NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
64th Year No. 124
NOME, ALASKA, Alaska Day, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1963
Per Copy ] 5£
State Chamber
Fold ‘’Get Together
And Chart Course’
JUNEAU UP*—1The State of Alas
ka has had enough studies on
means to achieve economic devel
opment, the vice president of a
San Francisco management con
sultant firm told the State Cham
ber of Commerce today
Speaking before the Chamber’s
Fourth Annual Meeting, Gordon
Smith of Booz, Allen & Hamilton
said that what is needed now are
clear objectives for the future, ef
fective leadership and motiva
tion.
“There is a tremendous need
for cooperation between all agen
cies, government and private, in
terested in economic develop
ment, Smith said.
He said efforts to achieve eco
nomic development have been
marked, to some extent, by con
fusion and indecision.
While he said he did not in
tend to be critical, Smith said
there was a desperate need for
Alaskans not only to recognize
their problems but also to realize
that they cannot be solved over
night.
iiicijwi lie: cuu"
merated were small population in
relation to the size of the state,
high unemployment, high cost of
production and high government
employment.
Smith said one of the reasons
the state had failed thus far in
attracting large capital invest
ments is because “ there is not a
sufficiently imaginative effort on
the part of Alaskans to attract in
vestment capital.
“If Alaskans do not exhibit
greater internal pride,” Smith
said, “Alaska’s image on the out
side will be impaired.’
PEACE CORPS EXAMINATIONS
will be given on Saturday, Oct.
19, at 8:30 a.m. in Room 120 of
the Federal Building.
To qualify applicants must be at
least 18 years of age and a U.S.
citizen. Applicants are requested
to be in the testing room by 8:20
a.m. For more information call
Helen Doyle, 443-2525, after 5 p.m.
tonight.
The AVIK and barge arrived in
Nome at 2:30 a.m. on Thursday.
She discharged her cargo and has
laid up in the Snake River slough
for the winter. The AVIK belongs
to the B & R Tug and Barge Com
pany in Kotzebue.
— O-O-P-S ' —
In Wednesdays paper we an
nounced that the Thursday night
Halloween party, in the Multi
Purpose Room, was for the enter
tainment of pre-school children.
This should have read pre-high
school children.
Mary Honsberger Gives
Beta Sig Report
A detailed report of the state
wide Beta Sigma Phi convention
held recently in Anchorage was
given to Xi Kappa chapter at its
regular meeting by Mary Hons
berger. In addition to telling the
Nome members of the full conven
tion schedule, she shared the sou
venir contents of a tote bag which
each delegate received. The bags
were made up by Anchorage soror
ity members and depicted the “in
ternational” theme of the conven
tion.
Beta Sigma Phi chapters are ac
tive in countries all over the west
ern world and each bag featured
an individual figure in native cos
tume representing one of the coun
tries.
Xi Kappa members participated
in a study program entitled “Pub
lice Speaking” as prepared by Ruth
McLean. Co-hostesses for the meet
ing and a social hour afterwards
were Beverly Morgan and Beverly
Blanning.
A co-ordinating committee has
been formed to cover activities
which Xi Kappa and Kappa chap
ters will share during the coming
year. The committee consists of
Agnes Walsh and Ruth McLean,
presidents; Carol Farley and Bev
erly Morgan, social chairmen;
Sharon Harwood and Beverly
Blanning, service chairmen; and
Janette Kelley and Mildred Har
wood, ways and- means chairmen.
Plans for the next two months
include a rummage sale, Thanks
giving baskets and the annual
Christmas party.
CHAMBER DIRECTORS PICK
NOME FOR MEETING SITE
Senator Pearse Walsh, Nome
representative at the State Cham
ber of Commerce Convention held
in Juneau, reports that the regu
lar directors meeting will be held
in Nome sometime in late April.
The next annual meeting of the
chamber as a whole will meet in
Fairbanks next year.
SOLICIT COINS FOR
TWO LOCAL PROJECTS
Golden painted cans are being
distributed throughout the various
business establishments in Nome.
These cans, about 12 in number,
are for the collection of donations
to the Nome Chamber of Com
merce. The money contributed will
be used to further two projects:
The collection of mining day relics
to be placed in Nome proper, and
the continued effort to plug for
the Nome to Fairbanks road.
— Errata —
Wednesday’s paper neglected to
report that Joe Waterman was in
cluded in the ‘'Louis Green Com
bo.” This was unfortunate, as we
understand he did a BANG UP
JOB on the drums, and with his
singing.
Hayes Opinion
Anchors Scott in
City Clerk Seat
JUNEAU UP — Provisions of
Alaska law calling for the filing
of declarations of candidacy by
persons seeking municipal office
do not prohibit write-in votes,
Attv. Gen. George N. Hayes said
yesterday.
“A qualified person receiving a
sufficient number of votes is elec
ted whether his name is printed on
the ballot or not,” Hayes said in
an opinion written for Thomas
Balone, City Attorney for Nome.
“A person elected to public of
fice must have certain qualifica
tions,” Hayes said.
“This is so whether he is a de
clared candidate, who files his dec
laration and whose name appears
on the ballot, or whether he is
elected without having formally
filed his declaration.
“A formal declaration of candi
dacy is neither a qualification nor
a prerequisite to public office.”
In Nome’s Oct. 1 municipal elec
tion, Balone had ruled that 245
writein votes received by Robert
Scott for the office of City Clerk
were invalid because he had not
filed a declaration of candidacy.
Scott received more votes than
Chuck Frazier, whose name was
the only one appearing on the
ballot for the office of City Clerk.
Frazier received 206 votes.
Icebreaker Heads for
Barrow after Deaths
WASHINGTON W — The ice
breaker Staten Island is headed
toward Barrow from the Beaufort
Sea where her skipper and his
helicopter pilot were killed in a
crash on the icepack Monday.
The helicopter broke through
the ice and sank in 2,000 fathoms.
Those lost were 30-year-old Com
mander John J. Netschel of Se
attle and Ensign James L. Wood of
Annapolis, Maryland, the pilot.
They had been on a reconnaissance
flight from the Staten Island.
Commander J. L. Erickson . . .
named by the Navy as Metschel’s
replacement to command the Sta
ten Island . . . flew to Alaska from
Seattle.
WEATHER BUREAU REPORT
Partly cloudy this afternoon,
North to Northeast winds, 10 to 20
miles per hour, with little change
in temperature.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: Temperatures: high
est 28, lowest 20. Maximum wind
16 miles an hour fom the North
east. Sunrise at 7:02 a.m., sunset
at 4:30 p.m.
Comparative Data — Tempera
tures a year ago today: High 29,
low 18 Extremes on this date since ^
1907: Highest 48 in 1925, lowest
0 in 1928.
Legislative Council Chiei Given
Heave-Ho In Five-to-One Tally
By WARD SIMS
Associated Press Staff Writer
JUNEAU OP — The Legislative
Council, in an angry, shouting ses
sion that lasted for almost an !
even hour, ousted Anchorage Re- [
publican Bruce Kendall as chair- |
man Wednesday.
The action was immediately ap
pealed by Rep. John E. Longworth,
the only other Republican besides
Kendall present at the meeting.
The council asked Atty. Gen.
George N. Hayes’ office to have
an opinion on the legality of Ken
dall’s ouster as chairman.
State Attorney General George *
N. Hayes upheld the right of a
majority of a quorum of the Legis
lative Council to oust Council
Chairman Bruce Kendall.
After Hayes opinion was read
to the council at a tense meeting
I Kendall adjourned the meeting. A
successor was not named.
The removal of Kendall, also
Speaker of the House of Repre
sentatives, was called for by Rep.
Warren A. Taylor, himself a for
mer House Speaker and council
chairman.
Taylor said that by his “actions
and words, Mr. Kendall has re
duced the efectiveness and effi
ciency of this council.”
Ticking off a bill of particulars,
Taylor accused Kendall of:
1. Using obscene language at a
recent Anchorage meeting in ref
erences to another member of the
council, Sen. W. O. Smith, in dis
I cussing a letter Smith had written
to the Ketchikan Daily News.
2. Telling newsmen at Honolulu
during the Aug. 19-23 meeting of
the National Legislative Confer
ence that the money spent by Alas
ka on the conference wasn’t wortn
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Unemployment Kate for
Nome is 9.9 Per Cent
JUNEAU •J’1 — Alaska’s insured
unemployment rate was 4.9 per
cent during the week ending Oct.
12, up from 4.5 per cent the pre
vious week, Labor Commissioner
Gil Johnson said today.
Johnson attributed the ruse to
new claims filed by persons in the
commercial fishing and fish pro
cessing industries.
The Oct. 12 rate compared with
4.0 per cent during the same week
a year ago, reflecting, Johnson
said, the poor fishing season on
Bristol Bay and slackening activi
ty in the transportation, commu
nications and mining industries.
Continuing unemployment in
sured by state law during the week
ending Oct. 12 was 1,628.
The insured unemployment rate
by area included Anchorage, 5.1
per cent; Fairbanks 3.0; Juneau
4.4; Ketchikan 5.5; Nome 9.9; Pe
tersburg 14.9, and Sitka 21.
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it, without checking first with other
members of the Legislative Coun
cil.
3. Insulting, while intoxicated.
Fairbanks businessmen at a recent
dinner given by them for the coun
cil, bringing disrespect on the
council.
In rebuttal, Kendall said the
language to which Taylor objected
at the Anchorage meeting was used
during an executive session closed
to the public.
He said Smith had told him after
the Anchorage executive session
that the letter to which he, Ken
dall, objected violently was writ
ten in haste.
‘■Never once was that which
transpired in the executive session
at Anchorage mentioned publicly
by me,” Kendall said. “I only
wish Mr. Taylor had accorded me
the same courtesy of an executive
session that I accorded Sen.
Smith, so we could have washed
our dirty linen in private.”
Kendall said that while he did
not think the Honolulu conference
was worth the money, he said he
had also mentioned during the
news conference that he would
recommend to the Legislature that
no further funds for the confer
ence’s meeting be approved.
Tlie House Speaker categorically
denied that he was intoxicated
during the Fairbanks dinner or had
insulted his hosts.
In the final vote, Taylor; Sen.
Frank Peratrovich, Sen. Smith,
Rep. Axel Johnson and Sen. Lester
Bronson, voted to remove Kendall.
Longworth voted against the mo
tion. Kendall abstained.
Absent were Sen. R. J. McNea
y, Sen. Vance Phillips, and Rep.
lim Parsons.
During the debate on Taylor’s
notion, which could better be de
er i bed as a gang argument, Smith
old Kendall that while their dif
erences at Anchorage were a
matter between you and me, it
ouldn’t help but have an effect
>n the work of this council.”
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BRIDGE TO BE CLOSED
Mr. Bert Hyde, District High
way Engineer, advises that the
’ilgrim River bridge, near Cotton
wood on the Kougarok Highway,
/ill be closed for one week or
ntil repairs are completed. This
Insure will begin at 8 ajn. on
'uesday, Oct. 22.
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