Montana Educator Named
As Economics Leader for
U-A Extension Service
COLLEGE — Miss Agnes Sun
nell of Bozeman, Montana, has
been named state home economics
leader for the Cooperative Exten
sion Service of the University of
Alaska.
Miss Sunnell’s appointment
ends several months’ search for a
qualified person to fill the state
leader’s position. Dr. Lydia Fohn
Hansen, emeritus associate direc
tor for home demonstration work
in Alaska, handled these duties
until her retirement in June, 1959.
Miss Sunnell has had 14 years
of experience with Montana State
College and Washington Stale
University — six years as a home
agent; five years as foods market
ing information agent; two years
as a home economist in a college
exchange program with the Uni
versity of Punjab, Lahore, West
Pakistan; and her most recent po
sition at Montana State. She also
taught grade and high school.
Alaska Schools Compete
In Designing,New State
Highway Route Marker
JUNEAU — The State Depart
ments Education, in cooperation
with the Department of Public
Works, Division of Highways, has
suggested that the 164 schools in
Alaska participate in a contest to
create a new route sign for our
State Highways.
The Alaska General Contractors
have contributed $100 as first
prize, and $50 as second prize.
The contest began January 20,
and all entries must be in by
March 31.
The sign selected will be the
best in the following categories:
1. Arrangement of design so as
to give maximum atention and
visibility to route number.
2. Sign will not confuse and
cause unsafe conditions.
3. Sign will be attractive.
Entries are to be mailed to De
partment of Public Works, P. O.
Box 1361, Juneau.
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Gruening is Peacemaker
In Indiana *D lines
Monument Dispute
WASHINGTON, OF*—Sen. Ern
est Gruening, self-styled peace
maker in the “Indiana Dunes vs.
Industry” fight, expressed hope
today both factions can be satis
fied.
He said a compromise plan
which might end arguments over
preserving some of the dunes as
a national monument area hinges
on reaching agreement with offi
cials of the Bethlehem Steel Co.
Bethlehem officials were sched
uled to confer with Gruening and
other parties in the controversy
on the possibility of Bethlehem
surrendering some of the acreage
it owns in the area.
Gruening said the Indiana
duneland has been preserved so
far “only by some miracle,” add
ing, “I don’t think we ought to
stand by and let them be de
stroyed forever.”
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1910 Mineral Suits Bill
Outdated, Says Bartlett
WASHINGTON, UR — A bill to
repeal an act pertaining to min
eral claim suits in Alaska was in
troduced by Sen. Bartlett yes
terday.
A 1910 law allows 10 months to
file adverse claims and 60 days
to file adverse suits in such cases
in Alaska. Passed because trans
portation and communication in
Alaska was then extremely slow,
the law is no longer needed,
Bartlett said.
It also would put Alaska pro
cedure in line with that of other
states where adverse claims must
be filed 60 days after entry and
adverse suits 30 days after an ad
verse claim.
NOTICE
Sales Tax Reports on retail sales
and services for the quarter end
ing December 31. 1959. must be in
the City Clerk's Office by Satur
day, January 30, 1960.
Robert F. Scott, City Clerk
Pub. Jan. 25, 27, 2£
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Bartlett Questioning
Rising Costs of
Pribilof Administration
WASHINGTON, W> — Senator
Bob Bartlett said yesterday he
has • asked Interior Secretary
Seaton to justify the increased
costs of administering the Pribilof
Island fur seal industry.
In 'a letter to Seaton, Bartlett
said administrative costs for the
year beginning July 1 are esti
mated at $2,070,000 compared
with $1,940,000 last year.
He said the increased admin
istrative costs means a reduction
of Alaska’s Share of proceeds
from ale of seal and sea otter
pelts from the island.
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Pete Walsh, Station Mgr.
Unalakleet Girl
Scores Highest In
Home-Ec Test
from The Sitka Daily Sentinel
Frances Degnan of Unalakleet,
student at iMt. Edgecumbe School,
received the highest score in a
50-minute written examination
on home-making knowledge and
attitudes taken by graduating
senior girls at the school. She
will receive an award pin, manu
factured by Josteens and repre
senting the slogan ‘‘Home is
Where the Heart Is.” Her ^exami
nation paper will be submitted for
competition with other high
school winners to name the state
Betty Crocker Homemaker of
Tomorrow.
The test, prepared and judged
by Science Research Associates
of Chicago, was taken by a rec
ord number of 379,018 girls in
12.597 schools, an increase of 29,
868 students and 337 schools over
last year.
Total enrollment in the six
year-old $110,000 scholarship pro
gram sponsored by General Mills,
has neared the two million mark.
Alaska and Hawaii are partici
pating for the first time this year.
Each state Homemaker of To
morrow will receive a $1,500
scholarship and an educational
trip April 23-29 with her school
advisor. The tour will include
New York City and Colonial
Williamsburg, culminating with
the America Table Banquet in
Washington, D. C., April 28, at
the Statler Hilton Hotel, where
the All American Homemaker of
Tomorrow will be announced.
Runner-up in each state will re
ceive a $500 scholarship, while
the school of each state winner
will receive a set of the Encyclo
pedia Britannica.
Scholarship of the All American
Homemaker of Tomorrow will be
$5,000, while second, third and
fourth places will receive $4,000,
$3,000 and $2,000 scholarships,
respectively.
Frances is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Degnan of Una
lakleet.
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Defense Secretary
Gates’ Nomination
O-K’d In Senate
WASHINGTON, UPi — The Sen
ate yesterday confirmed Presi
dent Eisenhower’s nomination of
Thomas S. Gates Jr. to be Sec
retary of Defense without any ref
erence to the conflict over mili
tary strength evaluation.
Gates has been serving as Sec
retary of Defense under a recess
appointment 'pending Senate
action.
The nomination, which had
been held up at the request of a
senator whose name Sen. Lynden
Johnson did not disclose, was sud
denly called before the Senate by
Johnson and approved with only
Johnson and Republican Leader
Everett Dirksen of Illinois present.
Johnson explained that one
senator had asked a delay in ac
tion on the nomination until he
could get some information. John
son said the unidentified senator
now has obtained the requested
information and had no objection
to action on the nomination.
The nature of the requested in
formation was not disclosed.
Johnson had been critical of an
assertion by Gates that there is
no “deterrent gap” in American
versus Russian military power.
But he said Monday he knew of
no organized opposition to con
firmation of the appointment.
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4-H Beauty Wins $400 Sclwkr&Jp I
Alaskan 4-H'er Pat Buzby, of Fairbanks, was honored with 186 other national
winners at the recent National 4-H Club Congress in Chicago, III. She's happy
over her pre-Chritsmas gift—a $400 scholarship given by the Tractor Group,
Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co., for her achievement in the 4-H garden
program, according to the Cooperative Extension Service.
The national awards were presented at the final banquet of the congress,
attended by about 2,000 club members, leaders and guests from 50 states
end Puerto Rico.