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VOL. LXIII No. 2 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1961 _Per Copy 15^
Aukruk Lanes
Announce Grand
Opening Saturday
The long anticipated announce
ment has been made of the grand
opening of Aukruk Lanes which
will be on Saturday at 3:00 p. m.,
stated Dennis Marquiss.
The ribbon cutting ceremony for
the opening of this new and popu
lar amusement facility will in
clude representatives from several
civic organizations including
Chamber President Pearse Walsh;
Rotary Club President, Robert
Grant; Jaycees President Barrow
Morgan; ANB Vice President
Harry Carter; Student Organiza
tion, Johnnie Herman; and Presi
dent of the Nome Bowlers, Paul
Mandeville.
Other members of the Nome
Bowlers Board of Directors are
Jack Reed, Charles Frazier, Vir
gil Vochoska, Ben Young, Keith
Hedreen and Art Zylstra.
Refreshments will be served to
all attending as well as door
prizes being given for the event.
June Allyson, Dick Powell
15-Year Marriage
All Washed Up
HOLLYWOOD. UP> — The 15
year marriage of June Allyson
and Dick Powell — an unusually
durable union by filmtown aver
ages—is washed up, her attorney
says.
And when the principals part,
one of Hollywood’s biggest for
tunes will be split up with them.
Jerry Giesler, the attorney who
has led many of the town’s dis
enchanted famous through the
divorce mill, said Thursday night
he expects to file a suit on Miss
Allyson’s behalf within a few
weeks.
The actress, 37, reached later at
her Hollywood home, began cry
ing and told a newsman: “There
is just nothing I can say.”
Powell, 56, is in Europe on
business with a partner, actor
David Niven.
Giesler said a property settle
ment is being drawn up. No spe
cific figures were known, but it
was estimated Miss Allyson’s
share might be between $1 mil
lion and $5 million.
NEW "LAW" FOR TANKS
WASHINGTON UP) — The Army
will have the law to hurl against
onrushing tanks.
“Law” — lightweight antitank
weapon — is the unofficial name
of a new featherweight rocket
displayed Thursday. A single
soldier can carry it in clusters
like a quiver of arrows.
Army Ordnance experts say
there isn’t a known tank that
would not be knocked out by
“Law.”
The complete unit — rocket
and launcher — weighs only 4V4
pounds and has a punch equal to
the 3.5 inch Bazooka which
weighs 13 pounds and requires
two men to handle.
CHARLES D. JONES
BACK FROM JUNEAU
Charles D. Jones is back from
Juneau where he made history
by casting one of the first Alaska
Electoral College votes for the
President of the United States. On
his return trip he stopped in Fair
banks to spend the holidays with
his son, Dan and family. Jones
has many pictures of the event
which he will display soon.
Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Walsh
Will Attend Kennedy
Inaugural Ceremonies
Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Walsh left
yesterday for Washington, D. C.
This is their first trip to the
national’s capital and they go at
the invitation of President-elect
John F. Kennedy to attend the in
augural ceremonies.
While outside they will visit
with children and grandchildren,
j On their way out they will stop
| at Ketchikan to visit with their
son, Jim Walsh and his family.
The Walshs’ were in Los An
geles for the Democratic Con
vention when President-elect Ken
nedy was nominated, so they will
i particularly enjoy being present
j for the inauguration.
i Mrs. John F. Kennedy
Tops Best-Dressed
In Women’s Fashions
NEW YORK UP) — Mrs. John
F. Kennedy tops the best-dressed
in the world of women’s fashions,
but her President-elect husband
is low man on some clothes de
signers’ totem pole.
The lovely First Lady-to-be was
selected Thursday night by the
New York Couture Group. Inc., to
head the list of the World’s 12
Best-Attired Women. Couture an
nually consults some 2,500 style
experts and society leaders be
fore announcing the winners.
As for the President-elect, his
current supply of suits were
viewed with some anxiety by
members of the International As
sociation of Clothing Designers
who gathered at the Waldorf
Astoria Hotel Thursday for their
50th annual convention.
Some opinions on Kennedy’s
dress:
His coat lapels are of the oldest
fashioned, wide variety.
The shoulders of his suits are
much too broad.
There are only two buttons on
his jacket and the two buttons are
two low on the suit.
After Mrs. Kennedy, the offi
cial 1960 list of best-dressed among
the world’s women names the fol
lowing:
Vicomtesse Jacqueline De Ribes,
of Paris.
Mrs. Norman K. Winston, of
New York and Paris.
Donna Marella Agnelli, of Tur
in, Italy.
Mrs. Loel Guiness, of Paris and
Palm Beach.
Mrs. Patrick Guiness, of Lau
sanne, Switzerland, daughter of
Mrs. Loel Guiness.
Princess Alexandria of Kent,
daughter of the Duchess of Kent.
Mrs. John Barry Ryan ill, of
New York.
Mrs. David K. Bruce, of Wash
ington.
Mrs. Stavros Niarchos, of Paris
and New York.
Queen Sirikit of Thailand.
Stale Chamber of Commerce
Officials Meet in Juneau
JUNEAU W) — Officers and
directors of the State Chamber
of Commerce were assembling
here today for a four-day, pre
legislative meeting.
Chamber President C. W. Sned
den of Fairbanks said the officers
and directors of the organization
will put into final form the recom
mendations the chamber will make
to the 1961 Legislature.
Foremost among those recom
mendations will be chamber sug
gestions on unemployment com
pensation, drawn from a recently
completed survey of state busi
nessmen.
Kennedy Plans to
Assist Schools to
New High Levels
NEW YORK UP> — A special
task force recommended to Presi
dent-elect Kennedy today a high
priority program to pump $3Vfe
billion in loans and grants into
the American Educational Sys
tem. The objective would be to
“lift the schools to a new level
of excellence.”
The plan would provide extra
federal cash for all public schools,
for construction, and for teachers’
salaries or other purposes related
to improving education. It would
provide a special program along
similar lines for states in econ
omic distress. And it would set
up a special aid plan for city
schools.
In addition, increased grants
and loans to improve academic
facilities and housing at colleges
and universities was blueprinted
for the president-elect. ..
The task force which drew up
the recommendations was headed
by Dr. Fredeirck Hovde, presi
dent of Purdue University.
Hovde handed the report to
Kennedy in the presence of Gov.
Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut,
who will be Secretary of Health,
Education and Welfare, in the
new administration.
The program lines up like this:
1. It recommends that Kennedy
support legislation to provide $30
per year per pupil, based on aver
age daily attendance in public
schools, for the entire school sys
tem of the nation. It would cost
an estimated $1.2 billion a year.
State and local governments how
ever, would be required to “main
tain or increase their support of
education.”
2. Similarly, the task force re
commends $20 per year per child
for states where incomes are be
low 70 per cent of the national
average, figured again according
to average daily attendance in
public schools.
Boost Grade, Salaries
For BIA Teachers
Bureau of Indian Affairs teach
ing personnel classed as Principal
Teachers (day school) received a
most welcome Christmas gift in
the form of a promotion from
Civil Service Grade GS-8 to GS-9,
effective Dec. 25, 1960. This action
was based on a study, and con
sequent revision of position classi
fication standards. It is hoped this
boost in grade and salary will
serve to attract and hold the teach
er in Federal Service in Alaska
and compensate for the isolation
factor.
Indian Bureau salaries for
teachers have long been superior
to the average in the profession,
and considering the many “fringe”
benefits now available make it
more attractive to the teacher,
both veteran and newcomer to the
field.
EMILY BOUCHER LEAVES
FOR WASHINGTON, D. C.
Mrs. Emily Boucher is sched
uled to leave today for Washing
ton, D. C., where she will attend
the White House Conference on
Aging.
Mrs. Boucher, one of six Alas
kans to represent the State, will
be the farthest west delegate to
attend. The other woman from
Alaska, Mrs. Felix Hakkinen of
Haines will be coming from the
farthest east. At present she is in
Copenhagen visiting a son who is
an exchange student there.
New Tax Revenues
Will Be Asked by Egan
JUNEAU UPl — Gov. Egan in
dicated for the first time public
ly Wednesday that he will ask
the 1961 Legislature, for addition
al tax revenues.
The chief executive did not say
how much new tax money he
believes will be needed to run
state government during the 1962
fiscal year starting July 1, nor
did he hint how the new revenue
might be raised.
The governor, in speaking be
fore the Tourist Advisory Board,
said:
“It will likely be mandatory
that I recommend certain tax in
creases to the forthcoming Legis
lature in order that the cost of
the Tourist Program and other
necessary state programs and ob
ligations can be met.”
Egan has consistently refused
to discuss with newsmen the
budget he will submit to the Leg
islature shortly after it convenes.
The state had a spending budget
of some $46.5 million for the cur
rent fiscal year.
Kennedy Studies
Possible Tax Cuts
By Marvin L. Arrowsmith
NEW YORK UP) — President
elect John F. Kennedy has under
study a call for temporary income
tax cuts in the spring if the busi
ness slump takes a serious turn
for the worse.
The call was sounded Thursday
night by a committee appointed
by Kennedy to evaluate the state
of the nation’s economy. It recom
mended that the new administra
tion act swiftly to put into effect
a sheaf of emergency measures
designed to achieve recovery with
out resort to tax reductions in
these times of international crisis.
The study group, in a report
sprinkled with indirect criticism
of the Eisenhower Administra
tion’s handling of the business fall
off, said these measures are
urgently needed now.
And the committee, headed by
Economist Paul A. Samuelson of
Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology, said there should be no
blind adherence to a concept of a
baanced budget in times of busi
ness recession.
Kennedy, who recently ex
pressed concern about what he
termed lack of vigor in the econ
omy, had no immediate comment
on the report.
It was made public after he
had reviewed the document with
Samuelson; Dr. Walter W. Hel
ler, University of Minnesota econ
omist chosen to be chairman of
the incoming President’s Council
of Economic Advisers; and James
Tobin, Yale University economist
whose appointment to the Council
was announced by Kennedy
Thursday night.
SERVICES HELD
for omie McCarthy
The funeral of Omie McCarthy
who passed away Tuesday fol
lowing brain surgery in Seattle
was held this afternoon at 3:00
p. m. from the Butterworth Chap
el in Seattle. Interment will be
on Saturday at one o’clock, Ken
niwick, Wash., where her son,
Paul, resides.
Contributions are being made
to the Community Methodist
Church for a lasting memorial in
the new church by friends who
preferred to do this rather than
send flowers to the funeral.
Clarice Hardy
Chosen Nome’s
Junior Miss
Clarice Hardy, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Russell Hardy has been
chosen as the Nome candidate
from High School Senior girls
for the Junior Miss Contest, now
being sponsored by the Jaycees.
Runner up was Edna Johnsen,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Johnsen.
Clarice will compete with
candidates from Unalakleet, Fair
banks and Anchorage who will
be coming here next weekend to
vie for the title of Junior Miss
of Alaska. The winner of this con
test will have an expense-paid
trip to Mobile, Ala. in March to
compete with other state con
testants for scholarships starting
with $6,000.
The statewide contest will be
decided here on Jan 14. Out of
town judges are being invited to
make the choice.
Congress Gives It’s Okay
On JFK’s Presidency
WASHINGTON, Iff) — Congress
today formally declared John F.
Kennedy of Massachusetts elected
President of the United States for
a four-year term starting Jan. 20.
The Democratic candidate’s:
losing opponent, Vice President
Nixon, made the declaration after
the House and the Senate for
mally tallied the electoral votes
from the Nov! 8 balloting.
Nixon also declared Lyndon B.
Johnson, Texas Democrat, elected
Vice President over Henry Cabot
Lodge, Republican.
The outgoing Vice President
presided over the joint session
under a constitutional provision
that requires Congress to canvass
the electors of 50 states.
The official presidential tally
was 303 votes for Kennedy, 219
for Nixon and 15 for Sen. Harry
F. Byrd, D-Va.
YETI SCALP BELONGS
TO SOMEBODY ELSE
KATMANDU, Nepal UPl — The
“Yeti” scalp got back to the
Khamjung Monastary on the
promised day after being taken
on a 30,000-mile round-the-world
trip by skeptical western explor
ers.
A U. S. helicopter carried the
scalp and Mt. Everest hero Sir
Edmund Hillary here. He had
borrowed it from villagers for a
one-month inspection by experts
to determine if it came from a
Yeti, the legendary “Abominable
Snowman” of the Himalayas.
The western experts agreed the
scalp was ancient but they dis
counted its connection with the
elusive Yeti.
WOULDN'T BE A PARADE
WITHOUT MULES
WASHINGTON OP) — Twenty
eight mules will march down
Pennsylvania Avenue on Jan. 20
in the Inaugural Parade.
Twenty-two of them belong to
the A1 Kaly Shriners mule team
of Colorado Springs, Colo., the
other six to the Idaho mule train
from Weiser, Idaho.
A spokesman acknowledged
that the inaugural committee was
having a tough time trying to
round up some donkeys—the sym
bol of the Democratic Party.
But he added: “Mules are fun.
Anyway, this is the ‘new fron
tier’.”