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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
63rd Year No. 15
NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1962
Per Copy 154
Two Major Labor Measures Pass as
Legislature Heads Into Third Week
JUNEAU UP) — The 1962 ver
sion of the State Legislature head
ed into its third week today,
among strong indications that
labor branding irons have been
busy since the 1961 session.
Last year, labor lobbyists trund
led home after the session grumb
ling that the working man did
not get a solitary thing.
This year, two major pieces of
labor legislation have already
cleared both Houses, after less
than two weeks, and another big
piece of labor legislation has won
the approval of the House.
Last week, the House gave
quick approval to a comprehen
sive revision of the state minimum
wages and hours act, including
complete removal of the Fair
Labor Standards Act clause.
As now rewritten, the wages
and hours act extends overtime
pay protection to many service
job classifications previously ex
empt. It exempts firms with less
than four employes from paying
overtime.
After the House passed the
wages and hours act, it reached
unexpectedly to the table, lifted
the minimum wage bill, and pass
ed it.
The Senate concurred in the
House changes to tooth bills almost
before the some of the members
of the upper chamber knew the
measures were before the Senate.
Today, Sen. Howard Pollock
asked that the Senate rescind its
action on the wages and hours
bill, arguing that the Senate acted
"“too quickly, without adequate
consideration of the changes.”
Sen. OR. J. McNealy said he had
received a number of requests
for a chance for opponents to out
line their objections to provisions
of the bill.
Before the Senate could get to
a vote on Pollock’s rescind mo
tion, Sen. Ccghill suggested that
the Senate consider the bill in a
committee of the whole session at
10 a.m. Thursday.
Qpponents-and proponents, will
be able to testify on the measure
at that time.
The House earlier had given
its okeh to a measure which
would prohibit any firm which
is being struck from hiring re
placements for the strikes from
out of the state.
One other major piece of leg
islation has also passed the House.
It is the Longworth Bill to re
quire primary processing on all
red and pink salmon in Alaska
Gladyce Walker of Nome
Is Alaska’s Princess at
Cherry Blossom Festival
WASHINGTON UP) — Alaska’s
Princess in Washington’s annual
Cherry Blossom Festival this
spring will be Gladyce M. Walker,
a petite Eskimo girl from Nome.
Gladyce, whose Eskimo name
is Eligootak, went to work for
Rep. Ralph Rivers as a cleric last
May. She came to Washington
about one and one half years ago
and was employed by the Welfare
Department before joining Rivers’
staff.
The 21-year-old graduate of
Nome High School is a daughter
of Mi*, and Mrs. Francis Walker
of Nome. She took a commercial
course at Haskell Institute, Law
rence, Kan., for two years be
fore coming here.
before shipment out of the state.
Last year, the House battled
hours on end about the establish
ment of Section 26 boards. This
year, two bills calling for Section
26 Boards, to head the Fish and
Game Department and the Edu
cation Department, already have
been introduced in the House.
The creation of such boards is
provided for in Section 26, Article
II'I, of the State Constitution.
Under the bills introduced in
the House, the Fish and Game
Board would head the Fish and
Game Department and the State
Board of Education would head
the Department of Education.
The special Senate Highways
Investigating Committee gets
down to questioning witnesses to
night, after more than a week of
spadework trying to determine
who should be questioned and
what subjects should be concerned.
One of the key witnesses will
be Thurman D. Sherard, State
Highways Director, who has been
asked to resign effective at the
conclusion of the Senate investi
gation.
Bureau of Sport Fisheries
To Be Moved from Juneau
WASHINGTON UP) — The
Alaska Regional Office of the
Bureau of Sport Fisheries and
Wildlife at Juneau will be com
bined with the regional office
at Portland, Ore., effective July
1, Bureau Director Daniel Janzen
said today.
Janzen said the Juneau regional
office will be closed down as such
but present plans call for keep
ing a representative there to
carry on Bureau activities just
as they are conducted in other
states.
The change means a reduction
of seven positions at Juneau,
Janzen said. He added that every
effort will be made to place those
affected in other federal jobs in
Alaska, Portland, or elsewhere.
Both Janzen and Clarence F.
Pautzke, Commissioner of Fish
and Wildlife, said the consolida
tion is an outgrowth of Alaska
becoming a state and means the
service is putting itself on the
same basis there as in other
states.
HOUSE PROTESTS
JUNEAU (£> — The House today
directed that a wire be sent to
Secretary of the Interior Udall
protesting the planned movement
of the Alaska Regional Office of
the Federal Bureau of Sports
Fisheries and Wildlife from the
State.
The House directed Speaker
Warren Taylor to send a tele
gram, urging the Interior Sec
retary to hold the proposed action
in obeyance until a proper study
can be made.
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NOME PLAYS FIRST GAME
IN BASKETBALL TOURAMENT
The Western Association of
High School Athletics will have
the Class B Basketball Tourna
ment at Eielson AFB from Feb.
14 through Feb. 17.
This tournament was planned
and approved in October in Fair
banks by the executive board of
the WAHSAA and all superin
tendents of the Class B schools.
Nome plays the first game
against Kodiak at 1:00 p.m. on
Wednesday, Feb. 14.
Students Stone
U.S. Embassy
In Indonesia
JAKARTA, Indonesia M — A
student mob stoned the U.S. Em
bassy and ripped down the Amer
ican flag today, injuring one em
ploye. The action brought a vig
orous American protest.
The students, believed to be
pro-communist, were protesting
because a Dutch plane carrying
troops to disputed West New
Guniea was allowed to refuel on
U.S. soil.
The mob action came before re
ports reached here that the United
States had withdrawn permission
for Dutch charter planes carrying
troops to use U.S. airfields at
Anchorage, Honolulu and Wake
Island.
At The Hague, a communique
said Premier Jan De Quay of the
Netherlands had expressed his
deep disappointment and added
that he could not understand the
U.S. decision.
The Indonesian news agency
Pia said Foreign Minister Su
bandrio expressed regret about
the attack on the embassy al
though he added he could “well
understand the anger and irrita
tion of the Indonesian people
caused by the permission granted
to Dutch troop-carrying planes to
land on American soil.”
Close Fields to Dutch Planes
I A U.S. decision to close its air
fields to the Dutch troop planes
was communicated to the Dutch
Foreign Ministry by the American
Ambassador to The Hague, John
Rice, a diplomatic source said. He
reported that -Rice told State Sec
retary Hans Van Houten the U.S.
permission was granted only for
a flight last Friday and that land
ing rights would not be extened
for a second chartered flight that
had been scheduled for today.
A Dutch commercial airliner
believed to be carrying 25 Dutch
soldiers in civilian clothes landed
in Tokyo Sunday and was search
ed for weapons. None was found.
The plane was enroute to West
New Guinea.
Last week the Japanese gov
ernment refused to let a chartered
airliner carrying Dutch soldiers
land in Japan.
Rabbits Hamper Motorists
On Alaska Highway
EDMONTON, Alta. UP> — An
overpopulation of rabbits in north
ern British Columbia is causing
some inconvenience for motorists
driving the Alaska Highway.
“I’ve never seen them so thick,”
said a driver for Loiselle Trans
port Ltd. of Dawson Creek, B.C.
“They come across the highway
in streams. Hundreds are being
killed each day by vehicles and
there’s not much you can do about
it.”
Bob Angus, publisher of the
Fort Nelson News, described the
difficulties one woman had with
the rabbits.
He said the woman, who was on
here way to Fairbanks went into
the ditch five times in 30 miles
trying to avoid hitting rabbits
scurrying across the highway.
“We finally convinced her she
would be a long time getting to
Alaska if she continued driving
in that manner,” Mr. Sangus said.
“As far as we know, she stayed
on the highway the rest of the
way.”
Former Anchorage Jailer
Arrested for Contributing
To Delinquency of Minors
ANCHORAGE Uf) — Former An
chorage city jailer Gerald Allen,
42, has been arrested on a war
rant charging him with two counts
of contributing to the delinquency
of minors at the jail Sept. 1, 1961
and Jan. 22 of this year.
Also City Magistrate Daniel
Moore ordered the release of all
juveniles from the city jail — 12
in number — to the custody of
the State Youth and Adult Au
thority. All have been released
and all have been placed in their
own or foster homes.
Both actions took place Satur
day afternoon.
“All juveniles detained in the
Anchorage city jail have been
released from detention and their
custody and supervision has been
placed in the hands of Vic Urban,
local YAA officer, until Charles
Pfeiffer (YAA Director) and the
YAA make a full and complete
investigation and report that will
satisfy this magistrate,” Moore
said.
Allen was booked at the An
chorage police headquarters Sat
urday and released on $3,000 bond
pending arraignment today.
A complaint charging him with
two counts of contributing to the
delinquency^ of minors, a felony,
was read to him at the arraign
ment today. It was signed by Dis
trict Attorney James Merbs.
According to Urban, one of th«
youths released Saturday is ac
cused of fatally injuring his fathei
in a western Alaska community
by striking him on the head with
a hammer.
New Uniform Code for ANG
JUNEAU UP) — A concurrent
resolution asking the Alaska Na
tional Guard to adopt the new
uniform State Code of military
justice and to submit the code
to the 1963 Legislature in the
form of a proposed bill was intro
duced in the Senate today by Sen.
Lester Bronson.
Family of Twelve to
Head North to Alaska
LEBANON, Ky. V?i — Grati
tude to God is sending a Kentucky
family of 12 to faraway Alaska
to repay the debt of past bounty.
“We’ve been blessed so much
we figure we owe something
back,” James M. Crane says.
So early in June, Crane, his
wife and their 10 children plan
to leave their productive 103
acre farm near Lebanon and
travel 4,500 miles north.
They will work for two years
as lay missionaries for the Cath
olic church. Crane and his oldest
son, Robert, 19, will help with
church building projects. Mrs.
Crane and the children will try
iby example to impress Indians
and Eskimos with a Christian
family way of life.
Crane plans to sell his farm
and furniture to help finance their
life in Alaska.
The family, which vacationed
in Alaska in 1959, will travel with
a car, pickup truck and a 45-foot
house trailer.
Mrs. Crane said the children —
4-year-old Kathleen is the
youngest — look upon the trip as
“a lark” and love the outdoors.
“We’ve want to do something
like this for a long time,” she
said, “and realized if we waited
for the children to be grown we’d
be too old to go.” Crane is 42, his
wife 39.
“Doomsday”
Passes Without
Gory Calamities
NEW DELHI, India — Ser
pent Rahu had his fun but the
world—beset as it may be with
earthly troubles — was still intact
today.
“Doomsday Weekend” passed
without the horrible calamities
predicted by Hindu soothsayers
that sent millions of frightened
Indian and Nepalese believers to
prayer meetings.
The evil Rahu swallowed the
sun as predicted today. But things
came back to normal after an
eclipse lasting about three min
uses.
Hindu astrologers had predicted
great calamities when six planets
—Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter,
Saturn and Earth—moved into
conjunction with each other and
the Sun and the Moon over the
weekend. It happens only every
century or two.
For astronomers it was an in
triguing scientific phenomenon.
But for millions who believe in
the influence of the stars it was
frightening. Some feared the
worst may still come.
The path of the eclipse lay over
the South Pacific, and New
Guniea was plunged into dark
ness.
Dogs barked, roosters crowed
;1 and native Papuans on the island
. I hid in their huts until the Sun
r shone again.
r Teams of foreign scientists at
. Lae, on the east coast of New
Guniea, and a Japanese team re
ported complete success in ob
serving the eclipse.
Katmandu, capital of Nepal,
looked like a ghost town except
around the Hindu temples. All
shops were closed and streets
deserted. Fearful of earthquakes
that would bring their homes
tumbling down on them, thousands
of Nepalese took shelter in tents.
SEN. GRUENING
ADDRESSES LEGISLATURE
JUNEAU m — U.S. Senator
Ernest Gruening, who addressed
the Alaska Territorial Legislature
many times as its appointive gov
ernor appeared before it infor
mally today for the first time
since Statehood.
The senator was in Juneau to
mark the opening of Pan Ameri
can jet airline service to the capi
tal city.
Amos Alonzo Slagg Enters
Hospital For Observation
STOCKTON, Calif. UP> — Amos
Alonzo Stagg, patriarch of Amer
ican sports, was under medical
observation at Dameron Hospital
today.
The venerable football coach,
who will be 100 years old Aug.
16, was not receiving visitors.
There was no announcement as
to the nature of his ill health, or
as to the expected length of his
stay in the hospital.
WEATHER OUTLOOK
Cloudy with frequent snow.
Easterly winds 20 to 30 mph. Low
tonight 22. High tomorrow 28. In
the last 24 hours: High of 24, low
of 13. Max. wind 29 mph from
ENE. Sunrise at 8:32 a.m., sun
set at 4:00 p.m. Temps, a year
ago today: High of 9, low of -9.
Extremes on this date since 1907:
High of 41 in 1912, low of -42 in
1947.