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M |SJU^MENT^Y
McNabb Submits Resignation; “Budget
Requests Make the Job Impossible”
By Ward Sims
JUNEAU UPI — Sen. George Me- j
Nabb of Fairbanks asked the Sen-j
ate Wednesday to be relieved
from his post on the powerful
Senate Finance Committee.
McNabb’s move was apparent- j
ly another step in the widening
breach between Liberal and Con- \
servative Democrats in the upper
chamber.
The Fairbanks liberal took the
floor late Wednesday, as the Sen
ate was about to adjourn for the I
day, and said quietly:
“I would like to ask the per-!
mission of the Senate to resign
from the Finance Committee. I j
have no interest in serving on
the committee. I have never
served on it in the past. I ask
unanimous consent to resign.”
Rules Committee Chairman
John McNees asked that the mat
ter be referred to the Committee
on Committees,, which assigned
McNabb to Finance. Senate Presi
dent Frank Peratrovich agreed.
Resignation Unexpected
NcNabb’s unexpected action
came on a day packed with
events.
Gov. Egan presented his fiscal
1962 Budget Message, asking ap
proval of a $59 million state
spending program and an increase
in individual income taxes to help
pay for increased expenditures.
The governor also submitted a
Taft of other executive request
bills, including his employment
security proposals and his sug
gestions for a borough system of
local government for Alaska.
The last two members of the
Legislature, one delayed by a
president and the other by busi
ness and fog, were both sworn in
and took their seats.
While McNabb made no ex
planations on the floor of the Sen
ate other than to say he had no
interest in Finance and had never
served on the Finance Committee
before, he was not reluctant to
discuss his actions outside the
chamber.
"Impossible Job"
“The governor’s budget and his
requests for so much money from
general obligation bonds are going
to leave the committee with an
impossible job,” McNabb said.
“I don’t want to be on the ship
when they blow her out of the
water.”
The Fairbanks Democrat, the
only member of his party from
Fairbanks assigned to the Finance
Committee, indicated, too, that he,
like Sen. A1 Owen, another lib
eral, was extremely unhappy with
the committee assignments given
him.
“I’ve been practicing law in
Alaska since 1949,” McNabb said,
“yet I wasn’t even given a spot
on the Judiciary Committee.”
McNabb was assigned as Ghair
man of the Commerce and Labor
Committee, a job that as an ad
mitted liberal he didn’t expect to
get, but he was surrounded by
conservatives.
Owen, Chairman of the Finance
Committee during the First State
Legislature, fared worse.
He didn’t even land a spot on
the Finance Committe this go
round and, despite his seniority,
he wasn’t given a single commit
tee chairmanship.
The Democrats, including Owen
and McNabb, hold a 13-7 edge in
the Senate.
The last two lawmakers to take
their seats were Sen. Eben Hop-1
son (D-Barrow) and Rep. James
C. Parsons (R-Anchorage).
Hopson was a member of the
Eskimo Scout detachment which
marched in President Kennedy’s
Inaugural Parade in Washington,
D. C., last Friday.
Parsons had advised the House
before it opened Monday that
business would delay him, then,
closure of the Juneau Airport
by fog Tuesday forced an exten
sion of the time he had planned
to be absent from the lower
chamber.
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On Dreaming . . ,
Of Being a Big
Bold Pirate . . .
By Hal Boyle
NEW YORK (M — Every red
blooded American boy at one time
dreams of being a big bold pirate.
So, in our opinion, does every j
redblooded middle-aged Ameri
can man.
The seizure in the Caribbean j
this week of the Portuguese lux
ury liner Santa Maria by 70 pas
sengers inimical to Portuguese
Premier Salazar startled the
world.
It held special interest to stu
dents of pirate lore because it
took place in the same waters
once scouraged by Blackbeard,
perhaps the most villainous free
booter of them all.
But, on closer examination of
this rebellion at sea, we must
admit to a feeling of personal
letdown. After all, it was a poli
tical act, done by a group for a
political purpose.
It holds none of the high ad
venture promised by our own
fondest daydream — which is to
hold up the giant Cunard Liner
Queen Mary single-handed with
a carved wooden gun. We insist
on a wooden gun as the sight of
blood makes us faint, particular
ly if it is our own.
Over the years we’ve met
dozens of other people who yearn
ed to rob the Queen Mary, but
most of them are lazy.
Foolproof Plan
They haven’t taken the trouble
to think up a foolproof plan. We
have. Here it is:
We board the great liner as a
passenger and when it reaches
a certain point at sea we surprise
the captain in his cabin with our
trusty little wooden gun and hold
him hostage.
Then we have the captain sum
mon all his officers to the cabin
and lock them in. Next, we ax
all the radio equipment so no
alarm can be spread.
It is now time to rifle the ship’s
strong box, and we figure it ought
to hold three — maybe five —
million bucks.
Later, we are lowered into a
launch, holding the captain as
hostage, and speed to the horizon
where a hidden submarine awaits
us. We board the submarine, and
leave the captain free to return
to his ship in his launch.
A Utopia
The submarine sails off to a
remote south seas island, where
we found a dynasty, build a
palace, and live happily and
wealthily ever after with a harem
of 45 native girls.
There is only one reason this
daydream has never come true.
Our wife refuses to lend us the
money to rent a used submarine.
Every time we ask her, she says:
“No, I won’t. What in heaven’s
name do you want to hire a sub
marine for,”
Think we could tell her the
truth? Of course not. She’d blab
it all over the community by
nightfall, and then half our neigh
bors would want to get into the
act — and share the loot.
That won’t do. Either we’re
going to pull this job single
handed — or we’re not going to
do it at all.
A bikini is defined as — the
little bit that isn’t bare!
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Soviet Scientist Convinced
Polio Epidemics Wiped
Out in Soviet Union
MOSCOW m — The Soviet
scientist who directed a two-year
polio vaccination program using
a live virus technique developed
by an American said he is “con
I vinccd that polio epidemics have
| been wiped out in the Soviet
Union.”
Prof. Mikhail Chumakov said
that in 1960 alone 17 million
Soviet citizens were immunized
with the technique developed by
Dr. Albert Sabin of Cincinnati,
Ohio, Tass, the Soviet News
Agency reported. Medical opin
ion in the United States is di
vided over the merits of Sabin’s
technique and that of Dr. Jonas
Salk, who pioneered use of a
dead virus.
FOOD AND SUPPLIES ARE
BEING FLOWN TO THE CONGO
EVREUX, France OP) — The
U. S. Air Force Thursday began
a gigantic airlift of food and other
supplies to the Congo to halt
famine among hundreds of thou
sands of refugees driven from
their land by tribal warfare.
Twenty huge transport planes
based in France and West Ger
many will be used in the opera
tion over the next few days to
carry 1,100 tons of supplies soli
cited from five countries by the
U. N. Food and Agriculture Or
ganization.
BUSINESSLIKE AND
DON'T LOSE SELF CONTROL
LONDON [ft — Moscow radio
gave a report on President Ken
nedy’s first news conference and
told its Soviet home service
listeners:
“The new President was calm
and spoke in businesslike man
ner, which was in strong contrast
to his predecessor, who often
used to lose self control.”
1
Dr. Janet G. Travell
Will Serve as the
White House Physician
WASHINGTON UP> — PY>r the
first time in history a woman,
one of President Kennedy’s doc
tors for several years, will serve
as White House physician.
Kennedy, it was learned defi
nitely Thursday, has decided to
! name Dr. Janet G. Travell, 59,
of New York to the post. There
had been previous reports of her
selection.
Announcement of her appoint
ment is expected within a day or
two.
It has been almost 40 years
since a President has selected a
non-service doctor as White
House physician. There never has
been a woman in the post.
Dr. Travell is credited with
curing Kennedy of severe back
trouble which bothered him for a
number of years.
She reportedly discovered Ken
nedy’s left leg is slightly shorter
than his right and that this con
tributed to the back trouble. It
was corrected with a lift in the
left shoe.
A graduate of Cornell Univer
sity Medical School, Dr. Travell
has practiced in New York City
since 1926. She is married to
John Powell, an investment coun
selor. They have two married
daughters.
LICENSE TROUBLE ! ! !
GLASGOW, Scotland UP —
Wealthy Albert Rickard, 86, filed
his 12th application for a driving
test today.
He owns eight cars. But after
he was involved in an accident a
year ago, a court suspended his
license until he passed a driving
test.
After failing his 11th test yes
terday, Rickard said: “I think
some license testers would be out
of a job if they didn’t have me
around.”
WINTER SCHEDULE
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