OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
64th Year No. 40
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NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1963
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Judge Hodge Denies
Support of Pinball
Machine Measure
ANCHORAGE iffi — The House
Judiciary Committee reported yes
terday that U.S. Judge Walter
• Hodge had wired his support of
the pinball machine now before
the legislature but the judge denied
here today that he had sent a wire
or taken any stand on the meas
ure.
The committee said a wire from
Hodge was among the 500 wires
received urging enactment of the
controversial bill.
Hodge said today:
“It’s definitely not true. I haven’t
made any suggestion whatever. I
would certainly never do that in
my judicial capacity. I’m not con
nected with the state and wouldn’t
interfere in legislation.”
The text of the wire alleged to
have been sent by the judge to
the committee was as follows:
“I sincerely request your sup
port of Senate Bill 179. I feel the
loss of this industry to our econ
omy would seriously effect many
small businesses.”
Other prominent Anchorage men
named as supporters of the pinball
bill, according to the Times capi
tal correspondent, are Frank Har
ris, Verne Martin, J. Vic Brown,
Roy Nigh, Perry Green, Keith Lesh
and Ken Britt.
Nigh, a former city councilman,
said he did not send a telegram
but did sign a petition in support
of the bill. Green, Britt and Brown
said they had given permission for
their names to be used on tele
grams in support of the bill. Harris
said he had sent a telegram in
support. Martin and Lesh could
not be immediately reached for
comment.
The House committee is said to
have emphasized the wire was
from Judge Walter Hodge.
Another Walter Hodge lives in
Anchorage — Walter D. Hodge —
and he said today he had sent a
wire in support of the pinball bill
to Juneau. He identified himself as
a supply officer at Elmendorf Air
Force Base.
Rambler Still Leads
In Mobil Economy Run
OMAHA (jT> — The lead still
rested with a Rambler American
piloted by Les Viland of Livonia,
Mich., as the 36 cars in the 1963
• Mobil Economy Run headed for
Chicago today on the 499.2 mile
fifth leg of the Los Angeles to
Detroit drive.
When the cars halted at Omaha
last night, Viland had an average
of 29.26 miles per gallon for his
Class C large engine compact
division entry. The day’s run was
from Cheyenne with high winds
plaguing the drivers.
Going into the Omaha-Chicago
run, the top race was between a
Ford Falcon and a Chrysler Vali
ant in the class for medium en
gine compacts. The Falcon had a
26.74 miles per gallon average and
the Valiant trailed by only .01
miles per gallon.
In the small engine compact
category, two women drivers were
waging a stiff battle and were
only .5 miles apart with Mary
Hauser, Redondo Beach, Calif.,
having a 28.71 average in her
Chevy II to lead Pat Sawyer of
Lehabra, Calif., driving a Corvair
Monza.
WEATHER OUTLOOK
k Partly cloudy with little change
in temperature. In the last 24
hours: High of 30, low of -2. Max.
wind 14 mph from the ESE. Sun
rise at 5:12 am., sunset at 7:00 pm.
U.S. Explorer 17
Expected to Collect
Information of Atmosphere
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. UR —
The Explorer 17 satellite zipped
around the globe today and within
two days its sensitive instruments
were expected to collect more in
formation about the earth’s atmo
sphere than all the knowledge
gained through the centuries.
The 410-pound ball of instru
ments vaulted skyward last night
atop a three-stage Delta rocket
and settled into an egg-shaped
orbit ranging from 150 to 570
miles high. The launching success
was the 16th straight for the re
liable Delta.
The National Aeronautics and
Space Administration reported
good quality signals were being
received from the flying laboratory
as it circled the world every 96
minutes.
HONOR GUESTS
WASHINGTON UP) — Sabra
Ellis, Alaska’s Cherry Blossom
Princess, and Jane Rosellini,
Washington’s Princess, will be
honor guests tonight at the annual
dinner dance of the Washington
State and Alaska Society.
The big night for the 52 Prin
cesses here for a week’s festi
vities will be Friday when a wheel
of fortune will be spun. When the
needle stops opposite a state or
territory, that princess will be
named queen.
EXPRESS SORROW
JUNEAU UR — A resolution ex
pressing extreme sorrow at the
death of Mike Walsh of Nome, a
pioneer Alaskan, was introduced
in the Senate today.
The measure carried a notation
that it was sponsored by all 60
members of the legislature.
Soviet Rocket Is
Heading for the Moon
MOSCOW M — The Soviets said
today Lunik 4 hurtled 134,215 miles
in the first 24 hours of its flight
toward the moon and is speeding
along on course.
A broadcast communique car
ried this progress report on the
lunar research vehicle reported
fired from an orbiting multi-stage
rocket yesterday on its 238,850
mile journey.
With speed slackening some
what after the initial boost, it was
expected to take 3V£ days from
takeoff time to. reach the area of
the moon.
Exactly what it is supposed to
do remains a Soviet secret.
The instrument - laden, 3,130
pound Lunik 4 could give the Rus
sians a big lead over the United
States in the race to land a man
on the moon. The American pro
gram, stung by three spectacular
failures last year, is far behind
schedule, but officials in Washing
ton said there is no need for
Americans to panic.
Scientists speculated that Lunik
4 is intended either to land an un
manned observation station on the
moon or orbit the moon to take
detailed photographs and to gather
other data.
Such preliminaries are indis
pensable to landing a man, and “a
big range of studies must be car
ried out before man flies there,”
wrote astrophysicist Yuri Lipsky
in Pravda today.
However, the Soviet government
gave no hint of Lunik’s mission.
Close studies of statements by
Soviet scientists who should know
turned up few clues.
U.S. Rejects Reds Charges
This Country Responsible
For Cuban Refugee Raids
WASHINGTON IjP)—The United
States rejected today Soviet
charges this country was respon
sible for two Cuban refugee raids
on Soviet ships in the area of
Cuba.
In a note delivered in Moscow,
the United States also sharply re
minded the Soviet government of
its “opposition to Soviet military
involvement in Cuba.”
By its rejection, the United
States also turned down, in effect,
a Soviet demand, in notes late last
month, that it pay damages arising
out of the two incidents.
Asserting the United States “is
in no way associated with such
attacks,” and is in fact “strongly
opposed” to them, the U.S. note
told the Soviets:
“The U.S. government is taking
every step necesasry to insure that
such attacks are not launched,
manned or equipped from U. S.
territory.”
The text of the brief note was
released by the State Department
four hours in advance of Presi
dent Kennedy’s news conference.
M. J. Walsh Funeral
To Be Held Thursday
The funeral of M. J. Walsh, who
passed away on Monday will be
held from St. Joseph’s Church on
Thursday morning at 10 o’clock
with a Requiem Mass.
Rosary will be at 7:30 p.m. Wed
nesday.
The family requests that those
wishing to contribute offerings in
his memory make contributions to
the Heart Fund, instead of flowers.
Jim Walsh arrived from Ket
chikan; Pete Walsh is expected
from Juneau, weather permitting;
Mr. and Mrs. J.R. Taylor from
Las Cruces, N.M; Norene Wills
and Kay Farley from Palo Alto,
Calif.; and Patricia Holbrook from
North Hollywood, Calif., are sched
uled to arrive today.
Pallbearers will be Geo. Bayer,
Jim Blanning, Don Lyle, Henry
Ullrich, Boyd Harwood and Mau
rice Kelliher.
Ushers are Don Hoover and Wm.
Cameron.
Acolytes are grandsons J. T.
Walsh, and Bobby Walsh, and Mike
Blanning.
Beverly Blanning will officiate
at the organ and the Rev. Lau
rence Nevue, S.J., will perform
the ceremony.
U.S. Climbers Cross
Threshold of Mt. Everest
KATMANDU, Nepal W — The
American Everest expedition
crossed the threshold of the West
ern Cwm in continuing bad weath
er yesterday and established its
advance base camp at more than
22,000 feet.
A message received here said
the weather that delayed their
original plan to reach the advance
base camp Monday persisted, but
the American mountain climbers
fought on grimly and surmounted
the obstacles.
The team’s next task is to ferry
equipment across the ice.
(Editors note: The Western
Cwm—pronounced kum—is a vast
ice bowl in the side of Everest.)
A recent study showed that most
babies arrive between 2 and 5
o’clock in the morning, the fewest
between 4 and 7 p.m.
Senate Passes
Borough Bill
JUNEAU Uf> — The Senate re
versed itself today and passed, by
an 11-9 vote, a bill which would
require eight major population
areas in the state to incorporate
as first or second class boroughs
by Jan. 1, 1964.
The bill now' goes to Gov. Egan
for his consideration.
The reversal of action yesterday,
when the bill was killed on an 11-9
vote, came on a notice of recon
sideration by Sen. W. O. Smith,
chairman of the Senate State Af
fairs Committee.
Voting for the measure today
were Sens. Begich, Bradshaw,
Bronson, Hall, Hansen, Harrison,
McNealy, Owen, Smith, Walsh and
Peratrovich.
Voting against were Sens. Ban
field, Butrovich, Coghill, Foster,
Hopson, Kilcher, Nolan, Brad Phil
lips, and Vance Phillips.
The bill provides for transitional
grants to all boroughs, patterned
after the transitional grants which
the federal government made to
Alaska upon statehood.
Cash grants would be paid to all
boroughs, whether they incorpor
ate on their own or under the pro
visions of the bill, at the rate of
$10 per voter in last November’s
general election, with a minimum
grant per borough of $25,000.
Boroughs also would be permit
ted to select 10 per cent of the
unreserved unoccupied state lands
within their boundaries, with such
(selections to be made within five
years after the land becomes avail
a Die.
The eight areas which must be
incorporated under the measure
are the election districts of Sitka,
Juneau, Palmer-Wasilla-Talkeetna,
Anchorage, Seward - Kenai - Cook
Inlet (combined) and Kodiak, and
the old election districts of Ketchi
kan and Fairbanks as they existed
prior to the 1962 apportionment.
Major military bases and the
Annette Island Indian Reservation
were excluded.
Borough boundary adjustments
however, may be made by the
Local Boundary Commission.
Debate on the bill ran for more
than an hour, before the Senate
finally got down to its second vote.
Sen. John Butrovich, R-Fair
banks, as he did yesterday, led the
opposition to the measure. Butro
vich pointed out that members of
the legislature from areas not af
fected by the bill were voting
for it.
“I don’t like the idea of some
one on the outside telling some
one on the inside what is good for
them,” Butrovich said. “Look at
Northwest Alaska, there is not a
single area there affected by this ,
measure.’
Butrovich said if the bill passed,
“I can see that the people in the •
rural areas of mv district are
going to be paying a property tax ■
very soon.
“Unless there is a property tax,
I don’t know where the money is
going to come from to support an
other layer of government.
“The areas affected by this, this
mandatory incorporation, should
be the ones to make the decision.”
Pearl Smith Buried in Kotzebue
The body of Pearl Smith, daugh
ter of Mrs. Clara Salinas of Kot
zebue, has been taken to Kotzebue
for burial, and was accompanied
by her family who had flown down
from there. Myra McDonald, sis
ter of Mrs. Salinas and aunt of
the deceased also went to Kotze
bue for the funeral.
House Approves
Regulation of Public
Utilities Within State
JUNEAU t/P — A bill providing
for the regulation of public utili
ties within the state passed the
House 31-8 today and was sent to
the Senate.
Under terms of the measure,
public utilities would be required
to be certified by the State Public
Service Commission after Jan 1
1964.
Covered under the bill are all
public utilities, public, cooperative
or otherwise. However, it specific
ally excludes municipally owned
and operated utilities, and natural
gas and oil pipelines.
The bill was sponsored by the
House Commerce Committee.
Passage of the bill came after
only brief debate.
Rep. Mike Gravel told the law
makers that the bill was “a be
ginning in the right direction for
proper regulation of utilities.
"Utilities, because of their econ
omic structure, require a monopoly
to function,” Gravel said.
“The government grants mon
opolies on state and local levels
to these utilities in order for their
efficient operation which is of
benefit to the people.
“By the same token, powers
granted to private companies also
carry responsibilities.
“The reason for this irregulation
is to see that these responsibilities
I are carried out.”
Election Results
Of the official 420 ballots cast
Tuesday, here are results of the
Annual Municipal and School
I Board Election for the City of
Nome and Nome School District:
For Mayor
Hoover, Donald M. 194
Wilke, Roscoe J. 185
Henry, Sr., Einar 38
For City Council
(Term Ending October 1963)
Reader, D. J. 347
For City Council
(Term Ending October 1964)
Karmun, Daniel K. 299
Hedreen, Keith E. 298
Frazier, Charles (.Chuck' 271
For City Clerk
Scott, Robert F. 344
For Member School Board
Wilke, Doris S. 347
For Member Utility Board
(Term Ending October 1963)
Morgan, Barrow J. 362
For Member Utility Board
(Term Ending October 1967)
Anseth, Leonard 232
Lewis, Bob 176
Proposition No. 1—2-year Mayor
Yes 294 No 118
Prop. No. 2 — 3-year Councilman
Yes 225 No. 186
Prop. No. 3—Appointed City Clerk
No 239 Yes 171
WRITE-IN VOTES
There were many write-ins in
the election, including the follow
ing:
For Mayor—Steve Andersen.
For Council—Tom Martin, Jim
West, Ruth Towner, Stan Harhut,
Carl Glavinovich, Dorothy Em
mons, Willie Brown, Edith Arnold,
Sam Ailak, Ellen Mulvihill, Jerome
Trigg, Henry Ullrich, Betty Doyle,
Tom Tungwenuk, Albert Johnson.
For City Clerk—Mary Andersen,
Blacky Olson, Myrtle Johnson, Che
Guevara.
For School Board—Dan Walsh,
Margaret Swanberg, Roy Snyder,
Jim Blanning, Paul Mandeville.
For Utility Board—Albert John
son, Peter Charley.