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VOL. LXII No. 47 - NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, APRIL 18, 1960 _Per Copy 154
Wade Rejects
Alaska Party
Senate Candidate
JUNEAU, (/P) — The filing of a
Fairbanks labor union official as
an Alaska Party candidate for the
U. S. Senate was rejected today
toy Secretary of State Hugh Wade.
The application of Lawrence M.
Brayton, 32, was returned — with
instructions that he must refile toy
petition as a so-called no party
candidate affiliated with the Alas
ka Party.
The petition filing, requiring the
signature of at least 1,000 quali
fied voters who pledge to support
the candidacy, is required under
provisions of the new state elec
tion code passed by the 1960
Legislature.
Brayton, business agent for the
American Federation of Technical
Engineers, was disqualified from
filing as an Alaska Party candi
date because the group failed to
meet standards set in the code.
Under provisions of the new
law, a political party to toe recog
nized must have a candidate for
Governor “at the last preceding
general election” who received at
least 10 per cent of the total vote
cast.
The young Alaska Party, organ
ized in 1958, had some legislative
candidates at the last election but
did not sponsor a candidate for
Governor.
Brayton is seeking the Senate
seat now held bp Democrat Bob
Bartlett, who has announced plans
to seek reelection. Brayton’s $100
filing fee, which accompanied his
application for a place on the bal
lot ,was held toy the Secretary’s
office pending receipt of a new
declaration under provisions of
the new code. The filing deadline
is May 2.
Dr. Lee McKinley of Palmer
has filed as a Republican candi
date for the Senate in opposition
to Bartlett. Bartlett, whose for
mal filing has not yet been re
ceived for the Aug. 9 primary, is
not expected to have any Demo
cratic opposition for his party’s
Senate nomination.
Originator of Withholding
Income Tax Plan Is Dead
DANBURY, Conn., UP) — The
originator of the pay-as-you-go
withholding tax plan, Beardsley
Ruml, died today in the Danbury,
Connecticut hospital after a short
illness. The noted economist was
65 years old.
Ruml was treasurer of the R. H.
Macy Company in New York
when he conceived the idea of the
income tax plan, and a modified
version of the plan became law
in 1943.
A master planner, he took a
$70,000-a-year position as idea
man and treaeurer at Macy’s in
1934. He said his “job is just to
sit around and think.”
His many activities included
the writing of a book, “Tomor
row’s Business,” which appeared
in 1945.
He was born in Cedar Rapids,
Iowa.
MEETING TONIGHT AT 8
WITH LEGISLATORS
There will be an open informal
meeting this evening at the Sea
view Room to hear reports from
the returning legislators.
Time: 8 p.m.
Place : Sea view Room.
Moody Takes Office Today
As Second Alaska State
Attorney General
JUNEAU, Uft—Ralph Moody, an
Anchorage lawyer and former ma
jority leader of Alaska’s Senate,
was expected to take office today
as the state’s new Attorney Gen
eral.
The 44-year-old Democrat was
named for the $17,000-a-year post
as head of the Alaska Department
of Law last month, by Governor
Egan.
He succeeds John Rader, who
resigned as the state’s first Attor
nye General to resume his private
law practice. Rader remained on
duty pending Moody’s formal as
sumption of the cabinet post.
Moody arrived in Juneau yester
day to take up residence in his new
duties. He had resigned from the
Legislature earlier this month,
after his appointment had been
confirmed by the 1960 lawmakers
before the legislative session ended
in March.
Rader, 33, had been one of Gov
ernor Egan’s first choices to a post
in the executive cabinet. At the
time of his appointment a year
ago, Rader was a member of the
State House of Representtaives
from Anchorage.
South Korean Students
Anti-Rhee Demonstration
Turns Into Mass Riot
By GENE KRAMER
SEOUL, South Korea, (.Pt—Riot
ing erupted in Seoul’s streets to
night after students staging anti
government demonstrations to y
schoolboys also brought clashes
with police in Pusan.
'The demonstrations, spreading
to other cities from the southern
I port of Masan, are now in their
second week. They pose a grow
ing problem for President Syng
man Rhee’s government, accused
■Lv the students of rigging the
March 15 presidential elections.
The rioting in Seoul broke out
after students were attacked by
club-wielding men in civilian
clothes. Several hundred students
retreated under the initial assault,
j then counterattacked with sticks
I and rocks. The attackers fled.
| The students marched back to
their headquarters at Korea Uni
versiy. En route they smashed
windows in stores and buses. This
I sparked a clash with police, who
used clubs on the students.
Joking Remark Touches
Off Midair Bomb Scare
BOISE, Idaho, (IP) — A bomb
scare prompted by a joking re
mark by a passenger delayed a
United Airlines flight for an hour
Sunday.
The DC-6 was bound from Se
attle to New York with 32 pas
sengers. R. E. Gustavel, district
sales manager of the airline, said
FBI agents identified the passen
ger as the Rev. Lawrence Ban
field, a Roman Catholic priest who
boarded the plane at Portland.
Gustavel said Father Banfield
told him he made the comment
“in jest” as the plane prepared to
take off for Salt Lake City.
The pilot brought the plane
back to the airport terminal and
ground crews searched the craft.
The priest remained in Boise
voluntarily while FBI agents made
what they called a routine se
curity check, Gustavel said. The
airline refunded the priest’s tick
et and he reportedly left for
Portland.
Alaska Chamber
Will Run Full Time
PETERSBURG, UPi — A fulltime
office with manager and a tenta
tive annual $50,000 budget were
approved by the All-Alaska Cham
ber of Commerce directors Satur
day before close of a two-day
spring meeting.
A drive to raise funds will be
held the next 90 days from mem
berships over the state and the
office is expected to be open in
June, President R. L. Jernberg
said. These quotas were set: An
chorage area, $20,000; Fairbanks,
$15,000; Southeastern Alaska, $10,
000, and the rest of the state,
$5,000.
Leslie Nerland, Fairbanks, was
elected vice president to fill the
vacancy created by the resigna
tion of Jerry Manning, who said
added business duties forced his
decision.
The All - Alaska membership
convention was set for Oct. 28-29
at Fairbanks.
Directors also discussed plans
for a trade mission to Japan this
fall headed by Gov. Egan, who
has expressed interest in one.
The directors, representing 10
major chambers of commerce over
Alaska, heard several speakers
Saturday.
E. C. Boulden, Ketchikan ac
countant, said 23 million dollars
is needed to restore Alaska’s em
ployment securiy fund to a finan
cial level considered adequate by
authorities of the Bureau of Em
ployment Security.
Boulden’s report covered five
major points in ESC legislation —
the wage base, tax rate, eligibili
ty of claimants, benefit formula
and duration of benefits.
He said one fault of the ESC
program is that it fails to consider
seasonality when arriving at the
annual average wage.
At another point, he said the
present experience rating formula
adopted in Senate Bill 149 is based
on a payroll decline and elimi
nates the incentive for control of
benefit costs.
Air Force Space Probers
Wait in Vain for Descent
Of Instrument Satellite
VANDENBERG AFB, Calif., Im
— Air Force scientists studied ra
dio messages from space today,
hoping to learn why 300 pounds
of instruments didn’t come back
when they called.
The instrument-laden capsule
of the Discovered XI satellite was
supposed to drop out of orbit and
descend near Hawaii. C-119 fly
ing boxcars were waiting to snag
its parachute on trapezes hung
beneath their fuselages. Instead,
it stayed in orbit.
The capsule separated from
the rocket when scientists sig
naled it to do so Saturday after
noon.
“We know it separated okay,”
Lt. Col. Lee Battle, director of the
Discoverer project system said
Sunday.
“We know the retro-rocket
fired. But we don’t know yet why
it didn’t come down.”
The capsule sent out radio mes
sages as it sped high over Hawaii,
apparently following the 19-foot
second-stage rocket which had
helped carry it aloft from this big
missile base on Friday.
Then the capsule radio, really
a homing beacon to aid waiting
planes and ships in finding it,
went dead. A transmitter in the
rocket kept broadcasting, how
ever.
Gil Johnson Nominated
For State Labor Chief Post
JUNEAU, OW — The name of
Bjorn (Gil' Johnson has been sub
mitted to the Democratic Central
Committee for endorsement to
become Alaska’s new Commission
er of Labor, Gov. Egan said
today.
Johnson, 40-year-old lawyer
and Carpenters Union member at
Fairbanks, took over as acting
State Commissioner of Labor
Saturday, succeeding Lewis
Disehner.
Disehner, fired from the $15,000
a-year cabinet post after a politi
cal and policy dispute with the
Governor, had named Johnson as
his chief deputy last year.
Party approval of Johnson for
the post is expected to be routine,
and would clear the way for his
formal appointment as permanent
head of the state agency.
Johnson, a native of Spokane,
is a graduate of Gonzaga Univer
sity Law School. He came to
Alaska 5Vt years ago as a general
foreman of the Burgess Construc
tion Co. at Fairbanks.
U-W Scientists Will Return
To Survey Conditions for
Arctic Nuclear Blast
SEATTLE, — A team of Uni
versity of Washington scientists
will again this summer make
ocean surveys in Alaska’s Chuk
chi Sea, as preparation for pos
sible peace time nuclear blasts
there to build a harbor.
Dr. Richard Fleming, head if
| the Oceanography Department,
will be in charge, working with
the school’s laboratory of radia
tion biology, the university an
nounced Saturday. Work will be
from the 115-foot research ves
sel, the Brown Bear, in August.
Oceanographic collects will be
■made at stations spread over a
300,000 square mile area extending
to the north beyond Cape Lis
bourne.
First studies last year indicated
the explosions would be safe un
der certain limitations.
Fire-Scorched Hospitals
Hurriedly Evacuated at ,
Memphis, Tennessee
MEMPHIS, UP) — Towering
flames raced with explosive speed
through a baseball park Sunday
night. They destroyed a city block
of shops and scorched walls of
two hospitals.
A human chain of workers has
tily passed 68 babies to safety and
then evacuated the mothers from
maternity wards as IOC-foot-high
the 14-story Baptist Hospital to
dow frames and shattered big
glass panes.
The hospitals, Red Cross work
ers, fire and police officials re
ported no serious injuries. Dam
age was estimated at about one
million dollars.
There was no panic when Depu
ty Fire Chief J. D. Johnson warned
the 14 - story Baptist Hospital to
prepare for evacuation and 200
patients were moved to inner
halls during the crisis.
Midnight Tonight . . .
JUNEAU, (IF) — A reminder:
Midnight tonight is the deadline
for filing Alaska State income tax
returns for 19C9. The filing date
was extended from last Friday, to
match a federal Internal Revenue
extension over the Easter week
end.
400 Are Jailed In
Attempt to Force
Negroes to Work
JOHANNESBURG, South Af
rica, —Police and troops, backed
toy eight armored cars, arrested
400 Negroes in a raid on the Af
rican township of Duncan today.
The big sweep came as strong
police patrols maintained an un
easy quiet in other South Afri
can cities on the first day of a
week-long work boycott called
by Negro leaders opposing South
Africa’s white supremacy laws.
This was a Monday Easter holiday
for most workers, however, and
the real showdown comes Tues
day.
Negroes emloyed in hotels and
apartment houses appeared to be
on the job, but many of these live
in the buildings where they work
or nearby. Their working was no
indication of the sentiment of Af
ricans in native townships.
Hundreds of thousands of Ne
groes who work in the big cities
and environs were caught in the
political squeeze. The government
warned anyone staying away from
work faced loss of their jobs or
even banishment to native reserves
in the remote interior.
A failure of the work boycott
would be interpreted as a setback
for the African Negro Congress
in its campaign to force an easing
in the government’s strict segre
gation policies and gain freedom
for jailed Negro leaders.
Ike Opens American
League Baseball Season
At Washington Ballpark
WASHINGTON, UP> — Outfield
er Bob Allison of the Washington
Senators caught President Eisen
hower’s American League season
opening pitch today — a soft toss
that he took on the bounce.
Almost all the 28,669 seats in
Griffith Stadium were occupied
on a chilly and breezy afternoon
as the Senators and Boston Red
Sox clashed in the traditional
Presidential opener.
Eisenhower flew up this morn
ing from his golfing vacation
headquarters at Augusta, Ga., es
pecially for the occasion. This was
his seventh — and final — open
ing day since taking office in
1053.
Eisenhower autographed the
ball for Allison. Then, as has be
come the habit in recent years,
he flipped out a second ball for
the benefit of photographers.
Jack Kralick, a left-handed
pitcher up for his second try with
the Senators, made it a shutout
for the Senators.
Capitol dignitaries were all over
the place.
Vice President Nixon sat with
Eisenhower in the Presidential
box, but he had to work for his
seat. Nixon marched to the center
field flag pole in the customary
pregame ritual and, once there,
'helped a grounds keeper tug the
rope and raise the national flag.
EAST GERMANY PROPOSES
'GRADUAL REDUCTION' OF
ALLIED FORCES IN BERLIN
BERLIN, UP) — In a slight modi
fication of the Communist demand
to make West Berlin a demilitar
ized “free” city, East Germany
has proposed gradual reduction of
Allied forces in the city and a
gradual lifting of the occupation.
The new Communist plan offers
nothing in return for the conces
sions demanded from the West.