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VOL. LX'II No. 37NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1960Per Copy 15^
AMU Starts |
Dormitory Fund j
Uf the, people of Nome can con
tribute $6,000 to the dormitory
fund of the Alaska Methodist
University, one of the rooms of
the dormitory being built for out
of-town students will have a
plaque calling it the Nome Room,
stated Henry Meyer, financial ad
viser for the college, who was
Here for last night’s dinner meet.
Meyer suggested that the two
Nome students already registered
might have the honor of using
that room the first year.
Members of the fund-raising
crews will be calling personally
on those in the community who
should be interested in this edu
cational development for the
State. The fund drive, which will
be the only one for the State, has
a goal set of $1,000,000, which is
for housing only. Everything else
has been contributed from the
other 49 states and the Methodist
Board.
The original plans were to open
with 100 students, but because of
the interest shown, everything will
be stepped up to provide facilities,
teachers and curriculum for 250
students.
The staff of 15 teachers has al
ready been chosen from over 500
applications, and most have doctor
degrees.
The library, scheduled to start
with a couple of thousand volumes
of reference books, has already
been given 25,000 volumes. These
are all technical and classical
reference, stated Henry Meyer,
which normally takes many years
to acquire.
Another interesting feature in
in the plans is a fund of $10,000
for student loans, which is to help
those students whose grades indi
cate ability, but who cannot carry
on without financial help.
The fund drive starts in Nome,
and will be carried to every major
city of the State. Robert Reed of
the MMM Hospital is chairman of
the Nome drive. Bishop Gordon of
the Episcopal Church is chairman
for the Fairbanks area, and men
and women of many Protestant
churches are participating.
Bering Bridge Can
Be Built of Pre
Stressed Concrete
BERKELEY, Calif., UR — T. Y.
Lin, University of California pro
fessor, proposed Thursday the
United States and Russia build a
bridge over the Bering Straits.
•Lin said it could be built of pre
stressed concrete, prefabricated in
1,000-foot sections and floated
into place to span the 48-mile wide
Straits.
Lin, Civil Engineering profes
sor at California since 1945 and a
leading American authority on
prestressed concrete, said the Ber
ing Straits bridge probably could
be completed within five years
and would cost under one billion
dollars.
Lin said he developed the plan
at the suggestion of Sen. Warren
Magnuson of Washington. Mag
nuson, Commerce Committee
chairman, felt the idea could
“greatly expand commerce be
tween the two countries.”
Lin said Russia is ahead of other
nations in mass use of prestressed
concrete and recently finished a
365-foot span over the Moscow
River.
Tuesday P-TA Will
See Nome Choose
Champ Speller
Tuesday is Spelling Bee Con
test time at the P-TA meeting,
where the Nome winner will be
chosen from the 6th, 7th and 8th
Grades.
The following students are in
the finals:
From the Eighth Grade Class
of Mrs. Wm. Woodcock are Fred
Chunn, Pepper Gray, Joy Wood
cock and Janet West; Eighth
Grade of Mr. Beauchamp — June
Oman, Linda Doyle, Marcia Conk
lin; Seventh Grade of Frank
Denny — Ruth Ashley, Bertha
Perry, Lee Herman; Seventh
Grade of Mrs. Pauline Witner —
Corrine Pauwok, Ruth Okitkon,
Emma Kugzruk, Stan Walker;
Sixth Grade of Forrest Draper —
Nancy Mogg, Robert Thomas,
Pauline Attatayak;. Sixth Grade
of Helen Dunbar — Susan Conk
lin, Patsy Longley, Lloyd Pau
wok, Jimmy Gillis.
Pronouncer for the Spelling Bee
will be Mrs. Robert Grant and
julges chosen are M. J. Walsh,
Roy Snyder, and Emily Boucher.
Preceding the Spelling Bee,
which will be, in the Multi-Pur
pose Room, will be a short meet
ing and election of officers for
P-TA.
WEATHER FORECAST
Partly cloudy today and fair
tonight and Saturday. Lowest
temperature expected tonight 15,
the high tomorrow 35.
In the past 24 hours: highest
temp. 32, lowest 24. Sunrise at
5:44 a.m., sunset at 6:30 p.m.
A year ago today: highest temp.
14, lowest -15.
Temperature this morning at
Nenana was 27.
REV. RALPH P. HARSON
Senate Balks At
I Straight Party Voting
JUNEAiU, W) — The House re
fused Wednesday to go along with
the Senate in eliminating straight
party voting and making other
changes in a House-approved elec
tion bill.
The House was expected Thurs
day to send a message to the Sen
ate asking the upper house to back
off from the amendments which
it adopted before passing the
House measure.
Straight party voting is not now
permitted in Alaska elections, but
would be under the bill as passed
by the House. This provision was
stricken out by the Senate. The
House refused to concur in this
and several other amendments.
KICY Opens Doors
For Inspection
Saturday Af ternoon
Nome’s own radio station,
KICY, the Voice of the Arctic,
will be opened to public inspection
on Saturday afternoon and even
ing, March 26, between the hours
of 1 and 10 o’clock, it was an
nounced today.
For those who have never seen
the operations center of a broad
cast station, this “open house”
will afford a unique opportunity
to gain acquaintance with the
equipment and tools used by the
radio broadcaster in the presenta
tion of broadcast programs.
For those who have previously
visited a radio station studio, a
visit to the KICY studio-office
building at Fourth West and D
Street, will reveal that the new
broadcast facility in Nome is in
deed modern and up-to-date, and
equipped with the very latest in
program production equipment.
From the “On the Air” lights to
the Amex recorders, KICY pre
sents the aspect of a broadcasting
station of which any community
could well be proud.
During the “open house” to
morrow, some areas of the station
operation that will not normally
be open to the public will be
shown and demonsrated. Staff
members will be present to answer
questions about program produc
tion procedures or the function
of various pieces of equipment to
be seen. The public is cordially
invited.
Dedication Of
Radio Station
Set for Sunday
Sunday, March 27, will be
| marked by the official dedication
of the studio and transmitter fa
cilities of Nome’s new radio voice,
KICY, the Voice of The Arctic,
Station Manager Art Zylstra an
nounced today. The event will
mark the culmination of several
years of investigation and plan
ning, and two years of construc
tion, which have brought the new
broadcast station near completion.
The dedication program, limited
to those who hold invitations be
cause of space problems, will in
clude representations from the
City, the Chamber of Commerce,
the Nome Ministerial Association,
as well as greetings from Gov
ernor Egan, Senators Bob Bart
lett and Ernest Gruening, and a
message from Representative
I Ralph Rivers. It is planned to
•have a greeting in one or more
of the native Eskimo dialects as
well. Representatives from the
•Moravian Mission at Bethel and
the Friends mission in the Kot
zebue area will be in the studio,
as well as a representative of the
Liutheran work in Alaska.
Delegated to speak in behalf of
the denomination that has made
the station possible, the Evengel
ical Covenant Church of Amer
ica, are Rev. Ralph P. Hanson,
Executive Secretary of World Mis
sions, and Rev. Paul P. Fryhling,
Minneapolis, pastor of the largest
Covenant Church in the south 40.
Music for the dedication pro
gram will toe provided by a special
radio ensemble under the direc
tion of Arthur Zylstra.
The entire dedication ceremony
will be tape-recorded for later
release to KICY listeners at the
time the station begins its regular
programming.
General Appropriations, Appointments
Crowd llth-Hour Calendar; Legislature
Looks for Five-Day Session Extension
Liquor Hours Agreed On
By Both Alaska Houses
JUNEAU, UR — Alaska’s legis
lators reached agreement yester
day on hours for the sale of liquor.
Four other bills, including one
to set up a comprehensive election
code, were sent to conference
committees to work out House
Senate differences.
The House accepted Senate
changes in the liquor measure,
which now goes to Gov. Egan.
If enacted into law by the Gov
ernor, the bill will outlaw any
type of liquor sales between 5
a.m. and 8 a.m. daily. Munici
palities could prescribe additional
closing hours.
The new uniform 3-hour clos
ure would replace existing regu
lations of the State Alcoholic Bev
erage Control Board which re
quire 5-hour closures between 5
am. and 8 a.m. on weekdays and
8-hour closures between 4 a.m.
and 2 pm. on Sunday.
The Senate refused yesterday to
back off from its amendments to
the elections bill, which the
House had refused to accept. The
major amendment is one eliminat
ing the House’s provision for vot
ing a straight ticket.
U-A Gets Government Advance
For Dormitory Planning
WASHINGTON, UR — The Com
munity Facilities Administration
announced yesterday an advance
of $25,600 to the University of
Alaska, for planning a men’s dor
mitory to house 150 students and
estimated to cost $750,000.
REV. PAUL P. FRYHLING
City Sales Tax on
Liquor Is Valid
It has been learned here that
Superior Court Judge Walter E.
Walsh of Juneau has ruled in
favor of the municipality to levy
and collect a consumers sales tax
on the sale price of all retail
sales within the municipality.
He stated that the tax on the
sales price is paid by the con
sumer and is not a tax on the
vendor.
The ruling was made in connec
tion with city sales taxes being
withheld by liquor dealers in Ju
neau.
It has been reported that some
local liquor dealers have with
held payment of sales taxes to
the city pending this decision.
JUNEAU, (tf) — The second ses
sion of Alaska’s First Legislature
may run another five days, but
legislative leaders have set next
Tuesday as a definite deadline
for adjournment.
Lawmakers had hoped to ad
journ yesterday, the 60th day of
the session, but the key general
appropriations bill remained be
fore the Joint Finance Committee.
There was no definite word on
when the bill would reach the
House floor, but it is expected to
come up for action tomorrow. If
it does, the lawmakers could ad
journ late Sunday or Monday.
Some legislative leaders criti
cized the delay in bringing out the
bill, which was introduced on the
third day of the session by Gov.
William Egan.
The original $242,625 appropria
tion for legislative expenses ex
pired yesterday but enough re
mained to pay legislative employes
through early next week. A new
appropriation bill was expected to
be introduced to provide payment
of the $40-a-day expense allow
ance of legislators.
One of the last items of business
before adjournment is expected
to be a joint session for the con
firmation of Sen. Ralph Moody’s
appointment as State Attorney
General.
Moody, 54, Anchorage Demo
crat, was nominated by Gov. Egan
yesterday to succeed John Rader
of Anchorage. Rader is leaving the
$17,000-a-year post to return to
private law practice about May 1.
The lawmakers will also act on
about 25 nominations by the Gov
ernor to various state boards and
commissions.
Living Costs Bounce
Back to Record High
WASHINGTON, UR — Living
costs bounced back to a record
level in February after declining
for two straight months.
Reporting this today, govern
ment agencies said rising interest
rates on home mortgages and in
creases in costs of health insur
ance contributed to the February
rise.
The Labor Department’s con
sumer price index rose two-tenths
of one per cent from January to
February to reach 125.6 per cent
of the 1947-49 average.
This took the price level to the
record reached in November.
There was every indication,
too, that living costs have started
another upward trend.
“Things are likely to get a little
worse before they get better, I’m
afraid,” said Robert J. Myers of
the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
State Bonding Measure
Includes $5% Million for
Highway 97 Construction
Rep. Bob Blodgett has reported
by phone call that the state bond
ing bill includes 5Vt million dol
lars for Highway 97 by gentle
man’s agreement, although it is
not specifically stated in the bilL
Bodgett had high praise for the
legislative finance committees and
their work this session.
He also said that the boundaries
for the payment of seal bounties
have been extended as far as
Cape Newenham and Stebbins.