Labor Secretary
Wants Teeth In
Welfare Abuse Law
WASHINGTON, Wl — Secretary
of Labor James Mitchell told
Congress yesterday the federal
welfare pension plans disclosure
law affords no persuasive deter
rent to those who wish to ignore
its provisions of manipulating or
embezzling funds.
Calling for amendments, he said
he now lacks both investigatory
and enforcement powers.
“The net effect, to date, raises
grave doubts as to the wisdom of
retaining so weak a law on the
statute books,” Mitchell said in
a letter to Congress.
“To abandon it entirely, how
ever, would be an act of betrayal
to the millions of Americans who
have a right to a sense of security
that the billions of dollars annual
ly received and disbursed by these
plans are being honestly and pru
dently managed,” he said.
“The only recourse, therefore,
is prompt amendment of the act
to require, among other consid
erations, that reports should be
complete anl meaningful and
timely filed, and plan administra
tors should be entitled to receive
authoritative interpretations of
the act’s provisions; and that the
Department of Labor should have
proper investigatory and enforce
ment powers customarily granted
by Congress for the proper en
forcement of legislation it has
adopted.”
Congress passed the law after
long investigations into abuses in
the handling of welfare funds. In
signing it on August 28, 1958,
President Eisenhower cited what
he called numerous shortcom
ings. He said he was signing it
“because it establishes a prece
dent of federal responsiblity in
this area. It does little else.”
GSA Announces Plans for
Federal Office Building
To Go Up at Juneau
WASHINGTON, UP) — The de
sign for a 15-million-dollar fed
eral office building at Juneau is
expected to be completed by Sep
tember, 1961.
In so advising Alaska members
of Congress yesterday, the Gen
eral Services Administration said
the building would house a post
office, federal court and other
federal agencies. It will contain
a gross area of 303,700 square
feet.
Administer Franklin Floete was
quoted as saying a study is being
made of available sites and that
Congress probably would be
asked to appropriate money for
construction in the fiscal year be
ginning July 1, 1961.
The agency also advised the
Congressmen that Richard Hen
dricks has been appointed direc
tor of its activities in Alaska. He
will have offices in the Anchorage
Federal Building.
Fin* Job Printing At Th* Nugget.
Governor Egan Galls on All Alaskans
To Put Shoulders to Wheel for Progress
JUNEAU. UP — Top state offi- i
cials yesterday urged Alaskans
to forget their differences and
work together again as mounting
returns from Tuesday’s primary
election nailed the lid tighter on
the coffin of a proposal to move
the state capitol from Juneau.
As the count of votes continued,
it became increasingly clear that
Juneau’s fight to retain the cap
itol it took from Sitka in 1906 had
overwhelming support throughout
the state, except in Anchorage,
where the relocation proposal,
Initiative No. 1, originated.
The state’s top politicians, from
both parties, had urged defeat of
the capitol relocation measure.
What share their views had in
bringing on the defeat of Initia
tive No. 1 was still undetermined.
The initiative proposed reloca
tion of the capitol in the Cook
Inlet-railbelt area, dominated by
Anchorage, the state’s largest city.
From all sections of the state
and from all levels of state gov
ernment came pleas that the bit
terness and the intra-party fight
ing, both among Democrats and
Republicans, of the past year be
forgotten as quickly as possible. |
Governor Names Two to
Interstate Education Commission
JUNEAU, UP — The appoint- i
ment of two new Alaska repre
sentatives on the Western Inter
state Commission for Higher Ed
ucation was announced Wednes
day by Gov. Egan.
Named to the commission were
Dr. William Wood, new president
of the University of Alaska, and
Dr. Theo Norby, Commissioner
of the State Department of Edu
cation.
SNEEZE WEEK . . .
MIAMI, Fla., (IP) — Can you
sneeze with your eyes open? Pos
sibly not.
A Miami Beach hotel is offer
ing a one-week expenses paid va
cation to anyone who can.
“The 49th State encompasses
one large area,” Gov. Egan said
in a post-election statement.
“Once an important decision is ar
rived at in the Democratic man
ner, Alaskans everywhere always
put their shoulders to the wheel
in a united effort to foster prog
ress and development.
"From Ketchikan to Point Bar
row our citizens are of one mind
and that is to further the devel
opment of all Alaska.”
All of Southeast Alaska, the
long panhandle which is squeezed
between Canada and the Pacifc
Ocean, Good shoulder to shoulder
with neighboring Juneau, giving
a turndown vote of better than 30
to one against Initiatie No. 1.
In Central Alaska, where Fair
banks is the major city, the vote
for Juneau was about two to one.
In the sparsely settled Northwest
ern area, where Nome holds sway,
the vote for Juneau was almost
three to one. Anchorage voted
three to one for relocation.
Most of the precincts yet to be
counted were small, bush pre
cincts which would have little if
any effect on the eventual total.
Logde Scoffs at Charge
Of Playing Politics in U.N.
BEVERLY, Mass., — Henry
Cabot Lodge brushed off a news
man’s question today as to whe
ther he is remaining at his post
as this country’s U. N. Ambas
sador to obtain publicity in his
campaign as Republican Vice
Presidential candidate.
A reporter referred to a news
magazine’s article saying that the
Soviet Union contends Lodge will
stay at his post during he cam
paign. ,
Lodge replied that the charge is
old and “sounds like Russian
propaganda.”
Lodge said he is going to re
main in the post for the disarm
ament commission hearing which
begins next week.
After that, he told reporters, he
expects to present his resigna
tion.
SELL — Those surplus items that
you don’t need. Just let a
Nugget Classified Ad convert
them into cash for you.
Katmai Peak
Volcano Erupts
ANCHORAGE. OP)—Mt. Trident,
a 6,010-foot volcano in the Valley
of 10,000 Smokes, erupted Wed
nesday, spewing molten lava half
a mile high and blackening the
sky wih smoke and ash.
John Walatka, manager of sev
eral fishing camps operated by
Northern Consolidated Airlines in
the area, described it as a “major
eruption.”
Walatka flew near enough to
the red-rimmed crater to identify
the peak as Mt. Trident.
Trident is near Mt. Katmai in
the Katmai National Monument at
the base of the Alaska Peninsula,
about 400 miles southwest of An
chorage. There reportely was no
danger to life and property in the
wild, unpopulated area dotted
with dozens of active volcanoes.
Airline pilots said smoke bil
lowed to a height of 30,000 to
40,000 feet and blotted out the sun
at the nearest villages of King
Salmon and Naknek.
Walatka messaged that the vol
cano appeared to be subsiding
slightly yesterday. Trident had
been quiet since July, 1953, when
it “blew its top” in a similar
eruption.
TORONTO, l/P) — City Traffic
Engineer Sam Case has rejected
as possibly unwise a safety pro
posal that pedestrians wave red
flags at motorists while crossing
busy Toronto streets.
Dr. Rabeau, Anchorage
PHS Officer, Will Take
Year's Study at Berkeley
ANCHORAGE — Dr. Erwin S.
Rabeau, deputy area medical offi
cer in charge of the Public Health
Service, left Anchorage this week
after serving the PHS in Alaska
for 15 years.
He will attend the School of
Public Health at the University
of California in Berkeley for the
next year. Rabeau was assigned
by PHS to the school, which is
sponsored by the agency. He will
earn his master’s degree in pub
lic health.
Dr. Rabeau came to Anchorage
in 1957 after serving as medical
officer in charge of native hos
pitals at Tanana, Point Barrow
and Kotzebue
During his stay in Alaska he
has been especially interested in
hunting, fishing, trap shooting and
bowling.
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UNOFFICIAL RETURNS PRIMARY ELECTION, AUGUST 9, I960
NORTHWESTERN DISTRICT
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Shakioolik. 12 9 12 0 12 4 1 15 4 31 9 4 19 5 8 3 13 6 25 10 5
Stebbins. 30 0 1 2 28 0 0 1 10 22 8 22 0 1 26 25 8 0 1 1 0
St. Michael. 24 2 5 1 23 1 1 4 10 17 10 14 5 1 21 21 5 3 7 2 2
Little Creek. 14 0 6 2 13 1 1 3 6 14 9634 7711 2523
White Mountain. 14 1 6 1 13 124 8 10 5970 11 4 12 0770
Gambell. 42 8 9 4 37 4 3 8 8 36 22 17 11 5 26 24 17 7 9 2 12
Kotzebue. 133 21 45 13 116 20 5 38 48 121 94 35 80 3
Unalakleet. 126 7 25 5 116 9 9 10 82 67 57 61 22 11 49 96 78 3 33 17 8
Barrow. 206 11 9 28 181 1 1 12 36 191 114 89 10 11
Nome. 246 45 173 12 132 26 51 123 183 266 173 71 215 19 144 109 175 83 177 122 52
Elim. 19 1 6 0 19 0 1 5 11 15 15 0 8 0 6 16 14 0 7 6 2
Savoonga. 29 2 5 8 40 3 3 3 18 39 10 32 14 1 50 30 8 14 5 3 4
Shishmaref. 10 2 14 1 8 4 2 10 18 7 7 2 12 4 6 5 7 8 11 6 6
Golovin. 11 2 6 011008 6 12 4780 8581761
Koyuk. 19 9 10 1 19 6 1 11 3 36 11 8 10 9 13 8 16 7 19 7 3
Fortune Ledge. 14 5 4 1 14 125 7 11 6745
Mt. Village. 36 5 5 2 34 1 4 5 31 10 4 32 6 4
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