Big Problems
Remain in Alaska
TB Situation
SEATTLE, UFt—Immense prob
lems remain to be solved in the
elimination of tuberculosis in
Alaska, Mrs. Frances L. Paul said
here today, altho there have been
spectacular gains in the past three
years.
Mrs. Paul, with her husband,
William L. Paul, lawyer and for
mer territorial legislator, arrived
here last week after retiring from
their duties in Juneau. They are
living temporarily with a son,
Frederick.
For 23 years Mrs. Paul has been
a leading non-professional anti
tuberculosis worker in the terri
tory. Mrs. Paul and two other
persons founded the “Alaska Tu
berculosis Committee’’ which.be
came the Alaska Tuberculosis As
sociation in 1936.
She said that in 1934 the terri
torial annual death rate from tu
berculosis was 710 in each 100,000
population among the natives and
71 among non-natives, compared
with a national death rate of 53.5.
The 1956 death rate among na
tives was down to 120 in each
100,000 and four in non-natives.
Capt. Peter Townsend
Arrives In Costa Rica
On His World Jaunt
PANAMA. UPl — Group Capt.
Peter Townsend, Princess Mar
garet’s former boy friend, crossed
into Panama Monday night from
Costa Rica.
Townsend spent the night at
David, 300 miles west of Panama
City, and planned, to drive to the
capital today. He is making a
world tour in a Land Rover Jeep.
The Inter - American Highway
along which Townsend has been
traveling ends at the Panamanian
capital. The Briton is expected to
continue on to South America by
ship.
United Air Lines To Start
Non-stop Service Between
Seattle-Tacoma and N.Y.
SEATTLE, — United Air
Lines announced Tuesday non
stop air service between Seattle
Tacoma and New York City will
be inaugurated Sept. 15.
The airline said the new sched
ule will place the Pacific North
west only 7 hours and 40 minutes
from the East coast.
DC7 airlners will leave Seattle
Tacoma daily at 9 a.m. and arrive
at New York Idlewild Airport at
8:40 p.m. (EDT). Returning planes
will leave New York at 12:15
p.m. and arrive at Seattle-Tacoma
at 5 p.m. (PST).
Three Alaska Officials
Resign Positions to Enter
Private Law Practice
JUNEAU, UP)—Two of Alaska’s
three assistant attorneys general
have resigned to enter private law
practice.
Resignations of Edward Merdes
and Robert J. Annis were an
nounced yesterday by Attorney
General J. Gerald Williams.
Merdes, Alaska president of the
Junior Chamber of Commerce
and president of the National
Guard Officers Assn., has been
aide to Williams for four years.
Annis joined the territory’s legal
staff last December.
Annis’ resignation is effective
Oct. 10, when he will join a Ju
neau law firm. Merdes will end
his territorial duties Sept. 1. He
said he would remain in Alaska
but made no further plans.
“There comes a time • when
these young men must move into
private fields,” Williams said.
“We can’t keep them forever on
$10,000 a year salaries.”
Knowland Sees
Syrian Situation
As ‘Serious’
WASHINGTON, UP)—President
Eisenhower reveiwed the situa
tion in Syria with Republican
congressional leaders today. Af
terward, Sen. Knowland sized up
the picture as “serious.”
Knowland told newsmen the
matter of pro-Communist devel
opments in Syria was brought up
by one of the GOP leaders at
their regular Tuesday morning
conference with Eisenhower.
Without going into any detail
regarding the discussion, Know-1
land reported that Eisenhower;
made a frank report on the “cur
rent situation in the Middle East,”
particularly with respect to Syria, i
Asked whether the situation in |
Syria can be regarded as grave,
Knowland replied:
“It certainly is a serious prob
lem which has developed out
there and no one knows what ul
timate developments may ensue.”
Knowland said Eisenhower sees
the Syrian situation as an exam
ple of need for flexibility in oper
ation of this government’s foreign
aid program.
WEATHER FORECAST
Cloudy through Thursday with
occasional light rain and drizzle.
Little change in temperature.
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NARWHAL
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KEWALIK
Otto Geist, well known arche
ologist from the University of
Alaska, always in search for new
specimens for the University Mu
seum, is happy with the find of
a rare whale at Kewalik, near
Candle. Mr. Geist has boned out
the find and is shipping it to
Fairbanks.
This specimen is a Narwhal,
the one-tusked whale sometimes
called the sea unicorn. It is about
16 feet long and had a three
foot tusk. Geist said it was, to
his knowledge, only the third one
found in the area. Narwhal are
also found in Baffin Bay and
along the Greenland coast.
This particular specimen had
been in a fight recently with an
other narwhal, according to Mr.
Geist, because part of the other
fellow’s tusk was embedded in
his jaw.
According to the Defresne re
ference the spiraled tusk is not
usually used as a weapon by the j
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FORMER U.S. OFFICIAL OF
ALASKA SCHOOLS DIES
EVERETT, Wash. UFV-Ernest L.
Range, 80, retired superintendent:
of U.S. government schools in
Alaska, died at a hospital here
last week afteh a long illness.
His widow, Alice, survives him.
Global Communications
Duties of ACS Seattle
Will Shift to 6th Army
SEATTLE, OP)—The Army an
nounced today that the operation,
administration and control of the
Seattle portion of the Army’s
global military communications
system will be shifted Aug. 31
from the Alaska Communication
System to the Sixth Army.
The transfer was announced
jointly by Lt. Gen. Robert N.
Young, Sixth Army commanding
general, and Col. Carl H. Hatch
ACS commanding officer here.
The announcement said the Se
attle unit will be known as the
U.S. Army ACAN (Army Com
mand and Administrative Net
work) Major Communications
Station.
“The transfer is in accordance
with the Department of the Army
objective of placing strategifc mili
itary communications facilities
under the appropri&te military
commander,” the Army said.
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