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DISTRESS SIGNAL!
Beta Sigma Phi Sorority
Convention Here in March
Reservations for the first State
convention of the Beta Sigma Phi
Sorority are being received, re
ported Mary Honsberger, reserva
tions chairman at Kappa Chapter’s
regular meeting last week. This
will be the fifth All-Alaska an
nual meeting, and delegates are
expected from the 19 Alaska chap
ters of the non-academic sorority.
The international office in Kan
sas City is sending Mrs. Byron
Lind of Seattle as its official
representative.
The convention will be held in
Nome March 19 through 22, with
a complete schedule of activities
including forums, a luncheon, a
Gay 90’s costume party, formal
banquet, and Sunday brunch. The
Home Arts Club will sponsor a
tea to honor the sorority delegates.
On Sunday, March 22, the dele
gates will be spectators at the
annual dog team races sponsored
by the Nome Arctic Club.
Kappa’s bi-monthly meeting last
week was held at the home of
Omie McCarthy, the chapter’s di
rector, when final arrangements
for the convention were made.
Mrs. Louella Oliver presented the
cultural program for the evening,
with group participation on two
subjects, “Art” and “To See and
To Know.”
GOP National Committee
Ready To Select 1962
Convention Site
WASHINGTON, UP> — The Re
publican National Committee will
select a site for the party’s 1962
national convention on April 11,
GOP National Chairman Meade
Alcorn announced yesterday.
Chicago and Philadelphia are
the top prospects.
The Democrats picked Los An
geles for their convention, start
ing July 11, 1960.
Alcorn said the GOP committee,
meeting here, will pick both a
convention site and date after re
ceiving a report from the site
committee headed by Ohio State
Chairman Ray Bliss.
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Basic Measures
Presented Alaska
At D. C. Ceremony
WASHINGTON, UP) — Alaska
formally received yesterday a set
of basic measurement standards
for length, weight and capacity.
The ceremonial transfer took
place at the National Bureau of
Standards with Secretary of Com
merce Lewis Strauss making the
presentation to Rep. Ralph Rivers.
Senators Bob Bartlett and Ernest
Gruening also participated.
Strauss said the transfer “is
most important, for Alaska now
has a basis for relating its meas
urement activities to those of all
her sister states and to the na
tional standards kept here at the
bureau.”
The presentation marked the
anniversary of three related
events — the convening of the
first Territorial Legislature in
Juneau in 1913, creation of the
National Bureau of Standards in
1901, and enactment of the first
federal weights and measures law
in 1799.
The set of standards, valued
upwards of $2,000, included a
yard-meter bar, a 100-foot steel
measuring tape, various capacity
standards ranging from 5 gallons,
down to two fluid ounces, and
weight standards ranging down
from 50 pounds to one-tenth of
an ounce.
Made of goldplated brass, stain
less steel, bronze and nickel
plated brass, the standards will
be shipped soon to Juneau to pro
vide the basis for national uni
formity of measurements.
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New Committee
Charged With
Setting Exec. Pay
■ JUNEAU, (Jt — The bill to set
the Governor’s and the Secretary
of State’s pay has reached the
“now or never” stage.
By a 14 to 5 vote yesterday, the
Senate rejected a House-Senate
conference committee compromise
recommending that the Governor
be paid $24,500 a year and the
Secretary of State $18,000. The
Territorial Governor got $19,000.
Later yesterday, a new six-man
conference committee was given
the job. If its report in turn is
turned down by either branch, the
pay bill dies and a completely new
one will have to be drafted.
As Senate members President
William Beltz named these: George
McNabb of Fairbanks, Howard
Bradshaw of Sitka, and Lester
Bronson of Nome, all Democrats.
House Speaker Warren Taylor i
picked James Hurley of Palmer,
Grant Pearson of McKinley Park,
and R. E. Sheldon of Fairbanks,
also Democrats.
The salary bill went to a con
ference committee 12 days ago
after the Senate raised the pro
posed pay for the Governor to
$25,000 annually from the House
approved $24,000, and the Secre
tary of State’s to $20,000 from the
House offer of $17,500.
Hawaii Statehood Bill
Being Prepared for Debate
In U. S. Congress
WASHINGTON, iff) — Commit
tees of both the Senate and House
focused attention yesterday on the
Hawaii statehood bill.
The Senate Insular Affairs
Committee was called into ses
sion to act upon the recommen
dation of its Territories Subcom
mittee that the bill be approved
for consideration on the Senate
floor.
In the House, the Rules Com
mittee resumed a hearing on the
request of the House Insular Af
fairs Committee for a resolution
setting a procedure for House de
bate on the measure.
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Union Organizer Jailed
On Charge of Assault
LEBANON, Ind., (jH — A union
organizer was jailed yesterday on
a murderous assault charge after
an itinerant printer accused him
of trying to set him afire.
Held in $1,000 bail was Harvey
Fitzwater, 33, an 'International
Typographical Union organizer
who has led a 3Vfe-month strike
for union recognition at the Leb
anon Reporter.
Harold Lutz, 53, complained
Fitzwater poured an inflammable
liquid on his coat and set his
clothes afire as he was eating in
a restaurant Monday night. Others
in the cafe helped put out the
fire, and Lutz was not hurt.
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Dafoe Resignation
Seen As Protest Of
Political Meddling
JUNEAU, UP) — Repercussions
continued to sound here from the
sudden resignation of Don Dafoe
as Alaska’s Commissioner of Edu
cation. He had held the $16,000-a
year post for six years.
Ailing Governor Egan expressed
his regret in Seattle, as did act
ing Governor Wade here.
His letter of resignation made
mention of political stresses which
have developed over the 19-mil
lion-dollar educational program
since Alaska -became the 49th
state.
The president of the Board of
Education, A.H. Ziegler of Ketchi
kan, had this comment on the
resignation:
“I think it has been brought
about purely by reason of politics,
and that Dafoe refuses to be any
part of an educational system in
a state where politics would in
terfere with proper administration
of the sshools.”
The resignation came on the
eve of the expected introduction
of a bill in the Legislature to pro
vide for governmental reorgani
zation. One of the key issues is
about the education branch admin
istering the new state’s 19 million
dollar educational program, whe
ther to continue the present sys
tem under which the Board of Ed
ucation controls the department
and appoints the commissioner.
Dafoe paid a personal visit to
acting Governor Wade Monday to
deliver a copy of the letter of
resignation.
He said that when he oaccepted i
reappointment in 1957 he told thej
-board he planned to qdit ‘after
one more term to resume grad
uate studies at Stanford.
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Atomic Energy Comm.
Appropriation Bill
Studied In Congress
WASHINGTON, UP)— A 179-mil
lion-dollar atomic energy bill has
been introduced in Congress. It
would authorize 115V£ million dol
lars for atomic projects, 49l/z mil
lion for experimental reactors and
14 million for Euratom coopera
tion. Rep. Carl Durham (D-NC)
and Sen. Clinton Anderson 'D
NM) introduced the bill for next
fiscal year at the request of the
Atomic Energy Commission.
Wade said it was with “gen
uine regret and surprise” he
learned Dafoe was quitting. He
would have liked to see him con
tinue in his present capacity, at
least for the period of transition.
Dafoe has “contributed much
to the growth of education and the
education system in Alaska,”
Wade continued. “I wish him suc
cess in his future plans. . . . Alas
kans will long recall him as an
able public servant.”
Egan’s statement said Dafoe
had been a “tireless proponent of
new and improved educational fa
cilities” . in Alaska. Egan also
called Dafoe by telephone to ex
press his personal regret.
Dafoe came to Alaska in 1949
as assistant superintendent of
schools at Anchorage. Previously
he had supervised a county unit
school district in Idaho. He was
named commissioner of education
on April 1, 1953.
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