Rep. Kowalski Wants
Officers to Quit Using
Enlisted Men as Servants
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WASHINGTON UP) — A Con
necticut congressman who is a for
mer West Pointer and Army offi
cer has asked President Kennedy
to prevent enlisted men from
'Being used as ^officers’ servants.”
Jtep. Frank KoWMski, (D
Conn.), said he wrote to Kennedy
Friday after he received a report
on an investigation he had asked
the office of the Comptroller
General to make at Ft. McNair
in Washington.
Kowalski said the federal au
ditors reported that 25 sergeants
were doing nothing but household
duties for 14 senior military offi
cers and one State Department
official living on die post. Their
names were withheld.
Pay and allowances for the men
add up to about $120,000 a year.
Their duties were listed as in
cluding making beds, lawn and
bar tending, cleaning, chauffer
ing and the like.
Kowalski, who had been cru
sading against such use of en
listed men since he entered Con
gress in 1958, said the situation
at Ft. McNair was just one ex
ample.
His mail and reports show, he
said, that 3,000 to 5,000 enlisted
men are assigned to household
jobs for officers.
Air Force Is Still Looking
For Its Bundle of Needles
WASHINGTON UR — The Air
Force says its bundle of 350 mil
lion needles made it to outer space
but apparently didn’t scatter as
scheduled.
The needles were launched Oct.
21 aboard a Midas satellite. The
plan was for the package of sen
sitized copper needles—each one
third the thickness of a . human
hair and 7-10ths of ait inch long
—to scatter around the globe. Sci
entists were hoping to bounce
radio signals off them to test pros
pects of a jam-proof radio sys
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The Air Force said Friday
analysis of telementary reports
from the satellite launching show
the package was ejected at the
right tune and proper speed. But,
for some unknown reason, the
needles haven’t been released.
Efforts to locate the tiny needles
by radar will continue, the Air
Force said.
Bob Conger, Jackson, Tenn., is
national president of the TJ.S.
junior Chamber of Commerce.
Justice Dept. Picks
Las Vegas as Site
For Drive on Crime
LAS VEGAS, Nev. W — The
U.S. Justice Department has
picked Las Vegas as the launch
ing site for a new drive against
crime syndicates.
The chairman of the State
gaming Control Board, Ed Olsen
of Reno, immediately promised to
support the drive. But he said
the Washington announcement of
the investigation sounded “just
a little bit sensationaL”
Justice Department officials in
Washington announced Sunday
Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy has
ordered a systematic investigation
to determine: <1) The extent to
which syndicate crime leaders arc
using Las Vegas as a meeting
place; (2) Whether a race track
wire service is 'being run here for
bookmakers throughout the coun
try; (3) The backgrounds of samel
gambling casino operators.
Olsen said the Attorney Gen
eral has been interested in Nevada
for some time “and we’ve 'been
working in close cooperation with
Mr. Kennedy.”
“The state is just as interested
in uprooting racketeers—if any
are here—as he is,” Olsen said.
Olsen said his agents—more
than 50 of them—“keep track of
national underworld figures that
come to Las Vegas.”
“If meetings of any significance
involving crime leaders occurred
in Nevada, we’d likely know
about them.”
Las Vegas has long been under
scrutiny of federal agents. But
until Congress recently passed
legislation directed at syndicates,
a Justice Department official said,
these agents could do little more
than look for hoodlum interests
in Las Vegas enterprises and in
vestigate possible income tax vio- 1
lations. The new laws, among
other things, prevent racketeers
from crossing state lines in pur
suit of unlawful activities.
34th Discoverer In OTbit
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE
BASE, Calif. UPi — The 34th Dis
coverer satellite is in Polar orbit,
carrying a capsule the Air Force
will try to catch in the sky over
the Pacific.
This shot, one of a series aimed
at perfecting a technkJUe for re
covering packages from space,
was fired Sunday. Within a few
days, the Air Force hopes, the
capsule will separate from the
orbiting rocket and parachute
toward the ocean. PiAnes based at
Hawaii will try to snag the para
chute before it hits the water.
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WASHINGTON
By Frits Willi
Associated Press Special Service
WASHINGTON (ft — During
the day you’ll find him packing
a pistol around the nation’s capi
tal and from time to time you’ll
see him carrying a spear in a
local opera production.
But Miles Brandon, an Eskimo
from Dillingham, Alaska, is look
ing forward to the time he can
put aside both weapons and step
onto the stage as a full-time sing
er.
While waiting for that break,
Miles is putting in eight hours
a day as a capital police private,
taking voice lessions and singing
when and where he can go.
“I’m a member of the Opera
Society of Washington, but I’ll sing
anywhere — banquets* weddings,
churches — wherever they need a
tenor,” he said one day recent
ly, as he kept an eye on the
office of the House sergeant at
arms.
Miles, who is not married, man
ages to get in one to two hours a
day of voice practice.
“I’m lucky,” he said. “The
family I live with doesn’t mind
my practicing; in fact they en
courage it,”
Right now he is concentrating
on building up his repertoire to
be in shape for a trip to New
York this fall where he will audi
tion for some talent agents.
One of seven children, Miles
sees his family each year when
he goes back to Alaska for the
summer salmon fishing season.
His mother, Mrs. James Bran
don, lives in Anchorage. His
father died in 1»57.
There is a family theatrical
connection, says Miles. Back in
the mid-twenties his parents made
a two-year vaudeville tour — his
mother as a singer and his father
with a trained reindeer act.
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Junior Pen Pal Organisation
Judging by some of tie letters
received by Rep Ralph Rivers
' there’s a definite need for a jun
ior pen pal organization to spread
the word about Alaska to the 49
“southern” states.
All the children who write for
information get an answer from
Rivers. There’s obviously con
siderable interest in Alaska among
the grade school set, but there
are quite a few misconceptions.
Most frequent of these arises
from not being convinced that
Alaska is now a state. Many of
these letters to Rivers are ad
dressed simply to the Embassy
of Alaska or to the Ambassador
of Alaska.
One young lady wrote recently
for general information on Alas
ka and added: “I would like to
have a flag of your country.”
Another wrote for some basic
faots and figures, and also to find
out “if times are very hard” in
the 4<9th State.
There was one child who pro
perly addressed a letter to Rivers
and commented “I hope you will
do your job very well.”
One youngster, no doubt con
cerned about the allowance situ
ation, cautiously asked:
“Do you have any free material
about Alaska? If you do, please
send me some.”
Former Mayor of Juneau,
MeriSfif L. McSpedden Paste*
i JTWfteAtJ Ub — Funeral services
were scheduled today for Mor
rell L. McSpadden, a 'former
mayor of Juneau and a former
member of the Territorial Legis
McSpadden, a nativi Of Garri
son, Mont., died Thutsday at the
age of 58.
Survivors include his widow,
Janice; two dsi^hters, Mrs. Sheila
Zagars of Juneau and Molly Jo
Bushfort of San Antonio^ Tex.;
and seven grandchildren. ,
Pan Am to Make Polar
Hops Direct to Tokyo
SAN FRANCISCO iff — Pan
American World Airways an
nounced Friday it will make two
direct flights a week from San
Francisco to Tokyo via the short
great circle course, beginning
Nov. 14.
The company said the scheduled
time of 13 hours from San Fran
cisco will be the fastest service
from California to Japan. The
service will be in addition to daily
I flights to Tokyo via the central
Hawaii route.
The airline said it is running
five jet flights a week via the
Polar Route from Los Angeles,
San Francisco and Seattle to Lon
don.
•If stops are required they will
be at Anchorage.
JONAS BROS. TO OPEN
SECOND STORE IN SEATTLE
SEATTLE UP — Jonas Bros, of
Alaska, known in the Pacific
Northwest for their outstanding
Alaska furs, ivory and gift items
will open a second store in Seat
tle Monday at 6th Ave. and Pike
St.
The store will feature Alaska
big game and fur bearing ani
mals along with a display of Es
kimo and Alaskan artifacts. It
will be a typical Alaska store
with parkas, furs, stoles, jewelry
and gift items straight from the
last frontier.
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Methodist Bishop Protests
Games Violator’s Pledges
ABERDEEN, SD. Wt—A Metho
dist bishop is protesting the action
of a South Dakota judge who re
cently ordered a group of game
law violators to make contribu
tions to their churches in lieu at
paying fines.
The case involved phesant hunt
ers appearing before Judge Paul
Burke at Miller, SD
“A church cannot properly use
the power of government agency
to collect funds for its support,”
Bishop Edwin Garrison, said Fri
day.
Bishop Garrison said he was ad
vising church treasurers under
his jurisdiction to return any such ,
contributions.
Methodist Church Plans
$2-million Church Center
NEW YORK UO — The Metho
dist Church announced plans Fri
day for a $2-million interdenomi
national church center for the
promotion of peace and study of
international affairs.
Construction of the. 12-story
building, at E. 44th St. and Unit
ed Nations Plaza, will start next
year.
HUNGRY DOGS ...
MOUNT ANGEL, Ore. UP> —
Two labrador dogs got into a pen
at the Stanley Slynstad chicken
farm Friday and killed 950
chickens.
The dogs, owned by neighbors,
were shot
For ;The First Time *
Pressurized F-27 Flights
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GALENA - ANCHORAGE
Starting Saturday, Nov. 4
Flights Heaving Nome Saturday
will connect with Northern
Consolidated Airlines in
ena for Anchorage
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