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63rd Year No. 41
fOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1962
$69 Million
Appropriation Bill
For Fiscal 1963
JUNEAU rn — The House Fi
nance Committee split along party
lines, as expected, in reporting out
its substitute version of an appro
priation bill, which calls for state
expenditures of $69,429,198 in fiscal
1963.
The measure was reported back
to the House yesterday afternoon.
Signing “Do Pass” were Finance
Committee Chairman Frank Cha
pados and Reps. Robert Blodgett,
Morgan Reed, and Jalmar Kerttula,
all Democrats.
Signing “No Recommendation”
were Reps. Walter Kubley, Harold
Strandberg and Donald Harris, all
Republicans.
Egan also recommended supple
mental appropriations totaling $7,
940,333. Supplemental appropria
tions amounting to $6,691,609 have
passed one or both houses of the
legislature thus far during the 1962
session.
The bill will be paid for by $63,
963,914 from the general fund,
$5,456,284 from other state funds
and most of the $17,298,016 in esti
mated unobligated balances the
state will have on hand at the
start of the 1963 fiscal year.
The estimated unobligated bal
ance which will remain at the end
of fiscal 1963 will be some $2.5
million.
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$350,000 for the controversial rural
development, disaster and depress
ed area program, an increase of
$150,000 over the amount asked by
Egan. . :
Cherry Blossom Party
Flowers Into Drinking Bout
WASHINGTON lift — A cherry
blossom party was thrown in a
nook of the Senate and Sen. Wayne
Morse, (D-Ore.), says it flowered
into “a drinking bout.
He wants the Senate to put its
HSImpot down.
The American people, he said
last night, have a right to resent
a policy that, in effect, turns the
Senate into a saloon.
Three cases of hard liquor were
carted into a room provided at a
senator’s request for the party Wed
nesday night on occasion of Wash
ington’s Chary Blossom Festival,
jMorse said.
The drinking that took place was
of such a nature it has caused con
siderable comment and also em
barrassment to him, Morse said.
He mentioned no names.
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POW t . . . RIGHT IN
THE LEFT BLINKER
WASHINGTON UW — The Wash
ington Daily News ran on page one
yesterday a picture of the left eye
of its ace reporter, Tom Kelly.
This is the eye that was punched
by Edwin A. Walker, resigned ma
jor general.
Kelly explained that he was try
ing to ask the general whether
he was going to disavow an ad
mirer of his, George Lincoln Rock
well, American Nazi.
Kelly hadn’t finished the query
when — pow! — he got a right
jab in his left blinker. Kelly is
Sporting a small mouse but said he
isn’t really hurting.
Kelly didn’t hit back, and any
way, the general had the weight
and reach advantage on him. At
the request of the News, the Army
looked up Walker’s physical sta
tistics and reported them as: 6 feet
tall, 200 pounds. Kelly’s figures:
5 feet 6, 155 pounds.
j TERESA HANSON TO
REPRESENT ALASKA IN
MISS UNIVERSE CONTEST
ANCHORAGE MP) — Teresa Han
son, who was elected Miss An
chorage during the 1961 Fur Ren
dezvous, will represent this city
in the Miss Alaska portion of the
Miss Universe contest at Fairbanks
May 5.
For the past three years, An
chorage and Fairbanks have ex
changed runner-ups chosen during
the Fur Rendezvous and Winter
Carnival Queen contests.
Under 1962 . rules of the Miss
Universe Pageant this year’s An-1
chorage runner-up, Miss June j
Weber, failed to meet the Fair-1
banks age requirement and was |
unable to qualify.
Greater Anchorage Inc., franchise
holder for the Miss America Pag
eant in Alaska, subsequently select
ed Miss Hanson to replace Miss
Weber.
The winner of the Fairbanks
event will represent the 49th State
in the Miss Universe contest at
Miami Beach, Fla., in July.
PILOT SAYS XI5 CAPABLE
OF REACHING 75 MILES
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE,
Calif. UP) — Despite a momentary
power failure on his latest flight,
an X-15 pilot says “there are no
bugs so far that would keep us
from going well above the designed
limits of 250,000 feet.”
had only minor technical problems
yesterday when he took the rocket
ship up nearly 34 miles in a suc
cessful test of a new automatic
control system.
One such problem occurred when
the X-15 was separated from its
B-52 mother ship at 45,000 feet.
The rocket ship’s engine failed to
ignite on first try and Armstrong
dropped 10,000 feet before he got
power. He said he wasn’t worried
because he could have landed on
a dry lake bed without power.
The X-15 is controlled in space
by jets of steam coming from its
nose and wing. In previous flights,
the pilot controlled those jets by
hand. With the new control system,
an automatic pilot takes over the
delicate job of handling the jets.
This may permit the X-15 to
reach 400,000 feet, about 75 miles.
There may be an attempt to reach
250,000 feet within a few weeks.
REPORT WATER SURGING
OVER ICE AT NENANA
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over the ice at Nenana, Don Clark,
manager of the famed Ice Classic,
said yesterday.
About two feet of water was
measured between the tripod and
the shore, but cooler weather was
expected to stem the flow.
Clark said the high yesterday
was 35 degrees.
At present the thickness of the
ice is about 46 inches at the tripod.
A new measurement will be taken
today, the last one before the an
nual guessing game deadline closes
Saturday.
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WEATHER OUTLOOK
Continued cloudy with light
snow. Little change in temperature.
In the last 24 hours: High of 32,
low of 9. Max. wind 16 mph from
the north. Sunrise at 5:01 a.m.,
sunset at 7.09 pjn. Temps, a year
ago today: High of 18, low of -1,
Extremes on this date since 1907:
High of 41 in 1940, low of -24 in
1943.
At Nenana it was overcast with
a temperature of 22 above.
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McKinnon Says
No Slowdown
On Road Program
JUNEAU (ffl — The State’s new
Commissioner of Highways, Don
ald A. McKinnon, told the legis
lature today there would be no
slow down in Alaska’s road pro
gram as a result of organization
problems of the new department.
McKinnon appeared before a
joint session of the House and
Senate today following his appoint
ment yesterday by Gov. Wm. Egan
to the chief highway post.
McKinnon will take over the
reins of the Highway Department
April 16 from Commissioner Sam
Johnson, who submitted his resig
nation late last month.
McKinnon told the lawmakers:
“Alaska has splendid engineering
personnel which, if properly di
rected, can do a good job.
“My first job will be to get
the department functioning — and
my next job will be to get out and
see the state.”
McKinnon formerly served as
chief engineer for the South Dakota
Highway Department and was State
tana Highway Department.
He retired as president of a pri
vate contracting firm five years
ago and since has been making his
home in Kalispell, Mont.
McKinnon, who is 64, is married
and has four daughters.
RUSS LAUNCH ANOTHER
SATELLITE INTO SPACE
MOSCOW UP) — The Soviet Union
launched another artificial satellite
today and it is now in orbit, Tass
announced today. First reports from
the Soviet news agency made it
appear the new Sputnik was un
manned.
The Tass announcement said the
vehicle, named Cosmos II, was sent
aloft “in accordance with the pro
gram for exploring the upper strata
of the atmosphere and outer space.”
Cosmos I was sent up March 16.
"According io preliminary data,**
Tass added, “the flight of the Sput
nik follows an orbit which differs
but little from the calculated one.”
It listed instrumentation aboard,
but said nothing about a cosmonaut
or space pilot.
ROME PAPER PLAYS UP
LIZ’S NEW LOVE LIFE
ROME UP) — A Rome newspaper
has rearranged the casting in the
Eddie Fish-Elizabeth Taylor bust
Actor Richard Burton, Miss Tay
lor’s co-star in the movie “Cleo
patra” and her constant companion
of late, is just a “useful idiot” —
a decoy — in the affair, the news
paper, Telasera said.
Liz is really in love with her
director, Joseph Mankiewicz, and he
is “crazy about” her the paper
claimed.
Not so, said Mankiewicz, an old
hand at recasting. The director, 53,
stuck his tongue in his cheek and
commented, “the real truth is that
I am in love with Burton and Miss
Taylor is the cover-up for us.”
POSTMASTER GEN. DAY
PAYS VISIT TO JAPAN
WASHINGTON iff) — Postmaster
General J. Edward Day left today
tar Japan, where he will partici
pate in the American exhibit April
10-12 at the Osaka International
Trade Fair.
Accompanied by his wife, the
Postmaster General is due in Tokyo
cm Sunday night after stops at
Seattle and Anchorage.
GRAND JURY ENDS SESSION
WITH SEVEN TRUE BILLS
The Grand Jury completed its
activities with a return of 7 true
bills and interviewed 26 witnesses.
The Grand Jury recommended to
Judge Gilbert that the Division of
Mental Health, State of Alaska,
take over the case of Gabriel Mayac
and urges that he receive pyschiat
ric treatment, not only for his wel
fare but for the protection and
welfare of this community.
It recommended that the state
legislature allow the Alaska Su
preme Court to change judicial
divisional boundaries to facilitate
handling of criminal cases with a
maxmum of speed and a lowering
of cost to the state by transferring
Barrow to the 4th District and
Bethel to the Nome District.
A State Police Trooper was rec
ommended to be stationed at Bar
row.
Nome City Police Department
should be provided with a private
office for personal interviews and
other matters.
Provisions for the care of ju
veniles in custody was found sadly
lacking and highly inadequate.
JFK RECEIVES AMERICAN
LEAGUE BASEBALL PASS
WASHINGTON tffl — President
Kennedy received his American
League baseball pass today and
had a sympathetic chuckle when
told the player who caught his
opening game pitch last year,
catcher Pete Daley of Washington,
didn’t stick in the majors this year,
i American League president Joe
Cronin presented the pass.
Kennedy expects to use it next
Monday and throw out the first
ball when Washington opens with
Detroit in the new stadium here
before an anticipated crowd of
50,000 plus.
BETA SIGMA PHI
FASHION SHOW SUNDAY
Reservations for the Annual Beta
Sigma Phi Easter luncheon and
Style Show on, Sunday at 12:30,
have been going fast it is reported
by the committee.
Local stores have cooperated in
bringing to Nome the latest in
spring styles both in street, cock
tail, sport and evening styles = Many
lovely models have been selected
to model clothes.
Also featured at the show will
be the contestants in the Vogue
Pattern dressmaking contest from
the Home Economics class of Mrs.
George Bell at Nome School. This
group of eight girls were sponsored
by the Home Arts Club in the
state contest and the clothes they
have made will be modeled by the
girls who made them. The winner
will be announced at the style
show.
Those wishing to make reser
vations may contact the North Star.
Woman Blithely
Clings to Her $8,400
Gold-Plated Bed
LONDON UP» — The wife of
Ghana’s Miinster of Industry blithe
ly clung to her $8,400 gold-plated
bed today despite her socialist hus
and’s command to send it back to
the store.
“It’s still here,” Mrs. Mary Edu
sei said in an interview at her
apartment. “No one can force Mary
to do what she not want to do. You
can take horse to water, but, ha,
Mary no horse.”
Mrs. Edusei has been living in
London for the past year. Her hus
band Krobo—nicknamed Crowbar
because he is supposed to be tough
—stayed on the job in Ghana.
When word of the princely pur
chase reached Ghana, Krobo tele
phoned his wife to return her pur
chase to Selfridge’s Department
Store. He said that sort of capital
ist extravagance was a gross vio
lation of the socialist principles he
and Ghana President Kwame
Nkrumah profess.
“He can talk much,” said Mrs.
Edusei of her spouse. “Sometime he
talk 15, 20 hours no stopping, no
asking for water for his throat.
“I know I cause sensation. I do
not care. I am happy woman. Let
them all talk.”
Why does she want the bed?
“Mary want it because no one
else ever had one. Mary is differ
ent from all other women in the
world. She not frightened of any
one, anything.”
A spokesman for Selfridge’s
said the store is getting a bit fed
up with the whole thing.
“Our position remains the same,”
he said. “We have said that if she
wants to return the bed, we will
take it back. But she has never of
JUSTICE FRANKFURTER
COLLAPSES AT DESK
WASHINGTON — Justice
Felix; Frankfurter’s collapse at his
desk was described by his physi
cian today as due to "a transient
episode of acute cerebrovascular
insufficiency.” That is, there was
a brief interruption in normal
blood supply to the brain.
Dr. George Kelser said it had
cleared up but the 79-year-old Jus
tice will remain in the hospital
| for a short period of rest.
Frankfurter, eldest Justice on
the highest court, was taken from
the Supreme Court Bldg, to George
Washington University Hospital by
ambulance last night.
The hospital reported this morn
ing that he had spent a comfort
able night, and described his con
dition as “quite satisfactory.”
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