Senator Chat •ges
Many In Kusko
Area Did Not Vote
ANCHORAGE, UP) —State Sen.
Jack Weise iR-Bethel) has charg
ed that Secretary of State Hugh
J. Wade did not keep his word
to provide polling precincts in
many populous villages in House
District 16, the lower Kuskokwim
river area.
Weise, in Anchorage for the
Legislative Council hearings, said
Wade promised him these villages
“all of which have schools and
a post office” would have polling
places. Wade did not keep his
promise, Weise said, and as a re
sult hundreds of persons did not
get to vote.
Among the villages which did
not get the promised polling
places were Tanunak, Kipnuk,
Nigtmute, Eek, Kwethluk, Akia
chak, Tuluksak and Napakiak,
the GOP state senator said.
“These villages all have 150
250 residents and have 50 to 60
children in school,” he added.
“Yet they didn’t get precincts
while smaller places did.”
Weise said to vote in person
residents of these villages would
have had to travel from six to
80 miles to the nearest polling
place at a time of year—freezeup
—when travel is difficult.
Mail service is also irregular
at this time of year, he said, and
residents of the villages had to
write to Bethel, where the mag
istrate resides, to get absentee
ballots. He contrasted this un
favorably with the old system of
getting absentee ballots from the
village postmaster.
Going to the polls in person or
sending a representative to Beth
el to obtain an absentee ballot
was difficult and expensive, said,
and obtaining absentee ballots
while remaining in the village de
pended on whether the mail runs
could operate well. Because of
these problems and the lack of
convenient polling places, hun
dreds of residents did not vote,
Weise said.
“The state shouldn’t make it
difficult to vote. Voting is a heri
tage,” he stated.
In Juneau, Wade replied:
“I could not change any pre
cinct boundaries from those exist
ing in the 1958 election under the
Administrative Procedures Act
unless the changes were made
during the period April 1, 1960—
May 1, 1960, in accordance with
the election code, which Senator
Weise voted for.
“The code did not become law
until April 6 and it was physical
ly impossible in the time remain
ing to get legal descriptions to
establish precincts in tlje villages
Weise mentioned.
“The people of those villages
had the opportunity to vote ab
sentee ballots for 40 days prior
to the election.
“Proof that it is easy to cast
absentee ballots is the fact that
about 7V6 per cent of the vote
was cast absentee and many,
many of the absentee ballots were
requested by mail and sent in by
mail.”
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LOUISVILLE, Ky„ UP) — When
the Liberty National Bank &
Trust Co. branch was robbed of
$18,000, a hidden automatic cam
era took pictures every 15 sec
onds as it was supposed to do.
But, said bank officials, the rob
ber was out of range in every
picture.
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Indications Are U.S. and
West Germany Economic
Talks Hit Difficulties
BONN, Germany, l/fl — The
United States and West Germany
opened economic talks today
amid indications they ran into
difficulties right at the outset.
The first session lasted an hour
longer than scheduled.
The United States is pressing
prosperous West Germany to
contribute more toward foreign
aid and Western defense costs to
help reduce the drain on U. S.
dollar and gold reserves.
The negotiators wore serious
expressions as they posed silent
ly for photographs.
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now are living beyond their
means.
Dentist Socks Patient
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, UP)
— A dentist who punched a pa
tient on his dislocated jaw after
extracting six teeth was fined $28
or a month’s imprisonment.
The patient said Dr. Robert
Blinden undertook to extract six
teeth for a fee of $2.40 but that
after the first tooth had been ex
tracted his jaw was dislocated.
The dentist then extracted the
other five teeth and rushed the
man to a doctor. The doctor fail
ed to restore the jaw but the den
tist demanded immediate pay
ment.
“I refused to pay it because he
had hurt me,” patient Lewis
Christian told the magistrate. “He
then hit me a blow on my sore
jawbone.”
It pays to keep your mind
healthy. It is estimated mental
illness costs the nation $6 billion
a year, plus the heartache that
can’t be measured in money.
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