Would Lessen Governor’s
Appointive and Budgetry
Powers for Education
JUNEAU IjPt — A bill which
would lessen the governor’s ap
pointive and budgetary powers in
the State Department of Educa
tion was introduced in the House
by Rep. Edgar Baggen (R-Fair
banks).
The measure would give the
State Board of Education the
power to hire and fire the Com
missioner of Education. It would
also provide for joint preparation
of the school budget by the Com
missioner of Education and the
Board of Education.
The Commissioner of Educa
tion now is appointed by the gov
ernor from a list of qualified per
sons nominated by the Board of
Education.
The proposed act submitted by
Baggen would require the gover
nor to appoint members of the
Board of Education from a list
submitted by the State School
Board Assn, and the Superintend
ents’ Advisory Commission.
Under present law, the gover
nor is required only to “give con
sideration” to recommendations
made by recognized educational
associations in the state.
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Egan and Coghill
Trade Sharp Words
Over Airport Fund
JUNEAU UP> — Gov. William A.
Egan and Sen. John Coghill (R
Nenana) traded more sharp words
Saturday in a growing dispute
over records kept by the State
Division of Aviation.
Coghill touched off the battle
Friday when he said the Legis
lative Audit Committee, of which
he is chairman, had been unable
to locate the Airport Construction
Revolving Fund in the division’s
financial records.
The fund was believed to have
totaled about $2 million at the
start of Statehood.
Friday, Egan described Coghill
as being “carried away by an ob
session for headlines and disre
gard for the truth.”
Denies any Funds are Missing
The governor, backed by a
representative of the Seattle audit
ing firm of Arthur Andersen &
Co., categorically denied that any
funds were missing.
Saturday, Coghill accused Egan
of “attacking my personal in
tegrity” and the Nenana Republi
can said the matter of the unlo
cated revolving fund would be
placed before the entire Senate.
Egan was quick to reply.
“I am pleased to hear that Sen
ator Coghill is going to tell his
story to the Senate in line with
my suggestion that he produce
records substantiating his charge
— and make them public,” Egan
said.
“His failure to sustantiate the
charge — as I know will be the
case — will, oblige him to make
public apology to the State Di
rector of Aviation, and to the
membership of the Legislature for
BRIGITTE CATCHES COLD . . .
PARIS, (J"> — Brigitte Bardot
i took her clothes off on the set
| where they are filming her latest
j movie and production was stop
ped for a week.
The set was drafty and Brigitte
caught a cold. Production prob
ably will resume Monday when
she recovers.
I wasting its time and damaging
I its stature.
“If there were actually any
j thing to his charges, he should
have gone to the district attorney
with them long ago.”
Egan accused Coghill, Republi
can Minority Leader in the Sen
ate, of “irresponsible partisan
ship of a low order.”
Didn't Mention "Specific Sum"
Coghill claimed that he had
never mentioned a specific figure
in reference to the Airport Con
struction Revolving Funds.
He said he had mentioned only
that a “substantial” sum could
not be found in Aviation Division
books, which he claimed the leg
islative committee had found “in
auditable”.
The Legislative Audit Commit
tee’s report on the Aeronautical
Revolving Fund as of June 30,
1960, made no mention of the $2
million. But it criticized the di
vision’s bookeeping procedures.
The report said that state ap
propriations had been transfer
red into a fund account and co
mingled with federal funds.
“All expenditures then were
made from the latter fund until
today it is impossible to match
state appropriations with state
expenditures,” the report said.
“Thus the determination as to
the remaining balance of state
appropriations to be properly
lapsed is merely a rhetorical ques
| tion,” the report concluded.
5-Year-Old Boy
Accidentally Kills
Man with Shotgun
o
ANCHORAGE Wt — A five
| year-old boy accidentally shot
: and killed a 45-year-old man Fri
day in a Mounain View home
where both were visiting.
Robert M. Stewart, 45, an El
mendorf Air Force Base civilian
employe, died instantly when
struck in the face by a charge of
No. 6 shot, fired from a 20 gauge
shotgun held by the boy who
stood about six feet from the
victim.
Detectives said the boy and his
mother were visiting Ray Phillips
who is occupying the home tem
porarily.
The boy, investigators said,
wandered into the bedroom where
a number of guns stood in a cor
ner. He picked up the shotgun,
witnesses said, pointed it at the
victim and playfully pulled the
trigger. The hammerless pump
action gun was loaded with a
shell in the firing chamber.
The victim was seated and was
struck in the mouth.
Police turned the boy over to
his mother pending further inves
tigation.
UNWARY MOTORISTS ZIP
DOWN HILL INTO RIVER
MEMPHIS, Tenn. UP) — Hun
dreds of motorists ordinarily park
their automobiles on the steep,
cobblestone bank of the Wolf
River at its confluence with the
Mississippi near downtown Mem
phis.
Few of them dared to yesterday,
after five unwary motorists
stepped on the brakes, zipped
down the ice-coated stones like
bobsleds and plunged into the
water.
All the drivers evacuated suc
cessfully but one car disappeared
entirely and the others were
partially submerged.
j WINTER IS HERE I ! I
NAUGATUCK, Conn. UP) — Em
ployes at town hall no longer
doubt that winter is here. Work
men braved subfreezing tempera
tures and climbed to icy win
dow ledges yesterday to remove
the town hall’s screens and put
up storm windows.
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