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IT’D TAKE A BIT OF DOING, FIDEL!
Governor Egan
Will Submit
Borough System
JUNEAU Iff* — A bill to imple
ment the State Constitution’s
directive that Alaska be divided
into area-wide governmental units
called Boroughs will be submitted
to the 1961 Legislature by Gov.
Egan.
Egan, in outlining the basic
points of his legislative program
during an exclusive interview
with the Associated Press, said:
“We are going to have a bill
establishing local government, the
general features of which will be
acceptable to the Legislature and
the people.”
While Egan declined to go into
the actual terms of the bill the
administration will recommend to
the Legislature, he said there was
a possibility it might permit the
creation of both organized and
unorganized Boroughs.
Organized Boroughs have a large
degree of autonomy. Unlike coun
ties, which are arms of state gov
ernment set up for administrative
purposes, organized Boroughs are
self-governing units.
The Unorganized Borough
would contain all of the area of
the state outside of Organized
Boroughs. It would be governed
by the Legislature, which would
be charged with providing resi
dents of the Unorganized Borough
with the services they require.
Egan indicated that the Borough
Bill he will present to the Legis
lature will be permissive in na
ture, that is, it will leave the
question of whether to form a
Borough to the people them
selves, . much in the same way
that the question of whether to
incorporate a city is one that is
initiated and decided on by the
people of the area involved.
“We fully recognize the need
I CALL MAIN 65 for
Arctic Sanitary
Service
Alaska Mountain
I Named In Honor
Of Oregon Senator
WASHINGTON UPl — Sen. Mau
rine B. Neuberger, D-Ore., ex
pressed gratitude that a mountain
in Alaska has been named in
honor of her late husband, Sen.
Richard L. Neuberger.
“I have just learned that the
Board of Geographic Names of
the Department of Interior has
named a mountain in Alaska in
honor of Dick,” Mrs. Neuberger
said in a statement.
“It is my understanding the ac
tion by the board was taken at
the request of Secretary Seaton,
the Alaskan Congressional dele
gation and the Alaskan Legisla
ture. I am pleased to accept this
honor in Dick’s memory.
“No person fought harder for
Alaskan Statehood. Dick was
aide-de-camp to Gen. James A.
O’Connor for more than three
years during the construction of
the Alaska Military Highway,
from July 15, 1942, until August
12, 1945.
“This action by members of the
Board of Geographic Names is a
splendid tribute to Dick and to
Oregon. I hope that before too
long I can again visit Alaska and
see the mountain. Meanwhile I
look forward to receiving a photo
graph of Mount Neuberger. It
will have a place of honor in my
office.”
for the permissive feature in such
legislation, rather than the manda
tory feature,” Egan said.
The state’s chief executive also
said he hopes that the staff and
the work of the Local Affairs
Agency can be increased during
the 1962 fiscal year.
But, again Egan said, the suc
cess he and others in the admin
istration have in matching state
income with expenditures will de
termine the extent of his recom
mendations on local affairs.
The governor said the admin
istration was studying means of
expanding the state’s school bus
program, depending on antici
pated revenue and other neces
sary expenditures.
, I Glenn T. Seaborg
Rumored to Head AEC
WASHINGTON UD — Glenn T.
| Seaborg, Chancellor of the Uni
versity of California at Berkeley
| and a Nobel prize-winning chem
j ist, is under serious considera
tion for chairman of the Atomic
I Energy Commission, the Wash
J ington Post said today.
The New York Times in a
Washington dispatch quoted Con
gressional sources as saying Sea
borg had been offered a position
in the AEC by the incoming Dem
ocratic Administration.
Seaborg, 48, won the Nobel
prize for chemistry in 1951. He is
codiscoverer of several elements,
including plutonium and uranium.
He was a member of the AEC’s
| General Advisory Committee from
I 1946 to 1950.
At his home in Lafayette, Calif., j
Seaborg refused to either con-!
firm or deny stories regarding his J
joining the administration,
i “I’m sorry,” he said, “but I can !
1 make no comment at all at this j
time.”
Wien Airlines Passengers
Jan. 13. —Arrived: C. Ander-'
son and Marianne Black. Departed
John McNees and Ken Cohn.
Jan. 14.—Arrived: John Bab-!
cock, Charles Stack, Harry Car
ter, Wanda Jarrell, Mrs. Jess
Baerr, Frank Booth.
To Kotzebue: John Belobrai
dich, J. G. Sneed, R. W. Frye, Joe
Brantley, and the Kotezebue
Basketball Team.
To Fairbanks: Mr. and Mrs. Art
Johnson and Les Bronson.
Disc Jockey Broadcasts
Leads to Ilis Arrest
WRENTHAM, Mass. UP) — A
Medway radio disc jockey has
been sentenced and fined in con
nection with a hit-and-run death
about which he broadcast several
times before his arrest.
Announcer Ronald Greene, 26,
was given three months for leav
ing the scene of an accident and
fined $100 for operating to en
danger.
District Court Judge Samuel
Eisenstadt dismissed a manslaugh
ter charge against him.
Several tmies after Domenick
De Fasio, 12, was struck and kill
ed Dec. 31, Greene broadcast ap
peals for information that might
lead to the arrest of the car’s
operator.
Police arrested him after the
broadcast.
BABY SHOWER HONORS
MRS. HOWARD NELSON
Mrs. Howard Nelson was hon
ored Friday evening with a baby
shower at the Earl Towner home.
After an interesting and varied
program many lovely gifts were
opened. Refreshments were serv
ed by hostesses Harriet Amund
sen and Ruth Towner.
Guests attending the shower
were Lizzie Swanson, Helen Carl
son, Alma Tungwenuk, Grace
Johnson, Mollie Dexter, Gladys
Savok, Ingaborg Handeland, Gert
Fondell, Erma Johnson, Marge
Zylstra, Frances Shelton, May
belle Lennert, Jennie Oksokta
ruk, Marylin Dexter, Vesta Sund
strom, Dorothy Lee, Lois Mclver,
and Arlene Strand.
SEN. LES BRONSON TO
VISIT ENROUTE TO JUNEAU
Sen. Les Bronson left Saturday
morning. Enroute to Juneau he
will visit the University of Alas
ka in Fairbanks and confer on
local problems. In Anchorage he
will stop by at the Methodist
University and also confer on their
local problems.
If anyone desires to be on Sen.
Bronson’s mailing list, he can be
contacted at the State Senate, in
Juneau.
Axel Edman is to leave tomor
row for Juneau to attend a meet
ing of the Employment Security
Advisory Committee. The meet
ing will be held on the 19th and
20th to consider legislation to be
proposed to the Legislature which
convenes on Monday, the 23rd.
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Heavy Outlays for Aid to Polio Victims
Cause Drain on March of Dimes Funds
“The National Founda
tion has the distinction and
the honor of having ex
hausted its March of Dimes
funds for patient aid,” Basil
O’Connor, its president, an
nounced recently.
“Therefore, the March of
Dimes has a $45 million job to
do in 1961,” he added.
“But we always have had a
tremendous job to do and have
relied on the American people
for financial support through
the March of Dimes each Jan
uary,” he said. “At the same
time, however, we do not live
just from year to year but
build broad research, educa
tional and patient-aid programs
for much longer periods. Con
tinuation of these programs
will require $45 million in
1961.”
Speaking of the “urgent
monetary needs of the 1961
New March of Dimes,” to be
held Jan. 2-31, the leader of
the world’s largest voluntary
health organization explained
that in 1960 about one-third of
its 3,100 chapters had gone into
debt to meet hospital and other
bills for aid to polio patients.
“But our chapters are proud
that they have not built up
bank balances at the expense
of human lives,” he said.
Since 1938, when The Na
tional Foundation (for Infan
tile Paralysis) was organized,
a total of $325,200,000 has been
spent for direct patient aid to
polio victims. In 1960, the bill
was about $13,250,000 for some
40,000 of the polio-stricken. Al
though the Salk vaccine has
been available to the public for
five years, patient-aid costs re
main high chiefly for those
stricken before the vaccine was
developed, or for those who
since 1956 neglected to get in
oculated and thus contracted
polio.
March of Dimes monetary
assistance to individual polio
sufferers has sometimes been
extremely great. To cite two
instances only, patient-aid costs
in the case of Mrs. Ingeborg
Cully, of New York City, thus
far have totaled about $25,000
and the end is not in sight;
while expenditures for Tommy
Examples: $25,000 was spent on Ingeborg Cully . . .
Davey, six years old, of Boston,
have reached $50,000.
Aside from the enormous
financial toll in patient aid,
substantial New March of
Dimes contributions must also
be used for research. Since
1938 The National Foundation
has allocated $64,600,000 on its
broad-based international re
search program which has pro
duced, among other outstand
ing achievements, the Salk and
Sabin polio vaccines and, in
cidentally, two Nobel prizes.
In 1960, research funds are
estimated at $5,000,000 cover
ing The National Foundation’s
three health areas of birth de
fects, arthritis and polio.
More than twice that sum,
or $10,400,000, is needed for re
search in 1961.
March of Dimes contribu
tions have also made possible
the largest education program
for the training of medidaf anfr
health experts ever attempted
by a voluntary health agency.
Since 1939, when The Nationai
Foundation launched its pro
gram of professional education,
outlays m this field have to
taled $34,900,000; in 1960 a
total of $1,500,000 in March of
... while another $50,000
wo* needed for Tommy Davey.
Dimes public contributions was
required for the health organ
ization’s professional education
activities. In 1961, $3,900,000 is
needed for this part of the pro
gram.