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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
63rd Year No. 36
NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, MARCH 26, 1962
Per Copy 154
H. H. Pentecost
Resigns from
Highway Dept,
JUNEAU W — H. H. Pentecost,
chief of the Planning Section of
the State Department of Highways,
submitted his resignation today, ef
fective April 30.
Pentecost becomes the fifth top
official of the state road program
to resign or to be dismissed this
year, starting with the dismissal
of Thurman Sherard as Director
of the Division of Highways Jan.
25.
Last week, Sam Johnson, State
Commissioner of Highways resign
ed and Asst. State Highway Engi
neers A. G. Gardner and Donald
Roser were fired. Gardner had al
ready announced he planned to re
sign.
In a four-page letter, Pentecost
said:
“In the past few weeks all ef
fective highway administration at
the headquarters level has been re
moved or caused to depart. This
has occurred in a sequence of events
which will be received with utter
astonishment in the other states
and throughout highway engineer
ing.”
Pentecost indicated he did not
believe the Commissioner of High
ways had enough authority to carry
out an effective program of high
way construction in Alaska.
He said that because of the
situation existing in Alaska he
doubted that the state “can obtain
men with sufficient stature, com
petence and integrity to restore and
stabilize the highway organization,
then proceed with satisfactory pro
grams.”
He said that until the Highway
Commissioner is given greater au
tnority, “no professional of real
ability and integrity will accept
the® position of Highway Commis
sioner, then serve merely to do the
desk work on a program in which
he has no guaranteed voice.
‘•While these conditions persist it
seems logical to expect a succession
of Commissioners. The better ones
will not be able to rationalize away
their responsibilities to the public
and the profession; their stays will
be short. Long tenure will be a sign
of mediocrity.”
DR. ROLAND LOMBARD
WINS DOG RACING CROWN
FAIRBANKS W — Dr. Roland
Lombard of Wayland, Mass., won
his second North American sled
dog racing championship here yes
terday, setting a course record for
both the final heat and total
elapsed time.
His total time of 272.61 minutes
erased the mark of 287.48 which
he set in 1959 when he won the
championship for the first time.
Conditions on the 70-mile course
were some of the best ever seen
in the Fairbanks area.
Lombard won the final 30-mile
heat in 119.87, smashing a record
of 123.80 set in 1955 by Wilbur
Sampson. Lombard, 50, is a veter
inarian. v
NOTED SWISS SCIENTIST
PROF. AUGUST PICCARD DIES
LAUSANN'S, Switzerland OB —
Prof. August Piccard, 78, noted
Swiss scientist and inventor who
was one of the world’s foremost
pioneers in high altitude and deep
sea research, died Sunday of a
heart attack. Piccard, in a balloon
gondola of his own design, soared
more than 10 miles upward in 1931.
In a steel ball he and his son,
& Jacques, fashioned he went down
two miles beneath the sea in 1983.
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UNCOVER MILLIONS OF
DOLLARS NOT SPENT
ON U.S. FOREIGN AID
WASHINGTON M — Investiga
tors for the House Foreign Affairs
Committee say they have uncovered
millions of dollars in U.S. foreign
aid funds which have been obli
gated on paper but never spent.
A report released Sunday by
the committee said that in Korea
alone investigators had uncovered
$17 million in uncommitted funds.
Based on spot checks in Korea,
South Viet Nam and Turkey, the
investigators said, it is possible that
there are “substantial hidden re
serves available in all countries”
receiving American aid.
Officials of the angency for In
ternational Development, which
handles U.S. foreign aid, had no
comment on the report.
Gov. Egan Signs Two More Bills
JUNEAU — Gov. Wm. Egan
advised the legislature today he
had signed two more bills into law.
Becoming Chapter 35 of the Ses
sion of Laws of 1962 was HB269,
which would prohibit state or fed
eral Fish and Wildlife agents from
collecting bounties on predators.
The new statute also extends the
hair seal bounty to all waters of
the state.
Egan also signed HB364, which
provides penalties for persons who
misuse or destroy camps not their
own. The act becomes Chapter 36,
SLA 1962.
SENATE OKEHS
VETERANS’ MEASURE
JUNEAU iff) — The Senate dur
ing a morning session today okehed
a bill, HB436, giving veterans
preference in the disposition of
state lands classified for residential
use. The bill goes back to the
House for concurrence in Senate
amendments.
In the debate on the veterans
preference bill, Sen. R. J. McNealy
said he was going to vote against
the measure because “this is a
case of the pitcher going to the
well too many times during one ses
sion.”
He said he felt veterans had had
their fair share of legislation ap
proved during this session.
Sen. Howard Pollock said he op
posed the bill because he “ob
jected to the continual discrimina
tion among the citizens of Alaska.”
Pollock said he could not see
why, this long after World War I,
World War II and the Korean con
flict, veterans should still receive
preferential treatment.
Sen. John Coghill said the pre
ference rights granted veterans by
the bill was a “small token erf
gratitude for the service they have
given.”
SEATTLE FAMILIES
RIDE THE MONORAIL
SEATTLE UP) — Thousands of
families rode the monorail to the
World’s Fair grounds and went up
in the Space Needle over the week
end as the two attractions were
opened to the public for the first
time.
Monorail operations were cut
short Saturday night when the
train’s motor broke down an hour
before it was scheduled to stop
running for the day. Repairs were
made overnight and it ran again
on Sunday.
A glass door leading from the ob
servation deck onto the exterior
walkway at the 550-foot level of
the Space Needle also cracked late
Saturday. Carol Doyon, 14, Seattle,
was cut on her right knee and hand
when she cracked H trying to
walk through it.''
Legislators Protest
Reduction in Air
Service to Alaska
JUNEAU UPl — The legislature
Friday sent a telegram to the Civil
Aeronautics Board protesting any
reduction in air service to Alaska.
The telegram, was signed by
House Speaker Warren Taylor and
Senate President Frank Peratro
vich, read as follows:
“The legislature of the State of
Alaska most vehemently protests
the March 19 order recommending
reduced and monopolistic air car
rier service to and from Alaska.
“Tlie recommendation is a dis
service to the people of Alaska and
the carriers who have pioneered
and expanded their service to and
in Alaska.
“Alaska needs more and im
proved service for its development
and bitter experience has demon
strated that we cannot get it by
encouraging and creating transpor
tation monopolies.
“We request that full scale hear
ings on the order be held in Alaska
to better acquaint board members
and staff with the realities of our
air transportation situation and
needs.”
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ACTRESS MARTHA RAYE
FOUND UNCONSCIOUS
HOLLYWOOD UP) — Actress
Martha Raye was found uncon
scious late Sunday night on a de
serted stretch of beach near her
home at suburban Malibu.
A county fire department rescue
squad revived her with a resusci
tator.
Her physician, Dr. Morris Katz,
said she evidently collapsed from
exhaustion while walking alone on j
the sand. He said she is in good
condition but will stay in the hos
pital a day or two.
The physician said the comedienne
was found on the beach by one
of her six ex-husbands and her
daughter. Dr. Katz declined to
identify the former husband or the
daughter.
At the emergency hospital she
gave her age as 46. Attendants said
she appeared to be in excellent
spirits.
TEN FILE FOR CITY OFFICES
Ten persons had filed as candi
dates for city office at 2 o’clock this
afternoon.
Deadline for filing is at 5 o’clock
today for the election to be held
on Tuesday, April 3.
Those filing thus far are:
For mayor—Roscoe Wilke and
Don Hoover.
For City Council—Pete Larsen,
Bob Herman, Fred Cavota, John
Reader, and Mary Andersen.
For Utility Board—Albert John
son.
For City Clerk—Bob Scott
For School Board — Mrs. Art!
Johnson. This last was a tele
graphic filing and must be con
firmed.
DICK GALLEHER BUYS
OUT MUNZ AIRWAYS
Dick Galleher has announced the
purchase of Munz Airways effect
ive upon the granting of the trans
fer of the business by the State
Aviation authorities.
Mr. Galleher states he plans to
merge his present business with
the facilities and operation of Munz
Airways and hopes to give the
same good service for which Munz
Airways is known.
Wm. Munz plans to spend the
SATURDAY EVENING POST
CUTS DOWN TO 45 ISSUES
PHILADELPHIA UP) — The Sat
urday Evening Post, a weekly
which has claimed unbroken de
scent from Benjamin Franklin’s
Pennsylvania Gazettee of 1728, is
being switched to 45 issues a year
as part of multi-million-dollar
-ost reduction program by the
Curtis Publishing Co.
To halt heavy losses the firm also
announced Sunday night that the
Ladies’ Home Journal, bom in
1883, and American Home are be
ing switched from monthly maga
zines to 10 issues a year.
Robert MacNeal, Curtis presi
dent, said in a policy statement to
personnel that the program would
boost earnings and restore confi
dence sapped by “rumors which
cast doubt upon the survival of
the company, magazines, or both.”
Management has been under
heavy fire recently from minority
stockholders.
JACKIE HEADS FOR HOME
KARACHI, Pakistan OP) — Amer
ica’s First Lady — A queen to mil
lions of Indians and Pakistanis —
today headed home from what she
called “the most magic two weeks
in my life.”
Carrying memories of elephants
and horses, maharajas and tribal
| chieftains, Jacqueline Kennedy end
ed her first Asian tour and said
she hoped to come back agair
soon.
“It is terribly sad to be leaving
today,” she said as she boarded i
Pakistani jet airliner for London.
Mrs. Kennedy will spend thret
days in the British capital at the
home of her sister, Princess Lee
! Radziwell. and will lunch on Wed
nesday at Buckingham Palace with
Queen Elizabeth II.
Behind her was a weekend in
Rome and an audience with Pope
John XXIII, and 14 days in India
and Pakistan packed with ele
phants, camels, pandas, snakes,
horses, band concerts, fashion
shows, hospital tours and exotic
foods.
NOME PTA MEETS
TOMORROW EVENING
The Nome Parent-Teachers Assn,
will meet Tuesday night at 7:30
for their March meeting at the
Multipurpose Room of the Nome
School.
A presentation on the “Ungraded
Primary” which will be adopted
by the Nome Schools next fall will
be presented by Miss Barbara
Cooper, Miss Sheila O’Brien and
Marc Beauchamp. Following this
presentation there will be opportu
nity for questions and discussion.
Another feature of this meeting will
jbe the election of officers for the
next year.
One of the projects of the Nome
PTA this year has been the spon
soring of a daily milk program for
the elementary grades of the Nome
School. Twenty gallons of milk per
day has been mixed and served to
these students. The main cost of
this project has been in hiring two
students to mix and deliver the
milk.
The PTA wishes to thank organi
zations and individuals who have
contributed to making this project
a success. The following is a list
of contributors:
Lions Club $60; Nome Mother’s
Club $50; Pioneer Igloo No. 1 $50
Home Arts Club $40; Beta Sigmj
Phi $20; WSCS $20; Phoebe Circl<
$19; Pioneer Auxiliary $10; Arcti<
Club $5.20; Altar Society of St
Joseph’s Church $5. Jack Maraso
! vich $10; annonymous $20.
1 Total contributions $300.20.
Benny Paret Near
Death After Losing
NEW YORK tf) — Benny (Kid)
Paret, battered senseless in losing
the world welterweight champion
ship to Emile Griffith, remained in
a coma and was reported near
death today as the New York State
Athletic Commission launched an
investigation of the bout.
Paret’s manager, Manual Al
faro, said Dr. Howard Dunbar, a
neurological specialist, told him
Paret’s chances of recovering from
brain damage were “one in 10,000.”
Paret, 25, who rose from a $2
a-day cutter in the sugar cane fields
of Cuba to a world champion, has
been in special-care unit at the
hospital.
When Paret went down in the
12th round of the nationally tele
vised fight, oxygen was administer
ed in the ring.
Then the unconscious fighter was
taken to his dressing room on a
stretcher.
Less than two hours after the
knockout, Paret was on an operat
ing table at the hospital. Surgeons
drilled four holes in his skull to re
lieve the pressure of blood clots
on both sides of his brain.
Paret took a severe beating from
Griffith before referee Ruby Gold
stein stopped the bout in 2:09 of
the 12th round.
, As Paret, his head caught be
’ tween the ropes, slid slowly to the
floor, Griffith — striving to re
gain the championship he had lost
I to Paret last Sept. 30 — blazed
away with uppercut after upper
cut.
/ Goldstein rushed in to stop it,
I and had to pull Griffith away from
the bleeding, unconscious Paret.
Alfaro criticized Goldstein for
permitting the fight to go on as
long as it did.
Goldstein, a former boxer who
has refereed many championship
fights in New York, defended his
Championship
actions.
“I felt I did the right thing in the
fight and I still think so,” he said.
‘Sometimes things don’t turn out
right afterwards. I knew Paret ais
a tough fellow. Sometimes in the
first part of a round, he doesn’t go
well.
“Then he comes out of it and
starts fighting. I thought he might
roll away from the ropes in the
12th round. A lot of fighter do
that. Also remember that this was
a world championship fight and the
champion should be given every op
portunity to keep his title.”
“Paret entered the ring in top
physical shape,” said Dr. Alexander
Schiff of the New York State
Athletic Commission. “Otherwise
the Commission never would have
permitted him to fight.”
MAKE SEVERAL CHANGES
IN ELECTION CODE
JUNEAU — The Senate today
concurred in a free Conference
Committee report recommending
that a pre-registration section be
eliminated from a bill making sev
eral changes in the Election Code.
As amended by the House, the
bill, SB6, contained a provision for
pre-registration of voters in elec
tion districts in which 3,000 or more
; ballots were cast in the preceding
; general election.
i The Senate also okehed a Con
s ference Committee recommenda
; tion that checks be permitted, along
, with “X” marks, cross-marks and
plus signs, in marking ballots.
The Senate votrt on at>oroving the
committee reonT*+ was 18-2.