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ily News-Miner, Thursday, CITY NEWS BRIEF Anchorage bonds are sold at 7.3% SAN FRANCISCO (AP) A KM million issue of City of Anchorage, Alaska, general purpose bonds was purchased Tuesday by a Bank of America underwriting group. The syndicate paid a premium of The net interest cost to the city will be 7.3 per cent. The bonds were re-offered to investors to yield from 5to per cent in WB to 7.75 per cent in 100-91. The issue consisted of (4-3 million street and storm sewer improvement bonds, 1346,000 for capital improvement building and $110,000 for fire alarm and safety communications. No firm solutions NAACP meeting Fairbanks branch, N.A.A.C will hold its regular monthly meeting Sunday May 17 at 3 p.m.

at the Chamber of Commerce Log Cabin. Forced entry Burglars forced entry into Colorama at 3412 College Road sometime yesterday. According to a State Police report, they entered through a basement door and took a number of items including one television set, a meter and speakers. Stolen car William Houston Snyder of 23W mile Richardson Highway, an employe of Eielson AFB Commissary, reported the theft of his car from Mile 20 yesterday. Reported taken was a 1967 Ford Galaxie 500, olive color, four-door hardtop.

License number at the time of the theft was 1969-55980. Hit and run Branan Haskins, 14, of A Mile Van Horn Road, reported a hit-and-run accident to State Police this week. He said on Monday about noon he was parked on the side of Van Horn Road. A brown and white step van purposely swerved to scare him, and hit his 1970 Kawasaki cycle. The vehicle kept on going, the boy said.

He is the son of Mre. Helen Haskins of Van Horn Road. Job opportunities i opportunities are available at the State Manpower Center, Sixth and liarnette, Room 131: i i a accounts receivable bookkeeper, civil a a a i patrolman and culinary workers. Cemetery clean-up Pioneer Igloo No. 4 and Auxiliary No.

8 will have their a a Birch Hill Cemetery clean-up Sunday starting at 1 p.m. All members asked to bring their own rakes. Sants Swingers Santa Swingers Santa Swingers of North Pole dance at Grange Hall every Friday night with round dancing from 8-9 p.m. and square dancing until 11:30 p.m. Hector Thiersault and aguestwill call.

Drugs stolen Burglars broke into the Doctor's Clinic and Fourth Avenue Pharmacy Tuesday night and stole a large amount of amphetamines and barbituates, City Police detective Curtis Gustafson said yesterday. Dr. John I. Weston reported the theft a i Investigation is continuing, Gustafson said. Egan committee The "1001 Committee" to elect Bill Egan will meet tonight at 7:30 p.m.

at the Teamsters Hall, 330 Wendell St. Former Gov. Egan will fly to Fairbanks from Anchorage today to attend the meeting, which is open to the public. Four calls Fairbanks Fire Department responded to four calls for burning grass and brush yesterday, and one call for a fire at the city dump. Bail reduction Angelina Rose Conducy, charged with possession for sale of stimulant, depressant or hallucinogenic drugs, was granted a reduction in bail yesterday by Superior Judge Everett Hepp.

The bail was reduced from $3,000 to $1,000 approval bond and $150 cash. JUNEAU (AP) No firm solutions came from a Wednesday meeting to discuss the Greater Anchorage Borough financial crisis that hat delayed millions of dollars worth of construction projects. The meeting was between Anchorage businessmen and the areas legislative delegation. A lawsuit brought by Will Key Jefferson of Anchorage blocked the delivery of 113.3 million worth of general obligation bonds purchased in March through a Chicago firm for 6.96 per cent. The bonds were to raise money for construction of roads, sewers and schools.

Jefferson's suit challenges the legality of the borough as a governmental entity. An extension on delivery of the bonds could not be obtained, Eric Wolfworth, borough bond counsel, stud. Good faith checks of and have been returned. "We're going to win in court, there's no question in my mind about that," John Asplund, borough council chairman, said. Asplund presided over the informal meeting.

"We're in situation now ARMOR RETURNS FROM RAID--Israeli tank and halftracks move along the road as they withdraw from Lebanese territory Wednesday following a 30-hour raid on Arab guerrilla bases. (At Wirephoto) Soldier wins, loses in jury trial taking only 20 minutes Without benefit of counsel, Hearbart Paul Schexnayder, 38, of Ft. Wainwright, defended himself in District Court Wednesday morning. Judge Mary Alice Miller described it as "probably the fastest jury trial in history." The jury of six was given the case after only one or two questions from prosecuting attorney, Asst. D.

A. Hal Horton and the defendant Schexnayder. January 30, Schexnayder was arrested at 26th and South Cushman. He was charged with running a stop sign, operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol, and disorderly conduct. Following arrest, Schexnayder pleaded guilty to running a stop sign and was fined, but pleaded innocent to the other two charges and requested a jury trial.

At the trial, State Trooper Jay Yakopatz, testified that at the time of arrest, Schexnayder refused a breathalyzer test and became abusive. As a result, the TOCKMARKET NEW YORK (AP)-The New York Stock Market has closed sharply lower, but the market pulled back from its lows of the day. The Dow Jones closing stock averages: 30 Industrials 684.79, down 9.05; 20 Transportation 144.46, down 2.21; 15 Utilities 102.76, down 0.48; 65 Stocks 225.73, down 2.76. A duPont 'A -Thursday'sselect- AULIn 'A ed New YorkStock Kodak 'A Exchange closing Eaton Ya B'A- prices: ElPaso 'A Close Ch(. Evans Pd ZT -1'A Admiral Evrshrp 'A Alcan Al 21'A- Allied Ch 'A Allied Sir 22 -2 AUis Chal Alcoa ifA-l'A Am Am ALrlin 'A AmBmdsSJ'A--H (A Am Can 3M4-1 Am CySf 19 rtt Am Cyan AMet Cl 'A Am Mt" Am Sm Am Std 31 'A Am T4T Ampex (i Anacond B'A- 'A ArmcoStlZIH-'A Armour 43 Armsl Ck J6'A-- 'A All Rich 'A AUas Corp 2V- 'A Avon Pd Beat Fds 27'A-- 'A Beech Air M- Bell How 31Vi- 'A Bendlx 'A Beth Stl 25Vi- 'A Boeing 1H4-- 'A Boise Cas S3tt-z'A Brist My HJ'A-- 'A Brunswk 'A Bucy Er U'A--'A Budd Co 11 -1 Burl Ind 36H- 'A Burl Nor "A Burghs -fl'A Case Jl 10'A Castle Ck 'A Celan Cerro Cp Cert-td CFI SU U'A-1 ChesOhloSO 'A Chrysler A Cities Svc 3S'A--1 ColoIntslX'A Colu Gas 17'A- 'A Comsat 77 Con Edls Conl Cont Alrl Cont Can (4 -IVi Flrch Firestne 3t'A- 'A Fd Fr 15'A- Frd Mot 4U4- 'A Fr McKs Freept SI 15H- Frueh Cp 8SW-1H GAC Cp 14H- 'A Gam Sko A On Dym 21 Gen Elec 'A Gen Fds n'A- Gen Mils Gen Tire U'A- 'A Ga Pac 42'A-2 7 A GUtte St -1H Glen Aldn 5H- 'A Gdrch Z3H- Gdyr 23V4- 'A GtWnUntHH-'A Grn Gnt 23H Gryhnd U'A Gulf Oil a -1'A Hecla Mn Hlly Sug 13 Hmslk 21'A- Hnywl 10S'A-3M Idaho Pw TlVt- to Idl Bsc n'A 111 Cent 'A IBM WA-9A Int Hrv 'A Int Nick SUK-'A Int Pqp 29'A--2 hit T4T 'A Jewel Co 'A Jons Lau 11W-- 1 Kaiser Al 'A Knncott tf -1 Kerr Me 71V4- 'A Kraft Co 35'A--Vi Libb McN Litton OmarklndlS'A- Stauff Ch 'A Outbd Mr IS'A-- Sterl Dre S2'A-2'A Owens 111 43 StdWrth 31'A- 'A Pac GE1 26H- to Swift Co 'A Pac PwL 'A Tkrtrnx 31'A--1'A TtT 13'A Tldyn 17 Vi 'A Tnnco 'A Prke Dvs Texaco 24K-- 'A Pnn Cent IS'A- 'A TexO Sul Penn Dlx Texas Ins Pnny JC 41 'A Textrn IJ'A-- 'A Pepsi Co 43 --1'A Thlokol 'A Pfiier 90 --1 Timken 27 'A Phelps Tdd Shp 2214 Phlp Mrt 30 'A TWA 12'A- PriiU Pet 'A Transmra li'A Plrold 'A Tri Cont BM-1'A PrclGa -'A TRW Inc PSC 19'A-- 'A Twen Cen 11 'A PugS PI ZTM-l'A UAL Inc PUman MV, Un Crbd 33U-- RCA 22A Un Etec 17'A-- RepubSU3Ht-'A UnPc Cp U'A-- ft Ryn Met 29'A-- 'A 14 1 Ryn Tob 'A Uni Arc 'A Roy Out SPA- Uni Cp 9 'A Safeway 23V1- 'A Un Fruit 31Vi-l'A St Min J8V4- US Gym St Rgs 29(4- 54 US Indus IS'A- 'A SaFe Ind Z2'A- 'A US PlyCh 24 -1 Schnley 20V4- 'A US Smelt 'A Schring 49W-1'A US Steel SS'A-W SCM Cp 'A Vran Aso 'A Scott Pr War Lam Vi Sears JJ- Wat A- tt ir p.

Una StiSS SthrnRy 4S Sorry 3 A 0 disorderly conduct charge was made, Yakopatz said. Schexnayder argued there was no proof of intoxication. Though he did not deny he used obscene language, he said he showed he had cause. The officer had "harrassed him over a small traffic violation," he said. After a 20 minute deliberation the jury returned a verdict of innocent of operating a vehicle under the influence of alcohol, but guilty of disorderly conduct.

Judge Miller set time for sentencing on Friday at 1:30 p.m. Scheel injured as cycle skids The 1970 Honda of Robert Edward Scheel, 17, a student at Ft. Wainwright, skidded in gravel last evening and put Scheel in the hospital. In a State Police interview, Scheel said, "I was coming from a friend's house on Farmer's Loop Road. When I went into the curve on the Steese I hit some gravel.

My motorcycle slid from under me. The next thing I knew I was in the hospital." Fairbanks Fire Department ambulance took Scheel to Bassett Army Hospital for treatment of a cut lip, bruised chin and bruised right leg; Move into Lebanon BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) An unknown number of Syrian troops have entered eastern Lebanon near Deir el Achair without the authorization of the Lebanese government. Persons in Chtaura said Lebanese security officers in the city are receiving calls from several towns in southeast Lebanon that Syrian forces are moving through the area. where we're going to have a delay in construction, resulting in unemployment and other problems, as a result of the actions of this one man," Asplund said. Don Fridley, the borough's sociate superintendent 'of schools, told the lawmakers that was to have been the greatest construction year in the Anchorage Borough District's history.

He said school construction in the district normally runs ft million to $10 million per year. This year, he said, the district already has begun 18 million worth of projects, and had anticipated (17 million worth. However, he said the district has only slightly more than $4 million cash. Fridley said the projects under way will affect 70 classrooms or teaching stations and 1,976 pupils. He said the total anticipated construction would have resulted in completion of 182 classrooms.

Wolforth said the borough had considered asking the state to buy the bonds, adding that "it's clear the state would be paying more than they're worth on the index." But he said the borough might consider "reimbursing the state for any loss incurred on secondary market resale." A bill introduced in the Alaska House Friday by Floor Leader Gene Guess, D-Anchorage, would authorize that move by the state. Rep. Tom Fink', R-Anchorage, said he favored the Anchorage- aimed bill. However, he pointed out that legislators from other areas might try to broaden the bill to take care of other bonding problems. for one, don't think the state should get into the bond purchase business," Fink said.

Another possible solution would be for the borough to issue bond anticipation notes. State Revenue Commissioner George Morrison said several Alaskan banks had told him they would be interested in the notes, provided they could be used as collateral for state funds deposited in the banks, and that only 50 per cent collateral would be required. Presently, 100 per cent collateral is re-, quired for deposit of state funds. Rep. Stan Cornelius, R-An- asked Morrison to pursue the bond anticipation note ilternative.

CLEANUP TIME-Colorado National Guardsmen ring the area at Denver University as heavy equipment demolishes the plywood and canvas lean-tos put up by demonstrators. The Guardsmen and Denver police moved onto the campus at dawn Wednesday shortly after the demonstrators had fled the area. There was no violence and only two persons were arrested. Adoption of health measures key in development of Slope Failure to adopt immediate and adequate public health measures in the arctic could result in serious epidemics and the long-range pollution of water sources, Joseph FitzGerald, manager of community affairs for Atlantic Richfleld, told the Conference on Arctic Health yesterday. Effective legislation can be established from the outset, he said, since almost all the land in the north is state or federally owned and can be controlled by police powers and a tight control of leasing.

FitzGerald, former director of the Federal Field Committee, predicted that oil and gas will be found in commercially attractive quantities across the whole of northern Alaska and "If this happens, the area will be in an active state of development for several decades, with oil production extending well into the next century." He predicted, too, that if coal is found that can be exported commercially, it will add materially to the development effort in northwest Alaska. FitzGerald also saw the development of other resources in the arctic, probably in the Brooks Range where health will present less difficult regulatory problems. Copper apparently has been found in large enough quantitites to warrant its production, he said. "If this happens, and I feel that it will happen in a major way during this decade, it will be accompanied by the extension of railroad and highway facilities across the South Slope of the Brooks Range." This, he said, will mean the development of supporting communities with 5,000 to 7,000 people in each community. The discovery of oil brought modern industry to the arctic "and changed completely the nature of the public health problem," FitzGerald said.

"As industry can provide adequate health services for those whom it employs, the role of public health i a i a regulations, to establish and enforce uniform environmental a standards a Personal income takes big jump over last month WASHINGTON (AP) Personal income jumped a record $17.8 billion during April, but companies which operate in the north." i a a self-contained and sufficient attention has been given to their environmental health problems, he said. Contractors also can be regulated. "The serious problems for public health authorities arise the of associated industries and services which tend to cluster about transportation service areas and which by their very nature are a a a uncoordinated unless placed some form of local organization or regulations." the increase was entirely t'he re- governments on the North Slope suit of higher Social Security such responsibilities as the per cent Lobbying against restricting U.S. involvement in Cambodia WASHINGTON (AP) The Nixon administration sent a trio of top officials to Capitol Hill today in an effort to persuade Republican senators to oppose efforts to restrict American involvement in Cambodia. Secretary of Defense Melvin R.

Laird, White House national security aide Henry Kissinger and Undersecretary of State Elliot Richardson met with GOP senators at a closed session. Meanwhile, Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield said maintenance of South Vietnamese troops in Cambodia after President Nixon's June 30 deadline would mean the United States would remain indirectly involved there. The GOP conference and a closed session of the Foreign Relations Committee with Ellsworth Bunker, U.S. ambassador to Vietnam, held principal attention as senators grappled with the Cambodian question. At the GOP caucus, individual senators stated and restated their positions on a variety of LoneSCemlS -1'A Lone SGa 'A LVO Cp 4V4- 'A Macy Magnvox OT- Marattin 2IW- Mrcr Inc 43fc-- 'A Mrtn 13H- 'A McDnn 1SH Merck 'A MMM Mobil Oil i St Oil Cal rox St Oil Ind St Oil NJ 'A sa St Pckgng 6'A- 'A NEW YORK (AP) Spot nonferrous metal prices Thursday: Gold (36.15 per troy ounce.

New York; silver (1.68S per troy ounce. New York. Alaska Airlines British Petrol 9H Industrials M4.7S Rails HU6 UUIItlcs 102.76 Pound 2.4IKO Canadian Exchange Fairbanks Interest stocks provided by the local office of Foster Marshall Alaska State Bank Building. Kent Fr Ch IS 'A Nine new fires reported by BLM over 24-hour span Nine fires manned by the Bureau of Land Management in the past 24 hours illustrate the higher than average temperatures and fire dangers this area has been experiencing. amendments dealing with U.S.

involvement in Cambodia. Sen. Edward W. Brooke, R- who supports efforts to curb the involvement, said the administration position remained opposition to all such moves, no matter how modified. a i discussed the meaning of keeping South Vietnam troops in Cambodia in a conversation with reporters.

But Mansfield, a Montana Democrat, declined to say whether he felt that would mean Nixon's pledge to end the U.S. operation into Cambodia by that date was not being adhered to. Truck overturns, driver uninjured A Weaver Brothers Kenworth truck and tractor suffered an estimated $25,000 damage Tuesday when it overturned on the Richardson Highway 64 miles south of Fairbanks. According to the driver, John L. Johnson, 43, of 1561 Lorraine, the boom on the load slipped as the truck went into a curve.

The boom shifted and caused the truck to overturn. Johnson was uninjured and there were no passengers. The truck was brought back to Fairbanks. Noting that South Vietnamese leaders have failed to give a similar pledge, but have indicated they will continue their operations in Cambodia, Mansfield said "If they stay in, it means that indirectly we are staying in." "It will just be an illustration of Saigon's tail-wagging and pulling us around," he added. Mansfield rejected the arguments of those opposing efforts to limit U.S.

involvement in Cambodia that this would restrict presidential powers. "Not in the least," he said. Noting Nixon's June 30 deadline, he said "We're just getting behind him." Republican Leader Hugh Scott sought meanwhile to line up GOP senators behind his amendment that would maintain presidential authority to put American troops Into Cambodia to protect U.S. forces in Vietnam. Scott's effort was a countermove aimed at stopping an amendment by Sens.

John Sherman Cooper, and Frank Church, D-Idaho, barring funds for retraining U.S. troops in Cambodia and limiting future aid for air strikes. payments and federal pay raise, the Commerce Department reported today. Income rose to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $801.1 billion, up from billion in March. The rate for the first four months of this year was $784.2 billion, compared to $727.1 billion for January through April, 1969.

Without the one-time government payments, the department said, this key indicator of the nation's economic condition would have fallen. Both the government pay raise and the Social Security increase included some retroactive payment. Private sector wages and salaries fell S1.5 billion. Corporate dividends, however, rose slightly--to $25.3 billion from $25.2 billion in March and in February. Three arrested on OMVI charges Fred Edgar Day, 38, of Eielson AFB was arrested by city police early this morning.

He was charged with operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcoholic beverages. Day was arrested on the Big Bend Curve of the Richardson. Arrested on the same charge by State Police were John Franklin Hixon, 37, of Ft. Wainwright and Edward L. Baleen, 41, of Anchorage.

Hixon was arrested at Cushman and 21st, at 4:28 a.m. Hansen was arrested at University Avenue and the Red House Apartments at 1:45 a.m. He was driving a half ton green Chevrolet van. the past day were intentional fires which got out of control. One blaze at 43 mile Steese Highway, was the result of a burn pile which had gotten out of hand.

BLM 6 planes dropped retardants on the i The average daily temperature fire and left it under the control TOT DdKeT OUTUMIV for the first 12 days of May is 43 of the property owner. Borough selects Carrol as new attendance officer Funeral services Cowles 4W- Crow Col 14 CrwnZellBH-U, a Vt Mont Pw 1t MlFue i MM- 'A uw Jl Alaska St. Bk SS Aloha Air 1 'A AsamertOtllOH Avco 14 'A Rocket Reshm, Rowan Drill DcnR Gr Dillon Col DIM Ind Nat DIsUI K'A- Nat Steel J7'A- 'A up iU-- 14 Art 8 -W -'A Pet 0 Hamlllon Bros IS (4 Air 1 oma PA Hdltie Oil A 11 'A Home Oil 13 'A Int Nuclear i I i Jlif.nn i Wilson wts 3 Xlrt JiTM. Not Fln degrees, based on figures for the past 30 years. The first 12 days of May, 1970, have averaged 48.5 degrees, almost six degrees above the average.

Extreme fire danger ratings have been in effect both today and yesterday. Winds of 10 to 20 knots, busting to 30, have spread many of the fires which normally have been easily controlled. Most of the nine fires fought in Six of the other eight fires were extinguished by roadside and helitack crews. A fire in a pile of logs on an island three miles northeast of Fort Yukon, required smoke jumpers to control the blaze. Two of the jumpers are still at the fire.

Two small fires it mile Richardson Highway, consumed part of abridge. BLM officials say it appears to be the work of an arsonist. Funeral services for Carl Baker, 48, who died last Sunday in the Fairbanks Community Hospital, will be Sunday at 2 pjn. at the Chapel of Chimes. Baker, a civil service tiuck driver, was born Nov.

30,1922, in Greensboro, N.C. He has been in the Fairbanks area about 3Vi yoa.s, residing at 25-Mile, Richardson Highway. He is survived by an aunt, Mary Baker of Reidsville, N.C. Selwyn Carrol was named new Attendance Officer for the North Star Borough School District by a superintendent of schools. Carrol is a graduate of the University of Alaska and has lived in Alaska for 11 years.Heandhis wife Harriett moved to Fairbanks i 1966.

The new Attendance Officer worked as a social worker for the Alaska Dept. of Public Welfare during the August 1967 Flood and has since been employed by the Division of Corrections as a supervisor of juveniles in detention at the Alaska State Jail in Fairbanks. Carrol was born in Sanford, and has traveled throughout the United States, Germany, France, Austria, Japan, Korea, Spain and Canada. He is a combat veteran and has attended many military schools. The new officer is a member of the Masons, Veterans Club, Chairman of the Unification Committee, Kiwanis, UGN, A i Committee, N.E.A.

and othe'r civic organizations. establishment of water and sewer districts will fall to the slate and federal governments, FitzGerald said. "Planning must begin now if the very special and difficult public health problems of the arctic are to be solved as development occurs and not as an emergency cleanup program at a later date." In other activities of the conference, health problems of the arctic and subarctic were identified during one of several sessions. Among the 21 problems were these: --A lack of land use planning, for recreation areas and facilities in concert with industrial andi economic growth poses urgent problems to the health and well-being of Alaskans. --A lack of adequate trained nanpower in the field of public health deters correction of serious health problems such as accidents, infectious diseases, and social and mental illness, associated with poor sanitation deficiencies and other- environmental factors.

-Land, water and air pollution- are significant problem areas in Alaska. --There is a lack of adequate medical care in and projections are not promising. --There is insufficient water, sewage facilities, housing and education available to all Alaskans. Hickel lauds Phillips' work JUNEAU (AP) The secretary of the Interior has written a letter to Sen. Vance Phillips, R-Anchorage, expressing his regrets that Phillips was deposed as Senate Finance Committee chairman.

Hickel, former Alaska governor, said, "Your genuine sincerity, ability and straightforwardness in handling the many problems in your committee the two years while I was governor was superb." The Senate fired Phillips as finance chairman May 1 after he delayed reporting out the school support bill in an effort to force the Anchorage School District to cut its budget. Hickel's letter was released after Phillips asked to be excused from the Senate until tomorrow because he had "urgent business in San Francisco. Hickel was in San Francisco..

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