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Senate Holds Off
Reconsideration
Of ESC Bill
JUNEAU m — The Senate, aftei
more than an hour of political
maneuvering. Saturday held ofl
until Wednesday at 11 a.m. a mo
tion to reconsider a touchy em
ployment security bill.
The bill, an executive request
measure, would boost the basic
weekly employment security bene
fit amount from $45 to $50.
The measure was killed by the
lower chamber Thursday on a
vote of 6-10, but Sen. George Mc
Nabb gave notice he would ask
reconsideration.
Normally, reconsideration would
come the following day, but Fri
day McNabb asked and received
permission to hold off reconsider
ation until Saturday.
As the Senate prepared to take
up McNabb’s reconsideration, Sen.
Howard Pollock asked for a call
of the Senate, which would re
quire that all senators be called
into the chambers.
When all senators were present,
and the Senate was ready to take
up McNabb’s reconsideration, ma
jority leader R. J. McNealy asked
for a recess until the Senate was
again called to order by President
Frank Peratrovich.
The move put a crimp in the
Republican lineup, because mi
nority leader John Coghill had
asked earlier in the week for per
mission to fly home on business
and he planned on leaving at
noon.
While the Senate was in recess,
the Democrats held a caucus. Cog
hill left for the airport.
The Senate then went back
into session at the call of Pera
trovich.
Immediately, Pollock asked that
McNabb’s reconsideration be held
over as a special order of business
Wednesday morning. The Senate
went along without a dissenting
vote.
MURLIN DAY VISITS HERE
Many friends welcomed Mur
lin Day back to Nome Saturday
after an absence of 14 years.
Mr. Day, who was with the
Community Methodist Church
from 1946 to 1948 is now ad
ministrator of the Bethel 5'1-bed
hospital where he was transfered
recently from Sitka. He states tha1
Mrs. Day, who will be remembered
for her contribution in music
while here, is still at Sitka, bul
will join him when school is out
MID-AFTERNOON SONIC
BOOM CAUSES $5,000 IN
DAMAGE TO WINDOWS
SHREVEPORT, La. (*> — “This
is the prettiest sight I’ve ever
seen,” chortled a plate glass com
pany official as he surveyed near
ly $5,000 in damage to windows
caused by a mystery sonic boom.
“I never remember being this
busy,” he said.
The mid-afternoon sonic boom
caught hundreds of people on
downtown streets in this north
west Louisiana city Friday. Many
narrowly escaped flying splinters
of glass.
But the only casualty reported
was a cut finger by James Lowery, ■
director of the United Services
Organization (USO). 1
Lowery was in his office when
the crash occurred. The USO
building is on Texas St., the ]
downtown section’s main thor- <
oughfare. A large window in the 1
front of the building was smashed. 1
“I looked up and saw the top ]
half of the window just slide
toward the bottom,” said Lowery, j
“Then the glass started breaking j
in the middle.”
Lowery said he fell over back- j
wards in his chair trying to get j
out of the way. ,
“But if you think I was moving {
fast, you should have seen two j
women out on the sidewalk,” he j
said. “They ran right out into the
middle of Texas St. traffic.”
Nearby Barksdale Air Force (
Base said none of its planes was \
responsible for the sonic boom. ‘
Base authorities launched an in- *
quiry but were unable to deter- ‘
mine the source of the plane.
Merchants and businessmen esti- 1
mated damage at more than $5,000. 1
“My secretary will never be 1
the same,” said a businessman 1
whose windows were broken.
JUAN MARCH, ONE OF
EUROPE’S RICHEST, PASSES
MADRID, Spain UP> — Juan
March, who worked his way up
from a stevedore to become one of
Europe’s richest men, died Satur
day.
The 80-year-old financier died
in a hospital from injuries suffered
in an automobile accident Feb. 25.
March began his life’s work on
the docks at Palma De Mallorca,
and ended it owning many of
Spain’s largest industries, power
companies and banks.
The exact size of March’s wealth
was a secret he shared only with
his bankers. But financial circles
said he was among the richest
men in Europe.
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U-2 Pilot Powers’
Case Gives Spying
Big Business Look
By James Marlow
Associated Press News Analyst
WASHINGTON UR — Francis
Gary Powers’ case takes romance
out of spying — like knocking the
air out of a parachute that hit
ground — and gives it a big
business look.
It’s big business for the CIA,
America’s super-spy organization,
ivhich spends perhaps $1 billion
i year although the exact amount
s hidden from all but a few
people in government.
And it was good business for
he short, trim, 32-year-old
3owers himself who was paid
>30,000 a year by the CTA for
>ecoming a specialist in flying
J-2 planes after quitting the Air
•’orce.
He sounded far more like a !
echnician than espionage agent <
n his first public appearance. j
Before the Senate Armed Serv
ces Committee, in a jam-packed (
oom, he talked matter-of-factly (
md without drama about his Mos- «
:ow trial and how he got loose
rom a plane disintegrating 12 (
niles high over Russia.
Even the report the CIA issued, \
ilearing Powers of any failure to j
:arry out his job, sounded like <
i letter to the stockholders from j
t bank board after checking on <
>ne of its cashiers. ]
It said he had followed instruc- 1
ions and lived up to his contract
ind therefore was entitled to the ■
noney due him. It has been esti
nated he’ll get $50,000 in salary <
vhich piled up for him while he
vas in a Soviet prison.
On May 1, 1960, Powers’ plane
spun out of control and fell apart
— he couldn’t say exactly why —
1,200 miles inside Sovietland.
The Russians quizzed him for
weeks, tried him, sentenced him
to 10 years and, after he had been
jailed 21 months, exchanged him
for Col. Rudolf Abel, a Soviet
spy caught here and sentenced
to 30 years.
From the moment of his re
lease until he appeared before the
committee, the CIA had kept
Powers out of circulation and ex
amined him on every detail of his
disaster.
The committee hearing might
have been colorful and exciting
except for this:
1. The CIA made the hearing as
unnecessary as two tails on a
horse by releasing its clean-bill
af-health for Powers two hours
before the hearing started. That
left the senators with little to
ask.
2. Powers himself, a relaxed
kind of man, is neither exciting
nor evictable. From the way he
talked he didn’t even seem ex
cited when his plane was falling
to pieces.
Ever since his plane went down
questions have been raised about
bis performance in the plane and
at his trial. Some of the people
who seemed to take a dim view
of him probably expected more of
him than they might be willing
to do under similar circumstances.
Some of the questions: Why
didn’t he kill himself with the
poison needle he had? Why
didn’t he blow up the plane to
keep the Russians from getting
it? Why did he admit his spying
so frankly at his trial.
The CIA ansewered them. He
was not under instruction to
destroy either himself of his
plane. He was instructed, if cap
tured, to talk frankly, to the Rus
sians except for certain specifi
cations about the plane.
As for the poison needle, that
was for him to decide on if he
was tortured. If the pain became
much, he could use it or not
?t. He was instructed to suit
himself.
f r **«r**is« and Legal File Folders
liable at The Nome Nugget
Monday, March 12, 1962
THE NOME NUGGET
7TH SPECIAL FORCES MEN move equipment to waiting Army
aircraft at Bethel, Alaska. These planes took the Special Forces
men to outlying villages to train with the 2nd Scout Bn, 3rd BG,
279th Inf, Alaska National Guard, one of the Eskimo Scout
Battalions, in advance of Exercise GREAT BEAR.
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>ECTY. OF AGRICULTURE,
DRVILLE FREEMAN, OFFERS
STIKITA A BIT OF ADVICE
WASHINGTON UP) — Secretary
)f Agriculture Orville L. Freeman
iffered this advice Saturday to
soviet Premier Khrushchev:
“Let your farmers operate their
>wn farms.”
Commenting on Soviet efforts
o increase farm production, Free
nan said a major secret of the
iuccess of American agriculture
s that it is based on family farms,
soviet agriculture, on the other
land, emphasizes state - operated
[arms.
Freeman said that if the Rus
sians really wanted to match U.S.
'arm productivity they should
emulate not only American hybrid
corn, fertilizer and farm ma
chinery, but also “the all-im
portant principle of the ownership
and operation of our farms by the
farmers themselves.”
Hire First Negro Policemen
ATHENS, Ga. UFt — This north
east Georgia city, home of the
University of Georgia, has hired
two Negro policemen — the first
Negroes on the force.
Police Chief E. E. Hardy said
last night the two officers will i
patrol Negro areas of the city. j
JFK Helps Polish Girl
Get Extension on Visa
WASHINGTON UP) — A Polish
girl turned to President Kennedy
for help, and got an extension
of her permit to remain in the
United States, the White House
said yesterday.
It seems that Miss Marzena T.
Malinowska, 21, a coed at New
5fork University and also a hos
tess at a night spot in New York,
met Kennedy in 1960 when he
was a senator.
The girl, who was an entry in
the Miss Universe Beauty Con
test, came here to present Ken
nedy a religious painting in recog
nition of his advocacy of Ameri
can aid to Polish flood victims.
Kennedy reportedly told her to
let him know if she ever had any
troubles while in this country.
The trouble developed in Janu
ary when she was denied an ap
plication for renewal of her visa
as a fine arts student.
Miss Malinowska wrote the
White House, the Immigration
: and Naturalization Service re
viewed her application and she
got a year’s extension of her visa.
If she keeps on studying, she can
get another.
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