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Administration May Recommend Tax
Cut This Year To Stimulate Business
By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH
WASHINGTON, UR— President
Eisenhower said today it could be
the administration will recom
mend a tax cut if an expected
business upturn fails to develop
about midyear.
The President—his voice very
hoarse and husky because of a
cold—said however, he still be
lieves it is reasonable to assume
business will pick up about the
middle of the year.
Eisenhower said he looks for
the current business recession
certainly to continue through this
month and next. But as summer
comes on, he added, there should
be an uptrend.
He went on to say a reduction
in taxes certainly would be a real
stimulant to business. He added,
however, it would be possible to
go to far in that didection.
Eisenhower developed a cold
and what the White House called
a slight sore throat on his return
from a weekend of golf and gen
eral relaxation at Augusta, Ga.
His voice was extremely hoarse
and he remarked at the outset of
the session, with a slow grin, that
because of the condition of his
vocal cords he would appreciate
long questions he could answer
yes or no.
This is Eisenhower’s first an
nounced indisposition since he
suffered a minor stroke last
Nov. 25.
Mike Walsh Is
Named To Alaska
Statehood Comm.
JUNEAU, (#)—The appointment
of Michael J. Walsh, 76, of Nome,
to the Alaska Statehood Commit
tee was announced yesterday by
Gov. Stepovich.
Walsh, who was born in Ire
land and has lived in Nome since
1900, is a member of the Board
of Regents of the University of
Alaska. He served as a member of
the Territorial Board of Educa
tion, as a delegate to the Alaska
constitutional convention in 1955
56, and as a member of the terri
torial House of Representatives in
1945.
He becomes the 11th member
of the Statehood Committee, es
tablished by the legislature to
help prepare the territory for ad
mission as a state. Robert B. At
wood of Anchorage is chairman.
Other members are W. L. Baker,
Ketchikan; Mrs. Mildred Her
mann, Juneau; Jack Hickel, Ko
diak; Percy Ipalook, Kotzebue;
Stanley McCutcheon, Anchorage;
Frank Peratrovich, Klawok; Vic
tor Rivers, Anchorage, and C. W.
Snedden, Fairbanks.
Keel Laid For
Giant Atomic
Powered Carrier
NEWPORT NEWS, Va., U?> —
The keel was laid yesterday for
the world’s first atomic powered
aircraft carrier, the U.S.S. Enter
prise.
The massive keel was lowered
into place in the same building
dock at Newsport News Ship
build and Dry Dock Co. which
gave birth to two of the Forrestal
class carriers. Until the Enter
prise is floated they hold the rec
ord as the largest warships in the
world.
The eighth US. Navy vessel to
bear this name, made famous
during World War II by the car
rier “Big E,” the Enterprise will
cost 400 million dollars and is
scheduled for delivery in 1961.
She will be powered by eight re
actors, linked in tandem to four
s ■ propellors, and should be able to
cruise for two years without re
plenishing her atomic fuel.
White House Fetes
Top U.S. Scientists
By FRANCES LEWINE
WASHINGTON, (ffl— President
Eisenhower didn’t let a cold
dampen a coming out party for
the nation’s top scientists at the
White House last night.
Smiling and reporting he felt
much better, the President pre
sided with Mrs. Eisenhower at
the first state dinner to which J
leading scientists were invited.
Athough it was actually a j
science-military dinner, the scien
tists, including four Nozel Prize
winners, were in the majority
among the 98 guests.
There was a special air of ex
citement because most of the
guests had never been to a glit
tering White House formal af
fair and because while the din
ner was under way the Navy was
trying to launch its Vanguard
rocket.
Vanguard Project director John
P. Hagen drank a toast in cham
pagne “Here’s to our baby,” and
then stayed up to await word
from Cape Canaveral.
Three hours after the guests
had left the White House the
Vanguard fizzled again.
The President had greeted both
Hagen and Wernher Von Braun,
designed of the Army rocket that
launched the Explorer satellite.
Von Braun, accompanied by his
attractive blonde wife, was in an
expansive mood as he predicted,
“We’ll be on the moon and back
in ten years.”
March of Dimes Nets
$438.11 To Date
The March of Dimes has; col
lected $438.11 to date, stated Mary
Andersen, local chairman. The
collection is as follows:
Explorer Scouts $64.89, special
donation $15, Girl Scouts of 8th
Grade $4, School $150.53, Girl
Scouts at the Nome ram a Theater
night $27.63, and dime cards
$176.06.
The Polaris candle will be
melted down Sunday ahd the
money added to the fund.
Containers from business
houses have been collected but if
any have been missed contact
Mary Andersen or deliver the
jar to the City Hall.
VANGUARD LAUNCHING FIZZLES
By BEN FUNK
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., UB—
The Navy’s second Vanguard
satellite rocket roared skyward
today but ended just like the first
—in a fiery explosion.
Sixty second after a beautiful
takeoff at 2:33 a.m., the bullet
shaped Vanguard wobbled crazily,
broke into two pieces and was
destroyed by the test range safety
officer.
If the flight had succeeded, the
Navy would have put a tiny
“moon” into orbit with the
Army’s Explorer, which was fired
aloft Friday by the Jupiter-C
missile.
But* the Vanguard climbed only
about 20,000 feet into a cold,
starry sky before the safety offi
cer, R. D. Stephens, pressed the
button that blew it apart and sent
it plunging toward the ocean in
fiercely blazing fragments.
So Soviet Russia, having
launched two Sputniks, still holds
a numerical lead in the race to
solve the fascinating secrets of
outer space.
The first Vanguard rocket, fired
here Dec. 6, struggled upward
only four feet before it toppled
over and was partly consumed in
its own flames.
Experts had hoped the lessons*
learned from that first failure
would help pave the way to suc
cess on the next attempt, but of
ficials emphasized before today’s
attempt that the odds against get
ting the Vanguard’s 3V4 - pound
moon into orbit still were 1,000
to one. s
The slender, 72-foot rocket left
the ground surely and gracefully,
riding a witch’s broom of lemon
colored fire straight up into the
| blue-black sky.
i Its blazing exhaust lighted the
countryside and the roar of its
engines shook sleeping persons
awake for miles around.
Observers watching the blast
off from vantage points inside the
test center shouted as the Van
guard began its arrow-true climb.
But their cheers died in their
throats when they saw the missile
incline too sharply, break up and
plunge back toward the moonlit
Atlantic Ocean.
In an official announcement
minutes later, the Air Force,
which operates the test center,
said the Vanguard was “success
fully launched . . . but was de
stroyed in flight when it failed
to maintain its programmed
flight.”
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Navy Will Try
“Again Soon”
WASHINGTON, Iff) — Despite
disappointment at Project Van
guard’s -second failure early to
day, director John P. Hagen said
he will try “as soon as we can”
to send up another satellite
rocket.
His words were echoed by Dr.
Richard W. Porter, chairman of
the satellite technical panel for
the International Geophysical
Year. “As soon as possible,” was
Parter’s comment.
But neither would hazard a
guess as to when a third test at
tempt will be made, or comment
■on the failure’s effect on a sched
ule which calls for a fully in
strumented satellite to be placed
in orbit next month.
Hagen, a mild man who never
swears, cut loose with an “Oh,
no!” when the second rocket was
destroyed in flight.
Jessup Dies In Fire
Which Destroys
Bullock Home
The home of Mr. and Mrs. Jack
Bullock, a show place of Kotze
bue, is reported to have burned
this morning and is a complete
loss, according to word received
by UK. Marshall Bob Oliver from,
from Deputy Marshal Archie
Adirim in Kotzebue.
Julius Jessup, who has been
taking care of the home and the
Bullock business is believed te
have perished in the fire. A
body was recovered from the
ruins this morning and an in
quest will be held this afternoon.
Neither Mr. or Mrs. Bullock are
in Kotzebue this winter.
Art Jessup, brother of Julius,
was flown to Kotzebue this mor
ning. Art is a mechanic for the
National Guard here. j
Kotzebue has a volunteer fire
department with a jeep fire truck.
$250 Million Station To
Detect Missiles Is
Planned For Alaska
WASHINGTON, UP)—Construc
tion of an early warning station,
costing possibly 250 million dol
lars, for the detection of inter
continental ballistic missiles is
planned for Alaska.
This was disclosed today toy the
Air Force in a letter to Delegate
Bartlett in response to his request
for information concerning pos
sible construction of radar facil
ities in the territory.
The letter, from Maj. Gen. Joe
W. Kelly, Air Force director of
legislative liaison, said in part:
“It is planned that a survey
team will visit Alaska in the
early part of February. Activities
of the survey will be confined
to tentatively selected areas and
no Alaska-wide survey is pro
posed at this time.”
Although the letter refers to
consideration of more than one
area, Bartlett said unofficial re
ports published recently in Alas
kan newspapers have indicated
that the Alaskan railbelt com
munity of Cleary will be a strong
contender for the proposed sta
tion.
The Air Force letter made no
mention of ballistic missile
launching sites. Military men
have said it would be a logical
location.
Ike Favors Simultaneous
Statehood For Both
Alaska and Hawaii
WASHINGTON, CffV— President
Eisenhower told his news con
ference today he has called in his
last three State of the Union mes
sages for statehood for both Ha
waii and Alaska. He said, in re
sponse to a question, that he fav
ors having Congress act simul
taneously on statehood for both
territories.
All Hands Safe After
Collision Between Jets
CHARLESTON, S.C., UP) — An
F-86 jet fighter and a B-47 bomb
er smashed together in flight over
the Savannah River basin before
dawn today. The fighter pilot
parachuted to safety. The dam
aged bomber limped into Hunter
Air Force Base at Savannah, tia.,
with all hands safe.
Lt. Clarence A. Stewart, the
fighter pilot, floated to earth by
parachute in bright moonlight
near Estill, S.C.
The three members bf the
bofnber crew, based at Home
stead, Fla., AFB, were reported
“shaken up” but uninjured.
Pan American Asks Temporary
Suspension of Service to Nome
In an application to the Civil
Aeronautics Board dated Jan. 27,
1958 Pan American Airways re
newed their five-year battle to
suspend service to Nome tempor
arily.
Citing airstrip facilities, volume
of service and parallel service by
Wien Airlines, PAA “prays” that
temporary suspension is in the
public interest and that such tem
porary relief be authorized until
final disposition of CAB Docket
5830, the original application for
complete suspension of tne ser
vice.
In relation to airstrip facilities,
PAA states that the States-Alaska
service has been using B-377 air
craft for the past year. It says
the Nome Airport is not adequate
for this equipment and the avail
able traffic would not justify such
capacity.
While volumes were increased
i by cargo and mail, PAA’s average
load factor in the first 11 months
of 1957 was only 36 per cent, ac
cording to the request to CAB.
“It requires no financial analysis
to demonstrate that this operation
has not paid its way and has con
tributed materially to PAA’s op
erating loss of more than $2,000,
000 in States-Alaska services in
1957.”
Comparison of the service be
tween PAA and Wien reveals that
Wien carried 76.7 per cent of the
passengers, 52.8 per cent of the
cargo and 84.6 per cent of the
mail., PAA says, “Wien could have
carried all of Pan Am’s traffic
with little increase in capacity.
Competition in this segment
serves no useful purpose.”
While one of the past problems
militating against suspension has
been Wien’s lack of aircraft larg
er than a DC-3, this is no longer
a consideration, the report states,
as Wien now has fully certified
C-46 aircraft in service.