63rd Year
No. 40
NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1962
Per Copy 154
Propose Alaska
Float $15,125,000
In GO Bonds
JUNEAU <£> — The House State j
Affairs Committee today submitted J
legislation proposing that Alaska
float $15,125,000 in general obliga-1
tion bonds to finance school con-1
struetion, trunk airport construction
and capital improvements at the
University of Alaska.
The proposal was contained in
three committee bills which were
offered as substitutes for measures
sent down to the legislature by
Gov. Wm. Egan.
CSHB460, asks that $5,950,000 in
GO Bonds be floated for capital
improvements at the university.
Egan had recommended a bond is
sue of $7,200,000.
CSHB461, calls for a bond issue
of $5 million for constructing and
equipping elementary and secondary
schools. The governor had also
recommended a bond issue of $5
million. *, ,v
CSHB462, asks that $4,175,000 in
GO Bonds be sold for constructing,
equipping and improving trunk air
ports at Lower Yukon, Sarid Point,
Barrow, Sitka and Savoonga.
Egan had recommended the sale
of $3,500,000 in GO Bonds. The gov
ernor had not listed the airports
on which the bond moneys were
to be spent.
All three measures, if they are
approved by the legislature, will
have to also win the approval of
the voters in the Nov. 6 general
Election.
All three bills were assigned to
the House Finance Committee for
further consideration.
GOV. EGAN SIGNS $3,963,298
APPROPRIATION BILL FOR
DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS
JUNEAU USt — Gov. Win. Egan
lias signed into law a $3,963,298
supplemental appropriation bill for
the Department of Highways.
The highway appropriation bill,
ies money to fund the de
it’s road construction and
laintenanCe program through the
balance of fiscal 1962.
Another bill signed by the gov
ernor authorizes the establishment
of a temporary seat of state gov-,
emment if, because of attack dr
imminent attack by an enemy,
business cannot be conducted at the
normal location of the state capital.
Three Coast Guard Cutters
To Patrol Alaskan Waters
SEATTLE UR — Three Seattle,
based Coast Guard cutters will take
part in the stepped-up fisheries
patrol in the Aleutian Islands-Gulf
of Alaska area, 13th Coast Guard
District headquarters here said to
day.
The Klamath will leave here next
Tuesday and return June 10. She
will be relieved by the Winona,
jshich will return here August 1.
The Wachusett will finish out the
season until September 21.
The increased patrols were
ordered by the Bureau of Com
mercial Fisheries because of the
larger fleets of Russian and Japan
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U.S. TACKLFS JOB OF
RIDDING WORLD OF
NUCLEAR WEAPONS
GENEVA Ufi — The United
States today called on the 17-nation
Disarmament Conference to tackle
immediately the problem of ridding
the world of nuclear weapons.
U.S, Ambassador Arthur Dean
suggested the conference set up a
group of experts to study the prob
lem of demolishing all stockpiles
of mass destruction weapons.
“It is not too soon to begin this
study,” he said. “Indeed, we can
not conclude a treaty providing for
unconditional elimination of nuclear
weapons until this study has been
completed.”
Dean and Soviet delegate Val
erian Zorin clashed again on the
problem of suspending nuclear
weapons tests.
Zorin charged that the West, in
insisting on control posts in Soviet
territory, was seeking to obtain in
formation on Soviet military tar
gets. He reiterated that such inter
national enforcement arrangements
will never be allowed by the Soviet
Union. x
Dean said the Soviet nuclear tests
last autumn had taken the world
by surprise and must have been
prepared well in advance.
This is one of the reasons, he
said, why the Uinted States is not
prepared to take any Soviet test
ban pledges on trust and insists on
international control provisions.
UNEMPLOYMENT . . .
JUNEAU M — State Labor Com
missioner Gil Johnson said today
Alaska's unemployment rate dur
ing the week ending March 24 was
18.2 per cent, compared with 18.1
the previous week and 20,5 during
fie same week a year ago.
New unemployment totaled 514
aha continuing unemployment was
listed at 6,109.
Johnson said the unemployment
compensation fond balance at the
end of March was $3,823,000, a
drop of $988,000 from fie Feb. 28
balance ^
The insured unemployment rate
by area during the week ending
March 24 included Anchorage, 17.9
per cent; Fairbanks, 20.2; Juneau,
13.5; Ketchikan, 13.5; Nome, 35.8;
Petersburg, 44.9 and Sitka, 10.1.
LEGISLATURE WOULD
ADJOURN ON APRIL 11
JUNEAU — The Senate Rules
Committee yesterday introduced a
resolution, SCR36, which would
require the 1962 session of the
legislature to adjourn no later than
midnight* Pacific Standard Time,
April 11.
RENO CASINO BURNS
*
RENO UP) — Firemen cautiously
played water on the ruins of the
New Golden Hotel today and
brought in heavy equipment to
knock down shaky walls before re
suming the search for bodies.
A 10-hour fire yesterday left
only a jumble of charred wreckage
in the downtown hotel. The build
ing’s three upper floors were top
pled into the once-plush ground
floor casino.
By midmoming the list of miss
ing guests had dwindled to 12. Au
thorities feared at least three bod
ies were still hi the
debris. Seventeen
injured.
As soon as the fire was out,
ness resumed its usual hectic
at gambling palaces Just across
alley from the hotel.
The fire broke out yesterday
morning, apparently from an ex
Cf?ankbaSem‘mt b0“er °r
ALASKA AIR SERVICE
HEARING SET FOR APRIL 25
SEATTLE UP) — First move in
the Civil Aeronautics Board’s new
Alaska air service case will be a
pre-hearing conference April 25 in
Washington, D.C., Rep. Thomas
Pelly, (R-Wn.), announced yester
day.
Attorneys for the four airlines
involved, Alaska Airlines, Pacific
Northern, Northwest and Pan
American World Airways, may
agree on a: schedule of hearings at
this public session, Pelly said.
There probably will be only one
hearing in the Pacific Northwest,
at Seattle, Pelly was advised. It is
expected this will be set for some
time next fall.
The CAB has proposed that one.
or possibly two, of the four air
lines be eliminated from Alaska
service to reduce the federal gov
ernment’s multi-million dollar sub
sidy burden. Northwest and Pan
American are not subsidized. The
CAB suggested merger of Alaska
and PNA.
Gov. of Hawaii Declares
State of Food Emergency
HONOLULU UP) — Gov. Wm. F.
Quinn declared Hawaii in a state
of food emergency last night and
called on President Kennedy to
authorize military transportation
for relief.
Quinn also pleaded with both
sides of the West Coast shipping
strike to agree to unloading of
eight strikebound ships in Hone
lulu harbor.
The Matson freighters are laden
with more than 30,000 torts of food
and other items for strike-strapped
business on all the islands.
In his fourth appeal to President
Kennedy since the strike began
March 16, Quinn said there is two
weeks or less supply of 20 staple
foods.
Quinn said the state of emergency
was declared because many busi
nesses have nearly exhausted tSieir
food supplies.
ALASKA STEAM PLANNING
TRAIN-FERRY SERVICE
TO ALASKA RAILRELT
WASHINGTON <*> —Regular
train ferry service between Seattle
and the Alaska railbelt is being
planned by the Alaska Steamship
Co., Rep. Thomas Pelly (R-Wash)
said today.
The company, he said, is acquir
ing a vessel which can haul 56 rail
cars, including piggy - back and
container carriers, for regular
three-day service between Seattle
and Whittier, Alaska.
The 18-knot vessel—City of New
Orleans—has been registered under
the Liberian flag. The registry will
thus require action by Congress to
allow the ship to engage in the
domestic coastal trade, Pelly said.
A bill to achieve this was intro
duced by Pelly with the backing
of Reps. Thor Tollefson, R-Wash.,
and Ralph Rivers.
Pelly outlined the plan in a state
ment to the House along with in
troduction of the bill.
Nothing Bui Belly Aches . . .
ASHLAND, Mo. Ufi -- “It's s
pay and all you get is a
didn't haw^caiSte^ft
taiayor in yesterday’s dty electioi
according to one resident.
"Fm tired of listening to beD
aches <rf other people,” said Mayc
Lahmon Wren, adding he “wouldn
run again if they paid me.”
AUTOPSY REPORT SHOWS i
BENNY (KID) PARET DIED
FROM BRAIN BATTERING
NEW YORK W — An autopsy
report on Benny (Kid) Paret says
he died of brain battering suffered
in the Madison Square Garden ring
March 24 — and there was “no
gross evidence of old brain injury.”
Before the autopsy, there had
been speculation that Paret’s knock
out last December by Gene Full
mer, the National Boxing Assn.’s
middleweight champion, might have
contributed to Paret’s death.
The report decribed hemor
rhages in the brain caused by blows
and concussion. It also mentioned
the bronchial pneumonia that de
veloped the day before Paret died.
Seven legislators — one of them
a former professional fighter and
another a former professional
wrestler — were appointed today
to a New York State legislative
committee to investigate boxing.
The committee will investigate
whether boxing should be outlawed
in the state, or whether the state’s
boxing rules should be revised.
At Vatican City, L’Osservatore
Romano, the Vatican Daily news
paper commented editorially that
professional boxing is “an immoral
sport” that “cannot be absolved”
in Paret’s death.
AEC ESTABLISHING
TEST AREA IN PACIFIC
WASHINGTON tfV-The Atomic
Energy Commission is establishing
a testing area through a stretch of
the Pacific surrounding Christmas
Island beginning April 15, Sen.
Oren Long, (D-Hawaii), announced
today.
The area, Long said, is being j
established in preparation for tests
that may be ordered later in the
month.
Ships and planes, Long said, will
be notified to remain clear of an
area 600 miles wide and 800 miles
long. f
Long said today’s announcement
could not be considered an an
nouncement that nuclear tests ac
tually will be held, bqt is merely
^preparatory step in the event a
nuclear test is ordered.
Fake Eskimo Art . . .
OTTAWA UP) — Manufacturers
or dealers trying to sell fake Es
kimo art as the real thing may
be prosecuted. Eskimo art has hit
new heights in Canada, and fake
works have begun to pour into the
market.
Russians' Extend Thanks
WASHINGTON UP) — The Rus
sian government extended official
thanks Monday to the United States
for medical service and a hazard
ous, emergency plane flight which
saved the life on an injured Soviet
auuui. . -
The incident occurred March 17
in the Aleutian Islands. The sailor
was Boris Kozin of the tugboat
Bditelnyi CVigilant).
A statement from the Russian
Embassy said “the Embassy . . .
expressed its apprecation to the
Department of State and other ap
propriate V& authorities, as well
as to the medical personnel of St.
Paul Island and the Elmendorf
military base, for the careful at
tention and for the quick and ef
fective aid given to the injured So
viet saUor.” ' •* 1 '
- The West
21 million
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New Mayor and
Three Councilmen
Elected Tuesday
In the municipal election held
yesterday the voters elected Don
Hoover, manager of the Miners &
Merchants Bank, as Mayor and the
following Councilmen, Maurice Kel
liher, Carl Glavinovich and Robert
Harwood.
Dick Galleher was elected to
the School Board and Albert John
son the Utility Board.
All were newly elected except
Johnson, who had just completed
a two-year term.
A total of 586 votes were cast
as compared to 610 last year.
For Mayor
Hoover, Donald M._- 328; Wilke,
Roscoe J., 245.
For City Council
Kelliher, Maurice, 285: Glavin
ovichovich, Carl B., 211; Harwood,
Robert C., 208; Perkins, Donald E.,
152; Reader. D. John, 146; Larsen,
Peter E-, 141; Herman, Bob, 131;
Emmons, Mrs. Dorothy, 126; Mul
vihill, Ellen; 124; Andersen, Mary,
For City Clerk
Scott, Robert F.. 465.
For School Board
Galleher, Dick, 344; Johnson,
Grace A., 225.
For Utility Board
Johnson, Albert A., 429; Lewis,
Bob, 141.
Write-ins were:
For Mayor: Steffen Andersen, 5.
For City Clerk: Alice Hudson, 2;
Myrtle Johnson, 1; Bob Reddawdy,
1; Don Hoover. 1; Everett Bach
elder, 2; Rusty Charlie, 3; Ella Tan
ner, 11; Lois Mclver, 1; Angelo
Buffas, 1; Peter Charley, 1.
U.S. REP. RALPH RIVERS
TO SEEK RE-ELECTION
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JUNEAU WV-Rep. Ralph Rivers,
Alaska Representative in Congress
since Statehood, filed his declara
tion of candidacy for a third terra
today. Rivers is a Democrat.
A lawyer and a resident of Alas
ka for 50 of his 58 years, Rivers
becomes the first candidate to act
ually file for the state’s lone seat
in the US. House of Representa
tives.
During his time in Alaska, Rivers
has lived at Flat, Juneau and Fair
banks, his present home. He is a
1929 graduate of the University of
Washington Lav/ School.
Rivers, in the past, has served
as District Attorney for the Fourth
Judicial Division, State General
Attorney, Mayor of Fairbanks,
member of the Territorial Senate
and delegate to the State Consti
tutional Convention.
He was Alaska’s representative
elect under the Alaska-Tennessee
Plan. He is married and has two
grown children.
POST OFFICE DEPT. SEEKS 12
PCT, HIKE FOR PARCEL POST
WASHINGTON UP) — The Post
Office Department has doubled the
amount of increase in parcel post
rates it is asking the Interstate
Commerce Commission to approve.
The new request, submitted yes
terday, would raise parcel post
rates 12 percent instead of the 6 per
cent requested last January. Post
master General J. Edward Day,
noting that the law requires reve
nues to be within 4 per cent of
the cost of service, said the de
partment is losing about $122 mil
lion a year on present parcel post
rates.
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