Down the Drain . . .
LOS ANGELES UP — John Par
ris wanted to buy one car. His
wife wanted to buy another.
They argued as they drove.
Suddenly Mrs. Parris gestured
with the sack containing the fam
ily savings. "Buying that car."
she said, speaking of her hus
band's choice, “would be like
throwing money away."
Out the car window went the
sack of money. It disappeared
down a storm drain. In it. said
Parris, was $2,500 in cash.
Parris slammed the car to a
halt. Mrs. Parris jumped out,
lunged for the money — and al
most got stuck in the drain her
selt. They could see the sack lying
15 feet away.
Parris called friends, sheriff’s
deputies and a road department
crew to help him.
A- they tried to reach the sack
with sticks, a plumber’s snake and
a fishline, an attendant at a near
by gas station decided it was time
to v ash down his driveway with
a hose. The water poured into a
drain, down the drain, and to
the sack.
A< would be rescuers watched
helplessly, the sack floated away.
Parris and his wife drove away
—in their old car.
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J Beck Will Stand Trial
On Charges of Violating
Taft - Hartley Act
SEATTLE IT — Dave Beck Sr.,
former Teamster Union president,
started for New York City for
trial on charges of violating the
Taft-Hartley Act. but his trek was
tripped up Wednesday.
fie apparently was feeling fit
when he left McNeil Island Fed
eral Penitentiary near Tacoma, but
by the time he was booked in
county jail here he was limping.
Beck said he sprained an ankle
when he slipped on stairs at the
prison.
As he left McNeil, where he has
served three months of a five
year sentence for tax fraud, the
()8-year-old Beck said he never felt
better. "I'm getting lots of exer
! eise and a little bit of rest,” he
| said.
; Beck is to appear Monday in
U.S. District Court in New York.
The government contends he re
. eived an illegal payment of $200,
000 from two trucking company
officials and three corporations
while he was a representative ot
their employes, in violation of a
1959 amendment to the Taft-Hart
ley Act.
TRADING STAMPS CAN BE
USED LEGALLY IN ALASKA
JUNEAU i.T — Atty. Gen.
| George Hayes said Tuesday the
state's laws against the operation
1 of lotteries do not prohibit busi
: nesses within Alaska from using
I tr. I [in . stamps.
Hayes statement came in a legal
i opinion written for Mrs. Dorothy
Haaiand. Asst. District Attorney
i at Anchorage.
Hayes said the use of trading
i stamps has not been dealt with
specifically by toe legislature and.
because there is no element of
chance involved, one of three ele
ments necessary to a lottery, trad
ing stamps can be used legally.
Sect v. Ida 11 Says Soviets Are
In a Power Dam Building Mood
FAIRBANKS W — The Ram
part Dam Advisory Board was told
here Thursday morning by Sec
retary of the Interior Stewart
Udall that the Soviet Union is in
a power dam building mood, and
is now building a project as big
as Alaska’s proposed five million
kilowatt Rampart project.
In addition, Udall told the local
group that Russia is doing preli
minary work on a 20 million kilo
watt project near the mouth of
the Lena River, at a latitude sev
eral hundred miles north of Point
Barrow.
“We are in a power race with
the Soviets,” the cabinet member
said during his first tour of the
49th State. He reported that Soviet
Siberia, roughly akin to Alaska in
latitude and physical makeup, has
several rivers equal or greater than
the Yukon system.
“The dam building problems
there are similar to those here.
Cold weather, long transmission
distances and the wilderness be
ginning of the projects are the
challenges both areas face in de
velopment,” Udall said.
The Interior Secretary recently
made an extensive tour of Siberia
and received first-hand knowledge
of the Soviet power development
projects.
No Subsidy Program for Gold
Wednesday, Udall said at a press
conference that he does not see
any future subsidy program for
gold miners.
He added that only future mar
ket demands would determine the
future of the Alaskan and pri
marily the Seward Peninsula tin
deposits.
A happier note was struck how
ever when he was asked about pos
sible export of raw logs from in
terior Alaska to Japan, a subject
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j that the Department of Interior
| itself brought up last fall when it
I asked Alaskans to make comments
j on a policy change that would al
i low unmilled timber to leave the
| state.
Udal indicated he thought Alas
\ ka would be better off economic
| ally if it would export the raw
j timber. Establishment of mills to
I process the timber would be the
! most ideal answer, he indicated,
| but perhaps this might take a little
i longer than straight export.
Udall said, "the petroleum and
j mineral programs of Alaska, pri
J marily on the Kenai Peninsula,
j have been a God-send to Alaska.
The federal government gives the
state 90 per cent of the oil reve
nues from federal land here. This
is a wise step and is helping the
! state.”
Native Rights
Regarding h u m a n resources,
Udall said he is now awaiting the
report of a special task force he
appointed to study native rights
programs. “The report might re
sult in some type of requested leg
islation. or a policy decision, re
garding aboriginal rights,” the
secretary declared.
“I don't know if the natives
want reservations, but I do know
aboriginal rights must be de
! cidcd."
Commenting on the 8 million
acre northeast Alaska wildlife
range which was dedicated in the
; last days of the Eisenhower ad
: ministration, and for which no
; money has yet been programmed,
Udall said: “There should be a
program for the range, and we will
request Congress again for some
money to operate it.”
Agreed with Gov. Egan
Regarding the controversial ar
rest of three Japanese fishing boat
captains near Kodiak Island last
spring, Udall said, “I agreed with
the position Gov. Egan took."
“The job of the State Depart
ment is the concern of friendly
foreign nations. I think we must
maintain friendly relations, but
there are times when a strong
stand must be taken. Gov. Egan
took such a stand.”
Udall wound up the conference
by thanking representatives of the
Alaska Native Rights Assn, for
their invitation to attend an Es
kimo meeting in Kotzebue next
month. “I will not be able to at
tend, but I will be represented,”
he said.
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To Make Greater Effort
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MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. UP) —
American newspapers, Inn; the
dominant force in day-to-day en
lightenment of the reading public,
were issued a stern challenge Wed
nesday by one of their leading
spokesman to scale even greater
heights of meaningful reporting.
The call came from Ed Stone
of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
and retiring president of the As
sociated Press Managing Editors
Assn., which opened its annual
five-day convention here.
"I feel strongly,” Stone said,
“that the great challenge to our
existence as a vital and essential
part of American life lies still be
fore us; that only by daring and
imagination and a constant ques
tioning of time-honored concepts
and practices, can we ever hope
to approach the shining goal of
maximum service to our readers,
our community and our nation.”
Stone spoke to some 300 dele
gates at the APMEA session. He
also used his president’s report
to voice an answer to critics of
today’s newspapers.
"Ill-informed and even malicious
criticisms of America's newspapers
by an influential minority persist
in setting up a straw man of sen
sationalism and irresponsibility
with little or no relationship to
1962 reality,” he said.
“Our jaundiced detractors of this
persuasion are fond of citing 5
or 10 ‘best newspapers’ as living
up to their criteria and dismissing
the rest of America’s vast press
as of no account, thus dumping
into their critical ashcan the hun
dreds of good newspapers across
the land which are serving their
respective communities conscienti
ously and well," he added.
The Seattle executive urged his
fellow editors to greater effort in
backgrounding news to make it
more vital to the reader.
More than 95 per cent of all
business transactions are now con
ducted on credit.
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