Demand For Minerals
In U. S. May Forde
Exploration In Alaska
FAIRBANKS, iffi — The nation
will look to Alaska for new
mineral sources to meet an in
creasing future demand, an assis
tant Secretary of the Interior
said. Saturday.
Things are tough now for the
mining industry, Royce A. Hardy
commented in a speech prepared
for the annual Mining, Minerals
and Petroleum Conference.
“The ‘occasional sharp swings
of the economic pendalum can
be temporarily dismaying,” he
added, “but the country keeps
growing despite these trouble
some disturbances and the de
mand is going up for basic mater
ials. This certainly includes min
erals and metals.
“I think we may be hard
pressed to meet increasing de
mand in the times ahead. We
shall have to look for new sour
ces of supply. This is where
Alaska, with its vast unexplored
areas, fits prominently into the
picture.”
Hardy added, “statehood for
Alaska will provide an incen
tive to the development of your
enormous area and his depart
ment has urged use of Alaskan
coal at military bases in the ter
ritory as part of a program of
developing minerals that can be
used within Alaska.”
“At the same time,” he added,
“the production of coal and its
value to the Alaskan economy
had to be weighed against other
considerations. For example,
lower freight rates on coal un
doubtedly would be helpful to
both producer and consumer, but ■
the department must also con
sider the economic health of the
(government-owned) railroad.” j
“As Alaska gains statehood,”
he added, “everyone must be on
his toes in order to keep pace
with Alaska’s economic growth.”
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Coping With Hu
Public health authorities prc ” i
that if Asian flu spreads across 1. 2
United States, the first really
large-scale outbreaks will arrive
with the cold weather.
The best protection against the
disease, authorities agree, is vac
cination. Since it takes the be civ
approximately two weeks to build
up an immunity after the inject, n
is given, the vaccine should be ad
— ministered as soon
as possible.
This is particu
> larly true in the
case of children
and the elderly,
who are most sus
ceptible to the sec
ondary infections
I which often follow
influenza — infections which can
be far more dangerous than the flu
itself.
Luckily, phygicians will be able
to fight the secondary infections
with such weapons as Tetracydin,
which combines-a powerful broad
range antibiotic with other drugs
aimed specifically at the symptoms
of respiratory diseases.
As the American Medical Asso
ciation has cautioned, however,
antibiotics and sulfa drugs have no
effect against the flu itself, either
in preventing or treating it.
The value of these drugs, the
A.M.A. points out, lies in treating
influenza victims who have e
lished cases of secondary bacte. .1
infections which can he cleared up
with antibiotics.
Most reassuring word in he
Asian influenza picture coi s
from authorities who point c -t
that the disease is mild and of
short duration.
IRBM Explodes
On Launching Pad
CAPE CANAVEPtAL, Fla., UR—
A Thor intermediate range bal
listic missile exploded on its
launching pad at the nation’s
missile test center here Saturday.
A few people on the beaches1
outside the center saw the 50-j
ton missile blow up. There was!
no flame, they said, but a huge I
ball of black smoke rose high in j
the sky. A muffled roar fol- j
lowed the explosion.
The launching, the Air Force j
said in a statement two hours
after the blowup, “.was unsuccess
ful due to technical difficulties.
The missile exploded on the pad.”
‘There were no injuries to per
sonnel and structural damage to
to the launching pad appears to
be superficial.”
52-Year-Old Communist
Affiliate Deported
To Native Finland
SAN FRANCISCO, <i5V-William
Keikkila, a 52-year-old drafts
man, was arrested at 5 p.m., Fri
day night on deportation charges,
was put on a plane and was out
of the United States early Satur
day before U. S. Immigration of
ficials could confirm the arrest.
Bruce, Barber, local immi
gration official, said Heikkila was
deported to his native Finland on
grounds he was a Communist
Party member after entering the
United States. Heikkila, not a
U. S. citizen, entered this country
. at the age of 2Vz months.
Barber refused to say what
plane Heikkila was aboard but
said he definitely was “out of
the country.”
Lloyd McMurray, Heikkila’s
attorney, said a motion on the 11
year legal battle against the de
portation was pending in a San
Francisco Federal District Court
and was scheduled to be heard
May 2.
Barber said the motion did not
bar the deportation.
“It’s a frightful thing that they
(immigration officials) can pick
up a man and kidnap him like
this,” Mrs. Keikkila said. “There
wasn’t a chance for him to call
me or to call his attorney or
anything.”
They took him off without any
money or clothes. He was out
on $5,000 bail. There was no
point in them doing this.”
Mrs. Heikkila said she wasn’t
told until nearly midnight what
happened to her husband.
Mrs. Heikkila said her hus
band’s Communist affiliations
were “almost 20 years ago.”
Barber said the U, S. Supreme
Court ruled the deportation valid
April 27, 1953, but Heikkila ap
pealed again after marrying a
U. S. citizen.
His appeal, Barber said, was
denied by the U. S. District
Court April 3, but findings of fact
and conclusions of law were filed.
Barber said Heikkila’s motion
sought to amend these and didn’t
prevent the deportation.
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