by Verne o. martin
Republican for Governor
ijrov. iigan received a direct
slap last week, as being incapable
of judging the abilities of his
fellow man. This was the hiring
of Thurman D. Sherard by Meis
smer Engineering Corp., the third
largest private engineering firm
in the world, to head a six-man
advisory group to aid the Chilean
government in setting up a high
way program.
Sadly, Egan also shows his lack
of ability in handling the econ
omic affairs of Alaska. Direct
and supplemental appropriations
of over $80 million, exceeding by
millions of dollars the antici
pated revenues for the state, is
nothing but a political spending
binge to buy votes in the forth
coming election. I am quite sure
Mr. Egan would not run his little
grocery store at a loss to woo
customers, but during the past
four years he has shown no hesi
tation in running the State of
Alaska at a loss in order to woo
votes.
A state, like any private busi
ness, must be operated on a
sound economic basis if it is to
survive. Unless we wish to saddle
not only ourselves, but succeed
ing generations in Alaska with
a hopeless tax burden, it is im
perative we call a halt to the
spending spree and place this
state on a sound financial foun
dation. This I propose to do as
the Republican governor of
Alaska.
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The annual Anchorage teachers j
charter is scheduled to arrive to
day with a group of Easter week
end visitors. About forty are ex
pected.
; If you’re normal, you probably
have between 2,000 and 3,000
dreams a year—even though you
may think you don’t dream at
all. In “The Science of Dreams.”
Edward Diamond says dreams
help keep us sane toy day by
letting us “go insane” in our
nightly sleep. Laboratory experi
ments showed that people pre
vented from dreaming tended to
develop hallucinations.
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ARCTIC - CONDITIONED
VEHICLES WILL BE BARGED
TO DEW LINE STATIONS
VANCOUVER, Wn. i/?i — Barges,
tugs, trucks, cranes, and vehicles
designed for Arctic conditions are
all part of a fleet being made ready
in Vancouver.
They are being prepared for the
job of supplying 44 Air Force DEW
Line (Distant Early Warning) radar
stations, ranging from the south
ern tip of Alaska to Demarcation
Point, deep in the Arctic on the
shores of frozen Beaufort Sea.
The activity is taking place at
Pacific Inland Navigation Co.’s
Vancouver shipyards. The massive
hauling job is being handled by
Alaska Barge & Transport, a Pa
cific Inland subsidy.
This is the first time one barge
company has had the contract for
supplying all 44 Alaska stations,
company officials said.
To do the job, the company will
use four barges, ranging from
3,200 tons to a 10,000-ton giant. The
power will be supplied by four
tugs, ranging in power from 1,500
to 4,000 horsepower, with auxiliary
help from two 675-horsepower tugs.
For the unloading and hauling
to transfer points, some as far as
14 miles inland, the expedition will
use two converted LCMS (landing
craft), two amphibious duck vehi
cles, nine 10-ton flatbed trucks, 38
refrigerated truck vans, a 25-ton
boom truck, and three vehicles de
signed especially to negotiate Arctic
wastelands.
A MILLION CARTWHEELS!
SEATTLE iff) — To everyone
who’s dreamed of making a million,
stop when the the silver cartwheels
you’ve been saving begin spilling
over the top of a circular bin 7
feet across and 4V£ feet high.
You’ve got it made!
The visual proof is here at the
Seattle World s Fair, which opens
Saturday.
A million (count ’em) bucks in
silver were unloaded Wednesday
from the modem-era Wells Fargo
coaches which hauled then across
the country from the Philadelphia
mint.
Six Pinkerton guards, wearing
sidearms, white gloves and ascot
scarves, rode shotgun all the way
No bandits tried to bushwhack them
in the pass;
CHRYSLER CORP. SHOWS
PROFIT OF $1.3 MILLION
DETSOIT (£> — President Lynn
Townsend told shareholders at the
Chrysler Corp. annual meeting yes
terday that the auto company made
a profit of $1.3 million on sales
of $498 million in the first quarter
of 1962.
The first quarter performance
compared with a loss of $21.9 mil
lion on sales of $532 million in the
first three months of 1961.
Townsend said Chrysler retail
sales in the United States for the
first three months of 1962 totaled
143,474 cars against 141,989 in the
same period a year ago.
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JAMES each week
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ADMINISTRATION OPPOSEt
PAIR TRADE LAW
WASHINGTON UP) — The Ken
nedy administration came out yes
terday against a fair trade law or
grounds it amounts to retail pric<
fixing and would alter the tradition
al free enterprise system.
Lee Loevinger, head of the Jus
tice Department Anti-trust Division
Paul Hand Dixon, chairman of th«
Federal Trade Commission; anc
Robert Giles, general counsel to tin
Commerce Department, presentee
the administration’s argument:
against the measure.
Sen. Hubert Humphrey, (D
Minn.), one of the authors of tin
bill, vigorously defended it at tin
hearing before a special Senate
subcommittee.
The bill would permit owners o:
brand names and trademarks t<
forbid price cutting of their pro
ducts by retailers, use of thei]
goods for bail or mis-representa
tion of the goods in any way.
BRITISH FAVOR PROPOSED
WORLD POLICE FORCE
LONDON (8) — America’s plar
to replace all national armies witt
a world police force has wor
Britain’s full support.
Government officials, reporting
this last night, said the scheme
has been a subject of close British
American discussion, along witt
other dements in the U.S. disarm
ament program outlined by Ambas
sador Arthur Dean in Geneva Wed
nesday.
The Foreign Office declined for
mal comment, beyond noting thai
a British spokesman in Geneva al
ready has made plain Britain i:
100 per cent behind the Unitec
States proposals.
Informants recalled that th<
idea of a world police force, unde
the control and command of th<
United Nations, is almost as old a:
the international body itself.
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-SPACE VOYAGE" AT SEATRJTWOlllJHI ~ shows tee route
to bo "traveled" by visitors in « unique spaco theater at tho Seattle World's Fair#
opening in April# 1962. Sponsorod by tho United States Science Exhibit and the Boeing
Company, the Spacearium theater is part of the UA Science Pavilion. It uses ,«r world's
largest dnematic lens and projection screen. The entire dome of the theater is the pro
jection screen upon which will be shown a 12-minute voyage into tatergaladic space.
The film takes the audience at tremendous speeds through our solar system to the
center of the Milky Way galaxy and beyond to l point two billion light years from
earth. The map shows some of tee points of interest which are featured In the film.
"SKYBOLT” MISSILE
i LAUNCHED FROM B-52
, CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. UR —
» Skybolt, the air-launched ballistic
. missile designed to increase the
nuclear strike range of United
States and British bombers, was
; fired successfully on its maiden
1 test flight Thursday from a B-52
[ Stratofortress streaking high above
. the Atlantic Ocean.
[ The huge bomber, escorted by
i four jet planes unleashed the two
stage solid-fuel missile from be
. neath its wing seconds after sweep
, ing over the tip of Cape Canaveral
> at an altitude of more than 30,000
. feet.
The 39-foot 5%-ton projectile
: dropped straight down about 500
i feet, the first stage flashed to life
and the Skybolt shot forward,
• swooping upward far in front of
. the plane.
X-15 GETS A WARMUP
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE,
Calif. UR — X-15 pilot Joe Walker
streaked 3,290 miles an hour yes
t terday in a warmup of man and
t plane for an upcoming attempt to
, soar 50 miles into space.
The Space Agency pilot hit his
; six-times-faster-than-sound speed
i on the way up to 150,000 feet.
This was a comparatively low
altitude for the X-15, which has
already gone to 217,000 feet, but
high enough for the main purpose
of the mission — to flight test a
new emergency control system.
This system, designed to take
: over if the main controls fail, is
vital for upcoming flights to al
i titudes of 250,000 to 400,000 feet.
L Walker deliberately switched off
the main system twice to check
s the new controls.
The record for the X-15 is 4,093
; mph.
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SIX MEN UNDERGO
ARCTIC SURVIVAL TESTS
ATLANTIC CITY, NJ. UP) —
Two Stanford University scientists
yesterday described experiments
in which six men volunteered for
a rigorous Arctic survival experi
ment near Fairbanks, Alaska.
The test was reported at. a meet
ing of the Federation of American
Societies for experimental biology.
The Stanford scientists said the
six men volunteered for five days
last year to exposure to starvation
and to temperatures ranging down
to 30 degrees below zero.
The rigorous project, aimed at
obtaining information about sur
vival in the Arctic, was designed,
the scientists said, to stimulate “the
real thing as closely as possible
within the limits of common hu
manity and experimental pro
cedures.”
Researchers Terence Rogers and
James Setliff said the tests indi
cated that the greatest threat to
survival is a strange, still unac
counted-for “dehydration” which
can affect men — even though
water in the form of melted snow
is adequately available. The con
dition, they said, “makes a man
weak, more subsceptible to cold
and more likely to faint.”
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