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Visitors Assn, to Sponsor U.S. Tour
Of Asagood Seveck, Eskimo Dancer
The rhythmic, beautiful and of-'
ten wierd dances of the aboriginal
Alaskans will be revealed to po
tential stateside tourists this
spring when Asagood Seveck, a
full-blooded Alaska Eskimo of
Kotzebue, becomes the principal
actor in an Alaska Visitors Asso
ciation tour.
Frank H. Whaley, managing di
rector of the AVA, told of the
plans to tour Mr. Seveck through
out the USA in outlining the
organization’s biggest publicity
program in its history today.
Money-wise, Whaley said, it
looked very promising that AVA
would qualify for the $100,000
nest egg set up’by the last legis
lature. It must be matched on a
2-1 basis and this is being done
through a membership drive that
is in its final stages. Alaskan cities
are responding well to the quotas
set up for them, Whaley said, and
there are still several to be organ
ized.
Mr. Seveck, for 30 years a no
madic reindeer herder above the
Arctic Circle, will perform native
dances in conjunction with color
pictures Mr. Whaley plans to ex
hibit on an extended lecture tour
beginning this month.
One of the most outstanding ef
forts, meanwhile, to bring tourists
to the territory is the publication
of the Alaska Travel Manual,
which will be off the presses in
four weeks. A complete manual,
including information on hotels,
air fares, history and what to do
in Alaska, will go to all travel
agents. It will help them in in
structing those planning trips to
Alaska, Whaley said. ,
The association is also initiating
a hospitality program. Lapel pins
with a replica of a sourdough pan
ning gold will be given to each
visitor entering the territory. On
each will be a space for the tour^
ist to indicate his home town. It
is hoped this will present a con
versation piece between Alaskans
and the visitors.
The same sourdough will decor
ate the blue and gold 4x10-inch
bumper stickers which will be
placed on all cars entering Alaska.
They will read “An Alaska Visi
tor.”
Also in production now is a new
four-color all-Alaska folder and a
certificate given to persons inter
viewed on radio and TV in Alaska
giving them membership in the
Alaska Top o’ the World Club.
Advertisements in Sunset, Holi
day, American Society of Travel
Agents and other magazines, have
brought about 1 5 0 inquiries a
week, mostly from travel agents,
Whaley said.
A series of 13 color, sound, nar
rated documentary films on arctic
Alaska for use by schools and TV
stations in the U.S. has been pre
pared.
I A regular publication is a list
j of those persons who have written
I to AVA indicating they will visit
[ the territory.
Already, Whaley said, bookings
for tours of Alaska indicate an in
crease in tourists of better than 20
percent. He pointed out that a
tourist is worth more than a pound
! of gold: gold brings only $384 a
! pound, while each tourist will
j leave at least $500 in Alaska.
Crippled Refueling Plane
Landed Safely After 10
| Crew Members Bail Out
TACOMA, Wash., UP)—A huge,
: crippled refueling aerial tanker
; was nursed in to a safe landing
by its pilot Saturday after the 10
other members of the crew para
chuted to safety.
The plane was a KC-9? Boeing
Stratocruiser converted to a re
fueling ship used to feed fuel in
the air to big jet bombers.
The tanker was flying near Mc
Chord AFB south of here when
the crew leaped to safety. All 10
men have been accounted for.
Fine Job Printing at The Nugget
60 on Freighter
Saved From Death
In Daring Rescue
SEATTLE, OF—The rescue ship
Gen. H. B. Freeman battled heavy
storms and high, smashing waves
today to try and reach the port of
Kodiak, Alaska, with the 60 men
and women it snatched from an
almost certain death in the North
Pacific Saturday.
The big 14,000-ton heavy trans
port staged an “almost unbeliev
able” rescue within minutes after
51 crewmen and 9 passengers of
the freighter Washington Mail
took to lifeboats and watched
their broken ship sink beneath the
freezing water.
The two ships sailed from here
last Wednesday, both bound for
the Orient, the freighter with a
cargo of flour and lumber and the
Freeman with troops being sent to
Japan. The nine passengers on the
freighter included two Roman
Catholic missionaries enroute to
the Orient.
The Washington Mail took a
brutal beating in the gulf before
the forward section was torn off
by high winds and mountainous
seas. It sank within 30 minutes.
For nearly six hours the crew
| and passengers, two of them wom
en, waited tensely while the Free
man rushed to the scene from 65
miles away.
Then the “abandon ship” order
was given. Within minutes the
Freeman dropped rope ladders to
the bobbing boats. The after hulk
had already sunk.
Capt. Robert T. Fulton, skipper
of the rescue ship, had ordered
fuel oil poured on the seas to calm
them enough for the life boats, to
survive.
Work to Start Next Year
On Motion Picure ‘Sitka’
SEATTLE, OF—Dick Powell,
scheduled to produce “Sitka” for
Twentieth Century Fox, said to
day work may start on the picture
in 1957.
In a letter to the Associated
Press he said, “I am looking for
ward to doing a real story of Al
aska entitled “Sitka” and it is
now being written by Mr. Louis
L’Amour. I don't know when we
will get to it—possibly 1957.”
The engines of a new U.S. jet
bomber, flying at only 375 mph.,
develop more horsepower than
400 automobiles of 200 horsepow
er each.
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