Seattle Has Most to Gain
From a Big, Prosperous
State of Alaska
SEATTLE, Of)—Seattle business
interests should not be fearful that
Alaska statehood will bring stiffer
regulation of business and indus
try, says Jack Ryan, editor of the
Fairbanks News-Miner.
Ryan, here with his wife on a
yearend holiday trip, said on the
contrary commercial opportunities
should find a much better climate
for growth under statehood.
“Seattle has the most to gain
from a big prosperous State of Al
aska,” he insisted.
He also said that with the boom
growth in population the territory
has emerged from a frontier area
into a community of families, big
in size and spirit.
“Alaska is no longer a country
peopled by transients with one
foot in Seattle,” he said. “With
thousands of families living the
year around in growing cities like
Fairbanks and Anchorage, the
frontier era has passed.”
Anchorage Athlete
Left Off Olympic Ski Team
Until He Becomes Citizen
SPOUT SPRINGS, Ore. UP—The
U.S. Olympic ski games committee
Monday named Mack Miller of
McCall, Idaho, and Larry Damon
of Burlington, Vt., to the cross
country team that will ski for the I
U.S. in the winter games in Italy I
this month.
Sven Johansson of Anchorage.
Alaska, was left off the team, but
games officials left the way open
for his possible inclusion at a later ,
date. Johansson, a Swede, is in
Anchorage trying to complete his 1
final U.S. citizenship papers.
He had been considered a vir- !
tual cinch to make the cross coun- 1
try team. Officials said if he gains
his papers before the winter
games at Cortina D'Ampesso, It
aly, the International Olympic
Committee will be asked to allow j
the U.S. to include Johansson on 1
the cross country team.
COMPOSER IN HOSPITAL
NEW YORK, UP—W. C. Handy, I
82-year-old composer of “The St. I
Louis Blues,” has been taken off j
the critical list at Sydenham Hos- j
pital. He was taken there Satur
day with what his doctor de- :
scribed as a “par’ial intestinal ob-,
struction.”
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Communication
Nome, Alaska
December 31, 1955
To the Nome Nugget:
I wish to commend the factual
reporting in Dec. 30’s paper of the
meeting held by Mrs. Hermann
and Mr. McNees on the progress
being made by the Constitutional
Convention in Fairbanks and for
their courtesy in appearing and
making their report.
I was more than pleased to get
a copy of Program 10 from the
Committee of the Executive
Branch; it was a well thought out
report. However, I do not find
myself in accord with it in grant
ing the governor the power it does.
Man’s struggle to learn how to
govern himself has plainly shown
that power has a debasing effect
inherent in it. A striking illustra
tion is shown in the December
Reader’s Digest article “What
Peron Cost Argentina.”
Government, to me, must start
at the grass roots. Jefferson’s state
ment, “Beware of centralized gov
ernment; keep it as simple as
possible and down among the peo
ple,” is the distilled essence of
experience of the ages. For if we
do not train our officials from our
simplest governmental functions,
such as city councilmen, county
commissioners, members of our
school boards and on up to our
legislators, how can we expect to
have officials, state or federal,
without the knowledge of how
government works.
Among all our elected officials
we are bound to get some dumb
bells as well as questionable char
acters. We have well authenticated
history to show that. These are
one of the handicaps of any type
of a democracy, whether in a re
public or a straight democracy.
All history has shown that out
right democracies did not get the
results hoped for.
Our United States has proved
the most successful form, with its
three branches of officials elected
for set terms. More and more in
the various states restricting the
terms of office has been found
necessary to keep control of the
ambitions of men to usurp the
power of government. Even our
federal government has forbidden
by law any third term for any
president.
I myself have experienced the
attempted domination of a man
desiring power and have seen it
vividly carries on in several states.
One pertinent fact the members
of the convention must bear in
mind is that whatever completed
measure they bring out, it must
be approved by the people as well
as meet with the approval of Con
gress. These are facts which
should not be ignored in the final
measure.
The $300,000 appropriated for
the convention will probably be
exhausted. Good judgement would
dictate that the people’s wishes be
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well considered and personal opin
ions reconciled with facts, to ob
tain results.
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Personally I am opposed to any
change in our divisional setup, at
this time. In our first legislatures
divisional Senate representation
served well as a balanced wheel
for the best interests of well-con
sidered legislation.
Alaska is my home, and the
vastness of its resources becomes
more impressive as I meet and
talk wilth the men and women
who get out in the hills and find
indications of all types of miner
als which research in our big in
stitutions and plants are finding
news uses for to benefit the na
tion.
God grant that no short-sighted
policy be enacted which lets the
control of our enacting legislation
be seized by a group of self-ap
pointed theorists or self-seeking
men with ivory tower thinking
which denies the opportunity for
our citizens who will get out and
take a chance, who are a necessity
to our country’s existence.
It was very pleasing to me to
have a native-born and-raised Es
kimo have the courage to get up
and voice his beliefs. Many have
so expressed themselves to me.
He had the courage of his convic
tions and, as a real American,
forcefully and fearlessly expressed
them. It is up to all of us to ex
press our own beliefs. Abraham
Lincoln said, “God must love the
common people, he made so many
of them.” Let us, the common peo
ple, justify that love by speaking
out.
Respectfully,
Charles D. Jones
North Star
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Police Break Up
Mass Picketing
At Westinghouse
COLUMBUS, Ohio, UPV—An esti
mated 100 police moved in to
break up mass picketing at the
Columbus Westinghouse Electric
Corp. plant yesterday and touched
the spark to a 12-week-old powder
keg at the struck plant.
A man died in the brief vio
lence, possibly of a heart attack
but after a beating. At least seven
persons were injured.
Eighty-six persons were arrest
ed—74 men and 12 women.
At least one auto was over
turned at each of the plant’s five
gates. Police cars were stoned and
clubbed in the pre-dawn darkness
as the long-expected violence fi
nally burst out at 5:30 a.m. during
a previously planned “mass dem
onstration.”
Charles Clark, president of Lo
! cal 746, said Monday night the
union voted the demonstration to
protest the company’s back-to
work movement in the strike that
started as part of a national walk
out against Westinghouse Oct. 17.
About 4,300 normally are em
ployed at the Columbus plant. The
company reports more than 1,700
have returned to work.
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ANB Accused of Luring Cannery
Workers From Outside, USF Tie-up
JUNEAU, UP>—Atty. Gen. Wil-«
liams has accused top-level offi
cers of the Alaska Native Brother
hood of being “unwittingly lured
into a campaign to promote the
interests of non-resident cannery
workers.”
Williams’ charges were con
tained in a letter to Herbert Brad
ley of Wrangell, grand vice presi
dent of the ANB. Copies of the
letter were sent to 10 other ANB
leaders.
The letter explained the attor
ney general’s reasons for asking a
rehearing on the Fidalgo Island
Co. case in San Francisco.
ANB protested the action thru
President William L. Paul of Ju
neau. The protest was based on a
tieup of approximately $650,000 in
unemployment security funds j
owed to cannery workers.
Williams said if the territory
loses the Fidalgo case the Alaska
Unemployment Security Fund will
be depleted by more than a helf
million dollars.
“So we see that if the canned
salmon industry ultimately wins
the Fidalgo Island case (that if
the court denies our petition for a
re-hearing) Alaska cannery work
ers will receive only one-tenth of
the proceeds, or approximately
$50,000, while nine-tenths of the
£ .
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money involved in the case, or ap
proximately $450,000, will go to
cannery workers who are non-,
residents of Alaska, who do not
contribute to the support of terri
torial government by taxation to
the same extent as Alaskan resi
dents like yourself.”
Williams concluded: ‘‘It there
fore seems to me as an impartial
observer that your organization,
by tempting bait of a mere pit
tance, has been unwittingly lured
into a campaign to promote the
interests of non-resident cannery
workers who contribute little or
nothing to the support of our Al
askan territorial government and
to the relief of destitution in our
midst.”
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