ISE NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS__
VOL. LXIII No. 10 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1960_Per Copy 15^
MRS. EMILY BOUCHER
RETURNS FROM
INAUGURAL EVENTS
Returning home from the na
tion’s capital yesterday was Mrs.
Emily Boucher who welcomed the
warm rain after the cold and
snow in Washington, D. C.
Following the White House
Conference on Aging which she
attended as an Alaskan delegate
and which over 2,000 delegates
participated from all the states
and territories, she remained for
the inauguration ceremonies. Par
ticipation in many of the inaug
ural events was made possible
through the courtesy of the Alas
kan congressmen and their staffs
who ^ent out of their way to find
housing as well as provide reser
vations for the Alaskan guests.
Because of the cold and wind
and snow Sens. Bob Bartlett,
Ernest Gruening and Rep. Ralph
Rivers were hosts all day at an
open house in the Senate Building
where refreshments were served
and the Alaskan visitors could
watch the inaugural events on
television. The more hardy visitors
preferred to take their places
outdoors and observe the ceremony
first hand from the steps of the
Capital.
Some of them sat through the
four hour parade with its 30,000
participants and 40 bands regard
less of the weather with the tem
perature at 15 degrees, so that
they might cheer the Alaska Gov
ernor and the 1st and 2nd Scout
Battalion who were next to the
end of the parade. Their position
in the parade was in the order in
which the states were admitted to
the Union. Probably the only
marching unit properly dressed
for the weather was the Alaska
National Guard garbed in parkas
and outdoor clothing.
Mrs. Boucher reports that four
inches of snow tied up Washing
ton, D. C. so completely that
traffic did not move for several
hours. Sue Bartlett, daughter of
Senator and Mrs. Bartlett enroute
to the inaugural from Baltimore,
which is ordinarily a 40 minute
trip was 9 hours getting home.
Stores were closed at 5 instead
of 9:00 p. m. as scheduled so
that the clerks could try to get
home and office buildings were
emptied early in the afternoon as
soon as the snow started falling.
Alaskans visiting the Senate
prior to the inaugural heard their
Senator Bartlett present a bill;
proposing that a mountain be
named for the late Senator Nue
berger of Oregon because he was
such a friend of Alaska.
Pioneer Whist Parties
Begin This Saturday
Saturday evening will be the
the first game in the series of
Pioneer Whist Parties, being held
at the Pioneer Igloo starting at
8:00 p. m.
These whist parties, which are
open to the public and have been
popular for the past 50 years, are
considered a must for newcomers
in the community and a popular
social event for the sourdoughs.
Anyone can quickly learn the fine
points of the game and participate
in all six games in the series or
any number of games they wish
to enter.
Scores are given for evenings
games as well as beautiful nugget
prizes for the grand totals.
Season tickets will be avail
able at the door. There will be
two games in February, two in
March and one in April. Dates
will be announced in Friday’s
l
BOROUGH SYSTEM
SUBMITTED TO THE
HOUSE TODAY
JUNEAU UP) — The State Ad
ministration’s proposal for estab
lishing borough government in
Alaska was submitted to the House
of Representatives today.
The 42-ipage measure was intro
duced by the Rules Committee at
the request of Gov. Egan and the
Legislative Council.
The bill provides for the es
tablishment of organized bor
oughs by petition. All areas of
the state not within the bound
aries of organized boroughs would
constitute a single, unorganized
borough.
After a petition for creation of
an organized borough has been
submitted and passed on by the
State Local Affairs Agency, the
Local Boundary Commission
would be required to hold at
least one public hearing in the
area to be incorporated.
The Local Affairs Agency
would have the power to recom
mend apportionment of the Bor
ough Assembly. The Local Bound
ary Commssion would be able to
make revisions in the apportion
ment and in the boundaries of
the area to be incorporated.
Only a Few Items
Will Be Altered on
Ike’s Budget Submittal
WASHINGTON UR — The Ken
nedy Administration today an
nounced it will change only a
few items in the budget former
President Eisenhower sent to
Congress earlier this month.
In a directive to all agency
heads, Budget Director David E.
Bell said a broad review of all
federal programs will have to
wait until President Kennedy pre
pares his firsts complete budget
which will go to Congress in
January 1962.
Eisenhower’s budget, sent to
Congress last week, was for the
fiical year beginning next July
1. It estimated spending at $80.9
billion and revenues at $82.3 bil
lion. Eisenhower foresaw a sur
plus of nearly $1.5 billion.
Fire Sweeps Through
Ketchikan This Morning
KETCHIKAN UR — A portion
of downtown Ketchikan is fire
blackened again today — on the
first anniversary of the disastrous
Front Street blaze.
A raging fire swept through
three Main Street businesses
early this morning and inflicted
water and smoke damage to the
basement of a Mission Street de
partment store. Damage is esti
mated at $80,000.
The fire occurred one year to
the day from the Front Street
blaze in which five businesses
were lost and damage exceed
ed $367,000.
PRINCESS SORAYA IS NOW
A BUSINESS WOMAN . . .
SHE WILL LEND HER BEAUTY
VIENNA, Austria UR — Prin
cess Soraya made her debut as
a business woman — but it
wasn’t quite clear just what she’ll
do other than lend beauty to the
midget auto firm she has joined.
The former Queen of Iran ap
peared with her partner, York
Noble, at a news conference to
confirm she has become co
director and stockholder of his
British automobile company.
Looking nervous, she side
tracked a question about the ex
tent of her investment by plead
ing “that is a private question.”
KENNEDY GOES ON TV
TONIGHT FOR FIRST
NEWS CONFERENCE
By Marvin L. Arrowsmith
WASHINGTON UP) — President
Kennedy tonight holds his first
news conference since taking of
fice. It will be a precedent-set
ting session on live television andH
radio.
The U. S. Information Agency
will provide special worldwide i
coverage, broadcasting recordings j
of the conference to reach peak
listening hours overseas.
The new President’s question
and answer meeting with news
men will be carried nationwide
on all major U. S. networks start
ing at 6 p. m. EST.
How long the conference lasts
will be determined, the White
House has said, in the traditional
manner — by the senior wire
service reporter when he decides
its time to end the session.
Newsmen are certain to seek
the views of Kennedy, sworn in
to office only last Friday, on a
wide variety of problems con
fronting the new administration.
They include dealing with the
Communist threat to the free
world, the business slump at
home, mounting unemployment,
the disturbing flow of gold out
of the United States, expected re
vision of the Eisenhower regime’s
spending plans and enactment by
Congress of legislative proposals
Kennedy backed during th cam
paign.
In one major respect the for
mula at Kennedy news confer
ences will be the same as it has
been since 1933 when President
Franklin D. Roosevelt put the
sessions on wide open basis. There
will be no questions barred and
Kennedy won’t know what they
are until they are fired at him.
OPTICAL ILLUSION ! ! !
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. UP> — A
Brazilian newsman who had just
seen for the first time the launch
ing and landing of planes on an
aircraft carrier, was asked his
impression of the operation.
Gilson Campos, reporter-photo
grapher for the Daily News and
Daily Carioca in Rio De Janeiro,
replied: “It was like being aboard
a floating insane asylum on which
all the lunatics were surprisingly
well-behaved and well-trained.”
LETTER OF APPRECIATION
The Rotary Club is in receipt
of a letter of appreciation from
the president of the Alaska Meth
odist University for the $500
scholarship which they provided
this year for a Nome student, Ray
Arnold. Nome Rotary has also
contributed $75 toward the hot
lunch program for needy children.
Bills Introduced Today
A bill which would reduce the
annual salary of legislators from
the current $3,000 to $1,000 was
introduced in the House today by
Rep. Dora Sweeney.
It would be illegal to sell imi
tation native arts or crafts with
out clearly marking the merchan
dise as being imitation under a
bill introduced by Rep. Bob
Blodgett
Rep. Bruce Kendall introduced
a bill to repeal the $10 annual
School Tax.
A bill to take the Pioneering
Access Road Program from the
Department of Natural Resources
and leave it in the sole hands of
the Department of Public Works
was introduced by Rep. Bob
Blodgett.
Gov. Egan's Proposed Balanced Budget
Totals $59,012,411 for *61 Fiscal Year
Ry Ward T. Sims
Associated Press Staff Writer
JUNEAU — Gov. Egan pro
posed today that Alaska spend a
record $59,012,411 during the fis
cal year starting next July 1.
He also asked the Legislature,
in his 1961 Budget Message, to
boost state personal income taxes,
now 14 per cent, to a total of 16
per cent of the federal income
tax an individual must turn over !
to Uncle Sam.
The new budget would include !
all federal transitional funds
available to the state during fis
cal 1962 and $5,681,942 of the
estimated $6,800,000 surplus the
state will have on hand at the
end of the current fiscal year.
It will also include anticipated
general fund revenues or more
than $49 million during the year
beginning July 1.
Egan said his proposed bal
anced budget would enable the
state to “carry out a bold but
reasonable program for Alaska’s
development.”
The governor’s Transportation
Program, including all moneys
which will be available from the
federal government, from the sale
of bonds and state appropriations,
will total more than $70 million,
including $41 million for actual
highway construction.
Thus, transportation will eat up
approximately half of the total
money package the state will pay
out during fiscal 1962, approxi
mately $140 million, including
funds from all sources, including
federal grants and bond issues.
$33 Million Obligation Bonds
Egan recommended, in a speech
before a joint session of the House
and Senate, that the state issue
general obligation and revenue
bonds totaling $33,325,000 during
fiscal 1962.
Last Nov. 8, the voters approved
the sale of $30.5 million in gen
eral obligation bonds to pay for
(1) a new gymnasium and water
system improvements at the Uni
versity of Alaska, $2 million, (2)
a Ferry System, $23 million,
(3) a vocational education school
north of the Yukon, $1.5 million,
(4) state funds to obtain federal
Hill-Burton matching moneys for
hospital construction and equip
ment, $2.5 million, and (5) con
struction and equipment of bush
airfields, $1.5 million.
Egan recommended that only
$275,000 of the Hill-Burton bonds
be sold, explaining that only that
amount will be available to the
state in federal matching funds
during fiscal 1962.
He also recommended that only
$550,000 of the bush airfields
bonds be sold. He said that would
be all of the funds the state could
adequately handle for the pro
gram during the budget period.
Additionally, he also said he
was not recommending the sale of
$5 million of the Ferry-Road
bonds because federal matching
funds for fiscal 1962 have already
been obligated.
The $33,325,000 in bonds would
be filled out by the sale of $7
million in revenue bonds to fi
nance improvements at Anchor
age and Fairbanks International
Airports and the sale of an ad
ditional $4 million in revenue
bonds for housing and dormitories
at the University of Alaska.
Boost in Salaries
Egan’s budget included pro
visions for a $670,090 boost in
teachers’ salaries and for the
some $750,000 in extra wages for
state employes brought on by
adpotion last fall of the new per
sonnel act and uniform pay plan.
The salary increases for teach
ing personnel would range from
3 to 12 per cent.
The budget provides for capi
tal improvements to education
facilities in the amount of $9,878,
000, from all sources. Of that
amount, $2,115,000 will be used
for state schools, $6,263,000 for
facilities at the university and
$1.5 million for the vocational
education school.
The governor said the execu
tive branch received budget re
quests from all state spending
agencies totaling $75,637,895. The
executive pared $18 million from
actual budget requests.
“I think this budget will pro
vide funds which will permit the
state to continue a necessary and
adequate program,” Egan told
newsmen while explaining the
budget last night.
While Egan declined to predict
the fate of the budget — or his
I tax proposal — in the Legisla
ture, he said he doubted the Leg
islature would be able to trim
much from the proposed budget.
“In our efforts to find any fat,
we just reached the end of the
rope. This is not to say that the
Legislature will not be able to
find places where reductions can
' be made, but I don’t think it
can cut too much without ham
pering the development of this
state.”
Teachers’ Salary Boost
Will Vary From
$100 to $850 per Year
JUNEAU UP) — Teachers’ sal
ary increases ranging from a
minimum of $100 a year to a top
of $850 were recommended to
day by Gov. Egan in his budget
message to the 1961 Legislature.
The proposed change in the sal
ary scale would result in increases
varying from 3 per cent to 12
per cent for teaching personnel,
depending upon experience rating
and academic degrees.
The starting pay for teachers
with three years of training but
no teaching experience in the
state would be $4,600, as com
pared with present $4,500. Top
for teachers with basic training
would be $5,200 after four years
experience in Alaska, up $200
over the present rate.
Teachers holding bachelor de
grees would start with an annual
salary of $5,000, an increase of
$350 over the current scale maxi
mum under the category would
be $6,400 after eight years of
teaching, $550 over the present
yearly pay.
Holders of master’s degrees
would start at $5,350, which is
$550 over the present scale, and
go up to a maximum of $7,750
annually, $850 over their current
pay.
ROULETTE WHEEL MAKES
ITS DEBUT IN A MUSEUM
MANILA UP) — A judge has de
cided a roulette wheel seized in
a gambling house raid is too
beautiful to destroy. He is turn
ing it over to the Philippines’ Na
tional Museum for “cultural and
artistic purposes.”