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Lotteries Measure j
May Need To
Be Rewritten
JUNEAU, UP) — Senator John
Coghill (R-Nenana), the co-spon
sor of a bill to sanction certain
forms of lotteries and raffles in
Alaska, indicated last night the
entire measure might have to be
rewritten.
A bill to legalize non-profit and
charitable raffles, bingo games,
ice pools and other similar acti
vities passed the House Wednes
day. It previously had passed the
Senate, but the House made minor
Changes.
It had been expected that the
Senate would quickly accept the
House changes and speed the bill
along to Governor Egan for his
signature.
However, Coghill said last
, night the bill may be held up in
transit from the House to the
Senate, to permit introduction of
a completely rewritten bill, which
would accomplish the same pur
pose, but remove legal questions
brought up about provisions of the
original bill.
Coghill, who is particularly an
xious to win sanction for the Ne
nana Ice Classic, said one of the
things needed in a new bill is
specific authority for the State
Commissioner of Revenue to ad
minister the issuance of lottery
permits.
Under the terms of the bill as
it now stands, the Commissioner
would issue $10 permits to organ
izations applying to him as spon
sors of non-profit lotteries or
similar fund-raising activities.
The problem involves the dele
gation of legislative authority,
and Coghill said questions had
been raised over whether the pres
ent bill adequately sets standards
under which the Commissioner of
Revenue could regulate the pro
posed law.
If a new bill were to be intro
duced and then passed by both
chambers of the Legislature, the
present measure could be with
drawn after it is returned to the
Senate.
Governor ‘Carefully
Scrutinizing’ Lotteries Bill
JUNEAU, (IPi — Gov. Egan said
the state administration is care
fully scrutinizing the proposal to
legalize Alaska’s ice pools and
other traditional lotteries.
“We want to make certain the
'bill would not throw the gates
wide open to organized gambl
ing," the governor said. “We are
afraid the bill does what the leg
islature does not intend it to do.”
The bill now is in transit back
to the Senate after House passage
with minor changes in the Sen
ate version.
The governor joined the Senate
sponsor, Sen. John Coghill in say
ing the bill mav not.be explicit
enough in setti"'* down regula
tions for state officials to follow
in administering the act.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., UP) —
Whoever stole that 16-foot alum
inum canoe from the front yard
of -Mrs. Ralph Y. Smith, had bet
ter watch out. She says it has a
hole in the bottom patched with
adhesive tape.
Experts Can Only
Guess Origin Of
Orbiting Orphan
WASHINGTON, UP) — No one
has stepped forward to claim tile
mysterious space orphan that is
circling the world in an erratic
orbit.
Is it American?
Probably is, said Secretary of
the Air Force Dudley Sharp. He
said he thinks it may be the casing
of an early U. S. Discoverer ex
periment, since the Discoverer
casings and the mystery object
are both a little over 9 feet long.
Is it Soviet?
Could be, said Gen. James Ga
vin, retired Chief of Army Re
search and Development. He said
he had no inside information but
believes it is a space spy that
might even be able to distinguish
one plane from another on Amer
ican airfields and send that in
formation back to the Soviet
Union.
The Pentagon said Wednesday
the satellite could be of Soviet
origin. Its near-polar orbit would
be good for a reconnaissance ve
hicle. But American space scien
tists have learned that it is diffi
cult to receive signals from a
space traveler that is tumbling in
space as this one is.
Navy trackers are keeping
more than a fatherly eye on the
object which showed up on their
electronic tracking screens about
three weeks ago. They have not
picked up signals from it. But
there is no way of telling whether
it might have been geared to send
information when triggered by
some remote receiving station.
Von Braun Says
Americans Must
Sacrifice to Lead
BELLEVILLE, 111., UPi — Dr.
Wernher von Braun says Amer
icans must sacrifice on an unpre
cedented scale to meet the Com
munist menace.
Dr. von Braun, German born
scientist who developed the V2
rocket of World War II, is direc
tor of the development operations
division, Army Ballistic Missile
Agency.
Dr. von Braun said “What we
are about to discover and resolve
is whether a nation which rates
its home run sluggers and its full
backs above its scientists and
philosophers can meet the total
competition of aggressive Com
munism and still preserve its
way of life.”
He said he> disagrees with
“alarmists who cry that we have
lost our position as a first rate
power.” But he added “I would
suggest that we brace ourselves
for other Soviet firsts in the new
field of astronautics. It will re
quire several years of concen
trated effort to come abreast, and
even longer to pull ahead.”
PUBLIC ACCOUNTING BILL
JUNEAU, The House State
Affairs Committee will hold a
hearing next week on a bill in
troduced in the 1959 legislative
session to regulate public ac
counting.
Public Works Dept. Lists
Road Construction Projects
A tentative list of road construc
tion projects has been announced
for 1960 by the Department of
Public Works. Advertising for
bids for this area is as follows:
September — Solomon Bridges,
timber bridges over Fox River,
Bear River and East Fork.
February — Grading and drain
age of an extension of the Teller
•Road, Penny to Sinuk.
August — Grading and drain
age of new section of Nome
Kougarok at Coffee Creek, 4 miles
north of Neva Creek.
February — Grading and gravel
surfacing of Kotzebue Road.
Astronaut Views 450 Miles
Of California Terrain
From 15 Miles Up
EDWARDS AFB, Calif., UF> —
Fifteen miles up in the X15 rock
et ship, says test pilot Scott Cross
field, “I can see all the way from
Baja, California to San Francisco
Bay.”
That’s roughly 450 miles.
Crossfield zoomed up to 80,000
feet yesterday —- approximately
15 miles — in exceptionally clear
weather. It was a new altitude
mark for the 50-foot black Dart
whose builders say a more pow
erful engine will take it above
100 miles this spring.
Conventional jet planes have
soared above 100,000 feet.
Crossfield went into a steady,
turning climb from 45,000 feet,
where the XI5 was dropped from
under the wing of its mother
plane, a B-52 bomber. The free
flight lasted 11 minutes. Speed
was announced as over 1,400 miles
j an hour. Eventually the X15 is
expected to reach 4,000 m.p.h.
Intra-Alaska Air
Commerce Hearing to be
Delayed in Senate
JUNEAU, W)—Chairman Ralph
Moody of the Senate Judiciary
Committee said last night his
group would honor a request by
the air carriers that action be
delayed on a bill to regulate intra
Alaska air commerce.
Moody explained that the air
carriers interested in the bill had
asked for additional time to con
sider proposed amendments to
the bill submitted by Wendell
Kay, Anchorage attorney repre
senting bush pilots.
Baltimore Police Rebel
At Expensive Gifts for
Retiring Officials
BALTIMORE, Md, UR — City
policemen have rebelled at the
custom of giving retiring high
brass a $1,000 gift.
Police Commissioner James
Hepbron announced yesterday the
five-year-old practice would be
discontinued.
It wasn’t anything personal
against Inspector William E. Tay
lor, for whom police officials
planned a retirement gift. But
many patrolmen asked why they
should be contributing from their
$5,000 a year salary to an in
spector retiring on $6,500 a year.
Clerks, who also were ex
pected to kick in, make only
$3,300.
Alaska Legislators Consider First State
Pension Plan; Coming Egan ESC Scrap
JUNEAU, W> — The public em
ployes retirement system, man
datory for state workers and op
tional for employes of political
subdivisions, was introduced in
the Alaska Senate today.
If approved, the state’s first
employe pension program would
go into effect next January 1.
The bill would set retirement
at 65 for most employes, but
policemen and firemen would re
tire five years earlier.
Contributions would be 4 VS per
cent of each individual’s pay. The
state costs at the start would be
about 7 per cent of the total pay
roll, or $335,110 for the first six
months.
Pension payments would be
based on a formula involving com
putation of total years of service
multiplied by contributions.
Rep. Bruce Kendall introduced
a bill to base the employment
security program on statewide
annual wage.
The bill was introduced on the
eve of public hearings on the
Governor’s ESC bill. The proposal
drew immediate endorsement
from labor lobbyist Henry Hed
berg and the Senate’s opponent
of the Governor’s bill, Sen.
George McNabb.
McNabb is chairman of the Sen
ate Commerce and Labor Com
mittee, which starts hearings on
the Governor’s bill tomorrow.
The Kendall proposal would
set benefits so most covered work
ers would have payments equal
to one-half their regular earnings.
Kendall's bill would be based on
an average annual wage, and raise
the tax rate for employers from
the present 2.7 per cent to 3.3
per cent of wages.
Rep. Kendall said the bill was
not designed to pay off the state’s
nine million dollar ESC fund
debt. That, he said, should be
done from the general fund, as he
proposed in a bill introduced a
week ago.
First 50-Year Service Pin
Awarded to New Jersey
Boy Scout Executive
NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., UP> —
A New Jersey man who saw the
Boy Scout movement grow to near
ly 5Vfe million members, today
wore Scouting’s first 50-year serv
ice pin.
Charles M. Heistand of Me
tuchen, Assistant Chief Execu
tive, got the award at ceremonies
marking the first half century
of the Scout organization.
Dr. Arthur A. Schuck of Short
Hills, Chief Scout Executive, pre
sented the pin to Heistand with a
certificate and a statuette “in ap
preciation of his 50 years of serv
ice to the Boy Scouts of America
and for his personal friendship”
The Scouts assisting in the cere
mony were Joseph F. Leas, 17,
of Anchorage, Alaska, and Gor
don K. Tanaka, 17. of Lahaina,
Maui, Hawaii.
Khrushchev Speaks In
India’s Parliament, of ■
Peaceful Co-Existence
NEW DELHI, W) — Soviet Pre
mier Khrushchev, Welcomed to
India by perhaps 250,000 persons,
told Parliament yesterday all in
ternational disputes should be
settled on the principle of peace
ful co-existence.
“The way out of all disputes
should be sought through nego
tiations and not through pressure
and dictation,” he said in the
first major speech of his four
nation • “peace and friendship”
tour of Asia.
Khrushchev attracted crowds
small by comparison with the tu
multuous throngs that greeted
President Eisenhower here on the
American leader’s goodwill tour
two months ago.
His call for peaceful settlement
of world issues reiterated a posi
tion he had outlined at intervals
since returning from his visit to
the United States last' September.
Khrushchev Tells
India Russians are
Greatest Power
NEW DELHI, India, UP) — So
viet Premier Khrushchev de
clared today that the Soviet
Union is the strongest military
power In the world, but does not >
wish to take advantage of her
superiority.
Speaking from the same stand
from which President Eisenhower
two months ago defended West
ern military alliances, Khrush
chev said that because of Soviet
military strength, the idea of
peaceful coexistence is gaining
ground even among advocates of
the cold war.
“They have come to understand
that if war is unleashed by them,
the instigators and inspirers
would be the first to perish in
its flames,” he declared.
An estimated 400,000 Indians
heard Khrushchev speak. Eisen
hower had attracted an estimated
million spectators to a similar re
ception for him two months ago.
Earlier today, Khrushchev had
met alone with Prime Minister
Nehru for nearly three hours,
during which it was assumed
India’s border dispute with Red
China was discussed. Although
many Indians hoped Khrushchev
would persuade Red China to pull
her troops out of Himalayan ter
ritory both nations claim, Nelmu
was reported to have no such
hopes and to doubt that Khrush
chev had enough influence with
Mao Tze-Tung to change the Chi
nese leader’s course.
Khrushchev coupled his attac
on “advocates of the cold war”
with a new declaration that t'm
Soviet Union is determined
surpass the United States in p,
capita production within a few
years.
“This will enable us to have
the highest living standards in
the world, and at the same time,
the shortest working day,” he
said.
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