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VOL, LIX No. 20 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1957 Per Copy—15*
Small Cuts Made in President’s Budget
By Appropriations Committee
WASHINGTON, UP) — The
House Appropriations Committee
made a slight dent today in Presi
dent Eisenhower’s budget which
calls for new appropriations of
$73,300,000,000.
The committee recommended
that the Treasury Department be
given $22,364,000 less than the
$713,831,000 request, and the Post
Office Department 58 millions
less than the 3 Vi billions it
wanted. The group said the tax
could should have the entire $1,
460,000 it sought.
The over-all cut of $80,364,000
amounted to a reduction of slight
ly more than the same agencies
were given for the present fiscal
year. However, most of the in
crease stemmed from legal re
quirements such as additional
federal employe pay and other
benefits voted recently by Con
gress.
Eisenhower’s budget calls for
■the spending of $71,807,000,000
during the next fiscal year. He
asked, however, for $73,300,000
in new appropriations—some of
which would not actually be spent
until succeeding years.
The Treasury-Post Office bill
Butler Replies to Chandier
In Ineptness Charge
SAN FRANCISCO, UP — Dem
ocratic Chairman Paul M. Butler
answered Kentucky Gov. A. B.
(Happy) Chandler’s assertion he
was inept politically by saying
Wednesday that “the shoe should
be on the other foot.”
“You’ll have to ask Gov. Chan
dler what he means by political
ineptness,” the party chairman
told newsmen as he arrived to
complete arrangements for a
Democratic National Committee
meeting here.
“I do know,” Butler added,
“that if Gov. Chandler had been
active during the last campaign,
we could have re-elected Sen.
Earl Clements and probably
elected Gov. Lawrence W. Weth
erby to the Senate.” Both Clem
ents and Weatherby are Kentuck
ians.
was the first of the regular ap
propriations measures for the
coming bookkeeping year to be
acted upon by the House com
mittee.
And the biggest cut was made
in funds for the agency whose
head, Secretary of the Treasury
Humphrey, has said the entire
budget is too big. He said it was
the best the Administration could
come up with, but invited Con
gress to make cuts where it
could.
In addition to the new cash
provided in the bill, which the
House will consider next week,
i the departments involved admin
ister about $8,300,000,000 in “in
definite appropriations” and trust
funds. These include $7,300,000,
000 for interest payments an the
national debt and IVz billions in
social security funds.
The new cash, if granted by
Congress, would provide the two
big departments with average em
ployment during the new fiscal
year of 628,700 persons. This
would be an increase of 8,000
over current year averages but
9,500 fewer than requested.
Almost every item in the bud
gets of the two departments was
cut. None was increased.
One of the few agencies that
got the entire amount requested
was the Narcotics Bureau, which
was alloted $3,780,000. The funds
will permit employment of 18 ad
ditional agents.
The Customs Bureau was given
48 million dollars of the $49,650,
G00 it requested. These funds
would include provision for addi
j tional agents. The bureau told
I the committee it planned to as
1 sign 15 extra agents to New York
to cope with increased smuggling
of ‘narcotics, watch movements
and diamonds.
It < approved funds for am in
crease of 400 million coins next
year and for printing extra paper
money made necessary, it said,
by “continued creeping infla
tion” and increases in economic
activity.
It turned down a Coast Guard
request for $8,205,000 to acquire
long-range, land-based aircraft.
Boy, 12, Sends Ike Ultimatum To
Recognize New Box Top Nation
6Or Reason With .22 Winchester!’
WASHINGTON, (#>—'The Se
cret Service says President Eisen
hower last year received an ulti
matum to recognize a new nation
“or reason with a .22 Winchester.”
The dire threat was run down
to reveal: (1) The new state was
to be called “Harrisonia,” and (2)
its founder was a 12-year-old
named Harry, with a predilection
for sending away box tops.
How the Secret Service
squelched the dark threat posed
by “Harry of Harrisonia” was
related by U. E. Baughman, Sec
ret Service chief, in testimony
made public today by the House
Appropriations Committee.
“King Harry’s” letter was one
of 18,468 communications written
to the President last year and
turned over to the Secret Service
for investigation.
“A solution to this case was noi
disclosed,” Baugham said.
He said Harry Harrison was
not the writer’s true name, but
he did not identify the boy nor
say where he lived.
“Investigation disclosed that a
breakfast-cereal company distrib
utes deeds to a square inch of
land in Alaska to persons sending
in the usual box top, and Harry
and several of his pals received
deeds from the company,” Baugh
man said.
“Harry, 12, and his playmates,
decided to band together, form
their own country, and secede
from the Union.
“There was no prosecution in
this case, and the boy’s mother
agreed that a severe lecture was
in order. The boy was normal but
had an overactive imagination.
“He did not realize the serious
ness of his threat against the
President, and when the possible
consequences ware explained to
him, he replied: “I surrender. I
I am now a citizen again.”
U. N. Resolution
Asks Cooperation
jin Algeria
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.,
—The U. N. General Assembly
today approved a mildly-worded
resolution expressing hope that
the Algerian problem would be
solved “in the spirit of coopera
tion.”
The vote was 75-0, with Bri
tain abstaining.
The compromise plan was
worked out in a series of confer
ences after it appeared neither
of two other resolutions before
the Assembly could get the re
quired two-thirds majority.
France did not vote.
The proposal called for no spe
cific action, but merely expressed
i hope that “in the spirit of cooper
j ation, a peaceful, democratic and
j just solution will be found” in
conformity with the U. N. charter.
France, which had vigorously
opposed any U. N.. intervention
in the Algerian dispute, was re
ported to be happy over the new
draft.
The Assembly’s Political Com
mittee had approved two resolu
tions on Wednesday by slim ma
jorities.
Sponsors of the new plan were
Italy, Japan, the Philippines,
Thailand, Argentina, Brazil, Cu
ba, Peru and the Dominican Re
public.
The Assembly’s 80-nation top
political committee voted earlier
this week against Asian-African
demands that France grant Al
gerians the right to determine
their own future. It then ap
proved two watered-down recom
mendations for French-Algerian
talks to try to end the bloodshed.
Neither one polled enough votes
to assure it a two-thirds major
ity in the Assembly.
St. Lawrence Isle.
Guardsmen Lobby
For Nome Armory
JUNEAU, W1) — Members of
the Second Division delegation to
the 23rd Territorial Legislature
received letters Wednesday from
six natives of St. Lawrence Is
land in the Bering Sea.
The letters were in support of
Senate and House bills to appro
priate matching funds for the
construction of National Guard
armories in 10 Alaska cities.
“I would guess this is the first
time there has ever been a lobby
ing effort made from the island,”
said Sen. William Beltz (D-Nome).
Six members of the Alaska Na
tional Guard sent the letters from
the big island far to the west.
Beltz and Rep. Clinton Gray
(R-Nome) identified two of the
letter writers as Clifford Ikinok
inok and Willis Walunga.
The two were cited in 1955 by
Vice President Nixon for the aid
they gave to the crew of a Navy
plane that had been shot down
over the Bering Sea and which
crashed on the shore of the
island.
Other letters were received
from Jerry Tungiyan, Vernon
Slwooko, Alex Oozeva and Clem
ent Ungott.
All are members of a Guard
scout battallion, and would train
in a proposed new armory at
Nome.
Mental Health Bill by von der Heydt
Gets Unanimous House Approval
JUNEAU, lift — A mental health
i bill presenting “a new concept”
in the handling of mentally ill in
Alaska was put before a public
meeting of the House Health and
Welfare Committee Wednesday
night, and House busines yielded
Thursday morning to an hour
long meeting of all representa
tives sitting as a committee of
the whole—a session sparked by
more than a dozen speeches. The
'bill passed without opposition,
23-to-nothing, with one member
absent.
Rep. James von der Heydt (D
Nome) told persons attending the
two and a half hour session that
was held on Wednesday, that
Alaskans needing mental care
for treatment “now may be ad
mitted only by judicial proceed
ings” to hospitals.
! "This bill," von der Heydi
told 12 other representatives,
six senators and 41 other per
sons in the gallery, "employs
a new concept based on medi
cine." He added:
“This is, in fact, a medical bill,
rather than a judicial one.”
Debate on the bill came after
two Democratic leaders—Burke
Dynamite Wrecks
Diner, 2 Injured,
In Tenn. Riot Town
CLINTON, Term.,- Iff) — A dy
j namite-laden suitcase exploded
in the heart of Clinton’s Negro
section last night, wrecking a
restaurant and slightly injuring
a Negro woman and baby.
The dynamite charge, which
witnesses said was placed by a
white man who raced away in a
car, also heavily damaged other
Negro-owned property.
The blast was the area’s eighth,
and by far the most destructive,
since Clinton High School ad
mitted 12 Negro students under
a federal court order last fall.
In the absence of concrete
clues, however, officers still de
clined to speculate as to whether
integration of the previously all
white school is connected with the
series of explosions.
Police said the suitcase, which
contained “several” sticks of dy
namite, was placed on a concrete
slab across the street from a
restaurant where several Negroes
were eating. The Negroes said
they saw a white man stop, leave
the suitcase, jump back into his
car and speed away.
The restaurant, located in a
basement, was wrecked. Its ceil
ing and inner walls were caved
in and its windows blown out.
The woman, identified as Em
ma Simmons, suffered a knot on
her head when hit by falling plas
ter; the 11-month-old girl, Jac
queline Gallaher, daughter of
Mrs. Ethel Gallaher, was cut by
flying glass.
Also damaged was a nearby
sandwich shop owned by Steve
Williams, father of a 21-year-old
senior suspended from the inte
grated school on grounds he
struck a white boy and threat
ened others with a knife Feb. 4.
The student, Alfred Williams,
has appealed his suspension to the
Anderson County School Board,
which has set his hearing for
next Thursday.
, Riley of Haines, who is the ma
jority floor leader, and Ways &
Means Committee Chairman Ken
Johnson of Anchorage — intro
duced an amendment to the bill.
As an economy move, the
amendment would have elimi
nated from -the bill a section,
which would permit a person to
seek voluntary commitment to
a mental institution. '
Johnson intended this would
result in an unbearable financial
burden on the Territory. In a
dramatic appeal, Johnson said -he
was trying—in the amendment —
to bring the cost factor to the at
tention of the Legislature.
The proposed amendment never
came to a vote.
The 32-page bill was the com
mittee’s substitute for a measure
to establish procedures for the
commitment of mentally ill under
the Congressional enabling legis
lation approved last year.
The bill is receiving priority
treatment in the House. Under
terms of ihe Federal Act, the
commitment procedures must
be adopted by the Territory by
the end of February.
The Congressional legislation
requires the Territory to admin
ister its own mental- health pro
gram, starting with the forma
tion of new commitment proce
dures and continuing to the even
tual construction of mental health
center and hospitals in Alaska.
The Territorial authorization
for construction of the hospitals
is covered in another House bill.
Currently, Alaska’s commit
ments to mental health institu
tions in the States are handled
only through a commissioner
court jury.
"Under terms of this bill,"
von der Heydt said, "judicial
commitments will be the ex
ception rather than the rule."
News of Alaska’s mental health
program came also from Wash
ington. The Territories Subcom
mittee of the House said it had
considered a bill which would
permit Alaska to select coal, oil
and gas lease land as part of the
one million acres to be used to
finance the Territorial mental
health program. But the commit
tee took no action on the bill.
The Congressional subcommit
tee also took no action on a bill
to give the Territory 3,400,000
acres otherwise uncommitted in
public lands. But the committee
approved a bill to give Alaska 90
per cent of the revenue from gas,
oil and coal leases on public land
in the Territory.
Alaska Project
Const. Inspectors
Sought in Seattle
SEATTLE, (5*1 — The govern
ment needs construction inspec
tors and engineers for public
works projects in Alaska. The
work pays from $5,440 to $7,570
per year with a 25 per cent cost
of living allowance.
M. Perry Hobbs, administrative
officer of Alaska Public Works
of the Department of Interior in
Alaska at Juneau, was in Seattle
Wednesday to interview appli
cants for the jobs open.
Construction jobs involved are
located at Cordova, Anchorage,
Fairbanks and Nome.