FBI Investigates Loyalty
Of Eight Employes
At Big Rocket Center
WASHINGTON UP) — The
loyalty of eight employes at the
big rocket center at Huntsville,
Ala., is being investigated by the
FBI, the House Space Committee
reported Saturday.
The committee said also three
others at the installation, called
the Marshall Space Flight Center,
have resigned while facing dis
missal for “serious character de
fects.” Dismissal proceedings have
been started against two more.
The committee said the infor
mation was submitted to it by
Albert F. Siepert, director of
Business Administration for the
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration.
Siepert was asked to furnish
the information aYter testifying
on clearance of NASA employes
recently at an open committee
hearing.
Siepert said that when the
Huntsville Agency was transfer
red from the Army to NASA last
July, 4,300 Army-civilian em
ployes went along with it. Of
these, 4,122 have been placed in
what NASA called sensitive posi
tions; 3,843 have had interim
clearance pending full field in
estigations.
Youths Raid Camp of Pacifists
Campaigning Against Polaris Base
HOL LOCH, Scotland UP) — A
gang of youths raided a camp on
the shores of Holy Loch before
dawn Saturday and burned tents
erected by pacifists campaign ing
against America’s Polaris sub
marine base here.
Only two of the pacifist group
were in camp. They escaped in
jury.
“We are carrying on the pro
test,” they said. “We hope our
colleagues, who are now in Lon
don, will bring back new tents
and equipment.
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'flaj. Yuri Gagarin
Wculd Like to Visit U. S.
PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia bP —
Mai. Yuri A. Gagarin said Sat
urday he would like to visit a
Western country, “but I don’t:
know whether is is being ar
ranged.”
The Russian astronaut, visiting ;
this Communist capital for a
hero's welcome, spoke to news- I
men as he sat beside Czechoslovak
President Antonin Novotny at a
reception in Hradcany Castle.
There have been rumors that
Gagarin would visit Great Britain
shortly and then go to United
States. People here seem to feel
that a personal appearance by
Gagarin in the United States
would consolidate the Soviet
Union’s space triumph.
Earlier during the reception.
Novotny pinned the gold star of
a “hero of socialist labor” on
Gagarin’s tunic. Premier Vilem
Siroky said in a speech the So
viet Union’s space victory ex
emplifies the superiority of the
Communist system over the
capitalist world.
STATE OF ALASKA
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
NOTICE OF HEARING
Notice is hereby given that public
hearings will be held at 2 p. m. on May
13, 1961, at Nome, Alaska, concerning
the adoption of proposed regulations
related to the Department of Education
and the operation of schools.
The proposed regulations amend the
following regulations found in the Ad
ministrative Code, Title 4, Education:
CHAPTER I,
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Subchapter 4, State Support of Dis
trict Schools—Increases minimum
school year to 175 days.
Subchapter 4, State Support to Dis
trict Schools—Tuition rate formula—
boarding school pupils.
Subchapter 5. Certification of Pro
fessional Workers—Refers to certifi
cation of teachers who earn credits
at non-accredited Alaska colleges
and universities.
Subchapter 5. Certification of Pro
fessional Workers — Changes and
amends certification regulations.
Subchapter 9. Operation of Unincor
porated Schools—Cutoff dates for the
establishment of special schools; adds
Paragraph idi to Section 86.
Any person interested in the subject
matter may appear at the above men
tioned time and place and be heard, or
may submit written statements prior to
the hearing to the Commissioner of Ed
ucation, 326 Alaska Office Building, Ju
neau. Alaska.
Copies of the proposed regulations
concerning Subchapters 4, 5 and !) are
available from the Office of the Com
missioner of Education, 326 Alaska Of
fice Building, Juneau. Alaska.
The Commissioner reserves the right
to reschedule the hearing, giving such
notice as he deems reasonable and
proper in the circumstances, if it be
comes impossible to hold the hearing
at the time or place specified herein.
ROBERT P. ISAAC,
Assistant Commissioner
Publication Dates: April 14, 21, May I.
New Frontiers For Health
We used to think that our nation's rising health standards would
send hospitalization costs down. Now we find the opposite is true.
Compare an early hospital with a pioneer set
tlement. Needs were few. Life was simple, most
of it spent struggling for survival against enemy
raids, starvation and disease. Death strucn sud
denly — and often. But as times grew less peril
rvc. ous, settlers turned to improving their community.
x ^ They sought not only to preserve life, but to
• '*i$’t make it more worthwhile.
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Hospitals were once filled ***
with the victims of epidemics
that are now little more than a £
memory: cholera, typhoid, „mall
pox, diphtheria. In 1900 diph
theria caused one death in every
2500. Last year it was less than
one in a million. Deaths from in
juries through infection and
blood loss have also decreased —
— more than 50 times since
World War I.
But victories over the crippling effects of accidents and formerly
deadly illnesses are slowly won and costly. Then too, many who
are saved live to an age when they are subject to degenerative
diseases which require long-term expensive treatment. This is why
it is so important to carry Blue Cross, the prepayment plan that
pays off in services rather than restricted cash benefits. K
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Longer Hangc FaFar
Being Produced for Nike
Hercules Anti-F ricraft
WASHINGTON (ffl — A new
longer range radar, with better
capability for picking out actual
targets, is being produced for use
in the Army’s Nike-Hercules
anti-aircraft system.
An announcement Saturday said
the new equipment “will reach
nut substantially in excess” of the
present radar equipment used
with the Hercules.
The range of a Hercules de
pends to some degree on the
range of the radar which locates
its targets. The Army said the
present range is “in excess of
75 miles.”
Lt. Gen. Robert J. Wood, Chief
of the Army Defense Command,
said the radar now in production
"is 10 times more discrin .
in target detection than present
operational radar.”
Discrimination is the ability to
separate an actual target such as
an airplane from false targets
used to confuse defense systems.
Construction at Hercules sites
in the United States to permit
use of the new radar is under
way, the Army said.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION
FOR
ALASKA AIR
COMMERCE CERTIFICATE
Notice is hereby given pursuant
to Chapter 161, SLA 1960 and
Chapter 143, SLA 1959, that Dick
Galleher /dba/ Northern Aviation
Co. of Nome, Alaska, hereby
makes application to engage in
air commerce within the State of
Alaska as a Certified Carrier tc
conduct the following described
services.
Scheduled service be
tween Nome and Bethel,
Alaska.
Any person having interest oi
objection to the issuance of sue!
certificate to the above namec
person may file a statement oi
such interest or objection in
writing with the Division of Air
Commerce, 326 "I" Street, An
chorage, Alaska, within fifteen
(15) days after the date of the
original advertisement.
Dated this 28th day of April,
1961, al Nome, Alaska.
Alaska Public Service
Commission
Division of Air Commerce
Neal W. Foster,
Director of Air Commerce
Pub: April 28, May 1, 3, 1961.
Kennedy Signs
&W I Million Kill to
Aid Unemployment
WASHINGTON i/P> — President
Kennedy today signed into law
a $394 million bill to aid areas
depressed by unemployment and
appointed William L. Batt Jr.,
Pennsylvania Labor Commis
sioner, to administer the program.
“There's no piece of legislation
which has been passed that gives
me greater satisfaction to sign,”
Kennedy said.
Batt will head a new agenes
ia the Commerce Department.
The act sets up a federal loan
and grant program to try to at
tract industries into areas which
have lost their main economic
support and to retrain workers
with obsolete skills.
It is aimed squarely at such
situations as are found in hard
hit coal, railroad and textile
towns in states like West Vir
ginia and Pennsylvania.
The bill is the first of the “big
five” Kennedy measures to get
through Congress. Others are
! school aid, minimum wage, hous
| ing and health care for the aged.
Similar measures were killed
| by vetoes of former President Ei
senhower in 1958 and 1960.
CAP Seeks Missing
Anchorage Pilot
ANCHORAGE UR — A dozen
1 aircraft were due to take part
i in the search today for missing
Anchorage pilot Ronald D. Bergt
Bergt has been missing since
I 10:27 a. m. Sunday when he
checked in over Summit enroute
i from Anchorage to Fairbanks ir
. a Stinson Voyager. Officials o:
the Civil Air Patrol and the Fed
i eral Aviation Agency said Berg
was flying alone in the plane
I which is equipped with emergency
gear.
| Yesterday a light plane started
j a search out of Fairbanks but was
forced to turn back because of
turbulence near Summit. A CAP
IL20 plane made a night search
i last night with negative results.
Scheduled to joint the search
I today were two planes from An
chorage, four from Fairbanks and
at least six from Clear. The mis
sion commander is Si Heather
ington of the Fairbanks CAP
squadron.
Lc:;s of Bridge Causes
Gloom Among Oil and
Mahua1 Gas Explorations
VICTORIA, B. C. VP> — Un
favorable mild weather and the
ioss of a vital transportation link
has caused widespread gloom
among oil and natural gas ex
ploration ventures in Northern
British Columbia.
A bridge over the Sikanni
River, TOO miles north of Vancou
ver, was knocked out by ice this
week, almost isolating two valu
able natural gas fields.
Recent reports on winter drill
ing operations in the area indi
cated there has been a decrease
of 25 per cent in the number of
competions, far from the 50 per
cent increase predicted last fall.
Industry spokesmen said the
weather had been so mild opera
tors had trouble getting rigs into
muskeg areas which usually freeze
solid during the winter. They also
have been unable to get rigs out.
The $230,000 bridge at Mile 300
on the Alaska Highway was ex
pected to play an important role
in the proposed program for pipe
line construction and summer
drilling at the Clarke and Koteho
fields.
An $11 million natural gas
! gathering system was scheduled
I to be completed in the area this
1 year, but now it may not be in
operation until late 1962.
Fire Destroys Alaska
Freight Lines Shop
ANCHORAGE M — A fast
spreading fire Friday completely
destroyed the Alaska Freight
Lines repair shop at Merrill Field,
causing loss estimated at about
$200,000.
The repair shop, occupying an
old Alaska Airlines hangar, spread
rapidly, but three men working
inside escaped without injury.
Pete Rude, Anchorage manager
of the line, said four tractors,
used to haul semi-trailers, one
station wagon and one pickup
truck were lost in addition to
the building. The shop contained
many spare parts for the line’s
rolling equipment.
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