Trio of Women
Found Murdered
In Illinois Cave
OTTAWA, 111., (if) — A .blood
stained tree limb and pieces of
red cord were objects of intense
scrutiny yesterday a s police
spurred efforts to solve the grisly
slaying of three women on a holi
day trip to one of Illinois’ most
scenic resorts.
But investigators admitted they
had little to go on.
The women, wives of prominent
Chicago business executives, were
found by a search party Wed
nesday on the floor of a cave in
a towering sandstone canyon in
rolling Starved Rock State Park,
100 miles southwest of Chicago.
Their heads were bloodied and
battered. Bruises covered other
parts of their bodies. Two women
were naked from the waist down;
the third still wore a girdle. A
fingertip was missing from one
victim.
State’s Attorney Harlan Warren
said all indications pointed to
rape too. State police troopers
agreed it was a sex crime, “one
of the worst in many years.”
The victims, all socially promi
nent in West Chicago, had checked
into the all-year resort for a rest
days of rest and hiking.
They were not missed until
Wednesday when relatives phoned
the lodge.
The bloodied tree limb was
, picked up about six feet from the
mouth of the cave.
The pieces of red cord were
found around the wrists of two
of the victims. Investigators theor
ized that the assailant or assail
ants tied the two together while
they attacked the third.
Voice Vote Defeats Move
To Allow Drinking In
State’s Bowling Alleys
J-UNEAIU, (i?l—Alaska’s bowlers
will have to continue to do their
bowling in the bowling lanes and
their drinking someplace else.
The House rejected this week
a proposal that they be permitted
to bring their drinks with them
to the lanes from adjacent cock
tail bars.
The way it is now, said Rep.
Robert Giersdorf, many bowlers
sneak out' to their lockers when
they get a chance and belt down
a few ghots from a bottle.
Giersdorf, a Fairbanks Demo
crat, owns a bowling alley.
Opposing the proposal, Rep.
William Erwin (D-Seward) told
the house: “We have two differ
ent recreations here.” And Rep.
O r v a 1 Freeman (D-Ketchikan)
called it “a step in allowing
’ liquor to come out where chil
dren are.”
The proposal was defeated by
voice vote.
FLASH SEEN AT SHISHMAREF
Walter Nayokpuk of Shishma
ref reports that the object sighted
puk reports that the object sighted
on Sunday, March 6, at Teller,
Nome, Unalakleet and Moses Pt.,
was also seen by'several villagers
there. Most of the villagers were
in church, and about 8:15, several
of them reported seeing a light
ning-like flash through the win
dow. Two others who were at
. home also reported seeing the
flash through their windows at
about the same time.
MMM HOSPITAL
Admitted: Hugo Lindsfors, Lor
ena Boehler, and John Kost III.
The submarine was not gen
erally recognized a legitimate
instrument of warfare until the
Civil War.
U. S. Delegate Asks
Ban on Space Atoiji
Weapons Forever
GENEVA, Uf) — U. S. Delegate
Frederick M. Eaton asked the 10
nation disarmament conferehce
yesterday to agree at once on the
banning of weapons in outer
space. ,
"He also called for auditing of
missile flights and a halt in pro
duction of nuclear materials for
arms.
Eaton told the delegations that
such steps would give an impetus
to their work in seeking general
disarmament. He warned that the
final banning of all weapons
would not be accomplished ail
at once. ' ,
He said he believed the confer
ence could take steps now to deny
the use of outer space to weapons
of mass destruction forever.
A reporting of missile flights
to some center which would keep
track of them would ease the
chance of miscalculations that
might start a war, he said.
The Western powers say they
are seeking a disarmament pact
before scientists can develop nu
clear-armed space satellites.
Speaking in the two-hour sec
ond working session, Eaton said
the conference should move at
once into the problem! of nuclear
material.
•He warned the five Communist
powers — the Soviet Union,
Czechoslovakia, Poland, Romania
and Bulgaria — *hat it is futile
for them to believe the United
States would ever enter any gen
eral disarmament agreement
"which failed to contain central
elements of control.
He criticized the four-year
deadline in the Soviet plan. It
would be impossible, he declared,
to accomplish responsible disarm
ament while working against
such a deadline.
The Communist delegations, led
by Soviet Foreign Minister Valer
ian Zorin, hold that the ultimate
aim is “complete and general dis
armament,” as stated in a reso
lution of the U.N. General As
sembly.
Former Anchorage
Mayor Anderson
Passes on Today
ANCHORAGE, Iffl — Anton An
derson, pioneer engineer and for
mer mayor of Anchorage, died
Wednesday in Mount Vernon,
Wash.
The 67-year-old New Zealander
who came to the state in 1917,
died after a two-year fight against
Parkinson’s disease. His wife,
Alma, ,was with him.
The funeral will be held Satur
day at 10 a.m. in Hoquiam, Wash.,
from the Coleman Funeral Parlor.
Besides his widow, Anderson
leaves three daughters, Mrs. Don
Anderson and Miss Shelby Ander
son of Anchorage and Mrs. Don
ald Graves of Fairbanks.
During his long and colorful
career, Anderson ranged over
most of what was then the Terri
tory of Alaska.
“I think I walked over more of
Alaska than any man since Alfred
Brooks,” he once said. Brooks was
the explorer for whom the Brooks
Range was named.
Anderson surveyed and engi
neered much of the Alaska Rail
road. He later became chief en
gineer of the line. He surveyed
the orignal Anchorage townsite,
was location engineer for the Mat
anuska Valley colonization pro
ject, and principal engineer for
the Army in Alaska during World
War II.
He underwent surgery last fall
in Sweden in a new treatment for
Parkinson’s disease. Another trip
to Sweden for the second phase
of the treatment was planned for
this fall. "
Senate Committee Votes
To Permit Anchorage to
Annex Fairview PUD
JUNEAU, U")—The Senate Local
Roundary Committee voted 4-1
yesterday to permit Ithe City of
Anchorage to arinex the Public
Utility District of Fairview.
The committee did so by dis
approving a House-passed reso
lution to block the annexation
recommended by the State Local
Boundary Commission.
Unless the Senate rejects the
committee recommendation and
goes along with the ^ouse action
the mile-square area surrounded
by Anchorage will become part of
the city Sunday.
The Constitution provides that
recommendations of the Local
Boundary Commission become
laW unless rejected by the Legis
lature.
In MMM Hospital from Shaktoolik
According to the Shaktoolik
newspaper, edited by Helen Rock
of the Shaktoolik BIA School,
Mrs. Hall has been here for medi
cal treatment and is expected to
go home in a few days.
Also sent to Nome from Shak
toolik for medical attention was
Daniel Savetilik, who injured his
hand on a sawmill while gather
ing firewood.
Fine Job Printing At The Nugget.
New State Personnel Program Would
Name Director to Regulate Civil Service
JUNEAU, IffI — Legislation to'
put a uniform personnel system
into effect throughout the Alaska
state government nears enactment
in the state’s capitol.
As the 1960 Legislative session
draws to a close, an assortment of
bills relating to personnel and re
tirement programs are being
drawn together.
One of the key "measures, pro
viding a merit system for state
government service, passed the
Senate unanimously Wednesday.
The- bill now goes back to the
House for concurrence in Senate
amendments.
The measure calls for three
classes of state employes. A uni
form pay plan would affect all
agencies of government. The bill
does not detail a pay schedule,
which would be drawn up later
[ and put into effect by executive
order. The 1961 Legislature would
have power to approve or disap
prove the schedule.
Administration of the new per
sonnel program would be under
a director and a personnel board.
Rules to regulate civil service em
ployment in the state would be
made by the personnel director,
subject to veto authority of the
three-man board appointed by the
Governor.
Key state officials, including
elected officers, judges and execu
tive department heads, would be
exempt from the act.
Partially exempt would be legis
lators, assistant department com
missioners, secretaries to depart
ment heads and deputy atorneys
general. They would be covered
by standard pay scales and job
classifications, but would not have
to qualify for employment by
examination nor would they be
eligble for hearings in cases of
dismissal, demotion or suspension.
The third type of state employe
would be the one in the so-called
classified service. This group
would include all state positions
not covered by exempt or partial
ly exempt status.
Before the bill passed, a move
to strike provisions regulating po
litical activity failed.
Sen. Seaborn J. Buckalew Jr.
(D-Anchorage) tried to remove
from the bill a section which
would prevent any classified em
ploye from taking part in the di
rection of a poliical campaign or
the management of party affairs.
The bill permits exempt or par
tially exempt employes to hold
political office and take part in
directing party affairs.
Also rejected was an amend
ment which would have put state
employes on a 40-hour week. They
t
now work a 37 Vfc-hour week.
Another bill relating to state
employes was introduced in the
House.
The rate of annual leave cred
ited to state employes would toe
changed under terms of the meas
ure, introduced by the House Fi
nance Committee.
Under present law, state work
ers receive 2Vz days of annual
leave for each month of service,
regardless of how many years
they have been employed.
The new bill would allow 1V4
days a month in leave for em
ployes with less than three years
of service, 1% days for those with
three to 15 years, and 2V4 for
those with more than 15 years
on the job. An employe would be
able to accumulate up to 45 days
of leave time.
The new schedule would be
come effective July 1.
C.A.B. Approves
Cordova Airlines Flight
WASHINGTON, UP! — The Civil
Aeronautics Board granted Cor
dova Airlines one-year authority
this week, to carry passengers,
cargo and mail between Chisana
and Northway.
Last January Cordova asked
amendment of its certificate
to extend its route beyond Chisana
to Dawson, Yukon Territory, by
way of Northway.
Because the proposed service to
Dawson would have to await per
mission of the Canadian govern
ment, Cordova applied Feb. 11 for
exemption from the regulations so
that it could operate to Northway
pending outcome of its applica
tion for the route to Dawson.
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READING: 1 John, Chapter 1.
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walk close to Thee. May our lives
disclose that we have been with
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name of Jesus, who taught us to
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our way.
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