Statehood Bill Wins Preliminary
Victory As Senate Kills 2 Amendments
WASHINGTON, UP) — Heartened
by preliminary victories, backers
predicted Saturday the Senate
will vote this week to make Alas
ka the 49th state.
Sen. Henry Jackson, floor man
ager for the statehood bill, said
he expected Senate passage of the
measure by a 2-1 margin and
without change from the form
already approved by the House.
Jackson forecast passage by Wed
nesday.
A Saturday session was called
off by Sen. Mike Mansfield, act
ing majority leader, after the
Senate Friday beat down two at
tempts to sidetrack the House
passed bill.
He called the Senate to meet
earlier than usual on Monday.
He served notice it would work
late and promised an early start
ing hour again on Tuesday.
Mansfield said he plans to stay
with the admission bill until it is
disposed of.
The first test votes Friday
came on a move by Sen. Mike
Monroney to substitute common
wealth status for statehood and
on one of the constitutional chal
lenges raised by Sen. James
Eastland.
Monroney’s proposal, beaten
50-29, would have given Alaska
local self-government and ex
emption from federal income
taxes, but would have denied it
voting representation in Congress.
Eastland sought to throw out
as unconstitutional a section of!
the bill which would permit the
4 Canadian Climbers
Conquer Mt. Fairweather
VANCOUVER, B. C., UP) — A
party of four climbers has con
quered • 15,300-foot Mount Fair
weather, B. C.’s highest mount
ain. They reached the summit
at 9:45 p.m. Thursday.
Success of the climb, a B. C.
centenial project was reported
by George Kitson, amateur radio
operator at northerly Lituya Bay.
The mountain is situated in the
boundary between B. C. and the
Alaska Panhandle. ■
Only one of the four was iden
tified. He is Phil Broda of West
Vancouver.
The original dight climbers
split into two parties. The final
ascent was made from camp 2 at
. 9,400 feet, starting at 8:30 a.m.
The mountain had never been
climbed by a Canadian party.
It was conquered once before, in
1931 by a group of Americans.
Dr. Bradford Washburn, an
authority on Alaska mountaineer
ing, wrote in 1935 that it was
one of the most difficult climbs
in North America.
i President, without any showing
! of emergency or declaration of
martial law, to withdraw certain
areas of Alaska for national de
fense purposes. His efforts was
turned down 53-28.
Sen. William Fulbright (D-Ark)
made one of the principal argu
ments for commonwealth status.
He said it had worked well in
Puerto Rico and could for
Alaska or Hawaii.
Under commonwealth status,
he* argued, Alaska would have
complete local autonomy, with
the United States continuing to
carry the burden of national de
[ fense.
Sen. Russell Long (D-La) said
that although a majority of the
southern senators were opposing
the bill, he was supporting' Alas
ka statehood as a confirmed
states’ righter.
Long said he does not* feel it
woul be consistent for him to
deny states’ rights for others that
“I so strongly insist on for our
selves in the South.
Sen. Stuart Symington (D-Mo)
said he supports Alaska’s bid
for statehood because of his be
lief it will strengthen the national
defense and increase the nation’s
security.
Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore) said:
“The implication of the non
contiguous argument that Alaska
is simply ridiculous.”
“What counts is whether the
people there want statehood and
whether tl\e' area is capable of
sustaining it. On these points,
I am satisfied that Alaska should
be admitted to the union.”
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Federal Aid Funds
WASHINGTON, UP) — Presi
dent Eisenhower met stiff Demo
cratic resistance Saturday to his
appeal for restoration of foreign
aid funds slashed by a House
committee.
Eisenhower said Friday he was
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