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B-Girls Will Stay
Part of Past, Votes
Alaska House
JUNEAU, UP) — Members of the
House turned a deaf ear Friday
to one representative’s plea that
B-girls be permitted to operate in
the new state because they repre
sent a bit of by-gone Alaska.
On a vote of 39-1, the House ap
proved a bill which would forbid
women to be employed in Alaska’s
night spots for the purpose of en
couraging customers to buy
drinks.
Rep. R. E. Sheldon of Fairbanks
was the lone dissenter. He argued
that the B-girls were similar to
the dance hall girls of days gone
by, and of the historic dance hall
girls, he said:
“Some of them are among our
leading citizens and grandmothers
today.”
Excluded from the bill’s provi
sions would be hat-check girls,
entertainers and other bona fide
employes of the nightclubs.
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Wildlife Withdrawal Protested
Representatives Robert Blod
gett. John Nusinginya, Peter De
veau, Axel Johnson and John Ra
der joined to sponsor a memorial
protesting the withdrawal of nine
million acres of Northeestern
Alaksa as an Arctic wildlife range.
The Fish and Wildlife Service
proposed creation of the refuge,
which the lawmakers contend
would attract few tourists and
would discourage industrial and
mineral development of the area.
Official State Fair
In the Senate, solons moved to
|ive Alaska an official state fair
or fairs.
The action came on a House res
olution designating the Matanuska
Valley Fair as the official state
■fair. Anchorage senators supported
the resolutions, but some others
felt the Tanana Valley Fair should
■have equal recognition.
The upshot was the Senate said
the two fairs should share the
honor on equal years — but did
not specify which fair should be
first*
The whole matter goes back to
the House.
McKinley Climb
Planned For Med.
Research Program
FAIRBANKS, UPi — A four-man
expedition will attempt to climb
20,300-foot Mt. McKinley this
spring and place a 50-star flag at
its summit.
Plans for the first McKinley
climb since Alaska became a state
were announced Friday night by
the expedition legder, Dr. George
Cloutier, 29, Fairbanks physician.
Others in the party will be
Henry Marshall, 29, an electronics
supply technician; Dr. Theodore
Anderson, 28, now with the Public
Health Service at Springfield, Mo.,
and Gary Kenwood, 29, Three
Rivers, Calif.
Cloutier, who has twice climbed
Switzerland’s Matterhorn, said the
party will conduct a medical re
search program dealing with their
own physical reactions to the high
altitude trek.
Merrill Wein, Fairbanks bush
pilot, will take the climbers and
400 pounds of food and equipment
to a proposed base camp at the
7,000-foot level on Kahiltna Gla
cier. Weather permitting, the par
ty will leave Fairbanks April 26.
The project is expected to take
about two weeks.
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P. O. Dept. Official
Defends Alaska
Wage Allowance
WASHINGTON, UPI — Cost-of
living allowances aren’t needed in
the Post Office Department to re
cruit workers in Hawaii or Puerto
Rico but they are a necessity for
Alaska.
This is the view of Eugene J.
Lyons, assistant Postmaster Gen
eral in charge of personnel, as
outlined in testimony released
Friday by a House Appropriations
Subcommittee.
The allowances — 17V£ per
cent above base pay in Puerto
Rico, 20 per cent in Hawaii and
25 per cent in Alaska — came un
der fire from Rep. Vaughan Gary
(D-Va). Gary, who said he had
looked into the matter in Hawaii,
took"the position there should be
no allowances.
Lyons, however, defended the
use of the allowances in Alaska
where he said “going wage rates
. . . are so much higher than in
the United States that the terri
torial allowance is necessary.”
Asked if he felt an increased
population in Alaska resulting
from statehood would ease the de
partment's recruiting problems,
Lyons replied:
“I should think it would, Con
gressman, except that the demand
for employes by the defense es
tablishments in Alaska is so great
and appears to be continuing that
it leaves the Post Office Depart
ment a difficult problem in the
recruiting of personnel.”
During the 1958 calendar year,
the number of employes receiving
the allowance in each of the three
areas, total cost and individual
1 average, include:
Puerto Rico, 1,066 employes,
$907,831 and $851.62; Hawaii, 875
employes, $716,399 and $818.74;
and Alaska, 586 employes, $605,425
and $1,033.15.
Soviet Tests Are
Polluting Space,
Says AEC Scientist
WASHINGTON, UP) — Last Oc
1 tober’s nuclear tests by the So
viets produced a record rise in
the radioactive^debris in the stra
tosphere, says Dr. Willard F.
Libby.
Libby, scientist member of the
Atomic Energy Commission, said
the rise was tremendous — the
greatest in all the history of
weapons testing by the Soviets,
Americans and British.
At the same time Libby made
public the theory of another
American scientist that Soviet nu
clear tests in polar regions may
present a greater fallout hazard
to a large part of the world than
the equatorial tests of the United
States and Britain.
Libby said this theory, however,
is still considered tentative, even
by its originator — Dr. E. A. Mar
tell of the Air Force’s Cambridge
(Mass.) Research Center.
The AEC fallout specialist, in a
speech delivered Friday night for
him at the University of Washing
ton in Seattle by an AEC asso
ciate, devoted his remarks mainly
to efforts to learn more precisely
how fallout become distributed
in the stratosphere, how it de
scends — and at what rate.
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NWA Chamber Announces
New Standing Committees
At the regular Monday lunch
eon meeting of the NWA Cham
ber of Commerce last week, the
standing committees were an
nounced.
The Membership Committee
will include Roy Walker, chair
man, Alaska Steam; Lloyd Sund
strom, Don Billman, Eunice Berg
lund, Fred Cavota, Stan Morgan
and Keith Hedreen.
Transportation — Pearse Walsh,
chairman, A1 Haferbecker, Jim
Blanning, John Bandy, Bob Grant,
Bob Harwood, Florin Rhode, Roy
Snyder and Art Purcell.
Legislative — Russell Hermann,
chairman, Jim von der Heydt,
George Bayer, Bob Scott, Charles
Jones, Judge Hodge, Les Bron
son, and Rev. Maakestad.
Roads — Joe Kroninger, chair
man. Axel Edman, L. E. Hough,
Walter Giavinovich, Herb Jenks,
Hap Eberle, Donald Lyle, M. B.
Young and Barrow Morgan.
Tourists — Paul Mandeville,
chairman, Del Kampmann, co
chairman, Stan Harhut, Don Per
kins, Pfiyllis and Joe Cumming,
Willie Brown, Opal Catlin, Sam
Mogg, Bob Herman, Pilgrim
Springs Enterprises and John
Stolpe.
Mining — Carl Giavinovich,
chairman, M. J. Walsh, Nels Swan
berg, W. H. Cameron, Richard
Lee, Bon Davis and Grant Nelson.
Civic Affairs — Don Hunger
ford, chairman, Steffen Andersen,
Boyd Harwood, Everett Bachel
der, John Marvik, Arthur Nagoz
ruk and Gerald McCray.
Publicity — Ruth McLean,
chariman, Edgar Bibb, Emily
Boucher, Willie Brown, Mary
Diede, Clint Gray, Verna Mickel
son and Elsie May Smith.
As new members join the Cham
ber, they will be added to com
mittees. If a member has a pref
erence he is asked to contact the
chairman of the committee.
Acting President Russ Hermann
reported that he just returned
from three days in Juneau, where
he talked with all of the legisla
tors from this area, including Sen.
ate President William Beltz. Sen.
Beltz advised that he talk to act
ing Governor Wade concerning
representation from this district on
the judiciary committees. Because
there are no attorney representa
tives available, Governor Wade
asked Beltz to submit three non
attorney names for consideration,
which Sen. Beltz has done.
Mr. Hermann told Chamber
members that to date it appears
that the Nome area will achieve
the major legislation it wants. He
also found that the lobbying done
recently by James von der Heydt
on behalf of the Chamber and the
City of Nome was most effective,
as well as a Juneau visit by M. J.
Walsh. He said that apparently
, legislators will not follow the rec
ommendation of the P.A.S. for
administration division of the
state.
The Chamber Member of the
Week was Rev. John Maakestad
of Uur Savior’s Lutheran Church.
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| Now’ -- Reminiscences of a Head-Hunter
BA WANG ASSAM, Sarawak,
Wl — “Yes, it’s just as well head
hunting was abolished. It cost
too much to hold a feast every
time a head was brought in,” said i
the tattooed old chief.
He was wrinkled, 75-year-old
Penghulu Nanta Anak Itar, chief
of this district of Sea Diaks, or
Ibans, better known at the turn
of the century as the head hunters
of Borneo. They are now a peace
ful farming people, except for a
brief flareup of headhunting
against Japanese soldiers at the
end of World War II.
“Most of us are Christians now,
Methodists,” the chief said.
“I’ll give you four reasons we
‘Wrestling’ Wrens Banned
On Oregon State Campus
CORVALLIS, Ore., UP — Oregon
State College President A. L.
Strand has banned any further
use of pictures of scantily clad co
eds to promote athletic events.
He criticized the use of photo
graphs of seven co-eds, all clad
in one-piece bathing suits, to pub
licize the recent Pacific Coast In
tercollegiate Wrestling Tourna
ment. The girls depicted various
wrestling holds and wore such
identification as Miss Takedown,
Miss Predicament, Miss Escape
and Miss Fall.
In a letter to R. S. Keene, ath
letic director, Strand said: “Ath
letics at Oregon State are going
to have to stand on their own
feet.” He said such pictures “are
all right for Miami Beach,” but
not for Oregon State.
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NO EASTERN STAR MEETING
I There will be no meeting of the
Alaska Chapter No. 1, Order of the
Eastern Star this evening. Next
scheduled meeting will be on
April 6th.
used to take heads — first, to
show bravery in war; second, be
cause whenever anybody took a
head there was a special feast
and much merriment; third, to get
the best seat at feasts, which went
to the men with the most heads;
fourth, to impress the girls.”
The chief said two dozen smoke
blackened human skulls dangling
in .baskets from the rafters of his
longhouse had been taken by his
ancestors more than a century ago
and were kept to show visitors.
When the chief was asked about
his own exploits, an interpreter
replied, “He is ashamed to talk
about his own heads, they were
so few.”
Engkamat, leader of 36 families,
spoke up: “My father* was con
sidered one of the bravest men.
He took about 15 heads in many
fights. I haven’t taken even one
because it is against the law now.”
The Ibans work in rubber plan
tations and rice paddies.
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