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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
63rd Year No. 21
NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1962
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Fish and Game Bill
Passes the House
25 to 15 Today
JUNEAU Of) — A bill which
would make the State Board of
Pish and Game the administra
tive and fiscal head of the De
partment of Fish and Game pass
ed the House, 25-15, today and
was sent along to the Senate.
It was the second so-called
Section 26 measures to receive
the approval of the lower cham
ber within the past two weeks.
A similar measure which would
give the State Board of Educa
tion full powers over the Educa
tion Department, including the
power to hire and fire the Com
missioner, was approved by the
House Feb. 7 by a vote of <27-13.
The education measure is under
consideration by the Senate
Health, Welfare and Education
Committee. The Senate State Af
fairs Committee recommended
that it “do not pass.”
The argument on the fish and
game bill today followed pretty
much the same course in vote,
and in debate.
Seven Democrats joined the
18 Republican minority bloc in
passing the measure.
Rep. Jay Hammond who was
one of the authors of the original
measure oeiore it was rewritten
by the Judiciary Committee, led
the floor fight for its passage.
“I think the most important
point is that such a board would
tend to remove the Commissioner
from political patronage, so that
a top notch professional Com
missioner could have some as
surance of continued - employ
ment.”
Rep. Frank Chapdos objected.
“This measure appears to be a
continuation of a move to tear
down the present form of gov
ernment.
“I say If you’re going to change
over to the old form of adminis
tration with boards at the head
of state departments — change
them all,” Chapados said.
Rep. Forbes Baker said that he,
and many other Republicans,
campaigned on the issue of Section
26 hoards.
“I believe that the increase in
minority party strength in this
House after the last election is
indicative that most of the people
want this type of board,” Baker
—
LIZ TAYLOR RECOVERS
FROM FOOD POISONING
'ROME (8) — Actress Elizabeth
Taylor went home today from
Salvatore Mundi Hospital. She
was rushed there Saturday night,
unconscious, after an attack of
food poisoning.
Her husband, Eddie Fisher, who
flew here Sunday from Lisbon,
drove her back to their villa.
Nurses at the hospital said she
slept restfully and had break
fast this morning. They said she
was feeling much better. The
29-year-old actress is due to go
back to work Wednesday on her
latest picture.
WEATHER OUTLOOK
Cloudy with light blowinj
snow. Easterly winds 20-30 mph
Little change in temp. In the Iasi
24 hours: High of 28, low of 2il
Max. wind 37 mph from the ENE
Sunrise at 7:42 a.m., sunset al
4:50 p.m. Temps, a year ago to
day: High of 11, low of 2. Ex
tremes on this date since 1007
High of 45 in 1034, low of -34 it
1012.
Kennedy’s Proposed
Urban Affairs Dept.
Threatened by Congress
WASHINGTON UR — Adminis
trative plans to put all Senators
and Representatives on record for
or against President Kennedy’s
Urban Affairs Department pro
posal were threatened today.
In quick succession, Senate
leaders postponed action, prob
ably until next week, and Re
publicans in the House moved to
force a vote in there first.
An adverse vote in either House
on the proposal for the new
cabinet post would kill it. Pro
ponents say they have the votes
to approve it in the Senate, but
acknowledged there is trouble in
the House. They had planned to
seek the first test in the Senate.
Kennedy has said he plans to
name Robert Weaver, present
housing chief and a Negro, to
the new cabinet post if it is cre
ated.
Do-It-Yourself Immigrant
TOKYO Wi — A do-it-yourself
immigrant saved $2,000 over a
seven-year period to build a raft
on which to drift to the United
States. Kentaro Keneko, 26, start
ed out on the raft this week, only
to be turned back after five hours
by a Japanese patrol boat. He
was held on suspicion of violating
Japanese immigration laws.
Tug Snags Submarine
NORFOLK, Va. UP) — A tug
boat snagged a submarine off the
Florida coast last week. No one
was hurt, but the submarine was
damaged.
A spokesman for the Atlantic
Fleet Submarine Force today
gave this account of the unpre
cedented incident:
The submarine Balao, based at
Key West, was cruising 110 feet
below the surface Thursday. The
ocean tug Torrent IV was towing
a barge from Houston, Tex., to
Port Everglades, Fla.
The towline streamed un
usually deep, snagged the Balao,
breaking one radar antenna and
damaging another, damaging a
masthead light and punching two
small holes in the super-structure
that supports the periscope.
Neither the tug nor the barge
was damaged, the spokesman said.
Mercury Rocket In
“Go” Condition For
Tuesday’s Launching
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. m—
A brightening weather picture
buoyed hopes today that astro
naut John H. Glenn Jr. will be
launched toward a round-the
earth orbit Tuesday after months
of delays.
At a morning briefing, Project
Mercury officials reported “gen
erally improved conditions” in
the Atlantic recovery area where
Marine Lt. Col. Glenn’s capsule
would descend.
The first half of a split two
day countdown was started at
2:30 a.m. The precount was
finished at 6 a-m., with both the
Atlas booster rocket and Friend
ship 7 spacecraft described as in
“Go” condition.
Officials were shooting for a
launch between 7:30 a.m. and
12:30 pm. Tuesday.
A complete check of the
weather was due for about mid
night tonight, after which of
ficials were to make a perliminarj
decision.
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Arizona Senator
Carl Hayden Is
First Man to Serve
50 Yrs. In Congress
WASHINGTON tf) — Sen. Carl
Hayden, who swapped his western
sheriff’s badge for a seat in Con
gress five days after Arizona be
came a state, today becomes the
first man to serve as a member
of Congress for 50 years.
The 84-year-old Democrat, third
in line of succession to the Presi
dency, was sworn into the House
of Representatives Feb. 19, 1912.
After 15 years as Arizona’s
only Representative in the House,
Hayden moved to the Senate in
1927.
Today he is dean of the Senate
and the Congress. However, he
is little known outside Washing
ton because • he resolutely shuns
publicity and rarely speaks in
public.
Hayden, attributes his congres
sional contribution to western de
velopment to a “theory I had when
Arizona was still a territory.”
“When I got here, the territory
had just become a state and it
had many problems and needs,”
he said. “I asked for committees
mat covua De most neiprui in
that regard, and I got them be
cause there was little demand
from others for them.”
Hayden, a tall, bald man who
smokes cigars, is President Pro
Tempore of the Senate, a posi
tion that goes to the member oi
the majority party who has served
the longest. This puts him third
in line to the Presidency, behind
Vice President Lyndon Johnson
and the Speaker of the House
! John McCormack.
Labor Dept. Approves
Clerical Training Program
At Fairbanks, Ketchikan
JUNEAU — The U.S. De
partment of Labor has approved
proposals for retraining programs
for unemployed persons at Ket
chikan and Fairbanks, Gov. Wm.
Egan said today.
Secretary of Labor Arthur
Goldberg authorized programs to
provide general office clerical
training to 20 persons at each of
the two schools to be established
under the Area Redevelopment
Administration program.
Goldberg said the Office of Vo
cational Education would receive
$10,082 from the Secretary of
Health, Education and Welfare
for the conducting of the Fair
banks and Ketchikan courses.
Retraining subsistence benefits
totaling $23,680—$11,840 for each
area—will be made available to
trainees during their schooling
period, Goldberg said.
The Labor Secretary said addi
tional amounts, yet to be deter
mined, also will be paid to the
State to cover the administrative
costs of the program.
TRUTH ABOUT AMERICA
LOS ANGELES — “The most
fantastic experience of my career
—the most gratifying thing I’ve
ever done,” says opera star
Dorothy Kirsten of her month
long tour of the Soviet Union
She came home Sunday, tired
but “determined to encourage
other leading opera singers to g<
to Russia on these tours.”
“It is one erf the best’ways foi
the Russian people to get the
truth about America,” Miss Kirs
ten told newsmen.
BOTH SIDES VICTORS’
IN GREAT BEAR
WAR GAMES HERE
The Nome portion of Exercise j
Great Bear ended Friday evening
at 6 p.m. with the Aggressors and
Allied forces both being victors.
Company E, 2nd Battalion, of
the Princess Patricia’s Canadian
Light Infantry was landed at
Nome Field and rapidly and ag
gressively performed their mis
sion of destroying the enemy’s
supply dump of nuclear weapons
in the vicinity of Perkinsville.
The Canadians were assisted
and guided as far as the B.P.R.
area by the 1st Scouts of the
Alaska National Guard who se
cured the route and pointed the
way to the objective.
In the end, however, since the
Canadians were inferior in fire
power it was necessary for them
to withdraw and be air-evacuated
to the larger battle area of Exer
cise Great Bear.
The Aggressors, Co. E, 1st Bat
tle Group, 23rd Infantry, has
been billited in the ANG armory
and will be air evacuated to Fort
Richardson on Tuesday morning.
Increase Polar Bear Tag
JUNEAU iff) — The non-resi
dent fee for a polar bear tag
would be increased from $150 tc
$1,500 under the provisions of i
bill submitted in the Senate to
day by Sen. Eben Hopson o
Barrow.
Auto Collision
Snuffs Out Life of
Ft. Richardson Soldier
ANCHORAGE (A) — A 25-year
old Fort Richardson soldier died
here Saturday from injuries sus
I tained in a damaging two-car
auto collision the night before.
Victim of the crash was How
ard Kearns of Co. P, 1st Battle
Group.
Also injured seriously in the
crash was Dr. Howard Romig of
Anchorage, driver of one of the
vehicles involved. Romig is being
treated at the Air Force Hospital
here and is suffering from a dis
located hip, broken ribs, lacera
tions and other injuries.
Kearns was a passenger in a
taxi cab driven by Robert K.
Wunsch of Anchorage. The two
cars collided at an intersection
on the Fort Richardson by-pass
road, just outside of Anchorage.
State Police had to break down
the door of the cab and enter
through the broken windshield
to extricate Kearns from the ve
hicle.
Wunsch is reported in satis
factory condition.
Witnesses to the crash said Dr.
Romig’s car struck the cab broad
side at the intersection. Romig
was pinned under his overturned
vehicle and only his leg was show
ing through deep snow along the
highway’s ditch.
Extend Nome Airport
JUNEAU (S) — A joint resolu
tion asking that the Nome Air
port toe extended so it will b<
able to accommodate jet aircraf
was introduced in the Senate to
day toy Sens. Pearse Walsh an<
Lester Bronson.
Money lor New Schools -
JUNEAU UR — A bill appro
i priating $350,000 for constructs
of a high school at Point Barron
' and $200,000 for a high school a
• Delta Junction was introduced to
day by Sens. George McNabb am
A1 Owen.
DeGaulIe Urges
Powers to Destroy
All Nuclear Bombs
PARIS — President Charles
De Gaulle today urged the world’s
nuclear powers to destroy all
their nuclear weapons and to join
in destruction or control of all
means of their delivery.
The French President said
France is ready to meet with the
United States, Britain and the So
viet Union in a disarmament con
ference for this purpose.
De Gaulle’s proposal was con
tained in a letter to Premier
Khrushchev, replying to the So
viet leader’s suggestion of a sum
mit conference on disarmament in
Geneva next month.
The key section of De Gaulle’s
letter said France is ready to par
ticipate with the other three
nuclear powers in negotiations
“which would have as their im
mediate objective the destruction,
the banning and the control of
the means of delivery of nuclear
weapons.”
De Gaulle ignored Khrushchev’s
proposal for a disarmament meet
ing on the summit level March 14.
Mrs. Khrushchev Appeals
t To American Women For
E Complete Disarmament
NEW YORK — Speaking
English that came through clear
ly, Nina Khrushchev appealed in
a special broadcast to American
I women for international under
/ standing and complete disarm
ament.
The Soviet Premier’s wife,
whose words were easily under
standable despite her accent,
called on Americans Sunday night
to lay down their arms and be
friends with the Soviet Union.
“War must not be allowed to
break out,” she said in her 10
minute broadcast beamed by Mos
cow radio. “This ran be done
through general disarmament un
der strict international control.”
Mrs. Khrushchev said she was
replying to American women who
had written expressing their con
cern about the danger of war,
especially a nuclear conflict.
Echoing her husband’s line, she
said governments should dump
“all weapons in to the ocean.”
She also echoed the Soviet Pre
mier’s call for opening the 18
nation disarmament conference
in Geneva March 14 at the sum
mit level.
Committee Against
Anchorage Taking Over
International Airport
JUNEAU UP) — The Senate Fed
eral (Relations Committee recom
mended today that the upper
chamber defeat a bill proposing
that the state turn Anchorage
International Airport over to the
City of Anchorage.
Three members of the commit
; tee recommended that the bill
t “do not pass.” They were chair
- man Lester Bronson, Sens. Paul
l Greimann, Sr. and Eben Hopson.
Two other members of the com
mittee Sens. B. J. Logan and
Howard Pollock did not sign the
- committee report.
l After the Federal Relations Com
ir mittee’s report was received the
t Senate sent the bill to the Fi
- nance Committee for further
1 study, at the suggestion of Sen.
IA1 Owen.