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VOL. LVII No. 7 = NOME, ALASKA. MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 1955 Per Copy—15*
Eisenhower Sends
Congress Budget
For $62,408,000,000
WASHINGTON, (A»)— President
Eisenhower today sent to Con
gress a $62,408,000,000 budget for
the year beginning July 1. It con
templates a billion dollar drop in
spending from this year, a billion
dollar rise in receipts and a deficit
of $2,400,000,000.
In a message, Eisenhower told
Congress his budget was designed
to guard “an insecure peace” and
“progressively increase our pros
perity and enhance our welfare.”
In fiscal year 1956, beginning
July 1, Eisenhower said, the gov
ernment should:
Spend $62,408,000,000, compared
with $63,500,000,000 estimated for
the current 1955 fiscal year and
$67,800,000,000 in fiscal 1954,
which-ended last June 30.
Collect 60 billion dollars, com
pared with 59 billions estimated
for the current fiscal year,’ and
$64,700,000,000 in fiscal 1954.
Run a deficit of $2,400,000,000
compared with his red ink fore
cast of $4,500,000,000 for the cur
rent fiscal year and $3,100,000,000
the year before.
The President recommended
corporation and excise tax rates
scheduled to decline in April be
maintained at present levels for a
year.
He said major national security
programs would cost $40,458,000,
900 next year, virtually the same
as a new and lower security
spending estimate of $40,644,000,
000 for this year. The figure was
$46,522,000,000 in fiscal 1954.
Army and Navy spending pro
grams would be virtually un
changed next fiscal year. But the
Air Force was scheduled for near
ly half a billion dollars more in
fiscal 1956 than this year.
At $15,600,000,000 it would
spend 6 to 7 billions more than
either of the other services. This
is a peacetime record for Air
Force spending. Atomic energy
outlays, budgeted at 2 billion dol
lars in fiscal 1956, were almost
unchanged from this year.
Eisenhower scheduled a 450
million dollar increase in foreign ;
military aid outlays next year, to !
$3,675,000,000.
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Checkups Ordered
For Flying Boxcars
In Alaska Exercise
GREENVILLE, S. C., UP)—Spe
cial periodic engine inspections of
all Air Force C-119 Flying Box
cars now participating in the Al
aska training exercise Snowbird
have been ordered by Ma.j. Gen.
Chester E. McCarty.
Gen. McCarty, commander of
the 18th Air Force with head
quarters at nearby Donaldson Air
Force Base, said yesterday he is
calling for the inspections “as an
added safety measure” because
four recent incidents during the
exercise involving C-119s. The
18th has 92 Flying Boxcars in Al
aska.
In the four instances, pilots suc
ceeded in parachuting their air^
borne infantry troops during the
emergencies. Two men were killed
in one crash.
At Edmonton, Alberta, the Air
Force said eight Flying Boxcars
grounded there yesterday for en
gine checks, are ready to fly but
are being held up because of bad
weather. The rest of the planes in
the exercise have gone to Elmen
dorf Air Base, Anchorage, while
three others still are to arrive.
Gen. McCarty is enroute to Al
aska to make a personal inspec
tion of the situation. His order
was released by Brig. Gen. Hoyt
L. Prindle, chief of staff of the
18th. Prindle said the inspections
will require about four hours per
aircraft and will not interfere ser
iously with the Alaskan operation.
Gen. McCarty also has ordered
a reduction in loads being carried
by the twin-engine transports to
provide a greater margin of safe
ty “during single engine opera
tion” in the event of additional
engine failures or malfunctions.
The exercise involves the air
movement of more than 3,000 air
borne infantry with combat
equipment.
First Kitimat Aluminum
Bound for Hong Kong
VANCOUVER, B. C., UP)—The
first cargo of aluminum ingots to
arrive here from Kitimat, B.C.,
was unloaded from the Island
Prince Saturday.
The shipment consists of 246,000
pounds of ingots bound or Hong
Kong.
Budget Estimates for Year Ending June 30, 1954
1955 1956
Income $ 59,000,000,000 $ 60,000,000.000
Outgo 63,504,000,000 62,408,000,000
Deficit 4,504,000,000 2,408,000,000
Year-end Debt 274,300,000,000 276.000,000,000
Little America in Antarctic Wins
Tug - of - War With Other Ice Field
By Alton L. Blakeslee
Associated Press Science Reporter
NEW YORK, tIf)—Famous Little
America in frozen Antactica has
won a titanic icy tug-of-wrar—just
as Rear Adm.'Richard E. Byrd
thought it would.
It has survived a huge collision
of two mammoth moving jaws of
ice, each backed by the power of
billions of tons of ice..
The jaws came together, wres
tled and fought. One or both had
to yield and float at sea as a dying
iceberg.
One of the jaws is a field of ice
known as Little America. Little
America is not land at all. It is
just a dot on a giant moving hunk
of shelf of ice.
The Little America jaw was
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victor in the collision but it was
hurt. Part of it was broken off,
apparently right through the mid
dle of Little America Camp No. 4,
set up in 1947 with its cargo of
airplanes, tents, food, oil and
toothpaste. >
The opposing jaw of ice lost
entirely. It fell with a tremendous
splash into the cold Ross Sea.
Its death destroyed the old Bay
of Whales. It death also spelled
the inevitable death some day of
Little America itself.
This is the story in the reports
from Little America by Walter
Sullivan, New York Times corres
pondent aboard the U.S. Navy ice
breaker Atka. The Atka has just
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None of M’Carthy’s
^Communists’
Found Disloyal
WASHINGTON, Ufi—Sen. Olin
D. Johnston <D-SC» says the State
Department has found none of 80
employes once named by Sen.
McCarthy to be a Communist or
“disloyal to our government.”
The report on investigations
prompted by McCarthy’s 1950
charges “should clear up this
matter for all time,” Johnston
said.
The South Carolina senator said
he asked the State Department
for information as a starting point
in a review of possible subversion
in the government. He heads the
Senate Post Office and Civil Ser
vice Committee and plans a full
investigation of the Eisenhower
Administration’s security pro
gram.'
Along with some other Demo
crats, Johnston has questioned
whether administration statistics
on firings under the program have
presented a true picture of risks
in government jobs.
Johnston said in a statement he
dug up names of some 80 State
Department employes “against
whom the Wisconsin senator (Mc
Carthy) had made charges.” The
cases figured in a controversial
investigation by a Senate group
headed by former Sen. Tydings
(D-Md) in 1950.
The Tydings subcommittee re
ported the charges were false and
accused McCarthy of a hoax. Mc
Carthy retorted the investigation
amounted to a “whitewash.”
The State Department’s reply
to his request for a summary of
the cases “verifies” the Tydings
conclusions, Johnston said.
G. W. Skinner Estate
Appraised at $3,900,433
SEATTLE, UD—‘The estate of
Gilbert W. Skinner, Medina, for
mer president of the Alaska
Steamship Co., was appraised at
$3,900,433 in an inventory filed
Saturday with County Clerk Nor
man R. Riddell.
Skinner died October 11, 1953.
The estate was left in trust,
one-half to the widow, Leonore,
and one-sixth each to a son, D. E.
Skinner, Hunts Point, and two
daughters, Mrs. Sally Skinner
Behnke, Medina, and Nancy Car
oline Skinner, Seattle.
The bulk of the estate was com
posed of 15,999 shares of Alaska
Steamship Co. stock, valued at
$2,555,896.
Skinner’s son has succeeded
him as company president.
Sharp Tokyo Earthquake
Adds Realism to Radio
TOKYO, UP)—A sharp earth
quake jolted Tokyo today. No
damage was reported, although
concrete buildings swayed for 30
seconds.
The tremor added remarkable
realism to a radio program.
“And then came a big, jolly
earthquake,” said a voice on the
U.S. Army’s Far East network.
At the word “earthquake” listen
ers in the Tokyo and Yokohama
areas felt Japan’s strongest tem
blor in months.
Mrs. Lynn Rowan of Kansas
City, who was playing a tape re
cording of remarks by a school
teacher who experienced Japan’s
disastrous 1923 earthquake, said:
“The earthquake was right on
cue. Believe me, I almost dropped
my teeth.”
Mrs. Rowan said it was her
biggest surprise in radio.
Eisenhower Recommends $1,200,000
To Start Work on New Post Office
And Court House for Nome
By Frank W. Vaille
WASHINGTON, Oft—Alaska’s
share in the federal budget for
the year starting July 1, as pro
posed to Congress today by Presi
dent Eisenhower, is nearly 14 mil
lion dollars less than was recom
mended a year ago, apparently
reflecting administration efforts
toward balancing spending with
income.
In programs specifically ear
marked for Alaska, the President
asked $32,163,998 for expenditure
during the 12-month period. This
compares with earmarked re
quests of $45,788,600 in the budget
he i sent Congress for the year
Territorial
Treasury Has
$5 Million Surpl us
JUNEAU, lift—Alaska’s legisla
ture will find more than five
million dollars surplus in the ter
ritorial treasury when it convenes
here Jan. 24.
It will be the second straight
session at which the legislators
have found a substantial surplus
in the coffers—a rare condition
among the nation’s lawmaking
bodies.
The Board of Budget reported
Friday that the surplus is expect
ed to be $5,447,300 on April 1.
It listed the figure in a budget
statement in which it cautioned
that if requests of all territorial
departments and agencies are met
for the biennium, the treasury
would drop close to five million
into the red.
The board emphasized that
budget requests run more than
10 million dollars over anticipated
revenues and that the legislature
will have to do some sharp paring
to get the budget in balance.
The territorial income tax is the
main factor in the healthy treas
ury condition. The board estimat
ed it will produce 13 million dol
lars in the next two years out of a
total of 36^4 million of expected
total revenues.
Newspapers Were
‘Never More Vital’
CHICAGO, (A*)—The president
of the Newspaper Advertising Ex
ecutives Assn, said today “news
papers were never more vital,
never more necessary, nor news
paper advertising more important
to the economy of the nation.”
In a prepared address, Donald
M. Bernard, vice president and
advertising director of the Wash
ington (D.C.) Post & Times-Her
ald, made the statement at the
opening of the association’s an
nual convent on.
More than 700 United States
and Canadian newspaper adver
tising executives are attending the
convention, which closes Jan. 19.
Bernard predicted a good year
in 1955 for newspapers and an
nounced a new tie-up with the
advertising council. He said the
NAEA will present the council
with an amazing and dramatic
package of newspaper cooperation
that will place our media where
it belongs—w7ay out in front.”
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ending next June 30 and with
$33,804,849 actually appropriated
by Congress.
In addition, the territory will
share in defense and other gov
ernment programs for which the
requested appropriations are not
detailed.
The President recommended
two new projects in the territory.
He asked $1,200,000 to start work
on a new post office and court
house at Nome and $2,000,000 to
begin the Nenana-Fairbanks high
way.
Preliminary planning also will
begin for a replacement hospital
at Kotzebue under the Public
Health Service’s Indian Health
Facilities Program. No specific
sum was earmarked for this work.
The President asked five mil
lion for the Alaska Public Works
program, for which another mil
lion also is available from previ
ous appropriations. A similar five
million request last year was in
creased to 9Vfe million by Con
gress. The new request contem
plates issuance of contracts for
five utility projects, four new
schools and two other public
buildings.
For operation and maintenance
of the Alaska Communications ;
System, the President proposed
$5,269,000. This .compares with
$4,235,000 voted by Congress last
year. Another $951,000 is avail
able from previous appropria
tions.
The communications program
envisions expanded semiautomat
ic tape relay facilities at Anchor
age and Fairbanks toll buildings,
installation of equipment to per
mit automatic dialing at the Ju
neau and Ketchikan toll centers,
equipment for new radio build
ings at Bethel and Kotzebue, and
hiring of some 54 new civilian
employes to keep pace with in
creased commercial traffic.
The over-all request for Alaska
road construction totals $7,800,
000 as against an appropriation
last year of $8,000,000. In addition
to a start on the Nenana
Fairbanks highway, it calls for
continued work on the Taylor,
Denali and Sterling Highways,
asphalting 75 miles of the Rich
ardson Highway, extension of
access roads to New Homestead
and industrail areas and improve
ment of existing roads.
Another 3Vz million was asked
for road operation and mainte
nance.
Other specific Alaska requests:
Agriculture research service,
$90,000; disease and sanitation in
vestigations and control, $1,125,
000; funds contributed for im
provement of roads, bridges and
trails, $410,000; receipts from
sale of timber, etc., on school
land, $700; and of Alaska town
lots, $3,400; reclamation investi
gations, $100,000; management
and investigation of fish and
wildlife resources (20 per cent of
fur sale receipts), $785,648; ad
ministration of Pribilof Islands
<60 per cent of fur sale receipts)
$1,827,600; care of governor’s of
fice, $96,650; care of Alaska’s in
sane, $770,000; and operation and
maintenance of Eklutna project,
$236,000.
Some of these items, of which
timber receipts are one example,
are mere bookkeeping transac
tions.