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U.S. To Go Ahead with Eisenhower’s
Atoms-for-Peaee Plan, Says Dulles;
Russia Asked If Turndown Is Final
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Mrs. John Gorsuch
Replaces Late Husband
In Territorial Senate
ANCHORAGE, OPi—Mrs. John
F. Gorsuch of Anchorage was
nominated unanimously at a
Third Division Republican Con
vention Monday for the unexpired
Territorial Senate term of her late
husband.
At the same time. Third Divi
sion Democrats nominated Jack
Werner as their candidate at a
Seward convention. The Demo
crats also called for a constitu
tional convention.
Werner, a prominent Seward
businessman, had the support of
delegates from the outlying areas
as well as from Anchorage.
Feeling at the Democrats’ con
vention ran high over pamphlets
distributed by the Commonwealth
Committee, which is currently
conducting what the convention
delegates termed a last ditch ef
fort to block statehood.
The more than 200 delegates
attending the Seward convention
passed a resolution reaffirming
their stand in favor o'f statehood
for the territory and asking that
the next legislature call a consti
tutional convention.
British Labor Leaders,
Enroute to Red China,
Feted by Russians
MOSCOW, (J11—Former British
Prime Minister Clement Attlee
and seven other British labor
leaders arrived in a chartreuse
colored Soviet army plane Tues
day for a two-day visit. They ex
pected to have talks here with
Premier Georgi Malenkov and
other Soviet officials.
The Labor Party delegation,
which includes left-winger Aneu
rin Bevan, attended a Soviet re
ception last night at which Mal
enkov and other top Soviet lead
ers are expected to be present.
The Britishers are enroute to
Communist China for a three
week stay.
Attlee and the others declined
to comment upon arrival, saying
only they had a pleasant trip.
They stopped in Helsinki, where
they boarded the Soviet army
plane, a two-engine IL-12 with
the chartreause paint job.
FALL ROUND-UP OF DEER
UNDERWAY IN 2ND DIVISION
The fall round-up of reindeer is
now on in several places in this
dvision. The U.S. Merc received a
full plane load of reindeer meat
from Selawik yesterday by way
of Alaska Airlines.
The round-up on Nunivak Is
land started July 28 and 1,000
deer were expected to be butch
ered there. . Shipments of deer
will be brought here by the M.S.
North Star.
> WASHINGTON, OP—Secretary
of State Dulles said Tuesday the
United States, preparing to go
ahead with President Eisenhow
er's Atoms-for-Peace plan in any
case, has asked Russia whether its
turndown of the proposal is final.
Dulles told a news conference
that private talks with Russia’s
Foreign Minister Molotov, along
with formal notes, show very ftfn
, damental differences in the Am
erican and Russian approaches to
J the problem. •
At present, Dulles said, the U.S.
government is actively consider
ing the prospect of beginning talks
at an early stage with other coun
tries which might join this plan
both to contribute materials and
share the benefits. He did not
name the countries.
The President set out his pro
posal in an address Dec. 8 before :
the United Nations. He called for
a world bank of fissionable mat
erials to be set up for peaceful
purposes which would be avail
able to all countries. The idea is
that it would study ways of har
nessing the atom for the benefit
of mankind.
On other subjects, Dulles:
1. Said he hopes an announce
: mcnt may be forthcoming later
this week spelling out the plans to
create a Southeast Asia alliance ]
against Communism. He said that
there was a possibility one of the!
“Colombo powers” might jo'in.
This group, taking its name from
a meeting in Colombo, Ceylon,
includes India, Ceylon, Burma,
Indonesia and Pakistan.
2. Described the situation in i
southern Viet Nam as nearly
chaotic, but said he had no infor
mation which suggested the Com
munists might try to seize power
from the non-Red regime.
3. Said Japan’s worsening fi
nancial picture is a grave problem
but that it may be possible to re
lieve this somewhat by opening
up new trade markets to the Jap
anese and selling surplus Ameri
can farm products to them at cut
rate prices. He said, however, he
j did not think it would be neces
sary to resume direct financial aid
I to the Japanese.
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Covenant Navigators Elect
New Officers Monday
The Covenant Navigator Young
People of the Mission Covenant
Church had their semi-annual
election on Monday, Aug. 9. The
new officers elected are:
James Oksoktaruk, president
(reelected); Howard Slwcroko, vice
president; Ellen Slwooko, secre
tary; Tommy Tungwenuk, treas
urre; Alma Tungwenuk, librarian.
An installation service for the
newly elected officers was con
ducted by Rev. R. Amundteen.
The next meeting of the naviga
tors will be on Monday, Aug. 16.
Weather permitting, it will be an
outdoor social.
City To Engage
Another Full
Time Patrolman
The city council is engaging a
new patrolman to augment the
present plan which stops at 3:00
a.m., thus giving 24-hour protec
tion. The additional patrolman
will not only give police protec
tion in the early hours of the mor
ning but will also serve as a
fire patrol.
The Fire Department reported
no fires for the month of July.
The Police Department report
ed 63 arrests with $892 in fines
and forfeitures and $80 in traf
fic fines.
A resolution was adopted by the
council to allow no more liquor
licenses than at present as the
city how has five with seven dis
pensaries which they consider
sufficient for the size of the pop
ulation. ,
City Clerk Carrie McLain re
ported that the sales tax collected |
for the second quarter amounted
to $12,667.25. Last year for the
same period collections were
$11,461.12.
The Public Health Nurse re
ported 79 X-rays taken for the
month of July and two patients
from King Island sent to sanator
iums and one to the MMM Hos
pital.
Regulations were again discus
sed regarding speeding within
the city limits and the matter
was left to the discretion of the
City Magistrate.
Three new street lights were
ordered installed, in front of the
Q Cab, Post Office 'and at the
corner of Front and B St., where
they have been needed for some
time.
Lot 25 in Block 67 was sold
to Elizabeth Albert for $60. The
east 25 feet at Lot 24 in Block
66 was sold a John Belobravich
for $60.
The services of Victor Fischer,
city planning expert from An
chorage, were offpred at the nom
inal sum of $350 to make the trip
to Nome and study for planning
improvements. The council de
clined the offer at this time.
FBI Arrests Bank Bandit
Who Made Largest
Single Handed Haul
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., UPI —
Nattily dressed George Patrick
McKinney, 27, who went broke
operating a premium car agency
here under another name, is un
der arrest for single-handedly
robbing a Floral Park, N.Y., bank
of more than $190,000 a»year ago.
The haul was “one of the larg
est amounts ever obtained by a
lone bandit in a bank robbery,”
said Edward J. Powers, special
agent in charge of the FBI in
Florida.
The FBI arrested McKinney a
few minutes after he reported for
duty on a new job, as medical
extern at the Duval Medical Cen
ter. He had lived here over 10
months as Wade Patrick Johnson,
apparently an up and coming
young businessman until his car
business folded, with no one sus
pecting a criminal record.
A rogue’s gallery picture that
had been posted only 24 hours—
in connection with another crime,
a burglary in California—led to
his capture. A woman noticed the
picture in the post office at near
by Arlington, Fla., and called the
FBI which linked him with the
bank robbery through finger
prints.
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Committee Urges Commonwealth
Status for Alaska as Workable
Plan to Improve Situation Now
A strong, concerted drive to ob
tain commonwealth status for Al
aska, as a workable alternative to
statehood, is now under way in
the territory.
A “Committee for Common
wealth'’ has been formed, with
many Third Division supporters,
and its first step is an extensive
“campaign of education,” with
distribution of 25.000 pamphlets
throughout Alaska to “stimulate
the thinking along commonwealth
lines.”
Chairman #of the group, Alex
W. Bowker, of Spenard, pointed
to the recent conclusive defeat
for all chances of Alaskan state
hood during the last session of
Congress and said “since state
hood is impossible in the foresee
able future, we’ve carefully in
vestigated the commonwealth sit
uation in Puerto Rico, and we feel
Alaska would do well to follow
their example.
With Puerto Rico’s case as an
Three Die on Mt. Blanc
CHAMONIX, Franc e, UP)—
Searchers found the bodies Tues
day of three Swiss mountain
climbers missing on the slopes of
Mont Blanc since Sunday. Seven
other members of the Swiss party
were reported safe in a refuge
hut.
Japanese Military Chief
To Visit United States
TOKYO, UP)—The chief of Jap
an’s new joint chiefs of staff will
visit the United States in about
three weeks to confer with top
American defense officials, it was
announced Tuesday. He is Lt.
Gen. Keizo Hayashi.
COMMUNICATION
August 6, 1954
To1 the Nome Nugget:
We wanted you to know how
much we enjoyed your newssheet.
It was fun to visit in Nome.
The people were so friendly. Paul
at the Wallace, the lady in the
Trading Post, the druggist, Mr.
Polet, and of course Chuck of the
Q. We feel they are our friends.
That is the thing the tourist most
desires—to get acquainted.
We enjoyed sitting in the Ber
ing Sea Club and watching the
water and the Sea Wall.
Sorry the weather didn’t let us
get a good slide of the dip in the
Federal Building.
Thank you, Nome, for your
courtesies.
Mr. and Mrs. C. Grant
McCullough
1968 Loma Vista
Pasadena, Calif.
example, the effects of a shift to
commonwealth would be far
reaching. Under the n^w status,
Alaskans would:
1. Pay no federal income taxes
on money earned in the territory.
iThe committee points to the latest
available figures, showing the av
erage Alaskan paying $308.30 an
nually in federal income tax,
while each Puerto Rican paid
$1.73 for the entire year.)
2. Pay no excise taxes, which
now take $10.50 a gallon on whis
key, two cents a gallon on gaso
line, and tax 185 articles alto
gether.
3. Pay local taxes as set up by
the legislature.
4. Be in a position to offer term
tax incentives to new industries
and new investment money for
establishment of plants in Alas
ka, creating many new year
round jobs for Alaskan workers.
5. Become members of a com
pletely autonomous state, volun
tarily associated with the U.S.
6. In no way jeopardize future
admittance to the Union as a state.
Last year, the committee says,
Alaskans paid nine million dollars
in taxes to the territory and 46
million to the federal govern
ment. They estimate a common
wealth would cost 13 million dol
lars a year, much less than the
cost under full statehood.
The committee again points to
Puerto Rico, which attained com
monwealth status in July of 1952,
as the example.
Under the constitution of Puerto
Rico, approved by Congress and
accepted by 81 percent of the
people in referendum, self-gov
ernment is reported as complete
as in any state.
Puerto Rico has no representa
tion in Congress, nor do its people
participate in national elections.
But, the committee points out,
since they have no representative,
they are not subject to federal
taxation—thus fulfilling one of
America’s earliest creeds of “no
taxation without representation.”
“We lose no part of our Ameri
can citizenship,” Bowker said.
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