Jack Blattler, well known pio
neer and butcher, who returned
recently to sell his property and
depart, changed his mind and re
turned yesterday to resume his
work in the meat department of
the UJS. Merc, after an absence of
a year. Mrs. Blattler is closing
up their home in the Pacific
Northwest and will join him here
soon.
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GOP Convention
Opens in Fairbanks
FAIRBANKS — The third
annual Repblican State Conven
tion opened this afternoon in
Fairbanks.
Keynoting the opening session
was Oregon Republican State
Chairman, Robert Davis, who ar
rived here this morning. '
Saturday’s program will be cli
maxed by a $25 a plate dinner at
which Sen. John Tower of Texas
will be the principal speaker.
Immediately folkwing a wel
coming address by Fairbanks
Mayor Joseph Ribar this after
noon, the three-day GOP gather
ing turned to a special legislative
review and discussion of the ac
tivities of the State Legislature in
1961.
The session will be conducted
by State Sen. John Coghill of
Nenana, State Senate Minority
Leader and Rep. Bruce Kendall
of Anchorage, House Minority
Leader.
Davis the keynote speaker in
terrupted a tour of the north
western states yesterday after
noon to accept the speaking en
gagement at the GOP Convention
when Republican National Com
mittee Chairman, Rep. William
Miller was called home to New
York by an early-arriving stork.
10-Year-Old Boy Saves
35 Children on School Bus
WEST SPRINGFIELD, Mass.
my—A school bus driver collapsed
at the wheel Wednesday but 10
year-old Steven Eickner saved 35
children aboard by pulling up the
emergency brake.
The children, ranging in age
from 6 to 11, were being driven
home from King’s Highway Ele
mentary School.
The driver, Isaac Martin of
West Springfield, slumped over
the wheel as the bus approached
Elm St and King’s Highway. He
died before arrival at Providence
Hospital.
BLM to Hold Surplus
Sale in Anchorage
JUNEAU (*> — One of the
largest surplus sales ever held by
the Bureau of Land Management
in Alaska is scheduled for Oct. 20,
the BLM said Wednesday.
O. N. Child, field administrative
officer for the BLM, said the 100
lots of items to be sold include
everything from scrap iron and
office equipment to household
furniture and surveyor’s instru
ments.
The items are on display at the
BLM’s Anchorage Fire Control
Station off Oil Well Road.
Bids will be opened here Oct.
20.
Father Signs as Common I
Carrier for Daughters to
School in His Cadillacs
ALBANY, N.Y. Ufi — A father
has signed as a common carrier,
for $1,300 to transport his two
daughters to a private school in
the family Cadillacs.
The Guilderland Central School
announced Wednesday that Walter
F. Wessendorf Jr., a lawyer, had
signed the controversial contract.
It now goes to the State Educa
tion Department for expected ap
proval.
Wessendorf was the lower of
two bidders on a contract to take
daughters, Marcia, 7, and Chanty,
5, from their home in suburban
Westmere to Albany Academy of
girls, a one-way trip of slightly
less than eight miles.
Under the contract, Wessendorf
will be paid $130 a month for 10
months. The district said that he
would be paid retroactively for
last month, when the state ap
proved the contract.
State law requires school dis
tricts to provide transportation
for pupils of non-public schools
within a 10-mile area of the
pupils’ homes.
To meet the requirements of
school transportation, Wessen
dorf obtained licenses from the
Public Service Commission for
his two 1959 Cadillacs.
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AF to Evacuate
Island Bravo
After Nine Years
The Air Force said Wednes
day it is evacuating a small Arc
tic Ice Island it has used for
scientific research over the past
.nine years.
Island Bravo, a four-by-seven
mile sheet of ice, is being aband
oned, at least temporarily, be
cause it is stuck aground north
west of Point Barrow, about 950
miles from the North Pole.
It is being evacuated, the Air
Force said, “because its useful
ness as a research station is
nearly at an end.”
Ski-equipped C-130 transport
planes from Dyness Air Force
Base, Tex., flew 15 Air Force
men from the ice island to El
mendorf Air Force Base Wednes
day.
For these 15 men, it meant the
first sight of land in six months.
Buildings and enough equip
ment and supplies will remain on
Bravo to permit reopening it “if
it should float free again and
become important for research,”
the Air Force said.
Since 1952, the 50-foot-thick
ice island has been used for re
search in weather, geology, ma
rine life, and other phenomena.
Until it ran aground nearly a
year and a half ago, Island Bravo
was driven by winds and currents
that carried it in an irregular
circle from the Alaskan north
i coast to the North Pole and past
the northwest coast of Greenland.
Scientists believe Bravo has
been following this path for as
long as 3,000 years, taking 10
years to complete each circuit.
Most of the heavy outdoor work
has been done by the Air Force
group during the summer when
temperatures often rise above
freezing. In winter, temperatures
in that area sometimes drop to
55 below zero.
Nome Directory
Nome
Shrine Club
Werner Bohrer, Free.
H. M. CrlnkUw. Sec.
Meets First Thursday of Eacn Month
Masonic Hall
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon at
North Star uining Room
Don Hoover, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. I
Order of Eastern Star
r Barbara Martin
Worthy Matron
Bev Morgan
Secretary
Meets First and Third Mondays
Anvil Lodge
No. 140
A. E. BOHRER. W. M.
Norvln W. Lewis, Sec
Meets First and Third Thursday
Of Each Month
Nome Rotary Club
Pioneer Igloo No. 1
Meets 1st and fed Wednesdays
Wm. H. Cameron,. Pres.
Chns. D. Jeoss, Pacty.
Civil Air Patrol
NorthwesMwa Group
Nome Cadet Squadron
let Lt Jense Jones. Ckndr.
Meetings - Each Thursday 7:00 y