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63rd Year No. 30
NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, MARCH 12, 1962
Per Copy 154
Jackie Welcomed
Warmly in India
NEW DELHI, India m — In
dians welcomed Mrs. John F.
Kennedy warmly today and
watched with interest as she
placed a wreath of white roses
at the shrine of Mohandas K.
Gandhi.
More than 100,000 turned out
to witness the arrival of Ameri
ca’s First Lady from Rome for
a nine-day visit to India and other
thousands showed up for glimpse
of her as she made a round of
official calls.
The pomp and ceremony of state
occasions was lacking, for Mrs.
Kennedy’s visit is billed as semi
official, but the reception had the
enthusiasm and color of greetings
for such previous visitors as Pres
ident Eisenhower and Queen
Elizabeth II.
The First Lady, her sister Prin
cess Lee Radziwill, U.S. Ambas
sador John Galbraith and India’s
Ambassador to Washington, B. K.
Nehru, stopped first at the mas
sive home of President Rajendra
Prasad.
From the presidential house she
was driven across the city to a
spot near the Jumna River where
Gandhi, the hero of Indian inde
pendence, was cremated 14 years
aeo.
Thousands of Indians gathered
at the shrine to watch.
After an overnight flight from
Rome, Mrs. Kennedy was wel
comed at New Delhi Airport by
Prime Minister Nehru.
She rode from the airport into
the city in the open Mercedes
Benz car that Queen Elizabeth II
used on her royal tour here in
1961.
There was a festive air to the
crowd that came from villages
far around — turbaned shikhs,
men in uniform, women in gay
saris, school children, babies in
arms, even a snake charmer.
Mrs. Kennedy got only five!
hours sleep as her special Air j
India jet airliner flew from rainy
Rome into the rising sun.
Pope John XXIII granted her
one of the longest private audi
ences he has ever held on a Sun
day — 32 minutes. They usually
run only 15 to 20.
The Pontiff and the President’s
wife, a Roman Catholic, con
versed privately in French in the
Vatican library.
OIL COMPANIES
ABANDON NENANA WELL
FAIRBANKS — A spokesman
for Union, Ohio, Pure and Sin
clair Oil companies announced
the companies have abandoned the
oil well they have been drilling
at Nenana.
The well had been drilled to a
depth of 3,062 feet and no shows
of oil or gas were encountered.
Additional exploratory plans in
the area will depend on the eval
uation of well records, the spokes
man said.
The well was started Feb. 15.
The rig used at the well is being
moved to the Pittman area near
Wasilla for use on another well.
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Chamber to Sponsor
Charter Flight to Barrow
Hie Chamber of Commerce has
announced that it is sponsoring
a charter flight to Barrow on
April n which will be held in
connection with the opening of
the Barrow branch of the Miners
& Merchants Bank. Reservations
ace being taken by Frank Couch.
The flight will overnight at Bar
row and stop at Kotzebue on the
return trip. ' * ■ "'
| BILL SEEKS FIVE
PER CENT PAY HIKE
FOR STATE EMPLOYES
JUNEAU — A bill which
would grant an across-the-board
pay increase of five per cent to
state employes ir\ salary ranges
2 through 20 was introduced in
the House today by the State Af
fairs Committee.
The measure, HB472, also would
lift the ceiling on salaries for
top level state positions to $19,
000 a year, and would provide for
salary adjustments in ranges 21
through 26.
The measure followed recom
mendations by a special House
committee investigating the wage
scales of state employes.
In a report accompanying the
bill, the committee said that the
proposed wage adjustments would
cost the state about $956,000 a
year, with an additional $568,000
to come from federal participa
tion.
Legislators Need
Another Month
To Complete Work
By Ward Sims
Associated Press Staff Writer
JUNEAU UR — The Legislature
hit the 50th day of its 1962 ses
sion today amid indications the
lawmakers will need at least an
other month to complete their
work.
Key members of the Joint Fi
nance Committee say privately
the big budget bill they are work
ing on probably will not see the
light of day on the House floor
until about the 65th day, March
27.
Republican members of the
Joint Finance Committee say they
believe it will be another 10 days
after that before the budget bill
could clear both the House and
Senate.
Last year, the Joint Finance
Committee completed work on the
budget bill and had it reported
back to the House on March 27,
the 64th day of the session.
The budget bill cleared the
House on March 30. It was another
seven days before the Legislature
finally adjourned, on April 6.
Members of the Joint Finance
Committee indicated they were
finding some fat in the budget
offered by Gov. Wm. Egan, but
they said the rendering process
has not progressed to the point
where the extent of the fat is
clearly evident.
The recently completed high
ways investigation conducted by
a special Senate committee has
added some extra work for the
Finance Committee.
NOME AND BETHEL
SPLIT BASKETBALL SERIES
Saturday night the Nome All
Stars emerged victorious over the
visiting backetball team from
Bethel. Nome jumped off to a
quick lead and led at halftime
41-28. Both teams scored con
sistently during the second half
with Nome the winner 81-75.
Paulhill led the scoring for the
visitors with an impressive 38
points, while Gordon Brown can
ned 22 for Nome.
Sunday evening Bethel evened
the series by beating the All
Stars 53-45. Paulhill and Ludwig
son scored 14 each for Bethel,
while Brown was again the lead
ing scorer for Nome with 15. fVee
throws spelled the difference in
the scoring as Bethel hit for 21
in 37 attempts. Nome scored 9
points on free throws in 19 at
tempts. i
Seven Babies Die
From Poisoning
In N.Y. Hospital
BINGHAMPTON, N.Y. UFI — A
seventh baby died today, ap
parently of poisoning from salt
placed in a sugar can in a city
owned hospital. Ten other infants
were stricken, three critically.
Death claimed Michele Dawn
Bowser, 4 days old, of Bingham
ton, as investigators sought to pin
point the cause of the other
deaths.
A pregnant mother, Mrs. Lillie
Colvin, 29, a practical nurse who
refilled the sugar container last
Tuesday for the formula room,
declared today:
“I have done absolutely noth
ing wrong . . . my prayers and
sympathy are with the parents.’'
Mrs. Colvin also said in a state
ment issued through her attorney
“I have three small children my
self and can understand the heart
ache suffered by the parents whc
lost their babies,” as a result o:
the tragedy.
The hospital suspended Mrs
Colvin pending completion of ai
investigation by state and loca
officials.
She said she was positive sh
had filled the can from a suga
container, not a salt containe:
She had been with the hospits
as a practical nurse for abo\
three months and “gave evei
indication of being a good en
ploye,” a hospital spokesman sai
Ironically, the salt in the sug<
was uiscoverea oy anoxni
practical nurse who was violatir
rules. Police said Mrs. May Pie
who was in charge of the formu]
room, broke a regulation when sh
used what she though was th
formula sugar for a oup of col
fee. She tasted the salt and tha
led to the apparent solution o
the ailment.
The salt evidently had beei
used for sugar in the formul
room Wednesday until yesterdaj
Report 200 Red Guerrillas
Killed in South Viet Nam
SAIGON, Viet Nam UP) — Abou
200 Communist guerrillas hav(
been killed, mostly in air strike:
by American-supplied planes, ir
a three-day government of
fensive in the Mekong River
delta, an informant said today.
A U.S. military source said all
U.S. Army troop-carrying heli
copters that took part in last
week’s operations in the south
were back in Saigon ready for
duty. At least five of them had
been hit by small-arms fire and
needed repairs.
2.329 Less Rattlers
SWEETWATER, Tex. Iff) —
There are 2,329 less rattlesnakes
roaming the rocky countryside
near Sweetwater.
Volunteers captured the rat
tlers in the annual three-day hunl
of the Sweetwater Junior Cham
her of Commerce. Bob Jenni
reptile curator of Oklahoma City’i
Lincoln Park Zoo, is taking then
home with him. The hunt ende<
Sunday.
Jenni will keep some, sell som
to other zoos and extract and sel
the venom of others.
Susan Saiio, daughter of iMi
and tMrs. Ed Saito, who tiistls
guished herself as a flutist whil
here in school was among th<
visitors from Bethel. The Sait*
family is now at Bethel, when
Hr. Salto is stationed with FAA
INVITE SCIENTISTS TO
DIAGNOSE MONSTER
HOBART, Tasmania —
Pieces of a mystery monster dis
covered half buried in the sand on
Tasmania’s lonely west coast will
be flown to interested foreign
scientists overseas on request in
an attempt to solve the origin
of the carcass, described as
“something probably never seen
before by a man.”
Only a handful of people have
seen it so far — the first being
the two men did not report the
find when they first came across
it 20 months ago.
It is about 20 feet long, 18
feet wide, 4Vfe feet thick and is
estimated to weigh between 5 and
and 10 tons. It is decomposing
beneath the sand, but the portion
exposed to the air has not rotted.
Bruce Mollison of the Australian
Commonweath Scientific and In
dustrial Research Organization,
who examined the carcass, said
pieces of the flesh would be sent
to scientists abroad on condition
they agree to report results of
their tests to the Tasmanian Mu
seum.
“Science knows of no inverte
brate of this size and shape,” he
declared. “The fact that it has
not decomposed despite its ex'
posure to the atmosphere for a
least 20 months is exciting anc
puzzling. I think we have dis
covered something probably neve
seen before by man.”
Local experts claim the crea
ture is marine but for a variet
of reasons is not part of a whal
ANTHONY EDEN UNDERGOI
SURGERY IN BOSTON
BOSTON UPl — A non-mali;
nant growth was removed Monde
from the chest of the Earl <
Avon, iormer British Prime Min
e ister Sir Anthony Eden, in ai
‘ operation performed by a surgeoi
* of Boston’s Hahey Clinic.
The clinic’s’ bulletin referrec
to the lesion as “benign,” whicl
1 means cancerous.
1 The operation had been de
* scribed earlier as exploratory.
Lord Avon, now 64, underweni
surgery for an obstruction in a
bile duct while a patient at the
; same hospital, and clinic, in 1953.
i Monday's surgery had no connec
: tion with that of nine years ago.
$3 BOUNTY ON HAIR SEAL
EXTENDED TO ALL ALASKA
JUNEAU UR — Legislative ac
tion was completed today on a
bill which would ban the pay
ment of bounties to non-residents
of the state and to State or Fed
eral Fish and Game employes
whose primary duties are in the
field of management or protection.
The bill was sent along to Gov.
Wm. Egan after the House con
curred in a Senate amendment
which would extend the payment
of $3 bounty on hair seals to all
the coastal and island waters of
Alaska.
Calls Off Singing Tour
LOS ANGELES UP) — Opera
Star Dorothy Kirsten, 45, is in a
; hospital with what is believed to
' be hepatitis, a liver inflamma
! tion. She has called off a na
1 tionwide singing tour.
' Documentary Recording
1 Members of the Chamber oi
Commerce enjoyed a documentary
recording of the founding oi
■ Nome today at the noon luncheon
£ The recording is an interview
J with one of the three founders,
) Jafet Lindeberg, who personally!
> tells how he and his two com
> panions staked the first claims
. at Nome,
Mushin’
thru
Washington
By Fritz Willi
Associated Press Special Service
WASHINGTON UP> — A bill
designed to give a shot in the arm
to the ailing gold mining industry
gets a hearing before the Senate
Mines and Mining Subcommittee
this week.
Sen. Ernest Gruening is a spon
sor of the bill. The hearing is
scheduled for March 15 with Sen.
John Carroll, (D-Colo.), presiding.
The measure would authorize
a program of incentive payments
up to $35 an ounce to domestic
gold producers. It would be ad
ministered by the Secretary of the
Interior.
Gruening said the bill would
not affect the $35 an ounce gold
price set by the Treasury in
1934 but would provide additional
payments to “encourage this sick
domestic industry.’’
“The price of everything has
gone up but the price of gold
remains where it was in 1934,’*
said Gruening.
The House Mines and Mining
Subcommittee held hearings last
j year on a similar bill by Rep.
[ Ralph Rivers. It is still awaiting
• action in that committee,
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f“C Orders Investigation
- Alaska Water Carrier Conference
y i The Federal Maritime Com
2- mission has ordered an investi
gation of a proposal by four Seat
S tie firms to organize as the Alas
ka Water Carrier Conference,
r- The four carriers seeking to
y form agreements on rates and
f charges are the Alaska Steamship
- Co., Consolidated Freightways
i Corp. (Garrison Fast Freight JDi
t vision), Puget Sound Tug & Barge
Co. (Puget Sound-Alaska Van
l Lines Division), and Weaver
i Bros., Inc.
The Commission will conduct
(the investigation and later set
hearings on the proposed agree
ment. The inquiry will cover such
matters as:
Whether the agreement pro
vides reasonable procedures for
prompt and fair hearing of ship
per requests and complaints;
whether it would subject any par
ticular person or locality to undue
or unreasonable prejudice or dis
advantage, and, whether it would
be unjustly discriminatory or
unfair as between carriers, ship
pers or ports.
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Awarded Federal Grant
To Teach Engish in Greece
Mrs. Nancy Bruce, a West An
been awarded a federal grant
to teach English at Anatolia Col
lege in Thessalonika, Greece, dur
ing the next school year.
The award, under the Fulbright
Act, is one 4S0 for teaching
and participation in seminars
abroad under the educational ex
change program of the State De
partment.
Funds used for the program are
foreign currencies or credits owed
to or owned by the Treasury.
Penalties for Defrauding
JUNEAU i/h —- Legislation pro
! viding penalties for persons who
' obtain tele-communication servioo
' with intent to defraud another
. person was approved by he Sen
’ ate today.
Sen. James Nolan, the sponsor,
said the measure was designed
to get at people who run up large
telephone bills and then charge
the bill to another person.