Fairbanks Daily News-Miner (Newspaper) - January 11, 1965, Fairbanks, Alaska CITY NEWS BRIEF to Get Sheep Report Frank head of the to cal Fish and Game Depart will report to the on the 1964 Mil and recent re search on the Dall sheep at 8 Tuesday at the Mile 3 Airport The mov The New Alaska and Treasures ot the Forest will be shown following the coffee Meeting will be held re of the Public is Skarland Memorial Fund Officials of the University of Alaska Alumni Association have established the Ivar Skar land Memorial Fund to be ad ministered through their group and to be used at the Univer sity of Details of the fund will be worked out at a future meeting of the according to Bettie Har executive secretary of the Alumni Donations will be accepted by Har rop at her offices on the uni versity Bridge Tournament There will be a bridge tourna ment tb benefit Alaska Crippled Children beginning The tournament will end May Entrants will play one time dur ing each two week For information and sign up call Fran Kohler at 4564926 or Nancy Warren at Sign up is this Discusses BIA Murrey area field supervisor for the Bureau of In dian will be the guest speaker at Tuesdays chamber luncheon in the Travelers Inn Gold Campbell will speak on the general scope of the operations of the BIA and will discuss some specific Alaska Talk on UN The January meeting of the College Womens Club will be held at 8 Wednesday in the home of Duncan Plowman on College If the temper ature is 35 or colder the meet ing will be Miss Pen ny Kahler will show slides and talk on her trip to the Ski Movie Anyone interested in skiing is invited to attend a meeting of the Birch Hill Ski Club at Monday at the Wain wright Golf Club A John Jay Contemporary Ski will be shown and refresh ments will be Volunteer Firemen Meet The West Side Volunteer Fire Department will hold a meeting at Tuesday at La Raines Homestead Mile 3 Airport All air port residents are welcome to For further information phone Ruth Circle The Ruth Circle from the Fairbanks Lutheran Church will meet at Tuesday if the temperature is not below The meeting will be held in the home of Allen 921 Late Christmas The Fairbanks Womens Club will have a belated Christmas party in the Fairbanks Inn Dinner will begin at 7 Christmas gifts will be Native Association The Fairbanks Native Asso will meet at 8 in the Hospitality House Tues There will be no meeting if the temperature is colder than Medical SelfHelp The Aurora Homemakers will meet at Tuesday in Continued on Page 5 Partly cloudy this afternoon and becoming most ly cloudy tonight with possible light Low tonight 30 high Tuesday 20 low last night 42 high yesterday 38 temperature at 11 Sunrise Tuesday and sunset giving a total of four hours and 51 minutes of Daily LATK Americas Farthest North Daily Newspaper Member of The Associated Press XLIII Per Copy JANUARY 1965 Ten Pages a DOCK WORKERS STRIKE Submarine Had Faulty Fittings Officer Elaborates On Investigation Into Sea Tragedy AP The commander of the Portsmouth Naval Ship yard said today the sub marine Thresher went to sea although 14 per cent of its pipe fittings did not meet the standards of an experi mental ultrasonic testing William who was not commander of the shipyard at the time the rine was told a news con ference There was poor judg ment in not continuing ultrason ic tests of pipe The Thresher broke up during a deep dive April with the loss of 129 who served on the board of inquiry which inves the called the news conference to comment on a report issued by a congressional Ultrasonic testing was only a pilot testing he All the other regular tests were carried out Ultrason ic tests were called off you could call that poor Hushing later told The Asso Press that the standards for the ultrasonic test program were over and above regular standards set by the Bu reau of He said the higher standards for the ultrasonic tests were not mandatory Fourteen per cent of the fit tings didnt meet the standards described in the Bureau of Ships letter outlining the ultrasonic test Hushing The fitting did meet the stand ards of the normal test pro he The was described as an electronic method capable of detecting flaws A labor official at the ship yard said the Portsmouth yard is still the best in the coun He flatly denied faulty Thomas D said he thinks the com was looking for a fall And I dont buy the Mclntyre The joint committee based its findings on previously secret testimony which included that of Vice Hyman Ricko on Page 9 CARVER to arrive New CG To Be Here Tomorrow George the new commanding general of the Army Alaska arrive at Wainwright Tues day morning for a 24hour visit to his northernmost Carver is the former commanding general of the Fourth He will arrive at Hangar 1 at During his the recent successor to Ned Moore will have the opportunity to review the troops and be of welcomed by Andy command ing general of the Yukon Com mand and Aft er Gen Lipscombs welcoming speech Carver will greet the men of his new command and give a short speech to ihe troops and The afternoon will be a busy one for the visiting He will visit the 171st Infantry the 2nd Missile Bat the Noncom missioned Officers the 19th Aviation Battalion and Bassett Army Anchorage Feels Small Tremor ANCHORAGE in a series of small earth trem ors which have jiggled Anchor age since the big earthquake of last March 27 was experienced today during the breakfast The Coast and Geodetic Survey here said it ha dno read ing on the latest How the tremor was recorded at a magnitude of 4 on the Richter scale at the seismo graph at A resident of Government Hill on Anchorages north side said the tremor added a crack to her the wall from top to Late sleepers were jiggled awake as the quake rocked beds when it struck at Apartment Library Destroyed by Fire in Sifka SITKA AP Six families were left homeless Sitka library was burned out as fire destroyed the frame Tower Apartments Sunday in this southeast Alaska Firemen fought the blaze with a meager supply of water from two tank Hydrants and water mains were frozen from a prolonged cold snap that saw temperatures drop to near All occupants of the building escaped safely but those living on the upper floor lost all of their Books and equipment of the housed in the were saved through the efforts of the Louise Bright and Alaska National Miss Brightman passed out books through and finally had to be forced by fire men to leave for her own Guardsmen removed all equip ment and The erected in 1926 as a was remodeled into apartments about 15 years It was owned by the state of Alaska and leased by the Sitka Public Library Flames broke cut about in the old church which gave the apartment build ing its The cause and damage were not Much of the loss was reported covered by Only the lack of wind kept the fire from spreading to a near by wooden and from there to the At its height it was visible to boatmen 11 miles The fire finally was controlled when a tug laid a line to the scene and pumped salt water from the Given Judicial Approval 2 Recommended for Arends Position A Fairbanks Superior Court judge and one local attorney is among those recommended to replace Judge Harry Arend on the State Supreme Court The names of the pair are in cluded among five recommend ed to William Egan by the Alaska Judicial Council which met in Fairbanks on Thursday and Friday of last None of those named were confirmed as actually being on the list of recommendations by any members of the Judicial it was learn ed in Anchorage Sunday night that the five names are defi among the list The source would not say if more than five were recom The list includes Superior Court Judges Jay Rabinowitz of Fairbanks and Edward Davis and Ralph of An The two attorneys recommended are Arnold of Anchorage and William Boggess of According to the Anchorage the names were for warded to the governor Satur day morning after the Judicial Council Egan now has 45 days from the date he receives the list to name a new The fact that two Fairbanks ans are on the list of five lends credence to previous reports that the governor is planning to replace Arend with a man from this The Anchorage source said that Rabinowitz got strong support from the Judi cial It was also reported that the council also endorsed three nominees for a Superior Court vacancy in Accord ing to the the trio is Mary Alice Eugene Mil ler and all of Keep Ruling Affirmed The Alaska Supreme Court has affirmed a Fairbanks Superior Courts dismissal of a petition for review of the legality of several rulings made by District Magistrate Marshall Keep in a criminal The petition was advanced by the Fairbanks District Attor neys In the District At torney Herbert who has since moved to a private law practice in alleged that Magistrate who is now made at least three errors of law in rulings during a criminal trial that had to do with the definition of the term legal Keep entered a judgment of acquittal in the State of Alaska versus James Ben ton who was being charged with allowing a minor upon premises where liquor was In the Supreme Court written by Chief Justice Buell the high court af firmed Keeps Declared The legis lature did not intend that the state should have the right to appeal a criminal case and said so in unambiguous If the legislature had intend on Page 7 SCORCHED Fire John Roche falls to his knees with his coat smoldering from the intense heat after being driven from building by flashback of flames at a supermarket fire in the New Fire man John OMalley follows him to the Both had second degree facial burns from the fire which destroyed the supermarket and gutted several adjacent Walkout Hits Ports From Maine to Texas Governments Injunctive Power President Wont Interfere Unless Apparent Nations Economy in Peril NEW YORK Longshore mens Union struck ports from Maine to Texas at Objections among rankandfile union members in New York to a clause in a proposed new contract pro viding for a gradual reduction in work gangs apparently triggered the The in is a resumption of the walk out last 1 when the work contract At that President Johnson invoked the Act and a federal court injunction sent the men back to work during an 80day The govern Winter Takes Vicious Punch Pouring Snow on East Coast THZ ASSOCIATED PRESS Heavy snowstorms swirled disrupting air travel and endan gering highway Officials announced schools would be closed today in many first major storm of the season dumped a foot of snow in the northern and west ern parts of the closing schools in five In West three per sons were killed on icy 460 near Princeton and driving con ditions throughout much the state were From two to six inches of snow blanketed the western and sec tions of the state and nine inch es was recorded in Martinsburg in the eastern To the special snow plans were put into effect in the Philadelphia area where a swirling snowstorm left 5 to 12 slowing air traffic at the Philadelphia International Air The Air port was closed all Near a Grey hound bus swerved off a snow covered highway plung ing down a 30foot embankment into a small Ten per sons were hospitalized and nine others were treated and re William Scranton was forced by bad weather to cancel a scheduled appearance at the Pennsylvania Farm Show in The area struggled under 4 to 8 inches of snow and emergency plans were set in motion in nearby Balti more and 19 Maryland Heavy snows in the New City area forced cancellation or diverted more than 300 flights at Kennedy although operations were not shut Inbound trans atlantic flights temporarily were rerouted to Boston and Vehicles without chains or snow tires were banned from major arterial routes in New Five inches of snow fell in midtown Manhattan and eight inches covered some New Jersey had up to 8 inches of snow and a 3yearold boy was killed in a Dickey Says 1965 Great Year SEATTLE back in That is how Don man ager of the Alaska State Cham ber of described Alaskas comeback from the Good Friday earthquake here We are on the way to full recovery in all sectors of the Dickey A few months we were flat on our but now we look for 1965 to be Alaskas greatest year so Dickey was in Seattle to ad dress the Alaska Division of the Seattle Chamber of Dickey did not discount feder al aid after the March but said the comeback is due mostly to the courage and pluck of the businessmen and the average He predicted a 20 to 25 per cent increase in tourist travel in 1965 which would give Alaska the kind of a season it had ex in 1964 before the Upstate New York got by with just flurries and bitter cold tem The northern New ski from a lack of also were but the southern section of trie area received heavy Snowstorms also struck sever al other widely separated areas of the In northeast wet snow knocked out electric and telephone service for more than customers and a repair man was killed by a live Eight inches of snow fell in central and northern but most roads were expected to remain High winds kicked up old closing two sections of 89 east of Glacier National Park in The Midwest had generally dry but temperatures plunged below freezing over the weekend and dropped as low as 31 degrees below zero in Hib One woman died near when she tried to walk home in 30degree below cold when her car went off a Northwestern California still was suffering from the conse quences of torrential floods of the past few Officials estimated earth slides and washouts there caused mil lion damage to roads and ments injunctive power now is The White House gave no in dication of any presidential ac tion in the new Informed sources in Washington said President Johnson probably would act only if it appeared there would be an immediate crippling of the national econo 20 Ships Extra longshoremen were em ployed in New York and severa other ports at weekend overtime pay rates to speed passenger and cargo ships to sea before the strike More than 20 ships left the Port of New York Scores of ships were stranded in various The strike resulted primarily from the action of New York members of the AFLCIO Inter national Asso in rejecting the proposed Terry Says Smoking On Decline WASHINGTON AP Sur geon General Luther Terry aid today nearly one out of four adult men has given up cigarette smoking since he surveys by the Public Health Service show smoking among women has de to a smaller degree but the first time on in which the trend has been down If smoking habits had con at the level of three years there would be about million more smokers than there actually are Terry said in an address prepared for delivery to the recently formed National Interagency Council on contract Shipping with the New Association York Agree ments reached between the ILA and the which rep resents 145 shipping and steve doring traditionally set the pattern for contracts in other There also were contract disputes on local issues in several South Atlantic and Gulf Coast Union President Thomas Gleason said he was shocked by the contract rejection in the Port of New York in a union membership vote last He had called the contract the best in the 72year history of the Secretary of Labor James Reynolds said Sunday that the New York stalemate was caused by failure of the Continued on Page 2 j Smoking and He attributed much of the de cline to the report of a year ago today that labeled cigarette smoking a hazard to as it with several diseases and said il far outweighs all other factors as a cause of lung the Health Service cigarette smoking remains a national An in spokesman said it accounts for at least and possibly as many as American deaths each Terry conceded that his pre liminary evidence on reduced consumption does not tally with the trends indicated by tobacco warehouse shipments and tax These point to a resur ence of cigarette smoking after a pronounced decline last The surgeon general said the decline found by the Health Service and other evidence di challenge the charge that nothing has hap and that the smoking habits of the nation are right Continued on Page 7 War Stopped LONDON AP Lord Ber trand the British phi who has taken a Alaska AP ing role in campaigns against j American Corporation nuclear signed a not operate its Petersburg tion Monday urging Prime cannery in the coming ister Harold Wilson to use his President Tarrant good offices to stop the fighting I announced Pacific American to Close Petersburg Salmon Cannery in South Viet Tarrat said the decision was its Okay for Pop to Laugh made in Bellingham late last When Mom Wears Pants By JEAH SPRAIN WILSON AP Fashion Writer NEW YORK API women wear the pants in the men should be designer John They if their wives wear the poolside pants he pre scribed at Sundays fasion press Yellow cowboy suits with chaps of giant red desert flow a scaffold jump lunatic fringe and a bodice made modest by a single bow were some of the costumes created to get grins if not who is the husband of actress Susan heartily approved the ancient sport of I colors worn with fancy shirts poking fun at ladies A man may roar whats but he is secretly amused at his wifes said His poolside pants are ruffled and puffy with Bare midriff and stretch pants that cling to the strategic spots are bold but not Some pants for women are cut so that they look wonderful while she but are awful when she sits said Other pants are great at right angles but not But Weitz found the secret of good cut in the suits worn by men on Those he makes for ladies are brilliant that men on scaffolds would never Romance was the theme of the spring collection by Luis Estevez and there were more necklines than on dresses that were seamed at the midriff in sunburst fashion skimmed lightly across feminine There were ones and many cut as a perfect circle which fell in folds from defined Bright navy was the most im portant Estevez repeated it in and lace Tarrant and Bob Pacific Americans Alaska su discussed the de cision with Petersburg commu leaders Tarrant said the decision does not the company will lock up the plant which is presently process ing king He said he and his company will attempt to get the property into other possibly local to as sure that it continues operating and crab operations will contin ue until Tarrant said his company wishes to dispose of the property and gradually pull out of South east Alaska fishing The company sold its KodiaK properties last year and an last week that it was negotiating to sell its Prince William Sound It will continue to operate in Bristol Bay and in the Alaska peninsula The Petersburg cannery was built in 1898 by Peter Busch mann for whom Petersburg was Pacific American ac quired the property in The cannery has operated ev ery summer for more than W years except for one book fcr so many thrown
