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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LX'II No. 21 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1960_Per Copy 151
Alaska Airlines
Dickering For
Convair 880 Jet
SEATTLE, UP)—Alaska Airlines
is nearing a deal with the Convair
Divsion of the General Dynamics
Corp. that would result in Con
vair model 880 jet transport ser
vice on the line’s Seattle - Fair
banks run in June, the Times said
today.
Howard Hughes, industrialist,
who is the majority stockholder
in Trans World Airlines, has ag
reed to release six of the 30 model
880’s on order for TWA medium
range routes.
Alaska would obtain one pf the
six. Only Hughes’ approval is
needed, Richard Gilbert, senior
vice president of Alaska Airlines,
told the Times.
The line would obtain a second
880 several months later, either
one of the Hughes’ planes or a
later-model Convair medium jet.
Thus, the Seattle-Fairbanks run
may have competitive jet service
within a few months.
Pan American World Airways
announced Monday it would fly
four round trips a week on the
Seatlte-Fairbanks run with Boe
ing model 707-320 Intercontinen
tal jet transports beginning
March 1.
The Pan American jet service
is dependent on Pentagon approv
al of the line’s request to land
the Boeings at Ladd Air Force
Base.
Northwest Orient Airlines,
which has a fleet of Douglas DC-8
jets on order, plans to offer Seat
tle-Anchorage jet service begin
ning by the end of July, the
Times said.
Underwood Draws
Only Opposition
On Egan ‘Cabinet’
JUNEA'U, Iff! —Commissioner of
Public Safety Martin B. Under
wood drew the only opposition
yesterday as the Alaska Legisla
ture confirmed seven cabinet
level appointments by Gov. Egan.
Underwood’s appointment was
confirmed 54-4. Voting against
the former FBI agent were Reps.
Robert Sheldon (D-Fairbanks),
Dora Sweeney (D-Juneau), Allen
Peterson (D-Kenai) and Bruce
Kendall (R-Valdez).
The other six appointments
were confirmed unanimously,
rounding out the Governor’s 12
member cabinet.
Approved without dissent yes
terday were the appointments of
A.H. Romick, State Commissioner
of Commerce; Dr. Theo Norby,
Commissioner of Education; Clar
ence Anderson. Commissioner of
Fish and Game; Paul Winsor,
Commissioner of Health and Wel
fare, and Brig. Gen. Thomas P.
Carroll, Adjutant General.
Action was taken at a joint
session following a Democratic
caucus.
Russians Develop
New, White Karakul
MOSCOW, Iff — The Russians
say they’ve developed something
new for the fashion world — a
white variety of the glossy, tight
ly curled lamb’s fur known as
karakul. It needs no bleaching
before dyeing. Tass, the Soviet
news agency, said the first con
. signment would be put on sale at
jgj the International Fur Auction in
S Leningrad this summer.
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Increase in Funds |
For Rampart Dam j
Study Proposed
WASHINGTON, Mt—Sen. Allen
J. Ellender (D-La) has called for
an increase in the amount of
money recommended by Presi
dent Eisenhower to continue plan
ning on the proposed Rampart
power dam in Alaska.
Noting President Eisenhower
had recommended $75,000 for
Rampart, Ellender said he under
stood it would be within the en
gineering capabilities of the Army
Engineers to economically use
about $300,000.
Lt. Gen. E. C. Itschner, chief of
Army Engineers, agreed.
Ellender said his questions
about Rampart, were made at the
request of Sen. Ernest Gruening.
Itschner agreed with Ellender
that Rampart would be the larg
est and most important power
dam in the United States and the
equal of some of the larger hydro
electric dams in Russia.
Rampart, Itschner said, could
back up sufficient water to have
a generatng capacity of 4V£ mil
lion kilowatts of power 12 months
a year.
He said the dam would gener
ate constant power even though
the reservoir pool is frozen over
15 feet or more. The intake for
the power generators, he said, is
below that line and “weather
would have no effect on opera
tions.”
The project, he said, would go
far to help develop Alaska.
Ellender, observing the project
would be at least twice as big
as Grand Coulee, said he would
go into the matter in more detail
later. He said he thought Con
gress should approve sufficent
funds for the planning work.
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Boundary Change
Question Occupies
State Legislature
JUNEAU, UP—Should the State
of Alaska make boundary changes
against the wishes of the majority
of local citizens?
The question occupied much of
the time of the joint Local Af
fairs Committee of the State Leg
islature yesterday as it opened a
hearing on proposals of the Local
Boundary Commission.
“The Constitution says that
boundaries are to be set by state
authority,” said Rep. John Hel
lenthal (D-Anchorage), “not by a
Gallup poll in the area to be an
nexed.
“It has to be that way, or else
there will never be any changes
in boundaries.”
The five - member commission
has recommended annexation of
two areas to the City of Anchor
age and one to Kodiak. The rec
ommendations will have the force
of law unless the Legislature dis
approves them.
SLENDERIZED VEEP . . .
DETROIT, IP — Detroiters saw
a slenderized Vice President
Nixon Monday. He was 15 pounds
lighter than during his last ap
pearance in Michigan nearly 17
months ago.
His wife, Pat, told newsmen he
lost about 15 pounds early in 1959
after “he picked up a bug of some
sort” during an African tour. His
health is fine, Mrs. Nixon said.
It’s just that he never regained
those 15 pounds. She said he now
weighs about 170.
NORAD Radar Stations
Know Nothing About
Mysterious Flying Objects
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.,
UP) — A spokesman for the North
American Defense Command said
today radar apparently did not
pick up unidentified flying ob
jects reported seen in Alaskan
skies Monday.
The NORAD spokesman de
clined to speculate on the nature
of the objects.
The NORAD Combat Opera
tions Center at Kent Air Force
Base confirmed reports that two
objects were observed moving in
opposite directions across the Al
askan skies.
One object, moving rapidly
enough to leave contrails in the
sky, was reported sighted at Un
alakleet, moving in a northwest
erly direction. It produced a flash
which may have been caused by
an explosion.
The other object, moving in a
northeasterly direction, was re
ported seen in the vicinity of
Nome.
Maj. Roy L. Haynes, public in
formation officer for the Alaska
Air Command at Anchorage, said
there were no new developments
there.
Air Force Manual
Attacked by Nat.
Church Council
WASHINGTON, Iffi — The Air
Force today announced the with
drawal of an instruction manual
which had been attacked by the
National Council of Churches as
linking churches and communism.
An Air Force statement said
Secretary Dudley Sharp ordered
an investigation yesterday, im
mediately upon learning of the
existence of the manual. It re
ported the manual already had
been withdrawn by Air Force
headquarters on Feb. 11.
The statement said:
“Secretary Sharp categorically
repudiated the publication as re
presenting Air Force views.
“He has directed an Air Force
inquiry into the circumstances of
the development and issuance of
this manual, including names of
individuals responsible.
‘He has directed a check to see
whether similar material is con
tained in any Air Force or Air
Force Reserve publications.”
The statement said the manual
was withdrawn when its exis
tence was brought to the atten
tion of “responsible officials by
a member of the Reserve forces.”
As evidence, the Council cited
such statements in the manual as
this: “There appears to be over
whelming evidence of Communist
anti - religious activity in the
United States through the infil
tration of fellow travelers into
churches and educational institu
tions.”
James Wine, associate general
secretary of the Council, said in
a statement the Council “is grave
ly concerned about what appears
to be a pattern of biased religious
and social indoctrination of per
sonnel by the United States Air
Force.”
Pakistan’s First President
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan, Iff) —
Field Marshal Mohammed Ayub
Khan, military ruler of Pakistan
for the past 15 months, was sworn
in today as the country’s first
elected president. It was the first
major ceremony held in Rawal
pindi since Ayub Khan shifted
the capitol here from Karachi.
Eisenhower Defies Critics of Defense
Policy To Show He Misled The Nation.
By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH
WASHINGTON, UP*— President
Eisenhower will go on nationwide
television and radio Sunday eve
ning to discuss national defense
and his forthcoming South Am
erican tour.
The President announced this
at a news conference and—in cold
anger — Eisenhower called it de
spicable for anyone to suggest
that he may mislead the nation
regarding its defense position.
Eisenhower said that if anyone,
believes that he has misled the
nation on defense matters, he
would like to deny it to that per
son’s face.
Eisenhower asserted that Am
erica’s defense is not only strong,
but also awesome and respected
elsewhere.
The President’s-Sunday evening
talk will begin at 6:15 p.m. (EST).
He expects to talk for about 15
minutes.
In the course of the news con
ference, the President also dis
cussed these matters:
Nuclear — He said the Soviet
Union’s latest program looking
toward suspension of nuclear
weapons tests seems to get away
from the completely rigid position
the Soviets have maintained pre
viously.
However, Eisenhower hit at one
aspect of the new Soviet plan—
that calling for a limited number
of inspections to determine whe
ther any nuclear power was cheat
ing. When you get into the busi
ness of limiting inspections, he
said, you at the same time get
into a long argument because you
get into the old numbers racket.
Nixon — In more than seven
years of working closely with
Vice President Nixon, Eisenhower
said, never once has Nixon been
at any major variance with him
regarding administration policy.
A reporter had told Eisenhower
that some people feel that he and
Nixon seem to have a somewhat
different philosophy on some
matters and a different approach
to handling problems.
France — Eisenhower called it
only natural for France to want
to join the United States, Britain
and the Soviet Union in develop
ment of atomic devices. He made
that remark when asked for com
ment on France’s first explosion
of such a device last Saturday.
25-Cent Steaks, 5-Cent
Highballs Are Order of
Day at Okinawa AF Club
NEW YORK, IjW—The Airmen’s
Club at Kadena Air Base on Oki
nawa is more than a home away
from home, says Time magazine.
Home was never like this.
A Time article describes these
club attractions for a $l-a-month
fee: nightly dances with a 75-cent
admission featuring pretty, medi
cally approved Okinawan host
esses; bingo games with $1,000
prizes plus expense-paid trips to
Hawaii; cocktails and highballs
for 5 cents each; steaks for 25
cents; free drinks and pizza pie
once a month.
Time says it’s all paid for from
slot machines that account for
profits estimated at 2V4 million
dollars annually at the 50 service
clubs on Okinawa.
M/Sgt. Joseph Peter Klauzar,
manager of tre Kadena Airmen’s
Club, has the job of thinking up
gimmicks to keep the troops
happy. Time quotes Milwaukee
born Klauzar, a former movie
house manager, as saying: “When
I was in show biz the secret was
constant gimmicks.”
The magazine says Klauzar’s
gimmicks for the club have in
cluded free champagne and steak
dinners for any GI on his birth
day and also when ' he leaves
Kadena.
Senate Bill Authorizes
$335,110 To Pay For First
Year of Retirement Plan
JUNEAU, (iPI — Legislation to
finance a proposed state retire
ment system was introduced in
the Alaska Legislature yesterday.
The Senate Finance Committee
introduced bills to appropriate
$335,110 for state contributions
for the first six months of next
year and $14,948 for administra
tive costs.
Earlier, the committee intro
duced a bill to set up a retirement
system. It will hold the appropri
ation bills off the floor until the
main retirement measure is acted
upon.
Super Radar Is
Being Built At
Clear, Alaska, Site,
WASHINGTON, UP) —A super
power radar station able to spot
Soviet missiles thousands of miles
away will be set up in England
for U.S.-British defense, the State
Department announced today.
The huge metal screen—bigger
than a football field set on its
side — is to be built at a $120
million cost between London and
Edinburgh. s
Defense experts said this giant
installation, plus two others now
under construction in North Am
erica, will be able to provide
speedy detection over a large area
of the northern hemisphere of any
missile headed that way.
The reported range of the high
power radar is about 3,500 miles.
The electric eye can thus peer ac
ross the Arctic to spot missiles
launched from Russia.
The two other stations in the
chain are now being built at
Thule, Greenland, and Clear,
Alaska, for completion expected
late this year, or in 1961.
U.S. officials figure the con
struction cost at 98 million dol
lars for the U.S. and 22 million
dollars for Britain for the station
there.
The British will command and
operate the station.
Civil Rights Bill Cleared
For House Action Soon
WASHINGTON, UP)—The House
Rules Committee agreed infor
mally today to clear a stalemated
Civil Rights bill for House con
sideration.
Formal action sending the mea
sure to the House floor probably
will be taken tomorrow. The de
cision to act was made at a hur
riedly called session this morning.
The House probably will con
sider the bill next month.
. Meanwhile, a Democratic plan
for securing Negro voting rights
was placed before the Senate
Rules Committee but considera
tion was deferred.