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Proposes Next Year's
Legislature Session be Held
On the U of A Campus
JUNEAU <A*> — A resolution
asking that next year’s session
of the Legislature be held on the
campus of the University of Alas
ka was introduced in the House
by Minority Leader Bruce Kendall
of Anchorage.
Kendall said he submitted the
resolution because he was dis
satisfied with the “(biased situa
tion that existed at hearings on
the ferry question before a joint
comcote on state affairs.”
The House and Senate Com
mittee concluded a series of hear
ings on a bill to implement the
proposed $23 million general ob
ligation bond issue for a Marine
Highway System which was ap
proved by the voters last Nov. 8.
“The hearings on the ferry
question convinced me that a
community isolated from 80 per
cent of the population of the
state can present a very biased
situation in regards to any given
piece of legislation,” Kendall
said.
“This especially true with the
ferry bond proposals which, toy
design, benefits only a given area
of the state.
“I seriously objected to the bi
ased manner in which the audi
ence at the hearings denied seri
ous consideration of any thought
stimulating objections on the mat
ter.
“The 80 per cent of the popu
lation who were not heard will
have the dubious privilege of pay
ing 80 per cent of the capital im
provements and what ever sub
sidy may result, even to a major
(benefit of a non-participating
foreign country — in this case
Canada — who does not parti
cipate in any manner to the con
templated costs of responsibility
of the program.
Kendall said that he proposed
that the second session of the
Legislature be moved to Fair
banks because there is “competi
tive press and competitive ideas
prevalent at all times in a popu
lation of 60,000 people.”
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MOTORIST CHARGED
WITH ADVERTISING . . .
DEROIT UP) — Ronald Cadotta
resented a speeding ticket after
passing a police electronic “speed
watch.”
He painted the words “Speed
i Trap” on a large cardboard and
I sationed his car about 500 feet
| from the speedwatch. Every time
| a motorist came along, Cadotta
| stepped from his car and flashed
the sign.
Cadotta was charged with “dis
playing of advertising devices
which affect the conduct of per
sons as to jeopardize or impede
vehicular or pedistrian traffic.”
He received a suspended sen
tence.
CAUSEWAY WOULD CUT
DOWN THE MILEAGE
WASHINGTON UP) — Sen.
Ernest Gruening said today he
has asked an Army engineer
study of the possibility of build
ing a causeway to shorten the
distance between Anchorage and
the Interior of Alaska. A 2Vi
mile causeway across the Knik
Arm on Cook Inlet would re
duce by about 100 miles the
roundabout route now traveled
to reach the Interior from An
chorage, Gruening said.
PROPOSE A $5 TAX ON
OUTBORD MOTORBOATS
JUNEAU UP) — A bill which
would permit municipal govern
ments to levy an annual tax of
$5 on all outboard motorboats
was introduced in the Senate
Thursday by Sen. Elton Engstrom
by request.
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Skin-Divers Add
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SPOKANE — There’s gold in
j them thar streams.
Getting it out has been the prob
I lem since gold was discovered in
the Pend Oreille River nearly a
hundred years ago — but the
search has acquired a modern
touch.
Two Spokane skin divers have
became prospectors using a spe
cial vacuum cleaner type dredge.
Duane Inglis and Jim Mikoski took
their 45-ound mechanized dredge
out for a trial on the Spokane
River recently.
Modified Sluice Box
The two-and-one-half horse
power gasoline motor floats on an
inner tube near the man operat
ing the dredge. The machine sifts
through 18 cubic yards of gravel
in an hour. Prospectors in times
past sifted a single cubic yard
in a day with a sluice box.
The vacuum dredge is a modi
fied sluice box. The gravel is
drawn in through a tube and
passes over a small sluice where
gold, if any is deposited.
“There is gold to be found in
streams around the Inland Em
pire,” Mikoski said. “It’s in the
center of the stream beds.”
Mikoski and Inglis have taken
samples off the bottom of the
Columbia River above Kettle Falls
in the Chinaman Bend area of
past gold rush fame, using a stand
ard sluice box.
“Skin divers using mechanized
dredges are making as much as
$500 a day in California, prospect
ing for gold,” he said.
Sells for $200
“We’d like to talk to anyone
interested in our operation,” he
said, “especially prospectors.”
The dredge Mikoski and Inglis
are using was manufactured by a
Spokane company, Gold-Vac. Now
under limited production, the
Gold-Vac dredge retails for $200.
Future plans for their river bot
tom vacuum cleaner will take the
skin-diving pair to either the
Columbia or Pend Oreille Rivers
for a try at finding the shiny
yellow stuff.
Special SeAjice . . .
WASHINGTON — Eight
workmen, three trucks and a snow
loader removed the snow from
a block of Connecticut Avenue
Thursday.
The reason: President and Mrs.
Kennedy are going to the movies
as guests of the Ambassador of
India. Secretary of State Dean
Rusk, the Washington Diploma
tic Corps and top U. S. govern
ment officials also were to at
tend the special showing of an
award-winning Indian film.
It was the third time in 10 days
that a special cleanup force had
cleared the snow for special visits
made by the Chief Executive and
the First Lady.
The block has been cluttered
with high piles of snow from a
series of storms.
Governor Would Have
Powers of Executive Clemency
JUNEAU (iPI — A bill which
would provide the governor of
Alaska with powers of executive
clemency passed the House Thurs
day and was sent to the Senate.
Under the measure, the gover
nor would be granted the right
to grant pardons, commutations
and reprieves, and suspend and
remit fines.
WRONG SPOT . . .
DENVER, Colo. UO — Two gun
men entered a liquor store last
night and ordered the clerk to
lie on the floor.
He did — right on top of the
robbery alarm button.
Officers arrived a few minutes
later and arrested the pair.
A Net Loss of $249 . . .
BOSTON Oft — When Edward
M. Kennedy, youngest brother of
the President, agreed Feb. 7 to
waive a $5,000 salary and be a
$l-a-year assistant district at
torney, he forgot about the state
retirement law.
State Treasurer John T. Dris
coll notified Kennedy Tuesday
all state employes must join the
Contributory Pension Fund and
pay in 5 per cent of annual base
pay — in Kennedy’s case $250.
The treasurer said an employe
may waive his salary but not the
pension payment.
That means a net loss of $249
for $l-a-year Kennedy.
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