THE
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
62nd Year No. 25 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1961 Per Copy 15<
Mt. Edgecumbe
Nursing School
Will Shut Down
ANCHORAGE UP) — The Mt.
Edgecumbe School of Practical
Nursing, operated by the U. S.
Public Health Service, will be
closed following the graduation
of the present class. Announce
ment of the closure was made by
Dr. Kazumi Kasuga, area medical
officer in charge of the U. S. Pub
lic Health Service.
The decision to close the school
was based on the decline in the
number of qualified native appli
cants. The smaller enrollment has
made the cost of maintaining the
program excessive, and practical
nursing is available elsewhere for
natives, Kasuga said.
The Anchorage Community Col
lege is negotiating with the state
in the hope of establishing a
school of practical nursing next
fall, the doctor said.
Kasuga said that Dr. J. Fred
Oesterle, medical officer in charge
of the ANHS Hospital at Mt.
Edgecumbe, wishes to express his
thanks to those who have assisted
in developing the training pro
gram and to those who have
served on the nursing school’s ad
visory council.
The practical nurse training
was made available through the
Bureau of Indian Affairs vocation
al program.
New Air Control Center
Will Handle Jet Age
Flying in the Pacific
HONOLULU UD — A new $4.5
million communications and air
control center to handle jet age
flying in the Pacific was opened
today by the Federal Aviation
Agency.
The center was built on the
floor of Diamond Head Crater, an
extinct volcano just off Waikiki
Beach.
FAA officials said the concrete
structure should withstand the
blast of a 100-megaton nuclear
bomb hit on Pearl Harbor, 30
miles away. The building has no
windows and is air-conditioned.
The center has a dual role. Its
air route traffic control will speed
jet traffic in and out of Honolulu.
Its international flight station will
expediate international air traffic
control and weather communica
tions between Asia and the United
States.
About 160 employes control air
traffic in an area of about 5.4
million square miles. The U. S.
mainland, by comparison, covers
about 3.2 million.
The control room is in immedi
ate touch with Anchorage, San
Francisco, Canton Island, Fiji,
Samoa, Australia, Wake Island,
Guam, the Philippines, Tokyo,
Midway and Kwajalein.
BULLETIN
WASHINGTON OP) — The House
passed President Kennedy’s bil
lion-dollar emergency unemploy
ment bill today.
The bill now goes to the Senate
as administration backers keep up
their drive to have the benefits
flowing by April 1 to workers
jobless so long they have used up
their basic unemployment insur
ance rights. The administration
has estimated as many as three
million may benefit during the
two-year life of the program.
Urges Creation
Of Mental Health
Clinic Within State
JUNEAU UP) — An Anchorage
| psychiatrist recommended to a
I House committee last night that
| a separate Department of Mental
Health be created wihin the State
Administration, headed by a full
scale commissioner.
“We must do something about
the mental health setup in the
state or the whole thing is going
to fall apart,” Dr. J. Ray Langdon
■ told the House Committee on
Health, Welfare and Education.
Dr. Langdon, Chairman of the
Mental Health Committee of the
Alaska State Medical Assn., for
merly served as assistant chief of
the Division of Mental Health
under the State Department of
Health and Welfare.
He told the committee that
Alaska has the highest rate of
homicides, suicides and accidents,
and is second only to Nevada in
percentage of divorce.
“There is no question but that
emotional problems of Alaskans
are one of the state’s major con
cerns,” he said.
He added that the admission
rate of Alaskan patients at Morn
ingside Hospital in Portland,
which takes state patients on a
contractual basis, has been in
creasing at the rate of 20 per cent
during the past few years. Many
of these, however, are voluntary
admissions for treatment pur
poses.
Dr. Langdon said the state’s
most pressing need is for outpa
tient clinics in the heavily popu
lated areas. He said such clinics
might be established through local
initiative, assisted by the state
matching funds.
He also recommended comple
tion at the earliest possible date of
the acute treatment center at An
chorage’s Providence Hospital.
The acute treatment center
could be supplemented wherever
possible by specially staffed treat
ment centers in the hospitals of
other communities, he said.
Gene Fulmer Ready for
Title Defense Against
Sugar Ray Robinson
LAS VEGAS UP) — Gene Full
mer, getting ready for his middle
weight title defense against Ray
Robinson, has set a mark for other
fighters in training to shoot at
—an abnormally low pulse of 48.
The Utah basher passed his
pre-ifight medical examination,
and doctors said Fullmer’s sta
mina is something to behold. But
the 48 pulse is the lowest ever
recorded, they said, from an able
bodied and ready champion.
In contrast, Sugar Ray’s pulse
was 64 Tuesday when the medi
cos looked him over. His blood
pressure was 120 over 74, Full
mer’s 104 over 68.
Fullmer worked out in secret
Tuesday. He plans to taper off
now for Saturday night’s bout,
his fourth against the one-time
pride of Harlem.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT NAMED
U. N. REPRESENTATIVE
WASHINGTON UP — President
Kennedy has named Eleanor
Roosevelt as one of the U. S. re
presentatives to the forthcoming
j 15th session of the United Na
I tions General Assembly.
Mrs. Roosevelt has served in a
smiliar capacity in the past, and
also has been a member of the
l U. N. Commission on Human
i Rights.
Pair Admit
Disposing of
Four Children
PETERSBURG. Va. W» — Vir
ginia State Police said today
itinerant carnival worker Ken
neth E. Dudley has admitted dis
: posing of the bodies of his four
; missing children.
Police said Dudley, 47, and his
wife Irene, 44, have told “con
flicting stories” as to where the
j bodies of the four children were
i disposed.
The Dudleys are being held on
charges of causing the death of a
daughter Carol Ann, 7, by mal
nutrition, exposure and neglect in
Virginia. Her body was found Feb.
9 in woods in Southern Verginia
wrapped in a tattered blanket.
The Petersburg-Index said to
j day a grave of an undentified
j little girl in Prescott, Ariz., may
j lead investigators to the first of
I the four missing children.
State Police Investigator E. M.
Lloyd, assigned to the Dudley
case, said “the little girl in the Ari
zona grave may just be the break
we are looking for. Thus far, we
have been unable to locate any
of the bodies of the children.”
Ten children are known to have
been born to the Dudleys.
Police have conducted a wide
I spread search for the four miss
I ing children, identified as Nor
man, now 12; Charles, 10, Claude.
5; and Debbie, 4.
Dudley told investigators in an
oral statement the children died
one by one from various ailments
and illness as the itinerant carni
val worker and his family travel
ed from coast to coast.
Gov. Egan Will Allow
Pay Slash to Become Law
Without His Signature
JUNEAU UP) — Gov. Egan noti
fied the Legislature today he
planned to let the legislative pay
bill become law without his sig
nature.
The Senate completed action on
the pay bill last Friday and Egan
received it Monday. His decision
to let the bill become law with
out his signature follows pre
cedent.
With Egan declining to sign
the bill, it means that all legis
lators will continue to draw the
old rate of per diem and annual
pay until March 17, which would
be the effective date of the bill.
Per diem for all legislators, for
instance, would continue at $40
until March 17. If the Legisla
ture meets its goal of a 60-day
session. The new per diem rate
would apply for only six days of
the 1961 meeting.
Annual pay, too, would con
tinue at the old rate until March
17, then would be trimmed to
the $2,500 a year called for un
der terms of the new pay bill.
The governor, under the Con
stitution, has 15 days to sign or
veto a bill after he receives it.
If he does not sign it or does not
veto it, it automatically becomes
law 15 days after he receives it.
! PUSH-PULL PLANE . . .
WICHITA, Kan. UP) — Cessna
Aircraft’s unique push-pull plane
for high-flying businessmen had
its first test yesterday.
No performance data was di
vulged. Cessna claims the plane,
with one propeller pulling in
front and the other pushing in
back, will out-perform any other
light plane in its price range.
Reports of Discontent Within Dept.
Of Education Calls for a “Close4 Look**
By Virginia C. Sims
k Associated Press Staff Writer
JUNEAU UP> — The President
of the State Board of Education
yesterday rapped reports of dis
content within the Department
of Education as “a disservice to
education in Alaska.”
The statement was made by
George E. Smith of Palmer at
the conclusion of an extended
meeting of the Board of Educa
tion in Juneau.
The regular three-day session
! was continued an additional three
j days to look into recent resigna
tions of several key members of
j the staff of the Education De
| partment.
Rep. Edgar Baggen of Fair
j banks, who recently called for a
“Close look” into the administra
tive direction of the Department
i of Education, took sharp issue
! with Smith’s statement.
Baggen was joined by several
members of the House Commit
tee on Health, Welfare and Edu
cation, who, together with Baggen, i
sat in on a number of meetings.
“Several members of the Board
of Education came and thanked
us personally for bringing this
feeling of discontent, which has
been evident, out into the open,”
Baggen said.
“They indicated they had known
about the feeling for some time
and were glad to have something
concrete to start with.
“I cannot understand the state
ment of the board in this con
nection,” Baggen added.
Baggen said he felt the prob
lem lay to a large degree in the
state constitution’s requirement
that the Commissioner of Edu
cation be a member of the gover
nor’s cabinet and, as such, a
Two Released Fliers
To Hold News Conference
WASHINGTON IP — The De
fense Department, ending a si
lence it imposed, said two RB-47
pilots released by the Soviet
Union will hold a news confer
ence in Topeka, Kan., on Friday.
It said Capts. Freeman Olm
stead and John McKone, held for
seven months after their plane
was shot down, will be available
to newsmen at Forbes Air Force
Base Friday afternoon.
The two returned to the United
States a month ago. Since then,
the military heads have refused
to permit newsmen to talk with
the two fliers.
At a recent news conference,
President Kennedy was asked
about this situation. He replied
that the men would be permitted
to hold a news conference after
they had completed their vaca
tins.
City Basketball League
Banquet Tomorrow Night
The annual banquet for the
City Basketball League will be
held tomorrow evening at the
Seaview Room.
Presentation of the champion
ship trophy will be made as well
as individual sportsmanship
awards.
The All-Star team will be an
nounced and recognized.
The banquet is open to the pub
lic and a full house is antici
pated due to the interest in bas
ketoall this season.
The dinner is scheduled for 7
p. m.
political appointee.
Baggen, former president of the
Fairbanks School Board, has in
troduced a bill which would place
the State Board of Education at
the head of the department, with
administrative and budgetary
powers. The commissioner would
serve at the pleasure of the board.
Baggen’s bill has been approved
by the Health, Welfare and Edu
cation Committee and is now being
studied by the Committee on State
Affairs.
The Board of Education’s state
ment, as released by Smith, read
in part:
“The requirements of the State
Constitution and the Administra
tive Procedures Act concerning
education have been condemned
by many Alaskan educators.
“Mr. Smith stated that he felt
their assumption that education
under the new laws had been sub
ordinated to political expediency
has not been borne out by fact.
“He (Smith) felt that some edu
cators who refused to acknow
ledge requirements of the new
procedures had evidenced a
strongly uncooperative attitude
which has complicated the admin
istration of the department.”
The board’s statement compli
mented Gov. Egan “for his co
operating and continuing interest
, in the advancement of education
i in Alaska.”
And it added that Smith felt
“many initial difficulties encount
ered by the Department of Edu
cation during the transitional
period have been overcome.”
Asked for comments, Dr. Theo
J. Norby, State Commissioner of
Education said only that he con
curred fully with the board’s
statement.
Nikita Will Stay
Away from Start
Of U. N. Session
MOSCOW UPl — Against a back
ground of mounting Soviet hos
tility toward the Kennedy Ad
ministration, Premier Khrushchev
has decided to stay away from
the start of the U. N. General
Assembly session next Tuesday
and send Foreign Minister An
drei Gromyko to head the Soviet
delegation.
Diplomats felt that Khrushchev
decided not to attend the assemb
ly—at least at the start—because
the time is not yet right for a
meeting with the new President,
who is still working out his foreign
policies.
An article in the government
newspaper Izvestia indicated that
as the Kennedy Administration
comes up with its own policies,
they are not to Moscow’s liking.
Izvestia said it had sensed hints
of a “thorough cleaning of Gen.
Eisenhower’s Augean Stables with
the coming of a new boss to the
White House.”
“Now, toward the end of Febru
ary,” Izvestia went on, “the im
pression is that Washington has
gotten used to the stink of the un
cleaned stables.” It singled out
U. S. policy in Asia and Africa
and called the policy two-faced.
The government organ accused
the United States of attempting
to show a friendly face toward
emerging nations on the two con
tinents while actually working
with colonial powers. *