ss NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN AT. ASK A—member ASSOCIATED PRESS
63rd Year No. 16
NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1962
Per Copy 15^
BJA Will Not Back
.. . Calls It “Pork
By Ward Sims
Associated Press StaJf Writer
JUNEAU, Feb. 7, UP) — The Bu
reau of Indian Affairs has advised
the State it will not participate
in the construction or operation
of the proposed Nome Vocational
Education School, the Associated
Press learned today.
The major reason advanced by
the BIA for its decision was that
in its view the Nome School is a
political project resulting from
“pork barrel” legislation. Two
other reasons were also given.
Gov. Egan denied in a letter to
Burke Riley, chairman of the U.S,
Interior Department’s Alaska Field
Committee, that politics were in
volved in the Nome School.
Sen. Lester Bronson made a
copy of the letter available to the
Associated Press.
The Bureau of Indian Affairs’
•position was outlined to State
Atty. Gen. Ralph Moody in a re
cent Washington conference with
Assistant Interior Secretary John
Carver and BIA Commissioner
Philleo Nash.
“I consulted the files in my
office and in the Office of the
Department of Education after
hearing Mr. Moody’s report,” Egan
told Riley, the governor’s former
executive assistant.
Not "Pork Barrel" Legislation
"The files clearly show that
the Nonas School has nothing to
do with politics and that it is not
the result of ‘pork barrel’ legisla
tion.”
Egan said such a school has long
been the dream of Alaskans and
he noted that the $1.5 million gen
eral obligation bond issue to fi
nance the school was approved
by the voters of the state.
"Such circumstances,” Egan
wrote Riley, “do not conceivably
support the statement that the.
project was pork barrel” in na
ture."
the Governor said the state ad
ministration feels that vocational
education should supplement a
good, sound high school curricu
lum.
“If the Interior Department of
Bethel High School
Due Here for Two
Game Set with Nanooks
The Bethel High School basket
ball team is due to arrive in Nome
few a two game series on Feb.
8-9 against the Nome High
Nanooks. Bethel is a member of
the Western Alaska High School
Activities Assn, and will parti
cipate in the “Class C” tourna
ment later this month.
Those making the trip include
Marvin Hathhom, coach; Stanley
Hoffman, Byron Homer, Eddie
Michael, Michael Miller, David
Haiwk, David Charles, Alex Oscar,
and Jerry Wassilie.
City League Games Switched
The regularly scheduled bas
ketball games for Friday, Feb. 9
have been switched to accommo
date the visiting Bethel High
School team. On Thursday, Feb.
8 ACS will meet the Polar Hornets
ill
m
Vocational School
Barrel” Legislation
ficials refer to the proposed Nome
project as one political in origin,
it is obvious that somewhere along
the line erroneous information has
been conveyed,” Egan said.
The Governor said Moody was
also told that the BIA “felt the
state was infringing on its re
sponsibility to determine the edu
cational needs of the native popu
lation of Alaska, including site
selection for any school, and that
it wanted the state to realize that
the Bureau was ‘calling the shots
in Alaska’ regarding native edu
cation.”
Egan termed the charge ridi
culous.
“No one has taken a position
opposing the Bureau’s prerogative
to outline an educational program
for the native children of Alaska,”
Egan said.
No to Limit Enrollment
The Governor said the state
does not propose to limit enroll
ment at the Nome School to na
tives only.
Egan quoted James Hawkins,
former Area Director for the BIA,
as testifying during a hearing at
Juneau in February, 1960:
“. . . if Dr. Norby (Theo J., Com
missioner of Education) and you
folks determine that a vocational
school is what is needed in Alaska
and that you have found a place
for it, we are willing to cooperate
in any way that is legally possible
for us to cooperate in making
sure that the native youngsters
in Alaska have an opportunity to
go to this school.”
Egan added:
(Continued on Page Two)
Would Require RH Blood
Factor in Pre-Marital Tests
JUNEAU UP) — Alaska would toe
the first state in the nation to
include an RH blood factor in re
quired pre-marital tests if recom
mendations of the House Judiciary
Committee are adopted.
The recommendation, in the
form of an amendment to a pro
posed new marriage code aci, was
approved by the committee yes
terday. The committee introduced
the comprehensive measure and is
now subjecting it to an intensive
review.
Committee chairman John Hel
lenthal, of Anchorage, said the
RH factor report would be made
together with seriological blood
tests.
“According to estimates by the
State Division of Public Health,
this information could save the
lives of as many as 18 newborn
infants a year,” Hellenthal said.
“It would only cost the state
about $100.”
Now It’s Feb. 14 . . .
WASHINGTON UP> — The next
attempt to loft Marine L.t. Col.
John H. Glenn Jr., into orbit is
now scheduled for Feb. 14 at the
earliest — instead of Feb. 13 as
previously announced.
Informed sources reported that
while no specific problem has
developed, the work of prepar
ing the booster rocket for the
new attempt will take longer thar
anticipated last week when the
Feb. 13 date was announced.
It was learned “tankage tests”
of the big Atlas rocket were
under way — that is, filling the
tanks of the rocket to appraise
them.
House Puts the Okeh On Giving Board
Of Education Full Admistrative Powers
JUNEAU if) — The House today
passed by a vote of 27-13 a bill
which would give the State Board
of Education full administrative
•powers over the Department of
Education.
The bitterly contested measure
was approved after more than an
hour of impassioned and often
bitter debate before the final vote
was taken. Rep. Mark Jensen
moved for adjournment for the
day before a notice of reconsider
ation could be given. His motion
passed on a voice vote.
The bill now goes to the Senate.
Voting for the measure were
Reps. Baggen, Baker, Binkley,
Boardman, Chapados, Christian
sen, Ditman, Erwin, Hammond,
Hansen, Jarvela, Jensen, John
son, Kendall, Kertulla, Kubley,
Leonard, Longworth, Parsons,
Pratt, Reed, Rhode, Sanders,
Strandberg, Stratton, Sweeny, and
Widmark.
Opposing the Bill
Opposing the bill were Reps.
Blodgett, Cashel, Deveau, Gar
rison, A. Harris, D. Harris, Hel
lenthal, Hope, Llorente, Nusung
inya, Pearson, Stalker and Taylor.
Rep. Frank Chapdoa and Rep.
Donald Harris, both changed their
votes before the final roll call
was announced with the apparent
intention of giving notice of re
consideration, which would have
held the measure in the House.
Jensen's motion for adjournment
blocked any such action.
Opponents of the measure said
it would reopen the flood gates
for the formation of the ineffect
I ual hoards, commissions and com
mittees of territorial days.
The measure appeared before
the House after the Rules Com
mittee held that it was in proper
order despite the fact that similar
legislation had been considered
and defeated during the first ses
sion of the current legislature.
The committee held that each
session of a legislature is a sepa
rate unit.
Similar Bill Defeated
A similar measure was defeated
last year on a 20-20 tie vote.
The bill empowers the State
Board of Education to appoint the
Commissioner of Education with
the approval of the governor ?md
confirmation by the legislature.
It also grants the Board full
administrative, fiscal and budget
ary powers.
Eighteen lawmakers rose to
speak on the bill during the pro
longed debate.
“Why should we pass such leg
islation,” Chapados demanded.
“We haven’t had any concrete
complaints. If we’re going to
make this one change, we might
as well change the whole Con
stitution and go back to the stone
age of government.”
“I think it’s time we called a
spade a spade,” replied Jensen.
“I have been expressed with the
sincerity of the Board and I have
been aware of widespread dis
satisfaction with what had been
called the lade of direction within
the Department of Education.
“No good career man wants to
be tied up to a situation which
is tied to a political party.”
Kennedy Urges
A World-Wide
Space Network
WASHINGTON UR — President
Kennedy urged Congress today to
charter a huge corporation — with
shares to be sold to the public
and communications firms — to
build and run a world-wide space
network for radio, television and
telephone.
More than $1 billion in first- ]
class voting stock in the “Com- i
munications Satellite Corporation” 1
would be made available to the
public and communications car
riers at not less than $1,000 a
share.
The corporation would be de
signed to make a profit from the
rental of satellite channels to
firms such as telephone and tele
graph companies and to other au
thorized organizations.
The satellites, as relay stations
in space, would open innumerable
channels for international com
munications and make possible
ocean-spanning telecasts.
Kennedy set forth the plan in
a letter to the Speaker of the
House and the President of the
Senate. The letter accompanied
proposed legislation, “the Com
munications Satellite Act of 1962,”
that spelled out the details.
There has been controversy and
hearings over who should own
the projected satellite communi
cation system—the government, a
monoply by one firm or group
of firms, or open to all comers.
Kennedy urged today that both
the public and the communica
tions carriers be let in on the
deal.
The proposal called for the is
sue of a million shares of Class A I
voting stock. While these shares
would be eligible for dividends,
the payoff might be a long time
coming.
Government officials warned
that the initial costs of a satellite
communications system will be
so great that earnings in the first
years vill be small. Estimates of
the costs of such a system range
upward from $500 million and
it is unlikely to become a profit
able venture in less than a decade.
WASHINGTON UP) — A 30
page booklet telling how to build
home fallout shelters ranging
from $75 to $650 is on its way
to the American public.
Five million copies are being
sent to local and state Civil De
fense offices, Defense Department
officials said in unveiling the
booklet. Anyone can get one free
by asking for it.
Plane Missing Between
Nome and Galena
Two men in a Cessna 172 are
overdue on a flight from Nome
to Galena. The two are Merle
Reed and Roy Woods of Moose
Pass. They took off from here
yesterday. At 2:30 a bulletin was
received from an Air Force search
plane that it had sighted the
wreckage and that the plane ap
peared totally demolished but a
shelter was seen under one wing.
THE WEATHER
Cloudy with snow and freezing
drizzle. Little change in temper
ature,
In the past 24 hours: highest
temp. 29, lowest 23. Sunrise at
9:49 a.m., sunset at 2:29 p.m.
A year ago today: highest tem
perature 20, lowest -7. Extremes
on this dat^ since 1907: highest
47 in 1947, lowest -32 in 1932.
Dutch Airliner
With Troops Held
Over in Anchorage
ANCHORAGE UP) — A KLM
DC-8 airliner carrying £14 persons
—including 68 described as mufti
clad Dutch troops bound for West
New Guinea—was held here to
day after being refused a landing
permit in Tokyo.
Bill Wardenier, KLM manager
lere, said he was awaiting instruc
ions from Amsterdam, but added
‘the only thing I can see now is
bat the plane will have to re
turn to the Netherlands.”
The plane carried 82 passengers,
including two babies, and a crew
^f 12.
The report that Dutch troops in
civilian clothes were among the
passengers came from Amster
dam. Wardenier described the pas
sengers only as “government of
ficials and employes.”
Aviation experts explained that
an international civil aviation
treaty prohibits a country from
refusing the landing of a regular
commercial airliner even if troops
are aboard, though chartered
planes carrying troops can be
barred.
Refueling of a chartered Dutch
troop plane last week at Anchor
, age, Honolulu and Wake Islajnd
on a flight to New Guinea prompt
ed an attack by about 100 lndo
neasian students Monday on the
U.S. Embassy in Jakarta. They
stoned the building, smashed ears
in the compound and ripped down
the American flag.
Ironically, the attack came after
the United States had notified the
'Dutch government that future
chartered flights carrying soldiers
to New Guinea could not use
American bases.
In Washington, State Depart
ment press officer Lincoln White
refused to discuss the case.
White said the State -Depart
ment has “absolutely nothing” in
the way of information on the
aircraft or the situation.
2 U.S. Army Helicopters
Lost in Combat Operations
SAIGON, South Viet Nam UPt —
Two U.S. Army helicopters have
been lost and three others hit by
Communist fire in two combat
operations in three days. There
have been no casualties among
the American crewmen or Viet
namese soldiers aboard, but a
U.S. source reported the Commu
nists “are getting our range.”
‘They’re learning to aim ahead
of us, to compensate for the for
ward movement of the aircraft,”
the informant said after one heli
copter crashed and two others
were hit while ferrying Vietnam
ese government troops into action
yesterday.
Informants said 15 American
Army helicopters shuttled two
battalions of Vietnamese infantry
—564 men—into the combat area.
The U.S. Navy aircraft ferry
Core docked here today with two
U. S. companies and 21 large
single-engine liaison planes. The
planes will soon be flying hais
sions against the Communist Viet
Cong rebels.
The new units are equipped
with Canadian-made Otter planes
capable of carrying 10 soldiers
and has an operating range of
about 600 miles. It can land on
short, poor runways, is useful for
observation and can even be used
to drop paratroopers. It is not
armed.