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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS _
VOL. LXI No. 79 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1959_Per Copy—15^
Alaska Bar Asked to Recommend Three
To Fill State Supreme Court Vacancies
JUNEAU, UP) — Twelve Alaska
lawyers are under consideration
for possible nomination to fill
three vacancies on the new state
supreme court.
The names of those under con
sideration were disclosed in let
ters mailed to members of the
Alaska Bar by the State Judicial
Council, a six-man group who
ended a three-day meeting at
Juneau Thursday.
The council has asked members
of the state bar to rate the 12
candidates in a preference poll
that is to be completed by July
15. The council’s nominations will
be made after reviewing of the
poll results at a meeting at Fair
banks July 16 and 1-7.
Under consideration for the
three supreme court vacancies are
a U. S. District Court judge, two
state senators, a state representa
tive, and two former presidents
of the Alaska Bar Association.
The candidates are William Bo
ggess of Fairbanks, Robert Booche
ver of Juneau, State Senator J.
Earl Cooper of Anchorage, former
Bar Association president Ed
ward V. Davis of Anchorage, John
Dimond of Juneau, State Repre
sentative John S. Hellenthal of
Anchorage, U. S. District Judge
Walter H. Hodge of Nome, Vern O.
Martin of Anchorage, former Bar
Association president M. E. Mon
agle of Juneau, Buell A. Nesbett
of Anchorage, Walter Sczudlo of
Fairbanks, and State Senator
Thomas B. Stewart of Juneau.
Members of the bar have been
asked to rate the supreme court
candidates on such things as im
partiality, legal experience and
ability, industry, and on whether
it was felt the candidates could
abstain from favoritism, maintain
dignity of office, and other factors
important to the high posts.
Governor Egan will appoint the
three supreme court justices from
nominations made by the council.
The chief justice will receive a
salary of $23,500 a year. The two
associate justices will receive
$22,500 a year.
The Judicial Council extended
until July 15th the time for re
ceipt of petitions for considera
tion of possible nominations to
Alaska’s eight-judge superior
court. The superior court vacan
cies will be filled sometime after
the supreme court appointments
have been made.
Midnight Flag - Raising Ceremony Will
Re-Enact Fort McHenry Bombardment
BALTIMORE, UP) — The newest^
Star Spangled Banner will wave
at the eerie hour of midnight in
stead of dawn’s _ early light over
Fort McHenry tomorrow
The flag with 49 stars, recog
nizing the State of Alaska, will be
i hoisted officially for the first time
* at one minute after midnight
tonight.
It will be hauled up on a hand
hejvn reproduction of the 87-foot
staff which Francis Scott Key
saw from a British ship 155 years
ago and was inspired to pencil
the word to “The Star Spangled
Banner.”
That 1814 British bombardment
* of the fort guarding Baltimore
will be re-enacted during an hour
long program preceding the new
flag raising.
Two Navy ships will fire from
the harbor and the 3rd Armored
- Cavalry Regiment will reply with
howitzers in the fort. There will
be a minute of silence and then
a resounding Fourth of July bang
— a 49-gun salute and rockets
glaring while the flag rises.
It’s an entirely different flag
from the one that quickened Key’s
pulses. That one had 15 stripes
and an equal number of stars.
Four years later, the number of
stripes was reduced to represent
the 13 original colonies and stars
were added as- more states were
admitted. Soon they will number
50, with the welcoming of Hawaii.
Fort McHenry, Key’s grave in
Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Frederick,
Md., the Flag House in Baltimore,
the War Memorial in Worcester,
Mass., and the Capitol are the
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California U. of A.
Student Murdered
On B. C. Highway
C j
PRINCE GEORGE, B. C., UP) —
Police throughout British Colum
bia were asked today to watch for
a white panel truck owned toy a
30-year-old California man whose
body was found Sunday 90 miles
north of here:
They said the person who killed
Bruce Worline, a student at the
University of Alaska in Fairbanks,
apparently escaped in the Alaska
registered truck Worline was
driving. ,
Worline, of Santa Monica, Calif.,
left Fairbanks alone last week to
drive to California. Authrities
said he apparently was shot with
his own .22 caliber rifle.
A woman picknicker found
Worline’s body, which had been
covered with leaves. The body
was taken to Kamloops, B. C.,
where an autopsy showed Worline
had suffered two broken ribs and
badly bruised knuckles, appar
ently in a fight with his assailant.
Worline’s identity was estab
lished after his father-in-law,
Kenneth K. Pingree of Los An
geles, telephoned Canadian cus
toms at the Blaine, Wash., border
point to ask if Worline had passed
through there.
Worline and the former Joan
Pingree were married last De
cember 6. Mrs. Worline flew from
Fairbanks to Santa Monica, and
her husband was to have joined
her there.
‘Nothing To Fight
About,’ Remarks
Touring Soviet
WASHINGTON, UPi — Soviet
Deputy Premier Frol R. Kozlov
left today for a sightseeing tour
of the United States with the re
mark that there is “nothing at all
for us to fight about.”
Kozlov, his diplomatic mission
to Washington completed with no
easing of the East-West deadlock
over Berlin, took off in a char
tered commercial airliner on a
nonstop flight to Sacramento,
Calif.
Starting a 10-day swing through
half a dozen cities, he planned to
lunch with California’s Governor
I Edmund G. Brown. Then it was
on to San Francisco for more
sightseeing and meetings with
local citizenry.
Even as he was waiting to board
the plane at National Airport,
Kozlov continued his talks with
U. S. officials. His discussions
during a 2VS-day visit to the cap
itol produced nothing new on the
U. S.-Soviet standoff on the Ger
man crisis.
Kozlov told Assistant Secretary
of State Livingston T. Merchant,
who was seeing the Red visitor
off, that both the Soviet Union
and the United States have great
natural resources and made his
remark about there being nothing
to fight about.
The silver-haired, 50-year-old
Kremlin official was all smiles
as he formally bade farewell to
the people of Washington and
started off on what he has joking
ly called his “Communist infil
tration” of the United States.
i Rivers Wants l umber
Processing Done in Alaska
WASHINGTON, liP> — A revi
sion of Forest Service policy re
quiring primary manufacture of
lumber in Alaska was recom
mended today by Representative
Ralph Rivers.
Rivers said he considers the
policy of prohibiting export of
unprocessed logs from Alaska a
necessary protection to the state’s
mill operators and workers.
“However,” he said, “it is ap
parent that Alaska, a state rich
in natural resources, can progress
economically only on the basis of
realistic and workable resource
policies which stimulate rather
than hinder export of raw ma
terials.”
The Forest Service informed
Rivers that the output of Alaskan
sawmills now may be exported
provided the logs have been re
duced by a headsaw or gangsaw.
The Honorable Sieffen Andersen
Mayor of Nome:
"I regret that the problems
imposed by time and distance
make it impossible for me to be
with you and residents of your
community this weekend as you
observe raising of 49-star flag.
Please convey my greetings to
-my fellow Alaskans on this truly
historic occasion."
WILLIAM A. EGAN,
Governor of Alaska.
CITY of NOME
th of July
10:00 a.m. — CHILDREN S SPORTS
American Legion Post 19, Bob Emmons, Chairman
25-yard Dash (Girls 5 to 7).$3.0G 2.00 1.00
25-yard Dash '(Boys 5 to 7). 3.00 2.00 1.00
30-yard Dash (Girls 8 to 9). 3.00 2.00 1.00
50-yard Dash (Boys 8 to 9). 3.00 2.00 1.00
50-yard Dash (Girls 10 to 11). . 3.00 2.00 1.00
75-yard Dash (Boys 10 to 11). 3.00 2.00 1.00
30-yard Dash (Married Men Only). 3.00 2.00 1.00
(Over 35 years of age—Have your I.D. Cards ready, gents)
25-yard 3nLegged Race (Boys 10 to 12). 3.00 2.00 1.00
25-yard 3-Legged Race (Girls 10 to 12). 3.00 2.00 1.00
25-yard 3-Legged Race (Girls 7 to 9). 3.GO 2.00 1.00
25-yard 3-Legged Race (Boys 7 to 9).i 3.00 2.00 1.00
25-yard Sack Race (Girls 10 to 12). 3.00 2.00 1.00
25-yard Sack Race (Boys 10 to 12). 3.00. 2.00 1.00
15-yard Tricycle Race (For 3-year-olds). 2.00 1.00
20-yard Tricycle Race (Boys 4 to 5). 2.00 1.00
20-yard Tricycle Race (Girls 4to 5). 2.00 1.00
25-yard Tricycle Race (Married Women).... 3.00 2.00 1.00
25-yard Tricycle Race (Single Women) 3.00 2.00 1.00
50-yard Bicycle Race (Boys 6 to 7). 3.00 2.00 1.00
50-yard Bicycle Race (Girls 6 to 7). 3.00 2.00 1.00
75-yard Bicycle Race (Boys 8 to 9). 3.00 2.00 1.00
75-yard Bicycle Race (Girls 8 to 9). 3.00 2.00 1.00
25-yard Slow Bicycle Race (Boys).i... 3.00 2.00 1.00
25-yard Slow Bicycle Race (Girls). 3.Q0 2.00 1.00
Shoe Scramble (13 years and under). 3.00 2.00 1.00
25-yard Egg Race (Married Women). 3.00 2.00 1.00
25-yard Egg Race (Single Women). 3.00 %.00 1.00
FREE ICE CREAM FOR THE CHILDREN
Dispensed by Nome Volunteer Fire Department
12:30 — ESKIMO SPORTS Sam Mogg, Chairman
High Kicking (Men) . 6.00 4.00
High Kicking (Women) . 6.00 4.00
Blanket Tossing (Men) . 5.00 2.00
Blanket Tossing (Women) . 5.00 2.00
Eskimo* Dancing . 50.00 35.00
2:00 p.m. — PARADE Mike Vivieros Parade Marshal
(Assemble back of old Federal Building at 1:30 p.m.)
For The Best Float .50.00
Most Original Costume . 3.00 2.00 1.00
2:30 — PATRIOTIC EXERCISES
Invocation .!. Father Laurence Nevue
Address of Welcome .Mayor Steffen Andersen
Speakers: .James von der Heydt, Mike Walsh
F. M. Rhode and Carrie McLain
FLAG RAISING CEREMONY
Pioneers of Alaska, Igloo No. 1, CAP Cadets,
American Legion, with music by Nome School Band
Benediction . Rev. Roald Amundsen
The Civilian Flag Salute is rendered by standing at attention,
removing headdress, and placing your right hand over your
heart. You should use this salute each time the Colors or the
Flag passes you in the parade and during the ceremony of
lowering the 48-siar flag and raising the new 49-star flag.
3:00 p.m. — SPEEDBOAT RACES in Snake River
Up to 25 h.p.25.00 10.00
30 to 45 h.p.25.00 10.00
— Racers contact Barrow Morgan or Les Keller —
8:00 p.m. — USO SHOW
•‘ROCKIN’ THE TOWN” — SCHOOL GYM
9:30 p.m. — STREET DANCE Federal Building Patio
— COMMITTEE IN CHARGE —
Mayor Steve Andersen, Councilmen K. Hedreen and R. Wilke
Fund Raising Campagin — Nome Rotaryanns
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