Fairbanks Daily News-Miner (Newspaper) - September 28, 1965, Fairbanks, Alaska CITY NEWS IX Farthest North Daily Member of The Associated Press VOL. XLIII i 1 5c Per Copy SEPTEMBER 28, 1 965 Twelve Pages No. 227 Juniors The Junior Rifle Club will start its winter season at a.m. All new and former shooters are Women of Moose The Women of the Moose will meet at 8 p.m. today at the Moose 507 It will be a business Refreshments will be Airways Auxiliary The Auxiliary to the Airways Engineering Society will meet at the home of Mrs. Lois 28 B Farewell at 8 p.m. Gehazi Shrine Gehazi Shrine No. 1, Order of the White Shrine of will confer degrees on two bers at 8 p.m. tonight in the sonic VOLCANO MANY DIE Phu Cu Pass Struggle On Beer Alpha Kappa Psi business at the University of Alaska will be having its sixth annual of Qui beer mug sale in the U of A dining commons and the Student Union Building 4. St. Ann's Guild St. Ann's Catholic Guild will meet at the home of Mrs. Ron 523 ilton Acres at 8 p.m. TARs Elect New officers of the Teen-Age Republicans will be ed at a meeting of the group at 7 p.m. Wednesday at 1102 Sixth Ave. All members are asked to be according to dent Diane SAIGON Hundreds of Vietnamese rangers and Viet Cong fighters were battling late today in the Phu Cu Pass a U.S. military spokesman The Viet Cong heavy losses last week in the which is 295 miles northeast of Saigon and 45 miles northwest Pakistan Makes Proposal Learn Issues Today The public can learn all about the issues that will be lot for the Star Borough election at a public meeting at 8 p.m. tonight at Barnette School multipurpose room featuring representatives from the ough School the boro igh chairman a ber of the state Board of The meeting is sponsored by the League of Women Voters as a public Carpenters Union Carpenters Local 1243 is ing a special meeting at 8p.m. tonight in the 315 Fifth Ave. All members of the union are asked to be present since this meeting is very important to the members as well as the a spokesman for the union Attention Hunters Got your moose meat and agood set of The Chamber of Commerce doesn't need the but could use a set of attractive antlers to replace the faded bones at the log cabin Adult Dancers Polar Promenaders will sor square dance classes for adult beginner dancers com- mencing Wednesday from to p.m. in the Hunter School multipurpose Registration will be taken at the classes for the next Beatle Haircuts Don't Conform The North Carolina attorney al's office says school boards can outlaw haircuts or other cuts which don't to normal and accepted Deputy Atty. Gen. Ralph dy said in an opinion Friday that school is a place for educational and institutional It is not a a joint or a pad where beatniks gather to drink espresso coffee and substitute odd behavior and bizarre dress in lieu of Secretary LONDON Rev. win secretary of Brit- ain's Methodist Conference from 1937 to 1951, died He was 84. UNITED proposed today that both India and Pakistan withdraw their military forces from disputed Kashmir and that a U.N. force take over pending a plebiscite to determine the territory's The proposal was made to the U.N. General Assembly in a policy speech by Pakistan's Foreign Minister Z. A. who warned that the situation remains grave despite the cease-fire and its he not amount to What is needed is firm action to eradicate the in- to violence and What is needed is action to remove the seeds of Bhutto criticized strongly the Security saying it failed to back its 1949 decision in favor of a Kashmir The council had proved itself pitifully he and had bowed to India's He said the council must now act on Pakistan's is no use telling us that India does not accept he is for this and the world at large to make India accept Bhutto suggested that the posed force be made up of African and Latin ican The Security Council issued an urgent demand last night for India and Pakistan to honor the cease-fire and to withdraw their troops as requested by earlier council A Vietnamese army ranger unit reported that it was en- gaged with a large Viet Cong possibly one or two About 600 men are in a ranger battalion and 500 to 600 in a Viet Cong Another Vietnamese army unit reported making contact at a nearby point with a Viet Cong group believed to be of ny Tactical air strokes were launched to aid the government No further details on the fighting and no estimates of casualties on either side were immediately A U.S. spokesman reported the death of three Americans in the crash of a chartered plane Monday about 25 miles west of He said seven ese policemen guarding the wreckage were killed during the night by Viet Cong small arms It was believed the plane was shot down as it was coming in for a landing at Bau in Hau Ngai It crashed about 200 yards short of the Killed in the crash were the pilot and copilot of the Air American plane and Jack Wells of College an official of the U.S. Operations public safety The mission charters planes from Air a private Early today 150 to 200 Viet Cong with mortars and auto- matic weapons attacked and overran a government outpost 90 miles southwest of near Can After blowing up the barbed wire around the the Viet Cong entered the compound and murdered the village two representatives of the central government and two A Vietnamese relief column failed i find any Viet Cong in the and the post was re- Spokesmen reported these er BATTLE 7) Blistering Heat Prevents Rescue MANILA The Taal Volcano erupted today and veiled in smoke and flames the fate of about ers who fanned on and around its gentle The Philippine constabulary said 26 persons were THIS IS MY POINT Says well-known Fairbanks area miner Carl Heflinger as he notes that this city is Alaska's mining He was speaking at the meeting arranged by the Greater Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce with Phil commissioner of Natural at the log cabin last Heflinger was one of many speaking against the state's plan to move the assay office to An- Thousands Citizens Protest Flee Debbie NEW ORLEANS a tropical storm that was supposed to die during the whipped the northern Gulf of Mexico into an angry uproar day as she turned down the west Florida Thousands of persons streamed from low-lying coastal areas of Mississippi and Louisiana as Gulf tides be- gan an ominous but familiar At 10 Debbie was about 250 miles south southwest of and moving northeastward at 10 miles an winds are 35 to 50 in squalls extending out 200 miles to the north and east. indications are that the center should move inland over northwest Florida late night or early the New Orleans Weather Bureau Forecasters warned of three to six foot tides by Residents of coastal areas and offshore islands were urged to evacuate before escape roads are A hurricane watch was in fect from the mouth of the River to Cedar Fla. A large group of sans gathered last night to test vigorously the closing of the state mineral assay office In a public Alaska Commissioner of Natural Re- sources Phil Holdsworth was met by a barrage of protest as he stood to defend the tion of the facilities in the The protested officially by the North Star Borough and other calls for ing all the assay offices in the state and the establishment of a single office in is a community founded on an im- Lathrop Principal Points Out Reasons Hayride Eliminated This Year Dee principal of throp High today gave reasons why the administration canceled the traditional bonfire and hayride events for In a statement to the Durst was out of town over the weekend and thus not available for comments regarding the of certain activities at I might say that I was in Anchorage as the official ing delegate for Lathrop High School in the We stern Alaska High School Activities A more commonly This body meets twice a year for the purpose of con- trolling interscholastic activities and other contests or programs sanctioned by the Association and to assist in the promotion of such other ties and interests as it may from time to time This is also the time and place where we meet with other school officials to schedule these events in order to come up with an activity Common practice is to set this calendar up before filling out the school calendar with its many events and social is true that the school fire and senior hayride have been The seniors were in- formed of this by me on the Jury Acquits Policeman In Rape Revenge Shooting r CLOUDY Sept. 28. Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday with scattered snow Low tonight 26; high Wednesday 40; 31; high yesterday 38. ture at 11 a.m. 35. Sunrise morrow a.m. and sunset p.m. giving a total of 11 hours and 33 minutes of a loss of seven Weather Elsewhere High temperatures predicted for these spots today An- 51, Gulkana 56, Kodiak 56, McGrath 40, Barrow 31, and Juneau 50. LOS Angeles jury of eight men and four women quitted today a police lieutenant accused of shooting and ing a youth he mistakenly be- had raped his The given the case late deliberated an hour and a half before finding Lt. Thomas E. 41, innocent of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to commit Conviction could have brought a prison sentence of 14 The suspended veteran who faces a police board of review hearing Nov. 2, smiled and told hope to get back on the In final argument his attorney pointed to O'Neal and but for the grace of go you or The prosecutor pointed to the same believed in good law en- except when it plied to his own He took the law into his own He wanted to be jury and O'Neal shot the wrong police Carl E. 21, was and testified against While O'Neal was being tried on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to commit five men police say did commit the attack on his daughter were on a few doors on rape Parts of the same story were told to both ing day of Reasons were given for their cancellation but since that time these have been forgotten or bonfire was eliminated for many The bonfire has become a dangerous One of our students was injured last year and required This also happened at the U of A this year I am I be- lieve a student was arrested last year for spraying gasoline on a We have had fights be- tween our and various These attempts to light the fire prior to the uled time present many and many We have had high speed and less handling of cars in the same area as the have had improper con- duct by Lathrop students as well as persons at these School rules on have been disregarded by some We have had several fights each time for the past three We have had reports of pantsing of various students by both boys and serious problem has been the vandalism and ing of private and public and signs from and governmental agencies have been Property has been damaged by the removal of some of these problems presented by the bonfire seriously disrupt the school Students staying out all night guarding the terial would either sleep during school or would not be in Students missed classes PRINCIPAL 7) Election You're Not Alone If you find the Oct. 5 election you're not Both Borough Clerk John Carlson and City Manager Wally Droz serves in the dual capacity of city shake their heads sadly and moan appropriately when con- fronted with the task of explaining who can vote on what and Latest development casting a little more confusion on the scene is the somewhat early entry of Hamilton Acres and Timberland subdivisions into the Yesterday the City Council took special tion to make the annexed areas legally part of the city as of a.m. They passed Ordinance 1365 which permits residents of the annexed areas to register to vote the rest of this But here's the hitch you live in Hamilton Acres or Timberland and register to vote in the you will have to vote in two different places if you want to vote on both city and borough Since the city has legally advertised only 12 they must confine themselves to 12 residents of the area who register to vote in the will vote at Precinct 12 or Fairlanes If they vote on borough propositions or borough school board they must vote at the Hamilton Acres Fire If they do not register to vote in the city they vote at the fire hall according to latest word from election Both Carlson and Droz call this most confusing election Both men say they'll be glad when it's Staff Many Bids On Leases ANCHORAGE Bonus bids offered for Cook Inlet area oil and gas leases totaled 463.76 on the first 80 tracts ed today at the state competitive sale being held High bonus bid in the first 80 tracts was an offered on one tract by the com- bine of Shell Oil Richfield Oil Corp. and Standard Oil of A total of 293 tracts were of- in the 15th oil and gas lease sale by the seven tracts drew no The tracts of both upland and offshore land covered a total of The tracts are scattered from the Pt. McKenzie area down to Chisik Island on the west side of the inlet and the south Kenai on the east In the first 40 tracts offered the high bonus bid was an It was offered on one tract by a combination of Sun and Sunray DX Oil Com- The first 40 tracts drew a total high bonus bid of 72. known Intense heat barred rescue boats from landing on the 12.5- island centered around the ash and steaming mud covered more than half of the a scenic spot on the tip of 40 miles south of don't know when we can get said a constabulary of- ficer at the provincial have four boats The eruption was Taal's 19th in recorded The 18th, in 1911, is reported here to have killed The exact never became It has been by the World an authoritative reference as CAME TO LIFE Taal came to life again at a.m. with an tering A column of flames and steam and lava spewed feet into the A handful of refugees from the island were known to have made it to safety across the Others were reported to have drowned in boats that cap- sized as they frantically tried to Still others may be alive on that section of the island which appeared from the air to be relatively a plane which aged to fly low over the island late today reported no signs of Between and gees were being cared for in camps set up along Tagaytay which borders the inland But most of these were from areas surrounding the By late afternoon the periodic blasts from the volcano to be authorities said it was still far too dangerous to send boats from the outer shores of Lake Taal to determine the fate of the The volcano had been making ominous noises for some the temperature of the lake had been and those living on its slopes had been Re- ports from the scene said they began fleeing the island during the Funds For Maybe WASHINGTON The House Public Works Committee approved today a to ize federal participation in a 1967 celebration of the nial of the purchase of The by Rep. Ralph J. was amended to authorize So in place of million for eral matching on a 50-50 basis of local funds for construction of contention and other permanent ments in various Alaska The measure also would for federal in the ceremonial of the ing The fate of the in the ing weeks of the current Con- gressional session remained un- particularly in the The next step is to ask the House Rules Committee to clear the for House Sen. E. L. said a similar senate he is with Sen. Ernest appears to be blocked in the Senate Public Works He said he is exploring other procedures in an effort to ob- tain action this Alaskans in Congress said speed is essential if federal sistance is to be since only one short tion season remains before the start of the centennial Baseball Boys Bats in Belfry Mont. teams in this small com- high school known as the Belfry Scurrilous Campaign Literature Says Councilman JUNK Truck pulling 25 tons of junked cars collides with six vehicles in Scrapped autos fell on two cars and at least four persons were injured Truck Ray 25, of was trucking load from nearby National City to Calif. Scurrilous campaign apparent laxity in sales tax and frequency of the City Council's meetings were some of the topics discussed by Councilman Harry Porter last who was the only cil member to speak up under hit what he termed illegal literature be- ing circulated in the current Without referring who had been made subject of an unsigned attack in a ed sheet circulated widely throughout the Porter ed it an He decried the conduct of those distributing the ing isn't even shown who printed Porter said the violates at least two statutes of the voting The city attorney in his re- marks later agreed with ter as to the unsavory aspects of the He said he had contacted the district at- torney on the He gested the city should have an ordinance similar to a state statute on unsigned campaign City Council candidate Austin who has been attending council meetings and sitting in the showed a reporter some of the unsigned graphed literature directed against Ward stated the tiated statements made were un- He said he would have more to say on the subject Porter in his remarks hit other subjects as He suggested the city sales tax could be reduced to even two per cent with no adverse affect on land owners who must pay real property if the sales tax was collected in a fair and equitable Porter referred to the dum on Oct. 5 which would re- duce the city sales tax from three per cent to per cent. Some have suggested that to reduce the sales tax might increase the property He said while he ed with this attitude he felt there was a certain laxity in tion of the sales He said gross business re- for Fairbanks were million in 195S and about million in 1963. While the sales POUTER 7) License Plates Next Year Keyed to 1967 Centennial JUNEAU New license plates for passenger keyed to the Alaska purchase nial in 1967, will be issued next the State Department of Revenue said The colors of the new plates will be gold on a blue featuring a totemic de- sign and the 1967 centennial to the The word Alaska will appear across the top of the new in futuristic print similar to that used by the Alaska Travel Di- vision in its tourist To the left center of the will be a totemic design of a followed by the plate The centennial slogan will Anchorage Judge Appointed to Bar CHICAGO ward V. Davis of Alaska Third District Superior Court has been appointed to serve as a member of the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on tions during 1966. pear at the bottom of the preceded by the numeral 1S67 and followed bv the numeral 1967. The department said license plates for vehicles other than passenger cars will be similar to those now in the political around this town get any they'll be providing a bullet with every
