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HE HARDLY QUALIFIES!
Canada Opens 4,860-Mile
Trans-Canada Highway
REVELSTOKE, B.C. & — Prime
Minister John Diefenbaker, wear
ing a workman’s hard hat and
holding a ceremonial dirt tamper,
declared the Trans-Canada High
way officially open Monday in a
ceremony at the summit of Rogers
Pass, 45 miles west of Revelstoke.
The 4.860 - mile highway was
started 12 years ago, and up to
last month more than S700 million
had been spent on its construction.
Public Works Minister Edmund D.
Fulton said.
Diefenbaker called the event his
toric and said it “has brought a
renewed sense of national unity
and greatness” to Canadians.
Fulton noted the event did not
mark the completion of the high
wav but its opening to traffic
from St. Johns, Nfld., to Victoria,
B.C.
Army Spent $18 V2 Million
In Alaska Wages In 1961
FT. RICHARDSON —The Army
paid more than $1842 million in
wages to civilian employes in Al
aska in the year ending last June
30, United States Army, Alaska,
headquarters reported today.
More than SI2 million was spent
bv U S Army Support Command at
Ft. Richardson.
The year-end compilation show’
ed that the Army’s civilian payroll
in Alaska was nearly $2Vfe million
greater in fiscal 1962 than it was
the previous year.
TWO NOME BOYS TO ENTER
SHELDON JACKSON AT SITKA
Bob Oman, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Carl Oman, leaves today to enroll
in the Sheldon Jackson Junior Col
lege at Sitka. Bob intends to take
up aircraft mechanics before en
tering college.
Fred Kungesuk, the son of Mrs.
Inez Kunegsuk will be leaving on
Friday for his second year at Shel
don Jackson. Fred is studying radio
with an eye to becoming a teacher.
Humphrey Says Congress
Will Pass Bigger Pay
Bill Than Asked by JFK
SEATTLE — Congress will
; pass a bigger pay increase for feri
j oral employes than President Ken
| nedy has asked and the President
will sign the bill, Sen. Hubert
! Humphrey <D-Minn> predicted
Humphrey was an unscheduled
speaker at the biennial convention
of the American Federation of
Government Employes.
He predicted passage of the pay
raise bill in the current session
of Congress, which he said he ex
pects to end about Oct. 1. The
House Civil Service Committee has
approved a pav-raise bill and the
Senate Civil Service Committee
has completed hearings on one.
41,140 Persons Voted In
Alaska’s Recent Primary
JUNEAU H’1—Secretary of State
Hugh J. Wade said today a total
of 41.140 persons voted in the Aug.
14 primary election, compared with
a vote of 46,320 in the 1960 pri
mary.
Wade said 15,480 of the persons
voting Aug. 14 registered as Demo
crats and 9,837 registered as Re
publicans, while 15,740 did not de
clare a party preference or regis
tered as independents.
BRAD PHILLIPS NAMED
CAMPAIGN CHAIRMAN
FOR MIKE STEPOVICH
ANCHORAGE — The Stepo
vich for Governor Committee has
announced the appointment of
Brad Phillips of Anchorage as
statewide campaign chairman for
Stepovich, Republican candidate
from Fairbanks. Phillips is a mem
ber of the State Senate.
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In Favor of Special
Income Sax Rale
For Alaskans
JUNEAU t.4” — Sen. Barry Gold
wal'T said Saturday he would sup
port legislation for a special tax
rate for Alaskans, to offset the
high cost of living in the 49th
state.
Goldwater, stopping off in Ju
neau after a whirlwind, weekend
trip to Alaska, told a news confer
ence the tax concession could come
in the form of a higher exemption
on federal income taxes.
The Arizona Republican, gener
ally regarded as the leader of the
conservative element in the GOP,
said he would not consider such a
tax concession as special legisla
tion "because we’ve done the same
thing for other areas where special
problems in development existed."
Goldwater said the high cost of
transportation and high labor costs
were the major factors in the high
living expenses borne by Alaskans.
Legislation proposed to Con
gress to provide incentive pay
ments to producers of newly-mined
domestic gold is not the right ap
proach to the problems of gold
producing, Goldwater said.
"Personally,” he said, “I would
prefer legislation pennitting dom
estic producers to sell gold freely
on the world market to a subsidy
on gold.
"I don’t like the subsidy ap
proach. What would we do with
the gold after it is produced, stock
pile it?”
frnlrKvuitnr cniH thnt Kn V-wx+V-* nc
a member of the U.S. Senate and
as an officer in the Air Force Re
serve, is concerned with the lack
of fighter-interceptor strength, not
only in Alaska but throughout the
entire Air Force.
“The problem is not in the Air
Force itself,” Goldwater said, “it's
in the civilians in the Pentagon
who are placing too much confi
dence in the little black box and
the rockets it launches.
“I still think we need someone
up there with a brain. We should
be continuing the development of
interceptors and we should have a
Mach 3 (three times the speed of
soundi interceptor on the drawing
boards.”
Asked his position on legislation
which would authorize the United
States to construct two super
trawlers to help American fisher
men develop their sagging indus
try and offset the intrusion of for
eign fishing fleets into traditional
ly American fishing grounds, Gold
water said:
“I don’t think legislation of
this type is good legislation, al
though the goal is certainly a good
one. I think the whole thing should
be accomplished through loans
from available sources, including
the federal government.”
Union Label Week
JUNEAU Uf'—Gov. William A.
Egan Tuesday designated the per
iod Sept. 3-9 as “Union Label
Week” in Alaska.
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Committee Take Favorable
Action On Ilis Tin Bill
JUNEAU W1—Rep. Ralph Rivers
u:' a’d a House Interior and Insular
Affairs subcommittee today to
taka favorable action on a bill to
subsidize' the production of tin in
the United States.
The bill, authored by Rivers,
would set a floor price of $1.40 a
pound for metallic tin. The govern
ment would make up the differ
ence between the market price at
New York City on the date of
sale and the floor price.
In a wire to the Associated
Press at Juneau. Rivers said the
bill does not provide for the
stockpiling of tin.
Rivers said enactment of the
measure “should enable the re
sumption of tin mining on Seward
Peninsula in Alaska, much needed
by the people of that area for their
local economy, combined with be
ing a valuable development for
the United States.”
Rivers said he was advised by
Richard Lee, gold dredge operator
at Nome, that tin mining could
supplant the near extinct gold op
erations in northwestern Alaska.
Robert W. Redwine, represent
ing the Alaska Miners Assn., also
gave testimony supporting the bill,
Rivers said.
676 Labor Day Deaths
Is Highest Since 1951
Traffic . 500
Boating . 22
Drowning . 57
Miscellaneous . 97
Total . 676
At least 500 persons died in traf
fic accidents across the nation dur
ing the Labor Day weekend, a
record fur the three-dav holiday.
Delayed reports increased the
toll for the 78-hour period that
ended Monday midnight to well
above the previous record for the
holiday.
In addition to the 500 deaths in
traffic, another 22 fatahties oc
curred in boating accidents, 57 by
drowning and 97 in miscellaneous
accidents for an over-all total of
676, also a record for the holiday.
The traffic toll surpassed the
previous over-all record for the
holiday, set in 1951. The previous
over-all record for the holiday was
653, also set in 1951.
Fine Job Printing Ai The Nugget
Air For v Chu>0
Speculates on Fantastic
Focused-Energy Weapons
WASHINGTON eh —- Gen Cur
| tis Le May, Air Force chief o(
! staff, speculated yesterday on the
i possible development of fantastic
new “foeused-energy weapons.”
He May said energy directed by
such weapons could travel across
space at the speed of light to inter
cept and destroy hostile missiles
and missile decoys.
“If a new generation of arma
ments operating in space could
neutralize an aggressor’s intercon
tinental ballistic missiles, warfare
as we have known it would be
outmoded by the advance of tech
nology." Le May said.
Writing in Air Force Magazine,
Le May said science is still work
ing toward understanding of the
principles governing focused ener
gy—lights, heat or other energy
forms directed in a narrow, pow
erful beam.
Third Alaska Ferry
To be Named Matanuska
JUNEAU UP— Gov. William A.
Egan said Tuesday the third of
three ferries being constructed in
Seattle for use on the Southeast
Alaska Marine Highway System
will be named the Matanuska.
As its sister ships, the Taku
and Malaspina, the third ferry is
named after a glacier, located near
Mile 105 from Anchorage on the
Glenn Highway.
“Matanuska not only is a strong
name consistent with the pattern
of naming these vessels for gla
ciers,” Egan said, “but it also
brings to mind a very important
area of our state, familiar to many
non-Alaskans, and serves to point
up the state-wide benefits which
will accrue from the marine high
way system.”
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