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ABC Board Will Consider State
Operated Sale of Packaged Goods
By Ward Sims
Associated Pratt Staff Writar
JUNEAU UP) — The Alcoholic
Beverage Control Board has ibeeri
asked to examine the possibility
of Alaska becoming a ‘‘monopoly
state” in the sale of packaged
liquor, the Associated Press learn
ed today.
In a monopoly state, such as
Washington, packaged liquor may
be sold only at stores operated!
by the state.
The proposal is one of 10 to be
taken up fey the board early next
month during a series of public
hearings around the state.
The board said Iks Fairbanks
session, originally scheduled for
Dec. 8, has been set back one day,
until Dec. 9. The board will meet
in Anchorage Dec. 5, Nome Decl
6 and Juneau Dec. 13. It will also
have an informal meeting in Kot
zebue Dec. ?.
The ABC Board in a four-page
memorandum, outlined 10 sug
gestions which have been made
by various persons dealing with
the liquor shipment problem and
the related problem of liquor con
trol in local option communities.
The ABC Board emphasized
that it has taken no stand on any
of the suggestions offered to it
thus far and would not take a
stand until after the hearings have
been completed.
The nine suggestions it has al
ready received, in addition to the
monopoly state proposal, were:
1* Modify the law so as to make
any shipment or delivery of
liquor by retailers illegal. Under
such a plan, any purchase of
liquor would have to be made
on a face to face basis within a
licensed retail liquor store.
t. AJlow shipments of liquor
ontyr to persons who have pre
viously registered with the dealer
from whom the purchase is made.
Registration with the dealer could
be accomplished either in person
or by affidavit.
3. Make it unlawful for retail
ers to ship into local option
towns. Under this plan, shipments
by retailers to outlying areas
would continue to foe legal. Ship
ments by retailers into communi
ties which have voted dry would
be unlawful and violation would
subject the licensee to pen
alty.
4. Make it illegal for any com
mon carrier to transport liquor
into dry communities.
5.. Make it unlawful for any per
son, even the legal owner, to ship
or transport liquor into a local
option community. i
8. Provide for a local option
election on the question of wheth
er shipment of liquor into the
town is desired. If the community
voted against liquor shipments
within its boundaries, then any
shipment would become illegal.
7. Provide for a local “foone
dry” option which would make
the possession or consumption of
liquor, as well as the local sale
of liquor, illegal.
8. Require liquor dealers to keep
records of persons to whom
liquor is shipped and make peri
odic reports of these transactions
to the state.
9. Provide for legal outlets in
communities with liquor control
problems, the outlets to be oper
ated by the community, a co
operative or a public or private
corporation. The profits frooth
such a store could be used for
community improvement projects.
In its memorandum, the ABC
Board said each of the suggestions
posed additional questions which
needed to foe answered before any
satisfactory solution could fob
TB Cases in Alaska
Down 15 Per Cent
WASHINGTON UP) — The num
ber of Indian* and Alaska natives
under treatment for tuberculosis
in hospitals in August was IS per
cent less than during the same
month a year earlier
Reporting this today, Surgeon
Gen. Luther Terry of the Public
Health Service said the latest re
port reflect-*; a continuous down
ward trend since a peak was
reached in 1956. He credited im
proved preventive measures and
treatment.
“With the reduction in the num
ber of beds for c&re the tuber
cular, the recti! t is that wc have
Increased hospital facilities avail
able for the general medical and
surgical program,” Terry said.
Terry noted that the average
age at death of an Indian is 41
years and it is 30 for Alaska
natives. These compare with 62
for all races in the United States.
The tuberculosis death rate is
four and a half times greater far
the nltu>
greater for. the Alaska natives;
than among the general popula
tion. '
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Minuteman Mssile
Makes Good FI (
From Silo Pad
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. »—
With a swirl of fire and smoke,
an intercontinental range Minute
man missile scored its first under
ground launching success today.
The rocket vaulted from a 90
foot pit and raced to a target area
about 3,000 miles away.
The success, announced by the
Air Force, advanced the day when
hundreds of Minutemen will be
planted in underground silos cap
able of surviving nuclear attack.
The 58-foot projectile cleared
the pit in two seconds, quickly
darted through the smoke clouds
and pitched toward the southeast.
The second and third stages
fired as planned and propelled the
nose cone into a broad bull’s eye
area in the Atlantic. Pinpoint ac
curacy was not a goal on this first
successful silo firing.
The Air Force needed a suc
cessful flight to make up for time
lost when a Minuteman exploded
seconds after the missile’s first
silo launching on Aug. 30.
The August failure was traced
to a spurious guidance system sig
nal which ignited the second stage
as the missile cleared the silo. The
second stage is intended to fire
about a minute after launching.
Analysis of data also showed
the missile was affected slightly
by noise ricocheting off the sides
or the silo. To remedy this, the
hole used today was lined with
a three-inch thickness of a sub
stance resembling acoustical tile.
Before launching, the missile
rested on a hydraulically operated
ring which hung suspended on
metallic straps 17 feet from the
bottom of the shaft. This system
will permit Minutemen to remain
pointed "On its intended trajectory
even though a nearby nuclear
blast might knock the silo slightly
ajar.
FORMER SECTY. SEATON
TO SEEK GOVERNORSHIP
LINCOLN, Neb. UP) — Fred A.
Seaton, 51, Secretary of Interior
in the Eisenhower Administration,
announced today he will seek the
Republican nomination for gover
nor of Nebraska.
Seaton, Hastings, Neb.t pub
lisher, with newspaper, radio and
television and magazine interests
in file Midwest, served as U.S.
senator by appointment in 1851
and 1852, and became an adviser
to President Eisenhower during
the 1852 campaign.
Sen. Neuberger of Oregon
Undergoes Cancer Surgery
PORTLAND, .Oat. M i— Sen.
Maurine Nauberger- fD-Ore.), was
reported in satisfactory condition
Kennedy Ribs
Sen. Magnuson at
Kickoff Dinner
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SEATTLE UP) — President Ken
nedy, obviously enjoying his
western tour, good naturedly rib
bed Sen. Warren Magnuson, GD
Wn.), last night at the latter’s
kickoff dinner for next year’s
re-election campaign.
The President’s trip will take
him to Phoenix, Ariz., today. He
speaks tonight at a dinner for
Sen. Carl Hayden, (D-Ariz.), Dean
of the Senate. Hayden, 84, also
is up for re-election next year.
At the $100-a-plate dinner at
tended by nearly 3,000 persons,
Kennedy smiled as he described
Magnuson as a man who speaks
in the Senate so quietly few can
hear him.
“He comes into the Senate late
in the afternoon,” the President
grinned. 'He is very hesitant
about interrupting other members
of the Senate.
“When he rises to speak, most
members of the Senate have left.
He looks down at sis desk and
says it is nothing important. And
Grand Coulee Dam is built ”
The audience roared with laugh
ter and a big grin spread across
Magnuson’s face.
The Prime Minister of British
Columbia, William Andrew Ben
nett, and a dozen of Magnuson’s
congressional colleagues, attended
the dinner celebrating Magnu
son’s <25 years of service In Con
> gress. Sen. (Mike Mansfield, CD
Mont.), Senate Majority Leader,
introduced them.
In paying tribute to Magnu
son, Kennedy said no man has
done more to transform the face
of the state in the last 25 years
than the senior Senator from
Washington.
Magnuson made only a brief
response.
‘My mother once told me not
to talk when I had food in my
mouth,” he said. “Tonight my
heart is in my mouth.”
Hundreds Pay Final
Respects to Sam Rayburn
BONHAM, Tex. W — Hundreds
paid their respects to House
Speaker Sam Rayburn today,
filing through the library named
tot him where his body lies in
state.
Men bit their lips and shook
their heads. Women sobbed softly
and dabbed at their eyes with tiny
handkerchiefs.
Rayburn died of cancer yester
day at 6:20 am. (CST) in modest
Risser Hospital here.
The Speaker was dressed to
day In a dark blue suit. His loss
of wei^it from the ravages of
the disease was evident.
Among the honorary pallbearers
will be (President Kennedy
and Vice President Johnson, both
of whom will attend the funeral
set for 1:30 p.m. (CST) tomorrow.
MILL10W8 OF MIDGES . . .
Birmingham, am. <j* — mu
sjbSjj^were blown in by gusty
Alter
11 Stranded Men
Rescued From
Arctic Ocean
FAIRBANKS UR — A rescue
plane picked up 11 stranded men
from an Arctic ice floe at 12:10
p.m. today and headed back to
Barrow.
No decision was announced im
mediately on what would be done
with the plane forced down near
the North Pole Wednesday night
after someone mistakenly filled
the gas tanks with diesel oil.
The rescue plane was an Alaska
Air National Guard ski-equipped
C-123 and it was accompanied by
an Air Force C-54 “flying cover.”
The 11 stranded men were on
an ice floe about 550 miles from
land and were enroute from ice
island Arliss II to Barrow when
forced down about 30 miles out.
The rescue plane was piloted by
Maj. Dean L. Stringer and took
of from Barrow in total darkness
at 7:46 am. this morning. The
cover plane was piloted by Maj.
Fred Kinsel who spotted the
downed plane yesterday.
Stringer’s plane, in order to
have as light a load as possible
was minus the navigator and
radio operator.
When they left Barrow the two
, planes had filed a 10-hour flight
[ plan. .That would place them back
\ at Barrow at about 4:45 p.m.
1 The Air Force said diesel oB
1 instead of volatile high octane
aircraft gasoline was accidentally
pumped Into the tanks ofthe
Navy patrol plane yesterday at
the Arlis II research station near
the North Pole.
The plane is on loan from the
Navy to the Arctic Research La
boratory.
Pilot of the downed plane was
L.W. Zimmerman and the c-o-pQot
was J.H. Felder.
The stranded men were Mag C.
Brewer, director of the laboratory;
J. F. Schindler, asst, director; M.
Herrmann of the Navy Bureau of
Yards and Docks, Washington.
B.C.; Justin E. Dykins, Civil En
gineering Laboratory, Port Hue
neme, Calif.; Don Robinson, Uni
versity of Southern Califonia, and
John Beck, Fred Weideman,
Lsingwell Erocklook and Riley
Sikyayugak, all of the laboratory.
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Catholic Bishops Oppose
Federal Aid to Education
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