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Native Village Readied for A-67 The Native Village at the Alaska 67 Exposition Center will feature everything from hide tanning to modeling of old and new native costumes, Mary Jane Fate told an Alaska 67 full board meeting yesterday. Herself a member of the Centennial group's executive committee, Mrs. Fate said the Native Village ivill feature a variety of displays and activities for the interest of repeat visitors this summer. "There'll be a blanket toss," said Mrs. Fate, "and native Natural Gas Find Rumor Discounted Informed geologists are discounting rumors this week that natural gas was struck in the drilling of Kookpuk No, 1 on the Arctic Slope.

Rumors circulated in Fairbanks and Anchorage, starting Tuesday, to the effect that gas had been struck at 2,600 feet It was later reported that drillers had set casing to 2,550 feet, then installed a blow-out preventer and created an arti ficial pressure of 1,600 pounds per square inch to test the device. Kookpuk No. 1 is a Union Oil well near the Colville River. Union is developing a one-third interest in acreage presently held by British Petroleum and Sinclair in joint partnership. The hold lies seven miles southwest of Colville No.

1. Still incomplete reports indicate that Colville No, 1, before it was plugged a year ago, had a potential production of 500 barrels per day but was declared noncommercial. Drilling of the hole by British Petroleum and Sinclair started in November 1965. They went to approximately 10,500 feet before abandoning the project in February 1966. Drillers reportedly' encountered seven different fluid-bearing zones and sealed them off with cement plugs.

Army Officer Hospitalized ANCHORAGE, (AP) The chief of staff of the Alaskan Command -Brig. Gen. Allan Leonard is expected to be hospitalized for one to two weeks as a result of back injuries suffered Tuesday during a flight from Anchorage to McGrath. The Army general's injury was confirmed Wednesday as a compression fracture of the lumbar vertebra. He is being treated at the Air Force hospital at Elmendorf Air Force Base here, where he was reported resting comfortably.

A second man injured when the Federal Aviation 'Agency DCS in which they were riding encountered turbulence was being held for observation at the Air Force hospital. FAA photographer Herman Kurriger of Anchorage suffered head lacerations. The (wo were among a party of eight which was on an inspection tour of FAA facilities in Alaska. They were hurt when the plane encountered heavy turbulence over Farewell. None of the others was injured.

The pilot returned immediately to Anchorage. City Studying Financing For Parking The city is studying assessment methods for downtown improvement districts that would bring into existence municipal parking lots at Blanchfield Alley and on Lacey Street across from the Northward Building. Ed Martin, the city's public works director, has compiled figures for construction of the two lots, which under the improvement district plan would be paid for by those in the core area deriving benefit from them. The Blanchfield Alley lot, according to Martin's figures, would cost $582,413, or $6,741 for each of the 90 spaces it would provide. The Lacey Street lot would cost $253,097, or $4,050 a space for 62 spaces.

A group of merchants has offered to contribute $40,000 toward the Lacey Street lot. One assessment possibility is the levying of a small charge over the whole core area, which is expected to benefit from better parking facilities. Major cost of the projects, however, is expected to be borne by landowners closest to the lots. Businessman Chosen SOLDOTNA (AP)--Max Hamilton, a Cooper Landing businessman, has been seated as a new member of the Kenai Peninsula Borough. Hamilton was chosen to succeed Harvey A ins- worth Moose Pass, who resigned for business and personal reasons.

crafts including ivory carvers, moose hide tanning, stripping salmon, skin sewing, and modeling of native costumes, including modern attire," She said the possibility of skin boat rides for visitors, along with harpoon demonstrations, is under consideration. "We might borrow a reindeer from the A-67 zoo for rides 1 Mrs. Fate speculated. There will also be fish traps, kayaks and dances. In fact, the famed Chilkat, Minto and Nenana dancers will all perform at Fairbanks this summer.

Mrs. Fate, an Athabascan who hails originally from Rampart Village on the Yukon River, added that a number of villages are sending in artifacts and samples of native crafts. One aim of the Native Village operation will be to encourage Alaska visitors to make trips to Interior and Eskimo communities. John Sackett, elected to the State Legislature last November, will be working at the Native Village this summer, it was reported. Air Force Major Gets Top Medal WASHINGTON (AP) President Johnson, bestowing the Medal of Honor today on the first Air Force officer to win the high award in Vietnam, said U.S.

airmen in that con? flict "are conducting the most careful and self-limited air war in history." Maj. Bernard F. Fisher received the nation's highest award for gallantry in rescuing a downed fellow flier from an airstrip under fire. He was cited for "conspicuous gallantry and intrepedity at the risk of his life and beyond the call of duty." Johnson made a major point of the fact that although Fisher won the award for action during a bitter and bloody battle, his heroic efforts "did not involve taking a life but did involve saving a life. "I would like to point out that this desire to save lives instead of taking lives is not confined to Maj.

Fisher," the President said. "It is, I think, typical of all men in Vietnam. It is particularly true of those who serve with Maj. Fisher in the most difficult air war in the history of the United States." (Continued from Page 1) from paying wages to employes, in scrip, redeemable only in employer-owned stores, under provisions of a bill introduced by Rep. Carl E.

Moses R-Un- alaska. Another bill authored by Stevens, HB21, would -make the phrase "North To The Future" the official state motto. Stevens also joined with Rep. Edward Orbeck, D-Fairbanks, in sponsoring legislation to permit a in a civil or criminal action to disqualify the judge assigned to the case by submitting an affidavit alleging he believes he cannot obtain a fair and impartial trial before the judge in question. Big Blast Prepared By Navy DAHLGREN, Va.

(AP) The serene banks of the Potomac River will quiver soon with the shock of a blast comparable to that of the 20-kilpton atomic bomb that leveled Hiroshima. But the big boom won't do any damage, ft will come from a nuclear blast simulator nearly complete at the U.S. Naval Weapons Laboratory, along the banks of the river some 25 miles eastofFreder- icksburg Va. Navy officials say it's the only one of its type. Known officially as conical shock tube air blast simulator, the huge tube will test the effects of simulated nuclear blasts on such things as model ships, jet engines, 'fallout shelters, electronic equipment, tanks, trucks and waterfront structures.

It also will evaluate reentry blast and shock damage to space vehicles at simulated altitudes up to 100,000 feet. In 1965, the Department of Defense decided such a device would illustrate what would happen to military equipment located on fringe areas of a nuclear blast. It allocated 52.4 million for construction of the shock tube. Sun Shipbuilding Co. of Chester, built the big tube that resembles a gigantic ice cream cone and stretches for nearly a half-mile.

The tube uses barrels of four 16-inch battleship guns welded end-to-end and joined to steel tubing. It rests on concrete supports designed to take in stride recoil thrust that will hit 2.5-million pounds at its peak or enough to flatten all the mules used by both sides in the Civil War. At one end of the tube is the 264-foot-long detonation chamber measuring 16 inches in diameter. The open end, 2,400 feet away, is 24 feet in diameter. Using water and flotation gear to position charges, scientists will fire 1,000 pounds of TNT simultaneously in all four gun barrels, sending out terrific shock waves which will intensify as they rocket through the tube.

Before an explosion, whatever is to be tested will be placed inside the tube's muzzle either at the 10, 15 or 22-foot diameter Sections. Man Found Dead In His Garage William W. Howard was found dead late yesterday afternoon in the garage of his home at Mile Richardson Way, Alaska State troopers reported this morning. Cause of death was determined after an autopsy to be accidental carbon monoxide poisoning, police said. Howard was discovered lying face down near his running car in the closed garage about 4:30 p.m.

by his sister, Maenell Anderson. She called Howard's brother who attempted to revive Howard by artificial respiration. Mrs. Anderson told police Howard had been working on his car most of the afternoon attempting to repair a faulty choke mechanism. Howard had been employed at Eielson Air Force Base.

Funeral arrangements are pending at the Chapel of the Chimes. Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Thursday, January 19, 1967--7 Big Loads Predicted Dancer Kingston To Tokyo After Referendum SUBWAY SEARCH Spec. 4 Gary Cebula, an engineer in the U.S. 173rd Airborne Brigade, probes the floor of a tunnel 15 feet below a jungle trail in the Iron Triangle north of SaigoaTroops in Operation Cedar Falls moved into the area to take control from the Viet Cong and destroy their tunnel system and stores of food and weapons. --(AP Wirephoto) Legislative Pay Slash Bill Filed by Fairbanks Men JUNEAU CAP) Legislation which would cut legislative salaries and revive the union autonomy fight of previous sessions were among bills pre-filed with the Legislative Affairs Agency Wednesday.

Two. Fairbanks Republicans, Rep. John Holm and Tury F. Anderson joined in sponsoring a bill, HB11, to cut the pay of legislators from $6,000 to $4,000 a year. Rep.

Carl E. Moses, R-Unala- ska, authored the so-called union autonomy bill, HB12, which would require labor unions having at least 100 members who reside or work in Alaska to maintain a local in -the state. The measure specifies a maximum fine of $10,000 for each violation. In the Senate Sen. Jay S.

Hammond, R-Naknek pre-filed legislation, SB6, which would require the state to return 10 per cent of cold storage fisheries taxes to first, second and third class cities of the unorganized borough in which the tax is collected. Another Senate bill, SB5 by Sen. Robert H. Ziegler, D-Ketchikan, would require a course in basic economics as part of the curriculum in each school system of the state. WILLS SIGNS Infielder Maury Wills, traded from the Los Angeles Dodgers to the Pittsburgh Pirates during the winter baseball meeting, signs his 1967 Pirate contract in Spokane.

Pirates general manager Joe L. Brown, looking on as Wills signs, did not disclose salary, but said Wills signed "with a smile on his face." The 34-year-old former Dodger team captain reportedly received $80,000 last a He will play third base, for the Pirates. --(AP Wirephoto) Rep. Gene D-Anchorage, pre-filed a bill in the House authorizing political subdivisions of the state to issue industrial development bonds. The measure would require advance approval of such bond issues by the State Department of Economic Development and the voters of the political subdivision involved.

Other new House bills included one by Rep. Bill Ray, HB10, which would place election of members of the legislature on a non-partisan basis. Under provisions of the measure, candidates for the legislature would be nominated by petition and their names would go automatically on a separate, non partisan general election ballot. In a statement of purpose the bill said it was designed to remove the disruptive influences of partisan politics from the legislative branch and allow the electorate in each district to make its choice on the basis of individual merit rather than on misleading and often meaningless labels. The act also eliminates the expense of primary elections for candidates and their supporters." Other pre-filed House bills included: HB9, by Rep.

twin L. Metcalf, D-Seward, which would boost the maximum old age assistance payment from $110 to $150 a month. HB13, by Edmund N. Orbeck. D-Fairba'nks, and Ted Police Take Tests; New Jobs Open It was examination time at the Fairbanks City Police station last night.

For almost three hours, five police sergeants and one investigator took a written test, each hoping they would be qualified for a newly created lieutenant's position on the department. "It was' rough," one of the test takers said this morning. And those who passed last night's test have to face an oral examination which will be given some time next week. Whoever successfully makes it through all the tests will assume his lieutenancy on Feb. 1.

There is already one lieutenant on the force, but he is a plainclothesman in charge of investigations. The new lieutenant will be in uniform in charge of the patrol section. The position, which pays from $833 to $974 a year, was created late last year when the city's 1967 budget was approved by the City Council. At the same time, four new corporal positions were authorized. Several patrolmen who have more than a year's service with the department will take the examinations for those positions tonight.

The department is now only three men short of authorized strength, Stanley Zaverl, chief of the department, said this morning. Stevens', Anchorage, which would provide state aid of $10 000 each for the Matanuska Valley, Tanana Valley and Homer fairs and $3,000 each for other annual fairs in the state. Pan American World Airways estimates it would carry 190,810 passengers on the proposed East Coast-Orient route via Fairbanks in 1970. Jumbo jets (747s) would make 580 trips a year through Fairbanks. William Green, chairman of the Chamber of Commerce aviation committee, said today these projections will appear in Pan American's exhibit before the Civil Aeronautics Board next month.

The City of Fairbanks, the Fairbanks North Star Borough and the chamber are parties in the transpacific case, hearings on which will start in Honolulu Feb. 15. They are supporting Pan Am's long-standing application to fly the route. Green pointed out that Hawaii wil; not be on the route. It was mistakenly reported yesterday that Hawaii was included in the application.

"The mileage between New York and Tokyo via Fairbanks is 30 per centshorterthan across the Pacific via Honolulu," Green said. "Moreover, Pan American proposes a fare reduction whereby it would cost $375 via-Fairbanks as compared to S420 via Honolulu." Of the 190,810 passengers projected for the Great Circle route in 1970, an estimated 95,850 would be out of New York alone. Co-terminals are planned atBos- ton, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington and Chicago. The projection is based on one first class and tourist configuration on a 747 carrying 364 passengers. Speech Therapist Heads Program JUNEAU (AP) Frank D.

CoXj a speech therapist for Greater Anchorage Borough schools, was appointed by Gov. Walter J. Hickel Wednesday as state director of the Neighborhood Youth Corps. Hickel said Cox, 31, a native of Texas and a 1964 graduate of Eastern Washington State College, Hill take over immediately as head of the SI.5 million program, which provides employment for about 300 underprivileged children throughout the state. Dancer Kelley Kingston, acquitted in District Court Tuesday on charges of indecent exposure, says she has enough signatures to begin action on getting Ordinance 1646 before the voters.

That measure put more clothing on the city's topless dancers and went into effect Jan. 9. Miss Kingston, whose real name is Judith Nash, was arrested Dec. 2 in the Flame Lounge, She maintains she is not a topless dancer but an exotic dancer. The application, a first step in getting a referendum petition, needs 100 signatures of qualified city voters.

Miss Kingston says she has about 125. The referendum petition needs a number of signatures equal to 10 per cent of the number voting in the last general election. The required figure is about 350. Miss Kingston said she planned to tarn in her application today. Mayor H.

A. (Red) Boucher said at the meeting at which Ordinance 1646 was adopted by the City Council that voters could take the petition course. Boucher supported council adoption of the measure and said the matter should not be "passed on" to the voters as a sidestepping effort on the council's part Two councilman, John Huber and Bill Walley, had tried to put the measure on the ballot The night the ordinance was adopted, businessman Don Pruhs told the council he would take court action against the measure, but so far nothing has come of his threat He said he would sue to get a restraining order against the law because Boucher, whose vote was required for passage, made his voting intentions known before balloting took place, thereby "intimidating" councilmen. Jan. 25 is the deadline for the referendum petition, if Miss Kingston can get the required number of signatures.

She says she spent three days collecting the 125 signatures on the application. She was found not guilty on the indecent exposure charge Tuesday by a jury of two men and four women. Reports Valuable, Says Salisbury Rigid-Rotor Chopper Swinging Helicopter PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) Sam Mason was hanging by his seat belt for a while Wednesday. For him, that's not too unusual.

Although white-haired at 49 and a grandfather, Mason is a test pilot. What was unusual, even for Mason, was that he was in a helicopter at the time flying upside down, and helicopters are not supposed to fly that way. Mason's feat was performed before several hundred veteran helicopter pilots here for the annual convention of the Helicopter Association of America. Among the 20-odd rotor craft on exhibit at the Palm Springs airport, Mason's was unique. Its four blades had no hinges.

Most helicopter blades are hinged so-they can be swung up or down while whirling to point the rudderless craft in a certain direction without tilting the cabin, suspended beneath them like a pendulum. The blades of Mason's heli- copter were fixed rigidly to the central rotating shaft. This meant that when he tilted the blades he tilted his cabin too. But it also meant that he could roll, loop and fly upside down. If a conventional helicopter were flown upside down there would be danger of damaging the engine.

The blades might fold and the wingless craft would fall like a rock. But Mason's blades couldn't fold -they had no hinges. A spokesman for Lockheed California for which Mason works and which built the rigid- rotor helicopter, said the hinge- less concept means the craft could outmaneuver a fighter plane in a dogfight. Mason set out to prove it. For 15 minutes he performed loops rolls i rotor-overs (these would be wing-overs in an airplane -a maneuver which stops just short of a full roll), and sundry aerobatics which would leave a fighter pilot dizzy.

And all at a height of 500 to 1,500 feet. NEW YORK CAP) Harrison E. Salisbury, an assistant managing editor of The New York Times, says that if there might be "a temporary gain for the enemy" as a result of his reports from North Vietnam, "in the end the value would come to us." Salisbury appeared Wednesday night on an hour-long television panel discussion with three other members of The New York Times staff. He also was interviewed after the National Educational Television program "The News in He said that for a number of years the United States has been "fighting a tough, hard, determined opponent without knowing very much about what that opponent was like or what it was like behind the lines." Salisbury said he did not go to Hanoi to "support the Pentagon" in what he called "propaganda absurdities." He said that until he reported on casualties and damage in civilian areas of North Vietnam the Johnson administration had maintained not only that civilians were not targets of U.S. aerial bombings, but that they were not being hit.

He said there is no doubt that the enemy would use for propaganda purposes any that cast doubt on the communiques of the U.S. government or which indicated that the situation in North Vietnam was not as it had been understood by the American people. Lester Markel, an associate editor of the Times who made the introduction on the program said critics had charged that Salisbury had served as a propaganda instrument for Hanoi and that his remarks were favorable to Hanoi. Salisbury said the reason that North Vietnam granted him a two-week visa to visit the country was that they hoped "to use me as a propaganda tool." He denied he had served Hanoi's interests. He said he was preferred over other Western correspondents seeking admission to North Vietnam because he represented "the most influential newspaper in America" and because "I was more persistent and pursued my application for admission more actively" over an 18- month period.

Guards Put Down Quentin Revolt TOCKMARKET SAN QUENTIN, Calif. (AP) Guards firing rifles, shotguns and tear-gas canisters prevented a racial clash between 2,800 white and Negro convicts in the San Quentin Prison yard Wednesday night as the twp groups came to within .50 feet of each other. Eight convicts suffered gunshot wounds during the tense hours following a glaring face- down of the two groups. Five others suffered head wounds from beatings by other convicts. Two men incurred heart attacks.

The confrontation included one group of more than 1 000 NEW YORK The New York stock market closed with gain- hites and Mexican-Americans ers and losers pretty much in balance today and trading very an another group of about 1 800 heavy. Dow-Jones closing stock averages: 30 industrials 846.44 Negroes down 20 rails 225.69 up 15 utilities 139.99 up 0.20; Officials said the turmoil 65 stocks 304,13 up 0.57. grew out of the fatal and stabbing of a white prisoner last Monday. Trouble started after lunch Wednesday, said Associate Warden James W. L.

Park, when inmates entered the football field-sized yard. Whites and Mexican-Americans gathered on one side Negroes on the other. They drew closer, hurling curses across the 'no-man's- land. Elsewhere on the grounds of the 40-acre prison, another 200 inmates tended to their duties. With the angry convicts separated by only 50 feet, Warden Lawrence E.

Wilson mounted the gunwall surrounding the yard and ordered, "Knock it off and go back to your cells." There was silence, and no one moved. Park said many of the men had armed themselves with pipes from plumbing ripped from prison and clubs from benches torn apart in the yard. A temporary classroom building made of wood was set ablaze. Guards were ready to throw up a "wall of fire" with bullets if the factions got any closer, but it wasn't necessary, Park The two groups surged. Mess- hall windows shattered.

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Ronald Reagan made more than 200 other highway patrolmen available. For nearly three hours the two groups refused to obey orders. "No one seemed to want to make the first move," Wilson said. Finally, tear-gas canisters were thrown and the Negroes, prodded by warning shots whining through the air, let themselves be herded back to their cells. The remaining group of whites and Mexican-Americans stayed in the lower yard for about seven hours.

Smoke billowed out of the yard as they burned benches to keep warm in a chilling fog that moved in. They wore only dungarees and light shirts. In the late afternoon, one man was hit in the mouth by a richocheting bullet, Park said. Below the main gate, as Wilson gave a news conference, a flurry of shots were heard "Some of the men probably went where they weren't supposed to.go," he said. At 7:15 p.m., another staccato burst of shots rang out.

Four men were wounded in this, it was explained, mostly around the legs. At about 8:30 p.m., guards began moving men back into their cells in groups of 25. And hours later all had been returned to cells and the prison was pronounced "secure." Driver Charged After Wreck Patrick L. Farrior, 18, has been charged with reckless driving and driving without a permit after an accident yesterday. His ear collided with one driven by Lillian V.

Hatch. The accident, which occurred about 7:30 p.m. in the 200 block of Cowles Street, sentMrs. Hatch to St. Joseph's Hospital with minor cuts and bruises.

She was treated and released..

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