Delegates Are in
Last Leg of Race
To Beat Deadline
By FLORENCE DOUTHIT
FAIRBANKS UP*—Alaska’s con
stitution-framers are on the last
leg of their race to beat the dead
line set to draft a basic set of laws
for the future State of Alaska.
Convention delegates have tak
en final action on 14 articles of
the proposed constitution. And
only matters dealing with ordi
nances, transitional measures and
miscellaneous provisions remain
to be tackled.
Sixty-eight pages of the docu
ment have been completed. There
are 17 to go. Target date for put
ting the finished constitution 'in
the hands of the printers is Fri
day morning.
One way or another, the fin
ished product must be ready by
2 p.m. Sunday—the hour set for
the signing ceremony.
In sessions Monday and yes
terday, articles on local govern
ment, apportionment schedule and
natural resources were put thru
final passage. The first two arti
cles got five dissenting votes each.
Natural resources went into the
constitution by a 53-0 vote.
Final Attack on 'Borough'
The word “borough” was taken i
for one last ride during third j
reading of the local government j
article. Frank Barr led the attack j
on the word, selected by delegates
as the name for governmental
units in preference to district, i
canton, division and county.
Monday Barr tried to change
“borough” to “section” then to
“area.” Yesterday he came back
with two boxes of home-made
fudge which he placed on a table
in the center of the chamber.
After sampling it delegates sug
gested changing the word to Barr
borough" or to “borrow.”
Yule Kilcher of Homer suggest
ed that at least the spelling be
changed to delete the “ ugh.” But
the article went into the constitu
tion with the name “borough."
The Tennessee Plan, under
which Alaska would further its
statehood efforts by electing two
U.S. senators and a representa
tive, weathered a surprise storm.
The plan, renamed the Alaska
Tennessee Plan by Alaskans, yes
terday came before the conven
tion when John Rosswog of Cor
dova, unexpectedly moved to
strike the plan. But the motion
lost 48-6.
Rosswog objected strongly to
deletion of a primary election as
a method of nominating candi
dates for the congressional seats
which would be created if the
plan is ratified by Alaska voters.
MMM HOSPITAL
Admitted: Francis Siegwart,
Michael O’Dwyer, Robert Kolb,
and Phillip Kozak.
Discharged: Richard Merrill.
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PTA Met Last Night
The Nome PTA held its regu
lar monthly meeting last night
at the school.
Mrs. Helen Olsen’s second
grade room won the plaque for
parents attending the meeting.
A report was given by Mrs.
Marge Saario of the PTA Hot
Lunch Committee on the progress
of the hot lunch for the first
month of operation. 1,737 hot
lunches have been served to date.
The PTA moved to procure a
large pressure cooker needed for
the hot lunch program.
Mrs. Ruth Brady of Fairbanks,
spoke of the meeting on the aims
of Girl Scouting and Supt. Wm.
Angell gave an outline of the
White House Conference on Edu
cation of last November.
Refreshments were served after
the meeting.
FAMILY AFFAIR
DALLAS, Tex., W)—A romantic
alibi for a whiskey breath failed
to throw police off the scent here
yesterday.
When patrolmen stopped a 43
vear-old man staggering down the
street, he denied he was drunk.
They pointed out that his breath
reeked of whiskey.
“Right! But I haven’t touched a
drop,” he insisted. “My wife was
drunk when I left home—I got
this way just kissing her goodby.”
PAN AMERICAN
Arriving yesterday with Pan
American Airways were Bob
Cannon and Mrs. Charlie Mills.
Departing were Carl Glavino
vich, Airman Elmore, Airman Pat
Ellis, and Shirley Wilkie for Fair
banks; Agnes Kiyutulik for Sitka;
ft rs. Ann Gillis and daughter, |
and Harry Anderson for Seattle.
POLAR BEAR BROWNIES
The Polar Bear Brownies group
met Saturday at 10:30 a.m. with
nine girls present, plus the leader
and a new assistant leader, Mrs.
Anderson.
We voted to go right to work I
on our sewing project. Later we I
played a new game and had fun. !
—Mary Anne Hoyle |
Fine Job Printing at The Nugget
Figure Skaters
Score for U. S. in
Winter Olympics
By TED SMITS
CORTINA D’AMPREZZO, Italy
—World champion Hayes Alan
Jenkins of Colorado Springs, held
off a strong challenge by his
young teammate, Ronnie Robert
son, today to win the Olympic
figure skating championship, the
United States’ first medal in the
seventh Winter Games.
Hayes Alan, slender 22-year
old Colorado college senior, and
Robertson, 18-year-old whirling
dervish from Long Beach, Calif.,
were so close at the end of today’s
free skating demonstration that
the judges had to huddle over the
result.
Robertson, one of the world’s
most gifted free skaters, put on
such a dazzling exhibition on Cor
tina’s glistening ice that the crowd
gave him a standing ovation.
Dave Jenkins, Hayes’ 19-vear
old kid brother, was given third
place, and France was in fourth.
In other championships today,
Madeline Berthod, a petite Swiss
farmer’s daughter, won the wom
en’s downhill ski race, and a trio
of Finnish women upset favored
Russia in the 15 kilometer wom
en’s ski relay.
For the second straight day,
Russia, with an imposing lead for
team honors, was shut out of a
championship.
Ruth Gumbinsky, formerly here
wdth the U.S. Engineers Office, :s j
now stationed in Athens. Greece,!
with Engineer “Ham” Ashley,!
under whom she w'orked here,
again.
Miss Gumbinsky will be re
membered for her exceptionally j
fine collection of 35 mm. slides j
taken in Korea and other parts
of the world, which she showed 1
many times.
It was not until almost a cen
tury after Cortes had introduced
the cacao bean into Spain that
an Italian learned the secret of
making chocolate.
WINTER SCHEDULE
MONDAY and FRIDAY
Leave Arrive
Fairbanks 6:00 a.m. AST Nome 10:10 a.m. BST
Nome 10:30 a.m. BST Fairbanks 3:30 p.m. AST
WEDNESDAY
Leave Arrive
Fairbanks 6:00 a.m. AST Nome 12:40 p.m. BST
Tanana. Hughes, traffic warranting. Scheduled stop Kotzebue
Nome 1:00 p.m. BST Fairbanks 6:30 p.m. AST
Stopping at Galena and Tanana, traffic warranting
THURSDAY and SATURDAY
Leave Arrive
Fairbanks 6:00 a.m. AST Nome 9:00 a.m. BST
Stopping at Galena, traffic warranting
Nome 9:20 a.m. BST Fairbanks 3:40 p.m. AST
Scheduled stop Kotzebue. Hughes, Tanana, traffic warranting
Connection PAA 904 Monday, Wednesday, Friday
BUSH FLIGHT TUESDAYS
Deering, Candle, Buckland, Kotzebue
Arrive Nome 11:40 a.m. Depart Nome 12:45 p.m.
Unalakleet Gets Publicity
From Macketanz Movie,
‘North to Adventure’
(From Kathryn Winslow!
CHICAGO—'Unalakleet is get
ting a lot of publicity these days
as Fred and Sara Macketanz take
their new film, “North to Adven
ture,” across the entire U.S.
Several villagers appear in the
film, which was made at Unala
kleet. Among them is Harold
Charles, now in the ANS hospital
at Anchorage, and young Howard
Sarren, presently living with his
parents in Anchorage.
Sarren is also the star of the
documentary film, “The Alaska
Sled Dog,” which the Macketanzes
recently made at Unalakleet for
Walt Disney. The film is sched
uled for world-wide release I
within the next 18 months.
In mid-April, when their pro
[ gram tour ends, the Macketanzes
are heading home to their cabin
at High Ridge in the Matanuska
! Valley.
The Congressional Record, offi
cial publication of the U.S. Con
gress, once was named the Con
gressional Globe.
Eielson Exchanges Gifts
With Australian Child
ADELAIDE, Australia, Wl—A
gift package from Eielson Air
Force Base at Fairbanks, Alaska,
has arrived in Sydney enroute to
the children of a family at Wail
em Bend, South Australia.
The package was sent as a ges
ture of thanks for gifts received
from the child of a family named
Bannon after a jet plane crash at
the base. It was consigned to the
Adelaide News, a daily news
paper, which promised to deliver
it to the home.
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