ALASKA CAPITAL PREPARED FOR
49TH STATE INAUGURATION SAT.
(By The Associated Press)
Alaskans arranged hurriedly for
a solemn observance for their
Territory’s admission after the
White House announced today
that President Eisenhower would
issue the Statehood proclamation
on Saturday.
Alaska’s Governor-elect William
A. Egan said he expected to take
the oath of office shortly after the
proclamation is signed.
A big replica of the nation’s lib
erty bell will be rung on the lawn
in front of the Juneau capitol, 49
times during an admission observ
ance tentatively planned for 11
a.m. Saturday at a Juneau theater.
A big inaugural ceremony, in
cluding a giant parade, reception
and formal ball, already has been
scneduled for Juneau on January
17.
Egan Says "We're Ready"
At Juneau, Governor-elect
Egan, the 44-year-old Democrat
who will become Governor of the
first state admitted to the Union
since New Mexico and Arizona in
1912, said:
“We’re ready.”
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The oath of office for Egan and
Hugh J. Wade, Alaska’s Secretary
of State-elect, will be administered
without fanfare.
The advance date for the pub
lic inaugural festivities at Juneau
on January 17 was made neces
sary because it was not known
at the time when the proclamation
would be issued.
A committee in charge of the
-’vent decided on the date, so that
more than a thousand invitations
could be issued and plans made for
people to attend from throughout
the vast new state.
Will Get Down To Business
It seemed unlikely that the wild
and happy impromptu celebrations
— including street dances and the
burning of bonfires — that came
after final Congressional approval
of the Statehood Bill last June
will be repeated again this week
end when the proclamation is is
sued.
Instead, most officials have ex
pressed desires to get immediately
about the business of the new
State.
Acting Territorial Governor
Waino E. Hendrickson, a federal
appointee whose term will end
immediately upon issuance of the
proclamation, said all arrange
ments had 'been made to turn his
office over to Egan.
Asked whether there would be
an official transfer of the Terri
torial Governor’s office, Hendrick
son commented:
“P won’t be that formal. We’ll
just step aside and Governor Egan
will be sworn in.”
At Washington the two new
Senators, Bartlett and Gruening,
both Democrats, must draw from
a box to determine the length of
their terms — one for six years,
the other for two years.
Such selection by lot is required
in order to fit Bartlett and Gruen
ing into the classes which the
Senats has adopted to assure that
one-third of its membership stands
for election each two years.
MSTS Captain
-Found Shot To
Death Aboard Ship
SEATTLE, iff) — A Tacoma mas
ter mariner, holder of the Dis
tinguished Sea Rescue Award for
a North Pacific rescue in 1956,
was found fatally wounded in his
stateroom aboard ship yesterday.
The Military Sea Transport
Service here said Capt. Robert T.
Fulton, 59, died as the result
of gunshot wounds. An investi
gation of the incident is under
way, MSTS said.
Captain Fulton was master of
the USMS Gen. H. B. Freeman in
1956 when the Washington Mail
broke up in the stormy North Pa
cific. Upon the receipt of the
Mail’s SOS, the Freeman sped
65 miles to the scene and Captain
Fulton directed the successful res
cue of the more than 100 persons
aboard the Mail.
Captain Fulton was currently
commanding LST 618, returning
from Adak, Alaska.
Captain Fulton, a resident of
the Puget Sound area for 51 years,
had been sailing for the govern
ment since 1940. His widow, Es
ther, and a daughter, Mrs. R. E.
Campbell, also of Tacoma, sur
vive him.
New York Radio and TV
Critic Chooses Jail
NEW YORK, UP) — Marie Torre,
radio and television critic of the
New York Herald Tribune, chose
yesterday to serve 10 days in jail
rather than disclose for a federal
court the source of one of her
stories concerning singer Judy
Garland.
U. S. District Judge Sylvester J.
Ryan ordered Miss Torre to sur
render at 10 a.m. Monday to begin
serving the sentence. She is the
mother of two children.
A test case of a newsman’s right
not to divulge the source of a
news story has been made of Miss
Torre’s refusal. She would not re
veal the source of an item in a
column she wrote which resulted
in a libel suit against the Colum
bia Broadcasting System.
Letter-size and legal file folders
available at The Nome Nugget
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