All Four Sons of
Mrs. Odegard Die
In Plane Crashes
FAIRBANKS UR — A bereaved
part-Eskimo mother, Mrs. Clara
Odegard, was waiting to fly to
Nome today to bury the last of
her four sons. All have been
killed in Alaska bush plane acci
dents.
Arthur Johnson, the oldest son
of Mrs. Rudolph Odegard, follow
ed his three brothers into death
Friday while flying an injured
woman, Mrs. Nora lone from
White Mountain to the Nome hos
pital.
Mrs. lone, a mother of six chil
dren, also died in the crash.
Born in Haycock where his
parents Mr. and Mrs. Arthur
Johnson were married in >1918,
Johnson, like his three brothers,
David, George, and Wallace al
ways had a passion for airplanes
and flying.
He served in the Army but was
refused pilot training because he
admitted to “sleep walking.”
Johnson moved to Fairbanks in
1939 when his parents moved
here. He first worked for the N.C.
Co. and went into the Army in
1841. Following that he was a
mechanic for Wien Airlines at
Weeks Field here, then he took
flying lessons while on that job.
He bought his own plane, a Piper
Clipper, and flew commercially
for himself out of Unalakleet for
two years, starting in <1848.
He then went to work flying for
Alaska Airlines for 10 years, be
tween Unalakleet and Bethel
mostly, before going to work for
Wiens a year ago.
He married Grace O’Connor of
Nome in 1846 in Fairbanks, and
they have four children, George,
Arthur, Jr., Irene and Clara.
The tragedy of flying began
for Mrs. Odegard on Sept. 3, 1946
when her youngest son, David, a
recent graduate of Fairbanks High
School and George, 22, died in a
plane crash near Fairbanks while
on a hunting trip. David, although
only 18, already had his commer
cial pilot’s license at the time of
the crash. George had a private
license.
Wallace, a mechanic for Alaska
Airlines, also was the owner of a
James Pitcher, 88, One of
Pioneer Igloo Organizers,
Dies at Edmonds, Wash.
KETCHIKAN UP) — James S.
Pitcher, 88, who was a stampeder
in all the important gold rushes
in Alaska of the old days, died
Sunday in Edmonds, it was an
nounced here today.
Pitcher, who had been living in
Edmonds for the last six years,
was a heart victim.
He first came to Alaska in 1897
and when the gold strike was
made on the sandy beaches at
Nome at the turn of the century
he became a stampeder. He later
was at iFairbanks, Circle City, and
in the Kantishna country.
He was a life member of the
Pioneers of Alaska and was one
of the organizers of Igloo No. 1
at Nome.
He came to the Hyder area of
southeast Alaska in 1922 and to
Ketchikan the following year. He
was interested in prospecting and
mining and also operated several
boats.
private flying license. He was
killed May 12, 1954.
Mrs. Odegard, who was bom in
Golovin, said yesterday that all
her boys wanted to fly ever since
they were bom. As to losing her
four sons in airplane accidents,
Mrs. Odegard said ‘‘It is just
something a mother has to live
with.”
Kennedy Lays
Down Program for
Coming Congress
By James Marlow
Associated Press News Analyst
WASHINGTON UFl — In about
a month Congress returns, and
President Kennedy already is lay
ing down some programs he wants
approved in the 1962 election year
which will mean a lot to him.
He has passed the word to his
legislative leaders that he will
fight for — among others — medi
cal care for the aged, federal aid
to education, and a lowering of
tariffs on foreign imports.
All three are in the angry area
where opponents with strong feel
ings will do all they can to stop
him.
He came into office with a con
servative Congress, even though
his own Democrats were in a ma
jority. In the 1962 congressional
elections next November all House
seats and one-third of the Senate
seats are at stake.
Victory for the Republicans,
giving them control of Congress,
could take some of the snap out
of his leadership which, on the
whole, has been pretty conserva
tive, too.
His own record in the Presi
dency could be affected and,
therefore, his chances for re-felec
tion in 1964.
So in 1962 he’ll have extra rea
son to fight for what he pro
poses since the record he and his
Democrats make next year will
toe a major in the elections.
In the 1960 Presidential race
he promised quick action on civil
rights if he defeated Vice Presi
dent Richard Nixon. But when he
won he didn’t make good. He of
fered no civil rights program at
all.
He can hardly fail to do some
thing in this field next year if
only because his own Civil Rights
Commission this year, in five
studied volumes, called for a num
ber of steps to be taken.
In addition, some Democrats
and Republicans will want action.
But the test of his determination
to get what he asks for will in
this, as in his other programs,
show up in the kind of fight he
makes.
He’s far from being an all-out
fighter for anything he suggests
to Congress, as he showed on
medical care for the aged and fed
eral aid tc education.
In addition to wrestling with
Congress next year he’ll almost
surely have to deal with Russia
on Berlin.
It’s a good guess that he will
put up a truly strenuous battle
for lowering tariffs on imports.
More than half a million U. S.
motorists lock themselves out of
their cars each year.
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AFL-CIO Slam The Door
On Readmittance of
Teamsters Union
BAL HARBOUR, Fla. <*> — The
AFL-CIO today slammed the door
on taking back the exiled Team
sters Union so long as it is led
by James R. (Hoffa.
That Is the effect of a resolu
tion passed by AFL-CIO conven
tion delegates by an overwhelm
ing voice vote. There were no
audible negative votes.
The resolution stated that when
ever tiie Teamsters or other
unions expelled for corruption
make a formal readmittance bid
they will have to pass the test of
clean unionism. That has been
the consistent policy of AFL-CIO
President George Meany.
A spokesman for Meany said
the practical meaning of the reso
lution is that “tiie Teamsters
can’t meet the test with Hoffa in
charge” as president of the 1.5
million member organization.
The convention action effective
ly killed off a campaign by Hoffa
and a few AFL-CIO leaders close
to him to end the four-year exile
from the Federation.
Since 1836 the U.S. Patent Of
fice has issued 3 million patents,
now grants about 50,000 yearly.
Abraham Lincoln held Patent No.
6,469 for a device to buoy vessels
over shoals. Had it made him a
fortune, the country would pro
bably have lost the services of
one of its greatest statesmen.
‘Robert Q. Lewis tells about the
cannibal who ate his nagging
mother-in-law — then found she
still disagreed with him.
Rev. Luther King Says
The South Could Elect
10 Negro Congressmen
LOS ANGELES W — The Rev.
Martin Luther King, the southern
Negro leader, says the south could
elect 10 Negro congressmen in
the next decade.
Only 1.4-million Negroes of an
eligible 5-million Negroes are reg
! istered to vote, Dr. King told a
news conference.
Enfranchisement of large num
bers of Negroes could end what
Dt. King termed coalition of con
servative southern Democrats and
northern Republicans, he added.
Southern Negroes are predomi
nantly liberal, he said, and “their
influence will in many cases help
liberals or make conservatives
less illiberal.’’
The Baptist minister told 1,500
persons at Santa Monica Civic
Auditorium that the time has
come for the President to issue
a second emancipation proclama
tion ending racial segregation.
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