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Auditors Conduct Investigation
Of Alleged Discrepancies In
Mt. Edgecumbe Student Funds
JUNEAU — Officials of the Bu
reau of Indian Affairs are con
ducting an investigation into the
school activity fund at Mt. Edge
cumbe High School, it was
learned here.
Informed sources said auditors
from the Bureau of Indian Affairs
conducted audits in connnection
with an alleged discrepancy of
between $10,000 and $12,000 in
student deposits.
William Olsen, area director of
the Alaska Native Service, de
clined to comment on the audit.
Any elaboration on the report
would have to come from the bu
reau’s headquarters in Washing
ton, Olsen said.
The Associated Press reported
that Milton Boyd, chief auditor
Zsa Zsa Sues Beauty
Parlor For $40,000
SANTA MONICA, UP)—Actress
Zsa Zsa Gabor claims she had a
hair-raising experience in a Bev
erly Hills beauty salon and wants
$40,000 for all the trouble it
caused her.
She filed suit for that amount
in superior court yesterday, al
leging that “negligent application
of strong bleach” burned her
soalp, bleached her hair too much
and caused it to become “dry,
lusterless, brittle and frayed, and
to fall out in large quantities.”
The actress asks $20,000 dam
ages and $20,000 for loss of in
come resulting from inability to
-fulfill movie and television com
mitments.
Fine Job Printing at The Nugget
of the central Washington office
of the Bureau of Indian Affairs,
visited the school last month
along with auditors from two area
offices of the federal agency.
The auditors spent two weeks
at Mt. Edgecumbe, a high school
and vocational school with ap
proximately 750 students.
Mt. Edgecumbe’s student activ
ity fund is a savings account in
which students deposit personal
funds they will use during the
school year. The audit reportedly
determined that all individual stu
dent deposits had not been de
posited into the overall fund.
The alleged discrepancy of be
tween $10,000 and $12,000, it is
understood, was built up over a
period of years.
The student activity fund is ad
ministered by officials of the fed
eral agency at Mt. Edgecumbe.
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Pope Offers Advice
To U.S. Newsmen
VATICAN CITY, L?—Pope Pius
offered some advice to a group of
American newsmen in a special
audience Monday. The Vatican
press office released the text on
Tuesday.
“Your profession,” said the 81
year-old head of the Roman Cath
olic Church, “holds you very close
to this earth, with its restless,
often enough bewildered, blinded
masses and the day-by-day un
certain promises and hopes and
menaces . . . you understand the
grave responsibilities resting on
you.
“Be conscious of it when you
write. You have your ethical prin
ciples worthy of a noble art; yet
you will agree there is an evil
press abroad that scorns those
norms. Bring the weight of your
honorable loyalty and fearless ex
ample to thwart the harm it can
do.
“Calumny and scandal; how
quick-footed they are! A whisper,
harmless perhaps though unwar
ranted, is blown up to a one
inch headline, and what havoc it
can wreak in family life, in thje
lives of individual and nation.
‘A scoop is not worth the deep
sense of shame that should come
to one guilty of such conduct.”
Boxing Chump Pleads
Guilty of Contributing
To Delinquency of Minor
MIAMI, Fla. t?)—.rake LaMotta,
former middleweight champion
boxer, yesterday pleaded guilty
to a charge of contributing to the
delinquency of a 14-year-old girl
and received a suspended sen
tence.
LaMotta already faces a six
month jail term and $500 fine on
a jury conviction on charges that
grew out of the same case.
LaMotta, now a Miami Beach
bar owner, still faces trial on
charges of conspiracy and procur
ing of the girl.
NOTICE
The firm of Moliior & Doremus,
certified public accountants, have
moved to a new location, one
block west of former office, on
First Ave.
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Witnesses in Strongheart
Case Are Anxious
To Return Home
The jury trial of George Strong
heart of Sheldon Point continues
today with the defendant on the
stand for assault with a deadly
weapon.
Most of the witnesses have had
to be questioned with the aid of
an interpreter, Mrs. Eric John
son of Alakanuk.
Witnesses brought in from the
Alakanuk area are very anxious
to return home as airfields are in
very poor condition this time of
year. Also, it is reported trapping
of rabbits and other fur animals
such as mink is now at its peak
and these people depend on this
for their livelihood.
Flowers for Easter
Delayed by Weather
Rut Expected Today
The scheduled arrival of Easter
flowers and other Easter mer
chandise for several of the local
stores which was on Pan Ameri
can Airways yesterday, was due
to arrive this afternoon with Wien
Airlines.
The PAA plane circled Nome
but was unable to land due to
icing conditions at that time.
Doctor Testifies uMad
Bomber” Dying From TB
NEW YORK, UP)—A doctor says
tuberculosis may kill New York’s
“mad bomber” in a few weeks, or
possibly months.
Dr. Albert LaVerne offered that
opinion at a sanity hearing in
Brooklyn’s county hospital yes
terday.
The bomber, George Metesky,
was present at the start of the
hearing. The 53-year-old mech
anic from Waterbury, Conn., was
strapped in a stretcher and had
a gauze mask over his nose and
mouth.
In the midst of the hearing he
was seized with a coughing spell
and was wheeled out for oxygen
j treatment.
“If these procedures are pro
longed much longer,” LaVerne
told Judge Samuel Leibowitz,
“your honor may have a corpse
rather than a defendant on which
to make a decision.”
Liebowitz reserved decision on
the sanity issue until Thursday.
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