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The Nome nugget., 1960-02-22
Fifth Week Of Legislature Shows No Work Let-up

JUNEAU, tR - A half dozen new measures are before legisla- tors today as they head into the fifth week of what is expected to be a 60-day session.
 The new bills were introduced at Saturdays brief session during which the Senate approved three measures and the House acted on a single resolution.
 Two of the bills passed in- volved extension of liquor excise tax to sales on military bases in the state. The excise tax on beer sales was exempted.
 It was said the bills would in crease the states excise tax rev. enue by more than $300,000.
 The third bill approved would amend Alaska's Workmen's Com pensation Act to require employ CTS to pay $1,500 into the second injury fund in those cases where a deceased employe has no de-
 
 New bills introduced in the Senate include one which would provide $250,O00 as a supplement tary appropriation for the states medical care program for indi- gent patients.
 A measure for accounting pur- poses which would abolish the special state fund for the Civil Air Patrol, as it exists in the general fund. The legislature would continue to supply money for CAP activities.
 Rep. James Hurley of Palmer introduced two measures pertain ing to agriculture.
 A bill providing the qualifica- tions for future Commissioners of Education was introduced in the House. Dr. Theo Norby, present commissioner, would be exempted from the bill which lists a mas ter's degree and three years of experience in school administra- tion as primary qualifications.
 Also introduced in the House was a bill which would decrease the interest rate on small loans and raise the bond requirement for small loan companies.
The Nome nugget., 1960-02-22
New State Court
 System Activated

Saturday, upon proclamation of the President of the United States the old court system of Alaska as a territory ceased to exist and the new state court system went into effect.
 Joe Kroninger, who has been US. Clerk of the Second Divi- sion, left this morning to become the first US. Clerk of the Federal Court at Anchorage under Judge Walter Hodge. Replacing him here as State Clerk of Court is George Bayer, who has been a deputy marshal here for many years. Grace Herman will remain in that office as deputy.
 Judge Hubert Gilbert heads the court system here as Second Dis trict Superior Court Judge and a district attorney is expected to Toe named very soon. Mary Diede will remain as Judge Gilbert's secretary.
 In place of the US. Commis- sioner and in those offices will be the new Second District Mag istrate, James St. Amour, who ar rived last week. George Bayer will act as deputy in this office in the absence of St. Amour who will supervise the work of deputy magistrates throughout the Sec ond District. St. Amour will also act as city magistrate.
 Law and order is now headed by the State Police officer, Sgt. Gene Morris whose office is To- cated in the former Alaska Steam ship Co. building on Front St (The fate of the US. Marshals office is as yet unknown). Jack Reed, formerly with the U. S. Marshal's office, has been named Service Officer for the State Po- lice and has an office in the Fed eral Building.
 Virgil Vochaska, who will take over the Jim von der Heydt law practice, is expected to arrive this week, for private practice which will make it possible for the wheels of justice to again be acti- vated.
 A swearing = in ceremony has been announced by Judge Gilbert at 2 pm. Tuesday in the court room
The Nome nugget., 1960-02-22
Rep. McSmith Proposes Alaska Choose Official Tree, Slogan and Motto

JUNEAU, tR = A state really hasn't achieved full status unless it has a tree, a slogan and a motto.
 That apparently is the way Rep. Blanche McSmith feels about it.
 The Anchorage Democrat intro duced a resolution in the House Saturday asking Gov. Egan to conduct contest to select an of- ficial tree, slogan and motto. She suggested four members of the House and four from the Senate judge the contest and submit their selections to next years legisla- ture for approval.
 Mrs. McSmth said she feels AL aska is embarrassed among her sister states by the lack of official accoutermentS.
The Nome nugget., 1960-02-22
By JOE F. KANE

WASHINGTON, R - T h e United States has forged an in- destructible force as an anchor of free world security, President Eisenhower has told the Ameri- can people.
 The defensive might is ample for today and constantly is devel- oping to meet the needs of tomor- row, Eisenhower said Sunday night in a nationwide radio-TV address on the eve of his depart ure for a 15,000-mile Latin Amer ican goodwill tour.
 In an indirect reply to critics of the US. defense program, Ei- senhower said: "We have created a great deterrent strength - so powerful as to command and to justify the respect of the knowl- edgable and unbiased observers here at home and abroad"
 Most of the defense criticism has come from announced or po- tential candidates for the Demo- cratic presidential nomination. Some military officers, both act i've and retired, also have pro- tested what they called made quate or misdirected defense pol icies.
 Two announced candidates for the Democratic nomination had more to say Sunday on the de- fenSe program.
 Sen. Hubert Humphrey told a Democratic meeting at Green Bay, Wis, that the United States is far
The Nome nugget., 1960-02-22
Bay State Doctor Takes 2nd Heat In Rendezvous Races

ANCHORAGE, R-Dr. Roland Lombard, 48-year-old veterinar- ian from Wayland, Mass, won the second heat of the 1860 Anchor age Fur Rendezvous Champion ship Dogsled Races Sunday.
 Lombard, who finished ninth in the opening round Saturday overcame difficulties on the 25- mile trail to mush across the fin ish line in one hour, 53 minutes, 49 seconds. Leo Kriska of Koy- ukuk was second, third was Will bur Sampson of Noorvik.
 Cui Biffelt of Huslia, who won Saturdays heat, came in fourth Sunday. He was followed by Glenn Tellman of Knik, Jimmy Male mute of Galena, Robert Demoski of Fairbanks, Chester Topkok of Teller, Gareth Wright of Nenana and Dr. Charles Belford of Deer field Mass.
The Nome nugget., 1960-02-22
"It" Was a Meteor!

ANCHORAGE, R-That object that hurled through Alaska skies last Sunday wasn't so mysterious after all. Officials said Friday it was a meteor.
 Dr. Christian T. Elvey, director of the University of Alaska's Geo. physical Institute, said angular computations and the brief length of the sighting ruled out anything but a meteor. He said his findings, concurred in by the Alaskan Air Command, have been forwarded to Air Force headquarters.
 Civilians who reported the un- identified object flashing over Nome, St. Michael and Unalakleet said they believed it to be a man. ned aircraft.
The Nome nugget., 1960-02-22
Nenana Ice Classic Brought Into Court
 In Methodist's Anti-Cambling Crusade

JUNEAU, R-Both the law and the legislature were wrestling to- day over Alaska's favorite indoor sport and recently one of its most controversial problems = betting on the Panama River ice breakup.
 The law was brought into the picture late Friday when the Rev. Richard Heacock, Methodist minister here, signed complaint with the U. s. Commissioners against ice pool activities. Acting on the complaint, officers seized 5000 tickets on the lottery and five types of Nenana Ice Classic forms from the Juneau company which prints the tickets and post CTS for the event.
 The Rev. Mir Heacock said he acted on reports the Nenana lot tery was illegal under state law but that nobody had ever asked the anti-gambling statutes be en-
The Nome nugget., 1960-02-22
New East Berlin Travel
 Passes Spurned by U. s.

BERLIN, LR - British d French military personnel made limited use today of the new passes issued by the Russians for travel to the Allied Mission in West Germany, but the Ameri- cans held to their boycott except in cases of emergency.
 The Allies have rejected the passes as an attempt to win a mea- sure of legal recognition for the Communist East German govern ment. Passes formerly used au- thorized travel in "the Soviet Zone of Germany; the new passes are for travel in the Ger man Democratic K public" which the Allies conten is an illegal regime.
The Nome nugget., 1960-02-22

forced against it. He said he sign ed the complaint because "gambl- ing is wrong and illegal"
 A decision to prosecute appar- ently will rest with the Attorney Generals Office and will depend upon the outcome of pending legislation.
 A special six-man conference committee is still working on the law which would legalize the ice pool and other forms of gambling sponsored by civic and charitable organizations.
 The committee is working to tighten the bill, which already has passed both houses, but has been criticized by the administra- ton as being too lax in it's word ing.
 Sen. John Coghill, a member of the committee, says the pro- posed bill may be reported out for final floor action tomorrow.
The Nome nugget., 1960-02-22
CAP In Alaska to Get 10 Surplus Air Force Planes

WASHINGTON, R-Sen. E. L. Bartlett says 10 single-engine Air Force planes will be made avail able to the Alaska Wing of the Civil Air Patrol before the end of this month.
 Bartlett had urged that the planes be assigned to the Alaska CAP after they were declared excess to the needs of the Alaska Air Command.
 It has been learned that one of these plane, an L-20 Beaver" will be acquired by the Nome Squadron of CAP.
The Nome nugget., 1960-02-22
Split Faction
 Crowds Welcome Ike at Puerto Rico
By STANFORD BRADSHAW

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, R- Enroute to South America, Presi- dent Eisenhower paused in Puer- to Rico today and told the island CTS they provide lesson to as- pirng peoples of the world.
 As he arrived from Washing ton, one band of demonstrators at the airport was clamoring for complete independence for this commonwealth while another car ried banners calling for state hood. But Eisenhower did not see them.
 eve are happy that Puerto Rico is proud, free, self-govern- ing commonwealth, joined to the United States by her own choice" the President said. Puerto Rico is truly unique.
 ''To other people now strug- gling to realize their aspirations and ambitions, the commonwealth of Puerto Rico has demonstrated that courage, persistence and faith in ones fellow men and God-given destiny can open up ways through barriers and ob- stacle that might appear to be insurmountable."
 In welcoming the President, Gov. Luis Munoz Marin - who likes Puerto Rico's present status as a commonwealth of the United States said: "You will find among us differences of opinion as to the form that our free union with the United States should de- velop. But so far as the great majority of our people are con- cerned, you will find no differ ences of opinion as to the fact that that union should be per manent."
 After the exchange of greetings the President and Munoz Marin went into conference briefly at the airport, bypassing the demon strators with their banners. They were at the other side of the air port.
 A crowd of about 5000 = held down by tight security precau- tions-was on hand. Thousands more tried but were unable to get into the guarded grounds.
 The demonstration recalled two Washington episodes in which Puerto Rican nationalists figured "a 1850 assassination attempt on President Harry Truman and the 1854 burst of gunfire in the US. House of Representatives.
The Nome nugget., 1960-02-22
WEATHER FORECAST

Cloudy today, tonight and to- morrow. Southerly winds Is to 25 mph changing to the east tomor- row.
 Nome data in the past 24 hours: highest temp. 30, lowest 25. Max. wind 36 mph from the SEE. Sum- rise at 7:35 a.m., sunset 4:57 pm.
Evening star., 1960-05-17
Leak in Sewage Line
Is Blamed on VondoIs

the Job until it's DONE" Mr..
Brigham said yesterday.
Nearby residents said the
stencil has prevailed for weeks.
Sewage has collected in creeks
in the woods.
James Bedford, garden shop
manager at the j. H. Burton
Nursery, $3.50 Ager road, said
he Smelled the odor last De-
cember and complained to the
WSSC. The agency said yes
terday that the one complaint
on its records was received
April 81 from a resident in the
Kirkwood Apartments.
A chlorine powder will be put
over the open sewage as a dis
infectant while repairs are be-
ing made, a WSSC engineer
said. He said a crew sent to
check out the April 81 COM
plant apparently didn't look
hard enough"
Evening star., 1960-05-17
Dining In...

The joys of Electric Cooking that give it
Public Acceptance in home kitchens, also
make it favorite in kitchens and on cooking
counters of many outstanding Washington
eating places:
Coolness. Electric cooking heats the food in
stead of the chef, a fact appreciated by house.
wives just as much as by the people who
work in restaurants Folks who do the eating
appreciate it too, because happy cooks make
happy meals.
Cleanliness. Electric cooking is fameless, so
there's no smoke and no SCOT to cling to walls,
curtains, rugs. Homes with Electric cooking
are cleaner, and easier to keep clean; while
restaurants with Electric equipment are more
appetizing and inviting. And in either case,
pots and pans don't get new 'isoot" every
day, SO it's easy to keep them sparkling clean.
Evening star., 1960-05-17

The law was held unconsti-
tutional by Judge Mccarthy in
1858 in a case involving a
Negro woman who sat in a
white section at a political
candidates meeting.
The year before, Circuit
Judge Emery N. HoSmer held
the law constitutional and up
held the conviction of a white
woman who sat by a Negro at
another political meeting. The
case was appealed to the Vir-
ginia Supreme Court of Ap-
peals which threw it out be-
cause the warrant had not
specified the woman's race.
A three-judge Federal Court
last year heard arguments on
the constitutionality of the law
but Withheld its ruling until the
legislation had been tested in
State courts.
Evening star., 1960-05-17
By GEORGE WILSON
Star Stan Writer

With characteristic dignity
the Fine Arts Commission will
celebrate its 50th anniversary
today by solemnly studying
building plans.
The plans on the ofice table,
high in the Interior Building
may be for a monument, a
giant Office building or for a
tiny window in an historic
house in Georgetown. The
commission must decide wheth-
er the structures would be ap-
propriate for the Nations Cap
ital.
Each sketch and blueprint
will be looked at through the
eyes of a layman, landscaper,
sculptor, painter and three
architects, all members of the
commission. If these commits
sioners do not like what they
see, they will ask the District
government to keep the plans
from getting of the drawing
board. The commissioners, in
addition, usually question the
architects before passing judg-
ment.
Approved by Taft
In this way, the commits
sioners serve as the grand jury
for architecture in the Capital.
The Fine Arts Commission
is a grand jury which has
grown in stature since Presi-
dent Taft, on May II, 1910,
Evening star., 1960-05-17
YOUTH WINS PRIZE ~.s.
Newt ype SundioI Devised
BY DANA BULLEN
Star stan Writer

The field Of gnomonics. which
most people can't spell or even
pronounce, is old stuff to a Is
year-old Northern Virginia
high school student.
The youth, Robert S. Owen
doff of 153 Gundry drive. Falls
Church. is an expert on the be-
havior Of the suns shadows.
More precisely. he works with
sundials.
Something of an inventor,
Robert has devised new types
Of sundials and formulated a
number Of new ideas for using
the suns shadows to provide
helpful information.
In the process. he captured
top honors in the general SCI
ence division of the recent
Statewide exhibition sponsored
in Richmond by the Virginia
Academy Of Science.
He also has interested the
Defense Department in two of
his inventions, a pocket navi-
gator and a new way for lost
military personnel to find out
where they are.
The pocket navigator, the
young scientist said yesterday,
is a little larger than a pack
age of cigarettes and can tell
time, direction, length of day.
latitude and time of sunrise
and sunset.
The device has horizontal
and vertical dials that can be
set to translate shadows from a
little needle into facts about
the life around us.
Roberts survival technique"
for lost soldiers and sailors is
similar to present methods but
takes only a fraction of the
time now required.
In outline. it involves tracing
sun shadows on the ground
with a stick and constructing
the solar noon line that shows
due north.
Robert said he got interested
In sundials while working for
Evening star., 1960-05-17
SALES PITCH IN GREENBELT
MUST BE LOWER AFTER $50

nighttime cloak Of silence is ready to drop over
hawkers and peddlers making their rounds in Green
belt Md.
new ordinance adopted by the city council last
night requires the sellers to register with city police and
their nose-making after $3.50 pm daily and before
1880 Sunday.
Passage of the measure was prompted in part by
irate parents whose sweet-toothed youngsters were
aroused nightly by the gongs and bells of ice and
frozen ice vendors.
Under the new ordinance peddlers must refrain from
"any noise Of kind by crying, calling shouting
by of any whistle, rattle, bell gong, clatter,
hammer drum horn other similar mechanical device"
Violators will be subject to fine ranging from $5
to $780, There is charge for registering under the
law, which becomes effective May 26.
Evening star., 1960-05-17
1900 CABS Off Streets
Following Inspections

An estimated 1000 of the
8,329 taxicabs registered for
1860 in Washington were of
the streets yesterday following
the close Friday of the annual
taxicab inspection period.
Motor Vehicle Department
officials reported that during
the f1ve-week inspection period
6,433 cabs were approved for
operation. He estimated that
1000 cabs wre examined during
this period.
More than $500 cabs are op-
Grating, he added, since a few
hundred taxis passed the 1860
inspection during the March
vehicle registration period.
The official said that the cabs
rejected by inspectors and the
estimated 1900 cabs that did
not show up for inspection
Evening star., 1960-05-17
Skunk Problem
Solved by Brave
Fuirfux Youth

A brave young man. faced
with an overwhelming situation,
came to the aid of the Bell
Willard School for the Handi-
capped in Fairfax County yes
terday.
After nearly everyone had
Sidestepped the situation,
Dwight Tingen, 10, of AMMAN
dale, got a rake and pulled a
sick skunk from a window well
outside the school cafeteria.
The skunk had caused the
evacuation of the first grade to
another part of the building.
Mr.. Tingen, an attendant at
the school, had to leave for
awhile-to take a bath.
Evening star., 1960-05-17

must obtain special one-day
driving permits from the de-
partment allowing them to be
driven to the Districts inspec-
ton stations for examination.
This years inspection poll
cies have been protested by the
United Hackers of D. c., a driv-
ers' group which last week pc
titioned the Public Utilities
Commission to restore the usual
To-day grace period for opera
ton of disqualified cabs. The
P. U. C. abolished the Today
period with an order on April
29.
The petition was considered
by the P. U. c. yesterday but
its answer will not be made
public until a formal reply is
prepared for the United Hack
ers.
Evening star., 1960-05-17

A troublesome odor that has
forced some Hyattsville resi-
dents to turn of ventilating
fans and slam windows has
been traced to a sewer line
broken by vandals.
The break is in a wooded
area northeast of the Ager
road Nicholson street intersec-
ton in a 30-year-old terra Gotta
pipe, according to the Washing
ton Suburban Sanitary Com
mission. Repairs also must be
made to q manhole in the 18-
inch line.
Vandals jammed the cover
down into the hole, breaking
the brick wall. Time and cost
Of the repairs have not yet
been determined, reported Ar
thur P. Brigham, public rela-
tions director for the WSSC.
But we'l keep q crew on
Evening star., 1960-05-17
or dining QUIZ.

Accuracy. Whether you're cooking for family
of four, or clientele of 400, you'll be delighted
with the time and temperature control EIec-
trio equipment offers. Result? Uniformly per-
feet quality every time, making young cooks
seasoned veterans, and good cooks even better.
Speed. Electric cooking enables the restaurant
owner to serve more food to more people in
less time, and thus to operate more proftably.
To the housewife, Electricity's speed means
meals served on time, in less time
Safety. Whether you're responsible for the
welfare OF your own family, or hundreds of
patrons, safety is most important and
hameless Electric Cooking Equipment is safe.
And don't forget, Electricitys economical, too
all in all, six good reasons why...
You oIUays eat better in the restaurant or
the home that cooks better Electrically
Evening star., 1960-05-17

proved garden-type dial and a
new method for showing rela-
tionships between dials con-
structed for different latitudes.
The Falls Church youth, a
junior at George Mason High
School, doesn't limit himself to
science. He plays first trumpet
in the school band and was
voted the most valuable Little
League ballplayer two years
ago.
Thus far, he has tested his
survival techniqueS only in his
side yard. However, he said
that if he ever does get lost in
the woods. he'll have q better
chance than most to get out
safely.
Evening star., 1960-05-17
Commission Marks Half Century
As Districts Umpire of Fine Arts

signed a bill into law providing
for a permanent commission
. of seven well-qualified
judges of the fine arts TO
advise upon the location of
statues. fountains ana monu-
ments in the public squares,
streets and parks in the Dis
trict. :"
Under the Shipstead Luce
Act of 1881, the commission
was empowered to review pans
for construction fronting on
the Capitol, White House. La
fayette Park, Pennsylvania
avenue from the Capitol to the
White House, Rock Greek Park,
the Zoo, Potomac Park and
the Mall. Early this year At
torney General Rogers gave
President Eisenhower a Is
page opinion contending the
commission must be consulted
on all building projects in
Georgetown, new as we'll as old.
Lost to Truman
However, the commissions S
road has not been a smooth
one through its first half CEN
tury. Although the group has
won several battles, such as
placing the Lincoln Memorial
and Memorial Bridge where
they are. it has also lost some
Of its fights. A notable setback
to the commission came when
President Truman added a por-
tico balcony to the White
House.
Evening star., 1960-05-17

nngton SchOol Board.
The latest attack on the 1926
law was brought by the coun-
Gil after the school board de-
MED the group permission to
hold an integrated meeting al
WaShington-Lee High Scncol
in April, 1858.
Malcolm Smith. former pres
ident of the council, told the
court the request for school
facilities was made partly in
order to test the law.
Feared Disorder
School Board Member James
G. Stockard, who was chair
man in 1858, said the board
had rejected the request be-
cause it did not want to be-
come a party to violation o.
the law. The board also felt.
he said, that in the tense at
mosphere of the 1858 desegre-
cation crisis, the meeting
might have resulted in dis
order and damage to public
property. David Carliner, at
torney for the council, said the
segregated seating law violated
both the Virginia and United
States Constitutions and should
be declared void.
He asked the court to throw
out the law and issue an in
junction prohibiting the school
board from denying use Of the
school to the council in the
future.
School Board Attorney James
H. Simmonds replied that de-
NAL of constitutional rights
must be challenged by 'indi-
viduals deprived Of their
rights" not by organizations
Conflicting Decisions
The school board. he said
was faced with conflicting de-
cisions from two Arlington Cir
cult Court judges. Since the
law has not been repealed OF
declared unconstitutional by
the Virginia or United State;
Supreme Courts, the boarc
feels it should abide by it, he
said.