Movie Comedian
Ned Sparks Dies
After Illness
VICTORVILLE, Calif, UPP-Ned
Sparks, whose movie trademark
was a frozen scowl and half
chewed cigar, died Wednesday
night of an intestinal block. He
was 73.
The Canadian-bom comedian
had been in ill health for several
months and bedridden about a
week.
Since 1948 he had lived with
his only daughter, Laura Sparks,
in a rented adobe apartment at
a guest ranch in Apple Valley.
There he busied himself in
specting the myriad desert flow
ers, taking walks and writing an
autobiography of his career which
began in the gold rush days of
the Yukon.
“He was grouchy only on the
outside,” said Mrs. Kemper Camp
bell, a long time friend. “Inside
he was warm and a favorite of
the children here on the ranch.”
The dour-faced comedian was
bom Edward A. Sparkman in
Gifelph, Ontario. At 17 he went
prospecting for gold in Alaska,
but failed to strike it rich.
His first taste of show business
came as a singer in the rough and
tumble saloons of Dawson City
in the Yukon.
A leader in the strike in 1918
which resulted in the formation
of Actor’s Equity, Sparks was j
blackballed on Broadway. He j
turned to Hollywood, where he |
became typed as a monotone- j
voiced sourpuss in films such as
“The Big Noise,” “Nothing But
the Truth,” “Imitation of Life”
and “Gold Diggers of 1933.” He
retired in 1948.
U.S. DISTRICT COURT
CALENDAR
Monday morning at 9:30 Frank
Siegwalt will be arraigned.
F'rank Liles is scheduled to be
sentenced at 9:45.
The trial of George Strongheart
■will start at 10:00.
On Tuesday, a ceremony will
be held for the naturalization of
nine persons.
SIGN OF SPRING: ARRIVAL
OF HARBOR ENGINEER
The arrival of Mr. and Mrs.
j William Brown means spring
j can’t be far away. William Brown
j is engineer in charge of the Nome
Harbor. He will start the prepara
tory work for the opening of nav
igation.
Joshua Ahwinnoa of Wales will
speak at the Covenant Church
this evening at 7:00 p.m.
NOTICE
Due to the increased expense
of separate maintenance and the
rising cost of repairs, the Alaska
Telephone & Telegraph Co. is
forced to advance telephone rates
effective May 1st, 1957, to the
following:
Per month
Residence, party line . $ 7.00
Residence, main line .... 10.50
Business, main line . 15.50
Business, 2 party ^. 11.00
Business, 3 party .. 8.25
Extensions . 4.00
Installations . 5.00
Britain Plans
Big Revision of
Defense Program
By GOEFFREY MILLER
LONDON UP>—Britain yesterday
announced a sweeping revision of
her defense program designed to
abolish the draft by 1960 and cut
the armed forces from 690,000
men to 375,000 within five years. ]
Described in a government,
White Paper as “the biggest ■
change in military policy ever
made in normal times,” the new
program slices defense costs by
$785 million in 1957-58.
It scraps further development
of supersonic bombers and fight
ers on the theory that these pilot
ed aircraft will be replaced by
guided missiles including some to
be furnished by the United States.
Included in the cutbacks was a
newly disclosed decision to with
draw Britain’s troops from Korea
and progressively reduce the num
ber of those in Libya. The British
are believed to have 5,000 men in
both places.
The White Paper said the gov
ernment aims to stabilize Britain’s
armed forces at about 375,000
regulars by the end of 1962.
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Friday
6:00—News
6:15—Sports Caravan
6:30—Revenuers’ Romp
7:30—CBS Radio W’rkshop
8:00—Ted Heath
8:30—Two for the Money
9:00—Groucho Marx
9:30—Suspense
10:00—One Night Stand
10:30—Martin Block
11:00—News
11 ■ i?—Musical Express
11:30—Land of Dreams
12:00—Mr. Midnight
1:00—Sign Off
Saturday
6:58—Sign On
7:00—News
7:15—Weather Roundup
7:18—Rise & Shine
8:15—Morning Devotions
8:30—Doctor Sixgun
9:00—No School Today
10:00—The Lone Ranger
10:30—Galen Drake
11:00—Robert Q. Lewis
11:30—Four Sto.ry Theater
11:45—Guest Star
12:00—News
12:15—Claude Raines
12:30—Platter Parade
1:00—Polka Par y
1:30—Hawaii Calls
2:00—Mostly Dixie
2:30—Music n 'a Carte
4:00—Music Views
4:30—Dance Party
5-00—Treasury of Music
5:30—Music for Dining
6:00—News
6:15—Grantland Rice
6:30—Revenuers’ Romp
7:30—Make Way 4 Youth
8:00—Grand Ole Opry
8:30—Jimmy Wakely
9:00—Country Style ffl
9:30—Dragnet
10:00—Amer.’B Pop. Music
11:00—News
11:15—A Joy Forever
11:30—Land of Dreams
12:00—Mr. Midnight
1:00—Sign Off
Sunday
7:58—Sign On
8:00—News
8:15—Sun. Morn. Melodies
9:00—Catholic Hour
9:30—Jewish Hour
50:00—The 590 Club
51; 00—Protestant Hour
55:30—Negro College Choir
12:00—News
52:55—Netherlands Music
12:S0—Navy Hour
1:00—Heartbeat Theater
1:30—On a Sun. Afternoon
2:00—Fellowship Hour
2:30—E. Power Biggs
3:00—Fort Laramie
3:30—Portraits in Music
4:00—Romance
4; 30—C.P. MacGregor Shw
5:00—What’s My Line?
5:30—Music for Dining
6:00—News
6:15—Sports Answer Man
6:30—Ed Sullivan
7:00—Boston Symphony
7:45—Out of the North
8:00—Family Theater
C: ?0—Edgar Bergen
9:00—Concert Hour
9:30—X Minus One
10:00—Mitch Miller Show
10:45—In the Mood
11:00—News
11:15—Serenade in Blue
11:30—Land of Dreams
12:00—Mr. Midnight
1:00—Sign Off
Monday
0:50—Sign On
7:00—News
7:13—Weather Roundup
7:18—Rise & Shine
8:13—Morning Devotions
8:30—Breakfast Club
9:00—Coffee Concert
j0;00—Turn Back the Clock
10:30—Spotlite on a Star
10:45—Rex Koury
11:00—Bob Crosby
11:15—Swinging thru Dixie
11:30—Make Up Your Mind
11:45—Masters of Melody
' ■■■00—News
12:15—Behind the Story
12:30—Platter Parade
1:00—Hillbilly Jamboree
2;oo—Fred Robbins Show
2:30—Music a la Carte
4:00—Fred Waring
j 4:15—World of Music
4:30—One Man’s Family
4:45—Bing Crosby
5:00—Eddy Arnold Show
! msmw m s»«r 'WllHilW II
Spencer Tracy, Starring in
"Bad Day at Black Rock"
People who are so sure they
know where the younger genera
tion is going, should try and re
member where it came from.
Bad Day at Black Bock’
Will Have Spectators
Sitting Tense in Seats
Every now and then a motion
picture comes along so permeated
with suspense and emotional im
pact as to make the spectator sit
tense in his seat from opening
scene to final fadeout. Such a pic
ture is M-G-M’s “Bad Day at
Black Rock,” coming to The Thea
ter this Sunday and Monday.
Filmed in Cinemascope and
color, with Spencer Tracy and
Robert Ryan at the head of a dis
tinguished cast co-starring Anne
Francis, Dean Jagger, Walter
Brennan, John Ericson, Ernest
Borgnine, Lee Marvin and Russell
Collins, “Bad Day at Black Rock”
tells the story of the suspicion,
contempt and hatred facing a
single man by an entire town, of
the attempt of its hoodlum leaders
to at first frighten him off from
his mission, then to liquidate him.
20 Eskimo and Indian Guardsmen
Win Diplomas at Eielson NCO School!
Twenty Alaska National Guards
men received diplomas at gradu
ation exercises marking comple
tion of a unique noncommissioned
officers class at Eielson Air Force
Base recently.
The class was unique in that
all 20 men were Eskimos and In
dians. They are members of the
1st Scout Battalion, Alaska Na
tional Guard, undergoing a two
week training period at Fort Rich
ardson. The men came from 17
scattered, isolated villages on the
northern fringes of the territory.
Sergeant 1/C Herbert A. Apos
singok, from the village of Gam
bell on St. Lawrence Island,
placed first in the class.
Col. Thomas A. Rodgers, com
mander of the 4th Antiaircraft
Artillery Group, gave the gradu
ation address.
In his speech he said:
“You noncommissioned officers
are more on your own that most
NCOs because you are operating
in isolated areas. Your leadership
must not rest on physical strength,
position, wealth or popularity, but
must draw also on the knowledge
of your own history.”
The colonel added that, “if
Alaska’s natives didn’t have that
kind of leadership in their villages j
the country would have licked the
people long ago.”
One member of the class was
Sgt. 1/C Clifford Inknokinok of
Gambell. He wears gold Navy
wings presented to him in cere
monies in Washington, D.C., for
helping in the rescue of a naval
aircrew shot down by the Rus
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Wisconsin Motors . Motors
ALSO DEALERS IN LUMBER. STANDARD OIL PRODUCTS.
' IGHTERAGE AND COASTWISE WATER TRANSPORTATION
sians over St. Lawrence Island
in 1955.
The 20 Guardsmen spent eight
weeks at the Yukon Command
NCO School at Eielson before
continuing their trip to Fort Rich
ardson for the annual training en
campment.
POLARIS
RESTAURANT
RE-OPENING
SATURDAY APRIL 6
Charcoal Steaks
# Our Specialty #
AGGIE WILL BE THERE j
TO GREET YOU IN THE MORNING
MAC WILL BROIL YOUR STEAKS
AS YOU LIKE ’EM
Ice Pool Dates I
Since 1917, when the Pool I
was started, the ice has gone I
out at Nenana as follows: §
1917— April 30 .11:30 a.m.
1918— May 11. 9:33 a.m.
• 1919—May 3. 2:33 p-m.
1920— May 11.10:45 ajn.
1921— May 11. 6:42 a.m.
1922— May 12. 1:20 p.m.
1923— May 9. 2:00 p.m.
1924— May 11. 3:10 pan.
1925— May 7. 6:32 p.m.
1926— April 26. 4:03 p.m.
1927— May 13. 5:42 ajn.
1928— May 6. 4:25 p.m.
1929— May 5. 3:41 p.m.
1930— May 8. 7:03 p.m.
1931— May 10. 9:23 ajm.
1932— May 1.10:15 a.m.
1933— May 8. 7:30 p.m.
1934— April 30. 2:07 p.m.
1935— May 15. 1:32 p.m.
1936— April 30.12:58 p.m.'
1937— May 12. 8:04 p.m.
1938— May 6. 8:14 p.m.
1939— April 29. 1:26 pan.
1940— April 20..*.. 3:27 p.m.
1941— May 3. 1:50 a.nv
1942— April 30. 1:28 p.m
1943— April 28 ... 7:22 p.m
1944— May 4. 2:08 p.m
1945— May 16. 9:41 a.m.
1946— May 5. 4:40 p.m.
1947— May 3. 5:53 p.m.
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1949— May 14.12:39 p.m.
1950— May 6. 4:14 p.m.
’951—April 30 . 5:54 p.m.
1952— May 12. 5:04 p.m.
1953— April 29. 3:54 p.m.
1954— May 6. 6:01 p.m.
1955— May 9. 2:13 p.m.
1956— May 1.11:24 a.m.
1957— ? ? ? ?