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Daily News-Miner, Fairbanks, Alaska, Monday, CITY NEWS UV BRIEF Controversial ordinances before council Several controversial ordinances are slated for City Council action tonight, Including a 19 per cent Increase in electric rates and salary hikes for nonunion city employes. The council meets at 8 p.m. in the City Hall Annex. The proposed rate hike, requested by the Public Utilities Board, has been discussed by the council for several weeks and is up (or final consideration tonight. Large users ol electricity would see their bills increase more than small users if the rate hike were proved, and the slope of the rate schedule would be slightly reduced.

Several members of the council have encouraged the PUB to stop subsidizing large users, and the revised rate schedule is an attempt to reduce the advantage formerly given large users, according to Municipal Utilities System General Manager Wally Droz. Droz has told the council repeatedly that the rate hike is badly needed because the electric department is losing money. City policy requires each department of the utility to operate in the black. The council will also consider salary increases lor administrative, non-union city employes at tonight's meeting. The increases were included in the 1976 budget, but wages have been frozen for several months, so the employes have not received any raises.

The council is expected to approve the Increases with little opposition. Most of the hikes are in the five per cent range, although a few, including the police chief's and the Alaskaland superintendent's are larger. Two ordinances revamping the pay schedule for non-union city employes Wien announces expanded flight slate The Alaska State Chamber of Commerce has made arrangements for alternate nights to its state convention in Juneau because of the Alaska Airlines strike. Chamber President Bill Sheffield said arrangements have been made with Wien Air Alaska to provide adequate service to the convention. Wien flights leave daily at 8:40 a.m.

and 6:30 p.m. arriving in Juneau at 12:05 and 10 p.m. In addition to this is the regular scheduled flight to Juneau by way of Whitehorse, on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Return flights leave Juneau at 8:15 a.m. and 8:25 p.m.

connect ing in Anchorage. The convention starts Thursday and ends Saturday in Juneau. Knott to speak Doctor David Knott, author, lecturer and authority on alcoholism, will speak at the Fairbanks Memorial Hospital tonight from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Topics to be discussed include hospital managment of alcohol withdrawal and recent research on alcholism. The public is invited.

Dynamite stolen State troopers are investigating the theft of 200 pounds of dynamite lifted from a railroad car at 2.5 mile Sheep Creek Road. William E. Egger of Yukon Equipment told troopers that the explosives were taken sometime between Wednesday evening and Friday morning. The railroad car had explosive placards on all four sides identifying its contents. Egger said that most truck drivers and local residents knew the site was an unloading spot for explosives.

Troopers this morning were unsure if blasting caps were also taken in the theft. Their investigation is continuing. TODAY NUGGET SQUARES Lessons will start at 7:30 tonight at Walt's Hoedown Center. A COMMUNITY Community chorus under the direction of Gaynor Trammer meets every Monday from 7-10 p.m. in the Eva McGowan room at the university in the Fine Arts building.

Singers are urged to attend. HOME-STUDY COURSE A home-study course consisting of four lessons on "Managing Your Money" is being offered by the Extension Service beginning today. For Information call 452-1530. mentis limited. PUBLIC TRANSIT MEETING "What's Happening in Public Transit in Fairbanks?" will be the topic of a public meeting at 8 tonight in the upstairs conference room of the Medical and Dental Arts Building at 1919 Lathrop St.

Borough Transit Director Lindsay Mercer will discusspresent borough bus routes and future plans for Ihe system, with a questEon-and-answer session to follow. Meeting is sponsored by the League of Women Voters. TUESDAY DYSLEXIA MEETING A meeting to discuss problems of dyslexia or Specific Language Disability ISLD) with JoeBielski, director of special education, and other school officials will be held al Ihe Denali School Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. WEDNESDAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Tanana Yukon Historical Sociely will meet Wednesday at 8 p.m. at the Pioneer in Alaskaland.

YOUNG REPUBLICANS Fairbanks Young Republicans will Wednesday at 7:10 p.m. al Ihe home of Michael Monsey, 1024 7th Ave. THURSDAY SIERRA CLUB The newly formed Denali group will meel Thursday from 7 lo 9 p.m. in Ihe Schaible Auditorium in Bunnel al the The topic will be mining on Ihe haul road. For information call 479-3684.

SATURDAY fc YOUTH HOCKEY REGISTRATION Fairbanks Youth Hockey Registration will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at both the Gavora Mall and Market Basket II. Boys and girls ages 6-16 are welcome lo participate, regardless of skaling ability. Cost of registration Is A birth certificate musl be presented.

For more information, call 47M455 or 479-6721. MISCELLANEOUS ORTHOPEDIC HOSPITAL If you wish to sew items needed by the Children's Orthopedic HotplUl In Seattle where Alaskan children attend, call 474-2S41. Sponsored by Snowshoe Sewing Guild. are expected to create more controversy. Both were discussed at a previous work session, and the council reached no consensus.

The ordinances are aimed at bringing administrative salaries up to par with union employes', some of whom are making more than their non-union supervisors. While most council men appeared to think the city's salary schedule needs revamping, there was disagreement on how the revision should be accomplished. Another controversial issue coming up tonight is a request lo hook up Ihe Fairbanks Inlernalional Airport to Ihe clly's sewer lines. Cily policy has been to deny connections to areas that are not annexed. Public hearings and a final vote are scheduled on an ordinance introduced by Councilman Bob Parsons funding additional staff al Ihe city's new a a a a establishing an office of Human Relations within the city manager's office.

Parsons' ordinance funds a full-lime director and half-time secretary for the Human Relations Office for the remainder of the year. But at last week's work session the council appeared split on the Human Relations issue, and Mayor Harold Gillam may be required to cast a tie-breaking vote tonight. Gillam said Friday he was opposed to an office of Human Relations because he fell il would duplicate the state's Human Rights Commission. Another controversial issue postponed from an earlier meeting and up for final consideration tonight is an ordinance establishing a fee of J1.500 per monlh to be charged for each sewage pumper Iruck dumping Into the cily's sewage trealmenl plant. The pumper trucks formerly used College Utilities.

The sale of several pieces of eily properly also are up for council approval, along wilh a few conlracts. Up for first reading are a number of amendments to the recently passed revision of the cily's criminal code. REGISTRATION BEGINS--Registration for Tanana Valley Community College short courses has begun and for Eve Ellis, 2'A, it was too much. So Eve took a break on the floor of the Great Hall on the University of Alaska campus white Martha Ellis, her mom, went about signing up for classes. Registration continues through Oct.

2 (SI a It photo by Chris Anderson Woman arrested for loitering Fairbanks City Police made one arrest for loitering for the purpose of prostitution over the weekend. Elissa C. Lewis, 21, of 1607 Turner St. was arrested Sunday in the 100 block of Cushman and charged with the offense. Flora Chikigak, 23, was arrested and charged with shoplifting this weekend.

She was taken to the Fairbanks Correctional Center. A clerk al J.C. Penney's said he saw a woman enter the store, take four pairs Planners will discuss rezones A request by Clarence Nelson to rezone properly on Nelson Road from general agriculture to rural residential heads the list of public hearings before the Borough Planning Commission Tuesday night. The general agriculture zone allows minimum lot sizes of live acres, while the rural residential zone allows a minimum lol size of one acre. The commission will meet al 7:30 p.m.

in the borough offices at 520 Fifth Ave. The commission is scheduled to vote on a request to rezone property at 3330 Riverside Drive from a general residential zone to a business zone. In other mailers, Ihe commission will consider three requests for waivers of subdivision regulations, two requests for replats of properly, preliminary approval of three subdivisions, and final approval of two subdivisions. Fire guts trailer Fire of unknown origin gutted a trailer home owned by Johnnie Naylor at Mile Old Richardson Highway Saturday night. Damage is estimaled at nearly $9,000 but there were no injuries.

The 10 by 50-foot Irailer was unoccupied at the time fire broke out in the living room area before 7:30 p.m. of tennis shoes from a display and enter the women's lounge. She then left the store. Police are investigating a report from Treat Foulch, 2135 Hilton, that a citizen's band radio was stolen from his vehicle which was parked in front of his residence. Foutch reported seeing a blue van with a white flip top moving away from in front of his home before discovering the missing radio.

Alaska Stnlp Troopers are sMIl investigating a shooting early Friday morning which injured Lewis Randy Gee, of 1708 Mary Ann Street, in the left jaw and upper arm. The incident took place on Esro Road. Gee is in Fair- banks Memorial Hospital where he is reported in good condition. Troopers are also investigating a shooting incident which apparently took place in Nulalo early Sunday morning. Glenn Demoski, 22, was broughl to Fairbanks Memorial Hospital at approximately 7 a.m., Sunday wilh two small caliber gunshot wounds lo the upper left chest.

The incident took place near Ihe air field at Nulato and Demoski was transporled by air to Fairbanks. Troopers are trying to locate Ihe owner of a blue Ford Mustang parked in the Tesoro Stalion lot at the corner of University and College. Wheels from the trailer of a passing semi-truck came lose and bounced across the road, rolled through the parking lot and hit the car. Damage lo Ihe car is estimated at $350.00. William E.

ftgger, of the Yukon i Fairbanks, has reported thai 200 pounds of explosives were slolen from a railroad car al 2.5 Mile Sheep Creek Road. Egger told Alaska Stale Troopers Ihe explosives were laken sometime between 5 p.m., Seplember 22 and 9:30 a.m., September 24. Troopers said the railroad car had explosive placards on all four sides identifying the contents. Hiatt announces retirement First steps have been laken loward finding a new president for Ihe Universily of Alaska following Dr. Robert W.

Hiatt's announcement that he will retire as president on 30, 1978. Hiaf I made Ihe announcemenl Friday at a meeting of the UA Board of Regents in Bethel, telling (he board he feels thai in anolher year "1 will have essentially completed (he job you brought me here lo do." Following Hiatl's suggeslion that the board should begin seeking his replacement, board president Brian Brundin directed (he board's executive secretary lo draft procedures for a presidential search. While accepting Hialt's retirement request, Brundin emphasized that "the job's not yet over, there's still much to be done." Hiatt "is doing a tremendous job as our firsl statewide president," Brundin said. "In a few short years he has made the statewide university a reality. It will lake a lol of time and effort lo find someone as capable to carry out the nexl phase of the university development." Since Hialt look office on July 1, 1973, the entire university system has been reorganized, into three urban campuses, wilh rural programs consolidated under a vice president for rural education affairs.

"This new rural thrust," Hiatt told the board, "is Ihe beginning of one of the most extensive and unique higher education programs in the nation, which by 1978 will be a mature program. No other slate has the problems to solve that Alaska docs in higher education. Our total academic planning, including the rural affairs program, should be complete by 1978." Since he took office, Hialt said, the universily has become an integrated statewide system, "with each part supporting the whole and (he main campuses supporting entire universily program. "The nexl steps," he continued, "are to develop definite plans for the individual campuses." ROBERT HIATT NOTICE! The Law Offices of Eugene V. Miller WILL CLOSE 1976 Please make arrangements to pick up your active or inactive files by that time.

All files unclaimed will be discarded For appointments call: 452-1261 or 456-4030 912 Barnette, Fairbanks, Alask-. GOP candidates outspent Demos By ERIN VAN BRONKHORST Writer The winning Republican candidates spent only slightly more than the winning Democrats in the Primary Election race for the State House seats representing Fairbanks. Campaign financing reports filed for the period up to Aug. 31 show the six Republican winners spent a total of $36,858, and the Democrats totalled $33,614. The Republicans outpolled the Democrats in the results.

The largest amount spent by any candidate was for a losing effort--Democrat Thomas Morris spent $9,297. Jim O'Sullivan topped the winning Republicans in dollars spent with $7,869, while Bruce Boyd spent the most of any winning Democrat wilh $7,362. In the race for the State Senate seat which is open, Rep. Mike Bradner showed expenditures of $9,744 while Dick Greuel showed payments of $4,244, wilh an added $378 spent by the Independent Committee to Nominate Dick Greuel. Bradner lost that race for the Democratic nomination by about 50 votes, and is now running a write-in campaign for the seat.

Rep. Glenn Hackney, running unopposed on the Republican side for the Senate, spent $5,104 and has a surplus of $646 going into Ihe general election campaign. Among the contributions late in the campaign was $500 from Lew Dischner of Juneau to Rep. Fred Brown, a Democrat. Here is a brief rundown on Ihe financial status of the winning House candidates: Sam Barnes, Republican, spent $5,977 total and has a surplus of $840.

Contributions of less than $100 for this reporting period (Aug. 15-31) total led $840. Don Bennett, Republican, has no'surplus, no deficit, and spent $5,235 total. Bob Bettisworth, Republican, shows a surplus of $1,338 going inlo the General Election campaign. He spent 86,154 during the primary effort, including at least $2,033 of personal funds.

Bruce Boyd, Democrat, has a deficit of $3,967, having spent $7,362 in the primary campaign. Part of the deficit is a loan from his personal funds to the campaign (candidates report personal contributions in several different ways.) Fred Brown, Democrat, shows a deficit of $1,325 after spending $6,967 total. His report indicates several late contribulions, including $250 from the Cabaret Hotel and Restaurant Association, $250 from Ron and Velda McMahan of Ron's Chevron, and a loan of $400 from Patrick Kalen, who is listed as a surveyor. Larry Carpenter, Republican, shows a deficit of $845 after spending $5,933 total. He reports 26 conlributions late in the campaign of under $100 each, totalling $1,585.

Selwyn Carrol, Republican, spent $5,690 and has no surplus and no deficit. The amount personal funds. Steve Cowper, Democrat, has a surplus of $890 for (he general campaign, having spent $4,879. His campaign funds include $4,500 of personal funds. Cowper received $250 from the Cabaret Holel and Restaurant Association.

MiltMayr, Democrat, spent $7,335 and has a surplus of $214. Jim O'Sullivan, Republican, spent $7,869 and has a surplus of $441. He received contributions of $200 from Rodney Ledbelter of Meadowmoor Dairy, $155 from Charles Cole, and $200 from Dennis Schlotfeldt of Sourdough Express, plus 42 contributions of under $100 totalling $530. Charlie Parr, Democrat, spent the least of any winning candidate, only $1,179, leaving him a surplus of Sarah J. "Sally" Smith, Democrat, reports a surplus of S859 after spending $5,892.

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