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CITY NEWS BRIEF Ctean-Up Week The days of May through! May 22 of this year have been tentatively set for Clean-Up Week in Fairbanks, according ID Glenn Hackney, chairman of Clean-Up Week for this year. Hackney was appointed recently as "the chairman by the i Chamber of Commerce ct Directors. "With Fairbanks Ihe official centennial center for the State of Alaska in 1967." Hackney reports. "Fairbanks- ans must begin to focus their I attention on making their community presentable for th many thousands of anticipate visitors during the next years." Human Engineering Bernie Jacobson will discus "Human Engineering in Operation" at the Feb. 17 meet ing of the Arctic Branch, Amer ican Association for the Ad vancement of Science.

Jacob son is with the U. S. Arm Arctic Test Board at Ft. Wain wright. The meeting will held at 8 p.m.

in the Mine Building on the university cam pus. Sweetheart Ball The annual Eagles St. Valen tine's Sweetheart Ball will held in the Eagles Hall tonight The dance will begin at 9 p.m A midnight buffet will be serv ed. Music will be by Colin Mac Donald and the Frigidaires. Al Eagles members, the auxiliary and their invited guests are in vited.

Curlers Work There will be work parties for all curlers today, Sunday and next week. The ice and club rooms will be prepared for the international bonspiel which will be held in Fairbanks Feb 18 to Feb. 22. There will be work for anyone who shows up. Work parties are scheduled for Monday, Tuesday and Wednes clay evenings.

Daily FAIR BAN "America's Farthest North Daily Member of The Associated Press I-ATE EDITION 15( Per Copy FAIRBANKS, AlASKA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1965 Fourteen Pages No. 37 TALKS CLIMATE CHILLY Who Is the Tar-get That Gets Them Down? Self Help Course There will be a medical self help course given at the Fairbanks Health Center beginning Thursday, Feb. 18 from 7 to 1( p.m. The class will be limited to the first 20 persons who cali 456-5133 between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.

Another class will be started in March for those who cannot be accommodated in the February class. Jewish Torah The 1965 Jewish Torah Convocation will be held at 2:15 p.m Sunday at the post chapel an nex on Ft. Wainwright. Rabbi Abraham Avrech of Yeshiva University in New York will discuss current issues in Jewish life. A brunch and reception will precede the lecture.

The reception and lecture are open to the public. Valentine Smorgasbord A Valentine smorgasbord will be held at the Switzerland Club Sunday from 3 to 7 p.m. Sponsored by the Lathrop Band Parents Club, the affair will benefit the Lathrop band students who will be going to the Northwest Band conference in Portland in March. The smorgasbord is open to the public. Osborn Rites Monday Rev.

Fred Savage will con duct the funeral service foi Mrs. Myrtle Osborn Monday. The service wilt be held ai 1 p.m. in the Fairbanks Memorial Chapel with interment in Northern Lights Memorial Park. Viewing hours have been set for 2 to 4 p.m.

and 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday at the chapel. Reception for Bartlett The Central District Democratic Committee will sponsor a no-host reception for Sen. E. L.

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"Committee for Civic Improvement" comes a voice. The organization is a new one. The speaker claimed it had quite a few" members. Asked of the organization's goals, he said: "Let's put it this way. We are upset about several things in the community." Specifics? "Sure responded the voice.

"The fire chief deal for one And another would be the Grand Jury investigations A third might be the business leaving or not coming to the city because of the five per cent sales tax "To what use might these materials be put?" inquired We me the candid re y- "Bathers are normally used for stuffing pillows and tar is normally used for re- The man would not divulge his name, so he couldn't be signed on as a comedian. "Of course," he went on, "if anyone wants to draw their own conclusions, that's their business." More specific information could not be squeezed out or him. "Well, how about giving me a call if you intend to use (he materials? the reporter said, dreaming of a press club award. mean when we repair the roof?" Wise guy. "No.

I mean if you use the two materials simultaneously. "For news coverage?" he queried "Yes." But he wouldn't promise to give the tip off. The ad is scheduled to run three days. Someday the News-Miner may run another story about the Committee for Civic Improvement. Garefh Wright Favored to Win Dog Race Sunday Gareth Wright, making his final appearance on the Fairbanks trails before the North American championship races March 19-2J, is favored to win his fourth straight sled dog race of the year Sunday.

Race time is p.m. at the fairgrounds starting chutes. Wright, who won the preseason training race then went on to win the 10-mile event in a record-breaking 35.27 minutes, followed up with a record breaking 43.48 in the 12-miler. Refreshments are available at the warm-up shack at the starting area and ample parking facilities are maintained ay the Mushers. Abel Plans Vote Protest PITTSBURGH (AP) I.

W.i bel spoke out for the first time! close United Steel-! election and said I plans were being made to pro-i test voting procedures. In a statement, Abel gave Evidence Cold but Police Happy State Police in Fairbanks are hot on the trail of a driver who left the scene of an accident but who unwittingly left behind some cold and fairly conclusive evidence. The evidence: An almost perfect imprint of the auto's license plate in the snow. An automobile traveling toward Fairbanks on College Road sometime early this morning went off the road and plowed into the snow filled ditch. The driver, whose name is still unknown, went across the road to the Lemeta-College Fire Hall and helped himself to a big, red tanker truck and pulled his own auto out of the ditch.

In attempting to return the fire engine to its heated garage, the driver put that vehicle in the ditch. A volunteer fireman on his way to work early this morning discovered the fire engine with Administration Silent On Viet Nam Plans Officials Say There Is No Optimism That One-Day Lull in Terrorist Attacks Will Have Lasting Significance WASHINGTON (AP) The Johnson administration was officially silent today about proposals for a negotiated settlement of the Viet Nam war. The climate appeared chilly. Officials said privately the United States has never ruled out peace talks and that it is up to North Viet Nam and Communist China to halt guerrilla attacks South Viet Nam. Warehouse In Saigon Blows Up on Besides, there is no optimism here that the one-day lull in ter- rorise attacks in South Viet Nam will have any lasting significance.

Still, there is hope that the Communists will come to regard their attacks on South Viet Nam as too expensive an undertaking to run the risk of further reprisals and will decide SAIGON. South Viet Nam (AP) A military warehouse to coexist peacefully with their, or storing oxygen tanks neighbors. up this evening, casting a No Surrender I pall of smoke over Saigon. Officials maintain the United Most of Saigon's fire brigade States could not discuss terms that would amount to surrender of South Viet Nam to the Reds. As one high source put it: "If they want us out of South Viet was called out to stem the flames because of fears the fire might engulf several other oxygen sheds.

The explosion was inside one Nam, a good way would be to of Saigon's, main Vietnamese call off their guerrillas and! milltar compounds, in a one- leave the country alone." story concrete warehouse. Secretary of State Dean Rusk Authorities declined to say has expressed a similar view I Aether Jhey thought sabotage repeatedly. White House press secretary George E. Reedy refused to comment on a proposal by U.N. Secretary-General Thant Friday that both sides in the Viet was involved.

There were no reports of serious casualties. Only one American adviser worked in compound and he was not hurt. Tens of thousands of specta- LOVE YOU SLlRP-Mhjht wot be puppy love, but Sunday belongs to lovers. NEWS-MINER-COLOR Photo Larry Crackel Pollock Encourages Republicans Anchorage Howard 'Pollock told Fairbanks Republi- cans night that he is still Strikes in Viel Nam Spread JAKARTA.vJndonesia (AP-) --i bruises when -struck by stones, A mob shouting'! bottles and other missiles. "crush' America" marched' otff Several demonstrators were the U.S.

embassy in Jakarta today as against U.S. air 'strikes-Mil North Viet Nam roughed up by police. Police Turnout The police turnout was the Friday I jutting out on College I was ate. iu uguie uui nyw, in a nurui viei nam me police turnout was tne Democratic landslide year, he spread'- to other parts of the largest seen in Paris since the ivoc nIn 1-1 fart in Hin Oni-. i 'iniJ I.L.-- Al A 11, chief the volunteer fire department, said to file protests that could throw the election into the courts.

Until now. there had been happened about a.m. The water stored in the tanker truck had not frozen. However, the jonly muttenngs from his sup-1 grab rail on the rear of the porters and the backers of in-(truck was broken and was ap- cumbent President David J. Me-1 parently used to attach the Donald.

Abei, the union ssecre-j tow rope or chain, whichever tary-treasurer, leads McDonald was used by a slim margin in the unoffi- Schalk said the tanker could ciai Associated Press count. (have been completely useless "We are in the process of col-1 if it had been left out much Feb. 13. Decreasing cloudiness and colder tonight. Mostly fair Sunday.

Low tonight -32; high Sunday low last night -20; high yesterday 20; temperature at 11 a.m. -17. Sunrise Sunday 7:54 a.m. and sunset 4:19 p.m. giving a total af eight hours and 25 minutes of lecting information on voting irregularities in a number of places," Abel said, "and we believe that as a result of the protests which will be filed, the incumbent president will lose many thousands of additional votes." Abel also predicted he would eventually win by 10,000 votes.

But he declined to claim victory outright. There was no immediate comment from the McDonald camp, but his supporters have been trading charges with the Abel camp almost from the moment the polls opened. Abel did not mention in his statement any specific targets of the protests. longer. NAACP Warns Negro Athletes CHAMPAIGN, 111.

(AP) -Negro athletes are being advised by a University of Illinois chapter of the NAACP not to enroll at the Big Ten Conference school. In a resolution, the chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Friday charged certain coaches had warned Illini Negro athletes "to limit their coeducational social contacts to fellow Negroes." The coaches were not identified. elected to the State' Sen He spoke at the annual Lincoln' Day dinner held by Fairbanks Republicans. He admonished unsuccessful Republican candidates to stay- active and run again for public office. face it.

a very rough for Republicans the likes of which I hope we will never, The for Democrat landslide in reeent history, Pollock said, was 4he superb public relations work of the Democrat party. Against Goldwater It was not so much a world; including Paris and San Francisco, Ab.out 500 members of the parly youth wing marched in front of the embassy in. Jakarta for about a half hour. They dispersed five of them presented a petition to a staff member. The embassy was closed lor the weekend and; only a--few diplomats were on duty.

Riot Police Riot police armed with.rifles and steel -helmets 'sur- I I ov 11JUI.U a JJUU11U relations program for Johnson. Pollock said, as it was against Goldwater. rdurided the errfbassy building. There was no violence and no damage was The 'AiPIndonesian Oil Workers 'Federation asked the government to expropriate companies in a violent days during the Algerian rebellion. In San Francisco, demonstrators hoisted the Conjmunist Viet 'Cong flag atop thef-city's new federal building.

lowered the red and blue banner. -About 500 persons marched in front of the bnrlding. -State Assemblyman John Francisco, told them: "We want' the war in South 'Viet Nam stopped and we want it stopped The group then marched downtown. About 100 Communist (Continued Tn age 77 4) against the American reprisal! SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -air raids. The Communist Viet Cong flag "I don't know how many Re-1 Paris police got rough with publicans there are in the about 801) youths' who heeded 'a United States today, but -there Communist call to demonstrate were 57 miiiinn in front Embassy there.

They drove the demonstrators away from the embassy building, then grappled with some of them in a running fight along the Seine. The youths chanted "Johnson assassin!" and "Peace in Viet Witnesses said at least 10 I policemen suffered cuts and were 27.5 million Americans who voted for Barry Goldwater despite the vicious propaganda juggernaut directed at him," he said. The minority of the Republican party who would not support Goldwater also contributed substantially to the defeat of (Contlnuea on 7, Col. t) was run up the flagpole of the San Francisco federal building Friday by demonstrators protesting counterattacks in North'Viet Nam. The flag was swiftly hauled down by General Service Administration guards.

Police said about 500 persons participated. The demonstrators marched into downtown San Francisco after' the appearance at the federal building. There were no arrests. Gusty WiridCut Visibility Three inches 'of snow and gusty winds combined to decrease visibility in Fairbanks Friday, but travel on highways and at Fairbanks International Airport remained near normal despite drifting conditions. There were some delays in aircraft arrivals.

plows removed on the runway, but ho were turned away. 0 i i al measurement of snowfall at Bureau shows 2.7 'jtiches of snow, during, ithe 24-hotir 'period beginning at Friday. Winds recorded most of yesterday with some-- gusts Beaching 23 miles per hour. In Anchorage a 6.6 inch snow blanket- cov.e)-ed rriaking'the total snowfall there 69.9 inches. The fp a for Interior Alaska -is decreasing cloudiness -and colder.

A temperature of -32 is predicted for tonight. Sentenced to Death MOSCOW (AP) The Soviet Union has sentenced to death a Russian who failed in an attempt to hijack a plane and force its pilot to fly to Turkey. The official Soviet news agency Tass said Friday that the sentence' was handed down by the Supreme Court of the Moravian region. Nam conflict begin talks 'tors on foot and on bicycles preparatory to negotiations. i jammed streets leading to the State Department officials Compound, blocking movement said they found Thant's emergency vehicles.

al vague and viewed it as All of Saigon is jumpy with public statement rather than as of new Viet Cong a formal proposal to govern- terror bombings, particularly ments that would be involved, in view of this week's air raids Senate support for negotiation on Communist North Viet Nam. came from several sources, in-i Earlier today, planes dumped eluding Sen. J. W. Fulbright.

D-' tons of leaflets over the city. chairman of the Senate! giving details of the air raids Foreign Relations Committee, and explaining to the people He called Thant's proposal a why they were carried out. good suggestion, and added: i Along with the jitters over "Personally, I think it is al- possible return strikes from ways wiser to talk than to fight 1 North Viet Nam. a twin-engine when you can get the parties; airplane that failed to file a together." (light plan put the newly in- In Chicago. Senate Republi- stalled U.S.

Hawk antiaircraft can leader Everett Dirksen of missile battery to a test at Da Illinois predicted military action Nang air base north of here Fri- in Viet Nam may be increased; day. The plane proved to be soon. 'friendly, but not before causing Dirksen spoke on a taped ra- a combat alert. dio broadcast and said nothing -about negotiation. The United States should meet increased Viet Cong attacks on U.S.

military posts with "equal if not greater intensity and with more weapons and greater firepower." Dirksen said In a related development, in- PldneS May D6 nt V-OUSC OT BldSt formed sources reported Friday over that Prime Minister Harold Wif- Police son has told President Johnson several ar A building-shaking blast at 10 a toda was apparently supersonic aircraft aused tn residents from in the city report- Britain supports U.S. actions i the blast. At the White Swan Viet Nam but is interested i a 314 Wendell, three finding ways toward a peaceful i windows were reported broken settlement. cracked. Wilson called the President' "We were just startled." said Thursday.

Johnson's reply was Jackie Marion, bookkeeper for not disclosed. Lo-gshoremen Return to Work NEW YORK (AP) Longshoremen went back to work today in New York and other 1 ports, ending a 33-day-old dock strike. Dockworkers at most major East and Gulf Corst ports also were heading back to the pjpr But local disputes continued tie up South Atlantic and W- ern Gulf ports where negotiations were in weekend The longshoremen onto Hudson River piers at 8 a.m. and began work Saturday overtime rates. Thi-ir return came after their union president agreed to recommendations of a presidential panel that the strike end in all ports where settlements have been reached.

i laundry. "At first we thought someone had dropped something heavy and looked for that." thinkm ers? "Wonder ifn civte itnproovment fellers 'bout city.