Texan Voters Elect
First Republican Senator
DALLAS, Tex. (/Pi — The vic
tory of John G. Tower, the first
Republican senator to be elected
by Texas voters, today left glee
ful GOP workers thankful they
rang so many doorbells and Dem
ocrats wondering what went
wrong.
Tower, 35, a former college pro
fessor, won Saturday’s special
U. S. Senate race by 8,000 votes
over William Blakley, a Demo
crat who holds the Senate seat
on an interim appointment.
He had 444,815 votes to Blak
ley’s 436,815.
When Lyndon Johnson, who
had campaigned successfully both
for the Vice Presidency and for
re-election as senator in Novem
ber, resigned his Senate seat early
this year, Tower was one of the
first to announce for the special
election.
A political unknown when he
quit as professor at Midwestern
University last year to run on the
Republican ticket against the Sen
ate Majority Leader, Tower piled
up 926,653 votes against Johnson’s
1,306,625. It was the largest vote
ever given a Texas Republican
in a state race.
TWUA Formally Ends
2 Vi -Year-Old Strike
Against Cotton Mill
HENDERSON, N. C. WPI — The
Textile Workers Union of Amer
ica is formally ending the costli
iest strike in its 24-year history
June 1, the 2Vi>-year strike against
the Harriet-Henderson Cotton
Mills.
Except for token pickets, the
strike has been over for many
months and by any yardstick, it
was a failure for the union.
The cost to the 527 — included
$1,250,000 in strike relief; the loss
of the union’s Carolinas director
Boyd Payton, sentenced to jail
with seven TWUA members for
a dynamite conspiracy, and the
loss of the Harriet and Hender
son plants, now operating with
non-union labor.
“We haven’t attempted to
measure the effect on the prestige
of the union,” said Herbert S.
Williams, Payton’s temporary re
placement in Charlotte.
On the plus side for the TWUA,
Williams said the strike showed
that “this union will fight for
its members” and that “every
body gets educated to a certain
extent in any strike.”
The 22-member TWUA execu
tive council, meeting in New York
Friday, officially brought the
strike to an end because of a need
“to face up to harsh facts of life
in Henderson,” in the words of
TWUA President William Pollock.
The mills closed Nov. 17, 1958
after labor contract negotiations
hung up on issues of wages and
seniority, among others. But the
firm’s president, John D. Cooper,
resumed production a short time
later with non-union workers.
I Have Bank, Will Travel"
SEATTLE 0P> — The Alaska
Steampship Co.’s latest motto is
—“Have Bank. Will Travel.”
The first bank for Southwest
ern Alaska is at Pier 42 loading
aboard the MS Usitna for the
1,854-mile ocean voyage and 78
mile river run to Bethel, in the
Kuskokwim Valley.
A 10-by-55-foot trailer building
is going north for the first Na
tional Bank of Bethel, along with
lock, safes, stock, safety deposit
boxes, paneling for the walls, two
teller stations and another trail
er being shipped north on the MS
Ramber to house the bank man
ager.
The Miners and Merchants
Bank of Nome had applied to the
state for a branch bank at Bethel
and the First National Bank of
Anchorage filed a request with
the Federal Comptroller of Cur
rency who disregarded the appli
cation of the local bank in issuing
the permit, stated Don Hoover,
manager of the M & M Bank.
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| Kennedy’s Request for a
Bigger Budget for USIA
Turned Down by House
WASHINGTON UP) — President
Kennedy’s request for a bigger
I budget for the U. S. Information
j Agency was turned down today
by the House Appropriations
Committee which trimmed it
$16.69 million.
The reduced budget did not,
however, affect the Voice of
America, the Information Agency’s
program of foreign broadcasting.
The President originally sought
$151.48 million for the USIA, this
; country’s foreign propaganda or
i ganization, last Thursday, in a
| special message to Congress, he
asked that “the funds previously
requested for this effort not only
be approved in full but in
creased.”
The requested increase amount
ed to about $3 million.
The committee action was in
cluded in a $751.3-million bill fi
nancing the State and Justice De
partments, the USIA, the Federal
Courts and the Civil Rights Com
mission for the fiscal year start
ing July 1.
All the agencies except the
Civil Rights Commission were
cut.
The Civil Rights Commission,
which expires next November un
less Congress extends its life, was
given the $302,000 it requested.
The Federal Bureau of Investi
gation received the entire $127.2
million it sought, including funds
for employment of 50 more agents.
It was the tenth consecutive year
that the FBI budget was allowed
in full.
The committee questioned the
advisability of USIA spending
$950,000 to stage plays in Europe
and South America with actors’
salaries runing as high as $2,500
per week.
Fine Job Printing At The Nugget
President Signs Bill
Providing $500 Million
For Latin America Aid
WASHINGTON UP — President
Kennedy Saturday signed a bill
providing a special $500 million
Latin American aid fund. He said
it was aimed at building a
“stronger and more properous
hemisphere.”
The bill also sets up a $100
million fund to help Chile rebuild
from the 1960 earthquakes that
devastated its southern region.
Kennedy signed the appropria
tion bill in the presence of con
gressional leaders, r< presentatives
of the Organization of American
States and the Inter-American
Development Bank.
Former President Harry S. Tru
man, who had a later appoint
ment with the President, also
watched the ceremony and re
ceived one of the 18 pens Ken
nedy used.
Kennedy said it was a source of
satisfaction to him and the Unit
ed States that this country is now
able to make a substantial con
tribution for social development
in Latin America.
He stressed that the aid will be
a part of a great effort by nations
which are willing to take the
necessary steps to assure a better
life for the people in the hemis
phere.
INVITATION TO BID
Sealed bids will be accepted by
the Nome School Board up to 5
p. m, May 31 to furnish the Nome
School with the following:
Sanitary Service
Bids to be opened at the Board
Meeting on May 31. The Board
reserves the right to reject any or
all bids.
Nome School Board,
By Conrad Potter,
Superintendent
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that the
Commissioner of the Department
of Public Works, Slate of Alaska,
has determined that it is not feas
ible to perform design and engi
neering services by the staff of
the Department for airport proj
ects at Barrow, Savoonga, Sew
ard, Sitka, and various projects
at Anchorage and Fairbanks air
ports including but not limited to
survey, planning, utilities, and
paving.
Notice is further given that
said Department will enter into
contracts with private firms for ,
performance of such functions on !
a negotiated basis in accordance
with Chapter 20, SLA 1961.
Dated this 22vd day of May,
1961.
State of Alaska
Department of Public Works
Richard A. Downing,
Commissioner 1
By Eugene G. Roguzka,
Director, Division of
Aviation
Publish May 24, 26, 29, 1961.
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Army
THS AO-1 MOHAWK, latest reconnaissance aircraft being introduced into the Army inventory,
is demonstrated at Ft. Eustis, Va., for the annual convention of the Army Scientific Advisory Panel.
This two-seat, twin-turbo-prop plane is designed for operation from small, unimproved fields in
the forward area. It is noted for its extremely short takeoff run and sharp angle of climb. The
Grumman Aircraft Engineering Company supplies Army with the MOHAWK.
A Guide
to HI-FI
-by CLIFF EDWARDS
Your Home Music Center
A baby grand piano stood
against the wall, flanked by twin
stereo speakers. In a cabinet
above the piano was an FM tun
er, record player, amplifier and
tape recorder. Off to one side, the
wall was lined with shelves hous
sr'ip ‘% \ ing records and
M " tapes.
L' 1 It was one of
— ' the most at
tractive home
music centers
I’ve seen and,
i|^ I learned, a la
I bor of love for
the young couple who had ar
ranged it in their living room.
If you already own a piano —
or an organ — you’re on your
way to turning a room into a
mimic center. Pianos, depending
on design, can be traditional or
modern; come in all wood tones.
Building the rest of your music
equipment into cabinets around
it, you can choose your favorite
decor.
“The arrangement of hi-fi
components can be left to the
individuals,.” says the Heath
Company of Benton Harbor,
Michigan, pioneer in hi-fidelity
kits. “Components are so versa
tile today, almost any eye-pleas
ing arrangement can be worked
into a good audio system.”
One homeowner has added a
unique finishing touch to his
center by suspending a saxo
phone from the ceiling — as a
mobile! He feels — and you will,
too—that music should be heard
and seen!
Scotland is the country with the
lowest murder rate, averaging
only 2.7 per million population
annually.
INVITATION TO BID
Sealed bids will be accepted by
the Nome School Board up to 5
p. m. May 31 to furnish the Nome
School with the following:
Water, per gallon basis
Specify Hard or Softened
Bids to be opened at the Board
Meeting on May 31. The Board
reserves the right to reject any or
all bids.
Nome School Board,
By Conrad Potter,
Superintendent
INVITATION TO BID
Sealed bids will be accepted by
the Nome School Board up to 5
p. m. May 31 to furnish the Nome
School with the following:
Fuel Oil in lots of 400
gallons or more
Bids to be opened at the Board
Meeting on May 31. The Board
reserves the right to reject any or
all bids.
Nome School Board,
By Conrad Potter,
Superintendent
DAILY SERVICE
FAIRBANKS
— NOME —
KOTZEBUE
Flight 311 DAILY Flight 312
Lv. Fairbanks *8:00 a.m. Ar. Nome 9:10 a.m.
Lv. Nome 1:30 p.m. Ar. Kotzebue 2:15 p.m.
Lv. Kotzebue 2:45 p.m. Ar. Fairbanks *5:35 p.m.
Flight 309 Flight 310
MONDAY FRIDAY
WEDNESDAY SATURDAY
Lv. Fairbanks * 2:30 p.m. Ar. Kotzebue 4:05 p.m. I
Lv. Kotzebue 5:00 p.m. Ar. Nome 6:10 p.m. I
Lv. Nome 7:00 p.m. Ar. Fairbanks ‘10:55 p.m. I
TUESDAY and THURSDAY
Lv. Fairbanks * 2:30 p.m. Ar. Kotzebue 3:50 p,m‘ I
Lv. Kotzebue 4:45 p.m. Ar. Nome p'm‘ I
Lv. Nome 7:00 p.m. Ar. Fairbanks *10:55 p.m. I
* Alaska Standard Time—All other times Bering Standard I
POLAR SEA TOURS
--- Start June 5 —
Twice Meekly ■■ Nome to Barrow
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Main 190 -- Airport
Main 46 -- Town Office
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