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VOL. LXII No. 39 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1960Per Copy 151
2nd Session of State Legislature Ends;
Launches Record Spending Program
State Election Code
Gets Final Polish
In Last Day Session
JUNEAU, — If you want to
vote a straight Republican or
Democratic ticket this year, you
can do so toy marking just one “X”
on the ballot.
Both houses of the Legislature
accepted Tuesday a conference
committee report recommending
that such a provision be included
in the state election code.
The House had approved the
plan when it originally passed the
election code 'bill, but the Senate
amended it to retain the previous
form of ballot.
Under the old system, a voter
was required to mark a separate
“X” for each candidate of his
choice. He will still be able to
do this if he wishes to.
Filing Fees Increased
The election code increases the
cost of filing for state wide elec
tive office. Candidates for top
posts paid $40 in the past. The fee
for candidates or Governor, Sec
retary of States and positions in
the Congress will now be $100.
A number of bills which stirred
debate in the lawmaking session
died during the closing hours.
A move to bring out a trimmed
down civil rights bill was rejected
in the Senate. The bill, prohibit
ing discrimination in public hous
ing, was approved by the House
and had been in a Senate commit
tee for several days.
The Senate also refused to un
table a bill to allow formation of
organized boroughs toy local ini
tiative. The House had approved
the measure.
Some bills were saved.
The Senate approved a measure
permitting the state to contract
with Arthur D. Little Inc., a Cam
bridge, Mass., consulting firm, for
assistance in economic develop
ment. The 16-1 vote sent the
measure to Governor Egan for ap
proval. The general appropria
tions bill includes $160,000 to cov
er the cost.
A proposed increase in Alaska’s
annual school tax, from $10 to $60,
died after a quick parliamentary
shuffle. The House tacked the
proposal on as an amendment to a
Senate-approved bill making the
tax payable on April, the same
as income tax. The Senate refused
to approve the amendment, and
the House backed off. The aim of
the bill is to tighten up on col
lection of school taxes. Legislators
said it would boost receipts by
$200,000 a year.
GRAND JURY CHOSEN
The Grand Jury is now in ses
sion, with the following mem
Borgny Reader, foreman, John
Penetac, Mable Mitchell, Chester
Sevick, Lucie Ann Richardson,
Pauline Russell, Helen Carlson,
Mabel Kotongan, Robert Newlin,
Charlie Horner, Emma Porter,
Borgny Reader, Chester Sevick,
Lester Bahr, Cyril Okitkon,
James Andrews, Peter O. Bahr,
Johnny Kugzruk, P. L. Reader,
and Joseph A. Malony.
By WILLIAM J. TOBIN
JUNEAU, UP) — The Second Ses
sion of Alaska’s First State Legis
lature ended early today.
The final gavel fell in the State
Senate 65 days and a few min
utes after the lawmakers con
vened for the 1960 meeting in
January.
The brief overtime was tagged
onto the session as actual ad
journment came 11 minutes past
midnight in the House and four
minutes later in the Senate.
Forty-five minutes earlier, cli
maxing nine and one-ltelf weeks
of work, the 60 lawmakers had
approved the biggest spending
program in Alaska history.
In the 1961 fiscal year begin
ning July 1, a total of $46,557,969
will be made available to carry
out the most extensive govern
mental program ever conducted
by Alaskans.
$151,490 Trimmed from Program
Final agreement on the size of
the big appropriation bill was
reached after a House-Senate con
ference committee had trimmed
$151,490 from the measure as it
passed the Senate Monday.
The biggest slice took $100,000
from a Senate-approved $150,000
appropriation for a start on a
marine institute for the Univer
sity of Alaska.
The only addition to the bill
was $25,000 to cover costs of plan
ning for an Alaska exhibit at the
Century 21 Exposition at Seattle
in 1962.
Other reductions cut from $40,
000 to $20,000 an appropriation to
finance legal expenses involved in
the state’s protest of freight rate
increases; trimmed $7,500 from
the Civil Air Patrol’s appropria
tion, leaving $32,500; sliced $30,
000 from a special education fund,
a cut to $80,000, and knocked an
appropriation to the Tourism and
Economic Development Division
down to $135,00, a reduction of
$8,990.
Aside from the record spending
program, the First State Legisla
ture’s final session probably will
be remembered most for two
things.
Two Memorable Actions
The memorable marks are its
sanction of certain gambling ac
tivities, and its approval of a
program that will permit honor
prisoners week-long leaves for
visits home.
The legalized gambling law,
enacted over the veto of Governor
Egan, sanctions only so-called
non-profit gambling of a nature
that was traditional in Alaska’s
glamorous territorial days.
The prisoner leave bill—which
still has not been signed into law
— provides that both single and
married honor inmates may re
ceive week-long leaves once every
six months.
Two Ganaral Tax In creates
Two general tax increases were
approved by the 1960 session —
both hiking levies against motor
fuel. One provided a two-cent-a
gallon boost in automobile gaso
line taxes, a raise to seven cents
a gallon. The other was a one
cent hike in the tax on marine
fuel — which will go to a new
level of three cents a gallon. To
gether, the increases are expected
Continued on Page Fivr;
Ike Says Nixon
Would Be Stupid to
Stand on Old Ideas
WASHINGTON, UP) — President
Eisenhower said today that Vice
President Nixon would be abso
lutely stilpid to stand pat on all of
the Administrations current poli
cies in campaigning for the Presi
dency.
At a news conference, Eisen
hower asserted all the signs indi
cate that the Soviet Union now
does want a degree of disarma
ment and a halt to testing of nu
clear weapons, but on Soviet
terms. /
As for Nixon, at this point a
sure bet to win the Republican
Presidential nomination, a re
porter noted that the Vice Presi
dent in recent speeches has said
he will seek election on the basis
of an expanded program of his
own, rather than on Eisenhower
Administration policies alone.
Eisenhower was asked whether
Nixon now is free to sejt forth his
own views or whethef the Vice
President has had that right for
the last seven years.
Eisenhower, who has publicly
declared his support of Nixon, re
plied that the world moves on
and that Nixon would be abso
lutelp stupid to go simply as far
as the current Administration’s
policy on various matters and
then stop.
Also in the political field, Eis
enhower said in response to a
question that Governor Nelson
Rockefeller of New Cork would
be completely acceptable to him
as the GOP nominee for Vice
President. But Eisenhower added
promptly there are a score of Re
publicans who would be accep
table to him as Nixon’s running
mate. He did not name any of
the others.
The President met with news
men shortly after returning to
Washington from Camp David,
Md., where he and Britain’s Prime
Minister Harold MacMillan had
two days of talks on a nuclear
weapons test arjd other problems.
Khrushchev Says
West Denies Ideas
Of Disarmament
ROUEN, France, CP) — Soviet
Premier Khrushchev voiced dis
approval of Western disarmament
proposals today, asserting the
West “is even denying the prin
ciple of disarmament.”
The Soviet Premier made his
statement at an impromptu news
conference aboard the train that
brought him here from Lille on
his tour of the French country
side.
Asked if he approved the West
ern plan for gradual disarmament,
laid 'before the 10-nation confer
ence at Geneva, Khrushchev re
plied: “No!”
The Western proposals have
“nothing in common with those
we proposed to the United Na
tions,” he said, referring to his
rival plan for total disarmament
in four years.
“There is no common ground,”
he added.
On the three-power nuclear
test ban treaty talks, however,
Khrushchev was more optimistic.
“The prospects are very good if
the United States and Great Bri
tain will accept their own pro
posals,” he said, “because ours
are the same as theirs.”
Thirty-Three State Appointments
Confirmed by Retiring Legislators
JUNEAU, ue> — Ralph Moody,
Majority Leader of the Alaska
Senate, was confirmed as State At
torney General yesterday 'by a
joint session of the Legislature.
The Anchorage lawyer, 44, will
succeed John Rader about May 1.
He will resign his Senate seat at
that time and a new senator will
be elected in November for the
term ending in January, 1963.
Rader resigned the $17,000-a
year post to return to private law
practice in Anchorage.
Moody was one of 33 appointees
whose nomination by Governor
Egan was confirmed at the joint
legislative assembly.
Burke Riley, the Governor’s ad
ministrative assistant, was con
firmed as successor to the office
of Secretary of State in the event
it should become vacant for any
reason.
C. J. Davis, of Juneau, was con
firmed as director and executive
officer of the Alcoholic Beverage
Control Board. Keith Reischl, 36,
of Juneau, was confirmed as a
member of the board. He succeeds
Ernest Parsons of Juneau, who
had been nominated for a new
term, but whose name was with
drawn
Other appointments were:
Board of Education — Hunting
ton Gruening, Juneau, and Mrs.
Maurice Kelliher, Nome.
Board of Fish and Game — Rob
ert Martin, Naknek; Oscar Dyson,
Kodiak, and Dr. Howard Romig,
Anchorage.
Employment Security Advisory
Council — Axel Edman, Nome.
Board of Public Accountancy —
George Hedla, Anchorage, and
Mrs. Mischa Bigovich, Fairbanks.
Board of Pharmacy — Thomas
Miklautsoh, Fairbanks.
Board of Basic Sciences—Ralph
Wright, Juneau.
Board of Dental Examiners —
Dr. Warren Baitley, Petersburg,
and Dr. William Seig, Haines.
Hospital Advisory Council —
Durwood Huls, Valdez.
Alaska Housing Authority —
Orville Paxton, Sitka; Albert Va- '
cura, Fairbanks, and Donald Mel
lish, Anchorage.
Local Boundary Commission —
Mrs. Gordon Lyon, Anchorage;
Henry Camarot, Fairbanks; Paul
Choquette, Homer; Robert Scott,
Nome; Ben Fleenor, Ketchikan.
Public Service Commission —
Philip Molitor, Anchorage; Karl
Walter Jr., Fairbanks, and Thom
as Reilly, Ketchikan.
Board of Real Estate Examiners
— John Pasley, Fairbanks; Ver
non Haik, Anchorage, and R. R.
Reagan, Ketchikan.
University of Alaska Board of
Regents — J. J. Conway, Sitka,
and Boyd Harwood, Nome.
‘Clear and Cold’ At
Nenana, as Ice Stands
At 37-Inch Thickness
FAIRBANKS — The Nenana
Igloo of Pioneers of Alaska played
host to nearly 400 Pioneers from
in and around Fairbanks on Sun
day. The topic of conversation
turned to the Nenana Ice Classic,
with many of the Pioneers re
membering its beginning in 1917.
The closing date being only a few
days away brought many pros
and cons on the possible breakup
date. The majority of the members
were still forecasting an early
breakup in spite of a cold, windy
day. The thickness of the ice
remains at 37 inches, with over
eight feet of water flowing under
the tripod, with midnight of April
2 set for closing time for guesses.
Excitement is rising in Nenana.
The weather today is clear and
cold.
So. African Natives Stage
Demonstration; National
Emergency Declared
By RICHARD KASISCHKE
JOHANNESBURG, UP) — More
than 30,000 Negroes staged a spec
tacular demonstration before the
funs of a Cape Town police sta
tion today, seeking release of new
ly arrested leaders, then headed
back frustrated to their native
settlements.
Prime Minister Hendrik Ver
woerd announced the collapse of
the demonstration.
The chief of government, em
broiled in perhaps the greatest
racial crisis in South Africa’s his
tory, told Parliament the armed
forces will be used if necessary
to maintain law and order.
The government proclaimed a
state of emergency — near mar
tial law — while the Cape Town
outburst and two flareups in other
cities heightened tension through
out the nation.
Jealous Suitor
Kills Widow, Self
In Anchorage Bar
ANCHORAGE, UP) — A widowed
mother of three children was
slain last night toy a man who
walked into a tavern near here,
pumped two bullets into her, then
shot and killed himself.
State Police identified the dead
as James Speedy, 35, of Anchor
age, an employe of Convair Air
craft Corp., and Mrs. Edna Lee
DeMets 36, also of Anchorage.
Police said the woman’s assail
and first shot her in the arm, then
calmly walked behind her and
pumped another bullet into her
back.
Speedy, officers said, placed
the gun — a .44 caliber revolver—
against his chest and pulled the
trigger. He died moments later.
Police said Speedy was sep
arated from his wife, who lives in
San Diego, Calif. He had lived
here for the past two years.
Officers said Speedy apparently
had been a suitor of Mrs. DeMers.
They listed jealousy as a probable
motive for the shooting but did
not elaborate.
Keith Bryar from New
Hampshire Captures
Nenana Sled Trophy
FAIRBANKS — Keith Bryar,
New England sled dog racing
champion, last week added an
other victory to his string by be
coming the dog mushing champion
of Nenana.
The Laconia, N. H.( musher
copped both ends of the Nenana
races over the weekend to wal^c
away with $300 in prize money.
With an elapsed time of 1:37.29, he
held nearly a seven-minute mar
gin over his closest competitor,
Virgil Titus.
Mushers covered 18 miles each
day. Seventeen men participated
in the race.