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“Go West, Young Man, Go West”
TjX>R HUNDREDS OF YEARS before this advice
■T was enunciated by Horace Greeley, this was the
urge that had animated the adventurous of the Old
World. Whether it was to find a quicker route to the
Indies or far away Cathay, the more heedless pursuit
of new excitements or the eagerness for a new be
ginning, the drive ever Westward seems to have been,
to a considerable degree, a response to some primal
instinct.
Since Isabella’s Christopher Columbus made his
landfall in the New World in the fall of 1492 and
whose birthday we commemorate tomorrow, this
dream of better things and its westward orientation
has remained largely unchanged. This, we think is
the pioneer spirit which turoad the adventures north
west to settle Alaska.
What 1ms happened to the pioneer spirit? Do we
still have it? Has it run out of our shoes in our eager
ness for a soft life, to have every nation love us,
shielding our children and our children's children
from the pains of their forefathers?
This instinct still brings people to the far north,
many of whom cannot accept the challenge and turn
back, disappointment because they cannot pioneer
without all the comforts of civilization.
But those who stay to call it home are making
the new frontier. _. 1 v>-'v .... . ^
Tricky Ignition Key . • •
SEATTLE — An ignition
key so tricky to use that a drunk
can’t start his automobile is being
developed; a traffic safety expert
said Monday.
Dr. James Malfetti, head of a
safety research project at Colum
bia University, said the idea is to
halt the drinking driver before
be gets on the road.
The experimental key, he told
a newsman, has to be inserted
through a maze that requires
sober concentration.
Dr, Malfetti, here for the
American Automobile Assn, con
vention which opened Tuesday,
said another safety experiment in
the works fat a control on the
steering wheel. When you begin
over-correcting turns, s signal
warns you. If you continue to j
over-correct, your cur stops. j
Man Arrested for
Building Fallout Shelter
DECATUR, 111. UB — A. Web
ber Borchers, 55, was arrested
Monday night on a charge of con
structing a fallout shelter with
out a city building permit.
“I think it’s ridiculous," Bor
chers said Tuesday after obtain
ing his liberty on $100 bond. “No
body can say you don’t have the
right to defend yourself until you
ask permission."
Requiring a building permit to
protect a family amounts to pay
ing a tribute to the city for a
special privilege, he added.
wNaS°* magistrate will hq®*
carries a fine from $10 to $100.
President George Washington’s
first federal budget was written
on a single sheet of paper.
Letter
To The Editor
I have finally cleared the smoke
out of my nostrils and even though
the ashes are still smoking there
is sawdust in my hair and cement
on my 'burned hands as I pause
to seek to write what words either
spoken or written cannot ade
quately express.
Letters are so often such fumb
ling things. But I am, indeed, so
grateful to so many people who
have and are helping us during
our dark hour. I am especially
grateful to the people of Teller
and Teller Mission as it seems
that every able bodied man, wom
an and child put their shoulder
to the wheel in some manner to
help us in fighting the fire which
destroyed our business, our home
and prized possessions. I am
grateful to Central Construction
Co. personnel, who all pitched
in and helped to fight the fire.
I am grateful to the men who
came from Pt. Spencer’s Raber
Kief project to help fight the fire.
I am grateful to Lomen’s crewmen
off of the Bozo who helped to
fight the fire.
I am grateful to Dick Galleher
for bringing A1 Doyle and Tom
nay Johnson of the Nome Volun
teer Fire Deptrement up with
pumps and hoses and assisted in
saving the town. I am grateful to
Pete Walsh and all of the Wien
Airlines personnel who flew up
from our g6od neighbor city of
Nome to help fight the fire and
worked all night. I am grateful
for the gifts of clothing that were
sent up to us as all we saved was
the clothes on our backs.
There is so much to be thank
ful and grateful for, so many to
be thankful and grateful to. The
community spirit put forth during
this tragic disaster and since gives
us strength and inspiration to
pick ourselves Up and “Get
Going” again. We are up, we are
going, and we intend to be going
In full swing at Teller Commer
cial Co. again to serve our many
friends and customers here on
the Seward Peninsula and I can
assure you that we will stand ever
more ready than even before to
assist others who will untimately
experience the misfortune of
having a fire.
I contribute the united effort of
the participants mentioned above
with saving the Town of Teller. I
salute you neighbors, one and all
and may the good Lord bless all
of you.
Sincerely,
Helen, Bob and
Rickey Blodgett
JUST HAD A GRUDGE . . .
ELIZABETH, N.J. UP) — Fred
Babish, 21, walked into the Draft
Board office Monday with a base
ball bat and started swinging.
Before he was subdued by
patrolmen, he had smashed six
windows, ruined several Venetian
•blinds and chased the clerks into
the hallway.
Babish told police he had “a
grudge against the board.”
He was charged with malicious
mischief and disorderly conduct.
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New Initiative Petition Filed to
Move Capital of Alaska from Juneau
JUNEAU Uft — An application
for an initiative petition to move
the capital of Alaska from Juneau
to Western Alaska was filed with
Secretary of State Hugh Wade
yesterday.
The application was filed by Dr.
Merritt P. Starr and James E.
Fisher of Anchorage and Dr.
Clarence Bailey of Palmer.
The signatures of more than
200 persons were sent to Wade
along with the application for the
initiative petition.
The 200 will act as additional
sponsors of the petition, along
with Starr, Fisher and Bailey.
Under the law, Wade must de
termine:
1. If the application is in re
quired form.
2. If the proposed bill is in re
quired form.
3. If there is a sufficient num
ber of sponsors.
Nome Airport to Have
VOR System Installed
WASHINGTON UP> — The Fed
eral Aviation Agency announced
Tuesday it has ordered 71 air
craft guide stations from the
Television Corp! of Wheeling, 111.,
for $2,067,550.
They will be spotted in various
parts of the nation as part of the
FAA Airways System.
The stations are very high fre
quency omni-director radio ranges
called “VORS.” Fifty will be in
stalled for enroute service and 21
simpler versions — called
“TVORS”—will be installed on or
near airports for terminal guid
ance.
Later this year, FAA said, ad
ditional equipment will be pur
chased so that 50 enroute aids can
be converted to more versatile
“VORTAC” installations.
FAA plans eventually to con
vert all VOR stations to VORTAC.
The tentative locations selected
for the VORTACS include:
Alaska — Annette, Betties, Big
Delta, Big Lake, Farewell, Fort
Yukon, Galena, Hinehinbrook,
McGrath, Moses Point, Nome,
Talkeetna, Tanana and Unlak
leet.
Typhoon Violet Hits
Tokyo, Flooding Homes
TOKYO 00 — Typhoon Violet
sideswiped Tokyo Tuesday leav
ing 2 persons dead and 19 in
jured and wrecking or flooding
61.000 houses. „
The storm, which at one stage
carried center winds of 132 miles
an hour, veered eastward into the
Pacific in mid-morning after buf
feting Honshu Island with strong
gusts and heavy rain.
Helicopters from the U.S. car
rier Princeton plucked a total of
74 seamen from two freighters
aground in the Daito Islands east;
of Okinawa. They were the
American ship Pioneer and tile
Sheik, of Lebanon registry.
Vanilla comes from one of more
than 20,000 varieties of orchids,
and is still the most popular ice
cream flavor, outselling all other
flavors combined.
An application for an initiative
petition requires only the names
of 100 sponsors.
If Wade certifies the applica
tion, the sponsors Will be required
to obtain the supporting signa
tures of qualified voters equal in
number to 10 per cent of those
who cast ballots in the Nov. 8,
1960, general election and resi
dent in at least two-thirds of the
election districts of the state.
In the Nov. 8, 1960, general elec
tion, 60,762 persons cast ballots
for the President of the United
States.
If the requirements are met
and the initiative petition itself
is certified by Wade, it will be
placed on the ballot in the next
statewide election.
Under the terms of the pro
posed initiative, the capital would
be relocated at a site west of 141
degrees west longitude, roughly
46 miles west of Yekutat.
The line formed by the 141st
Meridian is the boundary between
Western Alaska and Yukon Terri
tory.
If the initiative is approved by
the voters, the Governor would
be required to convene, within
60 days, a capital site selection
committee composed of the senior
senators from each senatorial dis
trict of the state.
This capital site selection com
mittee would be required to rec
ommend within two years three
potential capital sites, none of
which could be within 30 miles
of Anchorage.
Each stite would consist of not
less than 6,400 acres of state
owned or state-selected federal
lands.
The voters of the state would
then be asked to choose the actual
capital site from the three rec
ommended sites and the actual
movement of the capital from Ju
neau to the new site would have
to start no later than June 1,
1968.
The Legislature would be re
quired at its first session after
selection of the new capital site
to provide for the planning and
sub-division of the site and for
the construction of necessary
state facilities.
The new application for an in
iative petition represents the sec
ond time an attempt has been
made to move the capital from
Juneau.
Last year, in the Aug. 9 pri
mary, an initiative to move the
capital to the “Cook Inlet-Rail
belt area” was defeated 23,972
16,865.
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