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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
62nd Year No. 40 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1961 Per Copy 15<
Senate Demos Give Full Backing to Tax
Program - Pave Way for Adjournment
By Ward Sims
Associated Press Staff Writer
JUNEAU UP — Senate Demo
crats called a half to their intra
party infighting late yesterday
and gave their full backing to
the party’s $3.6 million tax pro
gram, paving the way for ad
journment of the 1961 Legislature.
The day was one of fast-paced
action and of intricate parliment
ary manuevering by both parties
in the upper chamber. While the
House for the most part, stood
idly by, the Senate:
1. Passed the $56.7 million gen
eral appropriations bill, after
adoption of a last-moment amend
ment tacking on an extra $1 mil
lion to take care of proposed in
creases in teachers’ salaries.
The House today refused to
concur in the Senate amendments
to the appropriations bill after
the entire seven-man Finance
Committee recommended that the
amendments be turned down. That
sends the bill into Conference
Committee.
2. Took a long step toward
scuttling the Democratic leader
ship’s tax program which are ex
pected to confront the state in
the years just ahead.
3. Reversed itself and gave the
tax program a helping hand with
the aid of three maverick Demo
crats who at first had joined the
seven-man Republican bloc in de
feating proposed tax increases.
The passage of the budget bill
came on a dramatic switch of
votes by Sens. Vance Phillips, a
member of the Senate Finance
Committee, and Elton Engstrom.
The budget bill was headed for
apparent defeat on a 10-10 tie
Resolution Calls for State
To Provide Transportation
For Private Schools
JUNEAU UP — A resolution
proposing a Constitutional amend
ment to permit the state to pro
vide transportation for children
attending private or parochial
schools was introduced in the
Senate yesterday.
The proposal would require the
approval of the voters in the next
general election.
Early this week, the State Su
reme Court held in a 2-1 opinion
that such transportation of chil
dren to private and parochial
schools was unconstitutional.
The resolution calls for an
amendment to the section which
specifies that no money shall be
paid from public funds for the
direct benefit of any religous or
other private educational schools.
It would add the words: “But
the Legislature may provide for
the transportation of children to
and from such educational insti
tution at state expense.”
The resolution was prepared at
the request of Sen. George Mc
Nabb.
THE WEATHER
Increasing cloudiness tonight
with snow tomorrow. Low to
night 15, high tomorrow 20 to 25.
• In the last 24 hours as of 7:00
a. m. today: High of 19, low of 10.
Maximum wind at 25 mph from
the northeast. Sunrise at 5:04
a. m., sunset at 7:06 p. m.
Temperatures a year ago today:
High of 4, low of -8. Extremes
on this date since 1907: High of
40 in 1940, low of -30 in 1918.
In Nenana today the sky was
cloudy and had a temperature of
22.
vote, with Democrats Eben Hop
son, A] Owen and George Mc
Na'ob joining the seven Republi
cans in going against the bill,
when Phillips switched his vote
from “nay” to “aye.”
Engstrom followed suit and the
appropriations bill passed on a
12-8 count.
Phillips said later he had
1 switched his vote in an effort to
, save both time and money by
: cutting the legislative session
I short.
“If I hadn’t switched my vote,”
: Phillips said, “we would have
J been here another two or three
days. As it is, everyone is so wild
we can hardly get along with each
other now.”
Tax Program
Passage - “Only
Course of Action”
JUNEAU Uf) — Gov. Egan said
today that legislative passage of
the Democratic leadership’s $3.6
million tax program is “the only
responsible course of action” that
can be taken at this time.
In a prepared statement, Egan
said the state will face a $15 mil
lion deficit in 1962 through the
loss of federal transitional grants
and road construction and main
tenance funds.
Egan said that without the new
taxes, “the next Legislature must
either drastically curtail the min
imum state program of services
now in effect or place a crush
ing new tax burden on the state
to keep state services at an ade
quate level.”
The governor said claims that
the new taxes would create a sur
plus were not true.
“When viewed against known
commitments and public needs
and when viewed against the ex
piration of transitional grants, the
claimed ‘surplus’ vanishes. In
stead of a claimed surplus, with
out passage of these tax bills,
the alternative is certain fiscal
disaster.”
BIA Asks Congress for
$375,000 to Replace
Aging M. S. North Star
WASHINGTON OP) — Congress
is being asked for $375,000 to en
able the Bureau of Indian Affairs
to replace its aging vessel North
Star on the Seattle to Alaska run.
Increased tonnage on its twice
yearly, 96-stop run makes the
North Star inadequate, the House
Interior Appropriations Subcom
mittee has told in testimony re
leased today.
The funds would be used to
activate the Emory Victory, a 10,
206-ton vessel at Suisan Bay,
Calif., available for transfer to
the bureau.
Among other things, the bureau
said, the new ship would be safer,
handle more cargo and increase
the revenue to natives of Alas
ka by hauling more reindeer meat
and byproducts.
HONEYMOON IS OVER . . .
SAN DIEGO, Calif. OP — “The
five-month honeymoon is over,”
says Richard M. Nixon.
The former Vice President told
a news conference Tuesday he
will begin public appraisal of the
Kennedy Administration next
month, starting with a May 5
speech in Chicago.
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GOP Setback in
Drive to Woo
Big City Votes
By The Associated Press
Republicans flexed their mus
cles in Texas yesterday, but St.
Louis handed the GOP a setback
in its drive to woo big city votes.
Republican John G. Tower, a
Goldwater-type Republican, led a
field of 70 in the Texas special
election to fill the Senate seat
left vacant when Lyndon B.
Johnson resigned to become Vice
President.
The only major question re
maining as the Texas Election
Bureau finished counting the
votes was who would face Tower,
only Republican on the ballot, in
the June 3 runoff.
Although Tower led the nearest
Democrat by 136,000 votes, the
combined vote of the five leading
Democrats was 670,618, more than
twice Tower’s total. The figures
would appear to favor a lone
Democrat in the runoff.
If he wins the runoff, Tower
would be the first Republican
elected to the U. S. Senate from
Texas since reconstruction days.
In St. Louis, Democrat Ray
mond R. Tucker won a third,
four-year term as mayor over Re
publican Ben H. Lindenbusch.
The Republicans had hoped this
campaign would mark the first
success of their drive to revive
the party organization in the big
cities, where the GOP fared poor
ly in last fall’s Presidential elec
tion.
In Aurora, 111., life promises
to be quieter for the next four
years than it has been for the
past eight. Paul Egan lost his bid
for a third term as mayor.
Egan — who left public as
sistance rolls to become mayor
— was defeated by Jay L. Hunt
er, 70, realtor and retired school
! teacher.
The defeat ended eight stormy
years of firing police chiefs and
feuding with the city council. On
one occasion, Egan named a par
rot as police chief.
U. S. Accuses Castro of
Maltreating U. S. Prisoners
WASHINGTON to — The U. S.
government today accused Cuba’s
Castro regime of maltreating U. S.
citizens held in Cuban jails.
The State Department said of
ficials are not giving enough food
and medicine to the Americans
— and also are stopping U. S.
gift foods and medicines from
reaching the prisoners.
About 22 U. S. citizens are re
ported to be in Cuban prisons
under various sentences.
The jails are already over
crowded with Cubans imprisoned
by the pro-Communist Castro
government.
State Department press officer
Joseph Reap said he does not
know whether the Americans are
getting worse treatment than the
others, or whether their food sup
ply had been cut to the point of
starvation.
RICHARD WAGNER NAMED
TO HEAD U. S. C OF C
WASHINGTON to — Richard
Wagner, 64, who rose from a $5
a-week bank runner to board
chairman of Camplin Oil and Re
fining Co., today was named pre
sident of the U. S. Chamber of
Commerce.
The Chicagoan will take office
May 2. His election by the cham
ber’s board of directors is for one
year.
JFK-Ma<'Millan
Search Y\ av to
Strengthen NATO
WASHINGTON — President
Kennedy and British Prime Min
ister Harold MacMillan agreed
today that the Western Powers
need to close ranks in the face of
Soviet threats and pressures. They
began a search for ways of
strengthening political consulta
tion within the North Atlantic
Alliance.
The 67-year-old Prime Minister
and the 43-year-old President met
for two hours at the White House
on the first of a series of con
ferences which Kennedy hopes,
over the next several months,
will reinforce allied unity for
dealing with new cold war crisis.
Former Secretary of State Dean
Acheson, a Kennedy adviser on
NATO problems, participated in
today’s discussion. The talk cover
ed the creation of a nuclear
striking force under the NATO
command, made up of U. S.-sup
plied, submarine-based Polaris
missiles. But informants said that
was not discussed in detail.
American and British officials
agreed, in separate talks with re
porters after the meeting, that the
President and Prime Minister
were in accord on the need for
greater consultation. Indications
were that they might reach some
conclusions on how to remedy this
weakness in allied decision-mak
ing before their meeting here
winds up on Saturday.
Soviets Withdraw
Complaints to U. S.
Spy Plane Flights
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. GP>—
The Soviet Union today formally
withdrew its controversial com
plaint against U. S. spy plane
flights over Soviet territory.
Soviet Delegate Valerian A.
Zorin told the General Assembly’s
99-nation Political Committee that
he was acting in the interest of
easing international tension and
improving relations between his
country and the United States.
Zorin called for the withdrawal
of two other hot issues — Hun
gary and Tibet — as a counter
move by the free world. The
United States, however, said
these questions were not in the
same category as the Soviet U-2
and RB-47 complaints. It re
served its position as to whether
it would push for full debate.
The U. S. position was stated
by Ambassador Charles Yost.
Outside the committee, a U. S.
spokesman said that the United
States would insist on discussion
of the Hungarian and Tibetan
items in the General Assembly in
their proper turn.
Referring to President Ken
nedy’s order prohibiting U. S.
military planes from flying over
Soviet territory, Zorin said that
“under the new conditions the
Soviet Union does not insist on
the discussion” of the spy plane
question.
IT COST TOO MUCH . . .
HOPKINSVILLE, Ky. L. D.
Jones didn’t renew his driver’s
license in 1935 because the price
jumped from 50 cents to $1.
He explained this to the judge
after his arrest on a charge of
driving without one
The judge fincr’ him $108.
Total of 610 Turn
(hi! to (last Votes
For City Officials
For the first time in 10 years
Nome has a new mayor with the
election yesterday of Roscoe
Wilke over his opponents A1
Doyle, and write-in candidate
Conrad Potter.
A total of 610 votes were cast.
The complete tally of the elec
tion is as follows:
<Winners in bold-face type)
FOR MAYOR
Roscoe Wilke . 303
A1 Doyle . 192
Conrad Potter . 91
CITY COUNCIL — 1 Year
Johnny Reader . 276
Paul Tuilana . 239
William Wright . 71
CITY COUNCIL — 2 Year
James McLean . 468
Keith Hedreen . 351
Chuck Frazier . 336
Hap Lancaster . 327
CITY CLERK
Robert Scott . 543
SCHOOL BOARD — 5 Year
Paul Mandeville . 323
Dorothy Grant . 258
UTILITY BOARD — 2 Year
Barrow Morgan . 435
Ohas. D. Jones . 155
UTILITY BOARD — 5 Year
Chuck Reader . 253
Bob Lewis . 172
W. W. Laws . 170
There were numerous other
write-ins for the various offices,
j and included:
I For Mayor—Don Hoover, Boyd
Harwood and Steve Andersen,
j For City Council—Harry Car
! ter, Peter Charlie, Wallace Mc
Iver, Heron Sneed, Bill Ullrich,
Dan Walsh, Blackie Olson, Dor
othy Emmons, Vesta Sundstrom
and Myrtle Johnson.
For School Board— Clint Gray,
Ruth Towner, Myrtle Johnson.
For City Clerk — Bessie Moses,
Stan Molitor, Barbara Martin,
Tommy Johnson, Gary Longley,
and Mrs. H. Gilbert.
Tshombe Backs Off
After U. N. Warning
ELISABETH VILLE, Katanga,
LT' — President Moise Tshombe of
Katanga backed off today from a
belligerent anti-U.N. posture after
a United Nations warning that
new violence against its forces
would bring swift action.
The captial of this rich Congo
province remained tense in the
wake of Tuesday’s mob outbreak,
but fears of a major clash be
tween U.N. forces and Tshombe’s
supporters diminished.
Planeloads of Irish U.N. troops
poured into Elisabethville airport,
and the strongman president was
told that any renewal of violence
would bring Indian U.N. troops
to the capital, a U.N. source re
ported. Tshombe strenuously op
poses use of the Indian troops.
Tshombe met for two hours
with the U. N. military chief in
the Congo, Gen. Sean McKeown
of Ireland, who issued the warn
ing. A U.N. spokesman said the
president agreed to rescind all
the sanctions he had ordered
against U. N. personnel in the
heat of his address to Elisabeth
ville crowds Tuesday.
This meant withdrawal of
Tshombe’s orders to his follow
ers to carry out “general sabot
age’’ against the United Nations,
to refuse to trade with its person
nel and to deprive U.N. establish
ments of water and electricity.
The Irish met no resistance
from Tshombe’s army or police.