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Queen Elizabeth II
Receives Warm
Welcome in Ghana
ACCRA, Ghana — A tumult
of cheers and a ceremonial pour
ing of gin on the ground greeted
Queen Elizabeth II Thursday on
her arrival here far a 12-day
state visit.
Thousands of gaily L garbed
Africans burst into tumultuous
cheering as the royal visitor, ac
companied by her husband Prince
Philip, stepped from the plane
which brought her on a non-stop
flight from iLondon.
A white-robed Fetish priest
poured gin on the ground as a
libation to invoke the blessings
of the gods and ancestors as the
Queen was greeted by President
Kwame Nkrumah.
Thousands of Ghanaians lined
the six-mile route to ancient
ChristianSborg Castle, where the
Queen will live while she is in
this capital.
There had been some fears in
Britain for her personal safety
on this visit. Armed Scotland
Yard guards accompanied her.
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★ SUNDAY NIGHT *
In Addition to the Regular
Service at the
Bible Baptist Church
You Can See
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a Motion Picture
In Sound and Color
with a
Approach to the Atomic
Bomb Problem
Services Begin at 7:00
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Missionary Pastor
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Mercury from Red Devil
Mine Being Sent to Japan j
(Mines & Petroleum Bulletin)
The Red Devil Mine, on the
Kuskokwim River near Sleetmute
and one of the three largest mer
cury mines in the U.S., is now
shipping a portion of its product
to Japan. The Japanese pur
chasers are taking the mercury
in its partly refined form of soot.
Shipments are by way of North
ern Consolidated Airlines to An
chorage and by the Kazukawa
Steamship Line from Anchorage
to Japan. Production at the Red
Devil is reported up 15 per cent
over last year at this time, and a
year’s output of 5,000 flasks will
probably be realized.
James Crawford, vice president
and general manager of the Alas
Co. has announced that rising
costs are causing a shutdown of
all dredges in the Fairbanks area
by the end of 1963, and a shut
down at Nome possibly as early
as 1962. The other USSM & R
Co. dredges at Hogatza River and
in the Forty-Mile will be able to
continue because of the fact that
the cost of stripping and thaw
ing is not present in those camps.
The shutdown of the Fairbanks
and Nome dredges will mark the
end of the era of large-scale
placer gold mining in Alaska, com
parable to the end of the large
scale lode gold mining when the
AJ Mine at Juneau was finally
forced to close.
L. E. Parsons to
Head Employment
For Handicapped Persons
JUNEAU W — The designation
of L. E. Parsons, Fairbanks, as
chairman of the Governor’s Com
mittee on employment of the
handicapped was announced yes
terday by Gov. Egan.
Parsons succeeds Jack Finch of
Ketchikan, who indicated he was
unable to continue as chairman
of the committee, although he will
remain a member of the com
mittee.
Egan also announced the reap
pointment of Dr. Katsumi Kasuga
and Jack Conright of Anchorage,
Paul Eibert of Fairbanks and
Glenn Reid of Petersburg to the
committee, for terms expiring
Sept. 27, 1064. _
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CLOSED ON THURSDAY —
Your School:
Time for a Progress Report
By Lennie Mae Nerland
Many persons visited Open
House in the Nome Public School
last evening and saw for them
selves the facilities available and
samples of the work being done
in our school rooms. We wonder
if you can realize how out school
has grown, and will continue to
grow if present trends continue.
About >1935-1936 when the old
part of the present building was
erected and classes moved into
it, the citizens were shaking
their heads in astonishment that
such a large school was built for
so few pupils. There were about
25 high school students housed
on the second floor while today
there are over four times tint
many in the same place, and over
flowing into the annex. There
were four or five teachers on the
faculty with the superintendent
teaching classes in addition to his
other duties.
Grade school was housed in
four classrooms on the main floor
with three other rooms toeing used
for shop. During World II years
there were approximately 25
pupils for each two grades dis
tributed among four teachers.
A great change took place in
the later 1940’s when many fam
ilies from the villages moved to
Nome seeking work, and school
facilities for their children. The
Alaska Native School — now BIA
— had been closed and their en
rollment came to the public
school. Soon the rooms were so
crowded that teachers could hard
ly walk between the desks. More
teachers from among qualified
towns-women were drafted to
lighten the load. Rather undesir
able rooms were pressed into serv
ice as class rooms. And so the
story goes. Perhaps you were a
part of this.
In the 1950’s our spirits were
lifted and neW plans made when
an addition was built onto the
crowded school. Surely eight
modern class rooms and a multi
purpose room would care for our
needs. But before it was even
finished we realized it wasn't
large enough! The Gillis addi
tion to the north of the gymna
sium helped some. But school en
rollment was ahead of available
facilities.
What is the prospect for the
~~»re? At present the elementary
grades through sixth are on shift
at a great inconvenience to par
ents and school personnel. Tired
children struggle with their as
signments, and equally tired
teachers strive to ease the pres
sures and tensions and keep the
standards as high as usual. When
will relief come? Apparently no
one has the answer to that ques
tion. Ten new class rooms would
get our classes off shift and pro
vide facilities not available now.
There are many activities and
areas that the present day stu
dent needs as a part of his edu
cation in this small and danger
ous world.
How can we pay the price for
excellence? Who can help solve
these ever growing needs in our
pommunity?
MMM HOSPITAL
| Admitted: Dean Bronson, Ber
tha Otten, Emma Bourdon, Joe
Penatac, Gilbert Dimmick.
| Discharged: Mary Bergamaschi
fcncl Grace Parker.
British Beauty Wins
“Miss World” Crown
LONDON UR — A British beauty
who placed second in the Miss
Universe contest in Miami Beach
two months ago was named Miss
World on her home territory last
night.
She was the first British girl
to win a major beauty competi
tion.
The international contestants
as usual indulged In considerable
acrimony after an earl, a duchess
and seven other judges awarded
the title to brown-haired, blue
eyed Rosemarie Frankland, 18, a
model. But the tantrums dis
solved, probably temporarily, as
the 37 girls danced and drank
champagne until the early hours
at the Cafe De Paris.
The U.S. entry, Jo Ann Odum
of Huntington, W. Va., was among
the seven finalists but didn’t
place in the money.
Comedian Bob Hope crowned
Miss Frankland and saluted her
as “the most beautiful girl I
ever saw.” When the girls started
bickering Hope commented sooth
ingly: “Name any of these girls
and Til say they deserved to win.
I want peace.”
Rosemarie won 2,500 pounds
($7,000) and a movie test but said,
“my amibiition is to .be a gla
morous wife.” Her measure
ments are par for beauty con
test winners in the Monroe-Bar -
dot age — 36-22-36.
HELSINKI, Finland UR — For
eign Minister Ahti Karjalainen
left by train today for Moscow
to discuss the recent Soviet note
calling for Finnish-Russian talks
on joint defense measures against
West Germany.
| Costly California Fire
Is Now Under Control
LOS ANGELES UP) — A hun
[ dred men, hollow-eyed and foot
sore, patrolled still-smoking can
yons today, the final stage of a
five-day fire disaster in the Santa
Monica mountains.
They kept dousing flareups
throughout the night, hoping to
avoid a renewal of Southern Cali
fornia’s worst fire outbreak.
They finally controlled the
8,400-acre blaze in Topanga Can
yon Thursday night but were still
plagued by “hot spots’’—sparks
flying out of smoldering stumps
ant flaring into flames. The 5,750
acre fire in nearby Bel-Air v?as
controlled Wednesday night.
Official estimates of damage
remained unchanged: 456 homes
destroyed; property losses that
may exceed $20 million; 14,150
acres of vital watershed ruined.
There have been no deaths re
ported. About 150 firemen have
been injured, none seriously. Los
Angeles County has been declared
a disaster area by Gov. Edmund
Brown, who is seeking federal
aid.
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Notice is hereby given that Mollle A.
Dexter, Golovin, Aiuska, together with
her witnesses, Mrs. Minnie Fsserstresn
and Mrs. Laurie Amaktoolik. both of
Golovin, Alaska, has filed Application
to Purchase for her Homesite.
Fairbanks Serial No. 09167, for lands
described as:
U.S. Survey No. 3651, Alaska,
situated in the Town of Golovin
on the North shore of Golovin
Sound and the establishment of
U.S. LocaUon Monument No. 3651.
containing 1.83 acres.
Any or all persons having knowledge
of any reason why Final Certificate
and patent should not be issued to said
person should file their protest in the
Fairbanks Land Office within the period
of publication or thirty days thereafter.
JESSE H. JOHNSON, Chief,
Lands Adjudication Unit
i Pub: Oct. 13, 20, 27. Nov. 3, 10, IT,
I 24, Dec. 1, 8, 1961.
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