NATO SECRETARY GENERAL
SUBMITS RESIGNATION
PARIS — Paul Henri Spaak
has submitted his resignation as
NATO Secretary-General to re
turn to Belgium and lead his
Socialist Party in the next na
tional election.
The 62-year-old Belgian lead
er had been Secretary-General
since 1957, when he succeeded
Lord Ismay of Britain. He said he
hoped to leave his post at the
beginning of March.
He had been under socialist
pressure to return home follow- j
ing the month-long strike in Bel- '
gium which his party led and I
which left it squabbling and badly
split.
JAP DOCTORS DEMAND
AN INCREASE IN FEES
TOKYO UP) — More than 10,
000 doctors throughout Japan left
their jobs yesterday for the sec
ond time this months for street
marches demanding an increase in
fees and expansion of the gov
ernment’s health insurance sys
tem.
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Senate Gives
MeNabb the OK
For Resignation
JUNEAU liP — The Alaska State
Senate Tuesday turned down a
recommendation of its Commit
tee on Committees and permitted
Sen. George McNabb to resign
from the Senate Finance Commit
tee.
The Committee on Committees
had recommended that McNabb.
only Fairbanks area senator on
the Finance Committee, be re
quired to keep his seat.
The recommendation was turn
ed down 6-14.
Sen. Lester Bronson then moved
that McNabb’s resignation be ac
cepted. The motion sailed through
by an 18-2 count, with only Sens.
B. J. Logan and John McNees
casting negative votes.
McNabb asked last Wednesday
that he be permitted to resign
from finance, telling the Senate
he had never served on the com
mittee in th past and had no in
terest in serving on it.
Last Friday, the Committee on
Committees recommended that the
resignation be turned down, ex
plaining it would necessarily re
sult in a reshuffling of commit
tee assignments.
"I Simply Resign"
Before the Senate turned down
the committee recommendation,
McNabb told the upper chamber:
“When I resigned, I simply re
signed. The chair asked if I was
asking for unanimous consent. In
deference to the chair, I asked
for unanimous consent. No ob
jection was heard and the journal
reflects it. Therefore, it is my
contention that my resignation
was accepted and the committee
report is out of order.”
Senate President Frank Pera
trovich ruled, however, that the
committee report was in order,
but it failed to win approval.
Program for Recovery
From Recession Will be
Delivered by Kennedy
WASHINGTON UP) — President
Kennedy will send Congress a
special message Thursday on the
administration’s program for re
covery from the recession which
he says has prevailed the last
seven months.
Next Monday he will send an
other special message to the Capi
tol — on the balance of payments
problem and the related flow
of gold out of the United States.
Kennedy’s plans were an
nounced at the White House bv
House Speaker Sam Rayburn,
after the President’s weekly meet
ing with Democratic Congression
al leaders.
Rayburn told an informal news
conference that Kennedy now is
planning to send from seven to
ten special messages to Congress
during the next few weeks. These
will deal with specific problems
and programs which the Presi
dent sketched in broad terms in
his State of the Union Message.
After the Senate accepted the
resignation of McNabb on Bron
son's motion, Sen. John Coghill
moved that Sen. Paul Greimann
Sr. tR-Fairbanks) be assigned to
iMcNabb’s spot on finance and
that Greimanr vacate his Re
sources Committee seat, which
would be taken by Sen. Howard
Pollock (R-Anchorage>.
When Peratrovich ruled the
motion out of order, Pollock ap
pealed the chair’s decision. Pera
trovich’s decision was sustained
by a 10-10 tie vote, with Demo
cratic Sens. McNabb, Eben Hop
son and A1 Owen joining the
seven Republicans.
Peratrovich then gave the Com
mittee on Committees the job of
determining how the vacancy on
the Finance Committee should be
filled.
Youth Admits Dropping
8-Year-Old Boy to His
Death from Hotel Roof
LOS ANGELES UP) — A boy, 17,
admitted dropping a boy, 3, Mon
day night from a hotel roof to his
death on the sidewalk five floors
below, police reported.
Killed was Christopher May
field from San Jose.
Police said Christopher and his
brother Brian, 5. were watching
television in the hotel lobby when
I the 17-year-old invited Chris
jtopher to go up on the roof to
j play. The mother, Yolande May
field was writing a letter at a
desk.
The older boy told police he
said to Christopher on the roof:
“Let’s look at the scenery.”
“They leaned over the parapet,”
Sgt. P. R. Brooks said in describ
ing the 17-year-old’s account. He
said, “then we started wrestling
around. The boy was hanging
over the side of the roof and I
let him go.”
“We asked him why and he
doesn’t have an answer. There’s
no response to that question.”
The 17-year-old, identified as
John B. Raleigh of Los Angeles,
was booked on suspicion of mur
der.
CIVIL RIGHTS MENTIONED
ONCE IN KENNEDY'S MESSAGE
WASHINGTON — President
Kennedy mentioned civil rights
only once in his State of the
Union Message Monday.
In listing “sore spots on the
American scene,” Kennedy said:
“The denial of constitutional
rights to some of our fellow
Americans on account of race —
at the ballot box and elsewhere—
disturbs the national conscience,
and subjects us to the charge of
world opinion that our democracy
is not equal to he high promise
of our heritage.”
Resolution Passed Urging
Congress to Approve
Fhe Price of Gold to $70
JUNEAU — The House yes
terday passed a resolution urging
Congress to approve legislation
raising the price of newly mined
domestic gold.
The House action backed a bill
introduced in Congress by Rep.
Ralph Rivers which would re
quire the U. S. Treasury to pay
$70 per fine ounce for newly
mined gold and charge $70 per
fine ounce for the sale to domes
tic, industrial, professional and
artistic markets.
The fixed price on gold now is
$35 an ounce.
Sponsors of the measure said
the price increase would serve as
an inspiring subsidy to Alaska’s
ailing gold mining industry and
also add to the nation’s gold re
serve.
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