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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
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Teaching Career Month . . .
GOVERNOR WILLIAM A. EGAN has issued three proclama
tions for April observance.
The month is to be observed as Teaching Career Month, "as
reaching is one of the pre eminent professions in American life and
members of the teaching profession are charged with one of the
greatest and most important jobs — that of development of our
future citizens.”
It is also designated to honor the Pan American Union, "which
this year is observing its 72nd anniversary, and which has as its
objectives die fostering of the spirit of good will and understand
ing among the nations of this hemisphere.”
Secretaries are recognized this month from April 22 through
April 28, "because an efficient secretary, skilled in these respects
can be a positive factor to advance the cause of her employer by
creating a favorable impression on those who come in contact
with the office in which she works.”
REV. FRED NIMMO TO
SPEAK AT BAPTIST CHURCH
NEXT SUNDAY EVENING
Rev. Bob Leight, pastor of the
Bible Baptist Church, announces
the arrival of a new Alaskan mis
sionary, Rev. Fred Nimmo, who
will be preaching at both the morn
ing and evening services Sunday,!
April 15, at the Baptist Church.
Rev. Nimmo is another mission
ary representative of the Baptist
Bible Fellowship, of which Rev.
Bob Leight and the Baptist Church
of Nome is associated. The Baptist
Bible Fellowship is 12 years old,
having at one time been a part of
another Baptist group. They have a
membership nearing 100,000, in over
1,200 churches in 38 states, with
two international churches in
Landsuhl, Germany, and Ramey
Air Force Base, Puerto Rico. The
Fellowship maintains 161 mission
aries serving in Alaska, Argentina,
Brazil, Chile, Congo, Ethopia, For
mosa, Hawaii, India, Japan, Korea,
Rev. Nimmo, has had consider
able experience in the pastorate,
and as an evangelist. He served in
the armed forces twice in Alaska.
Rev, Leight invites the public
to hear Rev. Nimmo at the evan
gelistic-missionary meeting next
Sunday at 7:00. Rev. Nimmo is not
replacing Rev. Leight here but will
in all probability begin work in
one of the interior villages. Mrs.
Nimmo will also be present with
her husband at the meeting.
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Resolution Asks JFK to Press
For "Extension or 3-M!ic Limit
To Edge of Continental Shelf
JUNEAU — A resolution ask
ing President Kennedy to press
for acceptance erf an extension of
the present 4M®2e limit into which
foreign vessels may not enter pass
ed the House unanimously Satur
day.
The measure, HJR88, asks that
the territorial limit be extended to
40 miles, or to the edge of the con
tinental shelf, which ever is greater.
The resolution also asked that the
United States act quickly and de
cisely in informing foreign fishing
fleets that no Intrusion of Alaskan
waters will be tolerated.
The resolution followed a report
early last week that Japanese fish
ing boats had been sighted in
Shelikof Strait between Kodiak
Island and the Alaska Peninsula.
Report Jap Fishing Fleet Makes
Complete Circuit of Kodiak Island
JUNEAU — The UJ3. Bureau
of Commercial Fisheries said today
a Japanese herring fishing fleet
operating near Kodiak Island has
made almost a complete circuit of
the island during the past week.
Harry Rietze, regional director of
the BCF, said the Japanese fleet,
consisting of the mothership "Ban
shu Mam” and five catcher boats,
was located off Uganik Island, in
Shelikov Strait, yesterday.
The Banshu Maru and the small
er craft were first spotted early
last week off Uyak Bay. Since then,
Rietze said, the Japanese fleet has
cruised around the island.
Senate Approves
Changes Made In
Borough System
JUNEAU M — The Senate gave
its approval during a late after
noon session Friday to a bill mak
a number of revisions in the 1551
act providing for a borough system
of local government in Alaska.
The Senate tacked on a number
of amendments, including one by
Sen. R. J. McNealy revising the
number of qualified voters needed
to validate a petition for incorpo
ration of an organized borough in
areas with a qualified voter popula
tion of 7,500-15,000 and over 15,000.
As the bill came over from the
House, the petition would have been
required to carry the names of at
least 20 per cent of the qualified
voters in the areas to be incorpo
rated.
The Senate went along with the
McNealy recommendation that the
percentage figure be cut to 15
per cent. No change was made in
the House recommendation that the
percentage figure for areas with a
population of 7,500 qualified voters
or less be 25 per cent.
Approve Two Major Amendments
The Senate also approved two
other major amendments to the
borough bill.
One would permit the Borough
Assembly to determine the trans
itional use of sales taxes levied by
independent school districts.
The other deals with the property
tax structure of a first or second
class borough in relation to the
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rule city within the borough.
The bill now goes back to the
House for action on the Senate
changes.
The upper chamber also approved
a bill making a supplemental ap
propriation of $217,490 for adminis
tration of the highway program dur
ing thp current fiscal year.
Sen. John Coghill said $33,490
would be used for work on the
highway accounting system and
$184,000 would be used for over
time pay, supplies, remodeling the
Valdez highway office and for mov
ing from the old highway office
in Juneau to the new Douglas
building, f, ^
Coghill said all of the expendi
tures in the latter item were out
side of legislative intent under a
$1,500,000 appropriation for high
way administration made; last year.
Sen. Vance Phillips commented
that the money was needed “to
take care of another mistake -made
in the highway program.”
“Regardless of the mistakes which
have been made,” chairman James
Nolan of the Senate Finance Com
mittee commented, “the money is
needed and we have been assured
the same mistakes won’t happen
again.”
Tlie bill passed on a straight
party lias vote of 13-7.
Andrew Nakerak Passes
Andrew Nakerak died at Una
lakleet Saturday during one of the
services of the Covenant Conference
being held there.
Mr. Nakerak had come from
Shaktoolik to attend the conference
Funeral details were not learned
this morning.
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AF OF L OPPOSES
HOUSE VERSION OF
STRIKEBREAKER BILL
JUNEAU — The legislative
representative for the State Federa
tion of Labor, Henry Hedberg, said
Saturday the big labor organization
would prefer the Senate version,
rather than the House rewrite, of
the strikebreaker bill, SB49.
Hedberg, in a statement, thus
lined the Federation of Labor up
with the State Department of
Labor, which has gone on record
as branding the House version too
restrictive.
The Senate bill would have pre
vented a third party from obtain
ing employes to work in firms in
volved in a strike or lockout.
The House rewrote it to make it
unlawful for any person, including
the firm involved in a strike or
lockout, to import workers to take
the place of employes involved in
a labor dispute.
“The Senate bill is acceptable
to us, as a start in this type of leg
islation,” Hedberg said.
“At first blush, the House bill
is too restrictive. It would cause
too many problems on both sides
of the ledger.
“Our only hope is that we can
get a start in legislation solving
this problem, which is going to
become more acute as industry
moves into the state.”
Hedberg said he did not share
the fears of some that neither the
Senate nor the House version pro
vided ample protection for the em
ployer caught in a jurisdictional
dispute,
“In case of a jurisdictional dis
pute,” Hedberg said, “the employer
always has recourse to the federal
Taft-Hartley Act.”
BIDS CALLED FOR 276-FOOT
OCEAN-GOING KODIAK FERRY
JUNEAU UPl — The Division of
Marine Transportation called for
bids iov construction nf 9
276-foot ocean-going ferry to con
nect Kodiak Island with the Kenai
Peninsula.
B. E. Lewellen, director of the
division, said bids would he opened
M&y 23.
The ferry will have a carrying
rapacity of 250 passengers and 54
automobiles and a sustained speed
of 15 knots.
Lewellen said specifications call
for a turntable-type elevator to load
and unload vehicles. It has been
designed to make use of existing
wharf facilities in the area.
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THREE MEN HOSPITALIZED
AFTER BEING EXPOSED
TO RADIO ACTIVELY
RICHLAND, Wn. W — Three
men remained hospitalized today
after being exposed to a burst of
radioactivity at the Hanford Atomic
Works. A fourth man was released
Sunday.
Doctors said tiwnHBlIP'e in
good condition and showed “no
clinical evidence of radiation in
jury.”
H. B. Lindberg, a public infor
mation officer for the General Elec
tric Co. said they were expected
to remain in the hospital for a
few days for observation.
The accident Saturday occurred
when an over concentration of fis
sionable material collected in a
waste tank. It was the first such
accident in the 18-year history of
the plant, operated by GE for the
Atomic Energy Commission.
Lindberg said the cause has not
been determined. He said the four
men, working near the tank, were
exposed to gamma rays and neu
trons.
BLODGETT AND STALKER
FILE FOR THE HOUSE
JUNEAU <m — Three House
Democrats filed their declarations
of candidacy with Secretary of
State Hugh Wade today.
Grant Pearson of Nenana filed
from the 15th District, Robert R.
Blodgett filed from the 18th Dis
trict and Jacob A. Stalker filed
from the 17th District.
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