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VOL. LXII No. 38NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, MARCH 28, 1960Per Copy 15<i
House Approves 46 ¥2 Million Fiscal
Program — Largest in Alaska History
JUNEAU, UP) — A 46Vfe-million
dollar state spending program for
the fiscal year beginning July 1
won approval of Alaska’s House
yesterday, and was to be acted
on today by the State Senate.
Final approval would clear the
last big hurdle to adjournment.
The final gavel could fall tonight,
although adjournment sometime
Tuesday seemed more likely.
The proposed spending pro
gram, as sent to the Senate last
night was $46,584,459, including
$5,980,189 in fiscal 1961 federal
transitional grants — the Con
gressional appropriations made
last year to ease Alaska’s early
years of statehood.
Exceeds Recommended Total
The package was $318,606 above
the total recommended by Gov.
Egan on the third day of the law
making session.
Included, however, were such
items as $296,250 to cover the pre
liminary costs of a proposed 39V4
million dollar general obligation
bonding program and some $36,500
to finance regulation of legalized
ice pool lotteries and other tra
ditional gambling activities in the
state.
Neither the bonding program,
approved by the Legislature for
submission to the voters in No
vember for acceptance or rejec
tion of six proposed capital im
provement projects, nor the sanc
tioned gambling were envisioned
by Egan when he submitted his
budget to the legislators.
Teacher Salary Hike By-Passed
Not included in the bill—either
as originally proposed by Egan, or
as passed by the House — were
appropriations to finance 1V$ mil
lion dollars in teacher salary in
creases next year.
A teacher pay bill, passed by
the Senate earlier, died in the
House Finance Committee. An at
tempt to force the bill out of com
mittee failed yesterday on a 21-19
vote.
State education still commanded
the largest single activity covered |
in the big appropriation bill.
The Department of Education
would receive $12,308,770 under
provisions of the bill, including
$8,471,000 for state support of
schools within organized districts
and $1,629,48 for support of rural
schools.
The Department of Public
Works appropriation was $11,131,
385, including $4,542,189 from fed
eral transitional grants. With that,
the state would buy during the
next fiscal year a $52,881,800 state
highway construction and main
tenance program, and another nine
million dollar program for state
airports.
The bill’s direct apropriations
from the general fund — the old
yardstick on how much govern
ment operations would cost the
taxpayers — were only slightly
above 35 million dollars in the
bill.
Comparisons with old Territor
ial budgets — or even with the
first state budget of a year ago
— are difficult.
Regardless, the proposed pro
gram is the largest in Alaska’s
history, and to be financed will
draw heavily on anticipated bud
get surplus at the end of the pres
ent fiscal year on June 30.
Included in the apropriation is
$950,000 of anticipated new rev
enue to be derived from a two
cent-a-gallon boost in highway
gasoline taxes, and another small
er source of new money expected
from a one-cent-a-gallon increase
in motor fuel taxes.
Africans Use
Stay-Home Strike
To Protest Killings
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa,
iff) — Thousands of Negroes stayed
home today to show their strength
and mourn the death of 72 blacks
slain by white police a week ago.
Police raided headquarters here
of the Negro group sponsoring the
stay-at-home work boycott.
The Witwatersrand security
police moved into the downtown
headquarters of the African Na
tional Congress and seized a num
ber of letters and documents. It
was the second time in four days
the police had visited the office.
South Africa’s white govern
ment has readied a bill for intro
duction in Parliament to outlaw
the African National Congress and
• the Pan-Africanist Congress, the
two major Negro groups.
The work boycott, which began
slowly last week and reached a
climax today, was called by Albert
Luthuli, president of the African
National Congress.
As the working day passed, it
was apparent that Luthuli’s ap
peal was being heeded in Johan
nesburg, Cape Town, Durban ami
other large cities where low-cost
Negro labor is the base of the
economy.
In the Cape Town area, most Af
ricans employed in the public
transport system and the building
trades remained at home. Bread
and milk deliveries were at a
minimum.
Connecticut Colleen Takes
Jr. Miss America Laurels
MOBILE, Alb., UP) — The 1960
America’s Junior Miss is a
serious-minded 17-year-old West
Haven, Conn., girl with a heady
sense of humor.
Maureen Sullivan, a student at
West Haven High School, won
the third annual America’s Junior
Miss Pageant last night. She got
a $5,000 scholarship.
Miss Sullivan is 5-6, weighs 128
pounds, has brown hair and vital
statistics of 35-24-36.
Milton Eisenhower
Postpones Trip to Italy
Because of Illness
BALTIMORE, W) — Illness has
forced Dr. Milton S. Eisenhower,
President Eisenhower’s youngest
brother, to postpone a trip to
Italy.
The 60-year-old president of
Johns Hopkins University was to
have left Sunday night for Bo
logna, Italy, where he was to
dedicate a new building at the
Bologna center of the Johns Hop
kins School of Advanced Interna
tional Study.
An administrative assistant said
Dr. Eisenhower has had “some
gastrointestinal infection and a
cold” for about two weeks.
ATTENTION MEMBERS OF
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Membership Kick-off Breakfast
at 7:00 a.m. at North Star Tues
day morning. All members re
quested to be present.
State Prosecutor
Bob Erwin Arrives
For Term of Court
Bob Erwin, the new State Pro
secuting Attorney, has arrived
from Juneau to take up his duties
here which are starting immedi
ately as the Grand Jury is called
for tomorrow afternoon at 2 p.m.
Four more local members to the
panel were drawn this afternoon.
George Hayes, chief of the
Criminal Division of the State
Justice Department, and Bob Er
skine, of the State Police Depart
ment, are also here on official
business.
False Alarm Rushes
Butolism Poisoning Serum
To Alaska ‘Victims’
ANCHORAGE, UP) — Stomach
aches in Alaska turned into king
sized headaches for Western Lab
oratory officials and Air Force
personnel sent to find and deliver
butolism serum late Saturday.
The alarm went out when four
men aboard a Navy tug in the
Aleutian Islands were stricken
with severe stomach pains after
drinking tomato juice. The Navy
feared deadly butolism poisoning,
caused by tainted food.
While the men were being
rushed to the Elmendorf AiFB
Hospital here, the call went out
for serum. There was none in
Alaska.
A supply was found in Port
land, Ore., but doctors Were
afraid it was insufficient. The
search spread to Denver and Los
Angeles while an Air Force team
undertook the 1,500-mile mercy
flight with the Portland serum.
Even before the plane arrived,
the sailors landed here, their
stomach aches replaced by hun
ger pangs.
Lorene Nershak Makes
Big Hit with Eskimo
Dance of Welcome
MOBILE, Ala., Alaska’s Lorene
Nershak was a big hit with the
crowd of 2,500 Friday night at
the I960 America’s Junior Miss
Pageant. She did an Eskimo folk
dance dressed in reindeer skin
and parka. She said she was
bringing a dance of greeting to
the other 49 states.
In addition to showings on
three nights, the girls were scored
on personality, character and in
telligence. In Mobile along with
the finalists in the contest, was
Judi Humphrey, of Lewiston, Pa.,
last year’s winner and America’s
Junior Miss.
Lorene is expected to be back
in Nome on Wednesday.
Senate Ponders Providing
Funds for Agricultural
Research in Alaska
WASHINGTON, iffi — Congress
is being asked for money for re
search on agriculture in Alaska.
For several years there has
been considerable pressure for ag
ricultural estimates in Alaska,
S. It. Newell, director of the agri
cultural estimates division of the
Agricultural Marketing Service,
said in testimony made public
yesterday.
He told a House Agriculture Ap
propriations Subcommittee the
service wants to spend about $20,.
000 during the year starting next
July to set up a research service
in Alaska.
That sum, he said, would sup
ply a statistician, a clerk, and
some allowance for travel and
other expense.
The state would provide offices
and additional clerical assistance
as needed, Newell added.
Nome Hails Birth of New Broadcaster
KICY — radio broadcasting
station of the Evangelical Cove
nant Church — was formally de
dicated Sunday afternon, with
representatives from several Prot
estant churches, as well as church
representatives of the Covenant
Church, and city leaders partici
pating. The hymn, “We gather to
gether to Ask the Lord’s Blessing,”
sung by a chorale group of three
denominations, might be called
the theme of the dedication, as
messages were read from Coven
anters in all the 50 States, as
well as from Africa and Panama.
By tape recording, Sen. Bob
Bartlett congratulated the station,
and called attention to the fact
that the name was most appro
priate. K-icy fits the part of the
country geographically, he stated,
but the letters W-A-R-M were
more appropriate to the people of
Nome and Northern Alaska.
Messages were read also from
Senator Gruening, Rep. Ralph
Rivers, and Governor William
Egan.
Rev. Ralph Hansen, president
of the Arctic Broadcasters, gave a
brief history of the work of the
Evangelical Covenant Church (for
merly the Swedish Covenant)
in this area for the past 78 years,
and the several years of planning
for this station. He praised man
ager Art Zylstra; builder Spencer
Strand, and the other members of
the staff for the fine station soon
to be on the air.
Dr. Clarence Nelson, head of
the Evangelical Covenant Church,
in Chicago, by tape recording
gave the following meaning to
the call letters: K for Know; I for
Instantly, C for Christ and Y for
Yours. “Know Instantly Christ is
Yours.”
Out-Of-Town Guests
Among the out-of-town guests
who came for the dedication was
a delegation of five from the Mor
avian Church at Bethel, headed
by Rev. C. B. Michael. It was
fitting that this church should
have a part in the dedication, as
it is the oldest mission in North
western Alaska. Other out-of-town
ministers who took part in the
ceremony were Harold Beck of
the Friends Church of Kotzebue,
and Rev. Norval Heglund of the
Teller Mission Lutheran Church.
Representing the City of Nome
were Mayor Steffen Andersen and
Pearse Walsh, president of the
NWA Chamber of Commerce, and
Rev. J. Maakestad, president of
the Nome Ministerial Association.
The dedicatory address was
made by Rev. Paul Fryhling of
Minneapolis, who called attention
to the fact that radio is only 40
years old, yet there are more than
4,000 stations, and over a million
radio sets in use today. He re
ferred to radio, like atomic ener
gy, as a “miracle of God revealed
to the people of the world at God’s
will, and at the time He chooses.”
Manager Zylstra stated the
dedication program will be broad
cast when the station ges on the
air in the near future.
About 500 people were guests
of the radio station at the open
house which was held Saturday
afternoon and evening. ,
Harry Gabrielson
Retires After Many
Years with Lomen
The retirement of Harry Gab
rielson as vice president and gen
eral manager of the Lomen Com
HARRY GABRIELSON
mercial Company division of Alas
ka Steamship Company was an
nounced last week toy Melville
McKinstry, vice president and.
general manager of the steamship
company.
At the same time, McKinstry
announced a change in adminis
tration of the Lomen division
and the appointment of a Nome
agent of that division.
Under the change, James F.
O’Sullivan, Alaska Line agent at
Nome, assumes supervision of the
JIM O'SULLIVAN
Lomen division, and Alex Mac
Innes, Lomen office manager, be
comes Lomen division Nome
agent.
Gabrielson was born in Had
lock, Wash. After graduating from
Queen Anne High School, Seattle,
he became associated with the
Pacific Coast Steamship Com
pany here. In 1913, he went to
Nome and joined the John J. Ses
non Company, which handled
lightering service there. Later
Gabrielson organized the Nome
Lighterage and Commercial Com
pany.
In 1927 Gabrielson sold out to
the Lomen Commercial Company
and returned to the States. Back
in Nome a short time later, he
became cashier of the Miners and
Merchants Bank of Alaska, a posi
tion which he held for nine years.
He returned to the Lomen com
pany as general manager in 1950
and became vice president of the
company y,i 1955.
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