Gov. Egan Receives
Standing Ovation
From Nomeites
The Seaview Dining Room was
filled to capacity Monday night
to honor Gov. Wm. Egan and a
standing ovation was given him
upon his arrival at the dinner
sponsored by the Chamber of
Commerce.
Seated at the guest table with
the Governor were Don Hoover,
Chamber president and toast
master and wife; Mayor Roscoe
Wilke and wife; Gen. Thomas
Carroll, ANG; Frank Vaille, as
sistant to the Governor; Boyd
Harwood, U of Alaska Board of
Regents and wife; M. J. Walsh,
Advisory Educational Council and
wife.
Words of appreciation were ex
pressed by the Mayor and the
Chamber president to the Gov
ernor for his part in bringing
about the building of the Voca
tional School, which will be the
first of its kind built in the state.
Gov. Egan in addressing the
Nome audience reviewed the pro
gress made in the 2Vi years of
r Statehood, showing the handicaps
it had in gettng started, such as
lack of court system and partici
pation in federal road monies. He
proud of the strides made dur
ing these years and glad that he
was successful in setting up the
new tax revenues which should
carry the state through its first
years and until it is functioning as
a financially sound state by 1905.
KHe predicted no future to raises
need be anticipated for some time
to come.
The Governor reported success
ful meetings with the Secretary
of the Interior as well as the Bu
reau of Indian Affairs in the mat
ter of the building of dormitories
along with the Vocational School.
He has been assured of their co
operation in this state project.
“This is the back door and the
front door to the nation,” he said,
and bush pilots should not have to
be the advance scouts for the
military. With 70,000 to 80,000
men protecting the gates of Berlin
the time has come to strengthen
the military in northern Alaska.
“Millions of people all over the
50 States as well as some Alas
kans think Alaska is strongly
defended, but I do not think so.”
As your Governor I cannot sit
by and see this part of Alaska
go undefended, he stated.
In the picture of military pre
paredness, he hoped that a plan
would be put in motion for both
offensive and defensive installa
tions that can be respected by
other nations.
Egan praised the Alaska Nation
al Guard and their part in the de
fense picture, but felt that they
needed the support of military
on full time basis. He also praised
the members of Legislature both
present and past as well as com
mittees who serve the state.
Gov. Egan left early Tuesday
morning for Barrow, after which
he will attend the meeting of the
Pioneers of Alaska in Anchorage
for the convention being held
there.
Navy Tanker
Carrying Aviation
Fuel Destroyed by Fire
MQREHEAD CITY, N.C. —
A great wall of flame racing on
an oil-slicked tide last night en
gulfed a Navy tanker carrying
four million gallons of aviation
fuel. The $8-million tanker was
destroyed by the fire and subse
quent explosions which claimed
one life, left one man missing
and injured 24 persons.
The tanker Potomac, its back
broken, lay with its midsection on
the bottom and stern and bow
in the air.
The Coast Guard hurled 1,500
gallons of foam on the burning
ship during the night. But George
Lawrence, assistant fire chief at
the nearby Cherry Point Marine
Base, said, “it didn’t do much
good. We couldn’t get close
enough.
He said it likely will take two
days for the fire to burn itself
out.
Large amounts of fuel spread
across the harbor waters last
night. Somehow the fuel ignited
near a railroad bridge spanning
the harbor and the great wall of
fire whipped wind roared into the
harbor on the incoming tide.
The Potomac, preparing to un
load highly explosive aviation gas
oline and JP5, a jet fuel, was
berthed at the pier next to seven
fuel storage tanks containing 10
million gallons of aviation fuel.
Flames engulfed the ship which
was wrecked by a huge explosion,
then by a series of lesser explo
sions for more than 30 minutes
afterwards.
$350,000 Allocated
For Rampart
Dam Studies
ANCHORAGE UR — A Senate
House Conference Committee’s ap
proval of a $350,000 appropriation
for Rampart Dam studies will en
able the U.S. Army Engineer Dis
trict, Alaska, to continue its test
boring program in the Rampart
Canyon, an engineers spokesman
said yesterday.
“With this amount we expect
, to continue our studies on a broad
front in the fiscal year,” he said.
Six test holes were bored
through the ice and into the sub
surface of the canyon last winter
and spring. Five more will now be
drilled.
Sen. Ernest Gruening said here
there will be no decision on
whether or not' the dam will be
built for a year or two. He said
the total of money now appropri
ated for the studies is about $600,
000 and a million dollars prob
ably will be needed to complete
them.
‘When the dam is functioning
it will provide the cheapest power
under the flag—two-mill power,”
Gruening said
The huge lake that will be
formed by the dam can be de
veloped into a “great inland fish
ery,” he said. The land at the
present time has no great value
and natives that would be relo
cated would have better housing
and live under better conditions
than at the present, he added.
JFK Names
John A. McCone
To Head the CIA
NEWPORT. R.I. UP> — Presi
dent Kennedy today named John
A. McCone, former chairman of
the Atomic Energy Commission,
to succeed Allen Dulles as head
of the Central Intelligence Agency
in November.
Kennedy introduced McCone as
his choice to replace the retiring
Dulles at a specially-called meet
ing with newsmen at the Naval
War College in Newport. He is
spending a week’s vacation at this
resort.
Dulles also accomoanied the
President to an auditorium where
the announcement was made to
say that he would step out after
eight years as director of the na
tion’s super-secret intelligence
gathering agency.
Kennedy said that Dulles, 68,
would continue to serve him as a
consultant on intelligence mat
ters.
McCone, a Republican and
wealthy West Coast industrialist,
had leaped into speculation only I
Tuesday as Kennedy’s selection
to relieve Dulles.
He served as head of the Atomic
Energy Commission for the last
three years of the Eisenhower
Administration and had been Un
dersecretary of the Air Force for
more than a year in the Truman
regime.
Kennedy announced that Mc
Cone would go to Washington in
about two weeks to work with
Dulles and smooth over the period
of transition before he becomes
director of the agency.
Kennedy said both he and Dul
les were “extremely pleased and
satisfied” that the 59-year-old
McCone had agreed to accept the
responsibility. He pointed to Mc
cone’s broad experience in govern
ment and said he would enter the
intelligence field at a real sacri
fice.
Maris Hits No. 60 . . .
NEW YORK ifl — Roger Maris,
who hit his 60th home run of the
season last night, postponed his
bid for No. 61 by taking the day
off as the New York Yankees met
the Baltimore Orioles.
The blond bomber has been say
ing all along that he wanted to
take a day off to rest and ease
the tension of his efforts to set
a home run record.
Both Maries and his Yankee
home run twin, Mickey Mantle,
were not in the lineups posted to
day by manager Ralph Houk.
WASHINGTON UR — The Sen
ate passed yesterday a resolu
tion to print as a Senate docu
ment President Kennedy’s speech
to the United Nations.
WEATHER FORECAST
Cloudy with fog and rain.
Southeasterly winds increasing to
15 to 25 mph during the night. Lit
tle change in temperature. In the
last 24 hours: High of 46 low of
43. Sunrise at 5:59 a.m., sunset
at 5:45 p.m. Temperatures a year
ago today: High of 44, low of 41.
Extremes on this date since 1907:
High of 55 in 1935, low of 20 in
1931.
BLM Presents Alaska
With $2,492,730.77 Check
JUNEAU UP) — The Bureau of
Land Management presented the
state today with a check for $2,
492,730.77.
Of the total amount, $2,474,
228.63 represented Alaska’s 90
per cent share of revenues from
oil and gas leases on federal
lands within the state during the
first six months of 1961.
Of the remainder, $4,411.24 was
income and proceeds from BLM
administered school lands during
fiscal 1959 and $14,090.90 repre
sented 5 per cent of net proceeds
from the sale of federal land and
material within Alaska during fis
cal 1961.
The check was given to Jacques
Norvell, Asst. Commissioner of
Revenue, by Jess M. Honeywell,
State Director of the BLM.
The amount received by Alas
ka is a portion of $21,608,543.80
being distributed by the BLM to
27 states. Wyoming received the
largest share, $7,231,550.12. New
Mexico was second at $4,671,920
and Alaska was third.
Rep. Hoffman of Michigan
Questions Congress’ Sanity
WASHINGTON UP) — A Repub
lican critic of government spend
ing thinks he has the answer to
why Congress keeps appropriat
ing money. It’s crazy, says Rep.
Clare E. Hoffman of Michigan.
Borrowing from the court doc
trine that holds a person is not
legally responsible if he is men
i tally ill, Hoffman suggested that
should be Congress’ defense for
its spending legislation:
No mentally sound body, he
told the House Tuesday night,
would authorize billions for trips
to the moon, foreign aid, a peace
corps, disarmament, aquariums
and other non - defense items
when threatened by a powerful
enemy.
“Is Congress mentally sound?”
he asked. “Are we all there men
tally?”
I No one replied.
On* Toothbrush For The Family
CHICAGO UR — A battery j
operated automatic toothbrush j
with interchangeable heads for
each member of a family was in
troduced yesterday by the Gen
eral Electric Co.
The electric motor delivers ap
proximately 2,000 strokes a min
ute and, the designer said, the
instrument cleans teeth and re
freshes gums far more effectively
than possible with hand action.
The motor battery is recharged
by plugging into house current. A
fully charged battery will give
about 15 two-minute brushings.
A completely exhausted battery
can be recharged in 14 hours.
$9 Vi Million For Defense
Construction In Alaska
NEWPORT, R.I. UR — Resident
Kennedy signed a $951,690,750
military construction bill yester
day which includes more than
9Vi million dollars for Alaska.
The appropriations measure
covers programs both home and
abroad for the fiscal year which
began July 1.
Among Alaska items are:
Air Force — Cape Romanzof,
$143,000 and Tin City $200,000.
Congress Closes
Up Shop in an
Angry Whirlwind
WASHINGTON UP) — The first
Congressional session of the Ken
nedy Administration wound up in
an angry whirlwind early today
with the Senate having to accept
a big money bill which the House
bounced to it on a take it or leave
it basis.
The House passed the $1,125,
927,341 supplemental appropria
tion and then quickly closed up
shop at 4:20 a.m. With the House
in adjournment and no chance for
compromise, the Senate was forced
to go along with the bill provid
ing money for a wide variety of
federal agencies.
The slightest Senate amend
ment would have killed the meas
ure and forced President Kennedy
to call a special session to get
the needed funds.
Senators minced no words in
expressing anger at the House
adjournment prior to final Senate
action.
But after angry complaints, the
Senate passed the measure on a
voice vote and quit at 6:16 a.m.
The session which ended in the
flare of tempers had run up ap
propriations totaling about $92.5
billion, a peacetime record.
In its home stretch session of
I about 19 hours, the heavily Demo
cratic Congress also:
—Voted $3,914,600,000 for for
eign aid for the year which start
ed July 1. The final figure was a
qualified victory for President
Kennedy, who originally asked for
$4,775,500,000.
—Cleared a $3,908,880,980 Pub
lic Works appropriation for flood
control, rivers and harbors, recla
mation and atomic energy proj
ects.
—Sent to the White House a bill
authorizing the Treasury to as
sign a number to each income tax
payer in a move to keep closer tab
on tax returns.
Democratic congressional lead
ers said today they were well
pleased with the record of the
1961 session and predicted that
many Kennedy proposals which
failed this year would be passed
in 1962.
Republican leaders said they
had kept their pledge to cooperate
with the President on foreign af
fairs, and had remained true to
their principles by seeking to cut
or defeat many new domestic
spending programs.
The session’s spending was ex
ceeded only by two World War
II years and one Korean War
year. The $92.5 billion in appro
priations for the fiscal year which
began July 1 includes $8.6 bil
lidn interest on the national debt.
The first session of the 87th
Congress was the longest since
the Korean War of 1951, which
ran to Oct. 20.
KETCHIKAN UP) — Dr. William
Ransom Wood, president of the
University of Alaska near Fair
banks, is in Ketchikan conferring
with school people and pthers on
plans for improving Ketchikan
Community College, a satellite
operation of the University of
Alaska.
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