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May Take 50 Years
To Quiet Quarrel
With Reds - Nixon
NEW YORK, UFi — Vice Presi
dent Nixon said today the free
world’s postsummit conflict with
Russia might not be solved for
50 years.
Nixon said the conflict could
be resolved by war but that “it is
more likely to be solved in the
nonmilitary area.”
The Vice President spoke be
fore about 1,200 persons attend
ing a Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
luncheon marking the opening of
a British trade exhibition in the
Coliseum.
Gov. Rockefeller, who has been
at odds with Nixon on how the
nation should meet defense and
other problems, was seated at the
head table with Nixon and Prince
Philip of Great Britain.
Nixon said the free world was
moving through the postsummit
period with recognition that “the
conflict in which we are engaged
may not be resolved in two or
five years — perhaps a genera
tion or even 50 years.
“I hope it is not going to be
resolved by war,” he said in voic
ing belief it would be solved in
the nonmilitary area.
The Vice President said the
rulers of Soviet Russia have “a
sense of purpose — to rule the
world — and it inspires them and
makes them work hard.”
But he contended the free
world’s way of life had much
more to offer than Communist
oppression and said it should pre
vail eventually.
Polishing Up . . .
Don Foster, manager of Polet’s
Store, the Jonas Bros, branch in
Nome, is quite set up these days
with the announcement that the
only stop President Eisenhower
will make in downtown Anchor
age will be at the Jonas Bros,
store and museum.
According to a story in the An
chorage Times, store employes are
getting everything “just right” for
their distinguished visitor.
Western Demos.
Pick Jackson for
Veep Nominee
SEATTLE, UP) — Support for
Sen. Henry Jackson of Washing
ton as the Democratic Vice Pres
dential nominee has been pledged
by party leaders in six Western
states, Luke Graham said yester
day.
Graham, Washington State
Democratic Chairman, said “Def
inite commitments” have been re
ceived from Oregon, Idaho, Mon
tana, California, Hawaii and
Alaska.
“I am overwhelmed at the in
dications of support coming in
hourly, not only from the West,
but from the East,” he said.
Top California Planner
To Come to Alaska to
Head Parks Dept.
SACRAMENTO, Calif., W) —
Charles Mehlert, a chief planner
for the California Division of
Beaches and Parks, was named
yesterday to head Alaska’s new
state park system.
Mehlert started with beaches
and parks in 1946 as a forest en
gineer. After service as a ranger,
he became a park planner in 1956.
He served as chief of the new
construction branch of th Alaska
Air Command during the Korean
War. His new appointment is ef
fective July 1.
Mehlert will have immediate
jurisdiction over some 45 road
side campsites operated by Alas
ka, and supervision of 10 more
planned for constructionx this
year.
In addition, the state has made
application from federal land
holdings for areas designed as fu
ture full-scale state parks which
will be under Mehlert’s super
vision.
Mothers Club Spring Outing
Nome Mothers Club will have
their annual spring outing on
Monday, June 13. All ladies are
to bring a snack lunch, and meet
at Lucy Nagozruk’s at 6 p.m.
Monday evening.
Tin Incentive Report
66|^NCOURAGING THE DISCOVERY, Develop
Tj ment, and Production of Domestic Tin” is the
title of a Senate Report dated May 25, outlining facts
supporting the bill before Congress to stabilize the
price of tin. Pertinent sections of this Report are
herewith reproduced:
REPORT
The purpose of S. 1957, as stated in the title, is to encourage the
discovery, development, and production of tin in the United States,
and in addition to provide employment in the State of Alaska as a
step toward ending huge expenditures of unemployment insurance
funds in that State.
Also considered by the committee was the fact that the Congress
believes that the national security requires that this Nation be as
nearly self-sufficient in the production of strategic materials as it is
possible to attain.
No one would be so foolhardy as to say that Alaska’s tin resources
are of such extent as to make U.S. self-sufficiency in tin possible;
however, testimony before the subcommittee which considered the
legislation was that “the surface has just been scratched in Alaska in
ascertaining what the tin resources may be.” . . .
The subcommittee held hearings in 1955 in the field on S. 2648,
and the House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee held hearings
in Washington on similar proposed legislation. As a result of these
hearings this committee reached the following conclusions:
1. The United States today is more than 99 and 44/100 per cent
dependent upon foreign sources for tin, one of the more important
strategic and critical metals.
2. The greatest known potential source of tin in the United States
is in the State of Alaska. . . .
4. The United States today is contributing in excess of $20 million
a year for the purchase of supplemental food for the citizens of just
one of the foreign nations from which this Nation purchases a sub
stantial quantity of its tin requirements, both for industry use and
stockpiling purposes, such annual contribution being almost equal to
the entire cost to the Government of the proposed 10,000-ton tin
purchase program.
5. A realistic national defense and security program demands two
basic ingredients: (a) Development, as far as is possible, of “at home”
sources and reserves of all strategic and critical materials, and Ob) the
elimination of economic distress and the handmaidens of huge welfare
fund outlays and medical costs, which are the inevitable companions
of unemployment.
6. The Sino-Soviet bloc is beginning to threaten the tin market
with a new trade offensive which may further reduce world prices
and which would especially work adversely upon such under
developed nations as Bolivia, Malaya, Thailand, Indonesia, Nigeria,
and the Belgian Congo. The tin price is attempted to be controlled by
the International Tin Council and its buffer stock authority. Unless
continued this Council will go out of business in 1961. As it is, there
is reported to be enough tin on the market not controlled by the
Council to jeopardize the maintenance of the international price to
plus or minus a few cents of $1 per pound. The lower the world
price, the further from any possibility of the operation of domestic
sources or the control of quotas by the Council. . . .
In testimony to the Senate on previous bill S. 2648, former Gov.
B. Frank Heintzleman of Alaska pointed out that in Division 2 of
Alaska, the area in which most of that area’s known tin resources are
located, there live approximately 15,000 people, of whom 12,000 are
Eskimos, and that this area is —
“a disaster area . . . and we had to furnish food and
clothing and medicine and one thing an another to
take care of these people. That has been going on
over the last 2-year period.”
Henry A. Benson, former Commissioner of Labor for Alaska, in
referring to the unemployment and drain upon welfare and relief
funds in the area, said that of the above-mentioned 15,000 people,
some 2,000 are able-bodied men, most of whom are out of work.
Dr. Ernest N. Patty, President of the University of Alaska, during
the hearings held in Fairbanks, told the committee:
“Tin is a vital industrial metal with a variety of uses,
but its chief use is for food containers and as a bear
ing metal. We cannot get along without it. In normal
times we are supplied from richer deposits in the
Malay states, Bolivia, and some other countries, but
the chief deposits are located in areas where Commu
nist control is quite a menace and in wartime we
could be shut off from our foreign source of supply.
I understand that our stockpile of tin would suffice
for about 1 year.
“Our Alaska tin deposits occur in two forms: placer
deposits and lode deposits. The placer deposits and
reserves are pretty well known. The extent and
value of our lode deposits are not yet determined. We
would have to be very optimistic to assume that they
could be developed to the point where they could
begin to supply us in wartime. There is some
exciting geology around these deposits and you never
know until you get started probing around under
ground what you are going to uncover. The unex
pected in mineral discoveries has fooled our best
geologists and engineers, for history is replete with
examples of limited mineral exposures which have
developed into big and important ore bodies when
explored.” . . .
Remarking on the unemployment being caused by other mining
enterprises closing, Senator Bartlett, on May 19, remarked:
“From the standpoint of ultimate cost to the tax
payer, I should like to suggest, and I believe this is
correct, it would be less through a tin incentive bill
than through the welfare payments that will be
granted otherwise.” . . .
Nixon Replies His
Views on All Issues
Are Well Known
CAMDEN, N. J., iM — Vice
President Richard Nixon said yes
terday he has set forth with great
precision and major details his
views on the issues of our times.
Nixon praised Gov. Rockefeller
of New York as a man of integ
rity but he disagreed sharply with
Rockefeller’s contention that Nix
on has not stated his position
forcibly on public issues.
Nixon told a special news con
ference here that he thinks that
of all the candidates he has stated
his position in the greatest detail.
He said he had checked just be
fore leaving Washington and
found he has held 47 news con
ferences of one sort or another —
“with no holds barred” — in the
last five months.
“Over the past 14 years,” Nixon
said, “in the House and the Sen
ate and the Vice Presidency I
have entertained questions on
every major issue.”
Nixon, Rockefeller had con
tended, was waiting until after
winning the GOP nomination in
Chicago this July before making
his position known. “The path of
great leadership,” Rockefeller
said, “does not lie along the top
of a fence.”
Nixon was all sweetness and
light toward Rockefeller. He said
he did not agree with his col
leagues that the New York Gov
ernor should not have spoken out
in criticisms of the Eisenhower
Administration and the GOP.
“He would not be true to him
self,” Nixon said, “if he had re
mained quiet.”
Santa Barbara ‘98ers’
Relive Gold Rush Fun
At Costume Party
A clipping received here by
Sam Godfrey tells of a “Days of
98” Gold Rush costume party at
Santa Barbara, Calif., on Friday,
May 27. The party was for mem
bers of he Alaska Club, and old
timers of the Klondike. Members
of the Long Beach and San Diego
Alaska-Yukon Clubs were invited
to attend the festivities.
On the program of entertain
ment slides were shown of pic
tures taken in 1898, of travelers
going over the Chilkoot Pass into
Dawson City. These were shown
by Richard Racine, international
Sourdough president. Arthur
Eide, an Arctic author, who lived
on Diomede Island 23 years as
a teacher, related his experiences
among the Eskimos. Music of the
Stampede era was sung by Doris
Sablick, Alaskan entertainer.
Present at the party were Cam
Smith, old-time Alaskan, who
wrote the ballad “Squaws Along
the Yukon,” Neet Sale, the first
woman to go over the Richardson
trail from Valdez to Fairbanks in
1905, and Herb Johnson, one of
Nome’s earliest businessmen dur
ing the gold strike.
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