SSI NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS _
62nd Year No. 34 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1961_Per Copy 15<
JFK Tells Labor
And Management
To Stay in Line
WASHINGTON, Uft— President
Kennedy has appealed to manage
ment and labor to keep the na
tional interest in mind in their
disputes.
If they don’t cooperate for the
general good, the President warn
ed significantly, an impatient fed
eral government will take a great
er hand in getting the two sides
together.
This was the implicit, clear
message in Kennedy’s talk yester
day to a group of top business
executives and labor union chiefs.
He had called them together to
make them policy-making part
ners in his administration.
“We are going into a critical
phase of our national life,” Ken
nedy told the 21-man labor-man
agement public advisory panel.
“We want to keep our economy
free, we want labor to be free,
we want management to be free.
And we want to keep the fed
eral government in its proper
role.
“But we all, regardless of our
politics, we all have to come to
the conclusion that the general
welfare is involved in pvery act
we take.”
Kennedy appealed first for the
group to give “direction to the
general movement of wages and
prices.” This was in addition to
his appeals for advice on job and
economic problems, machine dis
placement of workers, foreign
trade competition and a host of
other administration headaches.
The advisers—including Henry
Ford II, auto magnate; George
Meany, president of the AFL-CIO,
and Ralph McGill, publishers of
the Atlanta Constitution—buckled
down to their jobs.
Air Force Colonel Charged
With Manslaughter in
Collapse of Radar Tower
WASHINGTON — Air Force
Col. William M. Banks has been
accused by the Air Force of in
voluntary manslaughter in the
collapse Jan. 15 of a radar tower
off the New Jersey Coast.
Twenty-eight men died when
the 6,000-ton Texas tower tumbled
into the Atlantic during a howling
gale.
The Air Force first announced
that Banks had been accused of
“culpable negligence” and dere
liction of duty. Two other officers,
Maj. William R. Sheppard and
Maj. Reginald L. Starke, also
were accused of dereliction of
duty.
ITie three officers exercised
varying degrees of command over
the radar tower 85 miles southeast
of New York City.
The Air Force yesterday said
that the charge of “culpable negli
gence” could be more specifically
phrased as “involuntary man
slaughter.”
FERRY BOND BILL GOES TO
GOV. EGAN FOR SIGNATURE
JUNEAU — Legislative ac
tion was completed today on the
$23 million ferry bond bill with
House concurrence in a Senate
amendment.
The amendment would require
that $5 million of the bond issue
be limited to road construction.
When the measure passed the
House, the $5 million would be
used for road “construction
and/or maintenance.”
The bill now goes to Gov. Egan
for his signature.
Dog Derby Souvenir
Booklet Will Contain
Early Day Race Pictures
The Dog Race Committee for j
the Nome Dog Derby, scheduled
for March 31, and April 1 and 2,
have been busy rounding up rare
and unusual pictures of the early
dog races which will be sed in
the 1961 Dog Derby souvenir
booklet which is being printed
by the Nugget.
An interesting story has been
prepared by Mrs. Carrie McLain
about the start of dog racing here
and some of the circumstances
surrounding the promotion of this
fascinating Alaskan sport.
The booklet will be available
during the races and includes the
racing times for prior derby races
as well as the times set during
the famous All - Alaska Sweep
stake Races.
BIA Arranges 30,000
Gallons of Fuel Oil
For Barrow Residents
JUNEAU UP) — Gov. Egan said j
today that the Bureau of Indian i
Affairs has arranged for 30,000 j
gallons of fuel oil to be made
available to residents of Barrow.
Sens. Eben Hopson and Lester
Bronson had advised the governor
that only a two or three days
supply of fuel oil remains on hand.
They asked assistance by the Civil
Defense Division.
Public Safety Commissioner
Martin Underwood replied that
James Hawkins, area director of
the BIA, said 10,000 gallons of
fuel oil from the BIA school at
Barrow and 20,000 gallons from
the Air Force would be trans
ferred to the native store at Bar
row today.
Hawkins estimated the 30,000
gallons would last approximate
ly a month, at which time, he
told Underwood, the situation
would be re-evaluated.
The shortage was brought on
when breakdowns at the Barrow
coal mine forced Barrow resi
dents normally using coal to
bum fuel oil.
BOUNTY BILL SENT
TO FINANCE COMMITTEE
TO DETERMINE COST
JUNEAU W — A bounty bill,
which started out as simply pro
hibiting payment of bounties to
non-residents, but wound up ex
tending the hair seal bounty to
all waters of Alaska, was sent to
the Finance Committee yester
day.
The bill was the subject of
some two hours debate Saturday
after Rep. John Nusunginya suc
cessfully amended it to extend
bounty payments on hair seals
to all waters of the Northwest
and the Aleutian Chain.
It was referred to the Finance
Committee for study as to how
much the extension would cost
the state in additional bounty pay
ments.
SMOCKS FOR CHIGAGO COPS
CHICAGO — Supt. O. W.
Wilson, one-time college dean
I brought in to give the Chicago
i Police Deparament a new look,
plans just that this week. Some
of the boys in blue will be is
sued smocks — and tan smocks,
at that.
Wilson announced yesterday he
plans to place the garments in
squad-rols, vehicles once known
as paddy wagons. Officers may
' don the smocks in handling
! drunks, bleeding street fighters
' or accident victims to avoid soil
| ing their basic blue uniforms.
Alaska’s Junior Miss
Now Competing for Title
Mary Black from Fairbanks
who won the coveted title of
Alaska’s Junior Miss in competi
tion held here last month is now
in Mobile, Ala., where she is
competing with other girls from
the 50 states and the District of
Columbia for the right to wear the
crown of America’s Junior Miss.
Along with the title, the win
ner — as well as four runners-up
will share in the Coca Cola Co.
scholarships, totaling $14,000. The
winner also will have a summer
tour of the United States, appear
ing at prominent civic education
al and charitable events under
the auspices of two national spon
sors, Coca Cola and Bobbie
Brooks.
Judges for the spectcular fourth
annual pageant to select the na
tion’s most outstanding high
school girl include Fannie Hurst,
noted novelist; Ted Malone, per
sonality of radio; Dr. E. Walker,
President of Queens College, and
several other prominent people.
Presentation of the scholarship
awards will be made by James
Farley, “grand old man of the
Democratic party.”
$2,000 in Depressed Area
Funds Alloted to Golovin
JUNEAU WP) — Gov. Egan an
nounced yesterday that he had ap
proved an allocation of $2,000 in
depressed area funds to the vil
lage of Golovin.
Egan said the money would be
used to help pay labor costs in
volved in the construction of
cold storage facilities and drain
age ditches.
Fairbanks Voters Raise
Sales Tax to 3 Per Cent
FAIRBANK — Fairbanks
voters yesterday approved an
ordinance which will increase the
city sales tax to three per cent
and drop the city personal
property tax.
Results of the special city
election showed the ordinance
was approved by better than a
two to one margin. A total of
1,446 voted with 858 in favor of
the ordinance and 334 against.
The ordinance raises the city
sales tax from the present two
per cent to three per cent.
THE WEATHER TODAY
Fair, with increasing cloudiness
tonight, cloudy and snow with
N.E. winds 15-25 mph tomorrow.
Lowest temp, expected tonight 0,
the high tomorrow 15.
In the past 24 hours: highest
temp. 7, lowest -10. Sunrise at
5:56 a.m., sunset at 6:24 p.m.
A year ago today, highest temp.
32, lowest 10. Extremes on this
date since 1907: highest 36 in
1924, lowest -32 in 1928.
At Nenana today it was clear
with a temperature of 20 degrees.
MMM HOSPITAL RECEIVES
GRANT TO STUDY ARTHRITIS
The Maynard McDougal Mem
orial Hospital has received a grant
from the Orthopedic Education
and Research Foundation for the
study of arthritic knees among
the Eskimos. This is the first
grant of its kind to be given
in this part of the country, stated
Dr. John Barrow, who will be
conducting the survey for the next
several months in association wtih
Dr. David Hillman.
This foundation, Dr. Barrow ex
plained is supported by funds con
tributed by individual doctors
throughout the s‘ates and has its
offices in Boston Mass.
Clarence F. Pautzke
Will Head Interior’s
Dept, of Fish and Wildlife
WASHINGTON UP — President
Kennedy announced today he in- j
tends to appoint Clarence F. j
Pautzke, 53, Deputy Commissioner
of Fish and Game for Alaska, as
Commissioner of the Interior’s!
Department of Fish and Wildlife
Service.
Pautzke will succeed Arnie J.
Suomela in the $18,500-a-year
post.
Pautzke, a native of Auburn,
Wash., was a football star
while attending the University
of Washington.
He is commanding officer of
a Naval reserve unit in Alaska
and held a similar post in Wash
ington.
Before going to Alaska in May
1960 Pautzke had completed 30
years of employment with the \
State of Washington. He worked
for three years with the State’s
Fishery Department, 25 years with
game and fish work and 3 years
in other state jobs.
In 1959 he was a member of the
American delegation of fishery
specialists who spent a month in
specting Russian fishery labora
tories and fishing activities on
Kamchatka Peninsula and the
nearby Alaska mainland.
He is a former president of the j
American Fisheries Society.
Four Spring and Summer
Sailings Will be Made by
Alaska Steamship Co.
SEATTLE UR — Four spring
and summer sailings will be made
to Bristol Bay, two to Goodnews
Bay-Bethel and three to the Ber
ing Sea, the Alaska Steamship
Co. announced yesterday.
No sailing dates were set, only
cargo reception dates and ter
minals here for loading.
Vessels will sail as soon after
closing dates as they can be load
ed.
The first Bering Sea sailing, the
Tonsina, will receive cargo May
8-26 and the second and third,
with the ships yet to be named,
will take cargo June 26-July 7
and Aug. 28-Sept. 8, respectively.
Each will call at Nome and St.
Michael. The Tonsina will also
make Unalakleet and the second
ship will also call at Teller and
Kotzebue.
Bristol Bay calls will be made
by the Coastal Monarch, Nenana,
Talkeetna and another ship to be
named.
The Goodness Bay-Bethel sail
ings will be the Galena, and a ship
yet to be named.
Gold Outflow from U. S.
Has Stopped Entirely
WASHINGTON UR — The flow
of gold from the United States
“for some weeks now has stop
ped entirely,” according to the
Commerce Department.
In an encouraging report on !
the nation’s balance of payments,
the department’s office of busi
ness economics said that the
U. S. payments positions has
shown “very substantial improve
| ment” from the deficits which
caused a serious drain on gold
stocks for more than two years.
The department added that the
gold price in the London market
has returned to the normal range
and speculation in gold has been
dampened.
The U. S. gold outflow was
halted in the last week of Febru
ary for the first time since last
July.
Senate Beats Baek
Two Revisions of
Employment Aid
JUNEAU UP) — The Senate beat
baek two attempts at major re
vision of the State’s Employment
Security Act yesterday and then
defeated a bill to boost the basic
weekly benefit amount by $5, to
$50.
The benefit amount boost had
been requested by Gov. Egan. It
was thumbed down on a 10-10
tie vote.
While no notices of reconsidera
tion were given before the Sen
ate adjourned for the day, it ap
peared certain that the upper
chamber would probably receive
a request that it rescind its ac
tion.
The proposed major revisions
came in the form of amendments
offered by Sens. John Coghill and
George McNabb to the Egan bill.
McNabb’s amendment, actually
offered Monday and held over
for consideration yesterday, would
have removed the $7,200 setting
on wages subject to employment
security taxes.
It would also have relaxed the
eligibility requirements for re
ceiving employment security bene
fits and would have tightened
up the benefits paid for depend
ants.
Coghill’s amendment amounted
to a complete revision of the vari
Hu 10 rates of contribution struc
ture of the employment security
statute.
Basically, it would have boosted
the average contribution rate, for
both employers and employes, to
an average of 3.9 per cent from
.7 to 7.1 per cent, compared to the
present 1.8 to 4.9 per cent.
The average employers contri
bution rate would have gone up
from 2.9 to 3.0 per cent and the
variable rate would have climb
ed from 1.5-4.0 per cent to .5-5.7
per cent.
The average employes contri
bution rate would have been
boosted from .6 to .9 per cent and
the variable rate would have
climbed from .3-.9 per cent to .2-1.4
per cent.
Coghill told the Senate that his
amendment had what he called a
built-in safety factor. Noting that
it was tied very closely to Mc
Nabb’s amendment and the lift
ing of the ceiling on taxable
wages, Coghill said:
“Through my amendment the
contribution rate for stable in
dustries would be cut, and even
though the limit on taxable wages
would be lifted, industries which
cause little drain on the employ
ment security fund would be pay
ing approximately what they
pay now.
“The amendment would take
more from the seasonal industries.
While I don’t think we should
raid the construction industry, it
is the industry which is causing
a large share of the drain and it
is the industry which should pay
a large share of the bill.”
The Senate tossed Coghill’s
amendment aside, 13-7, defeated
the McNabb amendment, 10-10,
and then proceeded almost im
mediately to the 10-10 vote on the
bill itself.
Six Person Jury For Magistrate's
Court Okayed by Senate
JUNEAU UP) — Legislation to
provide for a jury of six persons
in trial in Magistrate Courts was
passed by the Senate yesterday.
The measure now goes to Gov.
Egan for his approval or disap
proval.