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NAMED TO FHA POST
ANCHORAGE A — Elmer Gag
non of Fairbanks has been named
the new Federal Housing Adminis
tration Director for Alaska, the
Anchorage Daily Times said Mon
day.
Although there was no official
announcement on Gagnon being
named to replace William Collins,
whose dicharge was effective Sat
urday, the Times said it was learn
ed reliably Gagnon definitely has
been named to the post.
Gagnon, a former Anchorage
resident, has been serving as re
development supervisor of the
Alaska Stab- Housing Authority.
Thomas Gray. FHA Zone Com
missioner for the western states,
said any word regarding an ap
pointment would have to com
from Washington. D.C.
The FHA. Office here is pre
sently being directed by Frank
Haberberger. Deputy Director of
the FHA Office in Seattle. Haber
berger said he “had orders to re
turn to Seattle a*, the and of the
week,” indicating an appointment
was imminent.
RAIN COVERS MOST AREAS
A southwesterly flow of cool,
moist air from the Bering Sea
brought cloudy skies rain to most ;
areas of the Alaska mainland to- 1
day.
Heavy rain was reported in the
Bethel area, while moderate
amounts fell at Fairbanks.
Skies over the northern Pan
handle remained cloudy to partly
cloudy, but the southern portion of
the Panhandle had clear skies.
Overnight temperatures ranged
from a low of 31 at Barrow to a
high of 58 at Annettee Island. The
high yesterday was 74 at Annette.
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PANI-SF MF.TAL EXPERTS
TO MAKE SURVEY OF
RESOURCES IN ALASKA
TOKYO UP* — Two Japanese
metal experts left for Alaska Mon
day night on a month-long survey
of metal resources.
The experts, employes of Nit
testsu Mining Co., will cooperate
with Alaska Pulp Co., of Tokyo
in hunting metal resources left un
touched by American companies
because of their remoteness and
transportation difficulties.
A second Japanese survey mis
'ion of six men, sponsored bv
Overseas Mineral Resources De
vil ornent Cooperation Society of
Tokyo, is scheduled to leave for
Alaska soon in response to wTiat
it described as an invitation last
year from the Alaska state gov
ernment.
In Juneau, Alaska’s Commis
sioner of Natural Resources. Phil
Holdsworth, said the first Japan
ese team had expressed an interest
in iron, copper and antimony.
The second team, Holdsworth
said, will be particularly interested
in copper, nickel and molybdenum.
The second group will be co
sponsored by the Japanese Min
istry of International Trade and
Industry.
Holdsworth said his department
has planned an itinerary for both
Japanese groups and that engineers
from the state agency would ac
company the Japanese on their
tour of the state.
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PLAN SCIENTIFIC STUDY
OF SMOKING AND AIR
POLLUTION ON HEALTH
WASHINGTON i/P> — Plans for
a broad scientific study of the im
pact of smoking and air pollution
on health were announced today
by Surgeon General Luther Terry
of thi' Public Health Service.
A conference' of representatives
of several federal agencies, medi
cal groups and the tobacco industry
decided Tuesday a 12-member
committee of scientists should be
named to conduct the study.
The study is expected to start
in mid-September. The first phase,
limited to defining the nature and
magnitude of the health hazard,
will take about six months. How
to proceed with the second phase—
preparation of recommendations for
action—will be decided when the
first phase is completed.
Terry said the study will be
concerned not only with tobacco,
but all other factors which may
be involved, including automobile
■ xhaust and air pollution.
( HARMS - HIM STROM
TO 11 ID Al CI ST 1977/
Mr. and Mrs. Victor Charles have
announced the wedding of their
daughter, Kathleen, to David Hill
strom. which is to be held on
Aug. 19 at the Community Metho
dist Church.
The Victor Charles family moved
to Nome recently from Bethel
where Mr. Charles was superin
tendent of schools, having been
selected superintendent of the
Nome school to succeed Conrad
Potter.
The bride has been working in
FBI Office in Washington, D.C.,
and the groom is at present with
the ACS at Glenallen, Alaska.
They will make their home in
Crystal, Minn.
TRUSTS KHRUSHCHEV
NEW YORK liP) — W. Averell
Harriman, former Ambassador to
Moscow, says he trusts Soviet Pre
mier Khrushchev to keep his word
in carrying out the Geneva agree- I
ment guaranteeing the independ- ;
ence of Laos.
Harriman, Asst. Secretary of
State for Far Eastern Affairs, talk- j
eel to newsmen after arriving from
Geneva by air Tuesday.
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VOME DEMOCRATIC CLUB
FRIDAY EVENING 7:30 — CITY HALL
Rep. Pelly Is Tired
Of Stalling Taeiies
WASHINGTON UP —- Rep.
Thomas Polly, <K-Wn.), said yes
terday he is lired of administra
tion stalling tactics on his bill to
encourage international conserva
tion of North American salmon.
Pelly said he understood reports
on his bill, introduced last Janu
ary, have been completed by the
Department of Interior. State and
Treasury but that the Budget
Bureau is sitting on them.
He urged the chairman of the
House Merchant Marine and Fish
eries Committee to insist the re
ports be released so hearings on
the bill can be held before Con
gress adjourns.
“On the basis of previous dis
cussions with fisheries people, I
think it is safe to predict they will
contend the problem can be hand
led administratively and therefore
legislation is not needed,” Pelly
wrote.
His bill would stop the importa
tion of salmon in any form from
any nation whose fishermen use
nets in areas where there are large
quantities of immature salmon of
North American origin.
“From bitter experience,” said
Pelly, “I know that when the State
Department talks about handling
the problem administratively, it
means administering North Pacific
salmon into the same category as
the American buffalo.
"In other words, they will cease
to exist, outside of aquariums,
where I assume a few will be pre
served for posterity.”
Pelly told chairman Frank W.
Boykin, (D-Alad, he believes “the
State Department, with the conni
vance of the budget, has entered
into a stalling process for the pur
pose of thwarting any action” at
this session of Congress.
The U.S. North Pacific salmon
pack last year was down 50 per
cent, said Pelly, adding:
“And with the Japanese fish
ing fleet consistently and indis
criminately taking i m mature
American-spawned red salmon in
the North Pacific Ocean and stub
bornly refusing to recognize sei
ientific findings and persisting in
the use of nets and gear which
Canadian and American fishermen,
in the interests of conservation,
are prohibited from using, the situ
ation is fast becoming critical,”
Pelly said.
HALT PLANS TO \BOKI
3 - MON I 11 PRI (, NANCY
PHOENIX, Ariz. (,?i — A Phoe
nix woman broke into tears when
she learned that legal complications
had halted plans to abort her three
j month pregnancy,
j The woman, who has taken a
drug blamed for the births of nu
merous malformed babies in Eu
rope, had been scheduled to enter
Good Samaritan Hospital, but Ad
ministrator Stephen Morris had
canceled the operation.
The woman says she took some
sleeping pills containing the drug,
thalidomide, during her first weeks
of pregnancy. She decided on an
operation after a secret three-man
panel of medical specialists, rec
ommended abortion.
Arizona law forbids abortion ex
cept to save the life of the mother.
“Everything is being held in
abeyance until the legal deter
mination is made," Morris said. “It
should be cleared up in a couple
of days,’’
The woman said Tuesday she
and her husband, a hi eh school
teacher, don’t want to risk bring
ing a malformed chil ! into tin
world.
JFK SENDS NOMINATION
OF TAYLOR TO SENATE
WASHINGTON i— President
Kennedy sent to the Senate today
the nomination of Gen. Maxwell
Taylor to be chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff for a two-year
term beginning Oct. 1.
At the same time, Kennedy
nominated Gen. Ernie Wheeler for
a two-year term as Army Chief
of Staff.
Kennedy previously had an
nounced selection of the two for
the posts.
Maxwell will succeed Gen. Ly
man Lcmnitzcr. who is to become
Commander-In-Chief of the U.S.
forces in Europe.
Wheeler, now Deputy Command
er of U.S. forces in Europe will
succeed Gen. George Decker as
Army Chief of Staff. Decker is re
tiring.
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