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VOL. LXII No. 32NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, MARCH 14, 1960__Per Copy 15<
Khrushchev Will \
Visit De Gaulle 12
Days This Month
MOSCOW, UP) — March 23 has
been agreed upon as the new date
for Soviet Premier Khrushchev to
visit France, the Soviet news
agency Tass announced today.
The visit will continue until April
3.
Khrushchev originally had
planned to start his visit Sunday,
but it was announced he was
forced to postpone it over the
weekend because of an attack of
influenza.
The new schedule cuts t h e
French visit to 12 days. He orig
inally had planned to spend 14,
but some adjustment had been
expected in view of the tight
schedule of French President De
Gaulle this spring.
De Gaulle will begin a four-day
state visit to Britain April 5,
only two days after Khrushchev
leaves. De Gaulle will go to the
United States April 19.
The prompt announcement of a
new date for the visit dissolved
speculation that he might be suf
fering from a “diplomatic illness.”
Diplomats here had scoffed at this
speculation all along, saying he
was eager for the presummit talks
with De Gaulle.
The nation was shocked when a
Radio Moscow announcer broke
into a routine Sunday musical
program to announce Khrushchev
had the “khrip”—the Soviet ver
sion of the grippe, or influenza.
Crippled U. S. Transport
Set Down Safely in Ireland
SHANNON, Ireland, Ufi — A
crippled DC-6 airliner packed
with U. S. servicemen landed
safely in Ireland Saturday after
limping over the last 200 miles of
an Atlantic crossing with a Royal
Air Force escort.
Ninety-seven American service
I men tumbled out of the plane to
stretch their legs at Shannon Air
port, apparently none the worse
for the experience.
The DC-6 radioed for assistance
after one of its four engines failed
and the captain feathered a pro
peller.
Asks Unorganized
Borough For All
Of N.W. Alaska
JUNEAU, Wl — The Legislature
has been asked by the Northwest
ern Alaska Chamber of Com
merce to create an unorganized
borough in northwestern Alaska
as a first step toward ending the
lack of organized local communi
ties in the region.
The request came in a letter
from the Legislative Committee of
the Chamber to Senate President
William Beltz.
The letter said the lack of or
ganized communities has resulted
in the creation of a number of
“kangaroo” courts in some vil
lages.
“It is the duty of the state to
assist in the formation of cities
and to instruct the people in local
self-government,” the letter said.
An accompanying proposed bill
would establish a borough with
the same area as the Northwest
ern Senate Electoral District.
Prospects For March 23
Adjournment Brightened
JUNEAU, (VP>—The second state
legislature headed into its 50th
day today with the possibility of
adjournment as scheduled on
March 24 considerably bright
ened.
The Senate held an afternoon
session yesterday and made plans
to make an all-out effort to fin
ish work on pending Senate bills
and get them transferred to the
House.
Under the Legislature’s joint
rule today is the final day for
transmittal of all bills except ap
propriation measures. The House,
however, passed a resolution Sat
urday to delay the deadline for
transmittals until next Saturday.
The only major piece of legis
lation enacted thus far is the bill
legalizing traditional lotteries. A
dozen key bills and more than 100
lesser measures await action.
Money to cover legislative ex
penses has been appropriated for
a 60-day session and there has
been no formal move to extend
the session.
Legislators Consider
5-8 a.m. Closing for
Liquor Sellers
JUNEAU, (i?) — A bill propos
ing Alaska’s liquor dispensaries
be closed from 5 a.m. until 8 a.m.
each day was expected to be intro
duced in the House Saturday.
Under the terms of the new
bill, offered by the House Com
merce and Labor Committee, there
would be only one type of bev
erage dispensing license and
standards under which licenses
are issued would be expanded to
include all public accommodations
which cater to the traveling
public.
The proposal would not increase
the size of the present three-man
Alcoholic Beverage Control Board,
as would an earlier bill for which
this new bill is substitute, but it
would require the agency to meet
at least once a year in each of the
state’s four major election
districts.
The Liquor Dealers Association
has opposed the present uniform
hours adopted by the ABC last
November. These require closures
at 3 am. on weekdays and at 4
a.m. on Sundays. Opening is per
mitted at 8 a.m. daily and at 2
pm. on Sundays.
Senate Passes Two Bills
In Sunday Sessidn
JUNEAU, UP)—The Senate pass
ed two bills and killed a third at
Sunday’s afternoon session.
Passed on for House consider
ation were measures affecting
police services in smaller Alaskan
communities and a mining regula
tion bill requested by the admin
I istration.
The police measure would per
mit the Commissioner of Public
Safety to contract with small
communities to provide them
with police service.
The mining bill would bring
prospecting and exploration work
under the state’s uniform mining
safety law.
Acting on the recommendation
of the State Affairs Committee,
the Senate voted 19-0 to kill a
bill designed to aid printing busi
nesses in Western Alaska which
compete for state contracts with
Southeastern firms and out-of
state printers.
The bill, proposed by Sen. Ed
Onbeck of Fairbanks would have
doubled the 5 per cent allowance
for printing contract bidders from
the Western area because of high
er costs there.
Anchorage Pilot and
Four of His Family
Lost In Idaho
BURLEY, Idaho, lift—A search
was under way today for a light
airplane carrying five members
from the same family and re
ported missing on a flight from
Burley, Idaho, to Las Vegas, Nev.
Aboard the Piper Apache were
Wes Stoddard, 50, of Anchorage;
his wife, Helen, 49; their 28-year
old daughter Mrs. Horace Combs,
also of Anchorage, and her 6
year-old son, Randy; and Stod
dard’s aunt, Mrs. Joseph V. Lee.
The youngster was 6 years old
today.
Stoddard, his wife, daughter
and grandson left Anchorage last
Monday on a family visiting ex
cursion.
Stoddard was an experienced
pilot who operated his own fly
ing service at Merrill Field near
Anchorage. He filed a flight plan
from Las Vegas by way of Ely,
Nev., and took off from Burley
at 9:50 a.m. yesterday, but was
never heard from again. He had
six hours of fuel.
I _
Fidel Castro Warns
‘Enemies’ of His
Army’s Strength
By ROBERT BERRELLEZ
HAVANA, UP) — Fidel Castro
warned his enemies today that
Cuba’s revolutionary army is
stronger than the Algerian Na
tionalists who are holding off a
French force of half a million.
But, he told a cheering crowd,
the amount his government is
spending for arms “should be of
no one’s concern. What is import
ant is that the bulk of the revo
lution’s resources have not been
invested in arms but in tractors
and machinery.”
The fiery prime minister deliv
ered a rambling post - midnight
speech at a University of Havana
ceremony in memory of the stu
dents killed in an abortive at
tempt to assassinate ex-President
Batista three years ago
Castro’s reference to his fight
j ing force appeared in reaction to
a recent New York Times report
that Cuba spent 120 million dol
lars in foreign exchange for arms
last year.
“If we buy arms, it is the fault
of aggressors and their allies,” he
said. “Without enemies there
would be no need for arms which
we need to defend ourselves. We
don’t obtain arms to attack any
one.”
Then, with marked bitterness,
he struck out at “economic
threats, military maneuvers, cal
umnies and bombardments”—ap
parent references to current U.S.
military exercises in Puerto Rico,
previous charges that Florida
based planes are making fire raids
on Cuban sugar cane fields and
American press reports about his
regime.
House Passes Bill To
Permit Cities to Apply
Sales Tax to Liquor Sales
JUNEAU, UP) — Cities will be
■permitted to apply sales taxes to
liquor sales and inventories un
der the terms of a bill passed by
the House and sent to the Senate
Saturday.
An amendment, to limit sales
tax application to liquor sales was
voted down.
The bill passed on a 26-13 vote.
Fear Expressed Borough System
May Curtail Federal Aid to Schools
JUNEAU, UP>—Debate over cre-‘
! ation of the borough system of
! local government revolved around
the issue of federal aid Saturday.
Rep. Russ Meekins told the
House he feared drastic cuts in
federal school funds should a
comprehensive borough system be
established.
House Speaker Warren Taylor
criticized Meekins’ position and
said talk of federal aid losses as
a result of the borough system
were mere heresay.
At present states get federal
school aid funds to compensate for
lands and property taken off tax
rolls by government ownership.
Alaska gets special consideration
because of its direct support of
schools outside incorporated areas.
The bill before the House would
establish 24 unorganized boroughs
blanketing areas of Alaska which
have no local government at pre
sent.
Once the unorganized borough
proposal is disposed of, the House
is expected to tackle another bill
providing for local initiative of
so-called organized boroughs —
intermediate government units
resembling counties in other
states.
Pioneer V Sends
Radio Messages
From 409,060 Miles
WASHINGTON, Wt — America’s
Pioneer V satellite sped on thru
space today after setting a new
long distance communications
record.
The new record was set at 8
p.m. Sunday when NASA receiv
ing stations in California and
Hawaii picked up “excellent”
radio signals from the sphere then
409,060 miles out, soaring along
at 5,955 miles per hour.
Pioneer IV launched a year ago,
set the ^previous long distance
communications record. It sent
■back signals from 407,000 miles
before its radio batteries went
dead. The sun’s rays provide the
electricty to operate the newest
Pioneer’s radio.
Information relayed back from
the sphere is being accumulated
in tape form to be analyzed later
by space scientists.
Senate Kills Two Bills
Dealing With Gambling
JUNEAU, m—'The Senate killed
two bills dealing with gambling
| devices Saturday and an adminis
tration proposal concerning crea
tion of a fisheries agency.
Reconsiderations were filed in
regard to the gambling devices
measures which means both could
be put to another vote.
Senators, on a 15-5 vote, re
jected a bill to repeal the state’.;
punchboard tax, which brings in
about $2,500 annually on the il
legal devices.
A proposal that would write
into state law provision that il
legal gambling devices could be
seized by police was defeated on
a 12-8 vote. Such seizures now are
made under federal statutes.
Suggests Suggestion Boxes
PAGE, Ariz., OP)—Koerner Bom
bauel, an employe of the Bureau
of Reclamation, received $40 for
a suggestion which was adopted.
He suggested putting suggestion
boxes in government buildings
here.
Governor’s ESC
Measure Gets By
Alaska Senate
JUNEAU, UP) — The Senate put
in a full day Friday working on
the Administration’s employment
security bill, then passed the
measure in amended form by a
vote of 16-4.
Senators rejected a move to
change the $7,200 figure recom
mended by Governor Egan as the
base upon which to collect taxes.
Major changes in the Adminis
tration bill include a $10 boost
to $55 in the maximum basic ben
efit, a six-week extension in the
time benefits may be drawn, a $5
drop in payments to workers who
leave Alaska, and a variable rat
ing scale upon which employe and
employer contributions to the un
employment fund will be based.
Mayhem Almost
Committed In Jury
Of Finch Trial
LOS ANGELES, UP)—Wrangling
by jurors in the Finch murder
trial almost erupted into violence
as the seven women and five men
deliberated to a bitter, exhausting
deadlock.
This was the report today of
two members of the panel—one a
woman who said that at one point
a male juror threatened to throw
her out a window of the locked
jury room.
The jury was dismissed Satur
day after failing to agree whether
Dr. Bernard Finch, 42, and his
mistress, Carole Tregoff, 23, had
plotted and killed with a foullet
in-the-back the doctor’s estranged
wife, Barbara Jean Finch.
While all seemed outwardly
serene during the eight days of
deliberations, reports of shouts,
insults and near-violence came
from two jurors.
Mrs. Lang, 34, a secretary, said
a male juror turned the locked
jury room into a panic Friday
when he shouted at her: “I’m
going to pick you up and throw
you out the window.”
“One woman ran for the buzzer
and buzzed the bailiffs. Another
screamed hysterically at the door.
It was terrifying to realize we
were locked in that way.”
After bailiffs quieted the dis
pute, Mrs. Lang said: “I want off
the jury.” However, she stayed
on the panel and the next day
they anounced the deadlock—10
to 2 to convict the balding sur
geon of second - degree murder
and 8-4 to convict his pretty mis
tress.
Senate Scheduled to Consider
Bills Affecting State Employes
JUNEAU, UP)—Two major bills
affecting state employes were
scheduled to come before the Sen
ate today.
One measure would provide a
retirement system for public em
ployes and the other would cre
ate a merit system throughout the
state government service.
The Senate also is scheduled to
consider related companion bills.
These include appropriation pro
posals to cover the initial state
share of financing the retirement
program, at a cost of about $350,
000.