McKay Names Survey Team to Study
Department Operations In Alaska and
Recommend Changes for Efficiency
WASHINGTON, UP—Secretary^
of the Interior McKay Saturday
announced appointment of a four
member survey team to study all
department operations in Alaska
and recommend changes aimed at
economy and efficiency.
McKay said the team’s itinerary
will include all sections of the
territory where there are depart
ment installations and personnel.
Roy B. Earling, a Seattle mining
consultant, is chairman of the
team, having been elected by the
members here this week.
The other members are Glen
Duncan, a grain elevator operator
at Haines, Ore.; Gilbert H. Jert
berg, an attorney at Fresno, Calif.,
and Robert Coote, a member of
the department’s technical review
staff.
The group conferred with de
partment officials here .this week
and will begin its field studies in
Juneau April 15.
The Alaskan survey is part of
McKay’s reorganization program
launched last year. Studies of
most of the department’s bureaus
have been completed.
“Recommendations of nongov
ernmental experts have in many
cases resulted in substantial econ
omies and increased efficiency in
operation,” McKay said in a state
ment.
“The Alaska committee will
give particular attention to a
study of the nature and scope of
bureau operations and to the loca
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tion, functions and staffing of
field offices.
“Existing policies will be exam
ined with the view toward clearly
defining the objectives of the fed
eral government in the territory
and an examination also will be
made of the department’s rela
tions with territorial, local gov
ernment and other federal agen
cies.”
Mother and Five Children
Burn to Death in Cottage;
Father and Son Escape
GLOUSTER, Ohio, tffi—A fire,
sparked by coal oil poured on a
stove, flashed through a frame
cottage here Saturday and burned
to death a mother and five of her
six children.
Dead were Mrs. Garnet Rich
ards, 25, and her children Mildred,
8; Robert, 6; Lawrence Ray, 4;
Freda Mae, 3; and William, 9
months.
The father, Lawrence Richards,
29, escaped from the house with
a son, Charles Edwin, 2, but suf
fered burns on his back and arm.
The blaze singed the hair of the
child who escaped.
Richards told Sheriff George
Bateman he was asleep when his
wife got up about 5:15 a.m. to
start a fire in a stove in the bed
room. He said his wife started the
fire with coal oil, that he heard
a scream and then saw a flash.
The father said he grabbed the
child nearest him, Charles, and
ran outside the cottage. By the
time he tried to get back inside,
he said, the flames had enveloped
the dwelling.
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9th Circuit Court
To Split, Forming
New 11th District
SAN FRANCISCO, UP)—Ninth
Circuit Court of Appeals’ judges
announced Friday they had ap
proved a plan where by the dis
trict would be split, with an 11th
district formed to serve Idaho,
Montana, Oregon, Washington
and Alaska.
The present 9th District would
serve Arizona, California, Nevada
and Guam and Hawaii instead of
seven Western states and Hawaii,
Guam and Alaska.
The judges said a tremendous
growth of population in the seven
Western states, 45 percent, be
tween 1940 and 1950, was the
basis for the resolution to split
•the 9th District. They said justice
was being delayed by a backlog
of cases on the court’s calendar.
The resolution calls for eight
judges in the 9th District and four
in the proposed 11th District. The
plan will be outlined before the
Judicial Conference at Washing
ton, DC., April 15 and may be
presented to the judiciary com
mittees of the U.S. House and
Senate.
Alaskans Urged to Flood
White House with Appeals
For Statehood Now
ANCHORAGE, UR—Leaders of
“Operation Statehood” appealed
Friday night to Alaskans to “flood
the White House with telegrams
appealing for statehood now.”
The request was made after a
report was received, the leaders
said, that Washington, D.C., sour
ces said ' all the statehood bill
needs is “a nod from President
Eisenhower to ensure passage.”
A headquarters has been set up
locally in a log cabin on the An
chorage City Hall lawn where a
staff will be on duty to assist in
wording telegrams to President
Eisenhower.
EISENHOWER TO MAKE
"BOMB" TALK TONIGHT
WASHINGTON, UR — President
Eisenhower will address the na
tion tonight and was reported
prepared to “clarify” questions
raised at home and abroad by
disclosures of the awesome power
of the hydrogen bomb.
Three National Magazines
Will Seek Coverage
Of Polar Bear Safari
The Alaska Visitors Associa
tion has received word that three
national magazines will seek cov
erage of the polar bear safari to
Point Barrow April 4.
Dick Joseph, author of several
travel books and travel editor of
“Esquire,” will arrive in Alaska
from a round-the-world sojourn
with Northwest Airlines, flying
to Fairbanks to meet the party.
Jack O’Brien, sports editor of
“Newsweek,” is arranging with
Arctic Alaska Tours and Pan Am
erican Airways to accompany the
party.
Jack Lansing, associate editor
of “Collier’s,” advised the Alaska
Visitors Assn, he would be unable
to fly to Alaska for first-hand
coverage but requested by air
mail full photographic coverage
as well as a detailed account of
the safari for possible use as a
sports feature in “Collier’s.”
House to Consider Mental
Health Bill On April 28
JUNEAU — Governor B. Frank
Heintzleman advised his office
today that the subcommittee on
Territories of the House Commit
tee cfn Interior and Insular Af
fairs will consider the Alaska
Mental Health bill, HR 8009, in
executive session on April 28.
Public hearings were held March
17.
A subcommittee of the Senate
held hearings on an identical bill,
S 3037, on March 25.
The governor and officials of
the Interior Department testified
before 'both subcommittees in fa
vor of the legislation. In his testi
mony, Gov. Heintzleman pointed
out that the proposed legislation
will replace present archaic pro
cedures with a modern humane
program for dealing with the
mentally ill of Alaska.
WEATHER FORECAST
Continued fair with little
change in temperature. Light and
variable winds. Low temperature
expected tonight 12, high tomor
row 35.
Data last 24 hours as of 7 a.m.
today: high temperature 36, low
10. Maximum wind 11 mph from
WNW. Sunrise at 5:01 a.m., sun
set at 7:09 p.m.
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H-Bomb Prompts
Mass Evacuation
Drill in Spokane
OLYMPIA, Wash., WV—The na
tion’s first hydrogen bomb - stim
ulated practice mass evacuation
of people from a metropolitan
area has been set for Spokane,
Wash., on April 26.
Vice Adm. Daniel E. Barbey,
Washington State’s director of
civil defense, announced Friday
the inland city of 165,000 popula
lation will give the first test per
formance in a drill limited to ap
proximately 30,000 of the city’s
inhabitants.
Persons in the south sector will
walk in a southerly direction
when a signal is given at 9:35 a.m.
Those on the other side of the line
will proceed north. They will con
tinue until another signal halts
their march.
Buses then will pick up the
walkers and return them to the
business district. Under actual
bomb-danger conditions, Barbey
said, the buses would carry the
people out into the rolling hills
which surround the city.
The test will be on a voluntary
basis and no effort will be made
to compel compliance.
Barbey expressed the belief
evacuation would be possible
under actual conditions because
the country is developing a radar
screen which should permit up
to four hours’ warning.
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