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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—!
EE ASSOCIATED PRESS
63rd Year No. 24
NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1962
Per Cotjv 15rf
Committee Questions
Education Dept. Spending
Of Federal Funds
JUNEAU tP) — Members of the
Joint Senate-House Finance Com
mittee Saturday questioned the
right of the Department of Edu
cation to spend federal funds
without legislative authorization.
Education Commissioner Dr.
Theo Norby and George Nichols,
State Director of Planning, told
the committee the legislature told
no right to determine how the
federal funds are spent.
In question were federal monies
received by the State Department
of Education under provisions of
Public Law 874, which provides
for federal in-lieu-of-tax pay
ments to schools affected by fed
eral activities.
Rep. Walter Kubley and Sen.
Irwin Metcalf, who act as the
Joint Finance Committee’s sub
committee on Education, told the
committee they discovered the
Education Department planned to
spend almost $800,000 in 874
funds during the current fiscal
year, expenditures not author
ized by the legislature.
“This is federal money and you
can’t appropriate it,” Nichols told
the committee. “The legislature
can put a ceiling on the amount
of funds to be spent, however.”
Norby said there are strict con
trols on the expenditure of 874
funds. “We have to follow federal
law in connection with the ex
penditure of these monies, as well
as state law. There is always the
■nnssihilitv that if lira nnt iicd
874 funds in accordanc with fed
eral regulations, we could be in
danger of losing the favorable al
lotment Alaska has,” Norby said.
Chairman Frank Chapados, of
the House -Finance Committee
told Norby and Nichols that
while the committee realized it
can’t appropriate 874 funds “we
do feel we can outline a budget
and expect the department to
hold to that legislative program.”
(Rep. Donald Harris noted that
Norby had used 874 funds to hire
im employes for the Education
Department.
Under sharp questioning by
Harris, Norby said he had not re
quested the extra help last year
during budget meetings with
members of the Joint Finance
Committee.
Rep. Harld Strandberg said he
was disturbed to find “you have
increased general administration
costs over those we lined out, for
the same program you carried out
in 1860-81.”
MORE APPLICATIONS
FILED FOR SUBMERGED
LANDS OFF NOME
JUNEAU Iff* — Ten more ap
plications for mineral prospecting
permits on submerged lands off
Nome have been filed with the
Division of Lands in Anchorage,
Mines and Minerals Director Jim
Williams said Saturday.
'Williams said he was advised
late Friday that the additional
applications had been filed, but
he said he did not know the
names of the companies or indi
viduals or how many acres the
new filings covered.
Roscoe Bell, Slate Director of
Lands, disclosed Thursday that
the Shell Oil Co. and eight indi
viduals had filed for permits em
bracing 32,916 acres of shallow
submerged lands in Norton Sound.
Three mineral prospecting per
mits have been filed on lands
in the channel of Stephens Pas
sage south of Juneau.
JFK and Nikita
To Exchange
TV Broadcasts
WASHINGTON UO — The
U. S. and Russia are reported
today to be arranging for simul
taneous television broadcasts in
both countries of statements by
President Kennedy and Premier
Khrushchev. The tentative date is
March 24 or 25.
Informant said the two leaders
will make independent state
ments — in English and Russian,
respectively—which will last 15
minutes each. They will be fol
lowed by translations.
The statements will be taped or
filmed in advance.
Details, including the prospec
tive date, have been discussed
during the U.S. - Soviet negotia
tions on cultural exchanges, now
in their fourth week in Washing
ton.
Although the Kennedy-Khrush
chev exchange is specifically a
White House - Kremlin issue, it
will be within the framework of
the new agreement on cultural
exchanges which will provide for
appearances of topranking public
figures, either in person, on radio
or television, or in the form of
pre-taped broadcasts, informants
explained.
They said they did not know
when the two leaders might of
ficially announce their decision
on the uiiprecedented TV broad
cast.
Auto License Plates
Deadline Extended
From Feb. 28 to May 31
JUNEAU UR — A bill extending
the deadline for motor vehicle
registration and purchase of li
cense plates was. signed into law
today by Gov. Egan.
The new law goes into effect
tomorrow, thereby granting Al
aska motorists a three - month
postponement in the expiration
date of their present license
plates.
Under the law, the deadline for
registration and display of new
license plates is moved up from
Feb. 28 to May 31.
Egan requested the legislation 1
so that registration fees would ■
not fall during the winter months
of low employment.
“Flying Squad” ... i
LONDON OB — This was the '
scene: A truck loaded with $56,000 ]
worth of cigarettes was parked J
at the curb. Inside lurked four
officers of Scotland Yard’s famed 1
“Flying Squad.” <
The four had been tipped that 1
the truck was the target of !
uneves. '
Came the thieves, four of them.
They drove off in the truck. When '
the truck stopped the four police
officers piled out—-but not fast
enough to nab the four thieves.
Later police arrested four sus
pects and charged them with
stealing the truck and cigarettes.
Rain Brings Relief to Tokyo
TOKYO UR—‘Rain finally came
to Tokyo Sunday night, ending a
87-day dry spell almost unprece
dented for this time of year.
By midnight, the rain had turn
ed snow covering the capital with
a thin white blanket.
Metropolitan officials said the
dry spell had brought on an un
usually large number of fires —
an average of a dozen a day —
and had created a water shortage.
Senate Approves
Curfew Ordinance
JUNEAU Of)—The Senate gave
its approval today to a bill ex
tending any municipal curfew or
dinance to the entire area within
20 miles of the city.
State Police would be empow
ered to enforce the curfew ordin
ance outside of cities, but under
a Senate amendment, city police
could enforce the curfew in areas
around their communities under
contractual agreements with the
state police.
The bill provides for a penalty
of a fine not to exceed $300 and
imprisonment of not more than
30 days, or both.
Jackie Postpones
Xndia-Pakistan Trip
WASHINGTON W) — The
White House announced today
that, because of a sinus infec
tion, Mrs. John F. Kennedy has
been forced to postpone the start
of her India-Pakistan trip for a!
week. She is now due to begin
the journey March 12.
The first lady has been suffer
ing from “a low-grade sinus in
fection for several months,” press
secretary Pierre Salinger said.
She was at the airport in West
Palm Beach, Fla., today to see her
husband off on the flight bringing
astronaut John TI. Glenn Jr. and
his family to Washington for a
day of honors.
Sunday she went water skiing
and took a dunking.
She did not make the trip back
to the capitol today, staying for
a lew more days in uie sun.
Exact details of Mrs. Kennedy’s
itinerary have yet to be worked
out, but the delay will knork out
the first eight days of her pre
viously announced schedule. She
will start the trip with a visit in
New Delhi, India, and carry on
from that point as previously de
termined, ending the tour at
Karachi, Pakistan,, on March 26.
This is the third postponement
of the first lady’s journey to Asia.
Initially it was set back from last
November until January, then
an til next month.
\tty. Gen. Kennedy Calls
On Dutch-Indonesia to
rake Factual Approach
THE HAGUE, Netherlands W
—Robert F. Kennedy called today
'or both Indonesia and The Neth
erlands to take a “factual and ra
ional approach to the explosive
ssue of West New Guinea.
The U. S. Attorney General,
learing the end of a world tour
luring which he has visited both
he countries contending for the
Southeast Asia island territory,
nearly implied ne iouna ooxn ine
Dutch and Indonesians approach
id the issue emotionally rather
han factually.
Kennedy arrived Sunday from
Bonn for a busy round of calls
before flying this afternoon to
Paris, his last stop before flying
biome.
Soon after his arrival he and
bis wife had tea with Queen Ju
liana at her palace on the out
skirts of The Hague.
In a parting shot at the Bast
German Communist regime, he
said in a speech taped for broad
cast to Bast Germany that on his
world tour he had gained the im
pression that. East German party
chief Walter Ulbricht has "no
prestige and no position in any
place in the world in which I
have been."
Glenn Accorded
Ovation by Joint
Senate and House
WASHINGTON UP> —Astronaut
John H. Glenn Jr. honored as few
men have ever been honored, de
clared today that America’s
strides in space point to a bril
liant future.
Brought here by President Ken
nedy to accept the nation’s hom
age, America’s first man to orbit
the earth gave a picture of what
can lie ahead in a speech to a
joint meeting of the Senate and
House.
“We are just probing the sur
face of the greatest advance
ments of man’s knowledge of his
surroundings that have ever been
made,” Glenn declared.
The senators and representa
tives received him tumultuously
cheering as had thousands of rain
soaked citizens who lined Pen
nsylvania Avenue to watch Glenn
parade from the White House to
the capitol.
He had ridden the historic
route, which again today was
America’s route of heroes—hat
less in an open-top limousine.
Just as the crowds along the
way had roared with “yeas” anc
“hurrahs,” screams and whistles
so did the congressmen shed thei
dignity when Glenn appeared ii
the House chamber.
: There were two standing ovj
tions before Glenn ever got ini
his prepared-in-advance speech.
Glenn had gone to the Whit
tcu jLiuiu ziiiurews ai;
I Force Base, where the presiden
I tial jet touched down. The rain
[ was so heavy it had “scrubbed”—
to use an astronaut’s term—plans
to travel the airport-to-White
House leg by helicopter.
Thus once again weather threw
a kink into the planning that has
surrounded almost every step of
Glenn’s career as an astronaut.
Repeatedly, before his triumph
of last Tuesday, Glenn’s attempt
to circle the earth in a space
vehicle had been upset by bad
weather.
Strains of “Hail to the Chief’
and “The Star Spangled Banner”
greeted Glenn and the President
as they left the plane and headed
into a day of festive praise that
iot even the dreary weather
:ould spoil.
It was the UJS. Army band that
met the party. But it was the
LT.S. Marine band — Glenn is a
iientenant colonel in the Marines
—that had the sole musical role
in the parade from the White
House to the capitol.
Hoonah ANB, ‘Cinderella
Team’ Wins Southeast
Basketball Tournament
JUNEAU W — Hoonah ANB
eked out a 63-62 victory over
Sitka ANB Saturday night to
take top honors in the AA sec
tion of the 16th Annual Gold
Medal Tournament here.
The Hoonah club, Cinderella
team of the tourney, is the smallest
town ever to win the top AA
event .
Klukwan ANB downed Peters
burg ANB 57-54 to take the A
tournament trophy.
Both teams placed heavily on
the All-Star tournament teams.
The Juneau Lions Club, which
sponsors the yearly event, said
this year's attendance was the
greatest in the tournament's his
tory. '
George Attla of Huslia
Wins Fur Rendezvous
Dog Racing Championship
ANCHORAGE UR — George
Attla has captured the 1962 An
chorage Fur Rendezvous world
sled dog race championship, but
had to give way to Dr. Roland
Lombard for top honors in to
day’s third heat of the 75-mile
race.
Attla, from Huslia on the Koyu
kuk river, and his 13 dogs cov
ered the course Sunday in one
hour, 38 minutes, 26 seconds for
a total elapsed time for the 75
miles, of 4 hours, 49 minutes, 20
seconds. His total winnings were
$2,300.
Lombard, who has won every
major sled dog race in North
America except this one, took top
money of $600 in today’s 25-mile
race by fininshing in 1:37.42. His
total winnings for the three days
were $1,550. His three-day time
was 4:56.11.
Billy Sullivan, 23-year-old An
chorage policeman, came in a sur
prising third today and fourth in
total elapsed time to take home
$800 in total winnings.
Huslia’s Bergman Sam came in
fourth today but managed to
finish second in total elapsed time
for $1,300 in prize money.
Another Huslia musher, Cue
Biffelt, was fifth for the three
day race and won $500.
Twenty-six teams started the
race Friday. Only 15 teams were
in the field at the start of the
final heat. Defending champion
Leo Kriska of Koyukuk was
among those scratched yesterday.
Alaska Will Extradite
Two Connected With
Defunct Investment Firm
I ANCHORAGE UR — The State
has taken steps to have returned
to Alaska iMr. and Mrs. Tom
Browder and Ralph Browne, all
of whom were associated with in
vestment firms which failed here
and who were secretly indicted
by the recent state grand jury on
charges of failure to file state in
come tax returns.
Assistant [District Attorney Dick
Bradley said today that Alaska
State Police have started the ex
tradition process. The Browders
have been located at Greenville,
Miss., and Browne in Portland,
Ore.
The three “apparently haven’t
tried to hide themselves,” said
Bradley.
Bradley said two other similar
indictments were returned by the
grand jury but the persons named
therein have not yet been located.
Browder was one of the organ
izers and president of the Ftrjt
Alaska Investment Co. which
spawned a number of other firms
here, among them the life Insur
ant#* Or* of Alaska
Castro Emerges from
12 Days of Silence
HAVANA UP) — Looking happy
and healthy, Fidel Castor emerged
from 12 days of silence and seclu
sion Sunday for a baseball and
television appearance.
The Cuban prime minister lined
out two hits — one with two
strikes against him—after making
an unannounced appearance at a
doubleheader in “Latino Ameri
cano” stadium.
The crowd of 32,000 cheered
and the nation’s television audi
ence watched as Castro accepted
the challenge of two pitchers to
strike him out.