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Gov. Egan Does Not Believe
Srong Republican Vote Reflects
Dissatisfaction with Administration
JUNEAU, OP) — The strong Re
publican vote of last Tuesday
was the result of many things,
but it did not represent dissatis
faction with his administration,
Gov. William Egan said today.
Egan was asked at his regular
Monday morning news conference
if the results would “indicate a
desire for a change in the legis
lature alone or would they ex
tend to the administration as
well?”
“It is always difficult to con
duct a post-mortem on any elec
tion,” Egan replied.
“Much of the apparent dissat
isfaction was related to the leg
islative branch.”
The governor mentioned two
things he said he believed had
a bearing on the sharp swing to
the GOP, particularly in the An
chorage area.
These, he said, were the capi
tal relocation fight of the pri
mary election and the failure of
Democratic legislative candidates
to combat GOP statements against
the Democratic-controlled 1959
and 1960 session of the legisla
ture.
The governor noted in connec
tion with the capital relocation
fight, however, that one of the
strongest supporters of the move,
Democratic State Rep. Earl Hill
strand, was defeated in his bid
for the District G, Anchorage
Palmer, seat in the Senate.
Egan said he had heard re
ports that newly elected Repub
lican members of the House in
Fairbanks had suggested a special
session of the legislature to cut
the salaries of legislators and
raise the salaries of teachers and
state employes.
“I have not received any re
quests that I call a special ses
sion and one of the present rep
resentatives from Fairbanks ad
vised me that the reports “are a
joke.”
The governor said he was “very
pleased” with the Battelle Mem
orial Institute report on Alaskan
and Canadian transportation.
Egan noted that the report re
commended an Inside Passage
ferry system.
“Only three days previously,”
Egan said, “the people of Alaska
apparently voted approval of a
bond issue to finance a state ferry
system in Southeastern Alaska.”
After it became clear that the
voters had okehed a bond issue to
build a vocational school north of
the Yukon, Egan said he received
a call from State Rep. Bob Blod
gett suggesting that the school be
named after William E. Beltz.
Beltz, who is President of the
State Senate, lies critically ill in
the Alaska Native Service Hos
pital at Anchorage.
‘It would be a fitting tribute
to a great Alaskan,1’ Egan said
in indicating he would make such
a recommendation when the
school is constructed.
Elizabeth Taylor
Collapses From
Mystery Malady
LONDON, W) — Singer Eddie
Fisher kept a vigil tonight by the
sickbed of his wife Elizabeth
Taylor. The couple were in a
London hospital to which the
movie queen was carried writh
ing in agony last night.
The star’s dramatic collapse
after a long illness posed a large
question mark over her future
and over the fate of the “Cleo
patra” movie she came to Britain
Sept. 8 to make.
Gloom pervaded the studio
where moviemen have been mark
ing time for two months, waiting
to get Miss Taylor before the
cameras.
She was stricken at her pent
house apartment in a London
hotel Sunday night with what
was described as “a terrible head
ache causing unbelievable pain.”
The attack came just as every
body thought the four times mar
ried star had shaken off the puz
zling ailment that brought her
down shortly after her arrival in
Britain.
A virus fever was first sus
pected. Doctors ordered Miss Tay
lor hospitalized for three days of
tests. Then last week she was
found to have an abscessed tooth.
A dentist pulled it and the
fever went down. Miss Taylor
was believed on the mend.
When the attack came last
night Fisher put through a fran
tic telephone call for an ambu
lance. Weeping hysterically and
clutching her head, Miss Taylor
was carried out through a side
door of her hotel. Fisher was
agitated and close to tears.
Man Locked In Car Trunk
Keep Self Alive With
Air From Spare Tire
NEW YORK, UFi — How many
persons would have Ferdinand
Stoj’s presence of mind if they
were locked up in an airless auto
trunk for six hours?
The quick - thinking Stoj sur
vived the ordeal by opening the
valve of a spare tire from time
t)o time.
A night watchman locked up
inside another auto trunk wasn’t
as lucky. He suffocated.
Stoj, 36, a janitor in the Argo
naut Building in midtown Man
hattan, told police a trio of gun
men forced him into the trunk of
a new car parked in a showroom.
The night watchman, Patrick
Holland, 50, was put into another
car trunk. The thieves then made
off with $100 from an office safe.
During his long siege in the
stifling compartment Stoj tried to
force open the trunk lid with a
tire jack. Every now and then
he would take a whiff of tire air.
A relief night watchman heard
him when he arrived early Sun
day.
He released Stoj. But it was
too late for Holland.
Church of Scotland Protests
U.S. Polaris Submarine Base
EDINBURGH, Scotland, UPl —
The minister of St. Giles Cath
edral has called for an emergency
meeting of the General Assem
bly of the Church of Scotland
over the plan to use Holy Loch
as a U.S. Polaris submarine base.
“We should consider whether
America should have the power
to control Britain’s life and
death,” said the Rev. H. C. Whit
ley at a Remembrance Day ser
vice in the cathedral Sunday.
President-Elect
Kennedy Visits
Nixon In Florida
By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH
KEY BISCAYNE, Fla., Iff) —
President-elect John F. Kennedy
and his defeated rival, Vice Pre
sident Richard Nixon, met in a
cordial historic session today—
and Kennedy said there was no
dicussion of bringing Nixon into
his administration.
On that, Nixon left the talking
to Kennedy, but did not dispute
it by any means. The two spent
more than an hour together in
Nixon’s villa on a tiny island off
the Florida coast.
Both said that the emphasis
was on discussing the problems
of the transition from a Repub
lican to a Democratic administra
tion and on problems in the field
of foreign policy.
Kennedy held a news confer
ence afterward and said it was a
“very cordial and I feel very
beneficial meeting.”
It was Kennedy, the winner in
Tuesday’s election who took the
initiative in setting up the meet
ing and calling on the man he
beat. Nixon called this “a very
gracious act.
“The fact he wanted to come
here, I think,” Nixon said, “is a
very excellent example to the
American people and to the whole
world how our system works.”
Kennedy said he expects to see
the Vice President again, per
haps next month, and also plans
to meet with President Eisen
hower at the latter’s convenience,
probably in December.
The senator said that Nixon
was extremely cooperative. The
Vice President said that the meet
ing should serve notice to the
world that any differences he and
Kennedy have in the next four
years will not be based on per
sonal considerations. But he said
he had told Kennedy, and Ken
nedy agreed, the opposition has a
responsibility to criticize things
and policies with which it dis
agrees, although it must be done
constructively.
At the Kennedy news confer
ence, the President-elect recalled
that he and Nixon entered Con
gress the same day 14 years ago.
He went on to say that he ar
ranged the conference with Nixon
because he was anxious to renew
the cordial relations which always
had existed between them.
Unscheduled Show
HOUSTON, Tex., UP) — Jose
phine, a two-year-old spider mon
key, escaped her cage in a de
partment store Sunday night and
entertained window shoppers for
nearly two hours.
Every time Josephine threw a
potted plant to the floor, the
crowd that had gathered outside
laughed. Josephine tried to please.
Every laugh brought more smash
ed pots, 45 in all.
Somebody called the store man
ager and police when Josephine
started throwing pots at the
crowd. She took one look at store
manager Bill Secrest and started
swinging through the store via
light fixtures.
Police tried bananas for a lure,
but Josephine threw them back.
Finally Lois Boyer, assistant
manager, coaxed Josephine back
into her cage with woman talk.
Secrest remarked he might low
er the $49.95 price tag on Jose
phine.
Alaska Members of
Congress Move Up
Seniority Ladder
By FRITZ WITTI
<AP SDecial Washington Service
WASHINGTON, UP)—When the
87th Congress convenes next year
Alaska members will take their
first steps up the seniority lad
der.
Since all three are Democrats,
they will sit on the majority side
of their committees as they did
in the last session.
Changes in committee assign
ments are not often made, so
Sen. Ernest Gruening and Rep.
Ralph Rivers stand to move up
in committee rank while Sen. E.L.
Bartlett probably will stay put.
Gruening is due to move from
ninth to sixth ranking member
of the Interior Committee and
from ninth to eighth place on the
Public Works Committee. This
will come about because of death
or retirement of members with
more seniority.
Because no changes are now
expected in Bartlett’s committees
he probably will remain tenth
ranking member of the Armed
Services Committee and ninth on
the Commerce Committee.
Rivers is slated to move up
from 17th to 15th place on the
Interior Committee because of the
loss of two members who had
outranked him in seniority.
Seniority is all important in
Congress. It determines the com
mittee chairmanships and the
ranking of other members of the
committees, where most of the
work of Congress is done.
4,000 Absentee Ballots
Key to Ferry Bond Issue
JUNEAU, W) — Some 4,000 or
more absentee ballots today held
the key to Alaska’s three electoral
votes and the fate of a proposed
23-million-dollar bond issue for
a state ferry system.
With the results from more
than five-sixths of the state’s 300
precincts counted, Vice President
Nixon was leading Sen. Kennedy
in Alaska by some 600 votes.
Most of the remaining precincts
were small ones. State election
officials estimated there were no
more than 2,500 votes outstand
ing to be counted.
In addition to these, however,
are some 4,000 or more absentee
ballots. The count of the absentee
ballots will start on Friday.
The total vote smashed all rec
ords for Alaska. On the basis of
votes already counted, the 2,500
estimated to be outstanding and
an absentee ballot count of 4,000,
the total vote will be almost
61,000.
The previous high of 50,343
was registered in the 1958 gen
eral election, when Alaskans ap
proved statehood.
The ferry bond proposal was
leading by a mere 629 votes. Its
fate will be decided by the ab
sentee ballots.
RETURNS FROM 253
OF 300 PRECINCTS
JUNEAU, UP) — Unofficial re
turns from 253 of 300 precincts
in Alaska give:
Kennedy 26,907
Nixon 27,432
Bartlett 33,923
McKinley 19,614
Rivers 28,939
Rettig 23,535
Bonding Proposition No. 2:
Yes—23,678; No—23,058
GOP Cuts Demo
Majority In The
House to 22-18
JUNEAU, UP> — The Republican
party will have a major voice, not
just a whisper, in the second state
legislature, incomplete returns
from last Tuesday’s general elec
tion indicated today.
On the basis of incomplete re
turns from most of the House
election districts, it appeared the
Republicans would snatch 15 seats
from the Democrats and would
retain three seats they held dur
ing the first legislature.
Despite losing three seats it oc
cupied during the 1959 and 1960
sessions in the House, the GOP
would give the Democrats only a
22-18 advantage during the next
two sessions if the present lead
ers hold their positions.
In the big Anchorage district,
No. 10, Republicans were lead
ing for seven of the district’s
eight seats, with all of the Demo
cratic incumbents out of it at
this point.
The GOP leaders were R. W.
Stratton, Bruce Kendall, Harold '
D. Strandberg, James C. Parsons,
Henry S. Pratt, William H. Sand
ers and Bennie Leonard. Warren
C. Colver was in eighth place,
just a few votes ahead of Demo
cratic incumbent John Hellenthal.
Apparently out of it at this
stage in the counting were Demo
cratic incumbents James Fisher,
Peter Kalamarides, Blanche Mc
Smith, Russ Meekins and James
Norene.
In Fairbanks District 19, Re
publicans C. M. Binkley, Edgar
I. Baggen and Forbes Baker ap
parently won the seats formerly
held by Democrats Robert Giers
dorf, Richard Greuel and Robert
Sheldon.
Re-elected were Francis Chap
ados and Warren Taylor, both
Democrats.
Republicans Walter Kubley and
William Boardman won the 2nd
district’s two seats, replacing a
pair of Demcrats, Oral Freeman
and J. Ray Roady.
In the first district, Republican
Alfred Widmark had a slim lead
over Democratic incumbent Chas.
M. Jones.
In the 12th district, Republican
Leo Rhode was running ahead of
Democrat Qunicy Benton.
In the 23rd, Art Johnson whip
ped Democratic incumbent Chas.
Fagerstrom for the district’s sec
ond seat. Democratic incumbent
Bob Blodgett was re-elected.
In the 16th district, Democrat
Raymond Christiansen was ahead
of GOP incumbent James Hoff
man and Republican incumbent
John Curtis was trailing Demo
crat Jacob Stalker in the 22nd
district.
in ine zutn, write-m candidate
Ken Garrison was far ahead of
Democratic incumbent Robert S.
McCombe and in the 24th district
Father S. Llorente, another write
in candidate, had an insurmount
able lead over L, Paquette, a
Democrat unopposed on the bal
lot. Both Garrison and Llorente
are Democrats.
O'Sullivan Leaves For Seattle
Jim O’Sullivan, looel agent for
the Alaska Steamship Co., leaves
tomorrow with his wife for his
winter office in Seattle. He ex
pressed appreciation for the fine
cooperation given him by the
members of the Chamber and
local business in general.