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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA —MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LXII No. 8 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 1960_Per Copy 151
Juneau, Fairbanks, Nome Unite In
Demo. Convention Battle for Seating
By WILLIAM J. TOBIN
KiETCHIKAN, OH — Alaska
Democrats put together a 46-plank
platform in a 16-hour marathon
session yesterday, ,but a reappor
tionment wrangle delayed other
state convention business.
Still to be chosen when dele
gates adjourned at 2:30 a.m. to
day were a state chairman, na
tional committeeman and commit
teewoman, and the nine delegates
to the party’s national convention
in Los Angeles in^July.
A key issue of providing re
apportionm.ent of convention
strength wfts being fought on the
floor when delegates decided to
call it quits for the day and re
sume in overtime session today.
The reapportionment proposal
would increase the number of con
vention delegates from 80 to 200
and give the south central dis
trict added strength.
Wendell P. Kay of Anchorage,
convention chairman, called the
plan “simple justice” in a speech
from the floor. It would give each
"late house district twice the
number of seats that it »has state
representatives, and provide each
of the four senatorial election dis
tricts with 30 delegates at large.
Kay told the convention this
would give 31 per cent of the
convention votes to the south cen
tral division where half of the
state’s election votes are cast.
Southeastern, Northwestern and
Central Division delegates joined
in defeating immediate adoption
by an announced standing vote of
40-25.
The biggest platform fight de
veloped over a proposal by Sen
ator George McNabb of Fair
banks for inclusion of a plank
voicing convention sentiment
concerning future legislative ac
tion on the controversial employ
ment security problem.
By a 40 Vfe to 39 Vi vote, the
convention approved a plank urg
ing legislation to repay from the
employment security fund and
existing jobless benefits an in
debtedness of some nine million
dollars.
Released Mental
Patient Shoots Up
Her Family of 6
HOLLYWOOD, Fla., (*> — A
woman recently released from a
sanitarium went berserk in her
home today and shot her husband
and five children. The husband
and one child were killed, and
three other children were criti
cally wounded.
Police Said Martha Hall, 38,
roamed the house with a .22 cal
iber pistol about 6 a.m., shooting
her husband and four of the chil
dren in the head.
Hall, 40, and Kevin, 4 months
old, were dead on arrival at a
hospital.
Three other children — Curtiss,
2; Christa, 8, and Mary Jean, 5 —
were rushed into emergency. The
fifth child, Judith Ann, 12,
grappled with her mother and
was just grazed by a bullet.
Judith Ann called police after
her mother emptied the gun.,
Police said Mrs. Hall had been
in a depressed condition since the
birth of Kevin.
Eisenhower Visit to
Russia Slated for June 10
WASHINGTON, Uh — President
' Eisenhower’s crusade of world
travels to promote peace and free
dom will take him behind the
Iron Curtain into the Soviet Union
for 10 days starting June 10.
Dates for the President’s trip,
planned since last summer, were
announced Sunday by the White
House and the Soviet government.
In going to the Soviet Union,
Eisenhower will be returning the
two-week visit which Soviet Pre
mier Khrushchev made to the
United States last September.
The President will go first to
Moscow. He also will visit a few
other cities in the Soviet Union
but there has been no final de
| cision as to which ones.
There were no immediate an
nouncements as to whether the
President will be accompanied by
Mrs. Eisenhower and their four
grandchildren. Khrushchev in
vited the youngsters when he met
them at the President’s Gettys
burg, Pa., farm.
WEATHER FORECAST
Fair today. Low tonight -25.
High tomorrow -15.
Nome data last 24 hours, as of
7 a.m. today — Precipitation,
trace. Month’s total, 1.13 inches.
Temperatures: highest -2, latest
-17. Maximum wind, 13 miles an
hour from the NNE. Sunrise at
9:26 a.m., sunset at 3 p.m.
Extremes this date since 1907:
high 36 in 1931, low -32 in 1934
Nuclear Sub Sargo
Prepares for Cruise
Under Arctic Ice
HONOLULU, IP) — The nuclear
submarine Sargo is preparing at
Pearl Harbor for her first winter
cruise under the Arctic ice.
No date has been set, but her
skipper says “We’re all excited
and ready to go.”
Waldo Lyon, who will head the
seven scientists aboard, said the
Sargo will cruise in the Bering
Sea, through the Bering Strait
and into Chukchi Sea north of the
strait.
Lyon told an interviewer the
long Arctic night will make the
submarine’s closed circuit tele
visipn circuit useless for spotting
thin areas in the ice, needed for
break-throughs in surface obser
vations. In the summertime, the
TV can find the spots because
sunlight makes them translucent.
The Sargo wiH rely on its sonar
and other electronic gear to thread
its way in the narrow gap between
ice and the ocean floor.
Lyon said the Bering, and Chuk
chi Seas range from 120 to 180
feet in depth. Sometimes the ice
is 100 feet deep, leaving little
room even for a submarine.
The scientists will check ocean
depths, .measure salinity, take
temperatures and record the un
derwater profile of the ice.
Lt. Cmdr. John H. Nicholson,
skipper o fthe Sargo, said he had
ordered some of his sailors to stay
behind to make room £or the sci
entists, but the sailors protested
so long and loudly he rescinded
the order.
Eisenhower’s Budget Includes 6 Million
In Alaska Statehood Transition Grants
WASHINGTON, UP)—-The max
imum annual grant of six mil
lion dollars to help Alaska make
the transition to statehood was
asked in President Eisenhower’s
budget sent to Congress today.
The sum asked for the year
starting July 1 is the most author
ized by the Alaska Omnibus Act,
which provides for some 28 mil
lion dollars in such grants
through June, 1964. The initial
grant was $10,500,000.
This grant, plus other requests
in the budget — including three
new construction and planning
starts by the Army Engineers —
adds up to more than 61 million
dollars for federal activities in
the state during fiscal 1961.
That total includes $37,444,293
outlined by Interior Secretary
Fred Seaton for his department’s
Alaska activities.
In his message, the President
called particular attention to the
military operated Alaska Com
munications System, for which
the budget requests seven million
dollars for operations and main
tenance.
Encourage* Private System'
“The growing communications
needs of this new state can best be
met, as they have in other states,
through the operation and devel
opment of such facilities by pri
vate enterprise,” the President
said.
Early enactment of legislation
to authorize sale of the govern
ment facilities is desirable, he
added. But the budget points out
disposition is not expected until
after 1961.
Meanwhile, no extensive expan
sion of facilities is planned and
only $50,000 in available funds is
recommended for construction on
the system.
An appropriation of $100,000 is
requested for a special engineer
study of the proposed Rampart
Canyon project on the Yukon
River.
For Alaskan oerations of the
Civil Aeronautics Board, the bud
get asks $9,325,463 for payments
to air carriers.
In his outline, Seaton said
$3,576,700 for Bureau of Land
Management activities in Alaska
includes $1,113,100 for survey
work. ;
He said he was aware of pres
sure to speed surveying of land
in the new state. But, he added,
he felt the amount proposed is
rather large in relation to funds
sought for surveying in other
states faced with the same prob
lem of getting surveys before they
can select lands granted by state
hood acts.
He noted that Alaska has 25
years within which to select 103
million acres granted under its
statehood act.
TRAIN HITS SCHOOL BUS
FACKLER, Ala., W* — A local
freight train on its homeward
swing crashed into a school bus
at a dirt road crossing near this
northeast Alabama town today.
Reports placed four children
dead and eight children and the
driver critically injured.
A highway patrolman said the
train sliced through the bus just
behind the middle and dragged
the rear half of the wreckage
about three quarters of a mile
before it stopped.
Big Surplus Predicted In President’s
Budget--IF Lawmakers Curb Spending
BUDGET ESTIMATES FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30
1960 1961
Income .$ 78,600.000.000 $ 84.000.000,000
Outgo . 78.383.000.000 79,816.000.000
Surplus . 217,000.000 4.184,000.000
Year-End Debt . 284.500.000.000 280.000.000.000
WASHINGTON, Iff! — President
Eisenhower today sent Congress
his election year budget and said
it promises a $4,184,00,000 surplus
that can pave the way for a tax
cut, possibly next year.
For the present, however, Eis
enhower proposed raising more
revenue. He said Congress should
increase the federal gasoline tax
by half a cent a gallon — to 4V$
cents — and add a penny each
to the 4-cent letter charge and
the 7-cent air mail rate.
The President implied that un
less Congress votes these and
other revenue measures — and
resist any urge to boost spending
— the predicted surplus will melt
away, and, with it, hopes of
broad-scale tax relief sometime
after the November election.
For the 1961 fiscal year that
begins July 1, Eisenhower esti
mated record revenues of 84 bil
lion dollars. He called for spend
ing of $79,816,000,000.
Biggest Surplus In 13 Years
This would produce the biggest
surplus in 13 years — a margin
of black ink which the President
says should be used to reduce the
record national debt of 292 billion
dollars. He said a debt cut would
counter inflation and spur savings
needed to stimulate new economic
growth.
Eisenhower said the projected
spending level will permit small
increases in tooth the military and
foreign aid- budgets, p major step
up in space exploration and rec
ord outlays for water projects.
Although allotting 50 million
dollars more for defense, the bud
get proposes small cuts in pur
chases of missiles and ships and
a big reduction in aircraft pur
chases.
Cuts in nonmilitary programs
generally were small and scat
tered.
■ Eisenhower asserted that if the
fiscal blueprint can be translated
into reality, the President and Con
gress to be elected in November
will have an opportunity to cut
taxes, assuming prosperity con
tinues.
“Soundly conceived tax revi
sion can then be approached on
a comprehensive and orderly
-basis, rather than by haphazard
peacemeal changes,” he added.
Eisenhower did not say spe
cifically that a tax cut should be
considered in 1961. He merely
pointed to this as a ■ -possibility
during the two-year tenure of the
Congress that will convene next
January.
He also commented that the
legislators might prefer debt re
duction to tax reduction.
Wrangell Heart Patient
Succumbs Aboard Airliner
PORTLAND, 1*1 — An Alaskan
died of a heart attack as a plane
on which he was going north ap
proached Portland Sunday. He
was David Remmerden, 59, of
Wrangell.
Remmerden boarded a West
Coast Airlines plane at North,
Bend, Ore., en route to Seattle,
arid soon after takeoff said he was
a heart patient and needed oxy
gen. This was supplied1 to him.
Dr. Ennie Keizer, North Bend,
also a passenger on the flight,
said Remmerden died as the plane
near Portland at about 10:40 a.m.
His widow, who had been visit
ing a daughter at Bandon, was
notified. The Multnomah County
Coroner’s Office said she re
ported that probably burial would
be at Yakima, Wash., the old
family home.
OFFICIALS OF DEFUNCT
ALASKA SALMON INDUSTRY
FIND NEW WORK
SEATTLE, (*i — Two former
officials of the defunct Alaska
Salmon Industry, Inc., arc leav
ing Seattle.
W. C. Arnold, managing direc
tor, said he will move to Anchor
age in about two months to open
a law practice.
J. Steele Culbertson, assistant
manager, left last night for Wash
ington, D. C., to become director
of the Industrial Products Divi
sion of the National Fisheries In
stitute, Inc.
The Alaska Salmon Industry,
Inc., was formed in 1940, with
headquarters in Seattle. The of
fice closed December 31.
GSA Initiates Plans
To Construct New
Federal Building at Juneau
Special to the Nome Nugget
WASHINGTON — U. S. Repre
sentative Ralph Rivers was noti
fied today by the General Services
Administration that they are pro
ceeding with preparation of a
prospectus, to be submitted, to the
Senate and House Public Works
Committees, on the construction
of the Juneau Federal Building.
The GSA stated that after ap
proval is ‘given by the committees,
that selection and acquisition of
the site, together with prepara
tion of architectural plans, will
be initiated during this fiscal year.
Estimated cost of the site and
planning is $1,690,000. Funds are
presently available, stated the
report.
Los Angeles Traffic Cop
Jailed on Narcotics Charge
LOS ANGELES, UPi — A Los
Angeles police officer was ar
rested while directing downtown
traffic Friday night and was
booked on suspicion of violating
the Narcotics Act.
Police said he had admitted
trying to sell heroin.
Chief of Police William Parker
said a businessman told him
Policeman Nye H. Allred had ap
proached him and tried to sell
him 20 ounces of heroin. Parker
said he had told the businessman
to go ahead with the deal and as
signed detectives to the case.
Police said Allred was arrested
after he had given the business
man four grams of heroin as
samples. The businessman was
not identified.