Subcommittee
Expected to OK
Statehood Bill
By HARRISON HUMPHRIES
WASHINGTON, (J*)—Chairman
Jackson (D-Wash) of the Senate
Territories subcommittee predict
ed yesterday the subcommittee
will approve the Alaska statehood
bill before the week ends.
The subcommittee Wednesday
completed action on all proposed
amendments except one problem
relating to use of tidelands areas
adjacent to national forests.
The subcommiiiee agreed to
permit the State of Alaska to
amend, as necessary, laws re
lating to the establishment of
municipalities, school districts
and other political subdivisions
in the area of northern Alaska
in which the President may es
tablish national defense reser
vations.
Jackson requested speedy con
sultations between Delegate Bart
lett (D-Alasko), the subcommittee j
staff, and Interior and Agricul
ture Department officials on the
language designed to protect con
tract rights of wood-pulp and
lumber interests.
Timber interests, with contract
rights in national forests, use the
tidelands for logging operations.
Under statehood, the tidelands
would belong to the state, and
Alaska could, if it chose, restrict
their use.
The subcommittee also decided
90 percent of the revenue from
federal oil, gas and coal leases in
Alaska must be turned over to
the state treasury.
$546 a Year Raise for
All Postal Workers
OK’d by House Group
WASHINGTON, UPt—A $546-a
vear across-the-board increase for
some 518,000 postal workers re
ceived approval of the House Post
Office and Civil Service Commit
tee yesterday.
The increase would add about
$350 million a year to the federal
payroll.
The administration has said it
cannot recommend a general pay
increase for federal employes at
this time because of the inflation
ary pressures.
President Eisenhower was quot
ed today as saying the proposed
$546-a-year raise would mean a
“sweep of inflation.”
Rep. Taber (R-NY) reported
the President’s views as he and
33 other Republican House mem
bers left a White House breakfast.
It was the fifth and final one
in a series of breakfasts given by
Eisenhower lor the 200 Republi
can House members to help im
prove chances for enactment of
his legislative program.
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Five Miners Trapped 14 Hours
Rescued W ith Help of Earth Drill
STEUBENVILLE. Ohio, Wi
Fi ve grimy miners, trapped for
more than 14 hours by a cave-in,
scrambled to safety Wednesday
night thru a hole which a huge
mechanical auger had bored 230
feet into a hillside.
When the 42-inch auger was
pulled from the hole, the miners
followed it out one by one. They
blinked at the floodlights which
garishly hit the desolate strip
mine pit.
A great cheer rose from about
a thousand persons—rescuers,
relatives, spectators and news
men—as the miners rushed to
their families who had waited
all day in the hot shn and far
into the night.
Earth Tremors in
Si he ria Believed
Not Man-Made
WASHINGTON, W—Govern
ment scientists said yesterday an
earthquake of a “definite destruc
tive nature’’ occurred in the Lake
Baikal area of south-central Si
beria.
A spokesman for the Geodetic
Survey said the locale was pin
pointed on the basis of seismo
graphic readings in the eastern
United States, Japan and France.
He said the quake was of such
intensity that there would have
been loss of life if it occurred in
a populated area. The time of the
quake was given as 10:09 Green
wich time.
Lake Baikal is in the general
area of Siberia in which Soviet
Russia is reported to have her
nuclear bomb testing range.
The Geodetic Survey spokes
man said, however, that the in
tensity of the shock wave made it
all but certain that the disturb
ance was an earthquake. He said
it appeared to be of far greater
intensity than any known nuclear
explosion.
The Lake Baikal area has a J
history of seismic disturbances, i
he added.
Doctors examined the men
quickly at a shack nearby and
said they were not harmed by
their ordeal.
The five were Hank Horvath,
35; Martin Kovalski, 40; Joseph
j Supinski, 47; Kenny Hamilton,
38; rad Fred Sabol, 33.
"My God, it was cold in
there," said Sabol, one of the
first men out.
Th'ey were trapped at* 8:15 a.m.
in a small chamber 300 feet back
in a horizontal mine shaft about
150 feet below the crest, of a hill.
Their rescue came at 10:50 p.m.
The shaft was an end one
among seven, about 50 feet apart,
dug into the hillside at the base
of a 50-foot-deep strip-mining pit.
The miae is a small operation
producing about 600 tons of coal
a claSy.
The seven horizontal "punch
mining" shafts were connected
by an air passage, but the cave
in blocked it with hundreds of
tons of loose rock, coal and dirt.
However, air from the other
shafts could seep thru the porous
debris, and the rescue workers
mouated huge fans in the other
tunnels.
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richest yet most sparsely popu
lated state in India.
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Bartlett, Alaska Delegation Criticize
I ICC Decision on Alaska Freight Rates
WASHINGTON, W)—Delegate
Bartlett and the territory’s unof
ficial congressional delegation
criticized yesterday an ICC deci
sion on Alaska freight rates.
The commission rejected Tues
day a government plea for lower
export-import railroad rates on
Alaska freight' moving to and
from West Coast ports.
! Delegate Bartlett called it “a
shocking decision, clearly against
the public interest.”
He said il "cooled my ardor"
for having the ICC lake over
the regulation of Alaska trans
portation from the Mcprilime
Administration when the terri
tory becomes a state.
Former Gov. Ernest Gruening,
an Alaska “senator-elect,” termed
the decision “distressing” and a
“flagrant example of Alaska’s
colonial status.”
For nearly a century, Gruening
said, Alaska had been handi
capped by “excessive and totally
unjust freight rates.”
In some cases, he said, rates
to and from Alaska are more
than 100 percent higher than
the rates for the same commod
ities to other American areas.
William Egan, the other Alaska
“senator-elect” said he could not
understand how the commission
could conclude that Alaska is not
entitled to the same rate structure
as Hawaii.
He said it is the duty of the ICC
to see such discrimination does
not occur.
Bartlett said the differential
in freight rates on Alaska com
merce "hurts not only the con
suming public but the taxpay
ers as well because the gove
ernment is such a large ship
per."
Ralph Rivers, Alaska “repre
sentative-elect,” concurred in the
views of his colleagues.
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