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The Nome nugget., 1963-02-15
SEA Inaugurates
 Circuit Rider Program

JUNEAU tR - The Small Busi- ness Administration advised the Alaska congressional delegation yesterday it will inaugurate cir cult rider program from its An chorage office next week.
 The SEA said the program is de signed to assist small businessmen operating in the southeast and cen tral sections of the state.
 Willard Oftedal of the Anchor age office will visit Fairbanks on the first and third Wednesday of each month, starting next We'd nesday.
 Harold Kenny has been assigned to the southeast area and will be Juneau on the second and fourth Wednesday of each month, starting Feb. 27.
The Nome nugget., 1963-02-15
Hi-.Jacked
 Venezuelan Ship Eludes Searchers

CARACUS, Venezuela JAP - Communist terrorists commanding the hijacked Venezuelan freighter Anzoategui eluded search planes and ships of the United States and Venezuela today. A thick over cast moved into the Caribbean from Puerto Rica, providing pos sible cover for the vessel.
 Prime Minister Fidel Castro's government broadcast an offer to give the terrorists asylum of they bring the ship into Cuba. There had been reports the terrorist band would try to take the freighter to the Cuban port of Santiago or - failing that - to Mexico. In Washington, a State Depart ment official said chances were remote for the ships reaching Cuba without detection. He did not elaborate but presumably he meant US. Navy craft used in the Cuban blockade last October would locate the Anzoategui if she came anywhere near Cuba.
 The informant said the first thing the United States will do if American search craft locate the vessel is tell the Venezuelans' and let them make the capture.
 The spokesman declined to say how many ships were engaged ir
 the search but the United State: normally has a score Or more war ships operating in the Caribbean | on training exercises or shake :. down cruises. They range in sig o from aircraft carriers to subms
 rineS.
The Nome nugget., 1963-02-15
State Aid to Prospectors Gets Approval of House Resources Committee

JUNEAU R - Legislation which would provide state financial as- sistance for qualified prospectors received the approval of the House Resources Committee today.
 The measure would permit grants of up to $1,OOO a year for individuals and $2,0OO for partner ships, for such items as transporta- tion and mining equipment and prospecting supplies.
 Testifying before the Resources Committee yesterday, Charles F. Herbert, an Anchorage consulting mining engineer, said the bill could have very beneficial eff feet on prospecting.
 Herbert said prospecting in the state has been on a steady decline and he said he believed the bill might provide just enough finan- cial help to induce qualified pros pectors to go into the field again.
 James Williams, State Director of Mines and Minerals, told the committee he agreed with Herbert's testimony.
 Rep. John Holm, R-Fbks), asked the bills sponsor, Rep. R. s. Me. Combe, D-Chicken, and William: what assurances there were tha the program would not develop into a welfare-type program fo semi-amateur, summertime pros pectors.
 Williams replied that most of tn qualified prospectors of the stat were known personally by hir
 or members of his staff, and tn; 5 the qualifications of others cou, be determined easily. Under questioning by Rep. Gle Tillion, R-Halibut Cove), William said he believed the provisions , the bill could be carried out wit an appropriation Of about S20,00
The Nome nugget., 1963-02-15
Rosellini Regards
 Halibut Treaty Tragic

SEATTLE R - Gov. Rosellini asked a joint congressional com mittee Friday to take whatever steps necessary to see that the pro- posed Japanese encroachment on halibut in the eastern Boring Sea does not come to pass.
 Rosellini said for orderly man. agement of the North Pacific fish cries, it was essential to retain a treaty with Japan.
 He added he regarded the open ing of the eastern Boring Sea as tragic.
 Rosellini spoke at hearing of the Senate and House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committees
The Nome nugget., 1963-02-15
PUBLIC DEFENDER SYSTEM

JUNEAU R - Legislation cre- ating a public defender system in Alaska was introduced in the House today by Mike Gravel and John Rader, Anchorage Democrats.
 The measure would permit the presiding judge in each judicial district to appoint one or more at torneys as public defenders to re- present indigent persons charged with felonies, misdemeanors or ordinance violations.
 Attorneys appointed public de- lenders would not be permitted to engage in private practice with out the permission of the presid- ing judge and the administrative director of the court system.
The Nome nugget., 1963-02-15
FAA Officials Here
 To Discuss Taking Over Nome Airport by City

Al Hulen, assistant administra- tor, Alaska region, FAA, arrived this morning from Anchorage ac- companied by Virgil Knight, spe- cial planning coordinator, and Ger aid Kempton, chief of the Air ports Division.
 They will hold meeting this evening at pm. in the City Hall on the proposed plan for the city or state to take over the Nome airport.
 The meeting is an open meeting being held with the Nome City Council and representatives of the Chamber of Commerce.
The Nome nugget., 1963-02-15
State Withholds $143,0OO For Delay In Delivery Of Ferry Malaspina

JUNEAU tY - The Department of Public Works said today it has withheld S143,OOO, as a penalty payment to the state, from the pur- chase price of the ferry Malaspina.
 Norman Schwalb, special assist ant to Commissioner Richard A. Downing, said the S143,O00 was withheld from a per cent pay ment made to the Malaspina's builder, the Puget Sound Bridge and Dry Dock Co.,, Seattle, late last month.
 The per cent payment, totaling S164, ,030.21, was due upon delivery of the Malaspina. The state took possession of the vessel on Jan. 21.
 The state still owes per cent of the purchase price, another $164,83O21. Schwalb said this amount will be held for a year as a guarantee fund.
 Under the terms of the agree ment in which Puget Sound con- tracted to build the Malaspina and two sister ships, the Taku and Matanuska, the company agreed to pay a penalty of $1,O00 a day for each day of delay in delivering the vessels, except for reasons beyond it's control.
 The company, in the contract, agreed to deliver the Malaspina Aug. 30. It was not delivered until Jan. 21, 143 days after the con- tracted delivery date.
 The Taku, which was scheduled for delivery on Dec. 30, is already into penalty time, under the con- tract. Puget Sound has estimated it will deliver the Taku now on March 30.
 The delivery date for the Mata- nuska, under the contract, is April 30, and the company, in its last estimate, indicated it expects to meet the deadline.
 At Seattle Puget Sounds presi- dent, James McCurdy, said he had no comment at this time on the l states action.
The Nome nugget., 1963-02-15
Japanese, Canadian, US. Fishermen to Compete in Boring Sea Halibut Fishery

SEATTLE R - The Boring Sea halibut conservation agree ment worked out in Tokyo was defended by American negotiators today before a critical audience at a congressional hearing.
 Members of the American ne- gotiating team return from Tokyo in time to appear at the hearing on the halibut controversy.
 'The regulations recommended are not perfect" Clarence Pautzke told the group, "but we are con- vinced they meet the basic con- servation of the halibut stocks"
 Pautzke is chairman of the Unit ed States section of the Interna- tional North Pacific Fisheries Con- mission.
 Shouts of ''big dear' were heard as Pautzke and his associates out lined the regulations.
 The congressional committee, headed by Sen. Warren Magnuson has been hearing objections to the Fisheries Commission recommenda- tion that the Eastern Boring Sea be opened to Japanese fishermen this year.
 Under the regulations agreed upon in Tokyo fishermen of Japan, America and Canada would com- pete with equal gear and equal re- strictions in the prime fishing area of the Eastern Boring Sea.
 Pautzke said the 11-million- pound halibut quota in the prime zone for all three nations, plus other conservation measures, guar antees rather substantial protec- tion" for the halibut.
 Rep. K. w. Stinson, R-Wn0, asked:
 What have American fishermen gained from all this? Are we going to get part of the Japanese fisher ies?"
 Donald McKernan, Director of the Federal Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, replied:
 "The Japanese said the Boring Sea is the high seas. At least we think we can hold them to an eff fective conservation program there now"
 E. A. Rutherford of Seattle, a
The Nome nugget., 1963-02-15

fish packing company official, said his industry already is in trouble because of 'the flooding of Ameri- can markets with frozen Japanese caught halibut.'
 Our market is demoralized," |" Rutherford said. "Unless something is done quickly, we are going to be in serious trouble in the coming season."
 Milo Moore, former Washington State Fisheries Director, was asked by Magnuson for his recommenda- tions on improving the State De- partment's position on fisheries.
 "The best thing that could hap pen," said Moore, "would be to just cancel the State Departments budget"
 At yesterdays opening session of the two-day Commerce Commit tee hearing, Harold Crowther, vice chairman of the Fisheries Commission, defended it's decision to let the Japanese Tn.
 Crowther said there is no evi- dence the halibut fishery is being fully used, which is necessary un- der the United States-Canada-Ja- pan fishing treaty for an area to remain exclusive.
 CroWther said the annual halibut catch has increased from A mil lion pounds in 1881 to 72 million pounds.
 Clarence N lord h l, secretary treasurer of the Deep Sea Fisher mems Union of the Pacific, sait the increase was due to Canadian and American conservation prac tice.
 'We have been putting halibu in the bank" said Nordahl, "ant have preferred and special righ to draw out the interest" Magnuson said yesterday Japal used diplomatic "blackmail' tt push into the eastern Boring Ses halibut grounds.
 The senator used that term in re- ferring to testimony that Japan had threatened to wipe out the North Pacific Treaty unless it Wor access to the halibut.
 John Wedin of Seattle, editor o1 the Fishermen's News, called for an end to what he called America $ defensive posture in fisheries ne- gotiations.
 Wedin also contended that the Bering Sea action may be an in vitation for Russia to "join with Japan at the feast table"
 Continued on Page Five
The Nome nugget., 1963-02-15
WEATHER OUTLOOK

Cloudy with snow. NE winds 2O-25 mph. Low tonight 10, high tomorrow 21. In the last "A hours: High of 21, low of 10. Max. wind g mph from the north. Sunrise at 7:59 a.m.. sunset at ABA pm. Temps. year ago today: High of 25, low of 15. Extremes on this date since 1907: High of 35 in 1941, low of -37 in 1857.
The Nome nugget., 1963-02-15
Alaska Member of Fishery Commission Says Japanese Made Several Concessions

ANCHORAGE R - The Japa- nese yielded lot of ground, went just as far as the Canadians and Americans did' at the interim International North Pacific Fish cries Commission meeting just con- cluded in Tokyo, Dr. Fred McGin- his said here today.
 McGinnis, president of Alaska Methodist University, is one of the four us. Commissioners on the international fisheries body.
 Were convinced the best in- terests of the United States and Canada have been protected" he said.
 McGinnis said the Japanese were intensely interested" in coming up with a haibut fishing agreement acceptable to all parties.
 He said the Japanese m a d e what were considered three major concessions: They consented to adoption of an overall catch quota for the area Q1 million pounds during the next year), they agreed that fish under 26 inches in length and five pounds in weight would be returned wherever taken in the eastern Boring, and they accepted the principle of a closed season there.
 This was not easy for them to do said McGinnis, the only Alas kan member of the fisheries com mission.
The Nome nugget., 1963-02-15
$3 Incentive Pay for Gold

JUNEAU lR = A measure which would require the state to pay a production incentive payment of $500 per fine ounce of gold newly mined in Alaska was introduced in the Senate yesterday.
 The measure was sponsored by a bipartisan group of IA members of the upper chamber.
The Nome nugget., 1963-02-15
Hearings Scheduled On
 l9-Year- r-Olds to Purchase Liquor

JUNEAU R - Chairman Wm. Sanders of the House Judiciary Committee scheduled public hear ing for Tuesday on a bill which would permit 19-year-olds to pur- chase liquor.
 Sanders said the hearing would take place in the Superior Court room on the fifth floor of the State Capitol at 7:30 pm. Feb. 19.
Evening star., 1963-09-30
AS JANEWAY VIEWS 1T ,
Russian Wheat Deal Holds
Surplus Benefit, Some Peril

is certain to be subjected to
searching scrutiny and debate
Before Russia cleaned out
the Canadian wheat surplus, no
outsider knew how much she
was short for her own domestic
requirem e nj is; and no one
knows even yet. All that any
one knows is that some of the
wheat she bought will be resold
to Cuba; that China, whic h
needs Canadian wheat and has
been buying a great deal of it,
is temporarily frozen out of the
Cana dian market; and that
Russia's satellites in eastern
Europe will share a ration with
Cuba.
Economically. it's adding up
to a bail-out for Canada, and
to a bonanza for the grain and
shipping markets. But, politi-
cally, 1t looks more like a coup
for Russia. In terms of guide
lines and periol points for ma
tional policy, the United States
needs the bail-out and wants
the bonanza, and there's a very
specific reason why we should
be able to trade it out for our
selves without inviting Russia
to score another political coup
at our expense.
The reason is that the entire
European land mass seems to
have suffered a wheat crop fail
ure this year. while nature has
been bountiful on this side of
Evening star., 1963-09-30
VEPCO Revenue and Net
Show Increase in Auqust

main offices are at One Chase
Manhattan Plaza, New York,
handles mortgage loans on all
types of properties in the
United States and Puerto Rico.
Mr.. DeFranceaux said the
volume handled during the
fiscal year ending october 81
is expected to exceed $3.50 mil
lion. j. Maxwell Pringle will
continue as company president
and also become a director Of
Associated.
This will be the fourth ac-
QUESTION of Associated. a pub
licly-owned company whose
stock is traded over the counter.
Organized as a holding COM
pany in January. 1862, its COM
panies also include Frederick
w. Berens, Inc. Of Washing
ton; Tidewater Mortgage Corp.
of Hampton, Va; South Jersey
Mortgage Co. and Philip Zin-
man & Co. of Camden, N. j.;
South Jersey Mortgage Co. of
Virginia. Inc, Newport News;
Universal Associates, Inc. Of
New York; Bankers Guaranty
Corp. of Washington, and
BerenS Mortgage Bankers, Inc,
of Puerto Rico.
Evening star., 1963-09-30
Cost-Cuttinq,
Sales Rise Aid
Steel Outlook

CLEVELAND (AP) Higher
sales and cost r / m ming are
pushing up metal working pro-
fits and more gains are ahead,
Steel Magazine reports.
The trade journal also fore
cast that this years production
will be 1912 million ingot tons
II fourth-quarter output simply
equals that of the 1862 period.
The total output last year was
98.3 million tons.
Steel said the average rate of
probability was 4.69 cents out
of each dollar of metal working
sales in the first half. This
compared with 4.49 cents for
all of last year.
The advance stemmed from
a marked upturn in the second
quarter, Steel said. Metal work.
ing sales in the second quarter
were 1913 per cent greater than
those of the first quarter, and
dollar volume Of net profits
jumped 32.1 per cent, according
to a steel analysis of figures
compiled by the Securities g.
Exchange Commission.
The publication said m o S t
manufacturers look for thir d
and fourth quarter sales re-
cords.
Steel ingot production is ex-
pected to rise for the seventh
straight week. Output will ex-
ceed the 1.89 million tons the
agaZine estimated were poured
last week. The operations rate
then was reported at above 81
per cent Of unofficial capacity.
September's production of
about 7.87 million ingot tons
boosted third-quarter output to
24.3 million tons, the magazine
said, and raised the total for
nine months to 83.5 million
tons.
Evening star., 1963-09-30

ness for the steel, cement, lum-
Der. glass, paint, brick and
other basic materials indus
tries.
Dodge reported that nonresi-
Dental building contracts at
81 1872, 100000 in August were
up IL per cent from a year ear
lier, residential building was up
IA per cent and nonbuilding
construction contracts public
works and utilities) were up 7
per cent.
On another front, the Ma
tional Association of Purchas-
ing Agents predicted that busi-
ness will show further improve
ment. Its forecast was based
on sharp gains from August in
corporate production rates and
new orders in September. Buy
ing officials of representative
companies continue to display
cautious optimism as the busi-
ness expansion enters what is
generally accepted as its 32d
month";" the association said.
Evening star., 1963-09-30
BY CHARLES COVELL
Star Business Writer

Virginia Electric & Power
Co. today reported a Jump in
August operating revenues to
$16,940,000 from $15,482 900 in
August, 1862, and an increase
in net income to $3,350,000
compared to $3,186,000 for the
same month last year.
Operating revenues for the
IL months ending August 81
totaled $194,014,000, while net
income reached $39,519,000.
During the same period in
1862, operating revenues were
182,454.000 and net income
was $37,206,000.
The company reported that
per share earnings on its COM
mon stock for the IL months,
adjusted to reflect the stock
split (three shares for two) ef-
,fected April 26, amounted to
$l.58 this year compared to
$l.53 last year. This was based
on 22,365,212 shares outstand-
ing on August 81 and 22,365, 900
shares in 1862.
VEPCO reported gainin g
Evening star., 1963-09-30
Industry Notes
Giant Strides
In Virginia

RICHMOND (AP). - TIL e
State Department of Labor and
Industry believes that Virginia
is we'll on the way toward be-
coming IAN industrial giant
among her sister States"
The department noted in a
report that the value added
by manufacturers in Virginia
during 1862 totaled about $2.S
billion, an increase of nearly
$253 million over 1861.
Salaries and wages paid to
manufacturing workers in 1862
totaled about $1.3 billion, up
from $1.2 billion in 1861.
Capital outlays for manu-
featuring in 1862 totaled 1927
million, an increase of $21.3
million over 1861.
The report noted further that
factory payrolls accounted for
the employment Of 291, 300
workers in 1962-an increase
Of 1890 over the previous
year.
Impressive gains made by
manufacturing Gin 1862 may
be attributed not only to
diversification of industry, but
also to the fact that the ap-
proximately 4,400 manufactur.
ing plants in Virginia are well
dispersed throughout the
State" the report said.
Textile manufacturers &C
counted for the largest single
sector of Virginia's manu-
featuring industries. Textile
firms employed $1,000 workers
in 1862.
Evening star., 1963-09-30
U. S. Wheat Helped
Russians Out in Past

Nations top milling center,
pledged a total Of 100000
pounds of flour.
The SIS. Missouri sailed from
New York March 16, 1892, with
So million pounds Of flour and
cornmeal. An estimated 10000
lives were saved by the relief
shipment. o.
In 1921, when drought and
crop failures led to widespread
famine in Russia, some 9 mil
lion people were fed through
efforts of the American Relief
Administration under direction
of Herbert Hoover, then Secre-
tary Of Commerce.
ABOUT $40 million worth Of
food was raised largely through
efforts of the American Friends
Society. Congress authorized
another $40 million. Ninety-two
ships carried $4,000 tons Of
food to Russia from August
1921 to May 1922.
Evening star., 1963-09-30

the Atlantic. Theorizing apart,
no one knows how severe the
failure may have been within
Russia herself; how much OF a
reserve she may have; or how
much Of her present purchases
are really scheduled not for her
own internal use but instead
for resale thruout free Europe
and for rationing and political
bribery among the satellites.
We don't need Russia to get
in between us and our allies
and friends in free Europe, and
to resell our premium commo-
dities to them for their good
money when they are our cred
itors. 1t is to the mutual in
terest Of all in the Atlantic
community for us to earn more
by direct sales to Europe. No
doubt about it, free Europe,
needs wheat, and 1t has the
money to pay for it. True. Rus
STA will offer to pay us in gold,
which we badly need, but so
will Europe. o..
The satellites need our wheat
even more, and this is a time
for us to trade out a tangible
political return on all that we
have been giving to Poland and
to Yugoslavia, as we'll as for us
to look for our own back in
Hungary and Czechoslovakia. =
(Chicaso Tribune-New York News
Syndicate, Inc.)
Evening star., 1963-09-30

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Rus
sia's need for wheat in a year
of poor wheat production has
its precedent here.
Twice in the last 10 years
in 1892 and again in 1922
United States wheat went to
because of crop disas-
ters. On both occasions there
was some criticism on political
or theological grounds.
A Minneapolis publishing
firm played a leading role in
1892 when United States grain
went to Russia as relief ship
ments because of famine.
The late William C. Edgar
former editor of the North
western Miller, confirming re-
ports of a crop catastrophe
wired the Russian minister out
lining a plan to ship flour
cargo. The Russians accepted
Within an hour every floul
mill in Minneapolis, then the
Evening star., 1963-09-30

28,500 customers during the
last IL months, 25,200 for elec-
trio service and $500 for gas.
The company now has approx
imately $4,000 electric and
10000 gas customers.
A. H. Mcdowell, jr., president,
said the company spent $54.2
of its 1868 construction
budget of $89 million during
the first seven months of this
year. Major expenditures IN
clude continuation of con-
struction on a fifth unit ut
Chesterfield Power Station and
the Mount Storm mine-mouth
station in West virginia.
Evening star., 1963-09-30
u. S. MAY LET
S&Ls LEND
IN ANY AREA
BY Dow Jones

Federal regulators are
mulling a plan that would
let a savings and loan as
sociation make some of its
mortgage loans almost any,
where in the Nation, not
just in its home neighbor-
hood.
Joseph P. McMurray,
chairman of the Federal
Home Loan Bank Board,
disclosed the plan in a talk
to the Mortgage Bankers
Association in San Fran
cisco. Describing it as a
major change in the func-
ton" Of savings and loan
associations, he said it
would allow them to lend
up to S per cent of their
assets in ANY standard
metropolitan area"
Evening star., 1963-09-30


Contract awards foreshadow
future construction activity.
THE latest burst of contract
ing should support a very high
level of construction work
throughout the balance of the
year." said George A. Christie,
Dodge senior economist.
Rising demand for new hous-
ing will require the construc-
tion of more than 2 million
new dwellings a year by 1870.
the Housing and Home Finance
Agency reported today. This
will mean an increase of about
one-third from the current
rate of about is million new
home starts, the housing
agency said in its annual re-
port.
At $4,O61 ,492 900, the August
contract award level ran IL per
cent ahead of the like 1862
month.
Construction represents a
source Of employment second
only to agriculture.
1t is a big generator of busi-