Government Throws Men and Money
Into Flooded Northeastern States
10,500 Families Depend on Charity
Administrative Change
For Alaska Bureau
Of Land Management
WASHINGTON, WV-The Inter,
ior Dept, yesterday announced a
transfer and an administrative
change in the Bureau of Land
Management Office for Alaska.
Lowell M. Puckett, regional and
area administrator for Alaska,
will be transferred to Cheyenne,
Wyo., effective Sept. 15, succeed
ing Raymond R. Best, who will be
moved to Sacramento, Calif.
The department said that an
area administrator and a territor
ial supervisor for Alaska will be
appointed shortly to take over
the duties Puckett has handled
since 1947.
The new area administrator
will have headquarters in Juneau
along with his planning and poli
cy staff. The territorial supervisor
and his operational staff will be
stationed in Anchorage.
THURSDAY BASEBALL
American League
Washington 6, Chicago 1
Detroit 6-4, Boston 1-6
New York 5, Cleveland 2
Kansas City 9, Baltimore 2
National League
Milwaukee 3, New York 2
Cincinnati 8-6, Brooklyn 5-5
Philadelphia 11-8, St. Louis 9-3
Pittsburgh 2, Chicago 1
Pacific Coast League
Seattle 6, San Francisco 0
Oakland 5, San Diego 0
Sacramento 11, Los Angeles 1
Hollywood 7, Portland 4
WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by the
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Cloudy with rain through Sat
urday. Winds SE increasing to
15-25 mph. tonight. Lowest tem
perature expected tonight 45, high
Saturday 50.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: Precipitatibn: .02 in.
(Month total 4.29 in.) High tem
perature 48, low 37. Max. wind
31 mph. from the NW. Sunrise at
• 4:2’ a.m., sunset 7:40 p.m.
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> WASHINGTON, ffi—The gov
ernment threw money and man
power into the flood-stricken
northeast yesterday in a massive
rehabilitation effort which could
cost more than 100 million dollars.
. With advance approval of Con
gressional leaders, President Eis
enhower ordered into effect yes
terday an overall plan for using
funds and resources already avail
able to numerous government
agencies. They will look to Con
gress for reimbursement next
year.
“This means a special session
of Congress will not be neces
sary,” reported James C. Hagerty,
White House press seretary, as he
outlined the steps already taken
or planned.
The Red Cross meantime boost
ed its disaster appeal goal from
five million to eight million dol
lars as it faced growing reports of
damage.
It said at least 702 homes were
demolished and more than 14,000
heavily damaged by last week’s
flood. Its latest count showed
10,562 families homeless and de
pendent on charity for survival.
The Red Cross reported that
“virtually a deluge of gifts” to its
disaster fund had followed ap
peals by Eisenhower and other
officials, but it stressed that the
need is growing.
Eisenhower made a new appeal
yesterday, saying donors should
not wait to be asked by the Red
Cross, but “should seize the op
portunity to force upon them
more than they can use.”
Morocco Nationalists
Demand Return of
Sultan Ben Youssef
AIX LES BAINS, France, —
Morocco’s nationalist Istiqlal (in
dependence) party yesterday de
manded revision of the French
protectorate’s treaty and a chance
for deposed Sultan Mohammed
Ben Youssef to return to the
throne.
In the course of a 2Vfe-hour
meeting with French Premier Ed
gar Faure, delegates of the out
lawed nationalist movement gave
their party’s views on points at
issue between France and Mor
occo.
This meeting was regarded as
the key session in talks aimed at
ending the bloodshed in Morocco.
A spokesman for the Istiklal
group said the first step to a solu
tion of the crisis in Morocco must
be a return to legitimacy and le
gality as regards the position of
the Sultan.
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Cutter Incident
Due to Weakness
In Testing Method
WASHINGTON, W—The gov
ernment yesterday blamed the
Cutter polio vaccine incident on
li “fundamental weaknesses” in its
own now-discarded safety testing
procedures.
It said new standards provide
“adequate safeguards” against in
fective amounts of live virus being
injected again into healthy chil
dren.
The Public Health Service re
port on a four-month investiga
tion said some lots of Cutter vac
cine contained live virus and
caused polio but that scientists
were unable to determine the ex
act reasons why the live virus
was present.
In effect, it cleared the Berke
ley, Calif., concern of negligence
with these words:
“The equipment, the physical
arrangements and the routine
handling procedures of the Cutter
were checked in detail to deter
mine if differences in them might
have led to contamination. Noth
ing was found to indicate that the
infective amounts of live virus in
Cutter vaccine were attributable
to contamination.”
Cutter Laboratories called the
health service statement a “cour
ageous report affirming our faith
that no negligence or incompe
tence would be found . . .”
Use of the Cutter vaccine was
suspended April 27 when a num
ber of children who had been in
oculated with its product devel
oped polio.
Director of CIO’s Political
Action Committee Says
Administration Is Corrupt
MILWAUKEE, Wis., UV-Direc
tor Jack Kroll of the CIO Politi
cal Action Committee said Thurs
day the Eisenhower Administra
tion is “the most corrupt admin
istration this country has had
since the Harding regime.”
Kroll called it “the big mink
administration” and said “if it is
allowed to continue in office, it
will result in the complete .dom
ination of our government by
Wall Street.”
Referring to the new-cancelled
! Dixon-Yates power project, Kroll
said that plan would have result
ed in the government paying for
a $l(y7-million-dollar plant and
turning it over to the Dixon
Yates group after 25 year, i
“All this loot would have cost
them (Dixon-Yates) is about $5'
million,” Kroll said.
OFFICIAL RECORD SET
FOR JET FLYING
FASTER THAN SOUND
WASHINGTON, LP—Air Force
Col. Horace A. Hanes has been
credited with the first official
record for faster - than - sound
flight.
The National Aeronautics Assn.
Wednesday confirmed that a
North American F-100C Super
Sabre jet fighter piloted by Hanes
topped 800 miles an hour last Sat
! turday over southern California.
Hanes’ flight reportedly was
made at 35,000 feet, where the
speed of sound is 663 miles an
hour.
In recognition of his achieve
ment, Col. Hanes, director of
flight tests at Edwards AFB in
California, will get the Thompson
Trophy at the National Aircraft
Show in Philadelphia next month.
Many jets previously had brok
en the sound barrier, but this was
the first time special equipment
was available to time the flight
accurately.
The human eye is 80 percent
water.
Territorial Police’s Need
For Radio Stations Gets
Backing of Sen. Jackson
WASHINGTON, UV-Sen. Jack
son (D-Wash) asked the Federal
Communications Commission yes
terday to reconsider its ruling
that Alaska’s Territorial Police
must tear down their partially
built radio station at Juneau in
order to get approval for stations
there and in three other cities.
Robert F. Smith, administrative
assistant in the territorial agency,
has advised Jackson as chairman
of the Senate Territories subcom
mittee that there is an “imperative
need” for the four stations.
He said an influx of “thousands
of transients” in Ketchikan in
recent months has brought about
“an overwhelming increase in the
number of criminal violations.”
“There are approximately 20
law enforcement officers in
Ketchikan who must now combat
this existing criminal element
without the aid of radio commu
nications . . Smith wrote.
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ANNOUNCEMENT
I wish to announce to my many friends and business
associates that I have retired from business and, in so doing, it
affords me great pleasure to thank all those who have contributed
so generously in making my fifty years in Alaska both bountiful
sand pleasant.
In releasing the reins, I extend to the newly elected officers
my compliments and best wishes for success; may they enjoy your
confidence and support:
Ralph Lomen, President
H. G. Gabrielson, Vice President and General Mgr.
»Dorothy D. Shepheard, Secretary-Treasurer
Alex Maclnnes, Assistant Secretary-Treasurer
The prosperity of Seward Peninsula and* the welfare of
its people will continue to be my greatest concern.
L wish you well.
CARL J. LOMEN, President, Retired
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