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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
63rd Year No. 23
NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1962
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Sherard Claims
The $4 Million
Was Not Needed
JUNEAU UP) — The entire $4,
008,333 supplemental appropria
tion asked by the administration
for highways is not all needed,
former state road chief Thurman
Sherard testified against last night.
It was the third or fourth time
that Sherard made the same state
ment before the Senate’s special
Highways Investigating Commit
tee. Last night, the comment came
in answer to questions by Sens.
Howard Bradshaw and John Cog
hill.
Bradshaw brought out that the
Itepartment of Public works’ chief
fiscal officer, L. A. Woodman, had
written several memos, including
one to Sherard, pointing out the
reasons for the $4,008,333 request.
“Did you send Woodman any
correspondence disagreeing with
his figures justifying the $4,008,
333?” Bradshaw saked.
“No, not that I remember,” was
Sherard’s reply.
“The oniy reason I ask,” Brad
shaw said, “if because you say
that the entire $4 million is
not needed, you apparently do not
agree with your chief fiscal of
ficer.”
wmy million neeaea
Sherdard said Woodman advised
him verbally that only $2.3 mil
lion was actually needed and that
this was the same impression he
received during discussions of the
matter in the offices of Gov. Wm,
Egan and Public Works Commis
sioner Richard Downing.
Bradshaw previously had asked
Sherard how much time he spent
on fiscal matters, after saying
that he, Bradshaw, felt that fiscal
and budgetary matters are one of
the most important functions of
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BRITISH TO EXPLODE
NUCLEAR DEVICE IN NEVADA
LONDON iffl—The United King
dom Atomic Energy Authority
said today Britain will explode
a nuclear device underground in
Nevada during the next week or
two. The device is understood to
be a component of a nuclear war
head and the blast will be under
ground so that no radioactivity
will toe realeased. The explosion
will be in the low-kiloton range.
The blast will be Britain’s first
atomic test in four years.
House Okehs
Proposed Marriage Code
JUNEAU (£> — A proposed
comprehensive marriage code, '
compiling and making minor pro- .
cedural changes in the State’s ex
isting marriage laws, passed the
House today and was sent to the
Senate.
The measure also includes a
clause which would provide for a
report on the RH blood factor
for both parties to a proposed
marriage.
The result of the RH factor
report would be strictly advisory.
“It is worthy of note that Alas
ka, one of the last states to come
into the union, will be the first
to come out with a medical in
novation/4 Rep. Segundo Llorente
told the House.
Rep. Kenneth Garrison said the
tests would only take a few ex
tra minutes of laboratory work
after the required pre-marital
seriological tests.
“This clause could save two
or three lives in the State each
year,” Garrison said.
Khrushchev Sends Tough
Message . . . Insists on
March Summit Meeting
WASHINGTON UO — A tough
new message from Premier
Khrushchev, insisting that Presi
dent Kennedy agree to a March
summit meeting, chilled U.S.
hopes today for any kind of suc
cessful negotiations with the So
viet Union at the forthcoming
Geneva conference.
The letter, delivered to the
State Department Thursday, also
raised grave suspicion among of
ficials here that Khrushchev is
trying to use the approaching dis
armament conference as a device
to prevent Kennedy from order
ing a new series of atmospheric
nuclear tests. Officials judged
the 20-page mesage to be loaded
with propaganda.
The United States planned to
start immediate consultation with
Britain and other allies on a Ken
nedy reply to Khrushchev turn
ing down his latest summit con
ference bid. But the State De
partment informally rejected
Khrushchev’s insistent urging in
a statement Thursday night.
The statement said the U.S.
government feels that its proposal
to open disarmament talks with
foreign ministers, with the pos
sibility of a summit session later
on, “is the proper one and the
one best designed to lead to order
ly progress in the disarmament
negotiations.”
This statement undoubtedly
foreshadows the line of Kennedy’s
reply which is also expected to
express hope once again that, as
the statement said, “the Soviet
Union will agree to the joint I
United States-United Kingdom
proposal for the foreign ministers
meeting.”
Auto Licenses Will Not
Expire Until May 31
Under New Law
JUNEAU UP! — The Senate to
day completed legislative action
on a bill which makes May 31
the deadline for obtaining motor
vehicle registration license plates,
instead of the present Feb. 28.
The measure must go back to
the House for minor work and
then it will be sent along to Gov.
Egan, who submitted the bill
through the House Rules Com
mittee.
The measure will become effec
tive the day after Egan signs it.
The measure also changes the
expiration date for motor vehicle
licenses from Dec. 31 to March 1.
Paul K. Potter Named
Head of Psychiatric Clinic
JUNEAU UB — The appoint
ment of Paul K. Potter of Jeffer
sonville, Ind., as administrator of
the new Alaska Psychiatric Clinic
at Anchorage was announced yes
terday by Health and Welfare
Commissioner Paul Winsor.
The 225-bed Anchorage facility
Is scheduled to go into operation
next July.
Winsor said Potter, 46, served
for more than seven years with
the U.S. Navy and has had many
years of administrative experi
ence both in hospitals and with
the government in Guam.
He holds a masters degree in
hospital administration from
NbrthWS^f .University.
Winsor ^ttid the State is now
attempting to recruit registered
rmrsei, !|*rac.tical nurses and
nurse's aides for positions at the
Psychiatric Institute.
! Want Dispersal of
Military Installations at
Anchorage and Fairbanks
JUNEAU WP) — A resolution
asking for dispersal of military
installations around Anchorage
and Fairbanks to less populated
areas of the State was introduced
in the House today.
The dispersal was asked “in the
interests of national defense and
the protection of lives and prop
erty in Alaska’s two largest
metropolitan areas.
“The heavy concentration of
military installations in and
around Fairbanks and Anchorage
makes those two cities primary
military targets subjecting the
cities and environs and their popu
lations to devastation and de
struction,” the resolution said.
The measure requests the Alas
ka congressional delegation to
“make the necessary representa
tions to appropriate persons and
agencies of the federal govern
ment” for the dispersal of the de
fense installations involved.
NEW DRYING PROCESS . . .
LOS ANGELES UP) — Deluged
by more than 17 inches of rain
this month, the playing field of
the new Dodger Stadium was
j dried out Thursday by the blast
oi air irom a jet airplane engine.
The powerful engine, from an
F-84 fighter plane, was mounted j
on a truck. Set up deep in center
field, the engine spewed a jet
blast 300 feet toward home plate
in a fan shape.
So effective was the drying
out operation that sodding was to
begin today.
JUST SUPERFLUOUS . . .
PITTSBURGH (A — Rep. Wm.
S. Morehead, (D-Pa.), told this
little story during a speech Thurs
day.
Following a recent talk a
woman rushed up to him and said:
“Why, congressman, your speech
was superfluous, just superfluous,”
“Why, thank you,” the con
gressman replied, tongue in cheek.
“I’m thinking of having it pub
lished posthumously.”
“Oh, wonderful,” the woman
said, “and the sooner the better.”
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Eight Persons File Applications for Mineral Prospecting
Permits On 32,318 Acres of Submerged Land Off Nome
JUNEAU W — State Lands Di
rector Roscoe Bell disclosed yes
terday the Shell Oil Co. and eight
individuals have filed applica
tions for mineral prospecting per
mits on 32,318 acres of submerged
lands in Norton Sound off Nome.
Their goal: Gold.
Bell said the sudden rash of
applications was touched off by
a unique feature of Alaska’s
mining regulations.
Gov. Wm. Egan said it was
“premature to say whether the
prospecting still to come will dis
close an economically feasible
operation.
“Certainly, it is possible that
Nome’s offshore area may be
every bit as rich as the beach
and inland area which made Nome
famous at the turn of the century.
“If such is the case, techno
logical advances should now make
feasible the recovery of these
riches.”
Shell Oil Co. was the first to
file an application for a $20 min
eral prospecting permit on sub
merged lands in the Nome area.
Shell wants to explore a tract em
bracing 5,120 acres.
Eight Applicants
The eight applications are under
consideration by the Division of
Lands, the Division of Mines and
Minerals and the Department of
Fish and Game.
The individuals involved and
the acreage they have filed on
TELEGRAM
Because of its national and
statewide significance and par
ticularly to the Northwestern
District and to Nome we all
rejoice with you in the recent
announcement by Gov. Egan
of the offshore filings on the
shores of the Bering Sea. With
this new approach made pos
sible by the last Alaska Legis
lature untold wealth will be
brought to this State and nation.
It is significant that under
the New Frontiers approach
that the long-held dream of the
pioneer prospector will at last
be realised.
Pete Walsh ft John McNees
are: Frank Mate, Clear, 280 acres;
Charles S. Grove, and Clayton
Rasmussen, Anchorage, 1,318;
Lee L. Newman, Seattle, 5,120;
Z. J. Stamford, Anchorage, 5,120;
Fred Pankratz, Fairbanks, 5,120;
F. A. Meserve, Edmonds, Wn.,
5,120; Owen D. Davis, Seattle,
5,120.
It was not known immediately
whether there was any overlap
in the applications.
When the state’s mining regu
lations were adopted last summer,
provision was made for mineral
prospecting permits, a new con
cept in minerals exploration law,
and offshore mining leases.
The mineral prospecting per
mit provides for the protection of
a prospector’s rights in an ex
ploratory area if he finds work
able deposits.
In other words, a prospector
with a mineral prospecting per
mit is assured of being able to
file for a mineral lease on the
land he is exploring, without
having someone else beat him
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Diptheria Carrier
Located in Ketchikan
KETCHIKAN UP) — A diptheria
carrier has been found here and
has been placed under hospital
care, Dr. A. N. Wilson, City Health
officer announced today.
The case turned up through a
routine check made of persons
frequenting a downtown estab
lishment where another case turn
ed up about a month ago.
The latest case, definitely called
a “carrier” because the person
was not ill, was discovered by
Dr. Harold Mailer of the U.S.
Public Health Service, who was
sent here two weeks ago to try
;o track down the source of the i
iisease.
He wired Dr. Wilson from Cali
fornia today, saying that one of
the cultures he took back for ex
amination proved to be “positive.”
Dr. Wilson said there could be
more carriers but whether they
would turn up in the checks now
being made will not be known
until the work is completed.
The previous case is now in a
state of recuperation and has been
released from Ketchikan General
Hospital.
$2,050,080.36 in Bonuses
JUNEAU UP) — A check for $2,
ORH ftfiH roni'AContinfl' A1qcItq’<
share of bonuses, royalties anc
rentals received by the federa
government on public domaii
lands in the State during the las
six months of 1961, was presenter
to Gov. Egan today by T.,yle Jone:
chief of Division of Engineering
for the Bureau of Land Manage
ment at Juneau.
LIFE BEGINS AT FORTY . . .
SAN FRANCISCO UP> — Astro
laut John H. Glenn Jr., 40, was
:ongratulated Wednesday by the
10 Plus Assn, for proving spec
acularly that life begins at 40.
“We have awarded you . hon
>rary membership,” wired David
Vbrams, executive director of the
>rganization of displaced execu
ives over 40 who seek to help
;ach other get jobs.
“We know you do not need our
lervices and hope they never will
>e necessary. Feel free to call on
is at any time we may serve.”
Glenn Awarded
Distinguished
Service Medal
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. UP) —
President Kennedy gave astro
naut John H. Glenn Jr., a medal
today for his historic flight
around the world and said for the
nation, “we appreciate it.”
It was a simple but dramatic
ceremony before Hangar “S’\ the
area where the 40-year-old Ma
rine lieutenant colonel lived and
trained for his flight Tuesday
three times around the world in
four hours and 56 minutes.
Afterwards, Glenn and the
President stood before the mu
seum-bound space capsule
“Friendship 7” and Glenn told
I Kennedy of his flight, especially
the re-entry phase.
For Glenn it was an emotion
packed day, one which saw him
swipe at his eyes with a hander
chief when he was re-united with
his wife, children, parents and
in-laws
Presented Medal
In presenting Glenn the Dis
tinguished Service Medal of the
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration, Kennedy said "17
years ago tide Marines planted the
1 American flag on Mt. Suribachi
l (Iwo Jima> and . . . maybe in
i the not too distant future, Col.
1 Glenn and the Marine Corps, or
t a Navy man or an airman will
1 plant the American flag on the
!» I Moon.”
> / He gave a similar medal to
/ Robert Gilruth, Project Mercury
/ Director, and because of emotion
/ Gilruth could say little save
I “I’m very, very proud. .
In replying to the President's
I presentation, Glenn looked first
at the standing and applauding
audience. With a grin of seeming
embarrassment, he asked:: “Sit
down, please.”
Then the tanned and fit-look
ing astronaut said, “I can’t express
ray appreciation.”
Once more he said the whole
mission was the end result of a
team effort and added, “I was a
sort of figurehead for the whole
effort.”
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