Alaska’s Favorite Guessing Game OKd
In Senate over Anti-Gaming Opponents
JUNEAU, W) — In Springtime p
an Alaskan’s fancy lightly turns
to thoughts of how he would love
to hold a winning ticket on a
$200,000 lottery. -
Now the first step has been
taken toward legalizing such ro
mantic aspirations.
The Senate Friday approved,
18-2, a bill to sanction certain
forms of lotteries and raffles, in
cluding church and fraternal bin
go games and community-spon
sored salmon derbies and dog
sled races.
The big item covered by the
bill is Alaska’s favorite guessing
game — trying to pick the exact
minute when the ice will break
on the Tanana River.
Storm warnings were up this
year that the new Department of
Public Safety planned to en
force anti-gambling laws now on
the books, unless the Legislature
indicated otherwise.
Upwards of 200,000 people who
make the Nenana Ice Classic .a
habit, would have been affected.
So would two or three other
smaller ice pool operations, along
with various salmon derbies, fur
rendezvous and winter carnivals,
whose activities are supported by
the sale of raffle tickets for
_ prizes that range from new auto
mobiles to dinners on the town.
Sen. Ralph Moody,,who heads
the Judiciary Committee in the
upper legislative chamber, said it
was “time to face facts. Let’s have
the fortitude to admit what’s go
ing on.”
Moody, Senate Majority Leader,
helped sponsor the bill as a means
of controlling non-profit and char
itable gambling activities. Unless
such legislation is adopted, he
contended in Senate arguments,
the atmosphere of the prohibition
era would return, “wherf every
body is turned into a lawbreaker.”
Seaborn J. Buckalew Jr. dis
agreed. “What the Senate is doing
now is walking on a crate of eggs
. . . and you can’t do that with
out breaking some.”
'Opens the Lid' to Gambling
Buckalew cast one of the two
opposition votes against passage
of the bill, contending it “opened
the lid . . . This is the start right
here.” He predicted approval of
the bill would lead eventually to
wide-open legalized gambling in
the state.
The bill now goes to the House.
Buckalew said he expected the
people of Alaska would deluge
the lower chamber with protests.
But most observers felt final
legislative approval of the bill is
likely.
The Senate spent two and a
half hours considering the meas
ure, part of the time in open de
bate, and part in a closed caucus.
Buckalew based his position on
the premise that in regard to
gambling “You’re for it or you’re
agin it.” And, he added he was
against it.
Joining Buckalew in voting
against passage was Sen. Irvin
Metcalf (D-Seward).
Tax Amendment Killed
Several minor amendments to
the bill were approved, but one
offered by Buckalew died on a
voice vote. It would have assessed
a 25-cent state tax on any raffle
ticket sold. The senator said the
money would be needed by the
state to pay for enforcement of
the legalized operations.
The bill specifically prohibits
gambling with cards, dice, roulette
wheels, coin operated machines
and other devices for gambling.
The measure authorizes the
State Department of Revenue tb
issue $10 annual permits for the
approved activities and requires
the submission of detailed finan
cial report of the gambling op
erations.
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Alaska House Asks
U. S. Action To Stop
Foreign Salmon Taking
JUNEAU, GVi — The House of
Representatives took official note
Friday of increasing activity in
the North Pacifc Ocean and the
Bering Sea by Russian and
Japanese fishing fleets.
In a memorial to the President,
the House asked the federal gov
ernment to take action to halt
salmon fishing on the high seas by
foreign fishermen, noting that
American fishermen are barred
from high seas salmon fishing.
The House also approved mem
orials which asked the Coast
Guard to mark the middle mouth
of the Yukon River and urged
the Interior Department to try
to get natural gas for heating and
cooking purposes in Barrow.
The lower chamber also gave
an okeh to a resolution asking for
early construction of a DC-4 air
craft landing facility between St.
Mary and Mountain Village, on
the lower Yukon.
In another action, the House
approved legislation calling for
the issuance of a fur trapping
license to cost $3. At present, a
combined hunting and trapping
license is available at $10, but
there is no special trapping li
cense as such.
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Bolivian Child Survivor
Of Worst Air Crash Dies;
Bringing Total to 59
By ALFONSO TELLERXA
LA PAZ, Bolivia, MV-The death
toll in Bolivia’s worst aviation dis
aster reached 59 Saturday, as the
lone survivor succumbed to in
juries.
Jenny Escobar, two-year-old
Bolivian child, was the only per
son found alive when rescuers
reached the wreckage Friday. The
child died several hours later
while being taken to a hospital
at Cochabamba.
Nine other children died in the
crash of the flaming Lloyd Aereo
Boliviana airliner. Airline offi
cials said seven Americans were
among the victims.
The scene of the accident was
high in the Andes, some 20 miles
from Cochabamba. Lack of com
munications and the confusion fol
lowing the crash prevented news
men from obtaining accurate in
formation immediately.
An airline spokesman said one
of the plane’s four engines had
caught fire after takeoff from
Cochabamba, a city lVt miles
high in the Andes of central
Boliva.
The crash was the fifth this
year involving commercial air
liners and boosted the number of
victims to 200.
KRONINGER TO ANCHORAGE
Joe Kroninger, Clerk of the
U.S. District Court, left today for
Anchorage for a few days on
court work relative to setting up
of the new office and staff for
the U.S. Federal Court under
Judge Walter Hodge.
Senate confirmation of Judge
Hodge’s appointment has been de
layed due .to the illness of Sen.
Eastland, chairman of the Judi
ciary Committee. All details of
the transfer are being completed
so there will be no delay when
the appointment is confirmed.
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