Fairbanks Daily News-Miner (Newspaper) - March 22, 1965, Fairbanks, Alaska CITY NEWS BRIEF The Coin Sale Greater Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce an- the sale of a special issue of oxidized bronze banks Statehood Gold Dollars limited to an issue of 500 edge numbered and year dated ders will be accepted only from persons purchasing the sterling silver issue of 1964 so that these persons may obtain matched number sets This exclusive sale will end May 1 1965 chases may be made only at the chamber log cabin 550 First Avenue at a price of coin The sterling registery of PHJ located at the chamber of- fice will be the official ment to determine ownership of the sterling issue unless you present your sterling coin in person Chairman on TV Frank Banner agent for Peat Marwick and Mitchell tax con- will be guest on the Tuesday night Borough man's program scheduled for 8 p.m on Chairman Jack Schleppegrell said he and Danner will discuss present and future borough services Schlep- will also discuss the Borough Assembly's agenda for its Thursday night meeting Keith Bryar Wins North American Title LATE News America's Farthest North Daily Newspaper Member of The Associated Press HO Per Copy FAIRBANKS ALASKA MONDAY MARCH 22 1965 Sixteen Pages No 67 GAS BEING USED AGAINST ENEMY NAC Champion Runs Last Race Four-time North American Champ Dr Roland Lombard Places Second New Entry Alfred Attla of Hughes Third By TERRY BRADY Keith Bryar Laconia won his last dog sled race Sunday the coveted North American Sled Dog Championship and in prize money Bryar announced his retirement from clog sled Automotive Care at the Banquet Sunday night He said he The first of a series of already sold his winning team to Merle Cordova meetings concerning the 4-H Smith president of Cordova Airlines Automotive Care and Safety Project will be held at p m Tuesday in the chamber log cabin University of Alaska Extension Service nd the Fairbanks Kiwanis Club invites all boys and girls 14 and 15 years nf age Thailand Films Union Introduced pr gram portion of the meeting of the Hamilton Acres Woman's Club this week The meeting is set for noon Thursday in the home of Mrs Betty Luoma 217 Eureka Ave Bryar first attended the NAC in 1953 as handler for Col man Vaughn the first New Englander to race here Col Vaughn was handler this past weekend Bryar nosed out fellow yankee JUNEAU AP A new tne four-time NAC almost identical to a so-called j Roland Lombard of autonomy measure which Wayland Mass bv minutes 1 for 70 miles of racing Bryar won Friday's heat in 76.69 utes Lombard was second that Al Klamm will show films and twice failed to pass the House about Thailand as the earlier this was earlier this month was in the lower chamber day The differs from the original measure only Non-Lethal Chemicals Dropped on Viet Cong Various Types Warfare Being Used In Effort to Immobilize Opponents Mixture Said to Include Tear Gas SAIGON South Viet Nam AP U.S and military forces are experimenting with non-lethal gas warfare in South Viet Nam highly reliable sources reported today The sources said various types of non-lethal gases have been used against the Viet Cong in the 2nd and 3rd Corps regions Some of these have succeeded it was f ed but others have failed tf The nature of the gases classified information but they are believed to be mixtures that include tear gas the riot control weapon One gas SAIGON South Viet Nam reportedly causes extreme AP y S Air Force sea and vomiting another jets a radar warning site on the North coast then sank ers reportedly have been i day with 77.75 Lombard copped the second heat on Saturday ishing in 84.78 to 85.18 Press Club Meeting There will be a meeting in a minor numerical change It assigned to the Labor and Defending Champion Management Committee for This sent Lombard study NEW Bryar left receives the winner's trophy from Walt Millard president of the Alaska Dog Mushers Association at Sunday's Mushers Award Banquet Bryar from Laconia kept the title in the New land states after taking the top spot away from the ing champion of the past three years Dr Roland Lombard of Wayland Mass Bryar won both the first and last heats with Lombard posting the top time in the Saturday heat Warm weather and an icy trail kept the times from proaching the existing records Newt-tuner stati of the Farthest North Press Club at p m Tuesday in the basement of Tommy's Elbow Room All newsmen in the area are invited Sweet Sweet Adeline Chapter will meet at the First Methodist Church 915 Second at p m today New members are invited Coin Club The Fairbanks Coin Club will meet at p m Monday in the USD There will be an talk and a coin auction The public is invited DAR's Meet The Daughters of the can Revolution will meet at 3 p m Tuesday in the Rampart Room of the Travelers Inn Mrs Helen Carlisle will be hostess Both would deny unions cess to the state courts if they fail to set up chartered locals in Alaska if such locals are re- quested by resident Alaskan members in secret elections conducted by the State ment of Labor The only difference in the measures is the first applied to unions with 100 or more dent while the new raised the number to 110 Another Murder In Anchorage ANCHORAGE AP Philip Mason 36 was shot and killed Saturday night in a downtown Anchorage restaurant while two police officers were having fee less than 20 feet away His wife Helen was ar- Sunday on a charge of first degree murder and bail was set at the de- fending champion out first for the final heat of 30 miles on fast disintegrating track weather and heavy use finally started taking its toll of the well prepared race course Lombard who used only nine dogs yesterday was overtaken and passed by Bryar near the point Bryar was using 13 huskies The Massachusetts veterinarian however kept at heels and repassed him about the 26 mile point but could do no better than third for the last heat A new entry and an Alaskan hope for recapturing the MAC title in the near future Alfred Attla of Hughes placed second yesterday and finished a prise third over-all His total time was 313.82 minutes Earns Lombard earned and Attla left last night's annual awards banquet with An- other big money winner would have been Joe Reddington of Fort Richardson who would Continued tin Page 9 Col 8 Troops Find Alaska Has Warm Belf Man its warmer here than it is in Minnesota This was the common ob- servation of members of the Infantry Division of the Minnesota National Guard who arrived at Ft Greely last week for winter exercises The exercises geared to train the men in surviving ex- cold weather will con- through this week But there's an ironic twist to the whole thing In sharp contrast to the springlike weather in the banks area it is sub zero in most parts of Minnesota The snow is fast ing in Alaska and blizzards are continuing in Minnesota with as much as 14 inches of fresh snow in the central part of the state The Denali Ladies havens Was Experience in Solitude a coffee hour at a m Tuesday in Denali Bible Chapel i All ladies are invited Molly Brown's Trip Hinges on Weather CAPE KENNEDY Fla The big bugaboo for the first Two finely honed American astronauts prepared today to pioneer some vital steering in ions and the outlook is Film Tuesday The University of Alaska Film Group is showing a film The Insect Woman at He's Back From Antarctica By KENT BRANDLEY Stall Writer There were 14 men on that and 8 p.m Tuesday in Bunnell ice cap with Auditorium only one another to look at i Nothing else was alive EAA Meets When the temperature went The Experimental Aviation up to 15 degrees below zero Association will meet at 8 p m the men stripped off their shirts today at 1436 shaved their beard's be- tails call Bruce cause they were sweltering Once or twice each year a bird would fly in the sand miles from the coast and that would be an exciting casion All but two of the men were Russians One was a slovakian The other was John Jacobs of the Geophysical Institute of the University of Alaska For the past 14 months he has been at Vostok Station in the antarctic near the south geomagnetic pole That station has the record low temperature for anywhere in the world degrees be- low zero John will leave Fairbanks Tuesday to continue his studies at Dartmouth He was here previously for more than a year and has re- turned briefly to take care of some business Alaskans are more familiar with the effects of isolation than most other Americans Men in Fairbanks often relate experiences encountered at such places as the Distant Early Warning line or remote con- struction and exploration camps March 22 Variable ness tonight and Tuesday with little change in temperature Low expected tonight 25 high Tuesday 44 low last night 23 high yesterday 41 ture at 11 39 Sunrise Tuesday and set p.m giving a total of 12 hours and 34 minutes of sunshine a gain of six utes John claims he is only average intelligence JOHN JACOBS isolation plus But few of us can equal the isolated experience that Jo h n Jacobs has just had as part of a cooperative program with the Soviet Academy of Sciences He is a radio physicist and has been the U S exchange scientist for 1964 with the Soviet expedition at Vostok He has been conducting experiments in relations or the relationship of sun and earth of I just plug he says He plugs along speaking English Russian and German The young American companions were all eran polar workers The oldest was in his early the est was one month younger than John who just turned 26 Supplies to the remote land site on the antarctic teau are all flown in and flights are made during the summer months only The site is absolutely isolated most of the year Plenty of hard physical labor such as ing snow to melt for water break the monotony So did table tennis music on r col 1 space Tuesday ir Ranger 9 On Course Calif lAHi Hurled with unprecedented curacy Ranger 9 streaked ward the center of the moon today with cameras hunting a landing site for U.S astronauts later in the decade Scientists expected to decide within hours just when to fire a small steering rocket to aim the spacecraft closer to its exact target the possibly crater Alphonsus Alphonsus about 16 miles in diameter is only 400 mihs south of the spot almost center on the moon where ger 9 would impact without a change in course The craft is capable of ing its path up to miles on either side of the moon Two interested spectators at Sunday's p.m launch at Cape Kennedy Fla were Virgil I Grissom and John W Young set to take a spin Tuesday in the first of a series of Gemini spacecraft ners of the three-man Apollo ship scheduled to rocket to the moon within five years So accurate was guidance during the launching that for the first time during the Ranger series scientists said the craft would hit the face of the moon without mid-course cor- rection Ranger 4 impacted on the back side of the moon out a change in its original All other Rangers would have missed the moon by up to thousands of miles if their flight paths had not been tered Plans call for Ranger 9 to crash into the moon at EST Wednesday taking sands of pictures in the final 20 minutes two-man Gemini flight is having good weather in several ful Weathermen said the general trend of conditions was ing but they would not commit themselves to a forecast Astronauts Virgil I Grissom and John signed to W Young are take complete com- mand of their Molly Brown spacecraft and to change its orbit twice in other words steer it in space No one has ever done that before This is an essential step in developing the ability to hook up with another craft in space The technique must be perfected before men can ever land on and return from the moon toward which Ranger 9 is ing now for another close-up inspection It will be the second space flight for Grissom 38 an Air Force major who made a sub- orbital trip in 1961 and the first for Young 34 a Navy lieutenant commander Both are test pilots Grissom and Young faced a busy day today reviewing the essential steps of their flight and how they would perform Marchers Follow King I SELMA Ala API Three hundred marchers showered [by segregationist leaflets from the Confederate Air trudged behind Dr Martin Luther King Jr today on the second leg of a voter crusade to the capital of bama King changed socks at a rest stop and then pushed on The march wound along the blacktop of U.S 80 under heavy guard by federalized Alabama National Guardsmen and trained Army regulars called up by President Johnson to protect the unusual demonstration A light plane flew over low leaflets fell to the roadway The leaflets called on white citizens to join Operation Ban This was described as selective hiring firing buying selling The leaflets Un- employed agitator ceases to tate Defense Department in Washington today confirmed reports that South Viet Nam is using a type of nonlethal gas against Communist Viet Cong forces to the enemy incapable of that three Communist junks tried to put up a fight Enemy fire downed one of the jets but the pilot was safely from the South China Sea by an amphibious plane of the U.S 7th Fleet The antiaircraft action was officially described as light to moderate The target of the attack was equipped to dispense the by a U.S spokesman over battlefields as Vinh Son a coastal One objective of this gas ion about 60 miles north of the The spokesman raid as highly fare is to immobilize the 17th Parallel quickly to permit the rescue of Described the prisoners held by the Viet Cong successful and said the radar Another use for gas site was knocked out sources said is neutralization Tne roared in with the enemy in tunnel areas Associated Press Horst Faas was on one such operation Sunday Gas was pound bombs rockets and cannon fire The raid was the third in four days on North Nam and the ninth in the to be used if the Viet that began Feb i pinned down the attacking The spokesman said flak force shore batteries at There proved to be a major i shortage of gas masks the shre bat and sank the junks Those without gas masks raid was were given pieces of lemon and handkerchiefs as reconnaissance re but details disclosed later showed An infantry battalion in operation was an actual at- on Page 9 Col Educator Sees Big Increase In Numbers on Labor Market They bore the name of White The president of the National vital role in dealing with Citizens Action Inc of Education Association predicted tional problems and must help caloosa Ala and announced j here Sunday that nearly 40 per that this message was brought cent more youth will enter the tn abor market in th than entered In the pre- vious decade to you by the world's smallest air force Confederate Air Force and his marchers oung people adapt to society Students need to learn national labor market in the edge skills and values to meet the occupational needs of an society she This will present a serious said As there are changes in th rf f e are cang reached the end of the wide to government industrial techniques so portion 13 miles OUt Ofi portion Selma shortly before noon An- other 12 miles were ahead of them to the next campsite The marchers remnants of and T nk v 0 the education educational roles must change i of the prepare youth was a ot the for th d Alaska Education Association lim KO b a several scientific experiments thousands who joined in the i at Mainly this Gemini flight is start of the pilgrimage Sunday i he La Hish intended to prove out all the at Spima tr inn meeting in tne mgn intricate systems in their craft and its purposes Greenland Head Will Arrive in City Tuesday Niels Otto Christensen the lawyer who is ernor of Greenland will be de- layed due to weather and will arrive in Fairbanks at 1 p.m Tuesday Originally Governor sen was to arrive at 6 p.m today He will leave Nome at 8 tomorrow after being delayed in Kotzebue He has already ed Juneau and Anchorage He was a guest of Gov William Egan at a reception in Juneau at Selma were cut to 300 at cafeteria two-lane in keeping with a eral order allowing the march The marchers had moved four abreast down the roadway after breaking camp in a ered cow pasture The sky was cloudless and the weather mild after subfreezing cold during the first night in camp There is no saving in Continued on Page 9 Col 1 Wet Paint Someone painted walls and door knobs in the Chena ing with white paint on Friday afternoon Apparently it wasn't the tor and the culprit didn't bother to post Wet Paint signs Howard P Staley an ney with McNealy and Merdes in Room 210 of the Chena ing reported the incident to lice organization while on leave from her position on the University of North Carolina faculty Her hosts in Fairbanks were Dr and Mrs Charles K Ray Dr Ray is head of the tion department at the sity of Alaska Dr Edinger urged that ers at the public school level be encouraged to undertake an extensive program of research experimentation and tion As teachers we must not timid nor reluctant to accept j she said I am not ready to say that we know all we need to know in regard to the learning process The national leader in tion said the schools play a Tnet North can trail wuz so sticky this weekend them mushers hav been callin it the Bryar