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CITY NEWS IN BRIEF Daily News 'America's Farthest North Daily Newspaper Since Member of The Associated Press VOL, XLV 15c Per Copy FAIRBANKS, ALASKA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1 968 Fourteen Pages No. 48 Heritage Day American Heritage Day will be celebrated Sunday with speeches by Dr. William R. Wood, president of the University ot Alaska; former territorial federal judge Vernon D. Forbes and Col.

Louis W. Rohr, commanding officer of Eielson Air Force base. The activity has been organized by the Tundra Chapter of Jaycees of Eielson Air Force base. Time is 2 p.m. and the place is Bering Auditorium.

The public is invited. Agoff Killed Sergey E. Agoff, lifetime resident of Flat, was killed instantly Feb. 21 when hit by a train on a crossing in Sweet Home, Ore. Mr.

Agoff was associated with Prince Creek Mining Co. at Flat. His family lives at 1135 Ironwood Sweet Home, Ore. Tourist Statistics The chamber log cabin averaged 320 tourist registrations daily from May 28 until the flood last year. For the same 77-day period in 1966, the average was 324.

Registration peaks were during the Golden Days weekends, with a 3,000 daily registrations each year. Choir Benefit Tickets for the recital given by Prof. Jean-Paul Billaud on Feb. 28 and 29 are available at Adler's Book Shop, in the downtown area, and at the university book store on campus. The Choir of the North will also be selling tickets.

The concert will be presented at 8:15 p.m. in Schaible Auditorium both evenings. American Legion The American Legion and the Legion Auxiliary will hold a joint meeting Monday at 8 p.m. at the Legion Hall at 129 First Ave. Church Swim Methodist and Episcopal swim will take place at the Patty Pool Saturday 6 to 7 p.m.

Fee is 50 cents. Unitarian Fellowship Bill and Carolle Erkelens will speak to the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Sunday at 10 a.m. at the Masonic Temple. Their subject will be "Japan," and their talk will be illustrated with movie slides. Arctic Capers "Up, Up and Away!" will again be presented tonight in Bering Auditorium at 8.

The production is sponsored by the Lathrop High School class of '68. Tickets are $1, and proceeds go into a scholarship program. Dog Mushers Alaska Dog Mushers Association will meet Monday evening at the Club Switzerland. Meeting time is 8 p.m. (For more neiis activities and notices of the meetings of clubs and organizations, see Cbmntuni'rv Erents, Page2.) Jane Haycraft Is New Miss Alaska Next Trip Will Be New Jersey ANCHORAGE (Special) Shapely brunette Jane Haycraft of Fairbanks was selected Miss Alaska 1968 from among 23 contestants here last night.

Another Interior Alaska beauty, Leora Ruthie Kenick, Miss Eskimo Olympics, received a talent award, but she was not among the finalists. Miss Haycraft, who is 5 feet 9 inches and measures 36-26-38, wore a white gown with white sequins in front in the evening gown competition, and for the a portion she sang, accompanying herself on guitar, the song "Phil" which she had composed herself. Needn't Worry Miss Haycraft, who said earlier this week she was afraid of the swimsuit competition, won that event Thursday night. Runners-up in the competition held at West High auditorium were Cynde Caywood, Miss Sitka; Ruthye Barrett, Miss Anchorage; Deborah Smith, Miss Alaska Methodist University; and Rhea Bowman, Miss Big Lake. Miss Petersburg, Cheryl Richmond, was selected Miss Congeniality.

In the poise and a i section, Miss Haycraft answered a question about Alaska which she had answered in local competition. She said: "Alaska is my state and I love it. Its people are friendly and warm, and I want to spread it through the United States and let them know Alaska has much to offer." Miss Haycraft will go to Atlantic City, N.J. to represent Alaska in the Miss America contest this summer. Pageant celebrities included Vonda Kay VanDyke, Miss America of 1965.

Jane Haycraft was crowned by the former Miss Alaska, Miss Penny Thomasson. Golden Days Plug Mrs. Ronald Slaymaker, Jane's hostess and chaperone here, said before the competition she felt Jane was a winner because she had had a winner every year since 1966. That year, she chaperoned Nancy Wellman, who won the title. In 1967, she was hostess foi Liz Griffin, talent winner and first runner-up.

OUR MISS ALASKA A senior at Lathrop High and a top student, Miss Jane Haycraft is Miss Alaska of 1968 for the Miss America contest. Jane is the daughter of banker Col. Kenneth Haycraft and Mrs. Haycraft, an elementary school teacher. She is active in student activities, including band and choir.

(News-Miner Staff Photo) Angered at Rep. Young Storms Out of Committee Partly cloudy tonight and Sunday with brief light snow. Colder tonight and Sunday with probability of measurable precipitation near zero. High yesterday -3, low last night -7. Low tonight will be -20, high Sunday -5 to -10.

Eleven a.m. temperature -2. Sunrise tomorrow 7:16 a.m., sunset 4:55 p.m. for a total of 9 hours and 39 minutes of daylight and a gain of 6 over today. Elsewhere Anchorage, snow, 28 and 25; Barrow, cloudy, -25 and -30; Bethel, clear, -8 and -15; Homer, cloudy, 32 and 28; Juneau, cloudy, 43 and 33; Kenai, snow, 28 and 27; Kotzebue, clear, -29 and -48; Nome, clear, -9 and -30; Sitka, 31 and 26; Atlanta, cloudy, 38 and 27; Chicago, snow, 35 and 21; Denver, cloudy, 55 and 31; Fort Worth, clear, 38 and 25; Helena, cloudy, 54 and 39; Kansas City, cloudy, 36 and 28; Louisville, clear, 37 and 14; Miami, rain, 76 and 62; New York, clear, 39 and 17; Phoenix, clear, 76 and 48; Portland, cloudy, 63 and 49; San Francisco, fair, 64 and 54; Seattle, cloudy, 56 and 47.

Miss Haycraft rode in the annual Fur Rendezvous parade here today in 20-degree weather. The area was thronged. The procession included 42 floats, two of which were from Fairbanks. One is a tea kettle car George Clayton drives in the Golden Days parade in Fairbanks. The other is a Model promoting the Golden Days festival slated in Fairbanks in July.

Wives of Chamber of Commerce members wore oldtime costumes. The entry was arranged by Ron Davis, chairman of the Golden Days Festival committee. Circuit Failure Darkens Rural Area for 3 Hours Rural houses were cool and dark for a spell last night when a main oil circuit in Golden Valley Electric's downtown plant malfunctioned. Widespread power outages lasted up to three hours. Nenana and the Healy Valley were the only areas not affected.

The first outage occurred at about 5:30 p.m. and ended by 6:45 p.m. The second failure occurred at 9:30 p.m. Power was restored to the entire system before midnight. Robert a line superintendent, said the faulty circuit has been isolated and will be checked out thoroughly.

JUNEAU Angered by three Fairbanks legislators' failure to support a bill for a statewide grain incentive program, Rep. Don Young, R-Fort Yukon, stormed out of a House Resources Committee meeting here, accusing its members of having "closed minds." Rep. Young is a sponsor of the bill proposed initially by the a a a a A i Committee, a recently organized group of Interior farmers. i a i development of the small grains in appropriate areas throughout the state, the proposed program arose out of the Legislative Audit Committee's probe into the defunct agricultural revolving loan fund last year. The resources committee's negative response to the bill resulted in a move to hold it for further consideration at a later date.

Rep. John Holm, R-Fairbanks, i i philosophical implications, but did not elaborate on his objections to it. Rep. Tury Andrson, also a Fairbanks Republican, offered no comments, although he had earlier endorsed the plan during its inception at several farmer's meetings in Fairbanks late last year. Rep.

Jules Wright, D-Fairbanks, who had not been involved in these series of discussions on the program in Fairbanks, signalled "thumbs down" when asked whether he favored the bill. Committee chairman Carl Moses, R-Unalaska, said he would hold the bill in committee until another sponsor, Rep. Jalmar Kerttula, D-Palmer, House Minority Leader, returns to Juneau. He was out of town Friday. Meanwhile, Rep.

Young said he hopes to drum up more support for the bill. He also plans to bring expert witnesses here to testify when the bill goes before the House Finance Committee, whose chairman, Rep. Harold Standburg, R-Anchorage, also a i a Audit Committee, has already indicated that the program would get serious consideration. Solons Seek to Clip Wings of Land Office JUNEAU Delivering a sharp slap on the wrists of the state Division of Lands, the Legislative Council today unanimously endorsed a bill prescribing regulations for the sale of a i i i a a i a state lands, heretofore handled by the division. Contending that the division has historically exercised arbitrary restrictions inhibiting the sale of state land in the a i i i a recreational categories, the council drafted a forceful bill which would remove much of the division's authority in this area.

It pertains only to five-acre i a a i a unclassified plots of land outside a 24-mile limit of cities with 3,000 population or more. The proposal would require the division to issue one lease per applicant after certain minimal procedures are met, and prohibits him from denying a lease, except in writing, for good cause. The bill also specifies that lease terms must include an option to buy at the fair market price, or $100 per acre, whichever is less. It also gives priority to someone who has already established squatter's rights on a plot of land. The council emphasized action with an accompanying resolution which directs the Division of Lands to terminate any existing programs that conflict with the bill's intent.

The resolution also orders the division to discontinue wholesale lease or sale of adjacent sites on i a a i a unclassified lands. This provision implicitly i i i i i development, which the council feels is contrary to the use of recreational or potentially recreational lands. Both pieces of legislation will be introduced in the Legislature Monday afternoon. NEWS In Brief BOYCE, Va. (APJ Thomas B.

Byrd, 78, the last of the famous "Tom, Dick and Harry" Byrds of Virginia died Friday night at his home in this Clarke County community. He had been in poor health in recent years. MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) Police used nightsticks and chemicals Friday in a disturbance that erupted during a protest march connected with this city's 13-day-old garbage strike. NEW YORK (AP) Bandits struck again at the theft- plagued Kennedy Airport cargo terminal Friday night this time making off with a packet of assorted gems valued at $100.000.

MIAMI International Longshoremen's Association has lifted, at least temporarily, its boycott of copper imports that prompted plans for some domestic manufacturing cutbacks and a federal order reserving refined copper for defense needs. Stop Bombs, Start Talks, Thant Says UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. AP- U.N. Secretary General Thant said today he is convinced meaningful talks on ending the war in Vietnam would take place "even perhaps within a few days" if the United States stopped "bombing North Vietnam. He said the stepup on hostilities in the last few weeks "should not lead to the conclusion that the door is closed for negotiations." Thant set forth his views in a 1,600 word statement issued after talks with North Viet- namese envoys, President Johnson and other world leaders in New Delhi, Moscow, London, Paris and "The ugliness of the war is matched only by its futility" Thant concluded.

"There can be no victory, no defeat only more suffering, more death and more destruction. The very survival of Vietnam is at stake. It is time to call a halt," Thant declared that both the United States and the Soviet Union seemed "firmly determined to prevent the defeat of the side which each supports." He warned, "If such a trend continues, the conclusion is inescapable that there will be continued intensification and escalation of the conflict, resulting in unforeseeable developments with dire consequences." "On the other hand," he said, "my recent contacts have confirmed by view that, if essential steps are taken, they will lead to a chain of events which in the end, can bring about a just solution to the problem, and which will save both South Vietnam and North Vietnam from devastation and virtual destruction and will offer a chance for the people of Vietnam to regain a sense of national identity and to reconstruct their war-torn country," "Everywhere," he continued, "I found a genuine desire to bring this tragic conflict to an end. Hue's Palace Area Retaken i WINTER ANTICS A sign in front of the Student Union Building at the University of Alaska advertises Crystal Fantasy March 7-10. It features an unflattering caricature of President Johnson saying "I oppose the Winter Carnival." Under it is written "Question: How can we lose?" "Oriented to the Pill.

Dope. Campus Paper Muzzled, Editors Ousted in Clash on Its Content Bv Elmendorf Pilot Chutes Into Snow ANCHORAGE (AP) An Elmendorf Air Force Base pilot bailed out of his crippled T33 jet trainer 55 miles north-northeast of Anchorage Friday night and survived. A spokesman for the Air Force said Capt. Harold G. Brost, Ft.

Richardson, landed in a snow bank on a hillside. Using a small survival radio, Brost was able to contact a transport plane and report his position and condition. Operations to recover the stranded flyer a member of the were to begin at dawn Saturday. A cargo plane flew overhead during the night, maintaining contact with Brost. The rescue will be made by helicopter from the 21st Operations Sqdn.

at Elmendorf. Mrs. Baggen Funeral Tuesday Final arrangements for funeral services for Mrs. E.I. Baggen are pending at the Chapel of Chimes.

The funeral has been set for Tuesday. Mrs. Baggen died Friday at St. Joseph's Hospital. KENT BRANDLEY Stafftf'riUr Has the Polar Star been heading along a road which would a a i a student newspaper similar to the lively but controversial "Berkeley Barb?" Mike Platt, president of the Associated Students of the University of Alaska, says the Polar Star editor and assistant editor were relieved of their duties yesterday until further notice and publication of the newspaper has been temporarily suspended by the ASUA Executive Committee because the campus paper does not have enough local news and is "oriented to the pill, dope and sex." "We can't put out an 'all nice' newspaper," says Tom Steers, the editor who found himself locked out of the Polar Star office on campus last night, "because the world isn't nice any more and it's going to get worse.

The draft, war, abortions, assassinations, hypocrisy, the credibility gap, marijuana are issues we can't just ignore." Steers says he thinks the majority of faculty members will back his views and so will most students. But he admitted he has been at odds with the Journalism Department headed by Prof. Jimmy Bedford and the Polar Star's advisor Gene Donner. Steers says he is not trying to make it a northern version of the Barb. "I am putting out the best paper that I feel I can for the students with the experience and knowledge I've gained." Steers says it is not a question a i anti-establishment." In good humor, he said "I'm very much an All-American boy.

I believe in God, I work two hours a day at Common, 'earning my way through Prof. Jimmy Bedford, head of the Journalism Department, this morning told the News-Miner "There is no question of freedom of the press here. It's a matter of the students' feeling that the paper is not covering the campus news. We have no authority over the paper. We act only in an advisory capacity," he said of himself and Donner.

Donner is a former newsman who worked for a metropolitan daily in the San Francisco Bay area. "His job is to advise, not to dictate," said Bedford. "We are not trying to tell the students what to do." The paper is published by the ASUA and has no official connection with the university office space. The university could forbid use of campus facilities but otherwise exercises no direct control over the publication. Steers and Phil Deisher, associate editor, were presented yesterday with an order suspending publication and relieving them of duties.

Steers a a i i i a He a i a i the ASUA Constitution says the Polar Star editor shall not be removed without a hearing before the student senate and a three-quarter's vote. Steers says he has had no hearing and no vote was taken. But Platt argues no one has been removed--yet. The senate will discuss the issue Wednesday. The Polar staff is paid, although admittedly not very much.

Platt says Steers gets about $40 a month. Platt says the ASUA Executive Committee simply acted as publisher, which it is, and relieved the editor temporarily. The doors were locked by others, Platt says, for security reasons. Platt told the News-Miner the problem has been brewing for several weeks. "Students have been complaining that the newspaper isn't representative of what students want in it--not enough local news.

Students didn't feel it was their newspaper necessarily, which it should have been." Platt says Dennis Freeman, ASUA treasurer called in Polar Star Business manager Jerry (See POLAR STAK 7) Skippers Deny Destroyers Sailed to Tonkin as Decoys Citadel Fighting Is Heavy SAIGON (AP) South i a recaptured the palace grounds of Hue's Citadel today from Communist troops which seized them 25 days ago, but heavy fighting continued in other parts of the Citadel. A small force or government troops penetrated the fortified palace area early today, ripped down the Communist flag that had flown there since Jan. 31, and raised the government's colors on the 200-foot radio tower flagpole. In early afternoon, a battalion of South Vietnamese soldiers and a company of rangers blasted through the palace area wall with mortars and cleared the palace within two hours against little opposition. The government troops reported two wounded.

The enemy troops apparently slipped out of the palace grounds into positions along the western half of the south wall of the iVs-mile square Citadel, where heavy fighting was reported still in progress. Associated Press correspondent George McArthur reported from Hue that there also were pockets of Communist resistance in a small area in the northwest corner and in a one- mile square area of Stucco, thatched and tile houses just outside the east wall. In Saigon, South Vietnamese military headquarters reported that government forces had killed a total of 250 Communist troops in scattered fighting today throughout the Citadel. Government losses were put at five dead and 22 wounded. U.S.

headquarters in Saigon said the first 24 days of the fighting in Hue had cost the Communists 4,173 men killed, ft reported U.S. losses as IIS killed and 961 wounded and South Vietnamese losses as 363 killed and 1,242 wounded. Head, quarters also said allied troops captured 163 Communist suspects and 1.224 weapons. North Vietnam's defense minister, Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap, was quoted as saying the war is entering "a fierce phase" in which there will be continual Communist attacks.

The latest enemy attacks included a shelling of the Khe Sanh U.S. Marine base --the second heaviest shelling of the war against that northwest frontier outpost--and another rocket assault on Saigon's Tan Son Nhut Airport. Ten Marines were killed at Khe Sanh and 51 wounded, 30 of whom were treated and returned to duty. The shelling Friday was the heaviest since the Communists fired in 1 500 rounds of artillery, rockets'and mortars Feb. 7.

An estimated 40,000 Communist troops are in and around the demilitarized zone and a major assault is expected. UJS. Commanders have said the most likely target is the Khe Sanh base, guarded by 5 000 U.S. Marines and 500 Vietnamese rangers. The shelling of Tan Son Nhut airport was the second concentrated barrage there in less than a week.

One of the 18 Russian-designed 122mm rockets that hit the base tore through a wooden barracks, lulling four U.S. Air Force sergeants. WASHINGTON (AP; The captains of the U.S. destroyers involved in the controversial 1964 Tonkin Gulf incident deny Sen. Wayne Morse's contention the vessels were sent off the North Vietnam coast as decoys.

Capts. John J. Herrick of the USS Maddox and Robert C. Barnhart Jr. of the USS Turner Joy said in interviews Friday the destroyers were on routine patrol at the time of the North Vietnamese attacks on their ships.

Their statements coincide with those of some of the ship's other officers in exclusive Associated Press interviews last July. The reported attacks, first against the Maddox Aug. 2 1964 and then against both the Maddox and the Turner Joy two days later, touched off the U.S. buildup in Vietnam and the start of U.S. bombings of the North.

Morse, an Oregon Democrat opposed to U.S. policy in Viet, nam, told the Senate Wednesday the destroyers' mission was to lure North Vietnamese vessels away from South Vietnamese naval bombardment actions in North Vietnamese waters. Herrick said the patrol was part of "the fleet employment schedule" planned three months before the Tonkin incident. He denied the destroyers had electronic capable of luring North Vietnamese ships, as Morse contended. "Freedom of the press ain't dead.

It's alive and well but hiding on Chena Ridge.".

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