Foreign Aid
Funds Disclosed
As Birthday Gifts
WASHINGTON W — The tap
ping of foreign aid funds for
birthday gifts to new countries and
a road to an athletic stadium has
been disclosed in a House hearing.
The information was brought out
by a subcommittee in a scrutiny
of the $275-million contingency
account controlled by the Presi
dent but actually spent by the
State Department and the agency
for International Development. j
Chairman O. Passman, <D-La.\!
commented that the law govern
ing the fund is broad enough to
permit the President to open a
saloon every two miles across some
foreign country.
In testimony released, Fowler
Hamilton, Aid Director, agreed the
fund was supposed to take care of
unforeseen developments and to
deal with a real crisis.
Hamilton testified that through
April, the fund had been tapped i
for $223,423,000 for situations “like j
aid to Greece when the Berlin
situation got hot.”
The tabulation of withdrawals,
supplied at Passman’s demand, dis
closed some other uses.
Algeria was put down for an
“independence day gift” of $150,000
and an additional $7,000 to bring
an Algerian over to study the U S.
Civil Service.
Indonesia received $5,600,000 to
push completion of a road to the
site of the Asian athletic games.
Iran got $29 million for the'
specific purpose, an aid statement
said, to assure the survival of the
government of Prime Minister Ali
Amini, whose existence was threat- |
ened by a financial crisis. The j
prime minister was ousted anyway.
The African countries of Guinea !
and Mali got $3.5 million and $2.7
million, respectively, because of
their changing political attitudes.
Syria was granted $9 million in
February when it broke away
from the United Arab Republic. In
May, Egypt, the other part of the
Arab Republic, appealed for and
got $15 million.
A private investigator estimates
that 250,000 U. S. husbands are
leading a double life.
INVITATION FOR BIDS
Well Construction, Nome Vocational
School Site. Nome, Alaska.
Sealed bids in single copy for furnish
ing all labor, equipment and materials
and performing all work for the project
described herein will be received until
10:00 a.m. PST, September 19, 1962 in
the office of R. A. Downing. Commis
sioner Department of Public Works, 111
W. Third Street, Juneau, Alaska, and
then publicly opened.
Specifications, Plans and Contract
Documents are available for inspection
a: the Director's Office, Division of
Buildings, Capitol Building. Juneau,
Alaska; Associated General Contractors
of America, Alaska Chapter, 306 Central
Building. Anchorage, Alaska and A.G.C.
Plan Office, c/o Fuller Paint & Glass
Company, Gaffney & Noble Streets,
Fairbanks, Alaska.
Plans and specifications are available
upon request without charge from:
Director, Division of Buildings
Department of Public Works
P. O. Box 1511
Juneau. Alaska
Guarantee will be required with each
bid equal to 10 percent ilO pet.! of
the amount of the bid base. Performance
bond will be required equal to one hun
dred percent (100 pct.i of the amount of
the contract. A Payment Bond will be
required equal to fifty percent (50 pct.i
of the contract.
The State prequalification requirement
effective March 9, 1960 in accordance
with Paragraph 1-h is hereby waived.
The work consists of the complete con
struction of a well with casing at the
Nome Vocational School Site. Nome,
Alaska.
R. A. Downing, Commissioner
Department of Public Works
State of Alaska
Publish Aug. 31, Sept. 7, 1962.
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Front of Pool Hall
12 Noon to 8 P.M.
Phone 2343
Alaska Airlines Sales
j Managers Tour State
I Alaska Airlines’ entire sales de
| partment from across the nation
i converged on Alaska Thursday to
| begin a re-orientation trip and to
| conduct a statewide sales blitz.
The group begins today in An- !
! chorage with tours to Portage Gla- i
cier and Mt. Alyeska. Since this ;
winter the Olympic trials are being !
held at Mt. Alyeska — Alaska Air
lines feels there will be a sub
stantial increase in ski tours and
will be releasing its new ski tour
program within a few weeks.
The group arriving in Nome to
day will continue on to Kotzebue
and Pt. Barrow —• arriving in Fair
banks Sunday afternoon.
From Tuesday thru Friday the
eight sales executives will branch
out into the hinterlands of Alaska
meeting people in communities
throughout the interior and the
Arctic slopes.
Robert Giersdorf, assistant vice
president for the Alaska Division
is in charge of the program. Re
gional managers from New York,
Chicago, Los Angeles and Pacific
Northwest offices along with vice
president of sales for the airlines,
Raymond Wadsworth — are mem
bers of the group.
Alaska Airlines tour sales to
Alaska this season will show a re
markable 700 to 800 per cent in
crease over a year ago. The suc
cess of this year’s program is at
tributed to the effectiveness of
Alaska Airlines’ offices throughout
the nation working on a year
round basis and a complete variety
of all Alaska itineraries scheduling
sea/air tours. Next year’s tour pro
gram will be expanded substanti
ally due to the success of this year's
efforts.
The sales managers are seeing
first hand all of the features that
the airlines tour program is offer
ing.
Mrs. Alaska McChesney,
Pioneer Alaskan, Passes
SEATTLE (;?> — Mrs. Alaska
Young McChesney, 81, member of
a pioneer Alaska family, died in
a hospital Wednesday. She had
been ill since February.
Mrs. McChesney was born in
Wrangell. Her father was the Rev.
Sr,rr,M''l HM1 Yen", n p’onee>'
Presbyterian missionary.
When a young girl, Mrs. Mc
Chesney lived at Nome and Cor
dova.
Mrs. McChesney first came here
in the middle 1920’s. She was the
widow of Robert McChesney, own
er of the Alaska Printing Co. here.
She made her home in Juneau
from his death in 1929 until re
turning here in 1954.
Her father. Rev. Young, estab
lished the first Protestant Church
in Alaska when he built a Presby
terian chapel in Wrangell in Au
gust, 1879.
Mrs. McChesney’s daughters,
Mrs. Roy Mulvihill and Mrs. Olney
Webb of Seattle, were the first
white twins born in the territory.
Nome was their birthplace.
The price of tension: About
49,000 Americans are away from
their jobs each day because of
ulcers.
BIG
Rummage Sale
Saturday, Sept. 1st
Opens 10 O’clock
New and Used
Clothing Bedding
Cot Mattresses
Some Furniture
All Sales Final
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CUBAN SHIPS FIRE
ON U S. NAVY PLANE
WASHINGTON A The Whitt
House announced Friday that fw<
i Cuban ships fired on a L'.S. Navy
plane Thursday over international
I waters. It said that hereafter such
! attacks will be met w ith "all means
' necessary” to assure protection.
“All means necessary” signifies
that U.S. planes and naval ves
sels have been ordered to fire back
if fired upon.
The Navy plane was attacked
with machinegun fire by two small
naval vessels “believed to be Cu
ban,” 18 miles north of the Cuban
coast. The plane was not hit and
none of its crew of three reservists
on temporary active duty was in
jured.
The Swiss embassy in Havana
has been asked by the United
States to deliver to the Cuban au
thorities word of what can be ex
pected in event of any similar in
cident in the future.
Britain Court Upholds
Soblen Deportation Order
LONDON (/Pi — Three appeal
court judges today upheld a gov
ernment order for deportation of
Dr. Robert A. Soblen to the United
States, crushing his fourth legal at
tempt to win freedom in Britain.
The bail-jumping Soviet spy is
now pinning his slim hope of es
caping life imprisonment in the
United States on a plea of Britain’s
Home Secretary, Henry Brooke,
for mercy.
It was Brooke who issued the
deportation order Aug. 2.
Soblen sat with his head bowed
and lips quivering as the appeal
court judges read their decision.
Then his attorneys announced
no useful purpose would be served
by taking Soblen’s case to the
House of Lords. Britain’s highest
legal authority, as they had once
considered doing.
After two months of internation
al wrangling and marathon court
hearings, the last barrier to Sob
len's deportation was thus re
moved.
ADVERTISEMENT FOR BID
SEALED BIDS, in duplicate copy, will
be received until 10:00 a.m.. September
13, 1962. and then publicly opened for
furnishing all labor and materials and
performing all work for construction of
Bush Landing Strips at Stebbins and St.
Michael, Alaska.
Plans, specifications, and Protect Docu
ments may be obtained from the Division
of Aviation. .623 Eighth Avenue, Anchor
age, Alaska.
Bids will be publicly opened in the
Office of the Commissioner. Department
of Public Works. Alaska Office Build
ing, Juneau, Alaska, at 16:00 a.m. PST
on September 13, 1962.
These projects consist of the follow
ing estimated quantities: Stebbins Strip
ping. 7.5 acres: Stebbins Class I Em
bankment, 9000 cu. yd.; Stebbins Class
II Embankment. 2000 cu. yd.; St. Michael
Class I Embankment, 11.000 cu. yd.: St.
Michael Class II Embankment. 2800 cu.
yd.
Bidders are notified that prequalifica
tion of contractors has been waived by
the Commissioner of Public Works for
this project in accordance with Para
graph “1.” lh' of the Regulations.
Department of Public Works,
Richard A. Downing. Commissioner,
Eugene G. Roguszka. Director,
Division of Aviation
Pub: Aug. 24, 31. Sept. 5, 12, 1962.
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All of the People”
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Man Severed In I In
Stricken f’odv oi
| NEW YORK </? - A man rut
in half to get rid of th>■ paralyzed,
cancer-stricken lower part of his
body, has survived for one year
and is on the road to what may j
be a useful life.
Surgeons at the University of
Minnesota Hospital, w h e r e the
operation was performed to re- ,
move the legs and pelvis, believe :
it is the first of its kind in which
a patient has survived for any
length of time.
The backbone was severed at I
the level of the navel, but no vital j
organs or intestine were removed, j
doctors said.
The normal outlets for waste ma- j
terials had to be relocated, and j
the patient continues to have a '
cathether or tube in his bladder. !
Six surgeons, three nurses and 1
one anestheologist took part in the j
operation.
The amazing case was presented
in a report to the American Con
gress of Physical Medicine and Re
habilitation meeting here. Uni- '
versitv of Minnesota staff members
who prepared the paper were Dr. |
J. Bradley Aust, associate professor !
of surgery, who headed the operat
ing team: Dr. Frederic J. Kottke,
head of the Department of Physi
cal Medicine and Rehabilitation;
and two other members of the de- j
partment. Dr. Walter J. Dawson
and Dr. Jessie K. M. Easton.
Identity of the 30-year-old pa- I
tient is being withheld by the 1
physicians. I
This is his history, as detailed at !
i a Minneapolis press conference by
j Drs. Aust, Kottke and Easton:
! He was paralyzed from the waist
I down from birth with a spina
bifida—a two-pronged spine which
is open over his spinal cord.
As an infant in a poor family,
j he got poor care. An ulcer on his
j buttocks was agitated by his con
| finement and lack of control over
j elimination of waste matters.
NOME SANITARY
SERVICE
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P.O. Box 460
If to Ilia Cancer
i Road to Recovers
I! hoc-amt- a huge -or- and cancer
: eg,an i* deadly work, a- the young
man lay ]11< ,-ly . :: k.s bod day
and night.
Other doctor.- had thrown up
their hand.- in defoa*. Death seemed
certain within one year.
Finally, at the ago of 29. the man
was taken to University Hospital
and given his choice of limited
days with useless limbs and pelvis
or a possible restoration.
The man chose the operation.
Last October the team headed by
Dr. Aust severed him at the naval
in an operation that required four
and a half hours.
He and Dr. Kotte pointed out
the man still has his troubles. He
has a kidney problem, although
waste matter is carried out through
cystostomy and colo.sh-mv opera
tions.
“And we don’t know yet whether
we have cured his cancer," added
Dr. Aust. who said it may take
four or five year- to determine
whether traces of the disease have
been removed.
He can lift himself with a tra
peze into a fiber reinforced plastic
body .jacket, bolted to a whet-1
chair. Then he moves about, to the
woodwork table at a therapy cen
ter where he enjoys making such
things a breadboards. With a
leather tooling kit he makes belts,
purses and billfolds.
Nuclear Ship Savannah
Narrowly Misses Collision
NORFLOK, Va. UP—The nuclear
merchant ship Savannah narrowly
avoided a collision with a Navy
destroyer yesterday as she entered
Hampton Roads on return from
her maiden voyage.
The destroyer Shekel! reported
ly missed ramming the Savannah
by two feet.
A Navy spokesman said the
Shekel!, one of seven destroyers
which entered the narrow channel
at the same time as the nuclear
ship, sounded emergency signals
and backed down.
Among dogs, just a> with mos
quitos. the female is deadlier than
the male. A survey showed that
lady dogs bit people 50 per cent
more often than do male dogs.
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