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VOL. LXII No. 14 NOME. ALASKA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1960__Per Copy 15<!
Labor Lobbyist
Tries to ‘Hoodwink
Workers,’ --- Egan
JUNFATT. I/P) — Governor F~ao
today called Henry Hedberg, An
chorage labor lobbyist, “A friend
ly fellow” but said “Government
in this state is not going to bow
to, or be influenced by veiled
threats from any source.”
This statement came in defense
of the Governor’s recommenda
tions on employment security
embodied in a bill introduced last
week.
•Egan accused Hedberg, who cri
ticized the Governor’s program, of
trying to hoodwink Alaskan
workers. Said Egan:
“I challenge Mr. Hedberg or
anyone else to match my record
as a laborer in Alaska or my legis
lative record for labor. . . .”
Meanwhile, Sen. W. O. Smith
of Ketchikan, called Hedberg’s
statements on ESC “ridiculous,”
and said the ESC problem could
wreck the Democratic majority
in the state
Sen. George McNa'bb of Fair
banks sided with Hedberg. Mc
Nabb said the bill should embody
an increase in benefit amounts
and rate of contributions based on
total wages rather than $7,200
as proposed by the Governor.
Nine Lobbyists Register
For Legislature Session
JUNEAU, liW — Nine lobbyists
were on hand today as the Legis
lature resumed its second week
of work.
All the lobbyists have complied
with the state law requiring
them to register with the State
Department of Administration.
The nine now on the lobby rolls
are Larry Moore, Anchorage, As
sociated General Contractors rep
resentative; Mrs. Lucy Mick,
Palmer, League of Alaska Cities;
Henry Hedberg, Anchorage, State
Federation of Labor; J. B. Han
ford, Bellevue, Wash., Odom Co.;
Joseph R. Walsh, Anchorage,
Alaska Licensed Beverage Asso
ciation; D. B. Vaughn, Juneau,
Railway Express Agency; Frank
Darnell, Juneau, Alaska Educa
tion Association; John Gilbert,
Douglas, Columbia Rivers Pack
ers Association; Robert J. Annis,
Juneau,-Association of Intra-Alas
ka Air Carriers and the U. S.
Brewers Foundation, Inc.
Gen. McArthur Condition
‘Serious but Improving’
NEW YORK, UP> — General
Douglas MacArthur’s condition
remained serious today at Lenox
Hill Hospital where he is being
treated for a non-malignant ob
struction in the urinary tract.
An Army spokesman Sunday
said MaoArthur, who last week
celebrated his 80th birthday, prob
ably will stay longer at the hos
pital than the two weeks planned.
The general’s condition was de
scribed as improving but still
serious.
MacArthur, who fought in two
world wars and the Korean war,
entered the hospital Friday.
Gates Describes
U. S. Strength As
‘First Rate’
By JOE F. KANE
WASHINGTON, UP) — America’s
over-all military strength is “first
rate, first position” although the !
Soviet Union will have moderate- '
ly more missiles for a couple of
years, says Secretary of Defense
Thomas Gates Jr.
' Gates said again Sunday he be
lieves the United States is strong
enough to prevent the Soviet
Union from starting a war. He
said the nation will begin catch- 1
ing up with the Soviet- missile
lead in 1962. ^
He said in a television inter
view “We are expanding our mis
sile program, putting missiles on
our bomber force and bringing
into operations Polaris subma
rines which we believe will offset
any so-called missile gap.”
Ger\, Thopaas White, Air Force
Chief of Staff, spoke along sim
ilar lines in another television in
terview. He said the Soviets may
be ahead in missiles but in the
whole defense picture “I don’t
think we’re behind at all.”
White said the American mis
sile and defense program is prop
erly balanced and “will continue
to give us the deterrent capabili
ty we desire.”
Like Gates, White said he
thought the United States was
strong 'enough to prevent the
Soviet Union from starting a war.
The statements by Gates and
White were in sharp contrast to
defense appraisals by several
Congressional Democrats. Senate
Democratic Leader Lyndon John
son said Friday the ILS.S.R. will
have an enormous advantage in
missile striking power in the
near future.
Sen. Ralph Yarborough (D-Tex)
said Sunday in a taped radio in
terview “We’re woefully behind,
we’re frightfully behind and I
think we ought to have a crash
program to' catch up.”
Gates’ position got new backing
from several Republican leaders.
Rep. Leslie Arends fired a ver
bal blast at critics of the defense
program. He said the U. S. missile
program is sound and orderly.
Sen. Kenneth Keating said the
United States has enough nuclear
striking power to destroy the So
viet Union. He added the Soviets
know this.
Sen. Karl Mundt said he thinks
some of the defense program cri
ticism is based on political op
portunism.
Parcel Post Rates Hiked
WASHINGTON, UP — Parcel
post rates went up today.
An increase authorized last fall
became effective at midnight Sun
day, boosting fourth-class rates
an average of 17.2 per cent. This
covers catalogues as well as
parcels.
The higher rates are expected
to net the government about 88
million dollars a year and will be
used to cut down the deficit of
this class of postal service.
Lorene Nershak Takes
Crown For Alaska’s
Choice As Junior Miss
Lorene Nershak, 18 year old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard
Nershak, was chosen to represent
Alaska at the Junior Miss Contest
for high school senior girls at
Mobile, Alabama.
Miss Nershak was born in
Nome and has never been in any
of the other 49 states — in fact
she has not been farther than
Fairbanks where she spent a
couple of months while her father
was working there.
She plans to enter the Phila
delphia School of Nursing after
graduating from Nome High.
At the Coronation Ball given in
her honor Saturday evening the
Chamber of Commerce presented
her with a check for $100 for
spending money.
The trip to Mobile is an all
expense-paid trip, and she will be
housed in Mobile in a private
home and compete with repre
sentatives from the other states
for scholarships of up to $5,000
which are given the winners of
the Junior Miss America Pageant.
Miss Nershak will leave in
about a month during which time
she will prepare herself for parti
cipation in this once in a lifetime
event.
Entries from other cities in Al
aska were not possible this year
as not sufficient time was given.
Next year it is hoped to have en
tries from high schools all over
the state compete for this coveted
honor and opportunity.
Worker Survives
Burial Under 30-Ft.
Snow Avalanche
WINDEMERE, B. C., (A —
James Duke, 60-year-old High
way Department employe, was
buried for more than 26 hours
under an avalanche of snow.
When rescuers reached him yes
terday, he asked:
“Did someone remember to
feed and water my dog?”
Duke, working at a project 1.4
miles from the Alberta-British
Columbia border, was buried ear
ly Saturday by more than 30 feet
of snow. When more slides threat
ened late last night, rescuers
left convinced Duke was dead.
“I could see daylight through
the snow,” Duke said from his
hospital bed here. “And knew
when it was night and the men
left. I knew the fellows would
be back, but the night was long.
“I kept thinking the same
things over and over. I knew the
men would be back. It was cold.
I may have slept. I can’t really
remember.”
The men did come back with
bulldozers to clear the slide and
hunt for Duke’s body.
Duke said he “lay in fear the
blade would take off my head.”
He finally managed to thrust an
arm through a cleared spot and
wave. He was saved from suffo
cation by a nearby air pocket.
Soviets Complete Pacific Missile Tests
With 2nd Firing of ‘Powerful Rocket’
MOSCOW, Ufl — The Soviet
Union fired off a second power
ful rocket Sunday, hitting the tar
get area in the Pacific and end
ing the current tests, Tass an
nounced today.
The news agency said the 44,
000 square miles of the mid-Pa
cific marked off by the Soviet
Union January 8, once more is
open to planes and shipping.
The first rocket was fired Jan
uary 20. Moscow announced that
1 it landed little more than a mile
off target. The announcement of
the second shot did not specify
how cl#se it came to the actual
target, nor did it give the dis
tance the rocket traveled.
It calculated the first rocket
covered a distance of 7,760 miles
and missed the target by only
1.24 miles. The second rocket pre
sumbly was launched from the
same site, believed to be in the
Caspian Sea area.
The announcement said the
latest firing had completed the
tests of a new rocket intended to
launch heavy earth satellites and
make space flights to planets of
the solar system.
The rocket announcement was
made as the top Communist lead
ers of Soviet-bloc countries gath
ered in Moscow for a top-level
meeting.
Just as the rocket to the moon,
fired on the eve of Premier
Khrushchev’s trip to the United
States, this launching again
showed Soviet ability to conduct
its tests with the maximum poli
tical advantage.
I
Parked Newspaper
Trucks Blown Up
In Portland Strike
PORTLAND, Ore., UR — Two
strings of parked trucks — which
haufed for Portland’s two struck
daily newspapers — were blown
up late Sunday night in Portland
and nearby Oregon City.
Dynamite charges were used to
blow up four trucks here, police
said, and apparently was used on
the six trucks blasted in Oregon
City.
There were no reports of fa
talities or injuries.
The explosions here occurred
at a warehouse in the heavily in
dustrialized northwest section of
the city.
A , police demolition squad
found an unexploded charge of
dynamite in the cab of one truck.
Its fuse had gone out.
A spokesman for the Oregon
ian said the trucks were owned
by firms which did contract haul
ing for the Oregonian and Ore
gon Journal, the city’s two dai
lies which were struck November
10 by the Stereotypers Union.
The papers have merged forces
and have continued at the Ore
gonian plant to publish a joint
edition despite the strike.
The first explosions were at
the Wymore Trucking Co. ware
house in Oregon City. Those in
Portland followed minutes later
at the Oregon Film Service ware
house.
Seven trucks were parked side
by side beside the Wymore ware
house in Oregon City, only six
blocks from downtown.
Six of the trucks were destroyed
by the explosions and the flames
that swiftly curled through the
huge vans — which haul paper
rolls and can carry 19-ton loads.
_ Early today, a teenage boy
walked into a precinct station on
Portland’s souteast side, carrying
two charges of dynamite he said
he found beside a fence, miles
from the blast scenes. One charge
contained three taped sticks of
dynamite, the other four sticks.
Algiers Insurgents
Lay Down Arms
Amid Army Cheers
ALGIERS, UP — The eight-day
colonial revolt in Algiers col
lapsed today.
The insurgent irregulars, who
resisted French President Charles
De Gaulle’s policy of self-determi
nation for Algeria, surrendered
their downtown barricades to an
overwhelming display of army
strength.
The fiery insurgent leader
Pierre LaGaillarde was given a
military salute as he marched out *
of'the barricades, followed by a
haggard band of some 300 irreg
ular troops.
It was not immediately known
what the French Army, which
had stuck with De Gaulle, would
do with LaGaillarde and his men.
LaGaillarde, a reserve paratroop
lieutenant, gave up after the pop
ulation of Algiers ignored his call
for a continuation of the general
strike.
LaGaillafde still wore his para
troop uniform and carried a
French flag as he led his small
force from the stronghold.
A French paratroop upit in
front of the barricade stood at
attention as the insurgents
marched solemnly out. As he*
crossed the square, LaGaillarde
exchanged salutes with French
officers commanding the troops
before the barricades.
The crowd began to cheer and
clap for LaGuaillarde, and there
were cries of “Algierie Francaise”
Algeria is French!
LaGaillarde’s men were a mot
ley group. Some wore uniforms,
some had only parts of uniforms.
A few wore steel helmets and
others wore paratroops berets.
Dr. Bernard LeFevre, a right
wing political figure in Algiers,
said the surrender had come as a
result of nighttime negotiations
between the insurgents and the
army. He said the conditions
asked by the insurgents were
that the surrender go off with
military honors and that no sanc
tions be taken against them.
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