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Gov. Egan Expresses
legret at New Attempt
To Move the Capital
JUiNEAU 0* — Gov. William
Egan expressed regret Thursday
that another attempt will be made
to move the state capital from
Juneau to westward Alaska. '
An application for an initiative
petition to accomplish that was
filed with Secretary of State Hugh
Wade Tuesday.
"This question was before the
people last year and they made
their decision then/’ Egan said.
“It is regretful that it has come
up again because of the position
in which it puts the entire Juneau
area. It will hinder activities here
which are necessary to the eco
nomic growth of this area.
“Further, we are not in the po
sition, as a state, to make the
expenditures a move of this type
would require.”
Egan also told his regular
Thursday morning news confer
ence there are indications the
federal government will make
federal-aid highway funds avail
able for construction of staging
areas at terminals of the state’s
ferry system.
Egan said William J. Niemi,
Alaska Regional Engineer for the
0PR, called him from Denver
after conferring with Rex Whit
ten, Federal Administrator of
Highways.
The Governor said if federal
aid highway money is made avail
able for construction of the ferry |
staging areas, the savings to the
state will be some $600,000.
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U of Alaska
Educators to
Visit Here Monday
Nome will be one of the last
stops for a group of educators
from the University of Alaska
touring the state, when they ar
rive here Monday morning on
Wien Airlines.
At noon they will be guests of
the Chamber of Commerce and
the acting chairman urges not
only members, but all interested
persons to attend the luncheon.
At 7:30 pm. at the Multi-Pur
pose Room of the school they will
show a fine documentary film,
“Alaska and Its Natural Re
sources", for adults and further
discuss the education needs for
this area. This includes the Voca- J
tional School.
The study is being conducted
in relation to the University of
Alaska Division of Statewide
Services program and is being
financed by a grant of $15,000
from the fund for the Advance
ment of Education of the Ford
Foundation.
President of the university, Dr.
William Wood, commenting on
the visit of the group, stated,
“using their obeservations on the
trip and the advice of community
leaders in the locales they visit,
the members of the study group
will present recommendations to
the state-university and adminis
trative personnel of the Board tri
Regents. These recommendations
may lead to significant changes
in the adult education services
provided for Alaskans by their
state university.”
The men making the trip in
clude Dr. J. Roby Kidd, secretary
treasurer of the Social Science
Research Council of Canada and
former executive director of the
Canadian Adult Eudcation Assn.;
Dr. Julius Nolte, dean of the Uni
versity of Minnesota; Dr. Lloyd
Drury, dean of Statewide Service
at the University of Nevada.
University of Alaska officials
making the trip include Dr.
George Worthington Adams, aca
demic vice president; Dr. Arthur
Buswell, dean of Statewide Serv
ices and head of the Co-operative
Extension Service; and John
Niemi, assistant to the president.
Coordinating the plans locally
are Pearse Walsh, Jean Burand,
Emily Boucher and Dick McCor
mick.
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PHS Physician Says
Genetic Damage
From Fallout
Will Be Slight
By Joynes MacFarlan
WASHINGTON UP! — Any ge
netic damage caused by fallout
from the current series of Rus
sian nuclear explosions will be
so slight, in the opinion of a Pub
lic Health Service physician, that
it may not be discernible even
after several generations.
The physician in the service’s
Division of {Radiological Health
gave his views to this reporter
but declined to permit identifi
cation by name.
He said the radiation dose to
reproductive cells from radio
activity of levels measured ih this
country since Sept. 1 will not be
as large as that received over a
long period from natural back
ground radiation.
There is a considerable varia
tion worldwide in the amount of
natural background radiation. For
instance, the expert said that in
the Mona7.1 te Sands areas of India
it is possibly 20 times the usual
maximum in this country.
The official said it is not
thought that any genetic changes
caused by radiation of the levels
recently recorded in this country
would show up in the nation’s
younger people or in their imme
diate offspring.
“If changes do occur in far
distant generations they may be
in conditions not identifiable to
radiation exposure,” the doctor
added. He said genetic alterations
would not of* necessity mean there
would be deformed babies. There
are hundreds if identifiable ge
netic characteristics and many of
these could be affected.
The doctor’s opinion was sought
after a statement Sunday by Dr.
Ralph £. {Lapp, a physicist who
helped develop the Atomic Bomb,
that fallout from the Russian ex
plosions in his opinion exceeds
what was established by a group
of scientists in 1957 to be the
“safe annual limit.”
The Public Health Service is
concerned not only with the pos
sible genetic effects of fallout
radiation but also with the pos
; sible effects on bone, bone mar
row, thyroid glands aiid tissues.
It is known, the doctor said,
that fallout contains certain speci
fic radionuclides which affect
these. Analyses are now underway
to determine the amounts of the
specific radionuclides in samples
of air. water, milk and foods col
lected since Sept. 1.
Trumans to Be Guests
At the White House
WASHINGTON UPl — President
and Mrs. Kennedy will entertain
former President and Mrs. Harry
S. Truman on an overnight visit
at the White House Nov. 1.
A dinner for about 40 guests will
be given in honor of the Tru
mans that evening, Mrs. Ken
nedy’s press secretary announced.
The Trumans will stay over
night in the executive mansion.
Robert Baker to Head
Alaska State Chamber
KETCHIKAN Iff) — Robert
Baker, Anchorage banker, will
head the Alaska State Chamber
of Commerce beginning Saturday
night when he takes over the
post from C. W. Snedden of Fair
banks who has served for the last
ycfir.
Baker’s election took place last
night as the organization met to
work out preliminaries for the an
nual meeting which opens here
today.
Frank Heintlzleman was re
elected vice president east and
Ken Shepard of Anchorage was
named vice president west. Robert
Jemberg of Ketchikan was elect
ed secretary.
Snedden Saturday night will
become chairman of the Executive
Committee, a post which will be
given up by Jemberg who was
last year’s president.
Cancer Control Drug
Being Used to Treat
Speaker Sam Rayburn
MADISON, Wis. — The can
cer control drug used in the treat
ment of House Speaker Sam Ray
burn attempts to trick a hungry
cancer cell into accepting a chem
ical which looks like food but is
really a poison.
The drug is 5 fluor-uracil.
Dr. Charles Heidelberger, 40,
of the McArdle Memorial Insti
tute for cancer research at the
University of Wisconsin, directed
the scientist team which devel
oped the drug in 1054. He said
it is a deterrent to further can
cer growth rather than a cure.
The drug has undergone ex
tensive clinical applications at the
University of Wisconsin under the
direction of Dr. Anthony Curreri,
professor of surgery. He said the
drug has proved satisfactory in
the treatment of a number of
kinds of cancer, but has some
side effects such as changes in
blood pressure and blood-cell
count.
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