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62nd Year No. 62 NOME. ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1961 Per Copy 15^
School Aid Bill
Heads for Trouble
In the House
By Joe Hall
WASHINGTON l# — President
Kennedy’s $2.55 billion public
school aid bill, having vaulted
the Senate handily, heads to
day into an expected bitter show
down in the House.
The Senate passed the measure
last night 49 to 34, climaxing
eight days of debate. It is one of
the “Big Five” bills in Kennedy’s
1961 legislative program.
Its supporters said today they
expect the school bill will clear
the House by a slim margin, al
though it may be trimmed before
it passes.
All in all, federal aid to edu
cation advocates believe this is the
best chance they have ever had
to get such legislation enacted.
A similar bill has been ap
proved by the House Education
and Labor committee. It may
reach the floor in the week of
June 4.
Even if the bill gets through
the House, its sponsors concede
that the funds for teacher salaries
provision may be knocked out.
The bill passed by the Senate
authorized $850 million a year in
grants for the next three years to
try to help states equalize educa
tional opportunities.
It also extends for three years
the impacted area program of aid
to school districts with enroll
ments swollen because of nearby
federal installations. Payments
under this program next year are
estimated at $10 million.
Motor Vehicle Division
Of Dept, of Revenue
To Transfer to Anchorage
JUNEAU UPl — Revenue Com
missioner Peter Gatz said today
the Motor Vehicle Division of
the Department of Revenue will
be transferred from Juneau to
Anchorage around August 31.
In announcing the move, Gatz
noted that more than 70,000 of
Alaska’s 81,924 motor vehicles
are located along the railbelt.
A concentration of military and
federal employes along the Rail
belt area makes for a greater
transient population and result
ant increase in vehicle transfers.
Gatz said relocation of the of
fice in Anchorage would speed
titling of vehicles in Western
Alaska by approximately a week.
"MARVELOUS LEGS" . . .
NEW YORK — Italian
actress Sophia Loren says Mrs.
John F. Kennedy has “marvelous
legs” and that her dresses are
not too short.
Miss Loren, who arrived here
by plane from Rome yesterday,
took issue with Italian couturier
Emilio Schuberth’s contention
that Mrs. Kennedy “should wear
longer skirts.”
Said Miss Loren: “She has a
wonderful posture and she is so
beautiful and wears her clothes
so modestly. I can’t see how you
can say her dresses are too short.”
50 People Die of Gastroenteritis
In Province of Luzon, Philippines
MANILA UP — At least 50
people have died of gastroenteri
tis since Tuesday in a village in
the mountain province of Luzon,
the Philippine News Service said
today.
About 100 others were reported
ill. No other details were given.
GOP Leaders Say JFK's
Support for Prisoner Deal
A Blow to U.S. Leadership
WASHINGTON UR — Republi
can congressional leaders today
called President Kennedy’s sup
port of the tractors-for-prisoners
exchange “another blow to our
fast-diminishing world leader
ship.”
“The disastrous handling of the
Cuban invasion has caused Amer
ica to suffer an enormous loss in
prestige abroad,” the GOP lead
ers said in a statement.
“But now President Kennedy
has compounded that loss by dis
closing his official sponsorship
of a so-called citizens movement
for the American people to make
blackmail payments to Fidel
Castro.”
The statement, approved by a
conference of Republican Senate
and House leaders, was read to
newsmen by Sen. Everett Dirksen,
Senate GOP leader.
While a number of Republicans,
notably Sen. Homer Capehart have
kept up a constant attack on Ken
nedy’s support for raising funds
to buy tractors to ransom up
wards of 1,200 Castro-held inva
sion prisoners, today’s action was
the first official party attack on
it.
Commission Recommends
Merger of Pilots’ and
Flight Engineers’ Unions
WASHINGTON l/P> — A special
White House commission yester
day recommended an early mer
ger of feuding unions of pilots
and flight engineers on the na
tion’s airlines. The group also
called for a cut in the size of jet
plane crews.
! President Kennedy at the same
time issued a warning that fur
ther strikes in the years-old job
rights squabble between the
unions cannot be tolerated.
“One thing is clear,” Kennedy’s
statement said. “We cannot have
further strikes over these disputed
issues.”
The biggest airlines affected by
the findings promptly came in
with a promise to study the re
port carefully. They thanked the
commissioners for their effort to
“resolve a most difficult industry
problem.”
Young Bengali Tries to Slab
President of India's Congress
DURGAPUR, India (A*) — A
young Bengali tried to stab the
president of India’s ruling con
gress party today and said his
next target would have been
Prime Minister Nehru.
Brandishing a dagger and shout
ing “I must kill him,” the youth,
Dulal Pal, rushed at Sanjeeva
Reddy as he alighted from a rail
road train to attend a conference
of party leaders. Pal was over
powered before he reached Reddy.
Nehru was due later in the day.
Psychiatrists Say Spade Cooley
Sane When Wife was Murdered
BAKERSFIED, Calif. UPl —
Three psychiatrists who examined
Spade Cooley told a Superior
Court judge the ex-bandleader was
sane when his wife was murdered.
Cooley, 50, pleaded innocent
by reason of insanity to charges
he beat Ella Mae Cooley, 37, to
death at their ranch home in
nearby Willow Springs last April
3.
Judge William Bradshaw an
nounced the findings of the psy
chiatrists yesterday. A sanity
hearing is scheduled Wednesday.
New Mining Law
Allows No Limit on
Staking Placer Claims
Chapters 73 and 123, SLA 1961,
are the new mining laws passed j
by the recent Legislature and
signed by Gov. Egan. Chapter 73
repealed the law which limited j
the staking of placer claims for i
precious metals on federal pub- j
lie domain to two per month per
recording district. There is now
no limit on the staking of placer
claims, so long as legal require
ments are met.
Tidelands, submerged lands,
and inland navigable waters are
owned by the state. Claims may
be staked on tidelands and inland
navigable water bottoms, but
submerged lands (offshorel must |
be leased. The lease rental for
submerged lands is $1.00 per
acre, but as with other mining
leases, the cost development work
may be credited against the rent
al. Surface uses of mining proper
ties will be limited to those neces
sary for prospecting and mining.
Claims may be converted to
leases at any time.
Bodies of Two Abducted
Socialites Found; Two
Suspects Arrested
PLAINFIELD, N. J. UP — The
i partly disrobed bodies of two so
: cialites were found early today
with the white Cadillac in which
' they had been abducted. One
! woman was strangled and the
: second was run over by the big
car as she apparently tried to
: flee.
Several hours later police ar
rested two young Negroes and
i held them on suspicion of murder.
! Detective Daniel Hennessey said
both denied any part in the crime
! but the officer said "they’ve both
implicated themselves so far that
; they can’t get out of it.”
The dead were identified as
Mrs. Elliot Ewell, 49, Westfield,
| the wife of the executive vice
president of the Mack Truck Co.
here, and Mrs. Robert Tyson, 50,
Plainfield, whose husband is a
New York stockbroker and former
executive with Mack.
The suspects are Lorelle Parks,
22, Plainfield, and Joseph Maxey,
23, Dunellen.
Hennessey said the keys to the
Cadillac as well as a wallet be
longing to one of the women
were found in Parks’ pocket.
Safety Council Estimates
100 Traffic Deaths Over
Memorial Day Holiday
CHICAGO UP — The National
Safety Council estimated as many
as 100 persons might be killed in
traffic over the Memorial Day
holiday.
The estimate, which the coun
cil stressed was not a prediction
of that many deaths, covers those
occurring in the 30-hour period
between 6 p. m. local time Monday
and midnight tuesday.
The last one-day Memorial Day
holiday was in 1957 when the traf
fic death toll was 94. The 15
year high for a comparable Mem
orial Day holiday was 109 in
1956. The low as 81 in 1951.
THE WEATHER
Cloudy. Low tonight 39, high
tomorrow 50. In the last 24 hours:
High of 48, low of 35. Sunrise at
2:07 a. m., sunset at 9:53 p. m.
Temperatures a year ago: High
of 60, low of 35. Extremes on
this date since 1907: High of 64
in 1933, low of 19 in 1952.
South Korea Restores
Some Army Units to
UN Commander Magruder
By Alan Cline
SEOUL, South Korea (J* —
South Korea’s military rulers
and U. S. Gen. Carter B. Magru
der agreed today on a compro- i
mise restoring to Magruder most
of the operational control he ex
ercised over the 525,000-man
Korean armed forces before the I
coup last week.
Magruder said he was not com- !
pletelv satisfied, that he consid- j
ered his authority as U. N. com
mander in Korea had been “re
stored to a considerable degree,
rather than fully.”
“Once authority has been flout
ed, it can only be re-established
by its implicit observance over a
long period,” said Magruder, who
had unsuccessfully called on the
armed forces to withhold support
from the rebels.
The junta headed by Lt. Gen.
Chang Do-Young agreed to return i
to the front 3,800 of the 7,000 i
troops who seized Seoul on May j
16 and overthrew the elected gov- I
ernment of Premier John M.
Chang.
It was understood that Magru
der failed to win out in his de
mand that he once more approve
changes in Korean authority U. N.
commanders exercised before the
coup. The junta leaders have re
placed — without Magruder’s ap
proval — several top command
j ers who refused to back their re
i bellion.
_
Little Rock School Board
Will Desegregate Schools
LITTLE ROCK. Ark. (tf) — The
Little Rock School Board, acting
under the shadow of a federal
court order to expand school in
tegration, will desegregate four
junior high schools and the city’s
last all-white high school next
fall.
The board last night assigned
25 Necroes to four of the city’s
five all-white junior high schools.
At the same time, it upped from
11 to 24 the number of Negro
students in once-white high
schools and desegregated all-white
technical high school.
Action on the assignments un
der state pupil placement pro
cedures was swift and appeared
routine.
Board action came only four
days before a U. S. District Court
hearing under a ruling by the
8th U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
which suggested that Little Rock
expand its desegregation efforts.
Six Italians to
Scale Mt. McKinley
LECCO, Italy (M — Six skilled
Italian Alpinists will try next
month to climb 20.230-foot Mt.
McKinley, highest mountain in
North America.
The Italian expedition, organ
ized by the Italian Alpine Club of
this north Italian town, will be
headed by Ricardo Cassin, a 53
year-old veteran Alpinist who
guided an Italian climb of the
Gasherbrun IV peak in the Hima
layas a few years ago.
Because of his age, Cassin did
not arrive at the top of the Hima
layan peak and probably will not
reach the top of Mt. McKinley.
His party includes: Luigi Airol
di, mechanic; Luigi Alippi, keep
er of an Alpine hut; Jack Canali,
office worker; Romano Perego,
factory workman, and Annibale
Zucchi. mechanic, all in their
20’s. '
X-15 Rockets to
New Speed Record
Of 3,370 MPH
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE,
Calif. i/P — A top test pilot push
ed the X-15 to a new airplane
speed record of 3,370 miles an
hour, more than a mile a second.
Only spacemen Yuri Gagarin and
Alan Shepherd have traveled
faster.
Joe Walker’s new mark is 296
mph faster than the 3,074 set last
April 21 by Air Force Maj. Bob
White. Both flights are part of
a series in which the rocket
plane’s speed and altitude are
being gradually stepped up to
ward goals of 4,000 mph and 100
miles high.
Russia’s Gagarin hit 17,000 mph
in his orbit around the earth April
12. U. S. astronaut Shepherd
sped 5,100 mph during a 115-mile
rocket ride May 5.
Unlike the spacemen, Walker
had full control of the stub-wing
ed X-15. Aim of his flight: to ex
plore the perils of heat, created
by air friction as the plane re
enters thicker atmosphere from
the nearly airless fringe of space.
Dropped from a B-52 mother
ship at 45,000 feet. Walker started
his 57,000-pound thrust engine
; with a blast that shoved him
back hard in his padded seat.
For 73 seconds Walker held his
throttle wide open.
He hit his peak speed of al
most a mile a second — more
than five times the velocity of
| sound — in a steep climb at 90,
; 000 feet.
[ Then he shut off the engine
and coasted upward to 110,000
| feet before nosing over for the
glide back to base.
For almost a minute, at the top
of his miles-long arc through the
sky, Walker was weightless as his
momentum temporarily overcame
the pull of gravity.
Bv comparison, Shepard’s
weightlessness lasted almost five
minutes, Gagarin’s the full hour
and a half he was in orbit.
Walker’s flight lasted 13 min
utes, longest ever.
, Alaska Airlines Proposes
Special Rates to Nome's
Midnight Sun Festival
A sharply reduced round-trip
excursion fare for travel to
Nome’s Midnight Sun Festival
from other Alaska communities
has been filed by Alaska Airlines.
According to excutive vice pres
ident R. W. Gilbert, the special
fares will be effective from June
18 through 28. The festival runs
from June 21 through June 25.
The excursion fares are re
duced a uniform 37Y2 per cent
from normal round-trip prices.
They are: $75 from Anchorage;
$87.50 from Fairbanks; $31.25
from Kotzebue; $56.25 from Mc
Grath and $37.50 from Unalak
leet.
They require Civil Aeronautics
Board approval.
June Allyson Communicates
With a Bicycle Horn
SANTA MONICA, Calif. —
Actress June Allyson, recovering
from surgery in which polyps
were removed from her vocal
cords is communicating with a
bicycle horn.
She couldn’t speak yesterday
as she left the hospital, but she
beeped the horn happily.
One beep meant yes; two indi
cated no.