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Senator Lyng, commenting on
his highway bill, said:
“The time has come when the
territory must embark on a long
range program of its own, includ
ing highwaj's, roads and access j
roads.”
They would revive mining, aid
homesteaders and help the econ
omy in general, he said, and con
tinued:
“Emphasis has been on the ur
ban sections, particularly in de
fense areas, and perhaps rightly
so, but the primary need there is
rapidly diminishing.
“With the President’s Alaska
road appropriations for this com
ing fiscal year again cut several
millions, and funds for only one
new road, the Fairbanks-Nenana
Highway, included, the necessity
for positive and immediate action
by this legislature becomes in
creasingly clear.”
In the House, the only dispute
over the legislative expenses pro
posal came over how much each
member should get to cover costs
of his mail, telegrams, and tele
phone communication with “back
home.” It would provide $50 a
member, as in 1953, and Rep.
Seaborn Buckalow (D-Anchor
age), a first termer, suggested
raising it to $100.
Rep. Ken Johnson (D-Anchor
age), chairman of the House Ways
and Means Committee which
drew it up, argued against the
increase, saying: “We shouldn’t
start out by doubling an item for
ourselves and then have to tell
other departments of government
that we have to cut them.”
Buckalew’s proposal was then
turned down.
Heroic Efforts Fail Save
Infant with Pneumonia
In DC-3 While In Flight
ANCHORAGE, Death rode
the airways Thursday despite the
heroic efforts of a score of people,
including the passengers of a
commercial airline.
An eleven-month-old baby girl
from Nondalton, on the shores of
Lake Clark in southwestern Al
aska, was dead on arrival at An
chorage International Airport.
A city fire rescue crew was
standing by when the Pacific
Northern Airlines DC-3 from
King Salmon touched down here,
but the baby had died from what
authorities described as an acute
case of pneumonia.
The baby, Georgia Del Kittie,
was kept alive for most of the
300-mile air journey through the
efforts of the plane’s crew and
several unidentified passengers,
all of whom took turns adminis
istering artificial respiration.
At the airport here, firemen
took over with the department’s
resuscitator, but no sign of life
could be detected.
Funeral arrangement are being
made by the Alaska Native Ser
vice officials here.
Col. Lars Johnson,
Commander of Alaska
Air Nat. Guard, Resigns
ANCHORAGE, — Col. Lars
(Larry) Johnson’s resignation as
commander, of the Alaska Air Na
tional Guard was announced here
today. He plans to enter private
j business.
An Alaskan since 1938, he
served as the Guard’s adjutant
general from 1951 to 1953. He also
aided in its organization.
No success has been named.
Senate Move To Seek Federal Loan
To Insure Solvency Unemployment
Security Prografn Runs Into Snag
By JIM HUTCHESON
JUNEAU, (£)—A territorial sen
ate move seeking quick action in
efforts to get a federal loan to
insure solvency of Alaska’s em
ployment security program ran
into a snag late Wednesday. The
sum of 3Vi million dollars was
mentioned as needed.
The employment security fund
issue came up in the Senate in
debate on a resolution sponsored
by Sens. William Beltz and A1
Owen.
The resoution would call upon
the governor to apply immediate
ly for a federal loan to bolster
the fund, from which unemploy
ment benefits are paid and which
has been shrinking towards the
vanishing point in recent months.
The sponsors sought suspension
of the rules, to rush the measure
through. But the vote on their
motion was only 8 to 7, with a
majority of 9 of the 16 senators
needed.
The four Repubicans were join
ed by Democratic Sens. Nolan
Jensen and Barr in opposing sus
pension. The failure means the
resolution must go to the finance
committee for study, rather than
receive quick floor action.
Supporters agreed it would be
only a first step towards getting
an application under way, and
also there would be no chance of
getting a loan, which would be
interest-free, until a program is i
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drawn up to show how it could
be repaid.
Opponents argued the action
was too speedy. They said the
problem should be explored thor
oughly before a decision is reach
ed as to whether such a* loan
should be sought.
Meantime, in the House, repre
sentatives found they had mis
figured when they thought they
had saved $20,000 in costs of the
session. Some large printing items
were found to have been omitted
and the measure was called back
for further action.
It was a blow to the members.
The bill is one which provides
money to pay their salaries and
per diem allowances while in
Juneau. They’ve had to dig down
in their own pockets to date and
they wanted prompt action on the
measure.
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Gen. MacArthur
Challenges World
To Abolish War
LOS ANGELES, (A*>—General of
I the Army Douglas MacArthur, a
; soldier for more than half a cen
tury, gave the world Thursday a
ringing challenge to -abolish war.
B^it in fierce championship of
America he cried out that “se
ductive murmurs are arising that
patriotism is outmoded” and he
demanded:
“Listen not to these voices, be
they from the one political party
or from the other, from the high
and mighty or the lowly and for
gotten, visit them with scorn.
Repudiate them in the market
place, on the platform or in the
j pulpit.”
The conqueror of Japan and
: draftsman, of its peace, who was
j recalled from his Far Eastern
command in 1951, observed his
75th birthday anniversary in Los
Angeles Wednesday. With Mrs.
MacArthur constantly by his side,
he went through a tiring day of
three separate speeches, adulation
of the crowds and dedication of a
statue of himself and monument
in his honor at the city’s MacAr
thur Park.
The general’s famed ability to
! turn a neat phrase seemed as
sharp as ever, when in his speech
Wednesday at a civic banquet
sponsored by the American Le
gion he said:
“War has become a Franken
stein to destroy both sides. No
longer is it the weapon of adven
ture whereby a short cut to inter
national power and wealth — a
place in the sun — can be gained.
If you lose, you are annihilated.
If you win, you stand only to
lose.”
He said war now contains “the
germs of double suicide” and “the
great question is: does this mean
that war can now be outlawed
from the world? If so, it would
mark the greatest advance in
civilization since the sermon on
the mount.”
This nation, he said, “should
now proclaim our readiness to
abolish war in concert with the
great powers of the world. The
result would be magical.”
In the mid-day monument dedi
cation speech the general said: “I
understand full well this mem
orial is intended to commemorate
an epoch rather than an indiv
idual, an armed force rather than
it’s commander, a nation rather
| than its servants, an ideal rather
than its personality.”
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No Kids In Anchorage?
ANCHORAGE, (jP) — Children,
j - - or dogs?
Leroy Good, director of An
chorage’s Community College, re
I ported to the school board last
night:
The adult education school re
cently offered some new courses.
Among them was one to help par
ents aid their elementary school
children. Another was “obedience
training for dogs.”
A new semester opened this
week. So many people wanted the
dog training instruction two
classes are necessary.
Not a single enrollment, not
even an inquiry, was received
about “the parent and the ele
mentary child.”
Legal Blanks at The Nome NmggeJ
“Snow Bird” Parachuted Men And
Equipment To Test Building Snowr
Airfield Under Battle Conditions
By ELTON FAY <
ELMENDORF AIR BASE, ltf>—
The Air Force may not have
enough airfields or even lose con
trol of some if Russia makes war.
With a forward look to that
possibility, the Air Force and
Army propose to find whether it
is possible to build under battle
conditions a temporary air strip
using as the sole material Alas
ka’s most plentiful and readily
available resource—snow.
As part of the current train
ing maneuver, “Exercise Snow
Bird” the two services plan to
make a test of building a “snow
compacted” runway with para
chuted construction troops and
equipment late this month or
early in February.
The site picked for the experi
ment is near Talkeetna, 66 miles
north of Anchorage.
Alaskan Command officers say
this will be the first time either
Americans or Canadians have at
tempted to build a snow - com
pacted runway under the tactical
conditions of war.
To Simulate Battle Conditions
The situation will be as close to
battle conditions as possible, with
paratroopers of the 11th Airborne
[Division streaming down with
weapons to protect the workers
and tools to start the job. From
other C-119 Fairchild planes will
be dropped, attached to giant size
parachutes, the lighter models of
airfield making equipment. For
air cover against hypothetical en
emy planes, the command has
called upon the Alaska Air Na
tional Guard to send jet fighter
bombers to the area. •
With manpower, the first troop
ers landed are to level out a run
way large enough to land a C-47
transport plane carrying more
equipment. Following cargo
planes, both landing and air
dropping equipment, will bring in
runway-making machinery.
Included is a device, similar to
farm machinery, which chews up
snow, grass and brush and spews
it out as a conglomerate.
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Mobile Healers To Bond Snow
Mobile heaters developing two
million BTU’s of heat will roll
over the first layer of conglom
erate, melting the snow and
blending it with grass and brush
to leave it for freezing into a
foundation layer. A second pro
cess of working the raw material
will supply a top layer, bonded
by freezing to the foundation.
Total thickness of the snow run
way will be about two feet.
Specifications of the Air Force
call for a final runway 8,000 feet
long and 150 feet wide. Upon
such a temporary strip, the Air
Force hopes to lai\d jet fighters,
fighter-bombers and supply and
troop-carrying planes, including
the big C-124 Douglas transport
planes.
The Air Force now has built up
broad experience in parachuting
equipment from supply planes,
dropping tractors, jeeps, artillery
and other equipment.
In past airborne operations in
Alaska losses of equipment
smashed in drops has ranged as
high as 38 per cent. In maneuvers
last year, only two per cent of
equipment was lost in drops.
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