OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
63rd Year No. 111
NOMI-, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, SLPiLMBLR 19, 1962
Per Copy 15C
1.000 Gases of
King Crab from
Russia in New York
By The Associated Press
Shipment of 1,000 cases of king i
crab from Russia to New York
City was reported Tuesday by Sen.
Warren Magnuson, <D-Wn.‘, who
said it may have come from waters
off Alaska.
"Soviet fishermen have been re
ported taking king crab south
west of Kodiak Island in the Gulf
of Alaska,” Magnuson said in a
telegram to the Associated Press
at Seattle. “Perhaps the Russians
are try to send back to use crabs
taken from our own waters.”
The senator said samples of the
crab being offered for sale to
wholesalers in New York have been
requested by the Bureau of Com
mercial Fisheries for laboratory
testing.
Each case of Russian crabmeat
arriving in New York, Magnuson
said, contained 48 cans of what the
fisheries trade calls half-pound
flats. He said the prices quoted
are above those for American or
Japanese canned king crab.
■ This may be a tryout attempt
to test the American market,”
Magnuson said, “but. 1,000 cases
of crabmeat from Russia in my
opinion is 1,000 cases too many.”
“ , . . There is no doubt in my
mind that we are facing a well
organized Soviet drive to harvest
the rich resources of the seas
adjacent to our coasts.”
Frightened to Death
NEW YORK UR — Window
washer John Hirowski, 63, ap
parently was frightened to death
Tuesday when his safety belt
broke, leaving him dangling by
one strap and screaming for help
below a sixth-floor window in
Manhattan.
He hung suspended at least
10 minutes outside the West 54th
St. apartment building before a
tenant heard his screams and call
ed police.
When officers got to the window
10 minutes later, Hirowski appear
ed to have stopped bi'eathing.
He was pronounced dead of
heart failure.
Therese Neumann Passes
KONNEDSREUTH, Germany UR
— Therese Neumann, 64, an al
most legendary figure among
Catholics, died Tuesday of a heart
ailment. With the exception of
1951, Miss Neumann has appeared
to enter a trance on Good Friday
of each year and suffer the agonies
of Christ on the cross, with blood
apparently streaming from her
eyes and hands.
ACS Will Accept Urgent
Or Emergency Calls to
Any Point In the World
JUNEAU !/P> — The Alaska
Communications System said to
day it will accept urgent or emer- ;
gency calls from Alaska to any
point in the world reachable by .
phone from the 49 other states.
Maj. Lynn Cunningham, Juneau |
Sector Commander for ACS, said I
urgent and emergency calls would
be put through immediately and
“we will worry about the tariff j
later.”
Gov. Wm. Egan recently filed
a sharp protest after a Juneau
woman was unable to place an
urgent call to Iran because there
were no posted tariffs on calls be
tween Alaska and Iran.
Cunningham said the American ;
Telephone and Telegraph Co. has j
initiated negotiations toward estab
lishment of tariff schedules with
foreign countries not already
covered by posted tariffs.
Senate Passes
Kennedy’s Trade
Expansion Bill
WASHINGTON W — The Senate
passed today President Kennedy’s
trade expansion bill — the most
revolutionary measure in this field
since the 1934 Reciprocal Trade
Agreements Law. The roll call
vote was 78-8.
The strong vote for the bill gave
the President a smashing victory
on the legislation which he had
placed at the top of his list in the
87th Congress.
The bill won the votes of 56
Democrats and 22 Republicans on
final passage. One Democrat, Sen.
Strom Thurmond of South Caro
lina, and 7 Republicans voted
against it.
Administration forces, after a
shaky start, beat down every sig
nificant amendment.
The measure now goes to con
ference with the House which
passed it June 28. It has agreed
to practically all the minor changes
made in the Senate.
Kennedy offered the bill as a
measure to open big new markets
to U.S. industry and provide hun
dreds of thousands of additional
jobs, to enable this country to
work out effective economic ar
rangements with the European
Common Market, and to increase
its export surplus and end the
serious balance of payments de
ficit.
The provisions aimed at broad
new trade arrangements with the
Common Market are regarded by
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EDITORIAL
VOICE YOUR OPINION
[IS EVENING and tomorrow evening will be the last two
1 nights that city taxpayers will have an opportunity to voice
their opinions on the new assessments which were placed against
their property under the reassessment program initiated last month.
At the three meetings held two weeks ago the City Hall was
packed to capacity with taxpayers who gave their opinions, which
were almost unanimous that the assessments were too high.
Every opinion given helps the City Council to evaluate
property values and to come to a just adjustment in making changes
which must be made before the mill rate can be set for city’ taxes.
To facilitate their work the Council has asked where ever possible
the suggestions and complaints be made in writing.
If you are a taxpayer and have a constructive criticism or
suggestion, or feel you have been assessed beyond the value of
your property, this is your opportunity to state your case.
State Fed. of Labor Meeting Hears Candidate s Charges
Stevens Claims Gruening's
Campaign Is Financed
By “Outside Interests’’
JUNEAU UP — Ted Stevens, Re
publican candidate for the U.S.
Senate, charged today that his De
mocratic opponent, Sen. Ernest
Gruening, is conducting a campaign
financed by outside interests.
Speaking before the 1962 Con
vention of the State Federation of
Labor, Stevens said Gruening
"talks and votes like a New Yorker
and these people haven’t been able
to elect an Americans for Demo
cratic Action senator from New
York so they elect the ADA New
Yorker from Alaska.”
Stevens said Gruening reported
campaign contributions of $36,918
during the 1958 campaign and that
out of state business interests had
produced almost $30,000 of the j
total.
“Tell me what, and 1 am serious. ;
what do these people in New York j
have in common with you so far ;
as legislative objectives are con
cerned?” Stevens asked.
"If I received contributions like >
he received from anyone — it 1
would bring about charges that I 1
was being bought. Why then do
you stand idly by and allow these
people to try and buy a Senate
seat. . .?”
Stevens said that Gruening, in
testimony offered to the Senate
Labor Committee during the Taft
Hartley hearings in 1947, urged
Congress to “do away with the
right to strike — at least in the
maritime industry.”
Congressional Resolution
Approves Use of Force To
Resist Communist in West
WASHINGTON UP) — The Sen
ate Foreign Relations and Armed
Services Committee unanimously
approved today a resolution de
claring the United States will use
troops if necessary to resist Com
munist aggression in this hemis
phere.
The joint resolution, which both
Senate and House are expected to
approve tomorrow, would require
the signature of President Kennedy
and reflect unanimity between the
White House and Congress in the
determination by the United States:
“To prevent by whatever means
may be necessary, including the
use of arms, the Marxist-Leninist
regime in Cuba from extending by
force or threat of force its aggres
sive or subversive activities to any
part of this hemisphere.”
It also would put the President
and Congress on record in assert
ing determination:
1. “To prevent in Cuba the cre
ation or use of an externally sup
ported military capability en
dangering the security of the Unit
ed States.”
2. “To work with the Organiza
tion of American States and with
freedom-loving Cubans to support
the aspirations of the Cuban
people for self-determination.”
X-RAY TEAM DUE HERE
The Alaska Department of
Health has announced that during
the last week of this month the
X-ray team, with Rex Morrow as
technician, will be here again.
All school children will be X
‘ayed through the school and the
jpportunitv will be given to adults
n the community also. Time and i
dace will be announced later in
he week, stated Public Health
Jurse, Mrs. Nels Swanberg. I
Mike Stepovich Would
Veto Any Right to
Work Legislation Passed
JUNEAU (VP'—Republican guber
natorial candidate Mike Stepovich,
in a speech prepared to the State
Federation of Labor Convention,
pledged today that as governor be
would veto any right to work leg
islation reaching his desk.
The pledge came in a 10-point
labor program outlined b\ the F e: -
banks attorney to the labor meet
ing, which is expected to endorse1
Stepovich’s Nov. 6 general election
opponent, Gov. Win. Egan.
Stepovich also said that, as gov
ernor. he would:
Create a labor-management-state
team to assist the governor in
solving labor disputes.
Seek immeclite establishment of
economical state government to
prevent further tax increases and
would seek to reduce taxes.
Explore means of improving the
state's employment security pro
gram so it again will be “one of
the top ranked programs in the
United States so far as assistance
to the working man is concerned."
Bring the planning for all au
thorized construction projects in
Alaska up to date and commence
work immediately, particularly
authorized work at Anchorage and
Fairbanks International Airports.
Invite labor’s participation in
both the economic and govern
mental affairs of the state.
Prevent the state from com
peting with organized labor.
Give Alaskans first chance at
every state job.
Consult organized labor and give
its recommendations every consid
eration when appointing a new
Commissioner of Labor.
Stepovich said he had been
charged by Egan with “being re
sponsible for the current ESC debt.
“It is true that I did obtain a
loan extension from the federal
government when our ESC fund
became exhausted,” Stepovich said.
“But without the loan thousands
of Alaskans would have been de
prived of unemployment benefits
. . . faced with this problem, I
acted immediately to obtain the
assistance we needed.
“I am proud that I did, and 1
would do the same thing again
under similar conditions.’’
Egan Shocked at Stevens
Attack on Sen. Gruening
JUNEAU UP — Gov. Wm. Egat
said today he had never heard £
speech to compare in “viciousnes:
and lack of basic decency” thai
the one made by Ted Stevens to
day before the State Federation
of Labor.
Stevens, Republican candidate
for the U.S. Senate, devoted much
of his address to the record and
background of his Nov. 6 general
election opponent. Sen. Ernest
Gruening.
Stevens could not be reached ior
comment on Egan’s statement.
<-He (Stevens' stepped far be
yond what reasonable people
would consider campaign oratory, j
Egan said. “I was deeply shocked i
at the nature of his personal at
tack on Ernest Gruening.”
Fair Attendance
SEATTLE UP — Attendance at
the Seattle World’s Fair:
Tuesday —- 30,939.
To date — 7,868,972.
Sen. Omening Says
GOP Candidates
Are Inexperienced'"
JUNEAU — Sen. Ernest
Grinning seeking another tern, in
the U.S. Senate, said yesterday
Republicans are asking Alaskan
■ ■ >tei ■ to -a n i two inexeperieneed
GOP candidates to Washington.
Without making reference to his
Novernbi 1 opponent, Ted Stevens
of Anchor, go, or Lowell Thomas
Jr., GOP candidate for the U.S.
House, Gruening told delegates to
the State Federation of Labor
Convention:
‘They have built-in handicaps,
they are Republicans.”
Gruening said he doubted seri
ously that Stevens or Thomas
would ; e able to arcomnlish much
for Alaska in a Den;ocratie-con
t rolled Congress, with a Demo
crat in the White ih Us ■.
Grueiiing also waxed critic.J of
the Republicans in general on
public works projects and power
developments.
‘•Everythin!* \v hav ■ 1 1 Alaska,”
Gruening said, “we received from
I Democratic administrations — the
j Alaska Railroad, our rural electric
| associations, the University of
| Alaska, the Matanuska colony and
j the Eklutna power project, among
others.
“And, if it hadn't been for the
Democratic administration of Pres
ident John Kennedy we wouldn’t
I have a start on the Rampart Can
: yon project.”
j L nomas says Rivers 1s
Ducking Responsibilities
i JUNEAU OR — Lowell Thomas
Jr., Republican candidate for the
U.S. House of Representatives, to
day accused Rep. Ralph Rivers of
ducking his responsibilities in the
recent Shelikof Strait fishing con
troversy.
i “Where was Rivers when the
Japanese moved into our tradition
al fishing grounds in Shelikov
Strait?’’ Thomas asked during a
! speech to the State Federation of
Labor Convention.
“Why wasn’t something done in
I Washington by my opponent? Why
was everything left to the gover
nor?”
Thomas also charged that Rivers
has done nothing to get the Alaska
Highway paved, a development
Thomas said would bring a great
influx of tourists into the 49th
State, now that the Marine High
way System is almost a reality.
Thomas and Rivers will fight it
, Uot in the Nov. 6 general election
; ! for Rivers' House seat, Alaska's
lone scat in the lower chamber.
Thomas pledged to work for 1
federal tax incentive to encourage
I new business and develop existing
I business in Alaska and to seek
I federal income tax relief to off
| set the high cost of living in Alaska.
! He aslo told the Federation he
I would wage a vigorous "Alaska
sales campaign in the halls of
Congress” and would advocate a
Federal Trade Commission to be
sent to Japan to enhance trade
relations with that nation.
THE WEATHER
Fair and colder. Low tonight 25,
high tomorrow 43. In the last 24
hours: High of 4(1. low of 36. Max.
wind 24 mph from the east. Sun
rise at 5:35 a.m., sunset at 6:14
p.m. Temps, a year ago today:
High of 48, low of 41. Extremes
on this date since 1907: High of
58 in 1950, low of 21 in 1930.