Majority Leader Takes Sharp Issue
With Slash in Pioneer Road Program
By Ward T. Sims
Associated Press Staff Writer
JUNEAU {/FI — The Democratic
Majority Leader in the Senate
took sharp issue Tuesday with
Gov. Egan’s proposal to slash the
State’s Pioneering Access Road
program in half.
Sen. R. J. McNealy. sponsor of
two bills dealing with the state’s
Highway and Pioneering Access
Road programs, said:
“It burned me up when I saw
(in Egan’s proposed budget) he
wanted to trim the Pioneer Access
Road program from $1 million in
fiscal 1961 to $500,000 in fiscal
1962.”
McNealy said the 1960 Legis
lature boosted motor fuel taxes
to sustain the Pioneer Access Road
program and “now the executive
wants to divert a half of a mil
lion dollars of that money.”
“It is my personal intention,”
McNealy said, “to do everything
possible to restore the full million
dollar program.”
McNealy has introduced legis
lation which would place the
Pioneer Access Road program in
the hands of a new board of road
commissioners and the Depart
ment of Public Works.
The program has been in the j
hands, jointly, of Public Works j
and the Department of Natural j
Resources.
“It has been demonstrated,” |
McNealy said, “that only a small
amount of Pioneer Access Roads
have actually been constructed,
because two departments are in
volved. By eliminating one de- I
partment, the program would be
accelerated.
Lillie was Done Last Year
“Very little was done last year
and the prospects for this year
do not seem very bright.”
The creation of the new Board i
of Road Commissioners is actual- I
ly provided for in a second bill j
sponsored by McNealy and Sen. j
James Nolan.
The board, McNealy said, is en- j
visioned as “middle of the road j
between a directive board and an j
advisory board” in working with j
the Department of Public Works
on Alaska’s Highway Program.
Four of the members of the
five-man board would represent
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RED STUDENTS ARE CALLED
"INCUBATOR OF SILENT MEN"
MOSCOW UP) — Students at
Soviet technical schools are so
afraid they will lose their scholar
ships that they never question
what their teachers say, Komso
mol Pravda declared today.
The result is that no one ever
speaks his mind, declared the
Soviet youth newspaper.
The article headed “Incubator
of Silent Men” came only two
weeks after Premier Khrushchev
dressed down agricultural lead
ers for shortcomings in produc
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culprits were “you are right,
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each of the state’s four main elec
tion districts. The fifth member
of the board would be selected to
represent the State at large. All
members would be apointed by
the governor.
McNealy said he proposed the
establishment of a board of road
commissioners as a means of get
:ing area representation into the
date’s road program.
“The people of the Central Dis
;rict are unhappy with the lack
of progress in the road program
in that area,” McNealy said.
“While I have been opposed to
he creation of more boards and
more commissions and more
councils, I believe in this case the
creation of a Road Commission
would serve a very great need.
“The commissioners, through
the method of their selection,
would be able to pass along to
he Department of Public Works
the particular problems of the
area they represent.”
McNealy said he has been dis
appointed in the progress of the
state’s highway program as a
whole, “but I realize they have
faced a considerable number of
problems, including delaying ac
tions on the part of the Bureau
of Public Roads.”
Ambassador to ^us^ia
Summoned to Washington
For Consultation
WASHINGTON UP — President
Kennedy Tuesday summoned the
U. S. Ambassador to Russia back
to Washington for consultation on
all aspects of Soviet-American
relations.
Ambassador Llewellyn Thomp
son is expected to arrive here by
Feb. 8, the White House an
nounced.
Press Secretary Pierre Salinger
said:
“The President and the Secre
tary of State are interested in
having at first-hand Ambassador
Thompson’s observations and re
ports on the Soviet scene.”
The plan for Thompson to re
turn was announced against the
background of the new adminis
tration’s hopes that relations with
the Soviet Union may be taking
a turn for the better. They have
been gravely strained since last
spring in the aftermath of the
U2 spy plane episode.
Asked specifically whether he
expects Thompson to return to
Moscow after the consultation
with Kennedy and Secretary of
State Dean Rusk, Salinger re
plied:
“He will remain as Ambassador
to the Soviet Union.”
TWO-WAY RADIOS IN STORE
FOR CAPITAL'S POLICEMEN
WASHINGTON UP — The na
tion’s capital plans to equip some
of its foot policemen with two
way radios.
Bids will be asked on 10 or more
sets. The equipment will consist
of two small units to foe attached
to a partloman’s belt and weigh
ing no more than two pounds.
Congress has appropriated $11,
300 for the experiment.
Egan Officially Asks
For Creation of a
Tourist Advisory Board
JUNEAU W! — Gov. Egan
asked officially yesterday for the
creation of a Tourism Advisory
Board to help the state plan and
carry out its tourist promotion
program.
Legislation calling for creation
of the board was introduced in
the Senate by the Rules Commit
tee at Egan’s request.
Leaders in the state’s tourist
industry asked for creation of
such a board during a state-spon
sored conference here late last
fall, and Egan named a 25-mem
ber board to serve on an interim
basis, until the Legislature gave
its approval to the plan.
Under the governor’s plan, the
25 board members would be ap
pointed for overlapping three
year terms. They would receive
no pay, no per diem, no travel
pay and no other expenses.
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