Fairbanks Daily News-Miner (Newspaper) - March 25, 1965, Fairbanks, Alaska CITY NEWS BRIEF LATE News II O M I VOL. XLIII 's Farthest North Daily Newspaper Member of The Associated Press 15( Per Copy MARCH 25, 1965 Twelve Pages No. 70 EGAN TO CAMPAIGN FOR PSC Ski Review Canceled The annual Yukon Command Ski Review has been canceled because of insufficient snow cover on Liscum Ft. The review was scheduled for Gen. Andy A. com- manding general of the Yukon Command and Ft. announced the cancellation on The military balls at the Officers and sioned Officers Clubs will be held as scheduled Saturday Heart Fund Dance The Eagles are sponsoring a Heart Fund Dance beginning at I 9 p.m. Saturday in the Eagles Tickets will be sold at the Music will be furnished by Colin MacDonald and the The 1965 Miss Fairbanks and her court arrive at the dance 1 ly following the Miss Fairbanks Committee withheld approval today of million in additional transitional grants for Federal Grant Okay Withheld i House Committee Rejects Grant of Million to Alaska But Request Subject to Later Consideration WASHINGTON The House Appropriations at Clear Alaska Super Con- Clear this A subsequent check re- the gear was functioning meaning x that are sublet to The committee also failed to include in the Interior Department appropriations for the 12 months ning July 1 the requested for expenses of eral development planning committees for Both actions were taken properly and a routine landing was made at line officials RCA Clear passengers were landed on the return trip to This Saturday and Sunday is the third annual North can Autocross to be held at Fairbanks Sports Car house across from Growden Memorial Starting time on Saturday is noon and on Sunday 9 a.m. A snack bar will be set up in the clubhouse and ample parking is All sideration at a later In rejecting the transitional the House Committee ex- the Budget Bureau hadj Request For Funds Struck Down WASHINGTON million school construction gram proposed by the Indian Affairs Bureau was struck down by the House Appropriations Committee today in approving a to finance operations of the interior department in the year beginning July 1. Money for new classroom buildings and dormitories in New Arizona and estimated to cost million Ketchikan to Visitors are welcome to interested persons to are invited Historical Society Tonight James Cassady will be the guest speaker tonight at the regular meeting of the Yukon Historical Society which meets at 8 p.m. in the basement of the Chamber of Commerce log Cassady will tell Box Social There will be and cake walk a box social at the VFW 16 Mile Richardson Saturday beginning at 8 sponsored by VFW Post No. 10029. All proceeds will go to the Community Fire De- All ladies are urged to bring box Lowell Thomas Talks Lowell Thomas can candidate for the U.S. Con- gress in 1962 and 1961 will be guest speaker at the lunch ing of Republicans The meeting is open to the lic and is held in the Gold Room of the Travelers Spring Ball Masters Club is sponsoring a spring ball at National Guard Armory on April 3rd from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Donation is and public is Tickets at the door or from any of Featuring Jimmy Jackson Gardeners on Friday The monthly meeting of the Forget Me Not Garden Club will be held at 10 a.m. Friday at the home of Mrs. Joan 507 Second New Elks Members New members will be ed into the Elks Lodge at 8 p.m. All Elks bers are asked to be present for the by the President's Budget Left in the was for planning the high schools in Arizona and The Indian backed by the Budget also has re- quested for Mount Edgecumbe High When school planning is com- the committee quests for construction funds can then be submitted for con- sideration in subsequent Under the planning funds would be spent on each of the Arizona schools and 000 on the one for The provided in Indian health funds to be ad- ministered by the Public Health a division of the fare ing under terms of the The planning committee fund was the committee because the groups not yet been Gov. William Egan of Alaska recently to the Senate i Appropriations Committee for approval of the transitional saying the state needs the funds to make up loss of state and local government enues as a result of earthquake damage last The committee took zance of the earthquake in proving million for repair of damage to the Alaska In was proved for the Geological vey to start a new research fort in earthquake Tok Ski Races Canceled The Tok Championship Sled Dog race slated for three mile heats and Sunday has been The decision to cancel was an- this morning by of the Tok due to poor trail tions following an unseasonable warm Skiing conditions are also re- ported as unsatisfactory with the recreational ski areas on the Steese Highway planning to be closed this Jim coach of the University of Alaska ski sponsors of the Gold Nugget Races planned this Saturday and Sunday has not officially celed the and giant slalom uled at the U of A and Governor Will Fight For Passage of Issue Plans Radio Appearance To Explain Importance of Public Service Commission to Consumer JUNEAU Gov. William A- Egan said today he will carry his fight for passage of the controversial Public Service Commission by the legislature this year to the people via radio and television Friday Egan's office said A ments were not yet Opponents Planning but that the address would inate in with the 11 speech to be available to tions throughout the state on a Jefferson B. Egan's i executive said Egan's i air time in Anchorage would bej paid for from money left the governor's 1962 JUNEAU opponents lamenting on the of the Service j Egan sion now bottled up in the FIFTY SECONDS BEFORE is how the moon looked as photographed by the camera in Ranger 9 some 50 seconds and 90 miles before The mass of graphs studied show chains of small craters lying along deep or rills giving scientists an indication that the smoothest and hardest areas could be along these No So Ski Review Canceled Maj. Gen. George A. commanding general of the U. S. Army will make a four-day visit to Ft. Wainwright beginning to explain to the Senate said today they'll at- lic the importance of oUke similar action if the consumers of the Public on radio and television to passage of the urge will find some way to get an equal opportunity to the public the full Ranger Photos Show Safe Landing Areas Calif. by Ranger 9 Wednesday Scientists poring over some of just before it crashed into the the photos taken by crater ger 9 say they indicate in a highland area despite the cancellation of the moon's crater rims may the center of the face of facts on the lack of tion for the creation of a new political bureaucracy to regulate every detail of locally Ski astronauts with safer The commanding general of landing areas than would crater the Yukon Command and Ft. Gen. Andy A. announced This advanced Wednesday night by scientists the is the site of red flashes which some astronomers have interpreted as hot gases escaping through fissures in the lunar Wednesday that the snow a Jet Propulsion Laboratory Dr. Gerard P. chief of insufficient to hold the I news was based on the scientific said many review on Gen. Carver it scheduled to arrive Friday On Saturday he the 171st Infantry Brigade and the Chamber of Commerce log In the evening he will attend the military ball at the new which opens Other headlights of the visit are a trip to the University of Alaska and a tea given by the Wives Club for Mrs. on her first visit to Ft. Gen. and Mrs. Carver are scheduled to leave for Ft. Greely Tuesday evidence of possible volcanic of the thousands of craterlets j activity shown in pictures for the first time on floor were not caused meteorite can be the result of volcanic he the smoothest and hardest areas on the moon seem to be crater rims where He's Seen Strange Things Done Frontier Problem Solver Pageant Saturday March 25. Partly cloudy night and Low night 25; high Friday 45; low last night 28; high yesterday 48; temperature at 11 a.m. 33. Sunrise Friday a.m. and sunset p.m. giving a total of 12 hours and 54 minutes of a gain of six By KENT statt Writer Before Tom Fenton came to Alaska he had never been ther west than The first time he saw an American he thought the man was Puerto the young district at- who has his ters in serves an area far bigger than France but with fewer inhabitants than Santa Calif. He covers the vast expanse of tundra and ing Alaska's gigantic Fourth Judicial by bush 30, is also acting temporarily as district attorney for the sprawling sparsely Second Judicial District with headquarters at His experiences in the bush with Eskimos and white men are reminiscent of a gone era and undoubtedly he can qualify as America's most district Tom flies to the outlying lages when business demands it. Usually he is accompanied by an Alaska State Police er and a deputy Recent trips have taken him to Stony Holy Pilot Mountain Hooper Crooked Creek Bethel among other Court sessions are held in bar schools or private He usually bunks at the homes of the village may not always have running but at least you sleep in a bed with says The Indians and Eskimos think of him basically as a problem solver and that is pretty much the way the tempered state attorney looks at prefer to talk to people and attempt to dissuade them from engaging in violence in their lives rather than ly filing criminal charges against I believe that more can be done out of court than can be done in court in attempting to resolve the con- of who grew up in South New Jersey and re- his law degree from New York University has seen strange things done a der the midnight the Mi Waiting a Year At one remote village a ple had been waiting almost a year to get They couldn't afford to go in to the magistrate and the first opportunity the woman of- had to visit the village to perform the ceremony was with Their stay there had to be brief due to Tom went to rout out the He found the man in your wedding Tom told the astonished who agreed to rise to the get your he told one of his children in the and he made tions for the big day which had finally The bride appeared wearing a band which was a strip of metal from a can of cornea The which was dered weeks failed to arrive on Fenton and the state trooper acted as witnesses for- the In another the chief consulted Tom as to whether he had to accept as a member of on Pigi col. 2) Saturday night in a beauty pageant extravaganza on stage of the Hering Auditorium a new Miss Fairbanks will be ed. This year 10 lovely young ladies are vying for the A panel of out of state judges will select one of the following queen candidates as Miss Lynn Nancy Jerilyn Judy Laurel Jo Carla Anita Norma man or Beverly During the pageant the con- will model bathing suits and evening The girls will recite or a musical instrument in Miss Talent Miss Suzy Miss banks of 1964, will crown the new queen and Miss Miss Golden Heart will pass her crown to the of the is the theme of the pageant which will be carried out in the cial set designs by Guy Elliott and the choreography by Vern Master of ceremonies is Lee Russell with a combo viding music for the The pageant and queen contest is sponsored by the Community Recreation League and is under the direction of Mrs. Dorothy Gifts from local merchants and a scholarship will be pre- sented to the Miss banks will be the city entry in the Miss Alaska beauty pageant which will be held here next Tickets to the pageant day night are priced at for general admission or for They can be purchased at local stores or at the box there are spots apparently level enough for landings and ridges found on crater Kuiper Service Commission legislation that is presently before the think that there has been considerable distortion of this entire is my conviction that the average citizen has not been re- 1 information in such way that he can evaluate m importance of this Rep Ition in relation to his living Egan also said the legislation has not been ted in the light of j i Kennedy Summit Reached Yukon tory A small flag tered from the summit of advantage of the own fj g ii 3S WP I be Kennedy planted there memorial to his owned under legislation would Place sented in justification for its pay raises for state s r a thre municipally show a marked de- late President John F. and all of the privately crease in utility rates the F m Alaska j An c h o r a g e and Fairbanks Boardman The New York Democratic a novice climber reached the top of the most are two of the three ly unclimbed peak i along with the Kenai Wednesday after a day and aj officials which would be severely e state hv half of He was expected to be f lown i to u tne state have registered strong by the from a base to Whitehorse i this A Royal Canadian the Air Force plane from Senate proposed S. Bureau of Labor tics figures presented by the ordinarily used to fly Canadian waited at the port to take him to Seattle for a plane connection to New Eight Climb The House passed the 26- administration raises for m support of state employes costs of gas and in the Anchorage Kennedy and seven president R. J. McNealy that signed the to five tees for study and said the area last year were only 90.4 would not be acted per cent of what they were in by the Senate during the In the drop ent was to 94.7 in the same Kuiper said he believes the f a National Geographic Socie floors of large craters and many of the moon's broad plains are composed of solidified frothy on Page 7, Col. ty which he asked to climbed from a camp at the level Early Morning Fire Hits Shaw Creek Lodge An old Alaska the Shaw Creek Lodge at 77 Mile Richardson Highway was de- by fire early cording to the State Police in Delta The operator of the Mrs. Billy K. and two John and Jim 4 and 2, were asleep in the lodge when the fire started at about a.m. They all escaped The lodge was an dry one story frame It was completely burned when police No attempt was made to save the It was reduced to smoldering ashes by 5 a.m. Located 19 miles north of Delta the lodge was a well known stopping place on the Richardson It contained a bar and cafe as well as private living Faulty wiring was tentatively blamed for the fire although in- is Police said insurance was held on the The estimated loss was not Mrs. Harrild was able to re- move a few belongings before building was consumed by As they toiled up the final few using their ice axes for walking sticks on a slope of about 20 they waved to newsmen and expedition in planes The flag Kennedy placed at the summit appeared of a dark although its exact tion was not He fixed it upright and stood back a few his head slightly looking toward it. figures also show that in Ketchikan and two areas which would not be Six Crewmen Die Md. An Reeled by the the cost Air Force cargo plane remained fire and fell from an overcast with no sky into a pine woods don't have anv 1962 ii killing all six crewmen j campaign funds iman Keys to Yaldez Ambulance To Be Presented in Detroit Tonight in six j Fairbanks and Valdez men and i women will be honored at a banquet sponsored area Lions by Detroit Chamber Offers Twins Chance to Open Ball Season a news release from St. indicated I kans by the Ford Motor Co. the April 12 baseball Some 600 persons are ed to attend the ing which the keys to a new for Valdez will be presented to the opener between the New York Yankees and the Minnesota Twins is in jeopardy due to con- sub-zero temperatures and a two- to five-foot blanket of snow and ice on the playing the Fairbanks ber of Commerce sent telegrams to the mayors and chamber presidents of the twin cities and President Calvin Griffith of the Twins baseball The telegrams pointed out that Fairbanks is enjoying baseball weather and in- the Twin Cities to use the facilities here where the er is ideal for the season Funds for the vehicle were raised by Fairbanks area Lions including the College Fairbanks Mid- night Sun Lions and North Pole Detroit Lions Clubs matched local Lions dollar for dollar in the project and now have enough money for a second Lions Clubs here are to decide who will get the second Driving the Valdez vehicle back from Detroit will be Herb Other Alaskans attending the banquet in Detroit tonight Mr. and Mrs. Herb Bob Ray Ray Valdez and member of the Valdez On the way back to and Lions Clubs along the way are planning special events the police ambulance t pulls snow job on the PSC some of legislator won't like him but the skiers sure
