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VOL. LX No. 123 - NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1958 Per Copy—15<r
Eisenhower Says Church Bombings
Work Of Capone-Type Hoodlums j
By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH
WASHINGTON, UR — President
Eisenhower today angrily char
acterized those ' responsible for
bombings of places of worship as
hoodlums of the A1 Capone and
Babyface Nelson type.
At a news conference the Pres
ident spoke out vigorously against
the dynamiting of Jewish temples
in Atlanta, Ga., and Peoria, 111.
He did so after a reporter told
him that some of those responsible
apparently have been privately
identifying themselves as mem
bers of a “confederate under
ground.”
Addressing himself to that de
scription, Eisenhower said that
from babyhood he has been taught
to respect the Southern Confed
eracy of Civil War days.
Then he said that for hoodlums
to. describe themselves as any part
of the Confederacy is a complete
insult.
They should be described, he
added angrily, as A1 Capones and
Babyface Nelsons, and that kind
of hoodlums.
Eisenhower also dealt with these
other matters:
Foreign Policy — He said em
phatically that foreign policy
ought to be kept out of partisan
debate in the current Congression
al campaign.
hen he said that another man
who has borne the responsibility
of the Presidency — a clear allu
sion to Harry S. Truman — also
has taken the position that for
eign policy should be left out of
partisan politics.
Eisenhower made his remarks
when a newsman asked whether
he subscribes to Vice President
Nixon’s campaign statement, made
in reply to Democratic criticism,
that “the Acheson foreign policy
resulted in war and the Eisen
hower-Dulles policy resulted in
peace.” *
Eisenhower said he had not
heard that quotation before. Then
he added, without any direct com
ment on the Nixon statement,
that he does subscribe to the
idea that foreign policy should be
kept out of partisan debate.
He said further that the coun
try’s long term interests are bet
Alaska Dept.
Of Education
Asks $13,999,460
JUNEAU, (JPl — The Alaska De
partment of Education will ask
the first State Legislature for an
appropriation of nearly 14 mil
lion dollars.
Don M. Dafoe, Commissioner of
Education, made public the de
partment’s detailed budget hopes
today. The total amount of the
request will be $13,999,460.
Included is a deficiency re
quest of $1,057,000 to cover what
were described as shortages dur
ing the current fiscal year, the
first under State status, the De
partment’s budget request will be
$12,942,460.
The 1957 Territorial Legisla
ture, appropriations expiring next
June, gave the Department of Ed
ucation $18,417,785.
The biggest increase in appro
priations sought by the Depart
ment will be in funds for school
construction.
The 1959-1960 budget request
includes $2,000,000 for the con
struction of schools. For the last
two-year period, school construc
tion funds amounted to $490,000.
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ter served if that sort of thing is
not indulged in.
On a related matter dealing
with this country’s position re
| garding defense of Quemoy, Eis
1 enhower said he does not decry
1 any intelligent criticism of any
: particular point. But when it
comes to policy, he said, that has
been standing on its own feet for
a long time.
J Politics — Eisenhower backed
i away from any October 6 state
;ment by Republican leaders say
ing the clear alternative to elec
| tion of a Republican-controlled
Congress is nationalization and so
cialization of American' industry
under- the Democrats.
Asked whether he subscribed
to that statement, Eisenhower re
plied he had read the full state
ment before it was made public
j and does not remember the exact
! language.
' The President said his recollec
jtion is that the statement said the
country could be lecT to the left
and such a course could lead even
tually to socialism.
Eisenhower added crisply that in
any event the statement about
nationalization and socialization
of industry was not his. With a
trace of a smile, he sa_id politicians
do like to make things positive.
[ Campaign Trip — As for the
six-day campaign tour to the
I Midwest and Pacific Coast he will
| start Friday, Eisenhower said the
I itinerary has been arranged so
[that he can, through regional tele
i vision and radio, reach the great
est number of people possible in
those areas. He made that state
ment when asked why he is go
ing into such states as Iowa, Kan
sas, Colorado and Illinois, where
there are no U. S. Senate races,
and is passing up Minnesota and
Wisconsin where there are such
races.
Henry Benson s
On 4-Day
Nome Visit
Henry A. Benson, Republican
candidate for the U. S. House of
Representatives, arrived Monday
night from Kotzebue for a four
day visit in Nome. Mr. Benson
is Alaska’s senior Territorial offi
cial and has served as Commis
sioner of Labor for twelve years.
Mrs. Benson is accompanying
her husband on his campaign
trip, and this is her first visit to
Nome. Mr. Benson is well-known
here as he has made many visits
here from his Juneau office.
So that Mr. and Mrs. Benson
will have an opportunity to meet
all the voters in the community,
an old-time rally will be given
Thursday night at the Pioneer
Hall at 8 o’clock. All voters are
invited to attend for an evening
of food, music and speeches. No
admission will be charged.
Mr. Benson is making three ap
pearances on KNOM-TV during
his stay in Nome. Each night local
guests and candidates will appear
with him. On Wednesday evening
he will appear at 8 o’clock and
on Thursday'^evening at 7:30
o’clock.
This noon, Mr. Benson ad
dressed the Nome Rotary Club at
the Bering Sea Club, and Mrs.
Benson was honored at a lunch
eon held in the Seaview Room of
the Nprth Star Restaurant.
Ike Says
Dulles Is Right
On Quemoy Issue
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
WASHINGTON, UR-Presi
dent Eisenhower today backed up
Secretary of State Dulles in say
ing the United States would not
compel Nationalist China to cut
its forces on Quemoy and Matsu
Islands.
The President, however, did not
bar the use of every possible per
suasion by this country — on
whose supplies Nationalist- China
is dependent — to get the gar
risons reduced.
Dulles told a news conference
Tuesday the United States wants
President Chiang Kai-Shek to thin
off-shore island garrisons as a
military matter and not as » de
vice for trying to bargain with the
Chinese Communists on a Formosa
settlement. The Reds won’t bar
gain on that issue, Dulles said.
Eisenhower made it clear in re
sponse to several questions today
that he had resolved before meet
ing reporters to say as little as
possible about the whole Formosa
problem. He and Dulles appar
ently had agreed that it was much
too delicate to risk upsetting
Chiang or the Nationalist gov
ment or complicating efforts to
get the Red Chinese to continue
indefinitely their Quemoy cease
fire.
Eisenhower was asked what he
thought about suggestions that a
popular vote be taken on Quemoy
and Matsu to determine whether
the people would rather stay with
Nationalist China or join the
Reds. He said he did not want
to comment but he did not see
much use in that idea.
He declared on another ques
tion that he had not received any
indication from Chiang that the
Nationalist chief would be willing
to cut his Quemoy garrison in re
turn for more modern and nu
merous weapons.
Gen. De Gaulle Orders French Army
Officers Get Out Of Algerian Politics
By ANDREW BOROWEIC «
ALGIERS, I#) — French Army
officers yesterday reluctantly and
bitterly obeyed Premier Charles
De Gaulle’s orders to get out of
politics in Algeria.
The orders came down, through
the Algerian commander, Gen.
Raoul Salan, who was himself
the top figure in the right-wing
army coup of May 13 in Algeria.
Led by tough para troop major
general Jacques Massu, the 11 of
ficers sitting on the Algerian com
mittee of Public Safety, walked
out yesterday morning after ex
plaining De Gaulle’s orders to the
civilian members.
The Premier’s order was de
signed to insure impartial parlia
mentary elections in Algeria with
out Army interference.
The civilians, headed by Mos
lem Azam Quali, went into a
closed session after the Army
withdrawal. Shouts and table
pounding could be heard outside.
“It is not over yet,” a commit
tee member said later. “In a few
days France will see the repercus
sions of De Gaulle’s authoritarian
acts.”
A highly placed Army officer
complained: “It is time De Gaulle
started paying attention to the
Army. We can’t be treated like
little boys. We will not always
stand mute if De Gaulle wants to
play hide and seek with the
s>
I Army.”
Another officer said De Gaulle’s
order was only obeyed because
“it was relayed to us by General
Salan.”
The Premier’s order appeared
aimed at thwarting hopes of Eur
opean extremists of enlisting Ar
my help in the campaigning for
the elections next month. The ex
tremists were believed planning
to put up pliable Moslems as can
didates.
In presenting a program to im
prove Algeria economically, De
Gaulle promised October 3 that
Algerian Moslems would get 45
of Algeria’s 66 seats in the new
French National Assembly. About
90 per cent of the Algerian popu
lation is Moslem.
The Premier said in a letter to
Gen. Raoul Salan, French com
mander in Algeria, that the best
interests of France demanded an
election with “absolute freedom
and security and that lists repre
sentative of all tendencies — I
say tendencies — be allowed con
currently and equally to solicit
the suffrage of the electorate.”
The worst danger, he added,
“would be the formation of lists
solely favored by the official
authority.”
Oil and Gas Lease Applications Cover
Area of Nearly 34 Million Alaska Acres
ANCHORAGE, W — Oil and<
gas lease applications on more
than 33V£ million acres in Alaska
— an area larger than the State
! of Pennsylvania — have been
filed with the Anchorage and
Fairbankc land offices since July
of 1957.
The 15-month period since the
I discovery of oil on the Kenai
Peninsula by the Richfield Oil
Corp. represents the biggest rush
: for oil lands in the history of
the nation.
In the Anchorage land office of
the Bureau of Land Management
more than 19 million acres have
been filed on potential oil-bear
ing land. In Fairbanks the figure
is somewhat lower, about 14 mil
lion acres.
The 33M> million acres breaks
down to roughly 52,330 square
miles, which is an area larger
than either of the states of Penn
sylvania, South Carolina, Tennes-'
see, Mississippi, Louisiana, Vir
ginia, Kentucky and a dozen or
so others.
In revenues for Alaska, the oil
and gas leases have provided one
of the biggest money-makers on
the territorial books — and
.they’ll continue to do so when
! Alaska becomes a state.
| About half of the acreage filed
on has been leased, roughly 16
| million acres. That represents
i about $3,700,000 in revenues for
the Territorial treasury, based
on 90 per cent of the lease rev
enues received by Uncle Sam,
who now charges 50 cents an
acre. The old rate — prior to
last May — was 25 cents an acre.
The land office staffs have
been increased in order to catch
j up on issuing leases and another
six months should find the back
logs substantially whittled down.
! The 25 and 50-cent-an-acre land
i is only part of it, though, because
' some of the land is proven petro
j leum acreage. That leases for a
I premium. An example of this is
t>
the Gubic Gas Field in the north
ern sector of Alaska, parts of
which were leased on bids, which
brought in more than a half mil
jlion dollars for a comparative few
j acres.'
As the lease applications are
■ processed and issued and as the
| old leases expire and must be
renewed, Alaska’s treasury will
j continue to receive dollars. The
i big money, however, is yet to
! come. That’s from royalties on.
! oil production.
Legislative Council
Meeting In
Juneau Friday
JUNEAU, UP) — Measures to
control sale of securities in the
• new State of Alaska will be dis
| cussed at a four-day meeting of
the Legislative Council opening
j Friday at Kodiak.
I Discussions of the so-called Blue
! Sky legislation will center on
testimony of three expert witnes
|ses, including two officials of the
, Security Exchange Commission
1 and a professor at Harvard Law
! School.
! W. Forbes Webber, an SEC at
| torney, and James E. Newton, re
| gional administrator of the agen
;cy, both of Seattle, were listed
[today as witnesses whowwill ap
jpear before the Council.)
; Henry J. Camarot, executive
j director of the Council, said Web
Iber and Newton recently re
| turned from Washington and
! conferences on securities prob
| lems that will arise in the new
State.
| The third witness to appear on
I Blue Sky laws will be Louis Loss,
; Harvard professor and the author
i of a model uniform securities act
; designed for state use.
i The full Council "agenda also
j includes consideration of legisla
tion pertaining to Alaska’s bud
| ding oil and gas industry; peace
time use and control of nuclear
energy in the new State; pro
posed revision of the banking
laws; revenue and taxation; tour
ist industry development, and
control of intra-state aeronautics.
H. T. Sutherland of the Ohio
Oil Co. and J. T. Crooker of the
Standard Oil Co. of California
will be called during talks on oil
and gas legislative matters. Both
companies are involved in oil ex
ploration operations. 4
Dr. Gerald W. Johnson and Dr.
Wilson J. Frank, both of the radi
ation laboratory of the University
of California, will discuss nuclear
developments at the session of the
interim committee of the Legis
lature.
A dozen Territorial officials al
so will appear on the program,
which also will include a prog
ress report on interim studies of
transitional problems involved in
the step from Territorial status
to Statehood.
ROSEMARY CLOONEY HAS
FOURTH CHILD
HOLLYWOOD, UP) — A fourth
child was born Monday to singer
Rosemary Clooney, wife of actor
Jose Ferrer. Monsita Teresa ar
rived at St. John’s Hospital
weighing 6 pounds 4 ounces.
WEATHER FORECAST
Partly cloudy tonight and
Thursday. Low tonight 15, high
tomorrow 20-25.