Union High School was
shattered by a gun shot Friday.
The shot came from a gun con
cealed in the notebook of Robert
Greene, 15.
The .25 caliber bullet tore
through his left hand and grazed
the leg of a girl sitting nearby,
then hit the floor.
Green, son of the Rev. Robert
L. Greene, rector of St. Paul’s
Episcopal Church, said he paid
another student $15 for the gun
and took it to school to show off,
police said.
The officers said the other stu
dent admitted stealing the gun
from a sporting goods store.
The case was turned over to
juvenile authorities.
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