Only 14 of 40 Lawmakers
Answer Poll Regarding
Special Legislature Session
JUNEAU, W — Only 14 of 40
Alaska legislators have answered
a poll on whether they think a
special session later this year
would be advisable, Robert De
Armond, executive assistant to
Gov. B. Frank Heintzleman, said
Tuesday.
The possibility of a special ses
sion of the territorial legislature,
probably in the early fall, has
been a major topic of speculation
in recent weeks.
The governor’s office decided
on the poll to help decide on the
need for a legislative call. Addi
tional answers will be awaited be
fore any conclusion is reached,
De Armond said.
In flanges produced for a typi
cal aircraft exhaust system, sur
faces must be smooth to within
100 millionth of an inch average.
If 100 millionth of an inch were
represented by the thickness of
one dime, one inch would be 400
times as high as the Empire State
Building.
Eric Jackson
Back From Korea
With Battle Honors
HEADQUARTERS, U.S. ARMY,
Alaska—Private First Class Eric
M. Jackson, son of Mrs. Hilda
Jackson, Golovin (east of Nome on
the Seward Peninsula), is back in
Alaska and on his way home after
an action-packed two-year tour of
duty with the Army.
Pfc. Jackson was drafted in
April, 1951, while a student at the
Alaska Native Service school at
.White Mountain. After receiving
basic training and serving with
the Fourth Regimental Combat
Team for almost a year, he volun
teered for infantry combat duty
in Korea.
He left Alaska in March, 1952,
and arrived in Korea May 17.
He was assigned as a rifleman
to the 35th Infantry Regiment of
the 25th Division and fought with
that unit until his return to the
United States last month.
He was awarded the Purple
Heart for shell fragment wounds
which hospitalized him for 10
days. He also wears the Combat
Infantry Badge and the United
States and United Nations Korean
Service Medals.
Pfc. Jackson arrived at Ft. Rich
ardson Monday to be processed
for discha rge from active service.
The next day he was personally
commended by Maj. Gen. William
M. Miley, commanding general,
U.S. Army, Alaska, for his patri
otism in volunteering for combat
duty.
Upon his return home, probab
ly next week, Pfc. Jackson plans
to join the local unit of the Alaska
National Guard’s First Scout Bat
talion.
WILL IT RAIN MAY 10?
DECATUR, Illinois, UPt — C. L.
Waggoner is going to bet that it
will rain in Decatur on May 10,
just like he has the last 47 years.
Waggoner, a 92-year-old former
bank employe, has been the win
ner 38 of the 47 times he has
made the strange wager. He never
has disclosed how much money
he has won since hfe made his
first bet in 1905 that it would rain
on May 10. He limits each bet
to $1.00.
The Choco Indians of Panama
use bows and arrows, but travel
in boats powered by outboard
motors.
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Alaska Attorney’s Opinion
On Transfer of Property
Expected To Be Contested
JUNEAU, UR—Real property in
Alaska, under contract of sale,
does not change title until the ac
tual transfer of deed, Territorial
Atty. Gen. Gerald Williams said
Monday.
The opinion concerned property
owned by the late O. L. Grimes,
Seattle, who sold an interest in
cannery property at Ousinkie to
another non-Alaskan. Only a con
tract of sale was issued, however,
without any transfer of deed be
fore Grimes died.
Williams said location of the
real property is the determining
factor. He said reciprocity is not
involved because Grimes still
owned legal title to the Alaska
property when he died, and, con
sequently, his interest is subject
to Alaska inheritance.
The Seattle attorneys for the
Grimes estate are expected to
contest the case with the argu
ment that transfer of ownership
occurs on execution of contract of
sale and is not contingent on later
passing of the deed.
Dock Leader Murdered
HOBOKEN, N.J., UP)—A dock
leader was shot to death last night
in Hoboken’s second waterfront
slaying within two years.
A single bullet in the head
proved fatal to Francis Kelly,
who was to have started work
Tuesday us a waterfront hiring
boss at a newly reopened pier.
The shooting was another in a
series of violent incidents on the
New York - New. Jersey water
front, being probed by a Senate
committee in Washington.
ONLY CARS USED IN ALASKA
CAN USE ALASKA PLATES
JUNEAU, UPi -i- Atty. Gen. J.
Gerald Williams informed the ter
ritorial tax commissioner Monday
that only automobiles bought for
use in Alaska are eligible for ter
ritorial license plates.
Williams said an affidavit must
be obtained, both from the .buyer
and a registered Alaska dealer, if
delivery is to be made outside the
territory.
Reds Regroup For Fresh Attack
HANOI, Indochina, uPt—French
and Laotian patrols swept in a
wide arc around the royal resi
dence city of Luang Prabang in
Loas today but failed to contact
any Communist - led Vietminh
troops.
The calm of the Laos invasion
fronts indicated the Vietminh is
awaiting fresh supplies and is re
grouping its forces before making
an onslaught on Luang Prabang
or Vientiane, the official capital.
Northwest Carries Record 603,307
Pounds To Alaska Last Month
SEATTLE, Iff) — Northwest
Orient Airlines set a new record
of 603,307 pounds last month for
air freight flown north to Anchor
age from Seattle-Tacoma Airport
in any one-month period, George
E. Hatch, western sales manager,
said at Seattle today.
Northwest added 15 extra DC-4
sections to its regularly scheduled
flights to Anchorage in setting the
new freight record.
The 603,307—pound record to
tal comprised 376,341 pounds of
fresh produce, meat and other
perishable goods, and 226,966
pounds of so-called “dry” mer
chandise.
The famed Dixieland jazz was
born at New Orleans funerals,
says the National Geographic
Society.
Most Beautiful
Girl In World 1
Weds Millionaire
TOKYO, UP)—The bride’s eyes
were soft and moist; the bride
groom had a shiner.
She is Armi Kuusela — pro
claimed the most (beautiful wo
man in the world when crowned
Miss Universe last year. She hails
frorm the frigid, high north coun
try of Finland.
He is Virgilio Hilario from the
torrid Philippines, possessor of
plenty of pesos and a black eye
he got in a fight the other night.
They were married in a little
Tokyo church Monday night and
only three people went to the
wedding.
They wanted it that way be
cause Virgilio was a little shy
about that shiner.
“She’s wonderful!” the 25-year
old millionaire Filipino beamed
at his swank imperial hotel suite
yesterday during a brief honey
moon in this land of cherry blos
soms.
The bride beamed, too. She had
a message from her mother in
Finland wishing her happiness.
Today they part. She is flying
to Honolulu. He is going to Man
ila on business.
Then he will rush to the idyllic
Hawaiian islands to rejoin her.
From there they will tour the
United States and Europe before
going to the Phillipines to live.
A Pottsdam, N.Y. man is cre
dited with introducing the first
standardized quart milk bottle in
1884. Previously, the milkman
poured milk from his can direct
ly into customers’ pitchers.
“Old Man and the Sea”
Wins Ernest Hemingway
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
NEW YORK, (*—His vivid tale
of “The Old Man and the Sea”
Tuesday was the first of Ernest
Hemingway’s many novels to
bring him a Pulitzer Prize in his
30-year literary careet.
Hemingway’s short novel Tues
day won the 1953 Pulitzer Prize
for fiction.
The stage award went to Wil
liam Inge for his Broadway hit
play, “Picnic.”
Repeat winners in this year’s
list of prizes were Archibald Mac
Leith, poetry, and Associated
Press Writer Don Whitehead,
who received honors for national
reporting. The New York Times
received its second special Pulitz
er citation, this time for its Sun
day edition section, “Review of
the Week.”
Whitehead, 45, a Virginia na
tive, won his second Pulitzer Prize
Monday for his 4,400-word story,
“The Great Deception,” a graphic
description of President Eisen
hower’s secret flight to Korea be
fore his inauguration. Whitehead
in 1951 shared a Pulitzer for his
war coverage with several other
correspondents.
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