Alaska’s Incorporated School Districts
To Receive $9,640,615 in State Funds
By Ward Sims
Associated Press Staff Writer
JUNEAU <jf) State funds
totaling $9,640,6115 have been au
thorized for payment to Alaska's
29 incorporated school districts
for the 1961-62 school year.
Of the total amount, $9,158,
584.25, or 95 per cent of the au
thorized total, is to be advanced
to the 29 districts as the state’s
share of their anticipated operat
ing expenses, Dr. Theo Norby,
State Commissioner of Education,
said yesterday.
The remaining 5 per cent of the
authorized state share of each
district’s 1961-62 budget will be
withheld pending a final audit of
1961-62 expenses.
In addition to the $9,640,615
authorized for payment, the De
partment of Education has $257,
195 set aside in a special fund
for use in emergency situations.
In submitting preliminary bud
gets for the 1961-62 school year
last fall, the 29 districts requested
state aid amounting to $9,777,
457.24.
When the districts’ final bud
gets were filed with the Educa
tion Department this summer, the
total state air requested jumped
to $10,691,207.08.
The 1960 Legislature set aside
$8,471,000 for state aid to incor
porated districts. The last Leg
islature appropriated $9,202,610
for that purpose, and in addition
ordered a salary increase for in
corporated district teachers
amounting to $695,000 in state
funds.
Norby said that for the 1859
1960 school year, after the de
partment’s audit, “every incor
porated school district got every
thing to which it was entitled.
“We have every reason to be
lieve the same situation will pre
vail for the school
year,” Norby said.
He said the final audit for the
1960-1961 school year will be com
pleted in October.
The Educational Commissioner
said the major reasons tot the dif
ference in the districts' final re
quested budget and the eventual
approved state budget are re
quests for state aid for items
specifically denied by law or
regulation.
Following are final requests for
state aid submitted by incorpo
rated districts, the state aid bud
get for each as approved by the
Education Department and the
prorated amount of state funds
available to each district, pend
ing final audit:
Fairbanks, $1,796,034.62, $1,772,
603.74, $1,612,778.
Nome, $269,076.75, $258,414.25,
$235,135.
Southpaw Spahn Gets a
Tumultuous Homecoming
BOSTON UR — Nineteen years
ago Warren Spahn began a story
book major league pitching ca
reer in Boston.
The 40 - year - old Milwaukee
southpaw had a tumultuous
“homecoming” at Fenway Park
Monday night a* the Braves de
feated the Red Sox 4-1 in an ex
hibition game.
The contest, for the benefit of
children’s cancer research, was
played in fog and drizzle but
nothing marred the series of
ovations Spahn received.
True to his promise to the
stricken children, Spahn pitched
a perfect inning as the Braves’
starter though he had gone the
full nine frames Sunday extend
ing his remarkable record to 302
victories.
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“Rotary Clubs in 123 countries
are united in these difficult times
of international tensions in an
endeavor to promote understand
ing, good will and peace through
out the world,” E.D. Fletcher, dis
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tations here while on a two-day
stay as guest of the local club. In
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RETURN FROM ANCHORAGE
Clinton Gray, the N.W. District
member of the Advisory Board
on Reapportionment, returned to
day from the meetings held in
Anchorage. He was accompanied
on the trip by son James, and
daughter Nancy, and they very
much enjoyed taking in the sights
of Anchorage. While there they
also had the opportunity of visit
ing with their brother, Pepper,
who is attending the CAP Cadets
Encampment at the Elmendorf
Air Force Base.
The encampment ends this
week and the cadets are expected
home during the week end.
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Cats and Rats Prefer
Alcohol to Water
SEATTLE UP) — Rats and cats
can be exposed to the evils of
drink, but they’ll handle their
liquor more wisely than humans,
a conference on alcoholism was
told yesterday.
An experiment designed to test
a theory that alcoholism results
from frustrations and internal in
hibitions was reported by Ralph
Connor, Eastern Washington Col
lege at Cheney, Wn.
Rats and cats were faced with
frustrations, then given their
choice of water or an alcoholic
solution.
“The cats and rats developed a
definite preference for alcohol
over water,” Connor said. “But
they did not drink themselves into
alcoholic insensibility. They took
just enough to reduce their ten
sions.”
The conference is sponsored by
the State Health Department and
the University of Washington.
Dr Leon A. Greenberg, Director
of the Yale University Laboratory
of Applied Biodynamics, said the
time-honored methods of sober
ing up a drinker — consumption
of hot coffee, a cold shower or
face slapping — have no effect
on a person’s intoxication. He said
alcohol disappears from the blood
at the rate of about an ounce an
hour and popular methods do not
speed it up.
CANCER FUND DRIVE
NETS $1224.42 IN NOME
Mrs. Hubert Gilbert, who head
ed the Cancer Fund drive, has an
nounced the final report at con
tributions in this area to be
$1224.42.
She expressed appreciation to
all the volunteers who assisted in
making the drive so successful,
as well as to all donors who gave
so generously to this worthy or
ganization.
Kennedy Breaks Off Plans
To Sign Air Agreement
Between U.S. and Russia
WASHINGTON UP) — President
Kennedy, “in view of the inter
national situation,” has broken
off plans for signing a commercial
air agreement which had been
worked out with the Soviet Union.
The surprise move was an
nounced by the State Department
Monday night after a month of
quiet talks on the long-proposed
air route joining New York and
Moscow.
The State Department said “in
view of the international situa
tion, for which the U. S. govern
ment is not responsible, this gov
ernment has decided that is not
an appropriate time to sign a
civil air transport agreement.”
State Department press officer
Lincoln White said that if the
international situation changes
“that would be a different kettle
of fish.”
Soviet reaction — so far — has
been mild.
Likewise put into the freezer
was a side agreement that had
been worked out by the two air
lines which were supposed to fly
the New York-Moscow run, Pan
American Airways for the United
States and Aeroflot, the Soviet
government-owned civil airline.
Their pact cannot take effect un
til the governments sign.
MMM HOSPITAL
Admitted: Lucy James, Ann
Grinsell, Duwane Shepard, Lena
Nelson, Ruth Kakarak.
Discharged: Mamie Maloney,
Wilma Gilmore, Angela Sooluk,
Carolyn Muktoyuk.
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