New Space Administration Announces
Rockets Spending Program Awards
WASHINGTON, UP) — The gov-«
ernment unveiled spending plans
Thursday for a space program that
will include half a dozen rocket
shots into outer space and launch
ing of an inflatable communica
tions satellite twice the width of
a basketball court.
These are among 105 million
dollars of projected 1959 spending
for which contract awards were
announced by the National Aeron
autics and Space Administration.
Included in this year’s spending
plans is 17 million dollars ear
marked for equipment for even
tually manned space flight — a
goal not expected to be achieved
this year.
Other major awards for 1959
projects included:
1. $8,990,000 to the Air Force
for deep space probes — shots
toward Venus and other planets.
2. $7,120,000 to the Air Force
for Thor-Able rocket boosters to
launch satellites and $8,540,000 to
the Army for Juno II satellite
boosters.
3. $2,110,000 to the Army, two
million to the Air Force and $200,
000 to the Navy for moon probe
projects in addition to the five
previously taken over from the
Defense Department.
4. $2,150,000 to the Army Ord
nance Missile Command for
launching a 100-foot inflatable
sphere to be used as a communi
cations satellite.
5. 23Vi> millions to the Office of
Naval Research for the Vanguard
II weather eye satellite launched
Tuesday and for three remaining
satellite launchings.
6. $1,900,000 to the Atomic En
ergy Commission for its program
to develop a nuclear rocket engine.
NASA said 10 million dollars
will >be spent this year on its 102
million-dollar contract to develop
a million-pound thrust single
chamber rocket engine. This con
tract, announced previously, was
awarded to the Rocketdyne Divi
sion of North American Aviation,
Inc.
Congress Working To Lay
Tax Boom On U. S. Life
Insurance Companies
WASHINGTON, Iff)—'The House
has voted a big increase in taxes
to be paid by life insurance com
panies.
If the measure eventually be
comes law, it would mean an es
timated tax increase of 226 mil
lion dollars on 1958 earnings of
insurance companies.
SITKA BROADCASTING CO.
ASSIGNED LICENSE
WASHINGTON, UP) — The Com
munications Commission Wednes
day approved the assignment of
IFW’s license to the Sitka Broad
casting company for $29,500.
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Trip Planned For
G. O. P. Lady
WASHINGTON, UP) — The Re
publicans are sending a lady poli
tician, assistant GOP national
chairman, who has done most of
her political campaigning in the
tropic warmth of Florida, for a
week of Alaskan stumping.
She plans to stop at Anchorage,
Fairbanks, Ketchikan and Juneau
on a week-long trip that will in
| elude conferences, speech-making
and training sessions with GOP
leaders and party groups.
GOP Chairman Meade Alcorn
said the trip is part of the victory
blueprint adopted by the GOP Na
tional Committee at its Des Moines
sessions last month.
“This major Republican effort
will be spurred by one of the
party’s most efective organizers
and campaigners,” he said.
“With Mrs. Williams in Alaska,
it’s same to predict that last No
vember’s icy political wind will
head into a Republican thaw.”
Mrs. Williams is a native of Syr
acuse, N. Y. But she began her
party work in Florida and served
as a national committeewoman
from that state prior to her ap
pointment as GOP assistant chair
man last July.
Washington - Alaska State
Society Giving D. C.
Dinner to Salute 49th State
WASHINGTON, UP) — Repre
sentatives of the Alaska and
Washington Congressional delega
tions posed for pictures Wednes
day with a 10-pound crab and a
pretty parka-clad Alaskan.
It was all part of the publicity
buildup for this coming Saturday
night’s dinner salute to Alaska
scheduled by the Washington
Alaska State Society. Approxi
mately 150 pounds of sea food —
shrimp, salmon and crab — ar
rived for the event.
Posing for the pictures were
Senators Bob Bartlett and Ernest
Grfuening, Representative Tor
Tollefson (R-Wash) Marilyn At
wood, daughter of Anchorage pub
lisher Robert B. Atwood, and the
crab.
POWER OF A WOMAN
ON THE TELEPHONE . . .
BRIGHTON, Colo., UP) — Mrs.
Elsie Naeb happened to be talk
ing on the telephone in her hus
band’s liquor store Wednesday
when two bandits walked in.
Without blinking an eye, she
started talking German, describ
ing the holdup in progress.
Mrs. Herbert Naeb, her daugh
ter-in-law on the other end of
the line, called the police.
Jose Hernandez, 20, and Nash
Hernandez, 18, were arrested
later.
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B-E-C-K Offers $500
University of Alaska
Engineering Scholarship
COLLEGE, Alaska, — A schol
arship of $500 for a deserving
student in engineering at the Uni
versity of Alaska has been estab
lished by B-E-C-K Constructors
of Seattle, according to President
Ernest N. Patty.
“It is certainly encouraging to
us here at the University to find
that firms operating in Alaska are
more and more taking a deeper
interest in the future welfare of
the new state,” Dr. Patty said.
“We have commendeS Mr. P. D.
Koon and his BECK associates for
their forward looking step.”
The scholarship is being granted
in the name of “Friends of BECK
Constructors” and is given in lieu
of the customary small Christ
mas gifts which the firm has nor
mally distributed in the past to
friends and business associates.
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British Columbia Whalers
Close Down Industry Due
To Wage Disagreements
VANCOUVER, B. C., UP) — The
British Columbia whaling indus
try is closing down because of a
wage dispute.
British Columbia Packers, Lim
ited, which operated a whaling
fleet off the B. C. coast, has sent
a letter informing more than 200
persons normally employed in the
industry that the operation has
been closed down.
Preparations began Wednesday
to lay up six ships which would
have constituted a major part of
the fleet.
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