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Older Than The Nation
(•(•IV/fUSTER DAY,” the colonial institution from
-!-»which American defense has sprung, will be
observed on February 22 by some 470,000 Army and
Air National Guardsmen, who will at the same time
honor the birthday of the Commander-in-Chief of the
Continental Army.
Nothing could be more appropriate than to hold
this modern Muster Day on Washington’s Birthday.
From coast to coast and border to border, in the 49th
State, Alaska, in Hawaii and Puerto Rico, these mod
ern militiamen” (who became the National Guard
under the National Defense Act of 1916) will parade,
hold reviews and demonstrations of the latest defense
weapons and tactics. The 70,000 men of the Air Na
tional Guard, composed of more than 550 units over
the nation, will conduct fly-overs, air shows, demon
strate warning and communications systems. Many
of the armories of the Army National Guard and of
the 130 bases of Air National Guard will be open for
public inspection or celebrations or both.
If George Washington could be here to accept the
salute, we are sure he would proudly claim the Guard
(both Army and Air branches) as “his” outfit. The
Father of His Country spoke often of his confidence in
the “citizen-soldier” as “the bulwark of Democracy.”
And, noting the Guard’s combat performance in every
war since his time and its present high degree of com
bat readiness, we could expect him to endorse the
Muster Day injunction: “Sleep well tonight . . . your
National Guard is-awake !”
Maryland Senator Warns
TV Must ‘Clean House’
WASHINGTON, UP> — Senator
John Marshall Butler .R-Md) says
television and TV advertisers
must clean house or face the pos
sibility of Congress doing it for
them.
The networks, Butler said, are
digging their own graves by offer
ing programs which he contended
are devoted to wholesale murder
and commercials “geared to know
nothings.”
Butler said commercial TV and
TV advertisers appear to have
adopted an attitude of the “pub
lic be darned.”
Coghill Will Head
Audit Committee
JUNEAU, UP — John Coghill,
Nenana, the Republican leader in
the State Senate, was unanimously
elected yesterday as chairman of
the Legislative Audit Committee.
Representativ Earl Hillstrand
was namd vice chairman and Sen
ator A1 Owen was elected secre
tary of the Permanent Legislative
Interim Committee.
Coghill, who served as chair
man of the Territorial Audit
Committee, is the only Repub
lican to head a committee in the
heavily Democratic Legislature.
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Old Elephant Point Bones
‘Fresh,’ Say Scientists
WASHINGTON, [ff) — A frag
ment of glacier-preserved bone
from a giant prehistoric elephant
has been found to be in remark
ably fresh shape at least 3,000
years after the mammoth died.
This was reported to the Amer
ican Association for the Advance
ment of Science today by two
physiologists of the University of
California at Berkeley.
Researchers H. C. Ezra and S. F.
Coo said they studied the speci
men as part of a comparison of
fresh and fossilized bones. Their
report was published in the tech
nical journal “Science.”
New York’s American Museum
of Natural History provided the
preserved specimen, a chunk of
leg bone from a skeleton of a
mammoth discovered in 1907 at
Elephant Point in Eschscholtz
Bay, Alaska.
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Omega Alpha Club
Formed by 20
‘Last-First’ Solons
JUNEAU — The Greeks had
the letters for it. Alaska provided
the circumstances that put 17 men
and three women in a select so
ciety.
The group will be known as
Omega Alpha, the last letter and
the first letter of the Greek alpha
bet. Its members are the men and
women who served in the last
Alaska territorial legislature in
1957 and the first Alaska state
legislature this year.
An Anchorage Democrat, Rep.
Earl Hillstrand, organized the
society. He charted three fields
for the members: Pleasure, tra
dition and good work. The good
work he said, would come through
a trust fund to be established to
provide something of lasting val
ue. The details remain to be
worked out. No politics are in
volved. It’s a good thing, because
the minority would be out-voted
19-1. The only Republican mem
ber of Alpha Omega is Sen. John
Coghill of Nenana.
In addition to Hillstrand and
Coghill, other members gre Sens.
James Nolan of Wrangell, Frank
Peratrovich of Klawok, J. Earl
Cooper of Anchorage, Irwin Met
calf of Seward, Irene Ryan of An
chorage, A1 Owen of Uganik Bay,
William Beltz of Unalakleet, Ralph
Moody of Anchorage, John Mc
Nees of Nome, George McNabb of
Fairbanks, and Eben Hopson of
Barrow: and Rep. Warren Taylor
of Fairbanks, Andrew Hope of
Sitka, James Norene of Anchor
age, Dora Sweeney of Juneau,
Douglas Gray of Douglas, Helen
Fischer of Anchorage and Richard
Greuel of Fairbanks.
Legislative Council
Berths Filled
JUNEAU, (iR — The five Sen
ate berths on the 10-man Legisla
tive Council and two of the House
positions were filled today.
The Senate President, William
Beltz, of Unalakleet; and Senators
Ralph Mody, Frank Peratrovich,
and John MeNees, all Democrats,
and Republican Senator Jack
Weise will serve from the upper
chamber.
House Speaker Warren Taylor
will serve from the lower branch
and he announced that Republican
Representative John Longworth,
of Petersburg, will be the minority
party representative on the inter
im Legislative group.
The newly-formed council will
meet tomorrow. A successor must
be picked to Henry Camarot, ex
ecutive director, who has resigned
effective today, to enter private
law practice in Fairbanks. He has
directed the council for two years.
Camarot’s assistant, Jack Doyle,
was considered as likely to be
named his successor.
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Compromise Bill
In Making For
State Court System
JUNEAU, UP) — A substitute
bill is expected to come before
the Senate early next week re
vamping initial plans for "estab
lishment of Alaska’s first court
system.
The proposed bill is a compro
mise between two plans already
advanced for creation of a judi
cial system. It would replace one
submitted early this session by
the Board of Governors of the
Alaska Bar Association, under
which the supreme and superior
courts would take over judicial
duties by July 1.
Acting Governor Wade has also
proposed a measure under which
the first step would be the crea
tion of a supreme court, initial
authority limited to work on es
tablishment of the remainder of
the judicial system.
The bill now before the joint
judiciary committees is expected
to call for somewhat lower pay
scales for the judges than pre
viously recommended. It appeared
likely the top judicial salary
would be between $23,000 and
$25,000 a year, instead of $27,500
as proposed in the State Bar As
sociation bill.
A-P FEATURE WRITER
VISITS NOME AND DIOMEDE
Saul Pett, feature writer for
Associated Pres, has been inter
viewing in Nome, getting material
for a story on Alaska. Being a
thorough researcher in his quest
for material, he traveled as far
as possible up the coast by taking
a flight yesterday to Diomede Is
land, the closest point in North
America to Russia.
Air-Motorcoach Tour Of
Russia Is Feature Of
SAS’ 1959 Travel Program
Americans will have their first
chance to get a close look at the
people, culture and enterprises of
the Soviet Union on a special
“Russia by Motorcoaeh” tour to
be made available by Maupin
Tours in 1959 via Scandinavian
Airlines System.
The unprecedented motor tours
offer an economical 18-day itin
erary traveling by Scandinavian
motorcoaeh overland along the re
cently opened highway between
Helsinki and Moscow, and through
White Russia between Moscow and
Warsaw. All travel, through met
ropolitan centers, as well as coun
try villages, will be conducted in
daylight hours.
The traveler can choose from
32 different departure dates be
tween May 21 and September 21;
leave Helsinki any Thursday from
May 21 through September 3, or
begin a tour in Warsaw on any
Monday from June 8 through Sep
tember 21.
All arrangements, such as ho
tels, hotel gratuities, transporta
tion, transfers, luggage porterage,
meals and guided sightseeing vis
its are included in the tour serv
ices.
Complete cost of tour, including
round trip fare via Scandinavian
Airlines System from Los An
geles, runs from $1,329.
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