Fairbanks Daily News-Miner from Fairbanks, Alaska • Page 3

CITY NEWS IN BRIEF IBEW meets The regular monthly meeting of the IBEW Local 1547 will be at 7:30 p.m. today in the Carpenter's Hall, 315 Fifth Ave. All members are urged to attend. No council meeting The regular meeting of the Fairbanks City Council scheduled for tonight has been canceled because of the lack of a quorum. Councilmen Tom Miklautsch, Ernie Carter are out of town and John Huber, who has left his council seat to join the state legislature, has not yet been replaced.

The meeting will be made up Jan. 18 to be followed by the next regular session Jan. 25. GOP bridge tourney i Republican Womens Club bridge tournament will be starting immediately. Please call Angle Geraghty 452-2702 or Mary Mitchell 452-3484.

To sign up or obtain information. Crisis Line training Volunteers who have been through screening for Crisis Line will meet at 7 p.m. today, Wednesday and Friday and on Jan. 18 and 20 in the Moose Room at the Alaskaland Civic Center. Meetings will be held regardless of the weather.

ESA meeting The business meeting of Alpha Beta of ESA will be held at Elizabeth Schroeder's, 4043 Evergreen at 8 p.m. Tuesday. Those wishing directions meet at the College Dairy Queen at 7:40 p.m. Coin Club meet The Fairbanks Coin Club will meet at 7 p.m., Tuesday, in the U.S.O. An auction will be conducted and a door prize will be given.

Visitors are cordially invited. Snow Removal There will be no parking after 8 a.m. tomorrow from Seventh, Eighth, and 10th Avenue from Noble to Clay on Clay Street from 10th to Wendell; on Noble from Fifth to Clay; on Hall Street from Wendell to Sixth Avenue; and Sixth Avenue from Fifth to Noble Street. TVSA meeting a a a Valley Sportsmen's Association will meet at 8 p.mTuesday night at the clubhouse off Airport Road. A business meeting is scheduled, plus a speaker from the Department of Fish and Game who will discuss the moose situation in view of weather conditions this winter.

Organ Missing' James J. Burton reported the theft of a Hammond musical organ valued at $1,500 to Alaska State Troopers Friday. The organ was missing from a pickup truck at the parking lot of the City. Racing Association The Greater Fairbanks Racing Association will meet Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the Alaskaland Theater.

Presentation of new rules will be made and election of a new secretary will be held. New membership cards also will be available. FNA meets a i a a i Association will hold its monthly meeting at 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Hospitality House, 1406 Airport Way. Topics for discussion will include the Native Land Claims, center activities and committee reports.

All members have been asked to attend. Freight increase vote by Board being appealed The Board of Suspension of the I a Commission voted 3-2 this morning not to suspend proposed freight rate increases by the Alaska Railroad and Sea-Land Freight, according to word received late this morning by Fairbanks Mayor Julian C. Rice. An KH the board 15 per cent increase is scheduled to go into effect on Thursday. Rice said an immediate appeal was made by telegram to Division: II of the Commission, a group composed of several of the ICC Commissioners.

The group was advised that the Board of Suspension vote was being appealed. Division II will necessarily haw to hear the appeal prior to Thursday under special rules, according to Rice. Administration endorses proposal made by Gravel Ftifbtnkt Daily Jtfyw 11.WI-* WASHINGTON-ln a letter to Sen. Mike Gravel (D-Alaska), the Nixon administration has endorsed the elimination of communications carriers from the board of the Communications a i a i (COMSAT). During the last Congress, Gravel introduced legislation which would have done this.

Thursday, Gravel released a letter from Assistant Attorney Gen. Richard W. McLaren dated Jan. 5 supporting the Alaskan's proposal. Gravel said be interprets the McLaren letter, which wa- cleared for release by the White Home, at meaning the Nixon administration is prepared to go along with getting the carriers off the board of COMSAT and forcing them to divest themselves of their stock in the corporation.

In response to a letter from Gravel, written last February i i Department's opinion of his legislation, McLaren said, "in a we would favor enactment of legislation along these lines to eliminate direct carrier control or influence over COMSAT." Carriers presently hold about $140 million worth of stock in COMSAT and most of this is owned by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Gravel" also said he thinks the McLaren letter indicates the administration is ready to go ahead with the creation of a domestic satellite system, something past administrations have balked at doing. In his letter to Gravel, McLaren said, "unless combined with at Assassination challenge Uruguay for negotiations MONTEVIDEO, a (AP) The Tupamaro urban guerrillas assassinated a detective today and challenged the government to negotiate the release of kidnaped British Ambassador Geoffrey Jackson. I Several Tupamaros opened fire with pistols as detective Jose Leandro Villalba left a bar, police reported. Villalba, off duty, was killed instantly.

A note left by the Tupa- maros said: "This is how an informer is paid." Villalba was the llth policeman killed by Tupamaros since 1966. Breaking a three-day silence, the Tupamaros announced Sunday night that the British ambassador, kidnaped on Friday, and U.S. agronomist Claude L. Fly and a kidnaped Brazilian diplomat were "in perfect state of health." In a communique to several Montevideo newspapers, the leftist rebels called on the government "to reconsider its re- USO discrepancy under investigation An "apparent discrepancy" in accounts of the Fairbanks United Service Organization is being investigated by a bonding company, Martin Underwood, president of the USO Council here, said today. a "discrepancy" has not been determined, Underwood said.

In a statement released by Underwood which also was authorized by the national USO, Underwood said: "There has been discovered an apparent discrepancy in the books of accounts of the Fairbanks, Alaska, USO club. The matter was turned over to our bonding company early in July, 1970, and it is our understanding that they are making a full investigation and will take whatever steps are necessary and a i a circumstances to resolve the matter. "We do not have an exact a of the discrepancy because we have not as yet been reimbursed by our bonding company." Dean Hickox, executive director of the office here, said the investigation is going back to June, 1966. a a a a executive director of the USO here prior to June 1,1970 when Hickox was appointed to the i i a a a transferred to the Tacoma office of the USO as executive director. Underwood's statement said "Mr.

Bernard Carvalho is not now employed in any capacity by the USOoranyofitsaffiliates." TOCKMARKET NEW YORK (AP)-Prices on the New York stock market closed about even after rallying from an earlier decline. Trading was fairly active. The Dow Jones closing stock averages: 30 Industrials 837.21 up 0.20; 20 Transportation 1Y5.52 down 1.23; 15 Utilities 123.08 up 0.60; and 65 Stocks 274.57 down 0.22. A i Monday's select- FMC Cp ed New YorkStock Food Exchange closing Ford Mot 55 triers: For McK m-- Close ChR. Frecp Sul Admiral Frueh Cp Aican Al 234k-- Mi A Cp Allied Gam Sko 37 Allied Stt 14 Gwinrtl 34 -H4 Allis Chal Gen Uyn Alcoa Gen Elec 93V4 Am Hess Gen Fds nv, Am Air! 26 Gen Mills 32 -i A Brnds 43to Gen Mot nVt-- A Bdcst 25 1 'A Te! El 32 Am Can Gen Tire 22tt Ga Pac Am Cyan 34 tt Gillette 46W- Am ELP SlttH- 'A Aid TVi A MctCl 34 tt.Goodrch 21 'A Am Mill Goodyr SHI- A Smelt HH- Gt 'A Am Std 29 1W Green Gt iWt- A Am TUT VI Greynnd Vt Ampex Vi Gulf Oil KHA-1 Anuorid 19 Hecla Armco Hew Pac Armst Ck oily IS V.

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The numbers are 452-2264, 488-6890, and 456-4565. Candk classes There will be a special candle making class at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Salvation Army building at 10th and Stewart Streets. Classes will be conducted byMrs.W.C.Norum. fusal to negotiate" the release of Fly and Brazilian Consul Aloyslo Dias Gomide, their captives for five months, and British Ambassador Geoffrey Jackson, who was kidnaped on Friday.

The message came as the Legislative Commission, which acts for Congress when it is not in session, was considering a request by President Jorge Pacheco Areco for a 90-day suspension of civil liberties to help in the search for the captives. The Tupamaro communique said the rebels were withdrawing their offer to release Fly, 65, of Fort Collins, if Montevideo's newspapers published an antigovernment proclamation. No new ransom demand was made. The government refused to authorize the publication, although one newspaper published the manifesto last week. Another Tupamaro offer, to release the Brazilian consul for $1 million ransom, expires today.

Dias Gomide's wife has been trying to raise the money but apparently has not succeeded. A local newspaper said a telephone caller identifying himself as a Tupamaro said the consul would be turned over to Brazilian guerrillas if the money was not paid. The rebel communique set no for the release of the 55-year-old British ambassador beyond asking the government to negotiate. The government already had repeated what it said when Fly, Dias Gomide and U.S. police adviser Dan Mitrione were kidnaped in August, that it would not make deals with "common criminals." The kidnapers murdered Mitrione, but the government has not changed its stand.

Crewmen missing after collision English Channel FOLKESTONE, a (AP) A Texaco natural gas tanker and a Peruvian freighter collided in thick English Channel fog early today, triggering an explosion that ripped the tanker in two and left eight seamen missing. Twenty-two crewmen of the Texaco Caribbean were rescued. Two were hospitalized for shock and exposure, while one had possible chest injuries. The stern of the Texaco Caribbean drifted free in the channel, kept afloat by watertight bulkheads. The Coast Guard declared the charred hulk a danger to navigation and said that the front portion apparently sank.

The freighter, the Paracas, was being towed by a German tug to Hamburg. The explosion that split the tanker echoed along 20 miles of coast from Dover to Dungeness, breaking windows and touching off about 1,000 calls to the Coast Guard. Former mayor Anchorage dies HONOLULU, Hawaii (AP) Hewitt Lounsbury, 59, former Anchorage mayor died early Saturday in Queens Hospital here. Lounsbury was mayor of Anchorage in 1968 and and was prominent in Alaska civic circles. He was owner and founder of H.

V. Lounsbury and Associa- ngineers. Survivus include his widow, Ester of Hawaii; sons Loren of Washington D.C. and Anchorage, Joel of Anchorage, and John of Hawaii; and five grandchildren. Funeral arrangements are pending.

least some reversal of the FCC's decisions protecting existing a i a i competition, such legislation i enhance i i i a COMSAT'S competitve potential." Gravel said in the past the a i a i Commission has "gotten more hung up on protecting the industry than on protecting the public interest," of the McLaren letter, he remarked, "it must indicate the FCC is going to make a similar turn." At the present time, the FCC has before it three applications for a domestic satellite system. The deadline for Tiling is March 1 and at least one other company has indicated plans to file. The 1962 legislation which created COMSAT gave it an unclear mandate to set up a domestic satellite system. a feels COMSAT hasn't done what it was meant to do. He said he is particularly sensitive about this because Alaska would benefit greatly from the creation of a domestic satellite system.

He denied that he has any particular bone to pick with COMSAT or with specific people at the satellite corporation. Gravel said lie intends to re-introduce his legislation at the start of the 92nd Congress. If approved, his bill would ATT from the COMSAT board by Jan. 1,1972 and give him two years in which to divest themselves of their stock in the corporation. (ATT holds 29 per cent of the COMSAT'S stock.) Three members of the 15-man board are chosen by the carriers.

Under the terms of Gravel's bill, these three would be chosen by the stockholders, as are nine members of the board now. In 1969, Gravel also introduced legislation to change for policy requiring the joint ownership of earth stations by the carriers and COMSAT. The Gravel bill would have allowed a community, for example, to own 50 per cent of an earth station. In January of 1970, the White House position paper on i a i incorporated this principle. CALIFORNIA SUNSHINE SUFFERERS-Karen Williams, 5, tests ice on plant in her yard in El Centre, Calif, where temperatures last week plunged to 17 degrees from the usual 60s.

El Centre Chamber of Commerce manager Bill Duflock tries to warm up the thermometer because his organization brags that El Centre is the city "where the sun spends the winter." (Photos by Paul Noden Courtesy of Imperial Valley Press) Bolivia revolt trv crushed LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) A group of army officers seized the armed forces headquarters in La Paz early today in rebellion against Bolivia's three- month-old leftist military regime. A few hours later President Juan Jose Torres announced the revolt had been crushed. In a broadcast to the nation, Gen. Torres said some leaders of the coup had taken refuge in foreign embassies--chiefly in the embassy of Peru. The leaders were described as mostly young officers.

Torres called them right-wingers and reactionary subversives. In the early hours, the rebels announced they were acting to keep Bolivia from being delivered to "another imperialism as dismal as that of North America." They did not identify it. Torres assured the nation that a state of normality had been restored and urged workers to report to their jobs as usual. 'Para-medics' bill prefiled by Kerttula JUNEAU (AP) Establishment of "para-medics" to relieve a shortage of doctors, a fund to assist low-income housing and a program to provide loans and grants for higher education have been proposed in bills prefiled in the state legislature. Rep.

Jalmar Kerttula, D-Palmer, prefiled a bill that would authorize "physician assistants" to "assist practicing physicians in urban areas and bring physician services to remote regions which are not presently being served adequately by licensed physicians in the state." The bills calls for licensing doctors to supervise the work of physician assistants and would require establishment. and approval of training programs for the medical aides. A measure prefiled by Sen. Joe Josephson, D-Anchorage, would create various loan funds within the Department of Commerce to assist in planning and construction of housing for low- and middle-income families. The housing measure also would require that at least $1 million annually, either by a matching 10 per cent of federal funds granted for the Alaska Native Housing program or by an outright appropriation, be made available "to fund the program in any fiscal year as the state's share in financing the cost of preparing, administering and implementing the Alaska Native Housing program." The Commerce Department funds would be used to make noninterest loans to nonprofit housing projects to be constructed with eligible mortgages, provide funds for planning, rehabilitation and operating such housing and subsidies to lower rents.

Rep. Mike Bradner, D-Fairbanks, prefiled a bill to set up a six-member committee to make state loans and grants to Alaskans pursuing advanced degrees. Seventy-five per cent matching funds for school construction within borough and city school districts would be authorized under a bill prefiled by Kerttula. The Palmer Democrat also pre- filed a measure creating an office of ombudsman under the legislative branch, one of several similar bills already prefiled. EGAN, BOUCHER INSTALLED (Continued from Page 1) state post over Miller by a comfortable margin.

"The task ahead will seldom be easy," he told the inaugural crowd Saturday. "But Alaskans would never have built this great land if they had been awed by'difficult times or been discouraged by the great obstacles they have overcome." Egan and his family, Lt. Gov. H. A.

"Red" Boucher and his wife, and military and civilian dignitaries marched from the gymnasium to music from the Alaskan Air Command band. The crowd followed behind, into cold, screaming winds from the south as people scattered to parties and other gatherings around the capital city. On the waterfront, the winds set the Alaska ferry Wickersham grinding against the wharf to which it had been tied to house inaugural guests. The winds already had resulted in cancellation of Saturday's inaugural parade, and now snappca cables and forced the Wickersham to move some 16 miles north of Juneau to a more protected moorage. School buses were pressed into service to transport party goers from their cramped quarters aboard the vessel over icy roads to the functions in town.

Women in ball gowns and men in dinner attire clamored--one by one--up and down a stepladder to the ship's gangplank, which would not make contact with the Auke Bay pier. Downtown, balls got underway at several locations, lasting into the wee hours. At one hotel, power outages plunged the party into darkness three times, and candles lent a turn-of-the-ccn- tury mood to the scene. Other inaugural balls are scheduled for Fairbanks Friday, Anchorage Saturday and Nome Jan. 23.

But in Juneau, the party was over by daylight Sunday, and politicians were talking earnest business in scattered meetings. On Monday, the frivolity ended and the 7th Alaska Legislature was about to get down to work. Early in the revolt, Col. Jorge Sanchez, a rebel spokesman, claimed several top loyalist officers at military headquarters had been seized by the rebels, GUESS ELECTED (Continued from Page 1) Republicans taking the group of assignments remaining. One group includes the Senate presidency and the other includes the chairmanship of the powerful Senate Finance Committee.

The Democrats, however, proposed that members of their party run the Senate, chair every committee and hold a majority on every committee. Josephson declined to discuss the possibility of a compromise in organizing the Senate, but neither did he say how the Democrats would be able to muster the extra support to break the 10-10 tie and organize the upper chamber along the lines of the Democratic plan. He said the Democratic caucus hasn't set a time limit for organizing the senate, but added, "These are our proposals and we'll adhere to them indefinitely." Other leadership and chairmanship nominations made in the Democratic caucus included: Majority Whip, Sen. Ed Merdes, Fairbanks; Caucus chairman, Sen. John Rader, Anchorage; Rules, Josephson; Resources, Sen.

Kay Poland, Kodiak; Judiciary, Sen. Bob Ziegler, Ketchikan; Health, Education and Welfare, Sen. Willie Hensley, Kotzebue; State Affairs, Sen. Bill Ray, Juneau; Labor and Management Merdes; Legislative Audit, Croft, Ray; Commerce, Legislative Council, Merdes, Ziegler, Christiansen and Rader. The Republican compromise called for dividing authority in the Senate into two groups, one of them including the Senate presidency and the Rules Committee chairmanship and the other including chairmanship of the Finance Committee and the Resources Committee.

"Alaskans have elected an equally divided State Senate," Hammond said. "Despite this division by the electorate, the Democratic Senate caucus has made a proposal which gives all positions of authority to Demo cratic senators. Such a proposal is both unrealistic and unacceptable in view of the expression of the Alaskan voters." One group includes the Senate presidency, the Chairmanship and simple majority on Rules, Health, Education and Welfare, Judiciary, Local Government and the majority of the Senate membership on the Legislative Audit Committee. The second group consists of the chairmanship and simple majority on Finance, Resources, State Affairs, Labor and Management, Commerce and the majority of the Senate membership on the Legislative Council. Reconvening less than an hour later.

Guess named Bradner, Tillion, Mike Miller, D-Juneau, and George Hohman, I)-Bethel, to the committee on committees. As speaker, Guess will chair the committee. The House recessed until afternoon to allow the committee to come up with standing committee assignments. Committee organization was expected to move rapidly, with only one potential problem rumored Monday. Thai concerned the House Committee on Natural Resources, where Rep.

Marty D-Anchorape, was reported In line for the post, but including the army commadant Gen. Luis Reque Teran. Shortly afterward a government spokesman termed the situation at that time dangerous opposition was expected in caucus. Josephson said the Democratic caucus rejects the proposed Republican compromise, compromise, complaining that it would be like "buying a pig in a poke" to accept it because it offered no specific names for assignments. Josephson also pointed out the Democrats did not have a proportionate share of assignments in the last Senate, controlled 119 by Republicans.

Hammond replied the 11-9 makeup of the Senate last year "obligated the Republican Party to organize the Senate." With the 10-10 split, Hamond added, "we are obligated to attempt to utilize the talent in this body evenly." but said loyalist troops had the headquarters surrounded and could move in at any time. Three air force planes flew over the city after midnight and fired their machine guns into the air. A local radio station said the planes dropped a bomb near the military headquarters, but there was no confirmation of this. The leftist military government charged that the rebels were trying to set up a "dictatorship of the right." It warned that "the people will fight for their revolution." Col. Sanchez, the rebel spokesman, said the rebel movement known as The Nationalist Troops of the Armed Forces had decided to overthrow the government because it was on the verge of handing the nation over to "another imperialism." Torres took to the air at dawn for a brief broadcast, rallying his supporters and promising to put down the rebellion.

RCA takeover of ACS quietly started Sunday The Alaska Communications System, Alaska's telephone and telegraph connection with the outside world for more than half a century, passed into history asa commercial carrier yesterday and RCA Alaska Communications took over. In Fairbanks, the changeover was hardly noted as offices of ACS have been closed on Sundays. Fiist Fairbanksan to make a long distance telephone call over RCA facilities was William R. Hooks, 962 Gilroore who placed a call to Tulsa, Okla. at 12:04 a.m.Sunday.

The major change which will be noticed here was the closing down of the telegraphic office at Second Avenue and Noble Streets, and the opening of anew office in the RCA administration Building on Gaffney Road at the entrance of Ft. Wainwright. RCA completed its purchase of the Air Force owned ACS a i i i Friday it deposited the $31,460,519 purchase price to the account of the United States Treasury in the Federal Reserve Bank in New York. A formal dedication ceremony i be held in Anchorage Sunday, Jan. 17 immediately after a special viewing of the Super Bowl football games which will be transmitted live to Alaska via statellite.

The sports spectacular will be the first color telecast to be carried live to Alaska over statellite facilities i RCA Alascom's assumption of responsibility for the system. The $31.46 million purchase price includes the base price of $28.4 million plus costs incurred for a i i i added under engineering and installation contracts with the government. Under the transfer terms, RCA Alascom in committed to spend $27.6 i i for system improvements and expansion of services. Reductions in long distance interstate and intrastate were put into effect in December, 1969, with an estimated savings to Alaskans of more than $50 million over a Hire-year period. While ownership formalities progressed, RCA Alascom undertook a number of projects designed to advance the development of long lines i a i services in Alaska, including construction of a i a relay system between Anchorage and the Bartlett Satellite Earth Station at Talkeetna, installation of a tropospheric and microwave link in the North Slope area, and initiation of direct distance i a i i a a i Anchorage, Fairbanks, Juneau, and Ketchikan.

MUS board to consider 10 resolutions, water plan The Public Utilities Hoard will meet Tuesday night to consider 10 resolutions, and the addition of more areas to the master water study now being done by that group. The board will meet at 8 p.m. al the Public Utilities board room al 645 Fifth Avenue. The meeting is open to the public. The master water study is a plan controlling local water resources through the 1980's.

The meeting tomorrow night will consider adding some areas along the Tanana Kiverto the plan. Among the resolutions under consideration is one to authorize the transfer of $275,229.76 from the extension and improvement fund to the revenue fund, for i of capital expenditures made from the revenue fund. Another would rcceommend to the city council passage of an i a authorizing the sale of $6.8 million in municipal utilities revenue improvement bonds. In addition, two contracts will also be awarded, Jim Movius general manager of MUS said. One is for phase one of a four phase sub-station project, and on? is for telephone cable linei for 1971..