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Daily "America's Farthest North Daily Newspaper" Vol. LXXI 15c Per Copy FAIRBANKS, ALASKA, FRIDAY, 14 Pages No. 28 Nixon asks help for fresh approach Four in Barrow family die in blaze BARROW (NMS)-Four members of one family burned to death and a fifth was severely injured here early today when a home burned to the gound during --50 weather. It was listed as the worst fire ever to hit the United States' most northerly village. Additionally, at least a dozen firemen suffered frostbite and Barrow trooper Al Rowe sustained a cracked rib and severe Troopers said the dead are Samuel Akpik, 28; his daughter, Selene J.

Akpik, 3, and twin sons, Ryan J. Akpik and Leroy mother, Edith Akpik, escaped from the blaze but was badly burned on her front and throat. Troopers said she may be airlifted to Fairbanks for treatment. "We still don't know for sure just what caused the fire," trooper Rowe said. "II began in the kitchen area--we don't know whether a stove was left on or what.

"I was the first one on the scene. I live only about a half-block from the Akpik home," Rowe said. Rowe, who said he was there about 20 minutes by himself, made efforts to break into theburninghousewithoutsuccess. "I kept circling the house and hollering for someone to come help me," he said. "I tried to break in the front door-I could see it was locked with a 2x4 from inside, so I knew there was someone in the house.

It was fruitless, though. I couldn't break that 2x4. And very soon the heat started building up, "I don't know how she (Mrs. Akpik) escaped. Maybe through the back somehow.

I do know she went through the worst part of the flames to get out," trooper Rowe said. Barrow has but a single fire vehicle, a tracked machine. Assistance from the naval base soon the trucks soon ran out of water, Rowe said. Trooper Rowe described the village's fire alarm system: "We have several tetephoneson ajointhookupsothatwhenacertain numberis dialed, it rings these emergency phones. Anyone in the village can dial it.

We always get alotof false alarms--just pranks. But today, even after this awful fire, we still got half a dozen false alarms. It really hampered us." Akpik was an employe of the Bureau oflndian Affairs. Tripp appeal denied Court try President pledges constructive work WASHINGTON (AP)-President Nixon, already beset by congressional critics of his belt-tightening new budget, appealed directly to Congress today to work with him to achieve administration goals which he said mark "a fresh approach to government." VISITS PRESIDENT--State Sen. Don Young visits with President Richard Nixon, Wednesday, to discuss problems and concerns of Alaskans.

Young, in Fairbanks this morning, said the President was well aware of the needs of Alaska. Young supports Nixon budget Supr The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal by Fairbanks postmaster Jack Tripp concerning his convictionof possession of nearly $30,000 stolen from the Fairbanks Post Office. Tripp will begin serving a four-year term in federal prison as soon as the legal paperwork is to Seattle from Washington, D.C. Tripp was sentenced last March to the four-year term for his part in a $100,000 burglary of the Fairbanks Post Office March 29, 1971.

Best gobbledegook SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) The January prize-winner in the monthly gobbledegook contest of one California state government publication: "Employe's account of accident: 'When 1 pushed the Tile drawer closed, my right thumb got caught in the drawer." "Supervisor's account of same accident: 'Failure of em- ploye to accurately estimate drawer closure speed for timely removal of The monthly contest for "examples of bureaucratic double- talk" is sponsored by the newsletter of the California Department of Human Resources Development. CLOUDY Continued cloudy with a few snow i tonight and Saturday. High this afternoon near 15 above. Low tonight zero to 5 above.

Brik westerly winds tonight. High Saturday near 10 above. Temperatures at 2,000 feet will be near zero. Outlook for Sunday partly cloudy and slightly cooler. High ThurwUy --1.

Overnight low --12. Temperature at noon 3. High this date 42 in 1942. Low--55 in 1947. Sunrise Saturday 8:31.

for a total of 7 hours and 10 minutes of daylight, a gain of seven. He was arrested Oct. 3, 1971, after an Alaska Airlines employe discovered $29,380 in bills stuffed in the back of a framed lithograph which was sent by Tripp from Seattle to Bill Sparks in Fairbanks. Sparks subsequently was arrested on charges of conspiracy to possess stolen mail. He goes to trial on that charge Feb.

26 in Anchorage U.S. District Court. i who resigned the position of Alaska travel director soon after his arrest, told U.S. District Judge William Beeks at Seattle before being sentenced that if the money had been i by the person in Fairbanks to whom it had been sent, he would not have been arrested. He said authorities would have found that he would have returned the money.

By DENNIS FRADLLEY Assistant News Editor Twenty minutes may seem like a short period of time, but when the 20 minutes are spent talking with the President of the United States it becomes a very long time, according to State Sen. Don Young, the Republican candidate for Alaska's U.S. House of Representatives seat. Sneaking at a press conference this morning, Young reported on his trip this week to Washington D.C., where he met with the President, Sen. Ted Stevens, Secretary of the Interior Rogers Morton, and House Minority Leader Gerald Ford, among others.

Young also discussed the issues in his race against Democratic candidate Emil Notti for the House seat. Young described his meeting with the President as beneficial to Alaskans. "He was well aware of the needs of Alaska," Young said about Nixon. Subjects discussed included the impact of Nixon's decision to cut back federal impact aid to schools and the value of Alaska's said the President showed great interest in the state. Young said he fully supported the President's approach to eliminate social programs where the intended recipient does not realize any benefits.

He cited as an example the cut in the Office of EconomicOpportunity (OEO) a in the state of $450,000. The cut also meant 55 employes in OEO programs would lose their jobs. "If the salaries averaged $8,000, how much was going to the asked. Young said the social programs could be better handled by local and he fully supported the President's goal to increase revenue sharing and cut federal programs. He said he expected the revenue sharing monies to be increased for Alaska.

Concerning the pipeline, Young said he was not a pessimistic person but believed the statement made earlier this week to the state legislature by an Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. executive was right--there most likely will be delays in building the pipeline. E.W. Wellbaum, Alyeska vice president, had predicted that construction would not get under way this year and the line wouldn't be completed until late 1976 or early 1977. It appears three of the judges on the U.S.

Court of Appeals, hearing the suit against the i i have disqualified themselves. "This doesn't look good for the state," Young said. He said he expects an adverse i from the court and, regardless of the decision, expected the case to go to the Supreme Court. If this happens, the time schedule will follow that of Wellbaum's and there's no way the line will be built before 1976, Young asserted. He also expressed support for Nixon's budget released earlier (See YOUNG, page ,1) Arctic Health Research faces closure in fund loss Vietnam peace delegates meet on troop withdrawals In the event Health, Education and Welfare funding is not restored for the Arctic Health Research Center here, the center will close down July 1.

According to Dr. Maurice Bender, center director, the 15-year-old research laboratory's closure would put 70 personsout of work and mean a loss of $1.2 million in annual wages paid in the Fairbanks community. Bender said he's recently heard from Washington, D.C., and was told the drafters of the HEW budget felt "our program is of limited national importance-they feel we, as an organization, should be turned over to the state and be funded through general revenue sharing monies." i i i a information, Bender said hisstaff has been preparing a counter document "showing what we contribute notonly toAlaskabut to the nation in general." Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, said earlier this week he will work to reinstate funds for the center. "The center's work is too vital to the future of Alaska just to extinguish it," Stevens said.

'There is no facility that could take up the research the center is doing." i environmental, engineering and i i a fields in seeking improved health for both native and non-native Alaskans. In the first of a series of Slate of the Union reports, Nixon pledged "to do my part to achieve a constructive working relationship with Congress" controlled by the opposition Democrats. He said: "My sincere hope is that the i and legislative branches can work together in this great undertaking in a positive spirit of mutual respect and cooperation." This first Nixon report was long on generalities but short on specifics. In essence, he stated, then underscored two basic positions: "In the field of foreign policy, we must remember that a strong America--an America whose word is believed and whose strength is respected--is essential to continued peace and understanding in the world." Nixon said the Vietnam peace agreement has strengthened "basic American credibility" and added, "We must act in such a way in coming years that this credibility will remain intact, and with it the world stability of which it is so indispensable a part." "At home, we must reject the mistaken notion--a notion that has dominated too much of the public dialogue for too long- that ever-bigger government is the answer to every problem." The chief executive asserted, "We have learned only too well that heavy taxation and excessive government spending are not a cure-all." Democrats in Congress, particularly, have been critical of Nixon's intention to scrap a broad variety of existing federal programs, most of them in (Sec NIXON'S, page 3) Message at a glance WASHINGTON (AP) Here is President Nixon's State of the Union message today at a glance: His series of messages to Congress will represent "a fresh approach to government." The time has come, he said, to "make clear choices" between old programs that failed and new programs that provide a better way to realize the goals. "Hard decisions must' be made, and we must stick by them," Nixon said.

In foreign policy "a strong America--an America whose word is believed and whose strength is respected--is essential to continued peace and understanding in the world," he said. "The answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending," Nixon said. "It is less waste, more results and greater freedom for the individual American to earn a rightful place in his own community-and for states and localities to address their own needs in their own way, in the light of their own priorities. "The policies which I will outline to Congress in the weeks ahead represent a reaffirmation, not an abdication of federal responsibility." He pledged "to do my part to achieve a constructive working relationship with Congress." U.S. officials demand more information on POW list WASHINGTON (AP) U.S.

officials, unwilling to accept North Vietnam's latest prisoner list as final, are pressing Communist diplomats for more names than those of seven American servicemen and three civilians acknowledged as captives in Laos. SAIGON (AP) The chief delegates of the United States, North and South Vietnam and the Viet Cong on a peacekeeping military commission met for the first time today to take up an agenda including arrangements for the completion of American troop withdrawals and prisoner exchanges, U.S. officials reported. A third pressing item on the agenda, the American officials said, was to arrange security for field teams of the International Commission of Control and Supervision who are to police the cease-fire. The observers from Canada, Poland, Hungary and Indonesia are already three days behind the schedule specified in the cease-fire agreement for setting up regional headquarters in Hue, Da Nang, Pleiku, Phan Thiet, Bien Hoa, My Tho and Can Tho.

U.S. officials termed the meeting "significant." There were other signs that the peacekeeping commissions are getting into action. U.S. helicopters flew 10 more Viet Cong delegates and 4,000 pounds of their supplies from their district headquarters at Loc Ninh to Saigon to join the joint military commission. The international commission sent advance teams today to Pleiku, Da Nang and Hue to check out accommodations.

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger, chief U.S. negotiator of the Vietnam cease-fire agreement and its prisoner provisions, said Thursday night that "it doesn't look to us that it could be complete." "We are querying them" for further information and more names, Kissinger said in a CBS interview. The new lists, provided belatedly Thursday, left unexplained the fate of 308 U.S.

servicemen and four civilians who have been carried in American records as either prisoners or missing in Laos. North Vietnam has acknowledged 562 U.S. servicemen and 23 American civilians are in Communist captivity in North Vietnam, South Vietnam and Laos. Emil Notti endorsed by Central Labor Council The Fairbanks Central Labor Council has endorsed Democratic candidate Emil Notti for Alaska's seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, according to Julis Kornfiend, president of the council.

The endorsement came last night at the council's regular i and was a i according Kornfiend. He also said that Notti's membership in the International of Electrical Workers and Culinary Union also with his consistent involvement with labor problems make him aware of the problems labor faces in Congress. "Emil Notti's experience as a lobbyist in Congress has acquainted him with the leadership in the Congressand the process i moves legislation through Congress," Kornfiend said. Notti arrived in Fairbanks this morning and left for Nenana where he will spend the day meeting with various groups. He will return to Fairbanks tonight and campaign in the area.

WAR BABE--The life of a refugee starts young for this small Cambodian girl fleeing from the fighting south of Phnom Penh along with her peasant family recently. Government troops have been fighting in the area during recent weeks in an effort to reopen the road to besieged garrison at Siem Reap. (AP wirepholo) "That feller with the President don't impress me none. 1 held the spike that President Harding drove to finish the railroad at Nenana and got the scars to prove it.".