U.S. Will Talk with
Red China if 50
Americans Freed
WASHINGTON (*>_The United
States was described yesterday as
ready to discuss a number of Far
East problems directly with Com
munist China if the Reds agree to
free 51 or 50 American citizens.
U.S. officials who reported this
Tuesday said Red China’s attitude
toward this longstanding Ameri
can demand would determine the
scope of the special conference
which, it was announced Monday,
will begin August 1 in Geneva.
If the Chinese Reds refuse to
release 11 American airmen and
40 civilians, they said, there will
be no point in talking about other
tensions which exist between
Washington and Peiping. At the
head of that list is a Formosa
cease-fire.
Sen. George (D-Ga) said in a
separate interview the forthcom
ing talks may help clear the air
for a future conference on such
tensions with Red China, perhaps
on the foreign ministers’ level.
George, chairman of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee, sug
gested such a meeting on Sunday.
He said he believes Secretary of
State Dulles and Red China’s Pre
mier and foreign minister, Chou
En-lai, should meet before any
general conference is held.
The Peiping radio proposed on
Monday that the fate of National-}
ist-held Formosa and Red China’s
admission to the United Nations
“be settled through consultation
among the countries concerned.”
George said Dulles made it clear
at a closed meeting of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee on
Monday there would be at the
ambassadors’ talks in Geneva no
discussions “involving any third
party—in this case, Nationalist
China.”
93 Degrees in
Fairbanks Monday
FAIRBANKS bPV—The normally
frigid arctic regions of Alaska
were in the midst of a sizzling
heat wave Monday.
The tiny Eskimo village of
Wainwright on the Arctic Ocean
90 miles southwest of Pt. Barrow
reported a temperature of 80 de
grees.
In Fairbanks it was 147 degrees
warmer than it was on this same
date in December. The mercury
zoomed to 93 Monday. It was 54
degrees below zero on Dec. 25,
1954.
The heat wave claimed its first
victim Tuesday when Ronnie
Dines, 9, drowned in a small lake
in the 'Alaska Railroad yards here.
The boy was swimming with
two companions when he sudden
ly sank below the surface. A pass
er-by dove into the lake and
brought the lad’s body to the
shore. Artificial respiration failed
to revive young Dines.
Words of a wise man: Time you
enjoy wasting is not wasted time.’
Nome Bakery
and Restaurant
Pies- fresh daily . 51
Darigold Ice Cream .. 75tf ql*
Nome Maid Bread 50^
Fresh Doughnuts .... 7V <*©*•
Frosted Doughnuts .. 90< do*.
TUESDAY BASEBALL SCORES
American League
Washington 9-1, Kansas City
3-3
Detroit 8-7, Baltimore 6-2
New York 1, Chicago 0
Boston 5, Cleveland 1
National League
New York 6, Chicago 5
Brooklyn 4, Cincinati 2
Pittsburgh 3, St. Louis 1
Milwaukee 6, Philadelphia 3
Pacific Coast League
Oakland 2-3, Los Angeles 0-1
Hollywood 2, San Francisco 1
Portland 2-1, San Diego 0-4
Sacramento 8, Seattle 0
Inflation sign: Free Lunch—$1.
Territorial Librarian
Appointed for New
Library Department
Emily Boucher, who has been
in Fairbanks attending the first
meeting of the new Territorial
Library Department, returned on
Sunday and stated that Dorothy
Phelps has been appointed the
first Territorial Librarian for
Alaska.
Miss Phelps at present it a
librarian at Kalispell, Mont., and
Navy librarian in Honolulu, Ha
waii. She will assume her duties
early in November to start organ
izing the new territorial library
at Juneau.
BURGLARS FAIL. TOO
IOWA CITY, Iowa, MV-Jim
Herriott, co-owner of a bulk oil
plant here, felt sorry that burg
lars were unable to open the
company’s 500-pound safe Mon
day.
He said the safe was jammed in
being moved two year ago and he
hasn’t been able to open it since.
“We don’t think anything is in
it,” he said, “I almost wish they
had opened it so we could see.”
The mongoose, killer of slow
moving cobras in India, cannot
cope with the faster poisonous
snakes in the new world.
Alaska Water Resource
Bill Passed by Senate
WASHINGTON tfV-The Senate
Monday passed a compromise bill
to grant permanent authorization
for water resource investigations
in Alaska by the Reclamation Bu
reau. Such studies now must be
authorized each year.
The bill would set a limit of
$250,000 a year on expenditures
for the purpose.
The conference report must
now be acted upon by the House
before the measure goes to the
White House.
Fine Job Printing at The Nugget
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You and the West profit
when Standard changes a dollar
Like you and your family, Standard Oil Company
of California has to have money coming in to keep
going. And like you, we must divide every dollar of
this income into quite a few pieces to keep the bills
paid. Our budgeting is naturally on a large scale, but
the result is about the same: most of the money
Standard takes in goes right back into circulation.
And when a sum like $1,229,000,000 (our total in
come last year) goes into circulation, its benefits are
broad and deep. Practically everyone in the West
shared, directly or indirectly, in Standard’s good
year. We thank you for your patronage that made
it possible. And we’d like you to know that a sizable
piece of change from each of our dollars goes for
things that improve service to you: research facilities
for development of better products at low cost; new
plants to make them more available; widespread ex
ploration for new petroleum fields to help keep
America’s oil barrel full. To do these jobs, now and for
the future, here’s how we changed a Standard dollar:
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8* for taxes was divided among
the U. S. government, states, couA
ties and cities. Standard’s tax bill ( * «
came to $101,500,000 ... enough to
build plenty of schools, bridges, park
equipment, etc. Standard also col
lected product and sales taxes for
federal, state and city governments.
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, If you wish a copy of our Annual Report for 1954, write to—
Standard Oil Company of California, Rm. 2162, 225 Bush St., San Francisco, 20, Calif.
STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA
plans ahead to serve you better