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Egan Doubts Die
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Hards Can Revive
Capitol Move Issue
JUNEAU, un — Gov. William
Egan said today he doubted a pro
posal to move the capitol from
Juneau by constitutional amend
ment could muster the necessary
two-thirds majority in the Legis
lature.
The Governor’s comment came
in the form of an informal reply
to a declaration by Rep. Bruce
Kendall of Anchorage that Ken
dall would seek legislative ap
proval for such a constitutional
amendment next year.
Kendall said he considered
“Western Alaska’s huge vote to
move the capitol as a mandate
from the people to all legislators
from the South-Central area.”
Alaskan voters, in their pri
mary election last week, turned
down Initiative No. 1, which pro
vided for relocation of the cap
itol from Juneau to the Cook In
let-railbelt area by 1965.
Kendall said he was planning
to introduce legislation to have
the capitol relocation question
placed on the 1962 election ballot.
“My feelings against the relo
cation o fthe capitol remain the
same,” Egan said today. “My de
cisions are based on what I feel
is best for all of Alaska.
In analyzing the returns of the
primary election, there would
seem to be little opportunity of a
capitol relocation amendment ob
taining the required two-thirds
majority in both houses.”
In addition to the two-thirds
majority, a constitutional amend
ment would also have to receive
the approval of the people, by a
simple majority.
Egan declined to comment on a
statement y Kendall that the
Governor and U. S. Sen. Ernest
Gruening, both up for reelection
in 1962 and both foes of Initia
tive No. 1, would change their
views.
Kendall had said:
“I don’t think they (Egan and
Gruening) will be so outspoken
about trying to shove this thing
down the voters’ neck when their
own jobs are at stake too.”
Lumumba Demands U.N.
Replace Hammarskjold
LEOPOLDVILLE, — Pre
mier Patrice Lumumba declared
today the people and the govern
ment of the Congo have lost con
fidence in U. N. Secretary Gen
eral Dag Hammarskjold. Lumum
ba asked that Hammarskjold be
replaced by an observer team
from 14 African and Asian na
tions. He also asked the United
Nations to withdraw all of its
white troops from the Congo.
In a letter to Hammarskjold,
Lumumba also demanded that
control of all airports in the Con
go be turned over to his Congo
lese.
He asked that the United Na
tions disarm all local troops in
disputed Katanga Prvoince and
turn the arms over to the Central
Congolese government.
He demanded that the United
Nations give the Congolese gov
ernment means of transportation
to go to Katanga.
The demands are likely to com
plicate further the delicate rela
tionship between Lumumba’s gov
ernment and the U. N. Congo
operation.
Tacoma C.C. Envoys
Present Will Rogers
Plaque at Fairbanks
FAIRBANKS, UPI — Represen- i
tatives of the Tacoma Chamber of j
Commerce will present this after- j
noon a Will Rogers Memorial j
Plaque to the Fairbanks Chamber ;
in a ceremony marking the 25th !
anniversary of the death of the!
famed humorist.
Will Rogers and Wily Post died
in a place crash near Point Bar
row on August 15, 1935.
Hal Hughes, correspondent sta
tioned here at the time of the
crash, will take part in the dedi
cation. Others here from Tacoma I
for the occasion are A. F. Cail
louette, chairman, and Mrs. G. R.
Kunz, Sr., a member of the
chamber’s Alaska committee.
Local officials who will take
part in the ceremony are Mayor
Paul Haggland and Alvin Polet,
President of the Fairbanks Cham
ber of Commerce.
Rogers and Post died instantly
when their plane nose-dived into
a shallow lagoon at Walakpi, 15
miles south of Point Barrow as
the two were on the first lap of
a trip to Moscow ia the Arctic
and Siberia. A native runner
brought the sad news to Point
Barrow, from which point it was
flashed around the world.
Rogers and Post arrived in
Fairbanks on August 12. 1935.
They left the city three days later, i
LATEST PRIMARY RETURNS j
JUNEAU, m — Unofficial re
turns from 268 of 292 precincts
in last Tuesday’s Alaska Primary
Election give:
For U. S. Senate: Bartlett (D)
25,373; Brayton <R) 3,891; Mc
kinley <R) 8,110.
For U. S. House: Boyer (D)
3,963; Rivers (D) 21,093; Hau
gaard <R) 1,522; Rettig <Rl 5,661;
Ryan <R> 4,803.
Capitol move initiative: For
17,750; Against 21,079.
Gas Explosion Rips Texas |
Barrel Manufacturing Co.
HOUSTON, Tex., OP) — The
quick flash of an explosion ripped
the Rheem Manufacturing Co.
plant today killing three men and
sending 12 to hospitals.
The blast ripped through a
block-long oven, broke gas lines
in the ceiilng and set the gas afire.
The blast and subsequent fire
erupted without warning in a
block-long oven used in manufac
turing 55-gallon barrels.
P. J. Dedeo, plant manager,
said the ' explosion apparently
occurred from accumulated gas
at the oven and was set off by
an automatic pilot light. The oven
bakes lacqer onto the barrels.
U. S. BACKS UP U. N.
CONGO FORCES
WIESBADEN, Germany, Ut) —
The U. S. Air Force announced
today it has started airlifting an
additional 4,100 soldiers and 500
tons of equipment to strengthen
the United Nations forces in the
Congo.
TYPHOONS HIT HONG KONG
HONG KONG, OP) — Typhoon
Wendy blew itself out in the Pa
cifc toay after leaving 18 per
sons dead and 26 missing in cen
tral Japan. A new tropical storm
— Agnes — headed for Hong
Kong.
Agnes was expected to reach
the British colony early Tuesday.
Candidates Labor j
For Voter Appeal
By the Associated Press
The presidential candidates
worked today on opposite ways
of appealing to voters. One con
centrated on geographic region.
The other, a bill before Con
gress.
After spending part of his |
weekend politicking in the north, j
the Republican candidate, Vice j
President Nixon, planned some
quick campaign trips into the j
south.
The Democratic candidate, Sen.
John Kennedy, rushed into a
Senate battle over medical care \
for the aged. He had promised to
do so in a speech Sunday at Hyde
Park, N.Y.
While at Hyde Park, the home
of the late President Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Kennedy also won the
political support of Eleanor
Roosevelt. She had wanted the
Democrats to nominate Adlai E.
Stevenson for President.
Saturday, in Portland, Maine,
Nixon said that he believed it
would be a mistake for the United
States to resume underground
nuclear tesing now.
He said there still was a chance I
for negotiations to lead to a test |
ban with proper inspection ar- I
rangements.
In Washington, Sen. Henry M.
Jackson of Washington the Demo
cratic National Chairman, said
the United States should not wait
too long before resuming the test
ing. He said his views were his
own and he had not discussed
them with Kennedy.
Political footnotes:
Sen. J. William Fulbright <D
Ark) says Republican vice-presi
dential candidate Henry Cabot
Lodge should resign as U.S. Am
bassador and Adlai E. Stevenson
should take his place. I
In Nashville, Tenn., Dr. Ramsay
Pollard, president of the Southern
Baptist Convention, and B. C.
Goodpasture, editor of a Church
of Christ publication, say minis
ters of their churches will use
the pulpit to oppose Kennedy, a
Catholic.
In a televison interview, Joseph
Curran, president of the National
Maritime Union, says he believes
Premier Khrushchev would pre
fer Nixon as President.
On a TV show, Roy Wilkins,
executive secretary of the Nation
al Assn, for the Advancement of
Colored People, says the Demo
crats have not enhanced their
image among Negroes by tabling
a Republican civil rights bill in
the Senate. j
In a Camden, N. J., speech,
James R. Hoffa, president of the
Teamsters Union, says Kennedy
is “irresponsible and a man un
worthy of the trust of the Amer
ican people.”
INDIANA TAKES FOURTH
TOP PRIZE IN YOUNGSTERS'
ALL-AMERICAN CLASSIC
AKRON, Ohio., UP) — For the
fourth year in a row, an Indiana
boy has won the All America
Soap Box Derby.
This time in the 23rd running
at Derby Downs Sunday it was
11-year-old Frederick Lane of
South Bend. The little 80-pound
er, making his first try, won a
$5,000 college scholarship.
John West, 14, Tacoma, took
second place.
Top Space Scientists
Laud U. S. Achievements
At Stockholm Meeting
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, (J) —
The world’s top space scientists
toasted the lates American sat
ellite successes and coming So
viet surprises at a cosmic con
gress takeoff pary here which
lasted until early this morning, j
The No. 1 Soviet Sputnik ex
pert, Prof. Leonid Sedov, drank
to the American Discoverer XIII
capsule recovery and the Echo
globe-orbiting relay station.
Dr. Wehrner von Braun, Ger
man born rocket pioneer heading
the American space-conquering j
Saturn Project, toasted the great i
Soviet lunar probes.
It was a warmup “booster” as
sembly of the llh International
Astronautical meeting opening
here today. More than 750 dele
gates from 32 countries are tak
ing part.
Sedov, president of the Inter
national Astronautical Federation
and head of the seven-man So
viet delegation, flew into Stock
holm promising “surprises.”
Sedov brushed away all tech
nical questions with a friendly
smile and a vague reply.
Johnson Offers
Old Age Medical
Care Pay Plan
WASHINGTON, W» — Senate
Democratic Leader Lyndon John
son called today for a pay-as-you
go system of medical care for the
elderly.
Johnson, the Democratic Vice
Presidential nominee, joined Sen.
John Kennedy, the party stand
ard bearer, in critcizing terms of
a bill approved Saturday by the
Senate Finance Committee.
“The committee measure is in
adequate and does not meet the
problem of medical care for the
needy,” Johnson told a news con
ference. “We should put this on
a pay-as-you-go basis, linked to
the Social Security system.”
The measure would provide
for federal grants to be matched
by the states for medical care of
indigent elderly.
Kennedy has announced he’s
ready to battle for a medical care
bill pegged on Social Security
taxes.
That approach, part of the
Democratic Party platform, was
rejected by the Senate Finance
Committee Saturday as it voted
12-4 for an indigent health pro
gram supported by federal and
state grants.
The committee bill is similar to
one already passed by the House.
It follows more nearly the pat
tern recommended by the Eisen
hower Administration and sup
ported by Vice President Richard
Nixon.
Main feature of the committee
plan would be an expansion of
the existing federal-state grants
plan for old age assistance or re
lief to meet most medical costs
for the 2,400,000 persons fouhd
eligble by the states.
It would offer as much as $12
a month additional for each per
son to help meet medical costs if
they now qualify for public as
sistance. The states must match
part of this added grant as they
do now on other assistance.
Russian Defense
Counsel Satisfies
Powers’ Wife
MOSCOW, CPI—Barbara Powers
and two Virginia attorneys spent
more than an hour today discus
sing with Francis Gary Powers’
Soviet counsel the defense he may
make for the U 2 pilot. Powers
goes on trial Wednesday.
The discussion was “very satis
factory,” the Virginian said.
The two attorneys, Frank Rog
ers of Roanoke and Alexander
Parker of Richmond, were the
first Americans to see the defense
attorney.
The attorney, Mikhail Ilrich
Griniov, appoined by the Soviet
government, is gray-haired and
looks like a country docor. He
is the presiding officer of the
Juridicial Council, an advisory
legal body of the Soviet Union.
He has reputedly handled consid
erable criminal work.
The trial is expected to last
about three days but that is based
on surmise because several cor
respondents received visas good
only for four days. This would
mean that at the latest the trial
would have to terminate on the
20th or 21st.
Powers’ wife, attracive, dark
haired Barbara, gave it as her
opinion Sunday that since it was
a matter of record her husband
had piloted the ill-fated U 2 it
was “normal” for him to plead
guilty to the Soviet charge of
espionage against him.
Mrs. Powers and the mother
and father of Francis Gary Pow
ers arrived Saturday for the es
pionage trial of the American
pilot. Powers was shot down 1,400
miles inside Soviet territory May
1 while piloting his reconnais
sance jet high over the Soviet
Union.
Despite her husband’s guilty
plea, Barbara told a news con
ference he should not be called
a spy.
“I look upon him as a recon
naissance scout,” she said, and he
shouldn’t be labeled a spy. He
never disguised; he never pre
tended to be what he wasn’t.”
Although it admitted the Pow
ers family to the Sovie Union
for the trial, the Soviet govern
ment has told the U. S. Embassy
no Americans would be allowed
to see the pilot before his trial.
Barbara also said she had no
word yet on her request to see
Premier Khrushchev to make a
personal appeal.
The striking brunette has been
dubbed “The lady who never
smiles” by the staff of the Soviet
Skaya Hotel where the family is
staying. She and her in-laws are
objects of much curiosity to the
hotel staff which has treated them
with courtesy and consideration.
School Registration Up
Nearly Two Million Over
Last Year’s Enrollment
WASHINGTON, l/PI — Public
and private schools from kinder
garten through college will en
roll nearly two million more stu
dents this year than last, the Of
fice of Education says.
A weekend estimate put the
1960-61 enrollment at 48,650,000,
compared with 46,720,000 for the
last school year. The record en
rollment would provide the 16th
consecutive year of increasing
figures.