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63rd Year No. 115
NO Mi:, ALASKA, i RIDA Y, SLPTLM BLR 28, 1962
Ret Copy 150
Postal Hike
Means One Cent
Increase on Letters
WASHINGTON (/PI — A bill
that would increase both postal
rates and the pay of federal em
ployes has won Senate approval
by an overwhelming 72-3 vote.
If enacted, it would mean a
penny hike in postage for regular
and air mail letters and a wage
boost averaging about 10 per cent
for 1.6 million government work
ers.
The next step is up to the House.
If it takes the Senate measure
as is, the bill goes to President
Kennedy for signing into law. If
the House balks, a joint confer
ence would have to work out a
compromise.
The House last January passed
a bill designed to bring in $690
million a year or more in postal
revenue. But this measure does
not provide for an increase for
postal a n d other government
workers.
In yesterday’s debate Sen.
Frank Lausche, (D-Ohio), saw the
two-step $1,049,000,000 pay hike
as an effort "to buy votes” in an
election year. And, Sen. A. Willis
Robertson, (D-Va.>, one of the
three who voted against the bill,
said it was calculated to make
everybody happy except the tax
payer.
The pay raise would go into ef
fect before the election, Robert
son noted, and the postal rates rise
afterward.
Sens. Harry Byrd, (D-Va.), and
John Williams, (R-Del.), joined
Robertson in voting against the
bill.
If the bill becomes law, it will
mark the third consecutive elec
tion year in which such a raise
has been voted. The 1958 legis
lation granted a 10 per cent boost,
and the I960 bill 7.5 per cent.
The 1960 measure was vetoed by
President Dwight Eisenhower, but
he was overridden.
HAVE YOU HAD
YOUR X-RAY YET?
Only about 450 persons have
been X-rayed to date by the port
able unit which is now located
at the City Hall and available
through the Alaska Public Health
to everyone in the community.
The X-ray is free and not only
detects possible tuberculosis but
also heart and cancer growths and
everyone is urged to take advan
tage of this opportunity. Only by
using the facility can the Health
Department determine whether or
not the community wants the unit
to return in the future.
The clinic will be open this eve
ning from 7 until 9 and on Sat
urday from 10 until 12 and from
1 until 3 o’clock in the afternoon.
Covenant Church Sues
City, Demanding Tax
Exemption and Refund
The Evangelical Covenant
Church of America has filed suit
in Superior Court against the City
of Nome demanding tax exemp
tion for property of the Arctic
Broadcasting Co., Inc., the home of
the manager and the missionary
builder and refund of taxes paid
the City of Nome in 1959 and
1961 for the sum of $886.96.
Their complaint alleges that only
2/7ths of their revenue is earned
commercially and that they are
a foreign non-profit organization.
I White Man Attacks
Integrationist Leader
Rev. Martin Luther King
1 BIRMINGHAM, Ala. iff) — A
I white man attacked the Rev. Mar
tin Luther King Jr. today as the
Negro integrationist was address
ing the Southern Christian Lead
ership Conference.
Observers said King made no
move to resist as the 6-foot-2 inch
200-pound man pummeled him
with his fists. Persons in the audi
ence were stunned momentarily,
but then pushed forward onto the
platform where King was speaking
and the man quieted down.
The Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker,
SCLC executive director, said the
man idenified himself as Roy
James, 24, of Arlington. Va., and
a member of the American Nazi
party.
A few moments later police ar
rived and asked King if he would
prefer charges. King said no, ad
ding that he believed in non
violence.
The officers took the man to
headquarters for questioning.
1,853 Applications Are
Received for 228 Tracts
In Oil and Gas Lease Sale
; JUNEAU UP) — The State Di
vision of Lands said today 1,852
applications were received foi
tracts to be offered in Alaska’s
third non-competitive oil and ga;
, lease sale.
Director Roscoe Bell said 83 o
I the 228 tracts to go on the blocl
I received six or more application;
, each.
The drawing to determine pri
orities on each tract is scheduled
to start in the council chambers
, in the basement of the Loussac
Library in Anchorage at 9 a.m.
Oct. 5.
NOME UNEMPLOYMENT RATE
LAST WEEK WAS 4.7 PCT.
JUNEAU UB — Labor Commis
sioner Gil Johnson said today
Alaska’s insured unemployment
rate was 3.0 per cent during the
week ending Sept. 20, compared
with 2.9 the previous week and
5.0 for the same week a year ago.
Layoffs in the fishing industry
accounted for the rise in insured
unemployment, Johnson said. Con
tinuing unemployment was 971,
while new unemployment during
the week totaled 290.
The insured unemployment rate
by area included Anchorage, 3.2
per cent; Fairbanks, 3.0; Juneau,
2.4; Ketchikan, 2.4; Nome, 4.7;
Petersburg, 1.7; and Sitka, 1.9.
Pravda Says News Stories
On Integration Resemble
“Bulletins of War”
MOSCOW — The Commu
nist youth paper Komsomlskaya
Pravda said today American news
reports from Mississippi “resem
ble bulletins from a theater of
war operations.”
After explaining the situation,
; the paper said:
“All this is being done merely
to prevent 29-year-old James H
■ Meredith from becoming the first
: Negro student at the University
■ of Mississippi, so as not to stair
l the purity of the educational es
[ tablishments of the state.
“Although the Supreme Courl
’ of the United States gave specia]
[ instructions for the acceptance ol
> Meredith at the university, the
racists do not want this.”
jrSTIC.'i; DIP!
Ready to Enforce
Sanctions Against
Gov. Ross Barnett
NEW ORLEANS i/P> — Asst.
U.S. Atty. Gen. Burke Marshall
told the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of
! Appeals today the Justice Dept,
is prepared to enforce any sanc
tions on Mississippi Gov. Ross Bar
nett if he does not comply with
edicts to stop blocking integration
at the University of Mississippi.
Marshall told the court, trying
Barnett in absentia for civil con
tempt, that it had the power to
impose a continuing fine and order
tin 64-year-old governor jailed.
The official asked the court to
give Barnett a limited amount of
time to purge himself before im
posing any sanctions. He suggest
! cd the deadline by Monday after
; noon.
I Circuit Judge Griffin Bell of
j Atlanta interjected in the closing
arguments: "It seems to me you
i could bring him (Barnett' here to
| court.”
Marshall replied that the federal
government wanted a specific order
telling the governor what he must
do and what the penalties are if he
refuses.
As Marshall started his closing
arguments, Chief Judge Elberl
Tuttle of Atlanta remarked: “This
court has practically exhausted it:
power in the circumstances.
"The time has about come whei
i the burden falls on the executiv
branch. The court has no power
to execute orders.”
The court had directed that thi
64-year-old governor — who vow:
to go to jail rather than integral
the University of Mississippi—ap
pear and show cause why he
shouldn’t be cited for civil con
tempt.
Barnett has three times defied
federal court orders directing that
Negro James Meredith be enrolled
at the 114-year-old all-white state
university.
U.S. Military Advisers Will
Be Withdrawn from Laos
WASHINGTON UP — The last of
800 American military advisers
will be withdrawn from Laos Oct.
6 whether all the Communist
North Viet Namese are out or not,
U.S. sources say.
That’s the deadline for the with
drawal of all foreign troops under
the Geneva agreement.
SOVIETS WILL TRAIN CUBANS
FOR FISHING OPERATIONS
HAVANA (UP) — The Russians
will train Cubans in operating a
fishing port and manning trawl
ers under the new agreement Fidel
Castro’s governmeni signed with
the Soviet Union.
An announcement today said
200 Cubans will be sent to Russia
for training and others will serve
aboard Soviet trawlers. Five Rus
sian trawlers are already operat
ing out of Cuban ports.
The jointly operated Cuban
Soviet fishing base in Havana Bay
is scheduled to be completed next
year.
THE WEATHER
Mostly cloudy, little change in
temperature. Low tonight 37, high
tomorrow 43. In the last 24 hours:
High of 53, low of 37. Max. wind
18 mph from NNE. Sunrise at
6:02 a.m., sunset at 5:41 p.m.
Temps, a year ago today: High of
48, low of 34. Extremes on this
date since 907: High of 55 in
1942, low of 17 in 1957.
; U.S. Speeds Relief to
j Spanish Flood Victims
| BARCELONA, Spain .-P — The
! United States sited relief to Spain’.-,
j flood victims today as new rains
spread more misery through the
| ravaged industrial districts around
Barcelona.
Touring the region stricken by
the flash floods of Tuesday night,
Capt. Gen. Augustin Munoz-Gran
de/., vice president of the Franco
government, said the death toll
may n ach (500 or more.
It was officially announced 473
bodies have been recovered, n.otv
j than 300 persons were still listed
I unofficially as missing. The in
I jured totaled 200. About l.fmO also
! were reported homeless.
| U.S. forces at the joint Soanish
: A:nerican airbas« at Zara; z , sent
! earth-moving equipment to help
; clear up the rubble. The U S. Em
■ bassy in Madrid sent powdered
j milk, rice, noodles and oilier food
i to Barcelona.
; Kennedy Sounds Battle
j 19fJ2 Battle Cry
WHEELING, W.Va. W — Presi
dent Kennedy has worked up a
clear, uncomplicated battle cry for
his headlong venture into the 1962
congressional campaign. He puts
it this way: Democrats look ahead
and are good for the country. Re
publicans look back and don’t
’ know where they’re going.
Kennedy played hard on the
theme at a Democratic rally in ths
rain here last night, just as he hac
' at Harrisburg, Pa., a week ago.
5 Men close to the President be
lieve that’s the main line he wil
; take through an arduous five
’ weeks of stumping across the land
for Democratic congressional and
gubernatorial candidates.
Kennedy cut short his prepared
speech when rain began to soak
the 10,000 persons who trooped to
Wheeling Island Stadium for the
Democratic doings. He likes West
Virginians too much, he said, to
keep them out in the wet.
Kennedy recalled why he liked
them so much, too. It was in West
Virginia that he won a vital Pres
idential primary victory over Sen.
Hubert Humphrey.
“This is the place where the De
mocratic victory of 1960 had its
star t,” Kennedy said, “and I
assure you tonight that it will
also be the starting place for the
Democratic victory of 1962.’’
Kennedy avoided mention of
former President Eisenhower by
name. But with almost a snarl,
he said the national government
in the 1950s had left West Virginia
“on the beach, to decline and rot."
South American Boxer
Still In Coma After
Knockout A Week Ago
LOS ANGELES UP» — South
American boxer Alejandro Lavor
ante today clung to life in the
seventh day of coma that followed
his knockout last Friday by San
Francisco’s Johnny Riggins.
Lavorante, an Argentine heavy
weight, suffered a seizure yester
day and his temperature shot up
to 105 degrees. But within an hour
doctors had reduced it to 99 de
grees.
Dr. Dewitt Fox, neurosurgeon
who performed two emergency
operations to alleviate brain pres
sure, said Lavorante is in the
midst of a critical period and that
his condition is fluctuating, “not
drastically, but some.” He said he
was hopeful the 25-year-old boxer
would survive.
Kemird\‘s Stand
i>\ on [ nivorsilv of
Mississippi Issue
WASHINGTON J — Arty. Gen.
Revert Kennedy canceled a West
Coast speaking engagement and
President Kennedy left his week
end plans flexible today to stand
by for possible new moves in the
University of Mississippi desegre
gation crisis.
There was no imdediate indi
cation of any White House action
to get Negro James Meredith en
rolled in the face of widespread
opposition and threats of violence
on the scene. Direct use of Army
forces would be a matter for Presi
dential decision.
President Kennedy spends al
most every weekend out of town
-—the last few have been at New
port, R.I.. and ordinarily leaves
on Fridays. But. assistant press
secretary Andrew Hatcher said he
will not leave town today.
Asked whether the Mississippi
situation was responsible for the
lack of a decision on the trip this
week, Hatcher told reporters:
"That's one of the reasons week
end plans are indefinite.”
Hatcher said the President had
been in touch with his brother,
the Attorney General, today on
the Mississippi issue.
In the early afternoon, the Jus
tice Department denied a report
from Mississippi that Atty. Gen.
, Kennedy and Gov. Ross Barnett
\ of Mississippi had agreed in a
telephone exchange to have a
. weekend truce in the Meredith
matter.
KANGAROO COURT . . .
MIAMI, Fla. UP — Judge Gerald
Klein said a traffic offender —
one of the last of 200 cases he
handled in a single night — paid
a $10 fine and then hopped across
the courtroom, bounding up and
down.
"Why are you walking that
way?” the judge asked.
“If I’m in a kangaroo court I
thought I ought to act like a kan
garoo,” the man replied.
The judge lectured him on the
dignity of the courts then let him
go.
Motorcyclist Loses Life
Under Wheels of Tractor
Trailer On Alaska Hwy.
FORT NELSON, B. C. UP) —
Monte Maurice Morris, 28, Los
Angeles, died Wednesday under
the wheels of a giant tractor trail
er on the Alaska Highway near
here.
Police said he apparently jump
ed from a motorcycle when he be
lieved collision with the other ve
hicle was inevitable.
David W. Newland, 19, Anchor
age, Alaska, motorcycle driver,
stuck with his machine and suf
fered only minor injuries when he
was thrown off.
Newland met Morris at an An
chorage motorcycle club. The pair
decided to go to Seattle.
Police said Newland was follow
ing the tractor trailer along the
dusty highway when the vehicle
started to make a left turn. New
land didn’t see the signal immedi
ately and swerved to avoid a crash.
Morris leaped from the vehicle
under the wheels of the truck.
BONN, Germany UP—The West
German government will provide
3,600,000 marks ($900,000) for
artificial limbs and hospital care
of children born deformed because
of the drug thalidomide.