VOL. LXI No. 44 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, APRIL 13, 1959_ Per Copy—15*
Secretary Dulles Appears Haggard At
President’s Hospital Conference Visit
By JOHN SCALI
WASHINGTON, UTi — Pdesident
Eisenhower visited ailing Secre
tary of State John Foster Dulles
at Walter Reed Army Hospital
today. An early decision appeared
probable on how long Dulles will
remain in the cabinet.
Eisenhower went directly to the
hospital after arriving by plane
from Augusta, Ga., where he has
been on a golfing vacation.
The 71-year-old Secretary, a
world-renowned figure in diplo
matic battles against the Soviet
Union for six years, re-entered the
hospital Sunday afternoon.
Looking haggard and consider
ably underweight, Dulles cut
short his Florida rest stay to un
dergo a new head-to-toe check-up
to determine what could be done
to arrest the cancer.
Many of his worried aides glum
ly reported that barring a medi
cal miracle, Dulles probably
Egan In Juneau;
Will Take It Easy’
SEATTLE, Ut — Governor Wil
liam A. Egan, completing the
Seattle phase of his convalescence
soner than expected, flew home
to Juneau today.
Egan, 44, who had been here
since undergoing emergency ab
dominal surgery January 20, left
with Mrs. Egan on a morning
plane.
Alaska’s first elected Governor
was to arrive in Juneau as the
new state’s legislature entered
what is expected to be the final
week of its session.
Egan still faces another opera
tion, which doctors have classi
fied as relatively minor, to clear
■up what remains of the gallstone
difficulties that caused his ill
ness in January.
Egan said he would confer later
with his Seattle physicians to set
a date for the operation, probably
in a month or two in Seattle.
The Egans left Seattle a week
ahead of the time Egan had ex
. pected to go, an indication of the
favorable progress in Egan’s re
covery. The Governor said he
planned to “take things easy” for
a time.
Village Near London
Airport Plans Campaign
For Undisturbed Slumber
LONDON, UD — The villagers
of Longford plan a nighttime tele
phone campaign to keep the jet
age from disturbing their sleep.
They are going to waken gov
ernment and airlines officials they
believe responsible for approving
the 1:30 a.m. departure of one of
Pan American World Airways’
Boeing 707 jets from London Air
port. The daily flight to New York
begins April 27.
The jet normally will pass right
over the village of 3,084 persons.
The Longford sleepers are par
ticularly angry because the
flight’s departure was switched
from day to night so the jet
could land during daylight hours
In New York.
WEATHER FORECAST
Increasing cloudiness tonight;
cloudy and snowing, with east
winds, 20 to 30 m.pJi., Tuesday.
Low tonight 5 to 10, high tomor
row 25. Sunrise at 4:32 a.m., sun
set at 7:34 p.m.
would have to lay aside the for
eign policy chores he loves so
dearly.
The President was reported still
hopeful that Dulles could serve as
special adviser, at least, during
the Big Four foreign ministers
conference on Germany, which is
to open in Geneva May 11.
“I feel pretty good,” Dulles
told newsmen at the airport as
he walked slowly down the ramp
from the President’s plane.
He even managed to joke about
the weather, a windy mixture of
sleet and rain. In appearance,
-however, Dulles was a far cry
from the rugged 185-pound New
Yorker who broke all travel rec
ords during his six years as Sec
retary of State.
His complexion was ashen. His
gay topcoat hung loosely on his
frame. Newsmen who have cov
ered his activities for years esti
mated he had lost 15 to 20 pounds.
Schools to Receive
Bulk of State’s
’59 Appropriations
JUNEAU, UP)—The largest single
expenditure in the proposed gen
eral fund appropriation bill intro
duced in the House yesterday is
for education.
The budget measure would ap
propriate $10,438,000 to the De
partment of Education and pro
vide $800,000 for educational con
struction purposes. The figures
represent more than one-third of
the entire budget.
The appropriation, however, is
$204,000 less than that requested
in the administration’s bill. Big
gest cut in the Governor’s request
came in support for schools within
incorporated districts where $150,
000 was trimmed. Another $100,
000 was Tilt off the proposed ap
propriation for pupil transpor
tation.
The Department of Welfare
would be given $2,160,410 in the
new bill while $1,313,406 would
be earmarked for the Department
of Health. Included in the Health
Department appropriation is $497,
656 for the state’s mental health
program.
The University of Alaska would
receive $2,148,938 in general fund
revenue as well as $110,000 from
the construction allocation made
in the budget bill.
Utah Car Crash Kills
Skier From Anchorage
SALT LAKE CITY, UP) — An
Anchorage man was killed yes
terday when a convertible full of
young skiers crashed into a can
yon wall then bounced into a
creek.
Edward Miller, 27, who worked
winters at nearby Alta Ski Re
sort, died. Officials could find no
record of relatives here or in
Alaska.
The driver, Frederic K. Lind
holm, 30, of Salt Lake City and
San Diego, was not injured. He
was cited by sheriff’s deputy Keith
Iba in a complaint charging
drunken driving.
Iba said the automobile skidded
70 feet before it bounced off the
jagged rock wall of the canyon.
Then it sailed 70 feet through the
air, spilling its passengers, and
dropped on its side in the creek.
$27 % Million
Budget Expected to
Leave Surplus
JUNEAU, Wl — Legislators got
their first look Friday at the sub
stitute general appropriation bill
on which the finance committees
of both houses have been working
for weeks.
The bill calls for expenditures
of 27V£ million dollars. Although
this is a. full million higher than
the amount requested by the ad
ministration, the proposal includes
more than two million dollars in
contingency expenditures — pri
marily state government costs that
won’t occur unless Alaska has to
assume some functions now per
formed by the federal govern
ment.
Rep. Earl Hillstrand, chairman
of the House Finance Committee,
said the general fund spending
called for in the bill probably
would exceed state revenue for
the fiscal period beginning July 1.
However, if the contingency ex
penditures do not materialize
there will be a surplus, Hill
strand said.
In any event, the state will not
go in the red next year since
officials say there will be approx
imately three million dollars left
at the end of the present fiscal
year.
The major contingency items in
the bill include the cost of a state
court system, financing of the
state’s assumption of control over
its fish and game resources, and a
$450,000 item for the state’s share
of matching funds under the fed
eral Hill-Burton hospital construc
tion program.
In addition to the general fund
expenditures, the new bill pro
vides for expenditures of more
than 2Vz million dollars from the
state highway fund and a quar
ter of a million from the water and
harbor facilities fund.
The proposed highway fund ex
penditures include $1,382,988 to
cover the state’s share of matching
funds needed to obtain nearly 13
million dollars in federal aid con
struction money.
Arctic Circle C. of C. Registers Jobless
In Villages, To Induce Local Hiring
The very active Arctic Circle
Chamber of Commerce in Kot
zebue, has been working in the
interest of finding work for its
residents, and has compiled a
labor surplus register showing
the sources available for jobs in
the State.
The compiled register shows
341 men available from villages,
for skilled and unskilled labor,
which availability is distributed as
follows:
At Kotzebue — 104 registered:
1 boiler fireman, 2 warehousemen,
1 painter, 2 cooks, 1 electrician, 1
electrician apprentice, 41 laborers,
15 carpenters, 4 carpenter help
ers, 10 tractor operators, 1 crane
operator, 19 truck drivers.
At Point Hope — 43 registered:
1 sheet metal worker, 34 laborers,
5 carpenters, 2 carpenter helpers,
2 truck drivers.
At Kivalina — 25 registered:
22 laborers, 3 carpenters.
At Kiana — 27 registered: 1
miner, 13 laborers, 1 crane opera
tor, 3 tractor operators, 2 heavy
duty equipment operators, 2
truck drivers.
At Shungnak — 28 registered:
1 mechanic’s helper, 1 line re
pairman, 17 laborers, 7 carpenter
helpers, 1 tractor operator, 1 truck
driver.
At Noorvik — 44 registered: 2
cement finishers, 1 tug boat cap
tain, 30 laborers, 2 carpenters, 1
carpenter helper, 4 tractor opera
tors, 4 tuck drivers.
At Koatak — 49 registered: 32
laborers, 5 carpenters, 8 carpenter
helpers, 1 tractor operator, 3
tuck drivers.
At Selawik — 10 registered: 1
painter, 5 laborers, 1 carpenter,
1 carpenter helper, 1 tractor op
erator, 1 truck driver.
At Buckland — 11 registered:
6 laborers, 3 carpenter helpers,
2 tractor operators.
Total labor registration of avail
able men of Kotzebue area — 341
registered: 16 miscellaneous; 200
laborers; 30 carpenters; 31 car
penter helpers, 32 heavy equip
ment operators; 32 ftmck drivers.
Lists have been sent to appro
priate agencies, emphasizing the
need to meet, at least in a degree,
the demands of native Alaskans
to be taken into the labor mar
kets of the State. “Indifference or
disregard of these desires will end
in a discontented critical minority
group in the State that can be
come a problem,” stated a spokes
man of the Arctic Circle Chamber.
New ESC Tax Plan Limits Taxable Wage
To $5,200, Hikes Rates, in Compromise
JUNEAU, (#1 — House hearings
were scheduled for tonight on a
Sdnate bill to amend Alaska’s em
ployment security act and a sub
stitute bill proposed by the House
Rules Committee.
The Senate measure was ap
proved by the upper chamber Sat
urday evening shortly after it
came out of a special committee,
which had been appointed to draft
a new ESC bill because three
earlier proposals became involved
in controversial argument over
their merit.
The substitute bill was pre
pared even before the Senate
measure was transferred to the
House.
Passed by a 16-4 vote, the bill
calls for higher employer and em
ploye taxes on Alaska’s unem
ployment insurance fund and for
increasing the ceiling on wages
subject to the tax from $4,200 to
$5,400.
Employer taxes would be
boosted from 2.7 per cent to 2 9
per cent, and the employes’ rate
would increase from Vz of 1 per
cent of $4,200 to 7/10 of 1 per
cent. The measure would also es
tablish a variable tax rate, which
would start in 1961 if the fund
balance as written into the bill
became effective.
The measure was termed by
supporters a fair compromise be
tween the other bills that had be
come involved in the deep con
troversy. Opponents simply called
it a bad bill.
Sen. George McNabb said the
measure included all the bad pro
visions of earlier legislation and
none of the good points. He wai
one of the four Democrats who
voted against the bill. Senators
John McNees, A1 Owen and Les
ter Bronson cast the other oppo
sition votes. —"
Pope Bestows Sainthood
On Two of History’s
Outstanding Catholics
VATICAN CITY, W) — Pope
John XXIII created the first saints
of his reign Sunday, elevating a
Franciscan lay brother and a
Spanish nun to sainthood.
" The Pontiff canonized Carlo Da
Sesse (1613-1617), who was known
for his piety, and Sister Gioacchina
De Vedruna De Mas (1783-1854),
who founded the Carmelites of
Charity.
The remains of St. Pius X ar
rived meanwhile at St. Mark’s
Cathedral in Venice to rest there
a month.
Late Payment . . .
MOUNTAIN HOME, Idaho, UD —
Ex-newspaper carrier Art Postle
waite .said he received a $3 check
from a former customer in New
burg, Ore.
Seventy-five cents was for a
month’s newspaper delivery. The
other $2.25 was for 27 years’ in
terest.
Session Increases
Power of Towns,
Over W ade Veto
JUNEAU, 1* — Alaska’s first
State Legislature flexed its
muscles Saturday and twice over
rode the Governor’s veto. It was
the first such action since 1955.
The bills had been vetoed by -
acting Governor Hugh Wade on
the advice of Attorney General
Williams, who contended both
measures extended the authority
of municipal governments contrary
to the borough system of local gov
ernment prescribed by the Con
stitution.
Apparently the lawmakers con
cluded they had the authority to
increase local governmental pow
ers in the transitional period
from territorial status to that of
statehood.
The joint legislative session
voted 50-9 to pass the vetoed
measure which permits magis
trates to levy fines in villages and
gives incorporated villages powers
they have not previously held.
A 48-11 vote overrode the veto
on a bill granting cities authority
to impound dogs considered •
menace to the community.
The vetoes were Wade’s third
and fourth of the legislative ses
sion. The first two were upheld
by the Legislature.
Former Nome Dist. Judge
Dies In Oregon at 68.
NESKOWIN, Ore., Of* — Joseph
W. Kehoe, a former U. S. District
Judge at Nome, died of a heart
attack here Thursday. A resident
of Portland, Kehoe was 68.
Kehoe first went to Alaska in
1919 to practice law at Haines.
Later he was appointed a United
State Commissioner, and also was
a U. S. Attorney.
After serving on the federal
bench, Kehoe was Secretary of
the then-Territory. He returned
from that post in 1954 and returned
to Oregon.
Funeral services will be held
here Tuesday.
Smelling Up the Home . . .
ELIZABETHTON, Tenn., (* —
When Ann Snavely sought help to
evict a skunk living beneath her
home, policeman Oran C. Camp
bell hurled a tear gas bomb at it.
The skunk stayed on. Mrs Snavely
moved her children oi t. They
couldn’t stand the tear gas.