Famed Ferguson Family of Kotzebue
Involved in Tangle of Searchings
FAIRBANKS—Practically t h e;
whole brood of the famed Fergu
son family of Kotzebue is in the
act—a mixed-up tangle which has
Don Ferguson paddling on the
Gogoluktuk River in a kayak
while Ray, his brother, waits in a
plane on a gravel bar at Kobuk to
rescue the victim of an emergency
landing and his unidentified pass
engers.
Archie Ferguson, the uncle,
spent last Friday searching for
his nephew. He was flown in an
L-20 by the Army’s 30th Engineer
Group, doing survey work in the
area.
Information sources—CAA, the
74th Air Rescue Squadron and
Frank Ferguson, Fairbanks resi- j
dent—are at bay as to who is
where, and why. The latest ver
sion is that Don is the one on the
impromptu river trip.
Ray Ferguson was overdue 20
hours and was being hunted by
Don and Archie. At Kobuk, the
two brothers must have changed
planes. On a 30-minute flight up
the Kogoluktuk River, some kind
of trouble occurred and Don ra
dioed he had switched from air to
river travel and was destined for
Kobuk, about 18 miles away.
At this point, the hunter be
came the hunted and Ray, the
missing man, set out to rescue his
brother.
It all started at 10 p.m. Thurs
day when the 74th Air Rescue
Squadron was alerted that Don,
in a Beechcraft Bonanza, was
overdue on a flight from Fair
banks to Kozebue, with a stop at
Kobuk. An hour later, the CAA
station at Tanana published an
alert on Ray, flying a Piper Pacer.
He was overdue enroute from
Tanana to Kotzebue, with a stop
at Kobuk.
At 2:45 a.m. Friday, the Bonan
za was sighted over Noorvik and
the alert notice was cancelled.
But Don was looking for Ray, and
in the process, he became overdue
again. The Bonanza once again
became a matter of search, until
it was located Friday evening at
Kiana by the 74th ARS.
This time, presumably, Ray was
in trouble in the Piper Pacer.
The only Ferguson whose
whereabouts could be definitely
established is Frank. He’s in Fair
banks, at home.
Archie Ferguson is a noted
merchant at Kotzebue. For many
years he has cared for the three
sons of his late brother.
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Government Adviser
To Contest Ouster
After 19 Years’ Service
WASHINGTON, UH—Dr. Frank
S. Horne says he will contest his
ouster, after 19 years in govern
ment service, as an adviser on
minority problems in the Housing
and Home Financy Agency.
Horne, a Negro, did not attrib
ute his firing to any policy differ
ences. Asked whether he had had
a policy disagreement with Hops
ing Administrator Albert M. Cole,
he replied, “I can’t say there has
been a parting of the ways for
that reason . . . The reason given
is budgetary action,” Horne told
newsmen. “There ain’t no such
animal.”
His job pays $12,685 yearly,
counting the recent pay boost
voted government workers. He
said he has filed an appeal con
tending the prospective dismissal
is invalid because of his civil
service status and his additional
employment prefernce as a U.S.
war veteran.
Cole says his agency “is now
giving consideration” to finding a
new job for Dr. Horne.
Cole said in a statement last
night is was decided Horne’s unit
“was no longer justified as a
special operation,” but Horne
could apply for another job for
which he is qualified.
Arthur Nagozruk Jr. To Teach
At Point Lay This Winter
Arthur Nagozruk Jr., and fam
ily, who have been visting with
the Nome Nagozruks for the
summer, are scheduled to leave
for Pt. Lay where he will teach
school for the ANS this winter.
Last year Arthur Jr., taught at
Buckland and is following in the
footsteps of his father who is so
well known in this area as a
teacher, and who recently retired
| from the service.
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Brooklyn 3, New York 2
Philadelphia 9, Pittsburgh 1
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Hollywood 14-0, Portland 0-1
Seattle 2, San Francisco 1
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TOKYO —Those luscious bath
ing beauties who will sit on your
lap while you sip coffee in To
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soon be more modestly draped.
Police ordered them yesterday
to cover their thighs.
The shapely girls, attired in
tight-fitting bathing attire, are a
comparatively new come-on. Pro
prietors said they brought in plen
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July Employment
At All-Time High
Of 65 Million
WASHINGTON, UR— Employ
ment boomed in July to an all
time record of nearly 65 million,
while the number of jobless went
below 2V£ million, the govern
ment reported yesterday.
The fifth successive monthly
rise in employment carried the
total of jobholders to 64,995,000,
or about a million above the pre
vious record set only one month
earlier. The total is 3 million
above July a year ago.
Extraordinarily brisk hiring of
youngsters released from school
contributed much of the gain, the
Labor and Commerce Depart
ments said in a joint report. They
added the employment of adults
in most industries “held up better
than usual for this time of year.”
“As a result, unemployment—
which is normally stable in July
—went down by 200,000 to
million and is now almost a mil
lion lower than a year ago,” the
report said.
The rate of employment in
crease during the past five months
has not been matched since the
postwar reconversion period of
1946,” Secretary of Commerce
Weeks and Secretary of Labor
Mitchell said in the joint report.
They reported about 5 million
persons have been added to the
employed total since February
1955, as compared with an aver
age spring and summer rise of
3 million in the 1947-54 period.
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