Mrs. Wm. Egan
Christens Alaska’s
First Ferry
SEATTLE W ~ The 352-foot
ferry Malaspina slide down the
ways here Monday night, signaling
what Gov. Wm. Egan called “per
haps the most important and per
manent achievement for Alaska
since Statehood.”
The governor’s wife christened
the Malaspina, which will go into
service between Prince Rupert,
B.C., and Haines, Alaska, in
September as the first ferry in a
planned three-vessel fleet. Sen.
Ernest Gruening also attended the
launching.
“When the Malaspina is in oper
ation, 20 years of dreams will be
come a reality,” Egan said.
“Southeastern Alaska once more
will have regular passenger serv
ice by sea; its population centers
will enjoy the activity which re
sults from easy access. And our
automobile visitors will have an
opportunity to enjoy the scenic,
historic and fishing opportunities
which abound in all areas of Alas
ka. The Pacific Northwest and
Canada will share in the increased
business which will inevitably
occur.”
“For Alaska it is a great step
forward,” he added. “In my view, i
perhaps it is the most important
and permanent achievement for
Alaska since Statehood. . . j
“The Malaspina and its sister '
ships, yet unchristened, have their <
critics. I am confident, however, i
that in three, four or five years .
from today few will realize why :
there was any argument about the
need for an alternate route to !
Alaska, and that the investment <
necessary to bring it about was .
GEORGE NICHOLS RESIGNS
AS DIRECTOR OF DIV.
OF STATE PLANNING
JUNEAU UFi — Resignation of
George W. Nichols as Director,
Division of State Planning, was
announced yesterday morning by
Gov. Wm. Egan.
Nichols asked in his letter of
resignation written to the governor
June 1 that his resignation be
effective June 22.
Nichols recalled in his letter that
he had told Egan two years ago
of his desire to return to the State
of Washington.
Egan replied recognizing that he
had known for some time of
Niehol’s plans, said “your contri
bution to the State of Alaska dur
ing these formative years has re
sulted in high regard and esteem
of your ability from all members
of Alaska’s legislature on both
sides of the political aisle.”
“You have also earned the
respect and admiration of all of
your colleagues in the executive
branch of Alaska’s state govern
ment,” Egan said.
Nichols said that he planned to
go to Seattle for employment with
R. W. Beck & Associates. He will
be a supervisory analyst for the
utility firm which has done con
siderable work in Alaska in the
Anchorage and Fairbanks areas.
small indeed when compared with
lie results.”
The governor predicted that the
system would “bind the widespread
areas of Alaska together more
closely” and create “an inter
change of ideas and a realization
if the opportunities and the prob
ems of other communities.”
Cities to be served on the Prince
rtupert-Haines route include Ket
chikan, Wrangell, Petersburg, Sitka,
Juneau and Skagway.
MIGHT GIVE CREDIT
DORTMUND, Germany M —
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer said
yesterday West Germany might be
willing to grant the Communist
East German regime sizeable trade
credits if the Red Wall dividing
Berlin was removed.
“If something is asked of us,
then we can at ieast achieve that
the wall is put out of business,”
the Chancellor said at a news con
ference after a luncheon of news
men attending the Christian Demo
cratic party convention.
He said the question of grant
ing credit to East Germany had
been discussed by the cabinet. But
the cabinet was one of the opinion j
that the authorities in East Ger
many must make a proper request
before the matter can be con
sidered, he said.
The East Germans, through the
West German Trustee for Inter
zonal Trade in Berlin, have indi
cated they would like more than
$500 million worth of goods from
West Germany on credit.
IMMIGRATION SERVICE
RECEIVES BOMB THREAT
WASHINGTON VP> — The Head
quarters Building of the Immigra
tion and Naturalization Service
was evacuated yesterday after an
anonymous telephone caller report
ed a bomb would explode there.
Similar calls resulted in eva
cuation of the building twice with
in one week about five months
ago. Police found no trace of a
bomb in either of those previous
incidents.
The newest incident was report
ed by the Justice Department.
Between 500 and 600 employes
were evacuated while police
searched for evidence of any ex
plosives, the official said.
Fine Job Funiing Ai The NuggtA
Hope Awarded
Honorary Degree
Of Humane Letters
WASHINGTON M — Bob Hope,
in cap and gown and smiling as
slyly as a gate-crasher, swished
grandly into Georgetown Uni
versity’s commencement exercises
and remarked:
“I feel as out of place as Presi
dent Kennedy at a meeting of the
American Medical Assn.”
Thus, on the tree - shaded
greensward of Georgetown, Rapid
Robert Hope — whose education
was “straight from high school to
dancing school and vaudeville” —
became a honorary Doctor of Hu
mane Letters Monday.
It was one of the most rollicking
graduation ceremonies in memory.
The principal speaker, the Rev.
Gustave Weigel, said “a com
mencement is hardly a hushed
gathering around a dying friend.”
Hope proved it. When he re
ceived the Latin citation of his
degree, he quipped: ‘I can’t wait
until I get home and have my son
read it to me.” Roman Catholic
Hope said of the Catholic univer
sity, “My getting a degree from
Georgetown is the end, but then
you do specialize in miracles, don’t
you?”
He called out to his son, An
thony, who was among the 1,066
receiving degrees: “Slump down,
you make me feel like Alan Ladd.”
As he posed for photographs in
his gown, the comedian cracked,
“This’ll be a shock to some of the
educators in Cleveland.” That is
where he went to school.
There was a serious side to the
ceremony. The president of George
FORD OPTIMISTIC ABOUT
TOP-TO-BOTTOM TAX CUT
WASHINGTON <* — Henry
Ford said yesterday the mere
announcement by Secretary of the
Treasury Douglas Dillon that the
administration would seek top-to
bottom tax cuts next year might
well soup up the economy.
The board chairman of the Ford
Motor Co. was cautious in apprais
ing Dillon’s announcement, how
ever. He said that the part of the
tax package revealed by the
Treasury chief in New York Mon
day “looks very glamorous, but I
haven’t seen the second page.”
Talking optimistically about busi
ness prospects, Ford said he had
found no evidence that the stock
market decline cut into consumer
buying. At the same time, he said
the market’s gyrations had “af
fected everyone’s thinking in the
United States.”
THE "HONDAS" ARE COMING!
town, the Very Rev. Edward B.
Bunn S.J., said the degree was
awarded “for your salutary gift of
laughter to an often-troubled
world.” The citation also called
attention to his many trips over
seas to entertain servicemen.
“The most profitable kind of
education is that which makes a
man happy in the knowledge that
he is of some use to others,” Hope
told the graduates.
“Give a little bit of yourself
and it will come back in carloads.
This is one of those comeback days
for me.”
Like all commencement speakers
Hope had a few words of advice
for the graduates. Said Hope: “My
j advice to young people going into
I the world—don’t go.”
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