Rep. Mahon Calls for an
End to Damaging Talk
Against U.S. Intelligence
WASHINGTON UP — The chair
man of the House Defense Appro
priations Subcommittee yesterday
demanded an end to what he said
is “outrageous and intolerable”
damage to the US. intelligence
effort from too much talking about
it.
In a House speech, Rep. Geo.
Mahon, (D-Tex.), said too many
people, in Congress and in the
executive branch of government,
have been talking publicly about
“matters which should only be
discussed behind closed doors.”
Mahon said the President, the
Vice President and the Speaker
of the House should undertake to
“coordinate a course of action for
the purpose of halting the rapid
erosion of our national intelli
gence effort.”
“There is an intelligence gap,”
he said, and it is “in the intelli
gence of those who are daily re
vealing the secrets of the intelli
gence operations of the United
States government.”
Beautiful to Look at . . .
NEW YORK (iP — Taxi driver
Harry Kuester picked up a man
about 2 ajn. in the Bronx and
drove him about eight blocks Wed
nesday.
The passenger, smartly dressed
in a camel’s hair coat and gray
fedora, handed Kuester what the
latter thought was a $10 bill for
the 40-cent ride.
The passenger left the cab with
out waiting for change.
“I called him back, telling him
he had change coming,” said
Kuester.
The man waved his hand and
told him to keep the change, Kues
ter said.
Later, Kuester, 45, discovered it
was a $1,000 bill.
He discussed the situation with
his wife, Elsie, thought it over
all day, telephoned his mother.
“We decided to go to the police,”
Kuester said.
Police will check to determine
whether it is part of the proceeds
from a crime. If not, and if no
one claims it, it will be returned
to Kuester, who has three children.
After he turned over the bill,
he said:
“It was the most beautiful thi ig
I ever saw.”
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They Got Their Polar
Bear the Hard Way
ANCHORAGE OP — Mr. and
Mrs. Harold Paddock of Anchor
age, who sold their furniture store
and decided to go polar bear hunt
ing, got their bear the hard way.
The Paddocks, each accom
panied by an experienced pilot
guide, were rescued Wednesday
from separate ice floes in the
Chukchi Sea.
Their planes had been forced
down Monday by bad weather and
a short fuel supply.
Although their pilots, Ralph
Marshall and W. T. Ellis, were
able to get occasional raido mes
sages out, they couldn’t tell search
ers on the mainland where they
were. They didn’t know.
They were all on one ice floe
to begin with, but got split up
when Marshall and Mrs. Paddock
took off Tuesday in an effort to
get high enough so the searchers
could fix their location by radar.
He lost sight of Ellis and Paddock
and landed on another floe.
Civil Air Patrol pilots from
Kotzebue, on Alaska’s northwest
coast, finally found the quartet.
They were reported in good
condition at Kotzebue, although
Mrs. Paddock had minor frostbite.
Oh, yes—the bear they bagged
was a 10-footer.
Ketchikan Police
Discard Ticketing Dogs
KETCHIKAN UP) — Ketchikan’s
police chief, Henry Miller, an
nounced Thursday that his men
will no longer issue tickets to stray
dogs.
He declared that the errant dog
problem is getting out of hand
again and that the ticket program
announced several months ago had
l proven inadequate to meet the
■challenge. Miller even indicated
that some ticketed dogs may have
deliberately thrown their tickets
away and not taken the n to their
masters.
In any event, Rover’s mastei
wasn’t getting the word.
Now, says Miller, he has in
structed his men in blue to lug
each pooch home and to personally
serve upon its owner a summons
to appear in court. The fine will be
$25 for allowing animals to run
unchecked.
Dogs without licenses will be
destroyed, said Miller, for he has
no kennels in which to boaid
them.
A 20-Second Break . . .
GRAYS, England UP) — Mrs.
Daisy Ansel!, a fisherman’s wife,
put down her knitting for 20
seconds and filled in a penny line
on a soccer pool. It won her
$162,069.
“I know nothing about soccer,”
Mrs. Ansell said when she learned
of her bonanza.
“But my husband, Percy, was
filling in the coupon and asked
me to do a line. I was busy knit
ting and stopped for 20 seconds—
just time to fill it in.”
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Alaska’s Revenue
Over-Estimated
By $6,360,000
JUNEAU — The State De
partment of Natural Resources
told the Joint Finance Committee
Wednesday its revenue estimates
for fiscal 1963 and 1964 were high
by a total of more than $6,360,000.
The net result will be a reduc
tion by that amount in the estimate
given the legislature by Gov. Wm.
Egan in his budget message of the
anticipated general fund balance
as of June 30, 1964.
Egan has estimated the general
fund balance on that date as $15,
425,816, based on revenue esti
mates submitted by state agen
cies last November and the amount
of state expenditures in his pro
posed budget for fiscal 1964.
Natural Resources Commissioner
Phil Holdsworth said the over
estimate resulted because of the
inability to estimate accurately
the total amount of funds to be
received from federal oil, gas and
coal leases in Alaska.
The state receives 90 per cent
of these funds.
For fiscal 1963, the Natural Re
sources Department’s Division of
Lands estimated revenues from
this sources at $11,629,646. Actual
receipts, Director Roscoe Bell told
the committee, tourned out to be
only $8,572,663.
Bell attributed the over-estimate
to unforeseen cancellations of oil,
gas and coal leases on some 1,750,
000 acres of federal land during
the last six months of 1962.
“We can’t forecast these can
cellations,” Bell said. “In the past,
new federal leases have offset
losses from cancellations of old
leases.
“It didn’t happen that way this
year.”
Bell said the division, estimating
that one-half of the federal leases
coming up for an increase in fees
this year will be dropped, revised
its revenue estimate for fiscal 1964
from this sources.
Last November, the division esti
mated fiscal 1964 revenues from
the state’s share of federal oil, gas
and coal leases would be $11,531,
366. The new estimate is $8,228,000.
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Raining Paint . . .
HALEDON, N.J. UP — A dozen
homes and 18 cars received a
quick and splotchy paint job—
color red—Wednesday when a
kettle of paint in a nearby indus
trial plant popped its top.
It was raining at the time, and
between the rain and quick hose
work by firemen most of the paint
was washed off before it could
set.
An official of Allied Chemical
Corporation’s Harmon Colors plant
said a safety disc, designed to
open at 88 pounds pressure, opened
instead at 42 pounds. The bright
red paint spewed up and out
through a vent pipe.
There were not injuries.
Police said the paint gushed
about 200 feet into the air and
was carried by the wind across the
houses and cars.
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By Tom Martin,
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With the races and winter car
nival fast approaching the Arctic
Club Board met to discuss the last
minute details. It was decided to
hold an Arctic Club party on
March 16 where all members can
discuss the appointed committees.
Your hosts will be Barb and Tom
Martin, Johnnie and Bob Reardon,
Mary Honsberger, Pauline and Hap
Eberle, Pearl and Werner Bohrer
and Barry Powers.
A meeting will be called in the
near future and all committees
assigned to games of chance at the
carnival, also race judges, time
keepers and officials. Any person
wishing to exchange committees
must do so no later than the 16th.
Ellen, at M’Lord & Ladys Shop,
reports that the first entry is in
for the kids race. The Arctic
Club tickets for $500 in merchan
dise are now being sold. Approxi
mately 95 per cent of the money
collected by the Arctic Club is
spent in Nome by the raffle and
race winners. Both race days brings
hundreds of people downtown and
a few from out of town. More
out of town people come every
year, so help make this the high
light of Nome’s winter season.
The committee urges that don’t
leave it to just a few, but many
people give time as well as fi
nancial support.
Boyd Harwood Will
Attend Security Seminar
FORT RICHARDSON — Seven
members of the U.S. Army, Alaska,
Civilian Advisory Committee from
other Alaskan cities will attend
the National Security Seminar in
Anchorage next week as guests of
Maj. Gen. Ned Moore, Command
ing General of USARAL.
Coming from Fairbanks for the
seminar will be Arthur Sexauer,
John Griffin, Arthur Hayr and
Vernon Forbes. Other committee
members to attend are Lauris
Parker of Juneau, Boyd Harwood
of Nome and R. M. Jones of Pal
mer.
The National Security Seminar
is a three-day briefing conducted
by officers from the Industrial
College of the armed forces.
Anchorage is one of the pilot
! cities selected this year for the
special short course. The seminar
in the past has been a two-week
course.
The seminar is being held in
the Sydney Lawrence Auditorium
next Monday, Tuesday and Wed
nesday.
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