THE
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
64th Year No. 22
NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1963
Per Copy 15£
■Hearings Continue
On Liquor For
19- Year-Olds
JUNEAU UP) — A public hear
ing on proposed legislation which
would permit 19-year-olds to buy
liquor packed the Superior Court
room last night.
After three and a half hours of
testimony, and with nearly a dozen
witnesses still to be heard, the
House Judiciary Committee de
cided to continue the meeting to
morrow night.
Five young people, four of them
under the age of 21 which is the
present legal age for buying a
drink, spoke in behalf of the bill.
So did its author, Rep. Warren
Taylor.
Only two persons had a chance to
speak against it before time ran
out for the evening.
Judy Robertson, 20, who said she
represented a number of 19 and
20- year-olds in Juneau, called the
problem a social one.
“After you’re out of high school
about the only place you can go
where there is live music for danc
ing is a bar,” she said.
“The girls my age are usually
interested in going out with fel
lows two or three years older than
we are, and as things stand now,
they can’t even take us to a nice
place for dinner.
“The three years after high
school are quite a gap for us to lie
Committee Would
Determine Appropriate
Site for Alaska’s Capital
JUNEAU W — The creation of
an eight-member committee to de
termine the appropriate site within
Alaska as the site for location of
the capital was introduced in the
Senate today at the request of Gov.
Wm. Egan.
The committee, under provisions
of a bill would be composed of the
eight members of the State Senate
who run at large within the four
major senatorial districts within
the state.
The committee would be re
quired to consider:
1. The best interest of the people
of Alaska.
2. The availability of existing
facilities.
3. Population distribution.
4. Costs, actual and contingent,
to the state of various locations.
5. The effect on the economy of
the state and upon the local econ
omies of districts where offices are
located.
6. Accessibility to major trans
portation facilities.
7. The availability of room for
expansion.
8. Principles of governmental ad
ministration and political science.
The committee would also be
charged with determining the
state’s probable needs for the
housing of governmental offices
through 1975, as well as making
j an inventory of existing facilities.
Senate Approves
$200,000 for Rural
Area Development
Work Projects
JUNEAU — The State Sen
ate gave unanimous approval, 17-0,
today to a supplemental appropria
tion of $200,000 for Rural Develop
ment work projects during the bal
ance of the current fiscal year.
It touched off almost an hour
of debate on the value of the pro
gram, with only Sen. Brad Phillips
questioning the appropriation.
Phillips said he would not deny
the need for projects of lasting ef
fect, but said he felt the projects
to be carried out should be pro
grammed in advance, so the leg
islature could have some say in
how the money is spent.
The Rural Development program
is carried out under the Governor’s
Office, through Robert Hoffman,
State Director of Rural Develop
ment.
“As the program is administered
now, it is subject to criticism as
a political fund.”
After Phillips’ comments, one
member of the Senate after an
other took the floor to point out
specific projects completed under
the program.
John Butrovich, (R-Fbks.), saic
the native villages of the stab
need “much, much more than w<
could ever provide.
socially stagnant.”
Mrs. Marilyn Crondahl, 19, also
of Juneau, agreed that for most
girls the 18 to 21 age bracket was
sort of ‘‘no man’s land” for many
girls.
“I’m 19 and can vote and work
and pay taxes and get married, and
I don’t see why I can’t do anything
else I want to.”
Speaking against the measure,
but sympathizing with the young
people, was Rep. Walter Kubley.
“I am directly and indirectly
connected with the liquor busi
ness,” Kubley said, “but I have al
ways been very active in recrea
tion, such as the Little League and
the Babe Ruth League.
“When you look at the number
of people who show up for a meet
ing like this, and then think of the
meetings where you’ve tried to or
ganize a Little League baseball
team and had an awful time just
getting a quorum, you know what
I mean.
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Jaycee National Vice
President, Orval Caverhill,
Will Visit Here Friday
Orval Caverhill, National Vice
President of the Jaycees, is sched
uled to arrive here on an official
visitation Friday, stated George
Bell, president of the local organi
zation, A banquet for Jaycee mem
bers and their wives has been
planned for Friday evening at the
Polaris Lounge.
Mr. Caverhill, 33, of Ontario,
Ore., was one of ten vice president
elected to the U.S. Junior Chamber
of Commece last June He is an
area sales representative for the
Minerals and Chemical Division of
the J. R. Simplot Co. and a grad
uate of Oregon State University.
As national vice president, he is
assigned for visitations to Alaska,
Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Wash
ington and plans to travel an esti
mated 50,000 miles throughout
these five states this year.
In Alaska he will be visiting
Jaycee organizations in Anchorage,
Nome, Fairbanks and Kodiak.
LIFE JACKET FOUND
PRESUMBLY FROM
MISSING FREIGHTER
MIAMI, Fla. (IP)— A life jacket
and debris, possibly from the miss
ing S.S. Marine Sulphur Queen,
were picked up from the Atlantic
Ocean today, 14 miles southeast of
Key West, the Coast Guard said.
A life jacket stenciled “Sulphur j
Queen” was taken aboard a Navy
torpedo retriever vessel operating
in the area, the Coast Guard an
nouncement said.
The Navy reported other debris
floating in the water but said it
had not identified anything beyond
the life jacket.
The 523 - foot tanker Sulphur
Queen left Beaumont, Tex., Feb. 2
on a routine, five-day run to Nor
folk, Va., carrying a load of 15,000
tons of molten sulphur.
Despite the fact the tanker car
ried two high frequency radio
transmitters with emergency bat
teries and had a radiotelephone,
she disappeared without giving a
distress message.
Search planes flew more than
500 hours over the Gulf of Mexico
and Atlantic and until today had
found no trace of debris, oil slick
or other evidence of maritime tra
gedy.
Smiles To the End
HUNTSVILLE. Tex. UFi — Calm
and cheerful, Leo Daniel Luton
smiled and winked at a newsman
seconds before he died in the elec
tric chair today.
Luton, former Dallas printer, was
executed for the slaying of a
grocer’s wife Sept. 9, 1960, during
a robbery.
TODAY'S WEATHER
Mostly cloudy with little change
in temperature.
In the past 24 hours: highest
temp. 30, lowest 16. Sunrise at 7:39
a.m., sunset at 4:54 p.m.
A year ago today: highest temp.
30, lowest 5. Extremes on this date
since 1907: highest 39 in 1957, low
est -36 in 1915
Two hundred million wouldn
be enough.
“Some of the $200,000 is goin
to be wasted, certainly,” Butro
vich said, “but that will always b
the case as long as these program
are administered by humans.
“But, with the need existing,
couldn’t in good conscience vot<
against this appropriation even ii
the knowledge that there will b<
waste.”
Lavorante Still In Coma
LOS ANGELES UP) — Just a daj
less than five months have passec
since Alejandro Lavorante was
knocked out by Johnny Riggins,
and the Argentine heavyweighl
still is in a coma.
Lavorante, 26, has been able to
feed himself for some time and
can walk the length of parallel
bars without help. But he still
hasn’t opened his eyes.
Subsistence Fishermen
Would be Permitted to
Sell 2,000 Pounds of Fish
JUNEAU UP)— Persons who fish
on subsistence licenses would be
permitted to sell up to 2,000 pounds
of ground fish under terms of a
bill which passed the House 35-4
today. The bill, HB21, now goes to
the Senate.
Its author, Rep. Robert Blodgett,
said the measure was designed to
give the people of remote areas,
who mainly fish through the ice
for their own subsistence, the right
to sell the fish to boost their own
economy without being required
to buy a commercial license.
The bill limits the fish to tom
cod, blue cod, smelt, pickerell,
white fish and spider crab.
A Helping Hand . . .
CHATTANOOGA, Term. UP) — A
pre-school class for the handicap
ped was giving the pledge of al
legiance to the flag. Charlie Sadi
koff, on crutches, noticed that Kin
Combs, born armless, had not hand
to place over her heart. Without
missing a word, the little boy
reached quietly with his left hand
and held it on her chest.
Asian Flu Sweeps
Across Most of Nation
Asian flu and other respiratory
ailments sweeping across much of
the nation are taking an increas
ing toll in absenteeism, particularly
among school children.
Many schools report large num
bers of pupils absent because of
flu. Several have closed as a health
safety precaution and others are
considering suspending classes .
No estimate is available of man
hours lost in business and industry
because of respiratory illnesses.
Hundreds of deaths have been
reported.
Flu of the Asian variety now has
been reported in Michigan and
Minnesota, and authorities say the
outbreak which hit hard in West
Virginia probably is Asian flu.
Previously, the U S. Public
Health Services’ Communicable
Disease Center at Atlanta had con
firmed Asian flu in the District
of Columbia and North Carolina,
Maryland, New York, Illinois and
Kansas.
A spokesman at the disease cen
ter said if the flu-like ailmenl
does not begin spreading more
swiftly, there is hope its toll ir
sickness and deaths will not be
too great before the milder weathe:
of approaching spring.
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"Just for Others" ...
WASHINGTON UP> — Atty. Gen.
Robert Kennedy said yesterday his
feet are rested after his 50-mile
physical fitness hike 10 days ago.
Asked if he still approves of 50
mile hikes, Kennedy told reporters:
“for others.”
5 _
t “Lights Out”
Monday morning numerous
1 homes in the eastern section of
' town were without power for about
a two-hour period.
What is the most concern, how
ever, was the cause of the outage.
One wire of a primary circuit had
been cut in two by a rifle shot. The
circuit carried a voltage of 2400
volts and supplied a good portion
of the east end of town. Both ends j
At the end of the 30-day recess,
they would reassemble and deliber
ate for the balance of the 30-day
convention. ,
Any constitutional changes pro
posed by the convention would be
subject to ratification by a ma
jority of Alaska’s voters at the
first statewide election occurring
more than 120 days after adjourn
ment of the convention.
Ambassador Galbraith Will Resign
NEW DELHL India iB) — U.S.
Ambassador John Kenneth Gal
braith announced today he will re
sign in the summer or early au
tumn to resume teaching at Har
vard University next fall.
Galbraith was professor of
economics at Harvard before Pres
ident Kennedy appointed him
Ambassador to India. He will have
been here two years in April.
oi tne oroKen wire were laying on
the ground and were energized at
full voltage.
Howard Crinklaw, manager of
Nome Power and Light Utilities,
stated the following:
“I believe that the individual
who was responsible for this
should be commended upon his ex
cellent marksmanship, it is very
difficult to be able to hit a wire
when it is suspended 35 to 40 feet
in the air. What is even more re
markable is that a man could de
velop such a high degree of skill
with a rifle could, at the same
time, be so thoughtless and incon
siderate as to endanger life and
destroy property of others.
“At the time this break was lo
cated, several children of pre
school age were playing within
several feet of the broken con
ductor. It was only by pure chance
that one or more of these children
had not made contact with the
wire. If any child or other person
had by any chance picked up, or
made solid contact with the con
ductor in all likelihood the results
would have been very serious or
even fatal.
“We can stand outages in our
home and put up with “Lights Out”
in a material way, but does any
one, regardless of how reckless he
is, the one who is the cause of
“Lights Out” in a child or other
individual. The result of actions
likes these, could well result in
such a happening.”
Measure Calls for
Constitutional
Convention With
Plenary Powers
JUNEAU UP) — Speaker Bruce
Kendall today introduced in the
House a bill, HB88, calling for a
Constitutional Convention, with
plenary powers, in 1964.
Under the provisions of the
measure, 62 delegates would be
elected to serve in the convention,
which would be held at Juneau.
Of the 62. 60 would be elected
from the same districts and on the
same basis as the members of the
state legislature and the remaining
two would be elected from the
state at large.
The election of delegates, on a
non-partisan basis, would take
place at the same time as the pri
mary election in August of 1964.
The delegates would be required
to assemble within 40 days, at the
call of the governor, after the certi
fication of elected delegates by the
Secretary of State.
The delegates would be given
five days to organize for business
' and make necessary administrative
arrangements, then recess for 30
days.
Democrats Split Over
Committee Assignments
In the U.S. Senate
WASHINGTON UP_A liberal
conservative split within the De
mocratic party over assignments to
Senate committee has moved into
the open and delayed Senate ap
proval of the appointments.
Sens. Joseph Clark of Pennsyl
vania and Paul Douglas of Illinois
yesterday protested the assign
ments made by what they called
the conservative dominated Demo
cratic Steering Committee.
Majority leader Mike Mansfield
of Montana defended the commit
tee choices and added “I really
dislike washing our dirty Demo
cratic linen in public.”
Clark said the Steering Com
mitee by-passed Sens. Ralph Yar
borough, D-Texas, and William
Proxmire, D- Wis., both with more
seniority, in placing Sen. E. L.
Bartlett, D-Alaska, on the Appro
priations Committee.
100 Megalon Warheads
MOSCOW UPi — A Soviet rocket
commander claimed today the So
viet Union has missiles armed
with 100 megaton nuclear war
heads while the biggest the United
States has are only seven mega
tons.
A megaton is a force equal to
the explosive power of one million
tons of TNT.