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Daily News "America's Farthest North Daily Newspaper" Member of The Associated Press Vol. LXVIV 15c Per Copy 18 Pages N0.11I Second-longest session winds up at 3:25 1972 budget breakdown JUNEAU (AP) Here is a breakdown of fiscal 1972 state spending as proposed by the Senate-House free conference committee on the general fund appropriations budget. Listed are the amounts given under the current budget, the total amount requested by Gov. William Egan in the new budget and the total amount allocated by the free conference committee, including the general fund expenditure. Office of the governor Jt2 million in current budget, 35.8 million requested for fiscal 1972, ST.8 million allocated in free conference, including $4.4 million from general fund.

Department of Administration 512.4 million currently, $13.8 million requested, $14.2 million allocated, including $13.3 million from general fund. Department of Law $2.3 million currently, $2.7 million requested, $2.6 million allocated, $2.3 million from general fund. Department of million currently, $3.3 million requested, $3.1 million allocated. Judicial branch $5.5 million currently, $9.7 million asked by court system, $6.8 million allocated, all from general fund. Legislative branch $2.4 million currently, $2.5 million requested, $2.4 million allocated, all from general fund.

Department of Education $94.3 million currently, $101.2 Scholarship loan bill rollcall vote JUNEAU (AP)-Here is the rollcall vote by which the State Senate adopted 10-9 Monday an amendment to a scholarship loan bill to delay repeal of the Educational Contractual Services Law until at least July, 1972. i a a a i i a Groh, Hensley, Josephson, Merdes, Rader, Thomas, Young. Voting against amendment-Butrovich, Hammond, Koslosky, Lewis, Miller, Palmer, Ray, Rettig, Ziegler. million requested, $99.5 million allocated, $85.2 million from general fund. State-operated schools $29.3 million currently, $31 million requested, $30 million allocated, $13.9 million from general fund.

University of Alaska $17 million currently, 88.9 million requested, $19.5 million allo- I cated, all from general fund. Department of Health and Welfare $42.3 million currently, $49.4 million requested, $46.2 million allocated, $37.6 million from genera! fund. Department of Environmental Affairs $2.8 million allocated, all but $53,000 from general fund. Department of Labor $7.5 million currently, $7.8 million requested, million allocated, J1.3 million from general fund. Department of Commerce million currently, $2.8 million requested, $2,8 million allocated, $2.5 million from general fund.

Department of Military Affairs $1.5 million currently, $1.7 million requested, $1.6 million allocated, slightly less than $1 million frorr general fund. Department of Public Safety million currently, $7.2 million requested, S6.9 million allocated, $6.8 million from general fund. Department of Natural Resources $5.1 million currently, $6.2 million requested, $5.7 million allocated, $5 million from general fund. Department of Fish and Game million currently, $12.9 million requested, $13 million $7.3 million from general fund. Department of Economic Development $1.4 million currently, $1.6 million requested, $L5 million allocated, all from general fund.

Department of Public Works million currently, $31.5 million requested, $30.4 million allocated, $18.2 million from general fund. Department of Highways million currently, $21.2 million requested, $20.5 million allocated, $9.8 million from general fund. Produce measures sought by bicameral leadership JUNEAU (AP) The Seventh Alaska Legislature adjourned early today after a long night of bargaining that saw passage of nearly every measure that the House and Senate leadership had said it wanted. One of the legislature's final acts was passage of a $292.1 million general fund budget. It passed both houses unchanged from the form recommended Saturday by the free conference committee on the budget.

The end came when Senate President Jay Hammond rapped the gavel at 3:21 a.m., and House Speaker Gene Guess at 3:26 a.m. Gov. William A. Egan missed it, however. He had gone home more than an hour before.

It was the second solid attempt by both houses to end the session which, stretching into the 121st day, was the state's second longest. It sfirst try Sunday night ended in failure before midnight when the House was unable to pry several key measures from committee. By Adjournment this morning, however, the lawmakers had succeeded in passing a wide range of legislation. Some of the key measures included: --State money for nonfederal costs of flood control projects in a 90-10 ratio with local govern- nents; --State aid for hospital construction; --A payraise for state employ- es of 5 per cent; --Courthouse expansion in Anchorage and construction in Juneau; --A preferential presidential primary election; --State aid for convention center planning and construction; --A Department of Environmental Affairs; --A youth-in-government program; Cold weather pushes possible flood back THE '48 FLOOD--City officials advising of imminent flooding in the Fairbanks area distributed this Army Corps of Engineers photo Friday showing an aerial view of Fairbanks during the flood of 1948. The city officials, Public Works director, City Engineer Ed Martin and purchasing agent Wes Watson, said: the Corps expects flooding about that which occurred in 1948.

They noted that the most seriously hit area of the city was on the south bank of the Chena River on the west side of town. Fairbanksans were digging in today for a possible flood, with emergency preparations neu completion. Jack Murphy, civil defense director, said this morning "it all depends on the weather now. We're just waiting for a change of weather." Below normal temperatures over the weekend caused a drop in Chena River stage, and Council considers booze and parks Whatever your recreational preference--be it golf, softball or elbow bending--last night's meeting of the Fairbanks City Council had something for you. Most of the council's agenda was concerned with liquor licenses, bars or a huge proposed recreational area for the city.

a i a'l area--envisioned as some 150 UA's commencement set Saturday for 338 Close to 550 degrees will be conferred by the University of Alaska In ceremonies at College and Anchorage this spring. i i commencement ceremonies were held in Anchorage on May 9, when a combined graduating class of 194 students from Anchorage Community College and the University of Alaska, Anchorage, Mostly cloudy today through Wednesday, with scattered light showers is predicted for Fairbanks and vicinity. High today near 60, low tonight 35, high Wednesday 55 to 60. Probability of measurable precipitation 40 per cent today, 30 per cent tonight, 40 per cent tomorrow. Outlook forThursday is partly cloudy with showers.

Temperature at noon today was 55, high yesterday 53, low last night 36. Record high for this date 72 in 1942, record low 19 in 1964. Sunrise tomorrow a a gain of six over today. River stage at 11 a.m. was 4.0 fret.

a a associate, bachelor's and master's degrees. Another 338 degrees, including 12 doctorates, 2 educational specialists and 75 master's degrees, will be awarded at the College commencement here next weekend. A busy program of social and ceremonial events has been planned, including traditional a i gatherings and the time-honored commencement rituals at which honorary degrees and emeritus certificates will be awar Commencement activities begin on Friday with the first annual no-host Alumni Banquet at the Traveler's Inn. Cocktail hour starts at 7:00 p.m., after which graduating seniors and advanced-degree recipients will be honored by the alumni at a semi-formal dinner. At this event, this year's Distinguished Alumnus Award will be presented to Patrick O'Neill of New Canaan, president of the International Mining Corporation of New York.

Activities on Alumni Day, May 15, begin early, with a 9a.m. meeting of the University Alumni Association in the Nanook Lounge of the Patty Gym. Five new members will be elected to the Association's board of directors at this meeting, open to all UA alumni. Later that day, members of the Boards of Regents will be honored guests at the annual Alumni Luncheon, which begins at 12:30 p.m. Classes of 1931, 1941, 1951, and 1961 will be honored guests at the traditional social event.

Tours of campus will leave from the Commons at 2 p.m. On Sunday, commencement speaker William I. Jovanovich, of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich i will keynote ceremonies which begin at 2 p.m. in Patty Gym. Jovanovich will also be presented at that time with an honorary Doctor of Laws degree? other honorary degree recipients will be Alaska artist M.C.

"Rusty" Heurlin and scientist Laurence M. Gould. Two retiring University women, Dr. Minnie Wells and Mrs.Laura Jones, will be honored with i a a commencement ceremonies as well. A reception, hosted by the Alumni Association in honor of the graduating seniors, will be held in the Patty Gym foyer immediately following the commencement program.

Graduating ROTC cadets will be awarded their commissions in ceremonies at 8 p.m. in the Nanook Lounge. acres to include facilities for several sports and picnicking, generated the most fire. It seems an area of disagreement on how to proceed in acquiring the land and federal funding has caused some hard feelings between the city recreation commission and the Operation Action Plan recreation committee. The Action Plan group is convinced the recreation commission is sitting on its hands and doing little to accomplish obtaining the necessary land.

However, according to Mayor Julian Rice, the city group wants to do it right to insure federal grants will be received. As a result of discussions both last night and earlier, the council, i i a time is important if full federal aid is to be received, pledged to move as fast as possible in ironing out the technicalities involved. Although persons who were urging speedy action on the recreation area may not have been entirely mollified, persons connected with the liquor business on the agenda fared less well. Action on granting a package liquor license to a proposed Safeway store to be built on Airport Road was postponed in UA gets $15,319 to train BIA school board The award of a $15,319 contract for the training of Bureau of Indian Affairs advisory school board members has been announced by U.S. Sen.

Ted Stevens. The recipient of the contract is the University of Alaska. School board members are scheduled to receive training at various location? in the state. Poppy Parly The American legion Auxiliary will have two more poppy work parties Wednesday and Thrusday, May 12 and 13. All members arc requested to attend.

order that the council could do additional study. As it appeared from last night's meeting, unless there is an ordinance amendment, Fairbanks already has all the package liquor establishments the law allows. It was the same story for another request for a package store license by Wilmer Preising who plans a business at 3550 Airport Road. And it looks like the Nevada Bar, that popular watering hole on First Avenue, is nearing its end. Last year the city council condemned the building but granted it a one-year extension to make the effective abatement date July 1,1971.

Last night a spokesman for the University of Alaska, which owns the Nevada building, requested another year's extension be a The spokesman, manager of business services William Hogan, based the request on three points. He claimed work done on the building had eliminated the major hazards it had presented, that the university has no income-producing use for the building planned and the present tenant, Jack Sexton, would like to continue in business there. Councilman Wally Burnett had only i words for the management of the Nevada and its operation but said the city carry on i its condemnation program. The motion to draw an ordinance granting the Nevada a one-year extension was defeated six to one-Joe Marshall voting aye. In response to a request from the Star Beverage Association, the council ordered the city manager to draw an ordinance which would extend a i hours for liquor dispensaries located within the city limits to coincide with state law.

At present bars in the city must close at 2 a.m. The proposed ordinance would change that closing time to 5 a.m. However, just because the ordinance was ordered to be drawn there is no indication on which way councilmen will vote when it appears on the agenda. During the citizens comments section of the meeting, several residents of Charles Street appeared to protest what they term a zoning violation being i a Plumbing and Heating. They claim Chandler has begun operating an equipment storage yard in a lot on Charles Street contrary to the zoning ordinance which designates it as a residential area.

The Charles Streeters claimed they were unable to get any satisfaction from the North Star Borough so were seeing if the city could help. The council, and particularly the mayor, seemed in sympathy with their cause. If nothing else, Mayor Rice said, maybe the storage lot could be abated as a public nuisance. The city manager was ordered to study the situation, consult with the borough and report back to the council. Postponed just prior to final action last night was an ordinance a i i i i i contained in the city's sales tax ordinance.

The reason for the proposed definition changes was to make the city ordinance identical to the already-similar borough sales tax ordinance. Councilman Ernie Carter called for the postponement, saying he wanted an opinion from the city attorney on certain points before he could commit himself. Advanced at the meeting was an ordinance which would allow the city to purchase property adjacent to Blanchfield Allev on Second Avenue to develop off-street parking area. The ordinance will be up for second reading, public hearing and final action at the next regular council meeting. The pages to the city council for the month of May are Pam Storz, daughter of Dr.

and Mrs. Henry Storz, and Steve Gilmore, son of Dr. and Mrs. John C. Gilmore.

Both young people are students at Ryan Junior High School. During the mayor's comments section of the meeting, Hice commented on the flood situation. According to the latest report he heard, the mayor said it appears the flood danger is receding somewhat, "but that's no reason to stop making preparations." He said unless there's a drastic change in the weather, the flood "will be substantially less severe than the flood of 1967." advancement of a possible flood date until early next week. that sandbagging at a i a Community Hospital was nearly complete, and sandbagging of sewer lift stations and the treatment plant was scheduled to start today or tomorrow. He said several downtown merchants and clinics have sandbags, but none had yet started their diking operations.

Alaska State Troopers reported this morning they were "as prepared as we can possibly be." They said road reports would be issued as necessary if flooding blocks any major roads. The outlook for a maximum river stage continues to be 13 to 14 feet to occursometime during the third week of May, according to the river statement issued today by the National Weather Service. This represents stages 4 to 6 feet under the August, 1967, flood crest. The stage of the Chena River at Fairbanks was 4.0 feet at 9 a.m. today, a fall of .5 feet since yester ay, the statement went on.

The warmer weather over the past two days has increased the snow melt rate and should begin to effect the river stage at Fairbanks by tomorrow. The stage will remain nearly stationary today with a slow rise beginning tonight. The forecast stages are May 12, 4.5 feet; May 13, feet; and May 14, 5.5 feet. Flood stage is 12 feet. The weather outlook for Fairbanks is for ideal conditions for gradual snow melt with temperatures averaging four to five degrees below normal.

Daytime highs will be in the lower 50s, with lows at night just above freezing. Light precipitation in the form of showers is expected, however, it will not be significant in adding moisture to the Chena River basin, the Weather Service report said. MUS strike continuing; no budge on foreman issue The strike by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers against the Fairbanks i i a Utilities System i today with no apparent relief in sight. According to MUS general manager Jim Movius, the last exchange between the two sides was Monday. The controversy centers around eight foremen which Mus wants to claim as management and the union wants to claim as laborers and therefore union members.

Yesterday, Movius said, MUS offered to come half-way toward meeting the union demands by surrendering four of the foreman positions. In addition, the general manager said the IBEW was told if the men go back to work today MUS would overlook the fact the strike is illegal and in violation of the no-strike clause in the contract. This clause, he said, "gives us the right to consider the contract at an end and start over again." However, Movius said, the union not only rejected thai offer bul said if MUS doesn't accept union terms by 5 p.m. today, the union is going to start adding 4 cents to the wage scale for every day the strike continues. Movius estimates the 4 cents, extended over one year, would just about repay the union members for wages lost during the strike.

The newly-agreed upon hourly rate for MUS journeymen wasset at $7.85 per hour plus $2.05 per hour fring benefits. About 94 men are involved in the strike. They are in charge of a electric and water i i i and telephone service. A legislative Budget Management and Audit Committee; --Grants and loans for college and university students; --State ferry system expansion; --Extension of confidentiality on oil and gas leases; --Extension of state aid for local service roads and trails --Historic preservation. The governor now has until about June 3 to act on the measures.

He may cither sign them into law or veto them. If he takes no action within 20 days, not counting Sundays, the bills become law without his signature. The preservation bill nearly halted the drive toward legislative adjournment in the final hours. The Senate-passed measure would have established the position of state archeologist in the state museum, and would have given him authority to halt any construction project for as long as 90 days if it threatened sites of historic or archaeological value. Opponents of the measure in the House fought it on grounds it could interfere with construction of the proposed trans-Alas- ka pipeline.

Rep. Andy Warwick, D-Fairbanks, attempted unsuccessfully to amend the bill to remove the power of halting construction. Then he objected to advancing the bill to third reading the stage it must reach for final action and the bill failed to gather the 30 votes it needed to advance over his objection. The bill was one which the House had promised the Senate it would pass during the final trade-off, and Guess recessed the session. About an hour later, the gov- (See ADJOURN, Page 3) Press club slates school budgetpanel Representatives of the area district, borough assembly, and school board will sit on a panel discussion on the 1971-72 scho 1 budget at 1 p.m.

Wednesday at the Petroleum Club. The panel was called for by the Farthest North Press club to discuss the differences seen in the proposed school budget between the school board and the assembly. Invited to sit on the panel were Helen Blevins of the borough chairman's office, Dr. George Taylor, superintendent of schools; Niilo Koponen, schools' federal programs coordinator; John Gustafson, president officer of the assembly, and Harry Reimer, school board president. Frank Murkowski, president of Alaska National Bank, will moderate the discussion.

One of the main issues of the budget centers on $936,000 cut from the proposed budget. The assembly ordered the cut from the school's proposed $3.06 million local appropriation. "I'd legislature except for one thing, i like to get wet from what I drink, mil from what falls on nit 1.