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63rd Year No. 27
NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, MARCH 5, 1962
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l)iv. oi Hwys, Need s Supplemental
Appropriation of Only $2,246,893
By Ward Sims
Associated Press Sta*f Writer
JUNEAU iff) — A financial
analysis indicating the Division
of Highways actually needs a sup
plemental appropriation of only
$2,246,893 has been submitted to
Public Works Commissioner Rich
ard Downing, the Associated Press
learned today.
The Administration has asked
the Legislature for a supplemental
appropriation of $4,008,333 to
carry the state highway program
through the balance of the cur
rent fiscal year without a slow
down.
The analysis was submitted to
Downing by Deputy Public Works
Commissioner L. D. Wilson in a
letter dated March 1. Wilson was
highways chief for the State of
New Mexico before coming to
Alaska.
The $2,246,893, Wilson told
Downing, will cover funding to
match all federal funds for fiscal
19«1 and fiscal 1962, “regardless
of the fact that all such funds
will not be expended or en
cumbered. . .
II tunding is to be based on |
requirements to cover actual ex- j
penditures and eneumberances,”
Wilson said, “it will require a
supplemental appro priation of
$603,767.”
Wilson said the amount being
asked by the administration was
“considerably greater than the
amount which, from previous dis
cussions, I had understood was
actually needed.
“It was my impression that the
request was to have been an
amount around two million dol
lars, so the request for four mil
lion dollars came as quite a shock
to me.”
Wilson’s analysis became known
as the Senate’s Special Highways
Investigating Committee was pre
paring to wind up its hearings,
Chairman iR. J. McNealy had in
dicated the hearings would con
clude Friday.
In arriving at the $2,246,893
figure, Wilson said he had listed
anticipated refunds from the Bu
reau of Public (Roads in the
amount of $1,748,000 as credits to
the funding for the fiscal 1061
' 'UPHKAIIUiN HOPE"
% HOLLYWOOD <*> — It was
“Operation Hope” Sunday night
! as the movie industry — and Pres- 1
ident Kennedy — paid tribute to
Bob Hope for his tireless trips to !
entertain American servicemen. 1
The British-born comic was pre- |
sented with the Milestone Award '
at the Screen Producers Guild an- 1
nual dinner, attended by the j
Hollywood elite. 1
Seldom at a loss for words, Hope
seemed genuinely surprised by !
telephone messages from service- ^
men in Berlin, Korea, Greenland, !
Anchorage and other far-off J
places where he has entertained.
The calls were heard on loud- (
speakers by the audience of about 1
1,500. 1
The biggest surprise was the (
tape-recorded voice of President
Kennedy, who cited Hope as *
having always been generous and <
enthusistic in giving his talents.
The President mentioned Hope’s a
4 “road” pictures and said he might c
be considering a “Road to Wash- ]
ington”—“from my own experi- <
ence I can tell him it’s not the 1
easiest road to travel.” '
Kennedy added “it will give
him a chance to visit his money r
—at least what’s left of it.” I
highway program.
The latter figure would include
$1,248,000 which he said would
occur because of a change in the
matching ratio on a large portion
of 1961 fiscal year projects al
ready under contract and $500,000
which he said will be refunded
by the BPR because of savings to
the BPR trust fund.
Wilson told Downing the $603,
767 figure is based “on funding
to handle each year, instead of
funding considerably more than
we can reasonably expect to en
gineer or contract.
“I have faith that, if we should
go to the members of the Legis
lature, and show them that more
work can be contracted than was
provided for in the budget, they
will endeavor to provide the addi
tional funding needed.
“I would much prefer to do
that than to find ourselves in the
situation of having asked them to
fund all the federal funds avail
able and then be embarrassed to
admit that only half or two-thirds
of the program has been contract
ed, and find that the funds having
been lying there unused, or per
haps were diverted to some other
purpose.”
U-2 Pilot Powers
To Tell His Story
In Open Session
WASHINGTON — U-2 pilot
Francis Gary Powers will tell
his story in open session for the
first time before . the Senate
Armed Services Committee Tues
day afternoon, Chairman Richard
Russell, announced today.
Russell made the announce- :
ment after a secret briefing by
Central Intelligence Director John ]
McCone before two Senate sub- (
committees which monitor the
super-secret agency.
The Georgia senator declined 3
to give any personal evaluation of 1
McCone’s report, which was an J
account of the lengthy quizzing J
of Powers since his return to the I
United States.
But it was learned McCone told *
the subcommittees Powers had I
followed CIA instructions after c
lis plane faltered, and the CIA *
lead feels he is not to be criti- ^
nzed for what happened.
Some senators at the briefing
laid they felt Powers had been
mfairly criticized by persons not
’amiliar with the whole story, and
t would be to the advantage of
he United States and the pilot
limself to have a public account
ing.
AskpH wViAtVlAr PAurorc i o 3
rn rt- m
jible for restoration of his Air
force commission, McCone would s
:ay only “that’s a matter for die e
Vir Force to determine.” ^
Sen. John Stennis who sat in }
>n the closed meeting, told re- i!
Kirters “it seems Mr . Powers
ived up to his contract.” Stennis
leclined to elaborate.
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(late Would License Dogs r
)uteide of Municipalities e
JUNEAU UR — A bill which 1
vould require the licensing of
logs outside of municipalities or t
>olitical subdivisions was intro- i
luced in the House today by 2
teps. Edgar Baggen and Warren c
'aylor of Fairbanks. a
The fee would be 50 cents for
nale dogs and $1 for females, to
•e paid to the Dept, of Revenue.
1
Red Chinese Pilot
Defects in Mig 15
To Formosa
TAIPEI, Formosa Iff) — Lt.
Liu Cheng-Sze, a fighter pilot who
defected with his Mig-15 from
Red China, said today “the people
of the mainland are in a desper
ate condition and ready to rise
against the Communist bandits.”
It was music to the ears of Na
tionalist Chinese officers, who
have been saying the same thing
for years. Their theory is that
a major revolt, with speedy sup
port from Formosa, would topple
the Peiping regime.
Liu, 25, landed his Soviet-made
fighter at Taoyuan Saturday and
struck it rich. National China’s
scale of awards for defecting
pilots who land their Communist
planes intact rates the iMig-15 at
$35,000 in gold. Liu said, how
ever, he escaped not for a reward
but just to become a free man
and join the Nationalists in fight
ing the Communists.
The pilot spoke in Mandarin
at a 90-minute news conference
in the Nationalist Air Force head
quarters. He had a ready smile
and a buoyant manner.
Life on the mainland, he said,
is unendurable. He himself is in
good health, he said, because the
armed forces are. given prefer
ential treatment Rut
count:
The people as a whole are no'
getting enough to eat.
In the big cities, a ration in
cludes only two ounces of oil a
month, even less else where. Rice
supplies are hopelessly inadequate
and many people in the country
side are living on the leaves and
roots of trees.
Of Peiping-Moscow relations,
there is a rift 'between the Chi
nese and the Soviet Communists
ind it is widening.
BRITISH AIRLINER CRASH
rLAIMS 111 PERSONS LIVES
YAOUNDE, Cameroon UP> —
tescue parties reached the char
ed wreckage of a chartered
British airliner in a swamp near
>oula today and found all 111
ersons aboard dead. ..
It was the worst civilian crash
a history involving a single
'lane. Only one other single plane
rash, that of a U.S. Air Force
Jlobemaster in Japan in 1953,
as taken a bigger toll—129.
Witnesses said the four-engine
>C-7C seemed to make a normal
akepff for Europe in a light rain
unday night, then suddenly
lummeted into a swamp less than
ivo miles from the airport at
►ouala, largest city in the West
lirican Republic of Cammeroon.
The plane exploded on impact
nd burned fiercely.
The plane carried 101 pas
engers — among them three
hildren — enroute from South
ifrica, Rhodesia and Mozambique
) Europe. It had a crew of 10,
icluding three hostesses.
WEATHER OUTLOOK
Cloudy with light snow, blow
ig snow and fog with 20 to 30
iph winds from the east. Lowest
xpected temp, tonight 24, the
igh tomorrow 30.
In the past 24 hours: Precipita
ion .5 in, total for month 1.1
aches. Highest temp. 24, lowest
0. Max. wind 31 mph from the
ast. Sunrise at 6:56 am., sunset
t 5:32 pm.
Extremes on this date since
007: highest 84 in 1840, lowest
30 in 1822
B-58 Hustler Sets
West-East Flight
Record in 2 Hours
LOS ANGELES (A) — A B-58
streaked to New York and back in
an unofficial 4 hours and 42 min
utes today, shattering three speed
records and many windows.
The four-jet 1,300 mile an hour
bomber trailed a 40-mile-wide
sonic boom that caused alarm and
damage along the way.
The established record for the
4,900 miles was 6 hours, 46 min
utes set in 1957 by Capt. Robert
i Sweet in an RE-100 Voodo jet.
A backstop B-58, following half
an hour behind the first, did not
| complete the flight after it be
came apparent the first would set
new records.
The planes, each with a crew
of three, took off this morning
from Carswell Air Force Base,
Tex., refueled again three times:
midway east, over the Atlantic
near New York, midway west.
The feat won a Bendix Trophy
and Distinguished Flying Cross
for the crew and chalked up these
unofficial marks:
West to east, 2 hours, 1 minute
39.6 seconds. The old mark was
2 hours, 49 minutes, set last Maj
Dy JNavy L,t. Richard Gordon, th<
I last Bendix winner, in an F4I
1 Phantom II.
. 1 East to west, 2 hours and 1
minutes. The old mark was
. hours, 36 minues, set by Cap
Sweet in his 1957 flight.
Added to the total elapsed tirm
for the round trip was the 26 min
utes it took the B - 58 to turr
around and refuel over the At
lantic.
Most of the flight was at 50,
! 000 feet, so high that little dam
age resulted from the booms —
shock waves generated by com
pression of air in front of planes
traveling at supersonic speeds.
(Damage was worst in southern
California, where altitudes were
under 30,000 feet.
In Riverside, Calif., a large
plate glass window in a loan
company office was knocked out,
along with several smaller ones.
A door was blown open at a
variety store. There were scattered
reports of cracked windows and
walls in suburbs.
St. Joseph, Mo., reported wall
plaster cracks. Many communi
ties, including New York City,
reported loud booms that caused
inquiries from startled citizens.
The B-58, nicknamed the
Hustler, is America’s fastest
bomber, capable of carrying nu
clear weapons inter-continentally.
BOBBY ORDERED
TO CLEAR FUTURE
REMARKS ON TEXAS
WASHINGTON — Tongue
in cheek, Atty. Gen. Robert Ken
nedy says he has been ordered
by President Kennedy to clear
future remarks on Texas with
Vice President Lyndon Johnson,
a Texan.
On his recent world tour the
Attorney General remarked in
Indonesia that he didn’t think the
Mexican War of 1846-48 was
justifiable . Texans raised the
spectre of the Alamo and vigor
ously disagreed.
In a television interview Sun
day night the Attorney General
reported that his brother, the
President, “said that he wasn’t
going to muzzle me but from now
on all my speeches on Texas
should be cleared with the Vice
President.”
Kake and Angoon
Denied Right to
Use Fish Traps
Associated Press Special Service
WASHINGTON UP) — The Su
preme Court denied today the
right of Indians in the Alaska
villages of Kake and Angoon to
use fish traps.
At the same time the court left
undecided the right of Indians
in Metlakatla community to use
such traps.
Indians of all three villages
were permitted to continue use of
the traps until the end of the
1962 salmon fishing season.
Justice Frankfurter delivered
two lengthy opinions in deciding
appeals by the Indians. One
opinion dealt with the villages
of Kake and Angoon and in it he
declared:
“Congress has neither author
ized the use of fish traps at Kake
and Angoon nor empowered the
Secretary of the Interior to do
so.”
In the case of these two villages,
Frankfurter pointed out that their
situation differed from that nf the
Metlakatlans “in that neither
Kake nor Angoon has been pro
vided with a reservation and in
that there is no statutory au
thority under which the Secretary
[ of the Interior might permit either
village to operate fish traps con
_ trary to state law.”
«| Frankfurter’s second opinion
t I dealing with the Metlakatlans
' / said they were based on a reser
s vation and that federal authority
' was clearly preserved over the
reservation.
While the court was unanimous
on the major issues of the case,
Justice Douglas in a footnote said
he dissented from granting the
Kake and Angoon Indians per
mission to continue use of traps
until the end of the 1962 season.
GOV. EGAN PLEASED
WITH FISH TRAP RULING
JUNEAU tf) — Gov. Wm. Egan
expressed extreme pleasure today
upon learning that the U.S. Su
preme Court had ruled against
the villages of Kake and Angoon
in the fish trap case.
The governor said he was hope
ful now that the Secretary of the
Interior “will determine, in his
discretion, that for the good of
the Metlakatlans and all Alaskans
that the traps operated by the
village of IMetlakatla should also
cease operation.”
The elimination of the traps at
Angoon and Kake after the 1962
fishing season, Egan said, will
permit much better regulation of
the escapement of salmon to their
spawning streams.
FRENCH TO BOYCOTT
GENEVA DISARAMENT
CONFERENCE MARCH 14
PAMS iff! — The French gov
j eminent announced tonight it had
decided not to send representa
tives to the disarmament confer
ence starting in Geneva March 14.
Sources close to the Foreign
Ministry said the French did not
deem it possible the 18-nation
meeting could take place in an
atmosphere likely to bring about
even partial solution to the prob
lem.
The same sources said France
ardently hopes later opportunities
will be presented to have meet
ings on disarmament and other
world problems divorced from
“any spirit of polemic or propa
ganda.”