THE
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
63rd Year No. 42
NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1962
Per Copy 15#
& House Okehs
Pay Raises for
State Employes
JUNEAU !#) -— The House today
gave speedy approval to bills which
would increase the salaries ol state
employes and the commissioners of
many of the major departmentts.
The state employes’ pay raise
bill, pasesd the lower chamber 34
5 without a word of debate.
The House then pasesd, by the
same vote, a bill appropriating
^iwu,uuu tu iiicei. uie expenses ox
the pay raises.
The measure grants 5 per cent
pay increases to state employes in
ranges 2 through 20. Pay increases
for the upper grades would be
handled by reclassification.
The House also gave its approval
by a vote of 34-6 to a bill, HB495,
which grants pay raises of from
$1,000 to $3,000 to five of the state
commissioners.
The salaries of the Commission
ers of Labor, Commerce, Public
Safety and Revenue would be
raised fpom $15,000 to $17,000 a
year.
The
tration
would
Commissioner of Adminis
and the Attorney General
receive a pay boost from
$17,000 to $18,000 a year. The State
Adjutant General’s pay would be
raised from $12,000 to $15,000. The
Adjutant General also receives an
allowance from the federal govern
ment.
The new position of Commission
er of mgnways would receive the
highest pay of all, $19,000 a year.
The Commissioner of the newly
created Department of Economic
Development and Planning, who
has yet to be named, would re
ceive a salary of $17,000.
Unchanged at annual salaries of
$17,000 a year would be the Com
missioners of Education, Health and
Welfare, Natural Resources, Fish
and Game and Public Works.
Under terms of the measure, the
raises will begin July 1.
Voting against the state em
ployes’ pay bill were Reps. Board
man. D. Harris, -Johnson, Long
worth, and Pratt.
Voting against the commissioners’
«ay increases were Reps. Baggen,
Baker, Binkley, Johnson, Leonard
and Pratt.
U.N. Security Council Censures
Israel For Attack on Syria
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. W —
The U.N. Security Council today
censured Israel for an attack on
Syrian territory during the night
of March 16-17.
By a vote of 10-0, the 11-nation
council adopted a U.S.-British reso
lution reaffirming a 1956 declara
tion condemning retaliatory raids
by Israel agaist her Arab neigh
bors. France abstained.
The approved resolution branded
last month’s Israel atatck “a fla
grant violation” of the council’s
previous decision. It called upon
Israel “scrupulously to refrain from
such action in the future.”
A Syrian resolution, specifically
condemning Israel and warning of
possible TJ.N. sanctions, was with
draw before the voting.
WEATHER OUTLOOK
Cloudy with snow and rain., Low
tonight 30, high tomorrow 35. In
tie last 24 hours: High of 28, low
of 15. Max. wind 24 mph from
WSW. Sunrise at 4:47 am., sunset
at 7:18 p.m. Temps, a year ago
today: High of 26, low of 17. Ex-'
tremes on this date since 1907:
ftlgh of 50 in 1940, low of >24 in
1820.
At Nenana today it was dear
the temperature was
HEAVYWEIGHT HUNSAKER
AWAKES FROM COMA,
CONDITION STILL CRITICAL
_ BLUEFIELD, W. Va. UP) — Boxei
runney Hunsaker has awakened
from a coma after a second brain
operation However a physician
warned that the heavyweight’s con
dition still was critical.
“I believe he’ll come out of it
now,” said Hunsaker’s wife, Phyllis.
Dr. E. L. Gage cautioned, “he’s
not out of the woods yet.”
Hunsaker, 30, former police chief
of Fayetteville, W. Va., suffered
the injury Friday night in a fight
at Beckley, W. Va.
Dr. Gage said Sunday night a
trend in the fighter’s condition
should develop sometime Tuesday.
Surgery was performed twice with
in 48 hours. The second operation,
performed Sunday, was prompted
by rapidly rising temperature and
blood pressure.
The fighter, after his second trip
to the operation room, emerged
from a coma into which he lapsed
after the fight with Joe Sheldon
of Cleveland. He was knocked out
in the 10th round.
As attendants wheeled him back
to his room, Hunsaker opened one
eve (the other ic hlaplr anrl «irn11or
shut), smiled at his wife and kissed
her twice, Mrs. Hunsaker said.
Wins Tax-Free $240,000
GENOA, Italy UF) — Lilians
Mirto Bicchieri, 22, wife of a ship
yard worker today won $240,0(K
on a five-cent ticket in Italy’:
state-run Agnano lottery.
The lottery was pegged to im
Agnano trotting race Sunday ir
Naples.
The money will be all hers. Italy
has no tax on winnings in the state
lotteries. .
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FRIENDSHIP 7 TO BE
DISPLAYED AT C-21
WASHINGTON W — Friendship
7, the spaceship in which Lt. Col.
John Glenn orbited the earth three
times, will go on display at the
Seattle World’s Fair about Aug. 15,
Sen. Warren Magnuson said today.
James Webb, head of the Nation
al Aeronautics and space Admhus
tration, told Magnuson the Mercury
capsule will be sent to Seattle from
Tokyo after a tour of 22 major
world capitals.
The four-month overseas tour,
arranged by the U.S. Information
tv&vuvy, win oe guinea no later
than April 15 Webb assured the
senator. The Friendship 7 will be
turned over to the Smithsonian
Institute after the fair.
Ambassador to Canada Resigns
WASHINGTON UR — The White
House announced today the resig
nation of Livingston Merchant as
U.S. Ambassador to Canda.
Assistant press secretary Andrew
Hatcher said Merchant is retiring
from the foreign service “for per
sonal reasons.”
Merchant, 58, a veteran diplomat,
has been Ambassador to Canada
since February, 1961.
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AIR FORCE LAUNCHES
SECRET SATELLITE ROCKET
POINT ARGUELLO, Calif. UP)—
A secret satellite rocket, possibly
a camera-carrying Camos, shot into
the sky today from this naval mis
sile facility. *
The Air Force said the launching
at 7:06 am. was successful but de
clined to disclose whether the
rocket’s second stage went Into
orbit.
On board in addition to secret
gear was a proton damage experi
ment, designed tP sample radiation
at high altitudes. The Air Force
refused to give details.
Four Former Top
Highway Officials
Take Job in Chile
JUNEAU UPl — Four former top
state highway officials have been
named to a six-man advisory team
which will help the South American
nation of Chile set up a highway
department.
The team will be headed by Thur
man D. Sherard, who was fired by
Gov. Wm. Egan last Jan. 25 as
Director of the Alaska State Di
vision of Highways,
Accompanying Sherard to Chile
from Alaska will be Donald R.
Roser, former state assistant high
way engineer for administration; A.
G. Gardner, former assistant state
highway engineer for operations;
and John H. Myers, former state
highway maintenance engineer.
Gardner and Roser were fired
March 22. Myers resigned April 1.
Sherard said the team will also
include two other men.
The advisory team, Sherard said,,
will actually be employed by Meis
ser Engineers, Chicago, which will
be under contract to the agency for
International Development, an arm
of the World Bank.
In setting up a highway program
for the South American country,
oneraru scuu, empnasis will oe
placed on maintenance and design
standards.
, Meisser Engineers holds a two
j year contract for the work to be
done under the direction of Sher
aid’s team, although Sherard said
Chile is actually starting a 10-year
road program.
The team will be stationed in
Santiago.
“We certainly regret ‘ leaving
Alaska,” Sherard said, “but on the
other hand we are looking forward
to the opportunity afforded by this
work.”
Sherard said the families of the
four Alaska men would accompany
them to Santiago.
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OLD NEWSBOY . . .
HAGERSTOWN, Md (A - Af
fable Ike Wilson, 77, the newsboy
old enough to be the great grand
father of the average youngster de
livering newsoaners. has made the
final round of his 28S Hagerstown
Daily Mail customers in nearby
Funkstown.
Two generations of Funkstown
resident can’t recall the Mail com
ing to their community other than
in the canvas bag slung on Ike’s
shoulder, or in the cart that he
pulled in recent years.
Ike became a newsboy at the age
of 35 after an illness forced him
to give up a job as night superin
tendent at an industrial plant.
TWO PLANES MISSING
ANCHORAGE — Bad wea
ther today is prevailing search air
craft from looking for two air
planes missing since yesterday in
western Alaska—one of them car
rying two Seventh Day Adventist
churchmen, the Civil Air Patrol
reported here.
A Piper PA22 flown by Pastor
Glenn Murphy of Dillingham is
missing on a flight from Aniak to
Unalakleet. Rev. Murphy’s passen
gers were identified as Joseph
Hansen, president of the Alaska
Mission of Seventh Day Adventists,
who lives in Anchorage^ and Joint
Tupkok of Aleknagik.
Kotzebue pilot Don Johnson, fly*
tag a Piper PA18, left Kotzebue
yesterday for Galena but never ar
rived at his destination.
The Galena CAP squadron began
a route search this morning but
Weather forced their aircraft to re
turn to Galena.
SENATE APPROVES
LICENSING OF DOGS
1
JUNEAU UP> — The Senate today
approved legislation providing for
the licensing and control of dogs
owned by persons living outside the
boundaries of cities and villages.
The measure provides that the
provisions of any dog control ordi
nance enacted by a city shall ex
tend to all area within 20 miles of
the city.
Owners of dogs not licensed by
a municipality or a political subdi
vision of the state would be re
quired to obtain a $1 license from
the state, to be affixed to a collar
on the animal.
Any dog running at large with
out a collar and tag would be con
sidered to be without owner and
would be subject to destruction by
a peace officer.
Dogs used primarily for work
purposes would be exempt from
the licensing provision of the bill,
unless allowed to run at large.
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To Negotiate Lease for
S.E. Alaska Ferry Terminal
JUNEAU UP* — Public Works
j Commissioner Richard A. Downing
left for Ottawa today to negotiate
a lease for the Southeast Alaska
Ferry System Terminal at Prince
Downing said he will meet Wed
nesday and Thursday with Gen. H.
A. Young, Canadian Deputy Min
ister of Public Works.
The Prince Rupert terminal is
scheduled to be constructed by the
Canadian federal government and
then be leased to the State of
Alaska.
SEN. MORSE ASKS C A.B. TO
RECONSIDER PROPOSED
MERGER OF AIR SERVICES
WASHINGTON UP) — Sen. Wayne
Morse, (D-Ore.), has asked the Civil
Aeronautics Board to reconsider its
recent proposal to revise the air
service set-up between Alaska and
the 48 contiguous states.
Morse made his suggestion to
board chairman Alan Boyd in a
letter made public today.
“Your proposal,” said Morse,
. accessible
only through Seattle, eliminating
Portland as one of the gateways
roe wn ataie ana tunneling all
air transport to Alaska through
Seattle.”
Morse said it seems that proposal
is discriminatory and that it would
result “in Alaska being placed, for
air service to the remainder of the
United States, at the mercy of one
airline if a merger of the Pacific
Northern and Alaska Airlines
should take place.”
“Depriving Oregonians of access
to Alaska except through the in
convenience of a stop at Seattle
would result in grave injustice to
the people of my state and would
seriously injure the commercial ties
of Oregon with Alaska,” Morse
said.
WOULD PROVIDE ONE
MORE SUPERIOR COURT JUDGE
JUNEAU MB — A bill which
would provide an additional Su
perior Court judge for the Third
Judicial District passed the House
37-1 today.
The measure, HB403, would in
crease the number of Superior
Court judges in Alaska from eight
to nine, end file number judges
in the Third Judicial District (An
chorage) from three to four.
Before final approval, the House
approved an amendment which
would postpone the addition of the
judge until Jan. 1, 1963, after the
November general election
The only negative vote
by Hep. Donald Harris, (R-:
Guerrillas Kill
Two U.S. Military
Aides in Viet Nam
SAIGON, South Viet Nam OB —
Communist guerrillas killed two
American military advisers to South
Viet Nam troops and apparently
captured two others Sunday in an
ambush near a U.S. helicopter base
360 miles north of Saigon.
The four enlisted men were am
bushed on a training mission with
Vietnamese soldiers near the town
of Chau, on the South China Sea,
U.S. military authorities said.
Reports reaching Saigon said the
four were with a group of 35
Vietnamese soldiers at a govern
ment outpost when a large Viet
Cong band attacked. One Viet
namese was also killed and four
j wounded.
The Communists withdrew 15
minutes after the raid, apparently
expecting a government air strike,
the reports said. A government re
lief force arrived too late to en
gage the guerrillas.
The ambush brought American
casualties in South Viet Nam since
last Dec. 1 to 18 killed, 2 wounded
and 3 missing. Only one of the
previous aeaa was Kinea oy me
Viet Cong. The other American,
deaths were accidental.
WOULD PERMIT STATE TO
ACT AS MARKETING AGENT
FOR MINING OPERATIONS
JUNEAU W — The Senate to
day completed legislative action on
a bill Which would pernut the
state to act as marketing agent
for mining, operations,
| The measure, HB345, creates a
mineral resource revolving fund
within the Department of Natural
Resources, which would be con
trolled by a board made up of the
Commissioners ofNatural Re
sources, Commerce and Revenue.
The board may purchase small
quantities of ore, for which there
is no other market; stockpile the
ore or minerals until a marketable
quantity is built up; and then sell
the ore.
rUUJNDATION PROGRAM
FOR STATE SUPPORT OF
SCHOOLS PASSES SENATE
JUNEAU Iff) — The State Senate
approved unanimously Saturday a
comprehensive measure creating a
foundation program for state sup
port of public schools within dis
tricts in Alaska.
The measure is a direct result of
a Ford Foundation study of Alaska
school programs, completed by a
team of professionals last fall.
Basically, the measure provides
for an equal tax effort on the part
of school districts.
As the bill came down from the
governor’s office, each school dis
trict would have been required to
provide school funds equal to an.
amount which could have bees
realized from a 4 mill levy on all
taxable real and and personal
property within the district.
The House took out the 4 mill
provision and left the exact amount
of the required tax effort up to the
next legislature.
The bill specifies that state aid
to be ftlloted under the provisions
of the legislation shall commence
July 1. 1964, providing for a transi
tional period. '
JURORS DRAWN TODAY ?
Jurors were being drawn today
for Petit Jury in Superior Court
for the Vernon Carlson case in the
matter of the Okie Pot robbery. ”