Passage of Ferry Bond Bill
Is “Fla-arant Abuse of
Sound Financial Practice”
JUNEAU —Rep. Henry Pratt,
Anchorage Republican, said today
that the House’s passage of the
Ferry Bond Bill yesterday was
“flagarant abuse of sound finan
cial practice.”
“We have done nothing more
or less than give Gov. Egan a
blank check of $18 million to
spend as he sees fit,” Pratt said.
“It is the first time this group
of lawmakers has utterly released
their hold on the purse strings of
the state.”
Pratt said that laws passed at
the 1960 session called for the
Legislature to set rules and stand
ards under which the governor
would determine specific capital
improvements.
“But the entire section of the
ferry bill referring to so-called
rules and standards are nothing
but a weak effort to simulate
some sort of requirements.”
ONLY RESIDENTS WOULD
RECEIVE BOUNTIES
JUNEAU UP) — Only residents
of Alaska would be eligible to re
ceive bounties on wolves, coyotes
and hair seals under the terms of
a measure introduced in the
House yesterday by the Resources
Committee, by request.
WAITING LIST . . .
OSLO, Norway l/P> — A judge
reluctantly sent a 14-year-old boy
to jail for stealing cars when the
authorities couldn’t find a reform
school for him. Norway’s correc
tion schools are all filled and have
a waiting list of convicted ju
venile delinquents.
Yeung Demos Meet Thursday
Young Demos will meet at the
City Hall Thursday, 7:30 p. m.
A planned program is scheduled.
Egan Signs Total Of
2:i New Bills Into Law
JUNEAU UP! — Gov. Egan sign
ed three more bills into law yes
terday, bring the total of 23 for
the current legislative session.
The bills would:
Exempt wives of commercial
fishermen from the licensing reg
ulations of the fish and game code
while they are fishing with their
husbands but not receiving a
separate income from fishing.
Exempt vehicles from the an
nual license tax if they do not
use highways constructed or main
tained by municipal, borough,
state or federal funds.
Raise the monetary allowance
for prisoners serving time in lieu
of fines from $2 to $5 a day, plus
an extra $5 a day if the prison
er chooses to work.
GOLD SOLUTION . . .
SACRAMENTO, Calif. UP! — The
California Assembly offered its
solution to the nation’s gold prob
lem — a request that the federal
government buy the precious
metal for $105 an ounce. Gold
sells now for $35 an ounce.
The resolution, approved 42-34,
also asked Congress to require
the U. S. Treasury to treat gold
as a commodity.
Assemblyman Paul Lunardi,
Democrat, said his proposal would
revive the gold industry in Cali
fornia and restore the United
States’ gold reserves.
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BELLY ACHE ! ! !
JEWETT, Tex. UP) — Veterinar
ian Arch Hancock said surgery
was necessary the other day when
he examined a cow on the farm
of Jimmy Brewer.
Hancock said an 8-inch incision
in one of the cow’s stomachs re
vealed “about a half-bushel” of
plastic-like material — a weather
| balloon.
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Scientist Lives Two Days
On Oxygen Generated
By Green Water “Scum”’
SEATTLE (J’l — Scientist Joseph
McClure, 46, lived from noon 1
Monday until 2:30 p. m. yester
day on oxygen generated by Al
j gae, the green water plant which j
looks like scum.
The Boeing Airplane Co. ex
periment was to show that Algae |
could absorb carbon dioxide ex- '
haled by a man and produce
enough oxygen, in return, to keep
him alive.
McClure and the Algae were
sealed in a chamber. McClure 1
could see from an eight-inch glass ■
porthole and talk by telephone to
those outside.
Maj. Gen. Oliver K. Niess, Air
Force Surgeon General, was
present when McClure stepped
out.
“This,” the general said, “de
monstrates the feasibility of sup
porting men on sustained space
missions.”
99'ERS BOWLING LEAGUE
The following games were post
ed in the 99’ers Bowling League.
Morgans: Chuck Frazier 386,
John Barrow 463, Sam Hubo 391,
Dick Galleher 424. Barrow Mor
gan 482.
M and M Bank: Bill Haley 501,
Don Perkins 399, Corky Kost 423,
Don Hoover 383, Jack Carpenter
532.
Polaris Hotel: C. Mickelson 403.
N. Lean 592, G. Waldheim 487, D.
Lyle 358, C. Lewis 502.
Merchants: Hank Ulrich 492,
Stan Molitor 389, Ben Young 334,
Fred Cavota 287, T. Martin 395,
Polar Bar: Keith Hedreen 481,
Roy Luke 513, Holger Jorgensen
416, Hap Eberle 452. Bob Emmons
538.
Golddiggers Bowling League
The following games were post
ed in the Golddiggers Bowling
League.
Teetotalers: G. Waldheim 440,
P. Eberle 326, B. Martin 365, Tom
M 433, Hap E 509.
Polets: F. Shelton 349, F,. Mc
Cormick 408, S. Foster 363, J.
Shelton 506. D. McCormick 422.
NC Sluggers: B. White 405, G.
White 434. P. Bohrer 285. F. Kun
geuk 357, E. Sanders 381.
U. S. Merc: N. Carter 329, B.
Trigg 363, D. Kampmann 507, J.
St. Armour 398, H. Carter 424.
Religion adds measurably to
your personal happiness. Re
searchers at the University of
Michigan found that people whose
religion was important to them
had fewer personality conflicts
than those to whom God remains
largely only a three-letter word.
ORDINANCE NO. 409
AN ORDINANCE of the City of
Nome, Alaska, requiring a Fil
ing Fee of all candidates for
Election to Offices of the City,
and setting an effective date.
Be it ordained and enacted by the
Common Council of the City
of Nome, Alaska, as follows:
That the Code of Ordinances of
Nome, Alaska, is hereby amended,
by adding a section, to be num
bered 7-15, which said section
reads as follows:
Sec. 7-15. Candidates — filing
fee.
All candidates for election to
offices of the city shall pay to
the city clerk a fee of $10.00 at
the time the declaration of can
didacy is filed.
This ordinance shall be in full
fcrce and effect immediately up
on its passage by the Common
Council and the approval of the
Mayor.
Passed by the Common Council
of the City of Nome, Alaska, at
regular session assembled on the
13th day of March, 1951.
/s/ Steffen Andersen,
(Seal) Mayor
/s/ Robert F. Scott,
Attest: City Clerk
Publish March 15, 17, 20, 1961
South Africa Quits British
Commonwealth of Nations
By Arthur L. Gavshon
LONDON (An — South Africa
elected tonight to quit the British
commonwealth of nations rather
than soften its policy of w'hite
supremacy.
The announcement came after
three days of ineffectual attempts
by prime ministers of the British
led alliance to reconcile South
Africa’s views with those ’of its
commonwealth partners.
For Prime Minister Hendrik
Verwoerd of South Africa it was
a difficult decision.
South Africa’s withdrawal
means more than the loss of huge
trading and fiscal benefits of the
commonwealth system. It can
arouse most of South Africa’s
English-speaking population. It
can cause trouble from a part of
the Dutch-speaking majority that
support the government but fear
the economic consequences of
quitting the commonwealth.
All 10 of South Africa’s inde
pendent partners drew up a state
ment spelling out their readi
ness to okay its continued mem
bership.
But the statement also de
nounced apartheid, flaying its
principles of discrimination and
reaffirming that the common
wealth stod for racial equality.
Verwoerd refused to agree to
the issuance of this declaration
in the name of the commonwealth
as a whole.
We must be the world’s most
traveling people. Every day some
3Vij million Americans are on an
overnight trip taking them at least
100 miles away from home.
Soviets Denounce
Kennedy’s Peace Corps
LONDON (i'P* — After waiting
two weeks to assess President
Kennedy’s Peace Corps, the So
viets today denounced it as a
i “crafty plot.”
Radio Moscow said a “second
I glance” at the American plan to
! send young volunteers into under
| developed countries revealed
“goals that are anything but self
less.”
The Soviet commander said any
efforts of the Peace Corps to win
a good name for the United States
would be outweighed by the “U.
S. monopolies pumping billions
of dollars out of the underdevel
oped countries.”
“One san say right now that
the Peace Corps task is doomed
to failure,” the broadcast said.
SWEET POVERTY
DETROIT UR —An unemployed
man was booked on a speeding
charge Tuesday while hurrying
home in his 1959 Cadillac after
picking up his city welfare food
package.
George M. Kelly, 38, told Lieut.
Edward Dryden that he had been
out of work for three months
but was keeping up his $111
monthly car payments.
He was jailed pending court
appearance.
SNEAK THIEF
SAN JOSE, Calif, un — Some
body stole the coats and sweaters
of 12 Berkeley School tots pic
nicing at Alum Rock Park Sun
| day.
The kids couldn’t describe the
thief.
' They are blind.
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