House Committee Issues
$300 Million Cut in Funds
For Labor and Education
WASHINGTON — A $309,
501.000 cut in new funds for the
Labor Department and the De
partment of Health, Education and
Welfare was recommended yes
terday by the House Appropria
tions Committee.
Not even the usually untouched
national institutes of health were
spared from the committee’s prun
ing in a $5,449,988,000 bill sent to
the House floor for action next
week. The institutes were allotted
$962,454,000, a cut of $18 million
from what President Kennedy re
quested, but an increase of $70,
146.000 over what the institutes
got for the current fiscal year.
The over-all funds recommend
ed for use of the two departments
and several miscellaneous agencies
for the fiscal year starting July 1
were almost 6 per cent less than
the President requested. If ap
proved by Congress, the agencies
would have $118,810,000 less than
they had this year.
The largest cut was a 10 per
cent paring of the $427,220,000 re
quested for the Labor Department.
Even with the reduction, the de
partment would have $24,430,450
more than it had this year.
The Department of Health, Edu
cation and Welfare was granted
$5,035,549,000, a cut of $265,765,000
from the request and a reduction
of $144,627,600 from current year
appropriations.
Jack McFarland Resigns
As Director of Elections
JUNEAU UP — The resignation
of Jack McFarland, the State Di
rector of Elections for the past
year, effective May 1, was an
nounced Thursday by Secretary
of State Hugh Wade.
In his letter of resignation, Mc
Farland said he was quitting the
state job to take up commercial
fishing.
A resident of Alaska since 1951,
McFarland was hired as the state’s
elections chief while teaching
school at Kodiak. He is a former
part-owner and editor of the old
Juneau Independent, a weekly.
Wade said he did not plan to
name a successor to McFarland
until after the start of the 1964
fiscal year July 1.
U of California Students Vote
To Allow Communists to Speak
BERKELEY, Calif, <*> — Stu
dents of the University of Cali
fornia at Berkeley voted 2*947 to
847 Wednesday to allow Commu
nists to speak on campus.
The referendum was in the
form of a request asking the uni
versity regents to remove the ban
which forbids Communists to ap
pear at college-sponsored events.
OUR SAVIOR'S
LUTHERAN CHURCH
5th and Bering Si.
Reynold F. Wilson, Pastor
SATURDAY
Sr. Luther League 7:30 pan.
SUNDAY
Sunday School 9:45 a on.
Morning Worship 11:00 a.a.
Hi Luther League Committee
2:30 pan.
Evening Service, 7:30 pm.
TUESDAY
Jr. Hi Luther League 7:00 pan.
WEDNESDAY
Mid-Week Meeting
and Prayer 7:30 p.m.
Port Whittier Military
Property Up for Disposal
WASHINGTON liP> — A House
Armed Services Subcommittee ap
proved Thursday to dispose of a
number of military properties, in
cluding part of Port Whittier,
Alaska, valued at $28,606,219.
The Alaska property is 60 miles
southeast of Anchorage.
If no objections are received
within 30 days, the Armed Services
Committee will refer the disposal
plans to the General Services Ad
ministration to check whether any
governmental agency is interested
in the properties. If not, they will
be put up for general sale.
The Senate Armed Services
Committee last month approved
disposal of the properties.
CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERS
MEET IN ANCHORAGE
Construction engineers of the
Alaska District, U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers, attended an annual
resident engineer meeting at An
chorage on April 22 and 23.
Col. Kenneth Sawyer, Alaska
District Engineer, opened the ses
sion, concerned with the discus
sion of mutual construction prob
lems.
Attending resident engineers
were: Lt. Col. Byron Kirkpatrick,
Fairbanks; Carl Eilertson, Fort
Greely; Maj. Manley Rogers, An
chorage; William Brown, Nome;
and Clifford Fenn, Juneau.
BABY "X" HAS A HOME
DALLAS, Tex. (£*> — What ever
happened to Baby X, found aban
doned and barely alive alongside a
Dallas street last Jan. 8?
The infant won a battle with
pneumonia but his identity never
was established.
Wendesday George Looney, Di
rector of the County Juvenile De
partment, said the infant is being
adopted by a Dallas couple.
The baby’s new name and
the identity of his parents will
not be made public.
TWO TRACTS OF LAND
SIGNED OVER TO ALASKA
WASHINGTON UP — Two tracts
of land selected by Alaska as part
of its Statehood Land Grant are
to be signed over to the state by
the Interior Department this week,
it was announced yesterday.
The office of Sen. Ernest Gruen
ing said the tracts are 245 acres
at Kaltag to be used for an air
port, and 58 acres to expand the
International Airport at Fairbanks.
Moscow Warns Japan If Has
Become U.S. Base for Aggression
TOKYO UP) — Moscow radio
warned Japan last night it has
become “America’s base for ag
gression” in Southeast Asia.
A broadcast monitored here said
this makes Japan a co-conspirator
in activities toward increasing ten
sion in the area. The reference
was to the current crisis in Laos.
About 50,000 American service
men are stationed in Japan. U.S.
7th Fleet ships use Japanese ports.
Community Church
METHODIST
SUNDAY. APRIL 28
Church School 10 a.m.
Divine Worship 11 a.m.
Rev. Arthur French, preaching
Evening Service 7:30
"Barabbas, The Robber."
Inspiring Movie
Howard DeVore, Pastor
Phone 2865
Miners & Merchants Bank of Alaska
"The Friendly Bank"
FULL BANKING SERVICES
To Northwestern Alaska Since 1904
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Woman, Blind
Since Infancy,
Regains Sight at 60
MIAMI, Fla. (iP — Since she was
9 weeks old, Miss Bessie Sikes
has been virtually blind. Suddenly,
at 60, she has regained her sight.
“I think it’s just a freak, a
wonderful, amazing freak,” Miss
Sikes said. “I don’t know how
long it will last. Maybe a few
days. Maybe a year. Maybe for
ever.
For 60 years her only sight was
one per cent vision in her right
eye. She could tell night from
day; nothing more.
A few minutes after 8 o’clock
Sunday morning, still wearing her
nightgown, she walked into the
kitchen, drank a glass of water,
and casually rubbed her eye be
cause it seemed moist.
Suddenly she saw something—
the floor.
She fell to her knees and ran
her hands across the smooth lino
leum, streaked green in design.
Bessie Sikes had never seen the
color before. She didn’t know
what it was.
“I thought I’d gone crazy. My
crazy left eye was going around
and around, it wouldn’t stop.” she
recalled.
She rose, and there was a white
refrigerator. “Big as a house,” she
said Wednesday.
Trembling with disbelief, she
went to the window, and for the
first time in memory she saw a
blue sky, tops of two palm trees, a
chimney. Nothing was perfectly
distinct, but see she could.
“A little glimpse of heaven,” she
called it.
The next morning she was in the
office of an ophthalmologist who
had known her for 25 years
“Amazing, amazing,” she quotec3
him.
The doctor, who insisted or
anonymity, described her Ion'
blindness as choriortinitis, infla
mation of the retina writh a mem
branous coat over the eye. Ap
parently Miss Sikes developed the
condition when she had a spina!
meningitis as a baby.
Somehow a cataract became dis
located, the doctor said, and the
vision of the eye had not been de
stroyed. So now she can see
through a dislocated lens, her doc
tor said.
ALASKA AIRLINES DELIVERS
TWO PLANES TO GUINEA
SEATTLE UP) — Alaska Airlines
has delivered a DC-4 and a Lock
heed Model 60 to the Independent
Republic of Guinea, West Africa,
the line announced yesterday.
Charles Willis Jr., airline presi
dent, said this was the first step
in a contract calling for the Seattle
based carrier to furnish Guinea
with training, equipment and tech
nical assistance required to es
tablish an air line.
The line is called Air-Guinea.
Willis said. Six Guinean pilots,
who completed flight training here
and are returning to Africa with
the DC-4.
Fine Job Printing at the Nugget
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Kaiser Steel Workers
Will Get Bonus of $80 Per
Man in New Labor Plan
~ WASHINGTON Nearly
4,000 employers of the Kaiser
Steel Corp. will get a bonus of
about $80 a man, ore some 45
cents an hour, in the first monthly
cost savings distribution under
Kaiser’s unique new labor plan.
Word of the initial distribution
has been eagerly awaited in steel
industry quarters because of the
possibility that the AFL-CIO
Steelworkers Union may urge such
a plan for the rest of the industry.
The plan gives to workers each
month about a third of the cost
savings realized over Kaiser’s 1961
cost level. It also guarantees con
tinued jobs despite automation
effects.
Kaiser announced that during
March, first month of the effective
operation of the plan, cost savings
amounted to $962,000 and the
workers share will be $312,000 for
3,930 employes.
This figures out roughly to about
$80 a man for the month, or about
45 cents an hour.
NOME
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(Living Costs Edge Up
In March to New Record
WASHINGTON <*) — Living
costs edged up one-tenth of one
per cent in March to a record.
Higher costs of used cars,
clothing and home ownership
items, principally real estate taxes
and water rates, boosted the Laoor
Department's Consumer Price In
dex to 106.2 per cent of the 1957
59 average.
The old high of 106.1 in the in
dex was reached last September
and also stood at that level in
February.
While establishing a living cost
peak, the March rise was so slight
in practical effect on the house
holder budget as to be almost in
significant. It means that it cost
$10.62 in March to buy the same
goods and services that cost $10.61
in February.
Arnold Chase, Labor Department
price expert, told newsmen that
he expects the recent selective
steel price increases will have a
very minor effect on living cost
levels. He said items containing
steel figure as only a fraction of
those measured in computing the
government living cost index.
But if other industries follow
steel’s lead and also raise prices
the effect at the consumer level
1 would be significant, Chase im
plied.
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FAIRBANKS — NOME — KOTZEBUE
Flight 311/312
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
Lv. Fairbanks *8:00 a.m. Ar. Nome 9:05 a.rn.
Lv. Nome 10:00 a.m. Ar. Kotezbue 10:50 a.m.
Lv. Kotzebue 11:20 a.m. Ar. Fairbanks *2:10 p.m.
Flight 309/310
Monday, Wednesday and Friday
Lv. Fairbanks *8:00 a.m. Ar. Kotzebue 8:40 a.m.
Lv. Kotzebue 9:20 a.m. Ar. Nome 10:05 a.m.
Lv. Nome 1:05 p.m. Ar. Fairbanks *4:10 p.m.
In order to maintain a scheduled airline and conform to our
departure limes it is imperative that passengers check in at the
terminal one hour before departure time:
On Monday, Wednesday and Friday, check-in time is 12 neen.
On Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, check-in time is 9:00 am.
NOME — N.E. CAPE
Flight 501/502
Monday, Wednesday and Friday
Lv. Nome
10:50 a.m.
Ar. Nome
12:20 p.m.
Lv. N.E. Cape 11:50 p.m. Ar. N.E. Cape 11:20 a.m.
NOME — GAMBELL
Flight 509/510
Monday and Friday
Lv. Nome
9:00 a.m.
Ar. Gambell 10:20 a.m.
Lv. Gambell 11:00 a.m. Ar. Nome 12:20 p.m.
* Alaska Standard Time. All other times Bering Standard
For Information Call:
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