Word: alaskan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Lieut. General Glen R. Birchard, 53, head of the Alaskan Command, who, during the Berlin airlift, developed intricate plans that enabled the Air Force to hit a peak flow of an average 624 planes daily into the besieged city, finally took over the Alaskan Command in August 1966, was responsible for the operations of 40,000 military personnel; of drowning after his float plane crashed on takeoff from Upper Ugashik Lake, Alaska, during a fishing trip...
...Fair banks fair. Visitors (300,000 anticipated) can either tour a gold-painted geodesic dome meant to symbolize a nugget, or else pan gold themselves, sourdough-fashion, in chutes from the Chena River; sip cocktails in the "Wheelhouse," a VIP lounge on the superstructure of the old Alaskan stern-wheeler Nenana; view an aboriginal village with Eskimo kayak rides and a Tlingit totem-pole carver at work; or ogle the cancan dancers from an authentic gold-rush...
...Skipper Gene Cameron and his two crewmen maneuvered the 40-ft. Kathy C. along a string of buoys and hauled crab pots, one at a time, from the bottom, 100 ft. below. By day's end, the trawler's tanks were crawling with 6,624 lbs. of Alaskan king crab, which were promptly delivered to a Wakefield Seafoods, Inc., processing plant. Such pickings, by Kathy C. and a fleet of 40 other crabbers, have made Wakefield's founder, Lowell Wakefield, the leader of the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. fishing industry...
...AMERICAN SPORTSMAN (ABC, 4-5 p.m.). It's man against fin, fang and claw as Bing Crosby and Joe Brooks fish for English Atlantic salmon, Rex Allen rounds up Oklahoma rattlesnakes, and Archer Fred Bear hunts Alaskan polar bears...
...case of Jack Ruby, who faced a second murder trial before his death last week, a change of venue seemed almost absurd. Probably only a few deaf, blind, illiterate Alaskan Eskimos had never heard of Ruby's crime, much less seen it on film. Yet his lawyers settled for shifting the trial from Dallas to Wichita Falls, a mere 135 miles away. True, Mars was out, but why Wichita Falls? Simply the luck of the draw. The case came before Judge Louis T. Holland, who was sitting temporarily in Dallas, but whose regular district includes Wichita Falls. Not only...