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4Tiny’ Eckman Is First Alaska Prisoner
To Apply For ‘Hellenthal Honeymoon’
JUNEAU, UPi — A Nome forger
has gone to court in an effort to
get Alaska’s first “Hellenthal
honeymoon.”
Grant H. Eckman, a 42-year-old
cook, filed a petition in First Dis
trict Superior Court for a writ of
mandemus ordering the state to
give him a weeklong “prisoner
leave immediately.”
Eckman, now imprisoned at
McNeil Island Federal Peniten
tiary near Tacoma, contended in
a 2Vi page petition he authored
himself that he is eligible for the
leave because he does not have a
“blemish” on his prison record.
Superior Court Judge James
von der Heydt granted a request
by Eckman that he be permitted
to file the petition without pay
ing a filing fee.
The 1960 Alaska legislature
okehed week-long leaves each six
months for honor prisoners with
good behavior serving sentences
of one year or more.
The leaves, the legislature, spe
cified, “may be permitted as a
privilege and not as a right to
visit with their families at a
place other than their place of
confinement and at their own ex
pense for periods not exceeding
one week ...”
The leaves were dubbed “Hel
lenthal honeymoons” after the
man who introduced the leave bill
in the legislature, State Rep. John
S. Hellenthal, of Anchorage.
Eckman, a two-time loser, was
sentenced in Nome on Feb. 28 to
five years in prison on each of
two counts of forgery. The terms
were to run consecutively, a total
of 10 years in all. The sentencing
judge said Eckman would be el
igible for parole in two years.
In 1958 and 1959, Eckman
served one year of an 18-month
sentence for a bad check convic
tion in Anchorage.
In seeking the writ, Eckman
did not say where he would spend
the leave, if he obtained one.
He told the Bureau of Prisons
after being imprisoned at McNeil
Island under a contract between
the Bureau and Alaska he had
been married five times. He said
he had a wife in Nome and five
children living outside of Alaska.
In his petition, Eckman said
that while his prison record was
spotless, he “is unable to get a
good reasonable answer from
anyone of authority as to why
he cannot get the leave that is
due him.”
He asked that the court direct
Charles W. Pfeiffer, head of the
State Division of Youth and Adult
Authority, to “forthwith order the
Director of the Bureau of Pri
sons ... to allow the petitioner
his leave which is due him forth
with.”
Eckman said he was “positive
the state legislature did not en
act the prisoner leave bill just to
have it overruled by some of the
Federal Bureau of Prisons regu
lations.”
Pfeiffer, who was served with
a summons Wednesday, said un
der the state’s contract with the
Bureau of Prisons, no state pri
soner can be granted any priv
ilege a federal prisoner is not
entitled to receive.
Pfeiffer said Eckman has been
a constant writer in efforts to get
release from McNeil Island Peni
tentiary, seeking clemency from
Gov. Egan among other moves.
While the law was approved by
Egan last April 15, no prisoner
leaves have been granted as yet,
Pfeiffer said.
He said the statute paved the
way for “good, sound treatment
procedure for the right prisoners,
those prisoners who are very near
release or parole.
“The concept is a good one for
an honor camp inmate, but not
for a prisoner in a maximum se
curity prison.”
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IRS Investigates Churches
Who Abused Tax Privilege
During Recent Election
WASHINGTON, UP)—The Inter
nal Revenue Service said it is in
vestigating complaints that cer
tain churches abused their tax
privileges by mixing in politics
during the presidential election
campaign.
IRS said it is looking into al
legations against churches, other
religious organizations and indi
vidual clergymen who reportedly
sponsored and distributed liter
ature hostile to the election of a
Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy
as President.
The agency declined to name
those under investigations. Nei
ther would it disclose the source
of the complaints.
Tax exemption is available to
any nonprofit religious organiz
ation, “no substantial part of the
activities of which is carrying on
propaganda, or otherwise at
tempting to influence legislation,
and which does not participate in,
nor intervene in (including the
publishing or distributing of state
ments) any political campaign on
behalf of any candidate for public
office.”
If an exempt organization vio
lates its privilege, it merely loses
its exemption for the year in
volved. There is no provision for
any additonal penalty.
IN SUPERIOR COURT
Louise Kidwell was granted a
divorce from Wm. Kidwell yes
terday.
Ruth Larsen has arrivel from
Fairbanks where she was on the
saff of the St. Joseph’s Hospital,
to be on the staff of the MMM
Hospital as anesthetist.
Harry Carter, State Sanitarian
leaves today for visits to villages
of White Mountain, Koyuk, Shak
toolik, and Unalakleet.
Gabriel Muktoyuk is the store
manager at King Island this year,
taking over from Edward Pena
tac who remained in Nome this
winter because there was no
school planned for King Island.
ELECTION BET
NEW LONDON, Wis., UP) —The
first —at least for Wisconsin —
“Nixon - for - President in 1964”
rally was held here Thursday.
Richard Zuege organized the
rally in payment of a $5 bet and
wheelbarrow ride to Del Beno.
Beno supported John F. Kennedy
in the presidential election and
Zuege was for Vice President
Richard Nixon.
When Beno arrived to collect
on the bet, Zuege was waiting
with the wheelbarrow and the $5
—plus a group of marchers hold
ing signs proclaiming “Nixon-for
President in 1964.”
Beno, all alone with a Ken
nedy button, said he didn’t think
Zuege was being fair.
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Press Secretary Hagerty
Reported Going Into ABC
Public Relations
NEW YORK, UP)—White House
Press Secretary James C. Hagerty
has refused to confirm or deny
reports he will take over as vice
president in charge of the Ameri
can Broadcasting Company’s
news and public affairs depart
ment.
Veteran broadcaster John Daly
resigned the post Wednesday, and
his resignation was promptly ac
cepted by ABC.
Officially, ABC would make no
comment on reports that Hagerty
would take over Daly’s position
after his duties end with the Ei
senhower administration.
Daily said he was quitting ABC
because of a “fundamental dif
ference on policy” with ABC pre- i
sident Leonard Goldenson.
Daly was said to have opposed
the showing by ABC of a “Bugs
Bunny” film and “The Rifleman”
early on election night while
other networks were concentrat
ing on election returns.
Gov. Egan Proclaims Nov. 24
Thanksgiving Day In Alaska
JUNEAU, iffi—Gov. William A.
Egan issued a proclamation today
offically designating next Thurs
day, Nov. 24, as Thanksgiving
Day in Alaska.
Boy Scout Court of Honor Nov. 30
Boy Scout Scribe Ricky Young
reports that Troop 666 is getting
ready for a Court of Honor which
is scheduled for Nov. 30.
Plans were also discussed for
other activities which are in the
planning for later in the winter.
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Pioneers May Not Hold
Roof Garden This Year
The Pioneer Men of Igloo No.
1 announced following their meet
ing on Wednesday that the tradi
tional Roof Garden held each
December since the turn of the
century, will not be held this year
due to many reasons, particularly
lack of time by the members to
participate in the project.
They may have one, however,
early in 1961, with the date to
be announced after the first of
the year.
Paul Glavinovich to Attend ROTC
Conference At West Point
COLLEGE, (JP> — Paul S. Gla
vinovich of Nome, cadet com
mander of the University of Al
aska ROTC battle group, has been
designated as the school’s repre
sentative to a student conference
at West Point, N. Y., late this
month.
Glavinovich, a senior in geol
ogy, is scheduled to leave the
campus Nov. 26 and return Dec. 5
HEADING SOUTH
Heading south today to connect
with the PAA jet flight out of
Fairbanks are pioneers Jim Pap
pas, Ed Benecke and Jerry Car
roll, also Ralph DeLong and Bob
Cannon. Hap Lancaster is a pas
senger as far as Fairbanks.
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