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A DOUBLE HANDFUL
Grenade Explosion Injures
Two Post Office Workers
SAN FRANCISCO UPl — U.S.
postal inspectors, sifting through
the debris of a San Francisco
airport mail room explosion, were
trying to find out yesterday who
may have sent a live hand gren
ade through the mail.
The blast occurred Monday as
postal clerk Robert Kingman, 42,
hoisted a mail bag onto the pro
cessing table.
Kingman, whose wrist was brok
en, said he set the sack on the
table “rather heavily.”
There was a blinding flash and
an explosion which knocked
Kingman to the floor and shatter
ed every window in the room.
Another clerk, David Belbow,
41, was standing 10 feet away. He
too was bowled over, suffering
lacerations of the face and chest.
Twelve of the 60 employes on
duty at the time were sent to the
hospital with minor injuries.
Kingman and Belbow were
handling mail bags that had come
in from U.S. military installations
in Korea and South Viet Nam.
Mrs. Elizabeth Evans Passes
Mrs. Elizabeth Evans, knowr
to her friends as “Scottie,” anc
widow of the late Tom Evans, diec
at the Kenny Presbyterian Homi
in Seattle on March 14.
They lived in Alaska from 190(
to 1946 where Mr. Evans wa:
■with the Alaska Road Commissioi
at Nome and Hyder. He died ix
1956.
A niece, Mrs. Ray Evans, Yaki
ma, Wn., is sole survivor.
Services were held on Marc!
17 and interment made beside hex
husband at Tahoma Cemetary ir
Yakima under direction of Hou
den-Kennedy of Seattle.
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Youth Dragged 12
Miles Beneath Sports Car
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (tf>—
A sports car struck and killed a
Charlottesville youth early yester
day and dragged his body beneath
the vehicle for 12 miles.
A witness chased the car into
Charlottesville where it was found
abandoned near the University of
Virginia campus. The body of
James Patrick Akins, 19, was re
covered from under the low-slung
auto.
A witness, Merel Durham, said
Akins, home after attending
Clemson College on a football
scholarship for a semester, and a
friend, had an accident in their
car near a restaurant-motel.
A witness, Merel Durham, said
Akins was either thrown from the
car or was getting out. The sports
car came along and struck Akins,
dragging the youth with it.
Durham said he jumped in his
car and chased the sports car into
Charlotesville at high speeds.
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Alaska’s Defense 1
Stiffened With
Nnclear Missiles
WASHINGTON UP> — Alaska’s
air defenses have been stiffened
with new faster-than-sound nu
clear-tipped missiles mounted on
Air Force interceptor planes that
guard the huge, sparsely popu
lated state.
This was disclosed Tuesday
after penetration by two Soviet re
connaissance planes over a corner
of Alaska last Thursday night
raised alarm concerning the vul
nerability of the new state, lying
close to Siberia.
Alaska members of Congress
and Gov. Wm. Egan have demand
ed federal action to give the state
better protection.
“The air defense of Alaska is
adequate,” the Defense Department
told the Associated Press.
“We are continually improving
our radar and updating aircraft
with improved air-to-air missiles
and improved radar.”
It was learned the air-to-air
missiles are advanced models of
the Falcon.
The Falcon is a slim, 7-foot-long
rocket than can be guided to its
target by radar. It carries a nu
clear warhead.
“This latest Falcon fills a vital
need in the Air Defense Command
for a nuclear defense weapon
giving safe and effective protec
tion against fast-closing, head-on
attacks by enemy supersonic
bombers.”
The advanced Falcon is mounted
on Air Force F-102s, 800-mile-an
hour jets. Eoch of the F-102 Delta
Daggers can carry two of these
missiles.
The Air Force has a single
beefed-up squadron of F-102s in
Alaska, totaling about 28 planes.
It also has a squadron of trans
port aircraft and many warning
outfits. All told, there are about
17,000 Air Force men based in
Alaska.
The Army, too, is rather thin—
a reinforced infantry battle group
of about 2,000 men and a Nike
Hercules anti-aircraft missile bat
talion at Ft. Richardson, plus a
similar force at Fairbanks.
Counting support troops, the
Army has about 13,500 men in the
nation’s biggest state, which at
one point is only about 50 miles
from Russian Siberia.
The Navy has stationed patrol
and transport planes at Kodiak,
along with four non-fighting type
ships at Kodiak and five service
vessels at Adak.
Although this adds up to a seem
ingly light force for a state cover
ing 586,400 square miles, military
authorities say it can be reinforced
quickly.
The 4th Infantry Division based
at Ft. Lewis, Wn., could be air
lifted into Alaska on short notice,
they said.
One Army National Guard In
fantry Division, its identity kept
secret, has been assigned to move
into Alaska in an emergency.
Hundreds of Air Force jets are
poised at other U.S. bases within
range of Alaska and their super
sonic peeds could get them there
swiftly. Canadian jets, part of the
U.S.-Canadian North American
Air Defense Command, also are
in position to help counter any
attack on Alaska.
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Senate Approves Final Link In the
Public School Foundation Act of 1962
JUNEAU (jF> — A bill which is
the final link in the Public School
Foundation Act of 1962 was ap
proved by the Senate Monday, on
a unanimous 17-0 vote.
The measure sets the millage
rate under the required local tax
effort provision of the Public
School Foundation program at 3.5
mills.
It will mean, if the bill ultimate
ly becomes law, that the state
will have to pick up an additional
$565,870 per year in local school
district costs.
The Senate also approved, by
a similar 17-0 vote, what was
described by the chairman of the
Senate Health, Welfare and Edu
cation Committee as another
“stop-gap” increase in the salaries
of teachers and school administra
tors.
The Public School Foundation
bill was amended before passage
to remove a provision for includ
ing allowances for school nurses
in determining a school district’s
basic school need.
The Senate retained a provision
fro the inclusion of an allowance
for special education teachers in
determining the foundation pro
gram for each district.
Under the provisions of the bill,
the local required tax effort would
amount to the money which would
be received from a 3.5 mill levy
on the true assessed valuation of all
taxable real and personal property
within the district.
The state would make up the
difference between this sum and
what has been determined to be
the district’s basic financial need
under the Public School Founda
tion program.
Under the 3.5 mill lcvey require
ment, 10 school districts would be
required to pick up more of their
own local costs than they do un
der the current state aid formula.
The Anchorage School District
would be required to pick up an
additional $61,468; Hoonah, $17,
979; Angoon, $4,858; Bristol Bay
Borough, $33,884; Craig, $9,586;
Hydaburg, $1,415; Klawock, $3,891;
Pelican, $684; Seldovia, $3,506; and
Skagway, $2,479.
The figures, compiled by the
State Department of Education,
are based on the basic need as
computed on the lesser number of
allowable or budgeted teacher
units for the 1963-1964 school year.
The Public School Foundation
program itself will not go into
effect until the 1964-1965 school
year.
The districts which would re
ceive an increase in state aid un
der the Education Department’s
computations, and the amount of
the increase, include:
Fairbanks, $61,064; Juneau -
Douglas,, $6,430; Ketchikan, $47,
953; Kodiak, $103,886; Nome,
$80,859; Palmer, $55,463; Sitka,
$55,116;
Cordova, $38,525; Haines, $6,165;
Kenai, $64,012; Petersburg, $42,
401; Seward, $46,556; and Wran
gell, $28,764;
Girdwood, $7,754; Kake, $2,673;
King Cove, $2,075; Nenana, $9,604;
North Pole, $4,284; Unalaska, $4,
070; Valdez, $29,051; and Yaku
tat, $8,975.
The teacher pay bill sets the
minimum salary for a teacher
with three year’s training and no
public school experience in Alas
ka at $4,850. An additional $150
would be paid for each year of
experience in Alaska up to a maxi
mum of four years.
Teachers with Bachelor’s De
grees would receive a basic salary
of $5,600, plus .04 times the base
for each year of experience within
Alaska, upto a maximum of eight
years.
The base salary for a teacher
with a Master’s Degree would be
$6,100, plus .04 times the base for
each year in Alaska, up to and
including 12 years.
Teachers in Southcentral Alaska
would receive an additional $400
a year and teachers in the Cen
tral and Northwest sections of the
state and that portion of South
central Alaska west of 152 degrees
west longitude would receive $700
more a year.
Teachers in state operated
schools would receive $500 over
the base.
Superintendents in schools with
an average daily membership of
less than 500 would receive a sal
ary equal to their position on the
teacher scale plus 20 per cent of
the base.
In schools with an average daily
membership of more than 500, a
superintendent would receive his
teacher scale salary plus 25 per
cent of the base.
Principals would receive their
teacher scale base plus 15 per cent
of the base, while vice principals
would get their teacher scale base
plus 10 per cent of the base.
Sen. Howard Bradshaw, chair
man of the Senate Finance Com
mittee, said the teacher pay bill
would cost an additional $1,600,000
a year.
Sen. Nicholas Begich, chairman
of the Health, Welfare and Edu
cation Committee, told the Sen
ate the bill, a Finance Committee
substitute for an executive request
measure, had the support of Gov.
Wm. Egan.
Rabbits On the Loose . . .
DOTHAN, Ala. U!) — Dothan
police were taken aback when the
man asked them to keep an eye
for two rabbits more than 6-feet
tall.
W. D. Williams explained yes
terday that they were stuffed
rabbits and someone had stolen
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