ANG To Hold “Battalion Commanders
Conference” Here August 14, 15, & 16
Nome has been named as the
site of the next regularly scheduled
Alaska National Guard “Battalion
Commanders Conference” which
will be held on August 14, 15, and
16 at the Nome Armory.
The main order of business for
the 20 officers attending the con
ference wil be the Pending Re
organization of the Alaska Na
tional Guard Infantry Battalions,
the Armory Construction Pro
gram, and a Training Review of
Fiscal Year 1958.
Attending the conference will
be: Col. Thomas P. Carroll, the
Adj. Gen. and staff; Col. Henry
F. Ross, Senior Army Advisor;
Lt. Col. Michael Burke, the
USP&FO for Alaska; and Maj.
Bjorn T. Holta, the Inspector Gen.
of the Alaska National Guard.
Battalion Commanders are:
Lt. Col. Larry Parker, Maj. Gor
don W. Webber, Maj. William H.
Crawford, and Maj. Harry E.
Voelker.
Army Advisors—Maj. Timothy
C. Casey, Capt. Samuel P. Muse,
Maj. John D. Gillespie, and Capt.
Louis H. McKenzie.
Transportation to and from the
conference will be provided by
the Alaska Air National Guard
and th<^ 144th Air Transport
Squadron commanded by Maj.
William Elmore.
The conference is a quarterly
meeting to discuss and work
out Guard problems as they
arise and to coordinate the pro
grams of the widely scattered
units of the Alaska National
Guard.
2 Killed When Falling
Log Crushes Car
CRESCENT CITY, Calif., UP) —
A 70-year-old woman and her
son-in-law were killed Friday
when a huge log rolled from a
passing truck and crushed their
car.
The truck driver, Myrland V.
Austin of Grants Pass, Ore., was
charged with manslaughter.
Killed were Mrs. Etta Gallea,
and Donald H. Williams, 40.
Williams’ wife Gertrude, his son
Carl, 6, and daughter Irene, 7,
were slightly injured.
Austin was charged also with
gross negligence, speeding, driv
ing unsafe equipment and fail
ing to keep his truck under con
trol on a mountain road.
Texans Accept Being
2nd Largest State
WASHINGTON, UP) — Local
Texans made it official yester
day. As far as there’re con
cerned, Alaska can become the
49th state.
The Texas State Society in the
capitol threw a Tex-Alaska fam
ily frolic at which 500 Texans j
outnumbered a score of Alaskans.
The Texans cheered the Alas
kans, including Delegate E. L.
Bartlett and former Gov. Ern
est Gruening.
Rep. Walter Robers, one of
the most ardent foes of the state
hood bill passed recently by Con
gress, praised advocates of the
measure for never giving up.
“At any rate,” Rogers said,
Texas has gotten more publicity
lately as being the second largest
state than it got as the largest.”
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Stepson Will Carry
Out Last Request
Of Klondike Kate
SALEM, Ore., LP — The ashes
of Klondike Kate Van Buren,
onetime dancehall girl of the
Alaskan gold rush, will be turned
over to her stepson, an attorney
said Saturday.
The stepson, Darrel Van Buren,
Everett, Wash., came forward to
claim the ashes recently after it
became known that Kate’s last
request never had been carried
out. She died last year in Sweet
Home, Ore., and requested in her
will that her ashes be scattered
over the Sisters Wilderness area
of Central Oregon.
Several persons volunteered to
carry out the request, but Van
Buren said he had first claim.
Joe Devers, Salem attorney said
Van Buren will have to sign a
release stipulating that he will
carry out the will’s request.
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