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Entered as second class matter October 14. 1943, at the
post office at Nome, Alaska, under Act of March 3, 1879.
Education . . .
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grams to be developed by the
state.
9. It is agreed that the State of
Alaska should formulate an over
all plan with local participation
for (a) expansion of present high
school educational facilities and
(b) transfer of Bureau operated
schools to state management and
operation. This planning of neces
sity, will include federal finan
cial participation.
10. Such plans as the state for
mulates will be the basis for
further discussions looking toward
agreements which will coordinate
federal and state efforts in the
educational field.
No Objection to Location
11. It is especially to be noted
that the Bureau is considering
such plans as may be advanced
by the state has no fixed objec
tion to the location of high school
facilities in any particular com
munity and it is hoped that state
plans for school construction at
Nome may be utilized within the
over-all program.
12. It is agreed that the Bureau
of Indian Affairs and the State of
Alaska consider the establishment
of regional comprehensive high
schools with necessary domiciliary
facilities an acceptable approach
in providing secondary education.
13. Nothing in this statement is
to be interpreted as a commitment
by either the State of Alaska or
the Bureau of Indian Affairs to
a particular approach in meeting
the educational problems in Alas
ka which are of mutual concern.
At such time as the State af Alas
ka provides policy guidelines for
discussion with the Bureau of
Indian Affairs it is hoped that a
commitment to particular actions
may be made at both the state
and federal levels.
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Plane Crash . . .
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residential areas—exploded less
than two minutes after it had
taken off from Idlewild Airport
at 10:07 a.m. yesterday. It was
bound for Los Angeles.
Plunged Straight Down
The 257,000-pound astro-jet,
nearly half as long as a football
field, plunged straight down sud
denly and with such sickening
fury that the pilot never had a
chance to radio that he was in
trouble.
There was no flame, no smoke,
no trailing exhaust, no outward
indication of damage.
It all happened so quickly that ;
friends and relatives of the pas- <
sengers had not yet had a chance ,
to leave the airport before the <
plane carrying their loved ones
made its disastrous dive only three
miles away. i
A Mohawk Airlines plane bound «
for upstate New York followed <
the doomed jet from the runway,
and its passengers got a ghastly, j
bird’s-eye view of the tragedy, j
Here is how one of them, -
Joseph Farano of New York, de- -
scribed it:
“The jet made a beautiful take
off, and then it happened. It was
as if something reached up from
the earth, grabbed its nose and 1
, pulled it down. The plane crashed j
perfectly perpendicularly, making
a terrific splash as it plowed into \
the muddy swamp.” I
The terrific splash — a 200
foot geyser — was the result of
the 650-degree-hot engines hitting j
the icy water. The plane disin-,
tegrated instantly, scattering its,
twisted remains over a mile
round area.
“In the United States, doing
good has come to be like patriot
ism, a favorite device of persons
with something to sell.”
—H. L. Mencken.
Priority Bills Being
Drafted to Finish
Work in 60 Days
JUNEAU W — Leade-s of the
House of Representatives and the
Senate disclosed yesterday a pri
ority list of legislation is being
drafted in an effort to complete
the work of the 1962 session with
in 60 days.
Presideht Frank Peratrovich of
the Senate and Speaker Warren
Taylor of the House said com
mittees from both chambers are
working up a coordinated list of
priority legislation.
“We are going to analyze all
bills pending before the legisla
ture and assign the most im
portant to first, second, third and
possibly fourth priority,” Taylor
said.
xayior ana t'erairovicn saiu me
first priority bills would be mat
ters of codification — the crimin
al procedures act, the commercial
rode, the civil procedures act and
the probate act.
“It is necessary that those bills
>e approved so they can be in
corporated into the revised
statutes which will be printed this
summer and delivered to us by
Itfov. 15,” Taylor said.
Asked if he anticipated that
jov. Wm. Egan’s employment
security bills would be assigned
i high priority, Taylor replied:
“I think it would be a fine
hing if we could place state em
>loyes under employment security
ind we should get to this bill if
ve possibly can.
“As for the bills increasing
veekly benefits and the benefit
period, I feel that our employ
ment security act is quite gen
erous and I don’t see where we
could give those bills a great deal
of priority.
“Of course, if we did find time,
it would be nice to carry out those
bills, but I just don’t know wheth
er we will be able to do it.”
Peratrovich said that while the
Joint Finance Committee is la
boring very hard over the budgel
bill, “there has been no indica
tion as yet when they might be
ready to bring it out.”
IN MAGISTRATE'S COURT
1,
On drunk charges: Ignatius An
noy ac, 30 days suspended; Bobby
Noyakuk, $50 fine suspended;
Perry Bahnke, $35 fine suspend
ed; William Nuipuk, $35, posses
sion of liquor by a minor.
Clinton Gray was bound over
to Superior Court on a charge of
assault with a dangerous weap
on, allegedly a beer bottle, in
a local bar.
Roy Snyder Jr., is one of the
Alaskans selected for an inten
sive course being given by RCA
at Los Angeles. Young Roy has
had radar experience in the Navy
before returning home to Nome
recently.,
Also taking the course is Albert
Adams of Kotzebue, who was a
stvident at the University of Al
aska last semester.
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Light Plane Crashes
In Heavy Snowstorm
VANCOUVER, B.C. UO — A
former United States Air Force
jet pilot crash-landed a light air
craft near here last night in a
heavy snowstorm.
Elbert T. Pettijohn, 37, was not
injured, but his nephew, Calvin
Johnston, 14, suffered back in
juries. His condition was report
ed good by the hospital. The
plane was wrecked.
The (Maple Valley, Wn., pair
were enroute from Anchorage to
Renton, Wn., near Maple Valley
when they were blown off course.
Pettijohn put the aircraft down
on the Lougheed Highway near
the Vancouver area municipality
of Mission. It struck the power
lines before hitting the road.
In an interview later, Pettijohn
said: HIt was difficult to see be
cause of the storm. I was just
thinking about the boy—hoping
he wouldn’t be injured.
The pair will continue the
journey home by bus when the
Department of Transport com
pletes its investigation of the
crash.
Pettyohn will be remembered
in Nome as he was a bush pilot
for Alaska Airlines here several
years ago. It is understood that
he is still with Alaska, flying out
of Seattle.
While he was based in Fair
banks, Pettijohn was also an Air
National Guard pilot, when that
organisation operated jet fighters.
It was during this period that he
gave the people of Nome one of
their first experiences with a
; sonic boom, while he was a
“weekend warrior.”
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you to work better, it’s distract
ing. Psychiatrists have found
most people’s mental powers are
at a peak against a background
of soft music.
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BLM Dismisses
Aboriginal Bights Protests
Of Three Native Villages
FAIRBANKS <#> — The Land
Office of the Bureau of Land
Management here Wednesday dis
missed the aboriginal rights pro
tests of three native villages,
Tanacross, Northway and Minto.'
The three villages had claimed
large areas around their boun
daries through possessory and
aboriginal rights and had protest
ed state selection of land in the
areas.
Fairbanks Land Office Manager
Daniel Jones dismissed the pro
tests filed in October and Novem
ber by James Hawkins, at that
time Area Director of the Bureau
of Indian Affairs, on behalf of the
natives.
The lands in dispute involved
more than four million acres,
Minto claims an area of about
207.000 acres, Northway claims
2.274.000 acres and Tanacross
claims 1,684,000 acres.
In support of their protests,
these native groups asserted pos
sessory rights on the lands in
question based upon use and oc
cupancy since time immemorial.
They claim the land is used by
them for fishing, trapping and
hunting in making a livelihood.
The protests were dismissed
upon jurisdictional grounds.
“Our attorneys have not been
able to find any authority for our
ietermining aboriginal rights,”
Jones said.
“That is the same thing as de
termining the navigability of a
steamer. Only the courts can do
that.”