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Hometown Reporter By Maury Smith Undergoing Tests Jessie Christian of 1004 College Road is having tests made in St. Joseph's Hospital today for 'a stomach dis. order. Christian just completed weeks on the DEW. line and is a painter.

Tacket In Hospital Charles Tackett of 702 Fulton Ave. is having some corrective work done in St. Joseph's Hospital after he pulled some ligaments in his legs several weeks ago. Tackett, a rigger for Federal Electric at Barter Island, flew to Fairbanks earlier this week and entered the hospital yesterday. When he is discharged from to the hospital, Tackett the will Big Delta for Alaska Communications System for the.

winter on some work. New Nurse A new nurse on the second floor of St. Joseph's hos. pital is Miss Rusty Sibley, who graduated from Chico, Calif. State College last spring.

Miss Sibley spent the summer working at Camp Denali near Mt. McKinley. Jobason Improving Word was recieved in banks this week by Mrs. Shirley Johnson of the State Police that Reuben Johnson, firs: police clerk in the office, is getting along fine at his new home In San Jose, Calif. Mrs.

Johnson is teaching, school this year. Reuben suffered a heart attack lasti year and has been making slow recovery. The couple moved to California in He is much improved, Mrs. Johnson said. Gonzales Baby Arrives Mr.

and Mrs. Joseph Gonzales of 520 Illinois St. wel. comed the birth of their third child in St. Joseph's a daughter, at 11:36 Friday morning weighing 7 pounds ounces.

Adriana is her name. She has one sister, nine year-old Patricia. Adriana's father is keeper for the U.S. Geolog. ical Survey and moved with of NEWS BRIEFS (Continued From Page 1 going for the benefit of Pony! and Pony.

Grad leagues. All league players' parents urged to attend, and association secretary Flora Waugaman stressed that everyone, was invited. Cap Snell Dies Capt. Harold W. Snell, long.

time representative for the Alaska Railroad before his re. tirement, died in his sleep at Friday Harbor, accord-: ing to word received here today. He leaves his widow. the former Inez Gustafson of Fairbanks. and a daughter who lives in San Francisco.

Sign New Contract Laundry Dry Cleaners Union, Local 343, have signed a two-year contract with the city's laundries, calling for wage increases which will raise their pay to $2 to $2.10 per hour in the second year of the pact. The increase is six per cent. Buffet Suppers First of the free buffet suppers for servicemen will be served at the USO tomorrow at 6 p.m. This week's supper will be provided by members of the DAR and Other groups wanting to serve in October are asked to call th USO. Subdivia.cn Plat A new suodivision plat on the urban renewal area is available at the urban! renewal office for those who! wish to check it, according to Elmer Gagnon, local manager of the office.

Another copy has been filed with the city planning commission. Scavenger Party The Westminister young adult class of the First Pres. byterian Church has scheduled a "scavenger party" tonight at 7:30. Refreshments will be served and young people of college age are welcome to attend. Training Cancelled Because of the conflict.

in so osules at Ladd, there will no Girl Scout training on Training classes will be held Oct. 12. PEO Meeting Chapte: 3. 50 sterhood. will meet at 8 p.m.

Tuesday at home of Mrs. Fritz Wien, 801 8th Ave. Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Saturday, October 3, 1959 7 Tourist Business Doesn't Just Happen, Says Speaker his family to Fairbanks year ago from California. The George Walkers of 114 Rosella Ave. welcomed a girl into their family this morning at 7:47 in St.

Joseph's Hospital weighing six pounds ounces No name had been decided upon this afternoon but the young lady joins Marlene, 8, Gary, 7, and Randy, 6. Walker is stationed at Mile-11, Richardson Highway for the Alaska Railroad. Maternal grandmother is Mrs. Elizabeth Walker of Fairbanks. An aunt, Mrs.

Mabel Evans, resides in Nenana. Walkers' Baby Mrs. Polet In Seattle Mrs. Alvin Polet left Fairbanks yesterday evening to join her husband in Seattle. Together the couple will attend the 50th wedding anniversary of Mrs.

Polet's parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Morgan Meals, The Meals were marOct. 5, 1909 in O'Neill, Nebraska. The Polets will also attend the wedding of their nephew, Bill Boucher on Sunday to Joann Peterson at Sequim, the home of the The young couple attend the University cf Alaska.

Bill is the son of Polet's sister, Mrs. EmiBoucher, publisher of the Nome Nugget. Banker Injured The youngest daugater of the E. J. Rusings slipped into her parents' It was dark and an open drawer jutted into the room.

Father picked up his little girl to return her to her room. He didn't see the toy on the floor. He tripped on it and fell, hitting the drawer. The child wasn't hurt, but Rusing ended up in St. Joseph's Hospital this week with three process bones in his back jarred out of shape.

He won't be back at his desk at the Alaska National Bank for a few days. Driver Injured Henry Miller, Alaska Railroad truck driver and "cat" operator, came to Fairbanks Thursday night after a cylinde acetylene fell from a box he was helping to unload landed on one of his fin- Miller said he would be back work tomorrow afternoon. works at Healy. Oakes Hospitalized Red Oakes, who for many years has been working at remote Air Force sites out of Ladd Air Force Baso, is in St. Joseph's Hospital for medical attention undergoing tests to determine the cause of a stomach ailment.

Oakes makes his home at 322 Alaska Way. Leaves Hospital Mrs. Amante T. Hanson. pioneer Fairbanksan, will be discharged from a Seattle hospital this weekend after undergoing surgery in August and treatment for a double fracture in her ankle bones.

Mrs. Hanson will be staying with the Frank Dignans in Se. attle. Mrs. Dignan, longtime friend.

is a nurse and will care! for her until she is ready to: come home. Mrs. Hanson is a sister of City Clerk Eina: Tonseth. Her address is 5118 Hallingford Seattle. Attorney Gore Seeks School Board Position Attorney T.

N. Gore, last: candidate to meet the deadline for a position on the School Board, stated there should be a "reappraisal of policy valuation of matters" which the board must consider in the future. A seven year resident cf Fairbanks who lives at 211 Kody Gore is the of five children. and served four years in the Mississippi legislature. He is a member! of the Tanana Valley and Alaska Assns, "Within the next five years, the school system wili go great expansion and within that period I will have five youngsters in the schools: here," Gore stated.

fore, I am vitally concerned with the educational aspect of the community." "As an attorney," be added. "I feel I have a wide variety of experience that will be beneficial to the school board. I have no complaint with the present board, but feel that I might be of value to the community by serving on it." ARCTIC COMMUNION Last Thursday on Ice Island T-3, Communion was observed by the twenty-or-so airmen and civilians stationed there for scientific studies. Lt. Col.

Ashley Jameson, head chaplain for the 11th Air Division at Ladd AFB, is shown passing the wine-filled grail to awaiting men. Although the plane spent little more than an hour on T-3, nearly all station personnel managed to attend the service. Communion Sunday is to be observed tomorrow, world-wide, sponsored by the World Council of Churches. were held outside in biting-wind, sub-freezing temperatures. Ice island is some 50 square miles in area, now is about 120 miles off the coast of northern Canada, roughly between Barter Island and the McKenzie River delta.

It Was Communion 'Sunday' on Ice Island Ry JAMES LEVEQUE, News-Miner Stuff Writer ICE ISI.AND T-3 Here at the most desolate duty station under the American flag 20 airmen and civilians huddled in the assauit of angry ice crystals and observed the World Council of Churches' Communion Sunday last Thursday, was then or never. Half an hour earlier, an Air Force plane carrying Lt. Col. Ashley Jameson, head chaplain for the 11th Air Division at Ladd AFB, had landed here on T-3. He carried a small case.

contained Busy Day in City's Court Charges of drunkenness and vagrancy were predominant on the Magistrate's Court calendar yesterday. A plea of guilty of vagran-1 Icy netted Adam Rycerz, 4-Mile Nenana Road, a sentence with nine days sus-1 pended. Rycerz walked into! the City Police station at 10:48 a.m. yesterday and booked. Jurisdiction was waived to the military in the case of Kenneth I.

Tubman after he pleaded guilty to a charge of drunkenness. He was arrested by City Police at 12:47 a.m. today in the 500 block on Second avenue. Ribert L. Thomas, who had previously pleaded not guilty to a drunkenness charge, changed his plea to guilty and was given a five-day ed sentence.

Harmon Talley, originally charged with vagrancy, received a $10 fine when he pleaded guilty to a corrected charge of disorderly conduct. City Police arrested Talley at 2:52 a.m. today in the downtown area. A $25 fine, suspended on condition of good behavior for one year, was handed down to Owen O. Curtis, 45, of 122 Noble when he pleaded guilty to a charge of failure to! report an auto accident within 24 hours.

Curtis was involved in an accident at Galiney road and Noble street Tuesday, hut left the scene before police ar-! rived. A plea of not guilty was entered by William M. Godfrey, 44, of 1365 McCarty road, also, given as 3-Mile Airport roadon a charge of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicants. Godfrey's car, according to Civ Police, ran off the road at 10:45 p.m. yesterday and struck a light pole as he roundled the corner at Airport and Gillam way.

ON HER UPPERS BUFFALO, N. Y. (UPI) The Citizens Advisory Award Committee included the price of an upper denture, which a woman lost during a flood, in its rehabilitation award to her family. idles, an altar cloth, wine and a grail. Half an hour later the plane would be gone.

It was the first aircraft to land in two or three, weeks. It would be the last for several more weeks. The temperature stood at two degrees below freezing. Frost and water crystals clotted the fur of parka ruffs. A storm ripped Stars and Stripes shuddered in the face of a wind.

Some 20 men carefully footed their way into a semi-circle across the cement-hard snow laughing ice. Accident (Continued From Page 1) when weapons carrier driven by Albert R. Robinson of Steel Creek store on the Steese Highway ploughed into it headon. When Voight saw that was going to be hit he jumped from the cab. No one was injured but Robinson who was carted off to fedHeral jail on a charge of erating a motor vehicle while under the influence.

Nice VANCOUVER, Oct. 3, UP. T. E. McClaskey was happy when police found his car in Denver.

He was even happier when he found that since it was stolen Aug. 10 it had acquired: new white sidewall tires, a repaired generator, new fan belt, retuned engine, new clothes rack and a spotless interior. Chaplain Jameson the altar cloth on the freight deck of a tracked vehicle, then donned a grey stole. He distributed the symbolic Protestant Communion wafers, carried the flashing grail among the waiting men. Some dipped the wafer into the deep red wine.

others from the cup. Most stood as they received the Communion. One kneeled. Crew-cut, ruddy-face, stifffingered from the wind, Chaplain Jameson, stood on the great chaste altar of ice-some 50 square miles wide, possibly feet thick 120 miles The plane took off. Ice Isthe Arctic Coast of Canada (land T-3 slowly gyrated with and recited a prayer.

Radio antennae bent and the current of the Beauforti sang with the wind, snow crept Sea and vanished. over, cringed against the ever- Chaplain Jameson looked at 55-gallon oil drums. the Communion kit. He'd precurious dog named Tramp ceeded world-wide Communion Izled the leg of an airman. Sunday by four days.

It really didn't matter: the purpose had Start been served; the men of T-3 The engines of the Air Force were given a boost which came transport -Brig. Gen. Gordon with a lone airplane. Austin, head of the 11th Air Religion is adaptable. ForDivision was at the controls mality and set dates are for started.

Glaze ice from the convenient suburban churches propellors hit the fuselage with and comforatble parishes. the staccato burst of a machine So on T-3, Communion Sung gun. Iday came on a Thursday. Pickets Raise Prickly Problem for Tax People WASHINGTON, Oct. 3, (P-; aspects of the question but Half a dozen union pickets pa- believe that IRS would take raded around Internal Reve- reasonable attitude toward! nue Service headquarters Fri- such an act.

day, raising a prickly legal: The government lawyers; problem about the rights of er. speculated that, should a case rant to of this type arise, IRS lines. taxpayers respect give the taxpayers the might picket of handling the matter by mail Members of the AFL CIO for telephone. Building Service Took Over Job Union said they were on strike against Atlas Cleaning Service Atlas tock over the building cleaning job at midnight last a Chicago firm hired to night under a one-year provide janitorial services negotiated by the the IRS building. al Services Administration.

Refused to Cross like the previous contractor, Atlas does not have an agree-: IRS lawyers were asked by ment with the Building reporters what would happen ployes Union. if a taxpayer, summoned to An IRS official said Atlas the building to discuss a tax told employes of the old conquestion, refused to cross the tractor that they would be line. They said they hired only if they accepted al haven't had time to exploreipay cut to $1 an hour. MILITARY ON THE BALL They Give. Yukon Command leaders give their "fair share" to the Fairbanks United Fund.

They lead the way in the drive which is underway to get all personnel to give their "fair share." They are (1-r) Col. P. A. Loiselle, "Tourism may very well the life blood of our economy; let's not become anemic in midst of plenty," Capt Binkley, head of the committee, told the Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce. Binkley went on to point that an influx of visitors something that doesn't happen." It is a carefully planned and expedited ness.

He said that there are ways visitors come to Alaska. They drive. They come on dependent tours. Most of come on pre-arranged aged tours. He then called Ken Friske, local manager Arctic Alaska Travel Service, to outline what package involve.

Plans, Plans, Plans Friske said that at the of one tour season all the ated operators sit down to view it and plan for the one. Schedules are decided upon, folders printed mailed out to travel agents, follow up promotion and vertising in travel trade nais goes forward, Further follow-up is made during the winter by calls travel agents by officials Westours and airlines serving Alaska. Over the past 14 years Westours, the only wholesalers of Alaska tours, has accumulated a file of the top travel agents who sell Alaska. company prints 100,000 detailed tour folders yearly and a number of special ones. A package tour needs have complete and detailed arrangements for transportation, hotel rooms, sightseeing trips and transfers, These sold by the travel agents.

Tourism is highly competitive and many areas are ding for travel agents' attention and interest, Friske minded his audience. The 1960 visitor season be 40 days earlier than in with the first groups arriving in May, he said. Everett W. Patton, president of Alaska Hyway Tours, stated chat once a visitor arrives Fairbanks, the important thing is to keep him happy. They need to know what they looking at on the sightseeing tours.

They want their questions answered. "Every person in this town should be a selfappointed good will ambassador," he declared. Patton went into some detail on how the tour people were mel, greeted, taken to their hotels and how baggage was expedited. In some cases vance information is obtained where special handling of trayelers in required. Frank Whaley, tour director for Wien Alaska Airlines.

declared that package tour travelers through Fairbanks to the Arctic will exceed 5,000 in 1960. From a few hundred the numbers increased 1,900 in 1956; to 2,392 in 1957; to 2.700 in 1958 and then jumped to 4,543 this year provling that Fairbanks is the gate. way to the Arctic. California sends 52 per cent of the visitors who make the Arctic tours, a survey reveals. Wien keeps tour formation sheets where travelers can make comments.

The airline not only transcurts and houses their clients, they dress them! On the Are-! tic coast tours visitors are provided with sox, overshoes, parkas. gloves and tour guides. "kitty" Tipping is is available discouraged but instead. The money goes to provide free movie shows for the village youngsters. "People have preconceived ideas of what they want to see." Whaley said, "so we give it to them.

It doesn't matter that a kayak is used only in winter we put on demonstrations in summer. It doesn't matter that Eskimo dancing is for special occasions we arranged for them 108 nights during the visitor He then pointed out that, Vital Statistics BIRTHS Ladd AFB Hospital Sept. 28, 1959 Boy barn 10 Sic. and Mrs. Gerald Cunningham, lbs.

Fort 9 oz. Greely, at 3:15 p.m. Sept. 29, 1959 Boy born to MSgt. and Mrs.

Edward Funanich, Ladd, at 10:20 p.m.. weighino 6 Its. 1'2 or. Boy born to TSal. and Mrs.

Eugene Hensler, Ladd. al 6:36 p.m. weighing Ibs. 5: Joy Porn to Sic. and Mrs.

Roy hem, Elsison, al 7:17 p.m. weighing 8 155. 1412 born 02. ist. LI.

and Mrs. LeRoy Cicmons. Ladd, at 7:30 p.m. weighing tbs. 15 DZ.

born 10 Sic. and Mrs. Welcon Bachl. Fort Greely, at 12:37 a.m. ing 6 Ibs.

8 oZ. Marriage License Applications Gary Allen De Voss and Doris Ann Schrader. Filed for Divorce Sept. 29, 1959 Everett B. Griffin Jr.

vs. Joan Griffin. Wien icome from. visitors was well over a half million dollars this season. "And that money stays in Fairbanks," he added.

Dick Lowe, manager of the Travelers Inn aired the problems of care and feeding visitors and indicated that they accounted for about one-third of the Inn's business for the year. Discover Visitors Binkley called on Reuel Griffin to report on the tourist impact on downtown mer. chants. It seems that this year was the first time merchants had time to discover that many of their summer customers were visitors. Griffin interviewed local businessmen and found a unanimous reaction of "They saved our lives this A restaurant owner "Crefour A drug store "Made the difference between a modest profit and a tremendous loss," A gift shop "Our best year." A service station "Cash sales were about the same.

Charge accounts fell off but credit card business increased substantially, A tavern "Biggest year." A newspaper "Street sales increased by from 400 to 700 a day." Griffin said that the travelers liked to be called "visitors" not "tourists" and they loved to be asked "Where are you from?" Correction For car and gers. at He Mercy (Continued From Page 1) weighed eight pounds and three ounces. Dr. Joseph M. Ribar, the tending physician and one of the leading men in his field in Alaska, said he hoped that an exchange transfusion will be unnecessary.

The baby's condition is being watched. closely for any possible change. He said he hoped that it would be unnecessary to more than "repeated transfusions," rather than the full "exchange transfusion." Dr. Ribar said it was ex. unusual to encounter the RH factor in a mother's; first pregnancy.

To him that the dash to save the baby's was even more unusual life. He said the baby will cover but he did not go into further detail. Blood Count Meanwhile. a close check of the baby's blood count is being kept as hospital tensely awaited the climax in the case. The mother and father arc staying at the Alaska and keeping in close touch with the hospital.

to State-Wide Bar Examinations Set for Monday Twenty persons Alaska will take state bar examinations in Fairbanks, Anc' crage and Juneau next Mondry. Each acolicant was ed for the examination by the board of governors of the 1:1 Bor Assn. meeting asmoluced in Anchorage last reek. At the meeting, the beard recommended that U.S. Commissioner Leon A.

Halgren, of Anchorage, be admitted to the Alaska bar on a reciprocity basis. Halgren, it w'as determined by the board, has the professional, educa-7 ticnal and character qualifica-, tions which permit his admission. He practiced law for five! years in is approved by the National Conference of Bar Examiners. 'Battle Page' Statement Yesterday, on the NewsMiner's "battle page" for candidates in the city election Tuesday, 8 statement made by Girard K. "Jerry" Williams was mistakenly placed under a photograph of Marvin W.

Paul. Both are running for the City Council. Below appear the photos of both men, with the correct statement printed beneath William's Picture. Girard K. "Jerry" Williams, 23, 712 8th eightyear resident.

Married, two children, real estate salesman. Graduate Fairbanks High School, attended U. of A. "To lay the foundation for reorganization of faulty and wasteful city government structure: Factual results saving of tax money ($200,000 to $300,000 per year) which can be used for street paving and other capital improvements, adjustment of street paving and other capital improvements, adjustment of pay schedules. Because of my youth the policies made by the council will affect my age group for a longer period of time.

Therefore I want to make sure the policies of the city are right, because right or wrong we have to live with them." Acting Commander; Mr. Ben Kleinback, Chief, Civilian Personnel and Richard A. Bell, Sergeant Major. Receiving the donations on behalf of the United Fund Campaign Chairman. Marvin W.

Paul, 31, 1151 Ivy 13-year resident. Married, two children, manager, Union Oil. Vice president Jaycees, member senior chamber, member Denali P.TA. Statement 4.