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argument in support of or oppo
sition to some of the suggested
county names.
'Doing Honor To Dogs'
In fact, the volume already has
drawn criticism from George
Sundborg, Gruening’s administra
tive assistant, for the author’s fail
ure to name one of the counties
for Anthony J. Dimond, longtime
Alaskan delegate to Congress and
early statehood advocate.
“You have overlooked his name
completely,” Sundborg wrote,
while doing honor to an assort
ment of dogs, non-Alaskans, anti
Alaskans and rascals.”
In naming the suggested coun
ties, the authors said, they set
up 12 priorities ranging from des
ignations unique to Alaska to
eminent Alaskans up to the pres
ent era.
Among the Aleut, Eskimo or In
dian names the authors would be
stow on their proposed counties
would be Afognak, Aleutian, Cari
bou, Chilkat, Chinook, Dyea, Kat
mai, Kayak, Kenai, Klondike, Ko
diak, Malemute, Matanuska, Nuni
vak, Potlatch, Tlingit, Totem and
Yukon.
Early Russian Influence Noted
The Russian influence on early
Alaska would be noted with des
ignations such as Baranof, Bering,
Czerina, De Gagarin, Etolin, Ku
preanof, Kuskoff, Pribilof, Reza
nof, Rurik, St. Elias, St. Lawrence,
Shelikof, Vasilief and Von Langs
dorff.
Beechey, Cook, Lynn and Point
Hope note the influence of early
English navigators. Not to be over
looked are the Norwegians — Am
undsen, Balchen and Gjoa.
There’s also a list of counties
bearing Presidential names back
to the McKinley era, although
Roosevelt would have to do for
both Theodore and Franklin D.
Delving into the field of Alas
kan and Arctic literature, the
county advocates propose 'a Rex
Beach County and a Jack London
County. Robert Service is honored
along with two of his famous
characters, Sam McGee and Dan
McGrew.
Gruening, Bartlett Counties
The “eminent modern Alas
kans” singled out for remem
brance would provide the county
names of Bartlett, Bunnell, Du
Fresne, Gruening, Hubbard, Jack
son, Stepovich, and Wickersham.
Largest of the proposed units
would be Will Rogers County, a
40,300 square mile area with Bar
row as its county seat. The small
est would be Pribilof, the island,
with St. Paul as its seat of govern
ment.
Anchorage would be the county
seat of Malemute County, Fair
banks of Caribou County and Ket
chikan of Tlingit County. Juneau
would be the seat of government
for Lynn County as well as the
state capital, Sitka for Baranof
County, Nome for Bartlett Coun
ty, Petersburg for Johnson Coun
ty, Seward for Nellie Neal Coun
ty, and Cordova for Roosevelt.
That’s not all of them, but it
may be enough to shed a little
light on the proposal. Not North
ern Light though. You’ll find that
in Aurora Borealis County. Betties
would be the county seat.
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Beck Sentenced To Five Years by
Fed. Judge Denouncing Him for Greed
TACOMA, Wash., UP) — Former
Teamsters Union president Dave
Beck received a five-year sen
tence and $60,000 fine Friday for
income tax evasion, plus a double
barreled denunciation from the
judge.
“The exposure of Mr. Beck’s in
satiable greed, resulting in his
fall from high place, is a sad and
shocking story,” said U. S. Dis
trict Judge George Boldt, in a
scathing, 20-minute lecture before
passing sentence.
Beck quickly posted $70,961.52
to cover the fine and court costs
and was released. After his con
viction February 19, Beck spent
a night behind bars for the first
time in his life before appeal bond
was set.
A motion for a new trial was
denied.
The government could claim
more than half a million dollars
from Beck.
He was charged with evading
$240,607 for the years 1950-53, but
the government raised its esti
mate of the amount actually owed
to $258,636. In addition to the fine
and court costs, a 50 per cent
fraud penalty of $129,318 and $96,
996 in interest at 6 per cent brings
the total to $555,911.
Beck, 64, stood calm and quiet,
one hand clenched behind his
back and the other in a trouser
pocket, as the judge began his
denouncement.
He refused two invitations to
address the court. But later he
told reporters, “I am not the first
innocent person to be sentenced,
nor will I be the last. . .
Boldt said Beck’s rise from a
laundry truck driver to million
aire labor leader was a better
rags-to-riches story than any
Horatio Alger plot. But he said
“Beck must take first place among
the more than 50 tax evaders I
have sentenced.”
“Mr. Beck plundered his union,
his intimate associates and in some
instances his personal friends,
most of whom quite readily would
have given him anything he
asked,” the judge said.
Other excerpts from the pre
sentence speech:
“Actually, the evidence of the
incidents of fraud involving rela
tively small amounts show the
avarice and' culpability of Mr.
Beck with striking emphasis. . . .
“Mr. Beck cheated every last
humble American who pays in
come taxes by attempting to
evade his personal taxes and thus
cast his share of the tax burden
on his fellow citizens. . .
Hoffa Authorized To Call
For Picketing Sears In
Organization Drive
MIAMI BEACH, Fla., UR — The
Teamsters Union directors have
given James Hoffa authority to
call a strike against Sears, Roe
buck and Co.
The union is trying to organize
Sears mail order, warehouse and
truck driver employes across the
country.
There was no elaboration from
the union on how a strike would
be conducted.
However, in union organiza
tional campaigns a call for a
strike of a non-organized com
pany or plant ordinarily means a
picketing of the company’s op
erations.
Under such a “strike” the union
seeking to organize the workers
establishes picket lines in efforts
to persuade employes to enroll in
the union and customers to re
frain from conducting business
with the struck company.
“ Ordinarily there is no require
ment that any company workers
who have signed up with the union
leave their jobs. On the contrary,
in many instances those already
enrolled remain on their jobs and
continue to advocate union en
rollment of fellow workers.
Pan American Airways
Strike Called Off
,NEW YORK, UP) — A federal
mediator announced Saturday
that a threatened strike Monday
by 8,000 employes of Pan Amer
ican World Airways has been
averted.
Agreement “in principle” was
reached after an all-night nego
tiating session, according to Fran
cis O’Neal!, Jr., a member of the
national mediation board.
He said the agreement concerns
“wages, rules and working condi
tions.” A shorter work week was
a major object of the union, but
there was no indication whether
or not the agreement provided for
a shorter work week.
The union represents ground
and air personnel such as stew
ards, stewardesses, mechanics and
pursers.
The union maintained a shorter
work week was needed to offset •
what it predicts will be a de
crease in employment because of
the replacement of conventional
plSnes by jets. The workers in
volved now work either a 37 Vi
hour or a 40-hour week.
The jets carry more people
faster, requiring fewer aircraft,
and smaller inspection and main
tenance crews, the union held.
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