Fairbanks Daily News-Miner (Newspaper) - August 21, 1964, Fairbanks, Alaska CITY NEWS IN BRIEF Daily Farthest North Daily Member of The Associated Tress VOL XIII Per Copy AUGUST 21, 1964 Prizes Awarded Mrs. Golden Hampton of Col- lege is the winner of the river boat and motor offered as first prize by the College Lemeta Fire Department Second a trip for two to the New York was won by Wayne Drawing for the two prizes was done on Maury Smith's Hometown R eporter gram Mrs. Hampton and her two both Harvest Queen candidates at the Alaska State sold many of the tickets during the Golden Days celebration in July and during the fair last Proceeds from the fund raising event are going to finish a new fire hall now going up on the ABC Investigator James Schmitt is the Interior Alaska investigator for the Alaska Beverage Control His office is located in the De- of Revenue offices on the first floor of the state of- fice He may be con- from 1 to 4 p.m. Schmitt first came to ka in 1958 and three years prior to that he worked with the Santa police The Alaska Beverage Control board is made up of two Juneau men and one from Douglas across Gastineau Channel from They are chairman and acting Keith Reichel and Bohls of Twelve Pages 197 CONGOLESE DRIVE REBELS BACK St. Louis Opens Flyht Fund Totals International Telephone and Telegraph Corp. and its United States subsidiaries this week announced a total for its fund drive for the City ol The drive has now been Towsley said in Towsley is manager of the Fairbanks office of Federal Electric an subsidiary that operates the Distant Early Warning Line in the Alaskan and Canadian Arc- The funds have no strings Towsley and can be used by the Valdez city of- as they see The money has been deposited in a Fairbanks Noted Artist Here Ralph art university professor and visited Fairbanks this week on a quick tour of the Fabri is a professor of art at City College of the New York City He serves as associate editor of Today's an artist's While touring the state Fabri collected data for an article he will write for the publication American Fabri is ing Fairbanks today for cities in Southeastern USD Active All military personnel are in- to a free pizza party at the Fairbanks USD at p.m. On Saturday the last tour to Mt. McKinley Park will leave at 9 a.m. via Other USD activities this end include Cheechako tour to the university and Cripple Creek at p.m. movies Saturday at 2 p.m. and 8 regular Sunday pancake breakfast and movies again at 1 p.m. Bring Own Hay Silver Birch Saddle Club is having a hay ride Sunday be- ginning at p.m. Food for the outing will be and so will the hay be All members attending are asked to bring their own bale of Their own Cathy Harris The ride starts at Frank house on derson Currency Talk The Fairbanks Coin Club will hear Lew Beyer talk about coins and currency at its lar meeting p.m. in the USO ed persons are invited to the meeting said Capt. Kurt Eielson Club The Fairbanks holds its meetings every on Page 7, Col. 7) Demos Urged to Back Reapportionment By EDMOND WEATHER Aug. 21. Mostly cloudy be- coming partly cloudy tonight and Scattered after- noon showers today and Low tonight 45; high Saturday 68; low last night 46; high yesterday 65; at 11 a.m. 50. rise 4 a.m. and sunset p.m. giving 15 hours and 47 minutes of ATLANTIC N.J. The Supreme Court decision that states must allot all their legislative seats by population should be strongly backed by the cratic National the mayor of St. Louis told platform writers The recommendation by Mayor Raymond R. Tucker brought into the open at convention preliminaries a party and issue in which Congress is But many party delegates hoped to keep it out of the presidential Tucker led a delegation of mayors testifying on urban He told the platform committee he is personally at the high cours's ruling that both houses of state legislatures must be by so that voters in one area do not enjoy a disproportionate advantage over those in He said he would like to see platform contain strong statement clearly backing the Supreme Court But the House passed 213-175, a that would strip federal courts of tion in reapportionment This measure now is pending in the which is also snarled over another proposal to delay court ordered Proposed constitutional amendments to overturn the de- cision have been introduced in both chambers of The Republican National Con- vention last month adopted a platform plank calling for a con- amendment to allow states with tures to apportion one house on a basis other than Tucker and his fellow mayors offered a calling for tion of a federal department of community development and strong federal support of water re- source and Mayor James H. J. Tate of in addition to backing the proposed ty development urged the platform committee to come out strongly for enforcement of the new civil rights Syncom 3 Nearly Stationary CAPE Fla. space agency reported day that Syncom 3 had achieved a orbit and said it was confident the tions package could be vered into position as the world's first stationary satellite that hovers over a single spot on 3 looks very good and is in a statement evaluation of the project officials will mine what future maneuvers will be Evaluation of tracking data lad been delayed several hours jy a balky computer at the Goddard Space Flight Md. The orbit was achieved high above Sumatra Thursday when a satellite fired to shift Syncom 3 out of a path into a circular orbit where both the ligh and low points are about The motor triggered by i ground radio also in- creased the spacecraft speed so it matched that of the of the the ellite appears to hang almost motionless over the Sumatra Over 300 Found Dead In Streets After Air Force Transport Planes Ferry Reinforcements to U.S. Role In War Up for Review in Washington the Congo The lese army drove rebels out of the key city of Bukavu today throe days of heavy street messages reaching Leopoldville The messages said Col. Leonard lese soldiers regained control of the city at midday and the rebels began retreating westward toward U.N. officials counted more Teamsters Union to Back Hoffa FAMILY HOME GONE The home of Robert and Joan 2% Mile Laurence was totally destroyed by fire about midday The family lost everything in the According to witnesses the fire started in the front section of the large two story Eielson Air Force Base firemen had the fire under control when their tanker truck ran out of The Proberts have three young more than dead in the forces were able to switch to the offensive day after U.S. Air Force cargo planes ferried men and supplies from and his garrison of 800 men had been pushed into European quarter of the last important city in northeastern Congo not held by The reports from Bukavu I gave no clues to the fate of i three missing MIAMI Fla. The Teamsters Union executive says it. will by James R. Hoffa while appeals two convictions on area in the Indian Probert Home Destroyed The two 11-room home of Robert and Joan Probert on Laurence Road was completely destroyed by fire Thursday about Cause of the fire is not but it appeared to have started in the living room section of the large Mrs. Probert told the Miner today she had been ab- sent from the home about 45 minutes while she her children for She was across the road at her neighbors when she noticed the The home was partially covered by fire Eielson Air Force Base men responded to the call and had the fire under control at one but the tanker truck ran out of water before the fire could be completely Debbie Didn't Police Slill 10 slim and size 6. AN OPTICAL optical illusion is created in this picture of Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater as he spoke to a packed grandstand at the State Fair The rope is actually a ing apparatus that held up the tent over the platform from which he was ed. The Proberts are staying temporarily in a home across the road from their burned home at 2% Mile Laurence Road Collections of ture and money are being made today by the North Pole Lion the Eielson Area North Pole and by Rusty Hammer on Eielson AFB where Probert is Mrs. Sue Marshall at St. Joseph's pital is also receiving donations for the The Proberts have three Robbie who wears size 14 shirts and size Mrs. Probert is a size 12 and her husband wears 34-33 ers and Asked if they would Mrs. Probert came up here in 1954 on our moon and We started with nothing and I guess we'll start in Two Men Work Auto Con Game City Police reported today that two men have been ing auto repair work in areas of the The two men offer to do auto repair work on the owners premises for a small Police described the pitch of the two men as an old They explained that the men generally try to get some money down and then do not return to do the The two men are of dark complexion and are known to police ss the They have operated in the Fairbanks area police said The City of Fairbanks has an ordinance outlawing door to door soliciting within the Ohio running down the leads any leads we get but right now none of them has worked the weary deskman at suburban Fairfax Police Station said early today as the search continued for little Debbie pen. a four-year-old with her brown hair in a said the Patrolman Joe who had had four sleep since Rosemary 28, first turned in an alarm late Wednesday after- Berling said there was a Debbie had been but added that this was regarded as slight by police be- cause are no rich cut has been missing ever since in If someone she went out to play after wanted to kidnap a child for Hundreds of volunteers scoured both Fairfax and boring Madisonville Wednesday night and until Thursday after- noon we're afraid of that it was some sex pervert or maybe some lady who's not right in her some lady with no children of her that's what we're hoping Congress Passes Compromise on Wilderness WASHINGTON An- other of President Johnson's pieces of legislation has received final congressional proval the wilderness to set up a 9.2 million acre al preservation system on al forest The compromise measure proved Thursday by both the House and the Senate permits some mining in the wilderness It also requires proval before an additional 5.5 million acres now in primitive areas could be added to the he'd go to some other where the rich people Debbie's Karl L. 32, held a news conference after almost 30 hours of anxious pleading for his youngest child's plead to you as a father to anyone who has please return return her safely so the family might be whole Dappen spoke into the television is just a little four-year-old The also have a Kenneth 8. first proposed several When years ago wilderness con- cept was attacked by western ranchers who graze their stock on federal lands and by and petroleum All the acreage involved is forest The Senate version strictly 51'ohibiled mining and other o m m e r c i a 1 The Interior Committee amended this to permit some mining and require action by Congress for its The worked out was more in line with the House than the ate Kennedy Endorsed NEW YORK Mayor Robert F. the state's eading endorsed Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy today for the Senate from New In the U.S. role in the Congo was apparently i A statement issued by he due for high-level G. council Thursday after a closed Mennen assistant 1 session said Hoffa was innocent of slate for African until he has exhausted his legal arrived home Thursday I rights and that the union Great Lakes Suffering CHICAGO The j r t I 1 iCU Great Lakes Radio tl 11 night to report on his talks here with Premier Moise Reports on the battle of vu were U.S. planes Air Force transport ferried reinforcements Thursday to the Congo army garrison of 800 who were last reported losing ground in playland and workland of the is suffering a multi- million dollar Water do nothing to deprive him of these The statement did not say what would happen if the con- are Hoffa said the statement was gratifying to me. It is living proof of no sion in this Harold who resigned sages said the rebels had December as a top personal pushed back Col. Leonard to Hoffa but remained as a levels are at record troops into read the i European i statement to He said The lack of attributed A message to the U.N. saw jn tne to subnormal precipitation since the missing Americans may i omission of has boosted the of i educed properly and killed off wildlife and The U.S. Army Corps of added to the gloom when it predicted that have been But of any declaration of was no official The meeting was the first for IT IUI They arc Vice Consul Lewis Hoffa 25. and two Army jury TI c in attached to the U.S. milita Qf conspira defraud mission in Col. Teamsters pension fund in sers un n water levels would continue to ham A. oO and L U He has fe drop at least until 1965. The en- j Donald V. 40, Unemployed Men Given Training Alaska will receive under the Manpower ment and Training Act to train 40 unemployed Alaskans as electronic Sen. Bartlett announced The program will start Sept. 14 at the University of Alaska and continue for 51 Federal funds will be used to pay training subsistence and transportation Bartlett The program is administered by the Department of Education and and the Department of he Water levels dipped sharply llis this Lakes Michigan and Huron now have their est levels since records were 01IH-U V j started in 1860. and Lakes On- More He he 6? 100 U.S. troops and four cargo expected that issue to be in tario and Erie levels are o I dais said I he men have filed suit to 30-year-old uld be used u a iin rescue and JU support missions for The problems caused by tne The new water levels are painfully ob- roused vious to tourists and u S. senator charged the Beaches are longer States might be When toward another Viet recovery of union often it's a challenge to into water deep enough for swimming and docks and piers are exposed to rot and de- Receding shore lines have ruined thousands of acres that once were natural habitats for NEW Rams Train Six persons were reported killed day when a heavy rammed the Canadian Pacific Quick Research Fund Approved YORK Railway's Game officials say the I Ford Foundation announced passenger train at a crossing in whole wildlife chain has been Thursday a community 10 miles etst of tion to permit a quick lion of scholars to study First reports said five train economic consequences of were as was predictable disasters such truck Many others disrupted in the Great Corn from Iowa and Illinois no longer is shipped on the Great Now it is diverted to New Orleans and other Gulf of Mexico Albert J. Meserow of head of the Great Lakes Com- estimates the loss to shipping and recreational inter- ests this year will total about the Alaskan iwere reported some of The program is designed to trapped in the help capture important were rushed to the ic insights knowledge of the recovery for I Three cars left the track and which usually is lost to scholars I one was on its The other because of a lack of were research Hard to Everybody Has Problems ATLANTIC N.J. If you want to learn how we taxpayers are to drop in on a meeting of a political platform body has The Democrats moved in from Washington Thursday this may be the only itinerant platform committee in history to continue planing and sanding the party And by breaking up into three they managed to hear about such questions Why must the on women's handbags be Why does the government call bags a luxury when every an knows they're a What about the Supreme Court and prayers in public And did you know the number of post offices in this country is decreasing The national convention opens Sometime between now and early next week the Democrats must come up with a platform that they hope will take into count everyone's will appeal to all and will offend no- To see how difficult this let's drop in on Panel 1. It's loping through foreign national defense and the which is a fairly large Charles W. resenting the Citizens Committee of Los An- has the He says his committee is made up of on Pega 7, Col. 9} wife mf why she's such good Says she's had yers of practice listening to
