Challenges Raised on Three Stale
Appointments Recommended by Egan
JUNEAU UP) — Serious chal
lenges were raised on a joint ses
sion of the Senate and the House j
Friday to three of 34 state ap
pointments recommended by Gov.
Egan.
The list of names sent to the
Legislature by Egan for confir- j
mation included appointments to I
16 various state boards, commis
sions and agencies.
Heading the list was the ap
pointment of Bjorn <Gil) Johnson
as State Commissioner of Labor.
That sailed through without a
challenge.
Such was not the case, however,
when Senate Majority Leader Mc
Nealy asked unanimous consent!
for the confirmation of Dr. Ar
thur J. Schaible of Fairbanks to
an eight year term on the Board
of Regents of the University of
Alaska.
Sen. Howard Pollock objected
and said that while he had noth
ing against Schaible personally,
he felt that A. Leslie Nerland of
Fairbanks should have been re
appointed to the position.
Nerland, a Republican, is the
son of one of the founders of the
university.
“I have no intent to create dis
sention on the board,” Pollock
said, “but I certainly feel that
Nerland should have been con
sidered for reappointment to the
board.”
McNealy said Schaible, a physi
cian and a Democrat, was “emi
nently qualified” for the position.
Senate President Frank Pera
trovich ordered a roll call and Dr.
Schaible’s appointment was con
firmed by a count of 15-3 for the
Senate and 26-14 for the House.
The second major challenge!
came on the governor’s recom
mended appointment of Eugene
V. Miller of Fairbanks to a one
year term on the State Board of
Fish and Game, succeeding Art
Hayr of Fairbanks, who resigned.
Rep. Forbes L. Baker produced
a court document which he said
showed that Miller had been fined
$50 for a game violation by U. S.
Commissioner Hugh Connelly of
Fairbanks.
“No board is better than its
members,” Baker said. “Any per
son who shows disregard for the
field in which he is making the
laws is not qualified to serve on
such a board.”
House Speaker Warren Taylor
stepped down from the rostrum
to defend Miller. He said that the
violation involved was Miller’s
“shooting a grouse along the side
of the road.”
Taylor added that Miller had
been a partner in his law firm
for many years and that Taylor
considered Miller highly quali
fied.
Sen. Paul Greimann also ob
jected to Miller’s appointment. He
said the Sportsmen’s Assn, of
Fairbanks had asked that Miller
not be confirmed.
The Legislature approved the
appointment, however, by a roll
call vote of 22-18 for the House
and 10-8 for the Senate.
The reappointment of Henry
Camarot of Fairbanks to a five
year term on the Local Boundary
Commission also drew some fire
from central and southcentral dis
trict lawmakers before it was ap
proved by a vote of 12-6 of the
Senate and 23-17 of the House.
The opposition centered around
Camarot’s role in the annexation
of the Fairview Public Utility
District by the city of Anchorage,
despite the objections of some 8,
000 residents of the district.
Coghill also objected to Cam
arot’s views on the proposed bor
ough system.
“I think we need new and bet
ter direction,” Coghill said.
Other appointments confirmed
without objection included:
Hospital Advisory Council: Mrs.
George Bayer, Nome; Durwood
Huls, Valdez.
Board of Pharmacy: Francis C.
Bowden, Anchorage; Boyd E. Har
wood, Nome.
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of scientists and members of the
House Space Committee, Martin
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posing all our scientific program
were brought under one head and
you were put in charge. What
would you do?”
“The first thing I’d do,” replied
Goland, “is resign.”
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It’s Possible Mr. K
Is Enjoying
j Coexistence Now
By J. M. Roberts
Associated Press News Analyst
The United States and her allies
are constantly running assays to
determine just what Premier
Khrushchev means by peacful co
existence.
There’s a good chance that he
has what he wants right now.
Under this theory, Khrushchev
is proceeding at home with his
effort to equal the United States
in agricultural and industrial
power, trying to convince newly
emerging nations by example that
Communism offers the best possi
bilities for rapid economic ad
vancement.
Abroad, the Soviets are putii*\g
on the pressure designed to show
that the United Nations, and the
free world alliances which operate
under permission of its charter, do
offer the best bulwark behind i
which former colonial areas may
pursue independence and self
reliance.
Having formally eschewed mor
ality, any form of pressure, any
form of lie, comes handy to the
Communist grist mill.
One trouble Khrushchev has is
trying to juggle the long-term co
existence with the necessity of
taking advantage of current op
portunities, as in Africa, Latin
America and Southeast Asia.
Recognizing that he overplayed
his hand in his latest attempt to
undercut the United Nations, he
is now making a new approach
to the uncommitted nations which
refused to back him on the that
point. He seems to play on their
new sense of importance and their
desires for peace by suggesting
they themselves take over in the
Congo.
In this he relies on recognition.
Already shown by the Eastern
Powers which as individuals have
kept out of the Congo mess, that
the Congolese will deal most
readily with kinfolk. And the So
viet Union has made some pro
gress in influencing some of those
kinfolk.
The key nation among those un
committed is India. Prime Minis
ter Nehru has believed for years
that a neutral India would event
ually earn important profit as a
peacemaker. The Soviet Union
would very muoh like to play on
this hope now.
But Nehru has learned a great
deal about Soviet intentions in the
last few years, and about how to
pursue his own policies without
getting tangled in other people’s
strings.
The neutrals are now a strong
force in the United Nations. They
give indications of recognizing the
Soviet wiP-o-the-whisp when they
see it, although they are not talk
ing out loud about their discover
ies.
Individually, they squirm only
when the finger of non-peaceful
coexistence points directly at
them, as it will if peaceful co
existence gives Khrushchev
enough time.
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i Cold Hard Cash Has Given Way In
Importance to Warm Soft Credit
By Unl Boyle
NEW YORK (j'P) — Call us an
old sentimentalist if you will, but
vve hate to see the decline and
fall of cash.
Cold hard cash has given way
in importance to warm soft credit.
Mpney is disappearing from
public life. You hardly see it any
more.
Remember when you were im
pressed by someone with a bulg
ing wailet, you’d whistle and say,
“he has a role big enough to
choke an ox”! Today the roll a
real big shot carries would hard
ly give hiccups to a mosquito.
A man is no longer known by
the company he keeps, but by the
number of credit cards that keep
him.
Anyone who flashes a big wad
of bills now is automatically put
down as a pitiful showoff, a
bookie or a counterfeiter.
Sensible counterfeiters must
•have quit making fake money
years ago and turned to manu
facturing fake credit cards. That
would seem to be the real mass
market.
The trend away from the pub
lic use of money must have had
other impacts on the criminal
world.
Veteran pickpockets still filch
hundreds of men’s wallets each
year in Manhattan, but it must be
merely from force of habit or be
cause they are simply too old to
learn a new trade. In most cases
they could probably earn more
by picking the gold from their
own teeth.
There was a time when the
working man on payday would
carefully hide his earnings in his
socks so muggers couldn’t rob him
on the way home. Not any more.
He usually brings his paychecks
i—" 1 ' —
—or what’s left of it after all the
deductions — home in his mouth,
like a dog fetching the newspaper.
He is no longer worth robbing.
The favorite targets of muggers
now are little old ladies. They re
tain an old-fashioned penchant
for cash and often have a wad of
it stuffed somewhere in those
huge baggage-sized pocketbooks
they lug around.
But the motto of practically
every one else appears to be, “take
the credit and let the cash go.”
Only bankers cling to money,
as such, in large denominations.
They still keep their vaults clut
tered with the big green stuff, but
this may be merely out of re
spect for tradition, too.
As space gets more valuable,
they may have to buy money
shredders to get rid of it, or force
Congress to store it somewhere at
government expense.
Yes, money itself has become
a nuisance. It has lost caste. It
has been replaced by that new
trinity of financial prestige—the
checkbook, the installment plan
and the credit card.
Yet now and then we confess
to a notalgic feeling for the days
when cold hard cash ruled the
land.
With ready money you knew
exactly what it would do and how
far it would go. But how about
ready credit? Just what will it
do, and how far will it go?
Money was in style for a long
time. It might come back—that’s
why we wish sometimes we had
held on to some.
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WASHINGTON W — Secretary
of Labor Arthur J. Goldberg said
| it is safe to assume there are 5.5
I million people unemployed at the
I present time.
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