Attempt to Legislate
Qualifications For
Comm, of Education
JUNEAU UFi — A bill requiring
the State Commissioner of Educa
tion to have a master’s degree got
a mixed reception in the Senate
Friday before it was returned to
the Rules Committee by a vote of
12-7.
Sen. Nicholas Begich said he had
sponsored the bill to correct ac
tions taken last week by the State
Board of Education which, in his
opinion, downgraded qualifications
for the post.
Begich told the Senate the board
changed the regulation which re
quired the Commissioner of Edu
cation to have a master’s degree by
adding the words, “or its equival
ent in practice and experience ac
cording to the judgment of the
State Board of Education.”
He said the change in regula
tions was made by the board a
short time before it presented the
names of four persons to the gov
ernor as its recommendations for
the post of Commissioner of Edu
cation.
The post has been open since
the resignation of Dr. Theo J.
Norby last June.
“The governor has been acting
under this requirement in the ap
pointment of the last three com
missioners,” Begich said, “and I
feel it should be retained.”
Sen. W. O. Smith argued the bill
might be setting up unnecessary
restrictions.
“I think the Board of Education
and the governor certainly are in
a position to judge a man’s quali
fications,” Smith said. “A person
should be considered on his indivi
dual merit regardless of what de
grees he might have.”
In Toronto it’s illegal to sneeze
in public unless you use your
handkerchief.
UNITED STATES
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT
Fairbanks Land Office
P.O. Box 1150
Fairbanks, Alaska
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Notice is hereby given that William
Herbert Cameron of Nome, Alaska, to
gether with his witnesses W. A. Gla
vinovich and C. S. Glavinovich, both of
Nome, Alaska, has filed Application to
Purchase for his Homesite Settlement
Claim, Fairbanks Serial Number 09181
for lands described as:
Lot 1, U.S. Survey No. 3848. Alaska,
situated along the right bank of the
Nome River approximately 7,000 feet
upstream from the confluence of
Dexter Creek and Nome River con
taining 4.90 acres.
During the period of publication or
within 30 days thereafter any person,
aorporation, or association having or as
serting any adverse interest in or claim
to the tract of land or any part thereof
may file in the Fairbanks Land Office,
under oath an adverse claim setting forth
and nature and extent thereof; and such
adverse claimant shall, within 60 days
after the filing of such adverse claim,
begin action to quiet title in a court of
oompetent Jurisdiction in Alaska and
thereafter patent shall be issued in con
formity with the final decree of the
aourt.
Robert F. Hilton,
Chief, Lands Section
Pub: Jan. 14. 21, 28. Feb. 4, 11, 11.
38, March 4, 11.
Two More Ministers
Hand in Resignations
From Canadian Cabinet
OTTAWA — Trade Minister
George Hees and acting Defense
Minister Pierre Sevigny resigned
from the Canadian cabinet Satur
day, saying they cannot agree with
Prime Minister John Diefenbaker’s
defense policy.
They were the second and third
men to leave the cabinet in the
dispute over whether Canadian
forces should have nuclear war
heads for the carriers which have
been made ready for them.
The same dispute brought dowrn
Diefenbaker’s government last
week and forced new elections for
April 8. The campaign is almost
certain to have anti-U.S. over
tones, since it was a querying
statement from Washington about
Canada’s nuclear plans that set off
the whole uproar.
Hees and Sevigny made public
their separate letters of resigna
tion by handing copies to news
papermen.
Hees, 52, fourth - ranking mem
ber of the Diefenbaker cabinet, said
“our present defense policy does
not either fulfill our national com
mitments or provide for the secur
ity of our country.”
Sevigny, 45, called the govern
ment’s defense policy “ambiguous.”
Both ministers said that if the
April 8 election campaign is fought
on the defense issue alone it could
only be anti-American, and harm
ful to Canada.
Their resignations followed that
of Defense Minister Douglas Hark
ness last Monday. He said he was
convinced that Canadian forces
at home and abroad need nuclear
warheads now. Sevigny repeated in
his letter that he agrees with
Harkness.
I
Incentive for Trapping
JUNEAU — The state would
be required to pay a 10 per cent
incentive payment to persons legal
ly traping fur bearing animals
within Alaska under the terms of
a bill submitted in the Senate to
day.
The measure was introduced by
Sens. Eben Hopson, A1 Owen and
Neal Foster.
The life span of a 10-dollar bill
is about four years.
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Conflict of Interest Law
Planned For Introduction
Before State House
JUNEAU W* — Rep. Joseph
Josephson said today he plans to
introduce a “conflict of interest”
bill which would apply to all state
officials, including the judiciary
and legislature.
Josephson said the bill would
require public officials to file a
statement with the Department of
Commerce if he, or any member of
his immediate family, has a pe
cuniary interest in the outcome of
any transaction with the state, or
in any activity regulated by the
state.
Such activities would include
holdings in the field of transpor
tation, public utilities, mining, fish
and game, securities transactions,
banking, insurance and the like.
The statement would be required
for any holdings of $1,000 or more.
However, it would not be neces
sary to disclose the extent of fi
nancial interest, nor would jt be
necessary to surrender it.
“Alaska has no conflict of in
terest law now,” Josephson said,
“and actually it’s not essential for
Alaska as it exists today.
“But I think that this is the
time to get it on the books.”
Josephson said the statements
would be kept in files, open to the
public, in each of the state’s four
judicial districts.
“The statements would be very
simple,” Josephson said.
“For example, ‘my name is Rep.
Joe Doaks. I have an interest in
the Joe Doaks Helicopter Co.’
(regulated by intra-Alaska air car
riers and the Division of Air
Commerce).
Josephson said that under terms
of proposed legislation, any person
who knowingly fails to file such
a statement would be guilty of a
misdemeanor.
“It is impossible tto enjoy idling
thoroughly unless one has plenty
of work to do.”
—Jerome K. Jerome
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MY HOME IN NOME
It was a little palace
Of four square walls and strong
That kept me snug in day time
And when the nights were long.
It sat upon the permafrost
And when the ground would thaw
One end of it would gently gee
While the other end would haw.
And then the door would bind at top
And leave a crack below
To let within the icy wind
And an inch or two of snow.
The bathroom was a marvel
Of the honey bucket style;
One tarried not nor lingered long
Upon the odors vile.
The cooking stove was something
That would make a Spartan squall
For when the cake was just half baked
The oven door would fall.
The heating stove was different;
It belched a balmy breeze
That shot straight to the ceiling
And left the feet to freeze.
Level frozen drain pipes
Showed stupid plumber skill;
Any foolish woman knows
That water flows down hill.
But Yankee ingenuity
O’er this problem did not lag;
I thawed them with hot water
And an enema bag.
Aside from these few drawbacks
I’ll no aspersious cast
My palace was a haven
From the Arctic's hoary blast.
And of one thing I am certain
Wherever I may roam
There is one spot I’ll ne’er forget
And that’s my home in Nome.
— Muriel Crumrin
Debutante Offers to Plead
Guilty to Manslaughter
For Death of Her Lover
BOSTON —Suzanne Clift, 21,
accused of the fatal shooting of her
Italian-born lover, has offered to
plead guilty to manslaughter and
throw herself on the mercy of the
court.
The defendant related a story of
a blighted romance with Piero
Brentani, 27, electronics engineer.
His unclad body was found in her
Beacon Hill apartment last Octo
ber and a grand jury indicted her
on a charge of first-degree murder.
Miss Clift, a society debutante,
testified she was hopelessly in love
with Brentani for 15 months al
though he had told her he would
not marry her.
Last September, she said, a doc
tor told her she was pregnant.
“I never told him because I
knew his feelings,” she said. ‘‘He
told me if I ever became pregnant,
I would have to have an abortion.”
About the death of her lover,
Miss Clift said she did not remem
ber anything about it.
‘‘I don’t know what happened. I
don’t recall the shot,” she said in
a low, restrained voice. “I did not
feel or hear anything. The only
thing I can recall was being in the
kitchen.”
Under questioning by her attor
ney, the defendant told of trying
to kill herself by slashing her
wrists, attempting to bw sleeping
pills for the same purpose.
Since her arrest three days after
the shooting, Miss Clift, niece of
movie actor Montgomery Clift, has
undergone several psychiatric tests
by court order.
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Weather Bureau will
Make It Warmer
In Minneapolis
MINNEAPOLIS (4>C-The Minne
apolis Chamber of Commerce
wants the weather bureau to make
it warmer in Minneapolis. And the
weather bureau will see what it
can do.
Target is not the intense cold of
recent days, but location of the of
ficial thermometer which records
it.
It’s located in a depression be
tween two runways at the Minne
apolis-St. Paul airport.
And there, the weather bureau
admits, it sometimes reads 30 be
low zero.
When it’s only 18 below down
town.
KENAI BOND ISSUE PASSED
BY ONE ABSENTEE BALLOT
KENAI — Addition of a single
absentee ballot guaranteed the pas
sage last week of a $450,000 bond
issue that would permit purchase
by the city of the Kenai Power Co.
The final vote was 92 in favor and
90 against.
Two bond issues of a similar
nature were approved last Tues
day in a special election. A $100,
000 sewer bond measure passed
111 to 52 and a $200,000 water
bond issue was approved 108 to 53.
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