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Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Saturday, January 11 CITY NEWS IN BRIEF i HOIKS nm' Olson is Doctor Dean F. Olson, assistant professor of business administration, has been awarded a Doctor of Business Administration Degree. His degree areas include finance, applied anthropology, business and its environment and international business. His dissertation was on "Alaskan Reindeer Herdsmen: A Study of Native Management in Transition." Dance Canceled The Fairbanks Folk Dance Club dance scheduled for tonight has been canceled because of the cold. Services Sunday Funeral Services for Mrs.

Merlin Cowell will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Chapel of the Chimes. Visitation will be held from 7-9 p.m. today. DA Receives Grant The University of Alaska has received a 510,000 grant to train administrators for rural schools in Alaska.

The grant was made by the U.S. Office of Education after application by Dr. Dayton Benjamin of the Education Department. The program will begin next fall with five fellowships for a year-long course on Alaska rural education. Graduate Study Graduate study in geology and geophysics will be offered for the first time in Anchorage by the University of Alaska this year.

The course entitled "Frontiers in Geology and Geophysics" will be taught during the spring semester at the university's Southcentral Regional Center, 1820 West Northern Lights Blvd. Home is Destroyed Fire destroyed the home of Ernest S. Wells, one-eighth mile, Chena Hot Springs Road, Thursday night. Damage estimated at $10,000. University of Alaska, Ft.

Wainwright, College and Lemeta fire departments answered the call. Papers Cited Three Alaska newspapers received Department of the Treasury "Flying Eagle" citations for public service support of the U.S. Savings Bond program in 1968, Mrs. Helen Fischer, state director, said. The Anchorage Daily News was cited for the best ad coverage in a daily and the Valley Frontiersman, Palmer, for weekly papers.

The Tundra Times received honorable mention. Fairbanksans to Juneau Plans to organize a charter flight to Juneau for Fairbanksans interested in taking part in gubernatorial inauguration ceremonies for Keith Miller were announced today by George Walton, Central district chairman for the Republican Party. Miller will be sworn in as governor at 1 p.m. Monday, Jan. 20, and a no-host banquet is planned for that evening.

Mrs. Barbara Cole of Western Travel Service, 452-1127, has been appointed chairman with Dick Ward, 452-3729, and Lucille Harkabus, 452-3524, co-chairmen. Reservations, accompanied by a deposit, must be in by Jan. 15. Medical Officers Promoted Captains Robert J.

Hawk, Paul L. Samuelsonand Jon A. Shiesl of the 5010th USAF Hospital at Eielson AFB have been selected for promotion to Major during May and June of this year, the Alaska Air Command announced. Supply Officers Cited Three Eielson AFB supply officers are among the 143 Air Force officers selected as outstanding supply services officers for 1968. They are Maj.

Robert G. Mason, and First Lieutenants Peter J. Grazianoand Rodney P. Harrison. CABU USWUTIOH DfrHTHfHT HOMES HEW CABLE BUSINESS CUSIOKERS EPIilP.

MUNICIPAL PROPOSED MAJOR IMPROVEMENTS UTILITIES SYSTEM TELEPHONE DEPARTMENT 1969-1973 EXPANSION PROGRAM WHERE THE MONEY WILL GO-The above chart, prepared by the Municipal Utilities System, shows in part where the $3 million will be spent if voters approve the bond issue to upgrade the telephone system at Tuesday's election. The large building near the center is the Globe exchange. The numbers on the and 452 represent the telephone prefixes on your dial telephones. Plans call for $300,000 to be spent on an addition to this building and $176,000 for new equipment. At lower left is a proposed new installation department building to cost $150,000 and at lower right is the PBX or private automatic branch exchange equipment atacost of $200,000.

Atupper left is the University of Alaska area with new trunk lines extending from the Fairbanks office along with new cable costing $564,000. Between the Globe exchange and the ACS or long lines office there will be additional trunks costing $60,000. Deterioration of Phone System Is Attributed to Flood, Apathy NOTE: This is the second and last of a series ofstorieson the S3 million revenue bond issue to finance improvements to the Fairbanks telephone sj'stem. The bond proposition will be voted on ByCliffHollenbeck Staff Writer The Public Utilities Board, unable to find any other solution to the increasing problem of telephone service in Fairbanks, decided late last fall to take the problem to the asking for S3 million to upgrade and expand the city-owned system. The Board resolved that "major extensions and improvements are in the best interests of the city and the telephone using public." Itsdecisionwasbasedinparton a study made by T.L.

Somers, brought in as a consultant after experience with the Pacific Northwest Bell Telephone Co. Somers studied the existing system and found parts of it incredibly outdated, worn and almost beyond repair. Two factors had contributed to the deterioration of the system. One was the 1967 Hood which caused irreparable damage. Another was the failure of Fairbanks taxpayers, principally GRATEFUL.

from Page and operates Northern Metal Works in Nome. His one employe, an Eskimo Bohrer trained to work in the sheet metal, heating and plumbing shop, is keeping the door open and the business running. Bohrer vows he'll be back at work soon. Bohrer's recollections of the fatal crash at Barrow are sketchv. "We were about four minutes out.

All I remember is a sudden bank to the right. The next thing I remember is hanging out of the wreckage, half In and half out. That's how I froze my hands. My gloves had come off and my Clark Services Are Held Today Legion Party American Legion Post No. 11 will entertain post families and their invited guests Sunday at 3 p.m.

Childrens' games begin at 3 p.m. and a ham dinner will be served at 5 p.m. by the members of the auxiliary. Dancing entertainment will begin at 7 p.m. The activities will be held at the Legion hall at 129 First Ave.

and will proceed despite the cold weather. Dinner Postponed The annual congregational dinner meeting of the University Community Presbyterian Church originally scheduled for this Sunday has been postponed until next Sunday, Jan. 19. Funeral services for Mrs. Norma Clark were held at 10 a.m.

today at the First Unitarian Church, 1011 S.W. 12th Portland, Ore. Mrs. Clark died Thursday at Woodland Park Hospital in Portland of cancer. She had been undergoing treatment there for several weeks.

She Is survived by her husband, hands were in the snow. I remember calling for help." He added, "The next thing I remember was looking up in the Barrow hospital and seeing Ann Rogersand Tweet Hardy." Miss Rogers was a public health service nurse whom Bohrer knew well when she was stationed in Nome. Mrs. Hardy, the wife of a state trooper, had also known Bohrer in Nome. Bohrer was seated in the rear seat of the Aero Commander with two other passengers.

Army Col. Charles Ellit was seated next to Bohrer and Harold Gruthius was in the left seating position. Bohrer said he has never been able to find the cause of the crash that took the lives of most of the members of the Governor's Employment Advisory Commission. That commission had held hearings in Barrow the evening of Nov. 20.

When the plane crashed it was on its way to Prudhoe Bay, Barter Island and then into Canada to visit Inuvik at the mouth of the MacKenzie River. From Inuvik, Bohrer said, the group had planned to fry back to Wainwright, Barrow and then return to Fairbanks and their respective homes. Bohrer is staying with his because of apathy, to approve a $1,226,800 revenuebond issue in 1965. Only 912 citizens went to the polls, a majority of them opposed to the proposition, and the vote was 573 to 339 against. Somers concluded that $3 million, when added to profits by the utility, would be required to bring the telephone system up to standard and to take care of almost certain requirements up to 1974.

The system has been growing by leaps and bounds, particularly in the past year. The increased business due to the impact of the oil discovery on the North Slope resulted in a net gain of 1200 telephones from November, 1967 through 1968. A net gain of 450 telephones has been the average over past years. Not only was there the heavy gain, but there are 461 orders for new telephones which have not been filled because of a lack of facilities. Somers recommended a necessarily expensive program.

It covered major cable expansions and extensions, central office equipment and switchboards and buildings and building additions. Major expenditures included $564,192 to be spent on the Greenwood exchange and University area, and $925,228 on the Globe exchange. As an example of the cost, 306,750 of cable is required for the Greenwood exchange and University area at a cost of $311,640. Cable for the Globe exchange is estimated at $474.500. Labor costs were estimated in excess of $700,000, providing employment for a large number of workers in the area.

Also employing workers in the area would be the construction of an addition to the Globe building at a cost of $300,000 and construction of a maintenance building at $150,000. An additional $437,000 is needed for contingencies. Revenue bonds are paid back out of revenues received by the telephone department and are not added to the tax rolls of the city. Thus far there has been no organized opposition to the proposal, but telephone officials fear that once again apathy might prevent approval of the issue. It usually happens that those persons opposed to an issue turn out and vote while those favoring do not go to the polls.

Jim Movius, general manager of the Municipal Utility System, had this to say on the question: "Should the bond issue fail Tuesday, we arent going to be able to extend service to people who want and need it. As far as we are concerned, the election cant fail, if we are to provide anything that approaches quality service. As I have said, we are stretched to the limits with out present commitments." Mosbacher Named Chief of Protocol NEW YORK. (AP)-President-elect Nixon today named yachtsman Emil "Bus" Mosbacher Jr. to be his administration's chief of protocol.

Secretary of State-designate William P. Rogers announced the selection of the two-time skipper of victorious U.S. entries in the Americas Cup yacht races. Mosbacher said, "up until about three days ago" he had been involved in preparations for the next Americas Cup competition in 1970. He said it had been planned he would once again skipper the yacht Intrepid.

"I certainly hope he can compete," Rogers said. Mosbacher is a New York real estate investor and oil and gas producer, and a graduate of Dartmouth College. His wife, Patricia Ryan Mosbacher, had the same maiden name as Mrs. Nixon, although they are not related. Mosbacher said he speaks no foreign languages and has no prior experience in protocol work.

But Rogers said there are plenty of protocol experts in the State Department to handle the technical side of social and state visit arrangements. He said Mosbacher has wide acquaintance with people abroad and can make a very important contribution to international relations. Nixon has settled for the for- seeable future an internal debate over the leadership of the Republican National Committee by asking Ray C. Dliss Lc remain its chairman. No specific period was disclosed and Bliss not discuss the question of how long he might continue.

But a key political aide to the President-elect says Nixon's request means LBJ's Farewell Set for Tuesday WASHINGTON (AP) President Johnson will deliver his farewell State of the Union message at a nationally televised joint session of Congress at 9 P.ID. EST Tuesday, the White House announced today. Press Secretary George Christian said that Johnson was putting the finishing touches on his message in his office today. Christian said the budget message will be sent to Congress after Johnson has delivered his State of the Union message, but he gave no date for the budget's submission. He said an economic message would follow.

Christian indicated with a gesture of the hand that Johnson had received no comitment from President-elect Nixon about troublesome question of whether to recommend an extension of the 10 per cent income surtax. Asked for a yes or no on this matter, Christian merely smiled and held his hands palm up. Christian said Johnson planned to spend a family weekend at Camp David. He added that some friends and staff members may join him. But he said he does not expect the President to leave the closely guarded area during a visit expected to end Sunday night The President and Mrs.

Johnson expect to fly to New York Monday where they will be guests at a dinner. Previously, Senate Democratic Leader luixe Mansfield of Montana had said Johnson was reluctant to deliver his State of the Union message in person. JV.ansfield said the outgoing President did not want to project himself into the political picture at a time when a new president is about to take over. However, Mansfield said he and other Democratic leaders had urged Johnson, who served many years in Congress, to say a farewell to former colleagues and to the country. Johnson' scheduling of the State of the Union message for Tuesday indicated clearly he has Troubled College Campuses Enjoy inng Weekend Calm ANCHORAGE-The $228,139 court award handed down Thursday in the death of Mrs.

Patricia Phillips probably will be appealed, an attorney said yesterday. The award, one of the largest personal injury verdicts in the state's 10-year history, was given State Sen. E. Bradford Phillips by Superior Judge Eben H. Lewis.

Lewis ruled that poor maintenance of the Seward Highway contributed to the automobile accident that killed Mrs. Phillips. Charles W. Hagans, Anchorage attorney who represented the state's insurance carrier in the losing two-year legal battle, said today, "In all likelihood, there will bean appeal." John Clark of 336 Slater a Bohrer is staying with his daughter, Georgia, San Francisco; daughter Mrs. Beverly Bradley 771771 while- hp mmnlptps hlfi mpriiral a son, Kelly, who was called back from Vietnam by his mother's illness; and three daughters in Fairbanks, Theresa, Sally, a Lathrop High School student, and Mrs.

Susie Perneskie. She is also survived by two grandsons. Mrs. Clark had lived in Fairbanks since 1939 and was active in many civic projects, principally fund drives like the March of Dimes. She was an active member of the Unitarian Fellowship congregation here.

while he completes his medical treatment. His daughter is a nurse's aide and was with her father all the time he was' hospitalized at Bassett and In Anchorage. Bohrer's wife Pearl, who had in the meantime returned to Nome, made several trips to Anchorage during his hospitalizatton. "Christmas the doctors let me go to my daughter's house. That the most wonderful 'Christmas I've ever had," he said.

Communion A communion service will be held Sunday In First Church of Christ, Scientist, 811 First Avenue, at 11:00 a.m. open to the community. The Lesson-Sermon is titled "Sacrament," and the Golden Text is from I Samuel: "Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Negro militants who have seized buildings at Brandeis University and Swarthmore College defied evacuation orders today, but an uneasy weekend calm to other U.S. campuses troubled by postholiday student demonstrations. At Brandeis, in Waltham, the faculty voted 153 to 47 to grant a Negro demand for the establishment of an Afro-American studies department.

However, 65 students for the fourth day continued to occupy a building containing the campus telephone switchboard and a $200,000 computer. Their leaders were invited to a meeting with the faculty during the afternoon. The Drandeis black rebels had ignored a court order to restore the building to school administrators. At Swarthmore College near Philadelphia 15 members of the Afro- American Student Society declared they would retain possession of the administration building, seized Friday, until they won concessions for Negro students. Meanwhile trustees of New York's Columbia University, where demonstrations by student radicals halted classes last spring, were hit from the right flank when 12 students with conservative leanings filed a court suit to oust them.

The conservative group asserted that the campus disturbances resulted from the failure of the trustees to "safegard the interests of nonradical and conservative students." At a news conference a group ftpejslpnt spokesman, Vincent J. Rigdon, paper has gone to hell," said one of the regents, Gordon Walker of Racine. At San Francisco State College in California, for weeks a center of turmoil over Negro student demands for special privileges and the scene this week of a teachers' strike, peaceful picketing ushered out the week. The Black Student Union and the administration of San Fernando Valley State, near Los Angeles, announced a truce in student racial demonstrations which reached a climax Wednesday in a clash with police. Death of Former WALTHAM, Mass.

(AP)Brandeis University President Morris B. Abram today suspended the 65 Negro students who took over the university communications center four days ago. The president said he would specify the university's next move at a conference. remarked: "I suppose well be branded as Birchers because of this, but none of us Is any farther right than Nixon." The trustees have 20 days in i which to file a reply to the State Supreme Court action. In Madison, University of Wisconsin Board of Regents voted to void the campus publishing privileges of the student newspaper, The Dally Cardinal, unless It quits using four letter words and adopts high editorial standards.

"As far as I'm concerned, the Francis Irby Sims, Alaska highway inspector in Fairbanks until three months ago, died Dec. 31 in Sebastopol, Calif. He had served with the highway department for eight years. Funeral services were held Jan. 3 and burial services were at Sebastopol.

He is survived by his widow, Hollie; his mother, Mrs. Verna Sims in Mississippi; three brothers, Leland in Kansas, Billy, Mississippi, and Jack, Alabama, and a sister, Laury Pryor in Mississippi given up hope of getting any commitment from Nixon on the tax issue. The President is represented as wanting to submit a nearly balanced budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1. Aides have said it would be difficult for him to achieve such a balance without proposing that Congress continue, in some form, the tax which now is bringing in around $12 billion in revenue a year. Bliss will remain in the party post for "a substantial period" unless he decides to leave.

Nixon is known to have considered replacing Bliss with a chairman more talented in public political salesmanship. Some men among Nixon's circle of advisers had advocated this course. A possible compromise also had been considered, that of assigning a new party spokesman to work with Bliss at the national committee. One man who had been under consideration for that role was Bud Wilkinson, the television sport seas ter who has been named a special White House consultant. But that idea is now said to have been dropped.

Bliss, 61, has been chairman since April 1, 1965. His field is organization technical he shuns the public speaking, banquet circuit approach. His constituency is among organization Republicans, state and national committeemen, for example, and their support is believed to have been a factor in the decision to have him remain. Bliss spent about two hours. with Nixon Friday.

"He expressed complete satisfaction with the job being done by me as Republican national chairman," Bliss said. In the view of some Nixon associates, the retention of Bliss means that activities by the Republican senatorial and congressional campaign committees will be upgraded. Petroleum Club Hikes Charter Member Time Charter membership in the Fairbanks Petroleum Club has been extended to Jan. 25 or until a 250 membership count is reached, acting president Stan Davis said to day. A deadline for Dec.

31 had been set previously as the charter membership cutoff. said 195 members have already joined the club, the 27th such petroleum club in the United States. At a meeting of the membership Friday, Davis, Vernon Forbes, Ralph Bailey, Bill Stroecker, Bill Green and Julian Rice were appointed as a nominating committee for permanent officers. By-laws of the new organization were reviewed and will be presented for final action at the Feb. 14 meeting of the Petroleum Club.

Davis said his organization accepted an offer from the Travelers Inn to hold their meetings in the hotel's Gold Room. AI Parrish, mcnagerof the Travelers, offered the facility rent free for three months. The club members will eventually select a permanent site with private club rooms. The Feb. 14 meeting will be held at 4 p.m.

at the Travelers. Scouting Review By PETROLELM PLBLICATIO.VS. BP Exploration U.S.A. was rigging upon anew wildcat well, called the BP 33-11-13, this week. It will apparently be drilled before the Sag Delta No.

1 location. BP Exploration's Put River No. 1 is on "tight hole" status but an unofficial report is that the casing has collapsed in the well and the company may have to move to a new hole. Believed to be drilling ahead this week on the Slope is the Atlantic Richfield Co. operated Delta State No.

1 and the company is believed rigging up to spud the Toolik Federal No. 1 wildcat sometime this month. The Mobil Oil Corp. Kuparuk State No. 1 is believed to be boring ahead at an unknown depth this week.

Also on the Slope, Sinclair Oil Corp. was moving in to the Sinclair BP Ugnu No. 1 location and Colorado Oil and Gas was moving in and rigging up at the Shaviovik Unit No. 1 this week but no spud date has been estimated for either well. Pan American Petroleum Corp.

moving in to the Kavik No. 1 location and Standard Oil Co. of California was moving in and rigging up at the SOCAL 31-25 location this week, both expecting to spud sometime this month. In Cook Inlet Basin wildcat activity this Standard Oil Co of California was drilling ahead the Tyonek Unit Moquawkle 44-8 and Shell OH Co. was believed drilling ahead on the Kustatan River No.

1, which is on "tight hole" status. Gulf Oil Corp was building a road and location to the Middle Lake Unit No 1 and expect to spud the well within the next week or two. The only wildcat well out on the Alaska Peninsula, the Pan American Petroleum Corp. operated David River No. 1-A, WM drilling ahead this week on "tight hole" status.

In development well activity this week in the Cook Inlet Basin, a well wasreported completed at the American Baker platform in the Middle Ground Shoal field. Another well wts testing at the same platform this week. In the McArthur River field, still leading in the number of active development wells this week, the rig was released from one weU to spud one of the active The lone platform in the North Cook Inlet Gas Field, the Phillips Petroleum Tyonek, had one well being cleaned out testing this week and Phillips expected to another well at the platform this week. No development wells were active at Granite Point this week. The active development wells, not testing, by platform this week are as follows: McARTHUR RIVER FIELD: Dolly Varden (Marathon Oil operated) Grayling (Union Oil operated) King Salmon (Atlantic Richfield operated) -2 -2 -2 MIDDLEGROUND SHOAL Platform "C'(ShellOiloperated) TRADING BAY FIELD: Spark (Atlantic Richfield operated) -1 -1.