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June 21 Scheduled As Carnival
Day Of Midnight Sun Festival
Nome’s first Midnight Sun<
Festival bids fair to be one of ,
the most attractive features of |
Alaska’s summer program. It is 1
a three day affair. Friday June j
20 is “Children’s Day,” in the fes- j
tival. It is planned to have a
“Toy and Pet Parade” with
children in storybook costume
and prizes for most attractive
costume, most interesting pet
and most original toy. Games
and dances will be held for vari
ous age groups.
Saturday June 21 is “Carnival
Day” featuring a street carnival
masks and costumes of early
nineteen hundred will be a spec
ial feature.
A progressive smorgasbord din
ner between 6-8 p.m. is a novel
feature. In the evening the con
clusion of masked ball, the cor
nation of the Queen of the Mid
night Sun will take place. It is
expected there will be out-of
town contestants for queen.
Also some lucky person will be
given a poke of gold. Prizes
will be given for early Nome
costumes.
Sunday June 22 is “Marine
Picnic Day” when boat races will
be held at the mouth of Nome
River and the entire community
will hold an old time picnic and
reindeer barbecue.
A complete program of events
will be printed early next week.
House Okay’s
Ike’s Reciprocal
Trade Bill
WASHINGTON, UP) — The
House, handing President Eisen
hower a major legislative victory,
today passed and sent to the Sen
ate a bill continuing the recipro
cal trade program for another
five years.
In doing so, it crushed any at
tempt to limit the program to
two years and restrict the Presi
dent’s trade and tariff making
authority, and to send the
whole thing back to a committee
pigeonhole.
Final passage came on a 317
98 roll call vote.
That was even more lopsided
than the 234-147 count by which
the House turned down a sub
stitute by Rep. Richard M. Simp
son (R-Pa) which would have
watered down the whole program.
Today’s House action consti
tuted the longest extension of
any of the previous 10 contin
uances voted during the 24-year
history of the trade agreements
act. Extensions of two or three
years have been the rule.
It was a big victory for Eisen
hower, who put his prestige on
the line in unyielding demand
for continuation of the program
in the interest of lower trade
barriers among free world na
tions.
On the final showdown, Demo
crats swung heavily behind the
President under prodding of
Democratic House leaders. Chief
opposition was reduced to hard
core foes of the program within
the President’s own party.
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Tornado Wrecks
I
j Forty Blocks In
Kansas Town
ELDORADO, Kansas, l#> — A
tornado devastated 40 square
blocks of a modest new residen
tial area of El Dorado late yes
terday.
At least 13 persons were killed
and 49 injured. Lt Col. Wm. W.
Goodviq of the 137th Infantry
Regiment of the National Guard
who in in charge of the search
ing operations, said he feared
other bodies might be found in
the rubble.
The commander of the Kansas
turnpike highway patrol unit,
Maj. Lloyd S. Vincent, said his
men were unable to account for
the occupants of two automo
biles which the twister swept
off the toll highway at the north
east edge of Eldorado. He said
all he could find of the two cars
were their motors and pieces of
their fenders.
Some houses utterly dis
appeared leaving only founda
tions and the concrete floor of
garages. Others lost only their
roofs. Some, particularly brick
houses, had only broken window
panes and other minor damage.
In some cases a house seemed al
most untouched although on
either side there were total losses.
The tornado swept away main
power lines, plunging the city
into darkness. Telephone lines
were severed and the municipal
water mains were broken in sev
eral places.
While doctors worked fever
ishly by the feeble light of can
dles and flashlights at Eldorado’s
only hospital, National Guard
troops from nearby Augusta and
Eldorado’s own unit were called
to help civilian officers patrol
the streets.
Looters swarmed into the
stricken area as soon as dark
ness fell. At least three persons
were arrested for rifling the de
bris.
Alaska Airlines, Inc.
President Sees Statehood
As Industrial Impetus
SEATTLE, UP) — The future
of Alaska Airlines lies in getting
off federal subsidy, Charles F.
Willis, Jr., president told Seattle
investment counselors yesterday.
Willis said there are three op
portunities to avoid government
assistance—merger, reduction of
operating expenses and route
extensions.
Willis said economies totaling
$300,000 a year have been placed
in effect and several route-ex
tension applications have been
filed with the Civil Aeronautics
Board. He said the carrier’s re
quest to fly to Siberia has re
sulted in conferences between
State Department officials and
Soviet representatives.
Statehood would add impetus
to Alaska’s industrial devel
ment, Willis said, and would in
crease the line’s traffic potential.
Legislative
Council Ends
Public Sessions
The Alaska Legislative Council
ended the public portion of its
four day meeting here yesterday
and today went into executive
session to consider study staff
reports and other committee busi
nfess.
The Council began its public
hearings in the federal court
room on Monday afternoon. The
first item of business was the
completion of testimony on work
men’s compensation insurance be
gan last January in Ketchikan.
Perry H. Taft, Pacific coast man
ager for the American Association
of Casualty and Surety Compa
nies testified on the merits of
private competitive insurance
coverage for workmen’s compen
sation over a state fund or mo
nopoly system.
Members of the Council also
expressed satisfaction at the 25
percent reduction in workmen’s
compensation insurance premium
costs realized since the Legisla
tive Council and the Commission
er of Insurance began to study
and hold hearings on the com
pensation program last fall.
The major portion of the hear
ings was devoted to preliminary
consideration of the Council’s
long-range study on taxation and
revenue to check the soundness
of the present Alaska tax struc
ture and to explore possible new
sources of revenue. > New sources
which will be investigated in the
coming months include sales,
property and luxury taxes and
the income which could be de
rived from territorial operation
of the wholesale liquor business.
Appearing at the invitation of
the Council on the taxation and
related subjects were James M.
Fitzgerald, representing Anchor
age as city attorney, and the
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U.N. Watchdog
Team To Seal Off
Lebanon Borders
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., UPI—
The U. N. Security Council de
cided today to rush an inter
national watchdog team to strife
torn Lebanon to seal off its bor
ders with the United Arab Re
public.
A threatened Soviet veto
failed to materialize. The Soviet
Union simply abstained instead
of killing the plan by a negative
vote.
The observer group would have
the mission of guaranteeing that
no arms or other military aid
reaches Lebanese rebels from the
U.A.R. Lebanon had complained
to the 11-nation council that
President Nasser was threatening
Lebanese independence' by med
dling in its internal politics. The
U.A.R. had denied the charges.
U.N. Secretary General Dag
Hammarskjold, who was given
the task of organizing and dis
patching the observers, was ex
pected to move quickly to carry
out his assignment.
Senate Consideration of Alaska
Bill Appears Likely Next Week
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Shot at Moon
Is In Planning
Stage Only
WASHINGTON, UP) — The
Chief of Air Force space plan
ning says he was speaking only
of planning dates in saying the
Air Force will attempt to fire its
first rocket toward the moon in
August.
Lt. Gen. S. E; Anderson, Direc
tor of Air Force Research and
Development, told a news con
ference in Milwaukee yesterday
three moon .shots will be attemp
ted this year—in August, Septem
ber and October.
He was promptly challenged
by the Pentagon’s space boss, Roy
W. Johnson, director of the De
fense Department’s Advanced Re
search Projects Agency. He said
“no final decision has been made”
on the firing dates.
Anderson declined, through an
aide, to comment on Johnson’s
statement. But on his return to
Washignton last night, he told
newsmen he had explained in
Milwaukee he was speaking only
of a planning date.
Anderson also didn’t clarify
disagreement between him and
Johnson whether the Air Force
will try to hit the moon on its
first try or merely come near it.
The general said in Milwaukee
the Air Force will try to hit the
moon with a modified missile
designed to “give some indication
of its arrival.”
But Johnson said: “No at
tempt will be made to achieve
direct contact with the moon in
the projects now assigned.”
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East Germany
Promises Release
9 U.S. Army Men
BERLIN, UPi — East Germany
today promised quick release of
nine U. S. Army men and their
helicopter if the United States
acts in a “normal and reasonable
manner.”
The statement, an editorial in
the East German Communist
Party newspaper Neues Deutsch
land, did not specify what the
Communists would consider “nor
mal and reasonable.”
The conciliatory editorial, which
carries the weight of an official
pronouncement, appeared after
Secretary of Dulles told a news
conference the United States
would negotiate if necessary with
the East Germans for release of
the eight Army officers and one
sergeant whose helicopter strayed
into East Germany last Saturday
and ran out of gas.
The Russian embassy in East
Berlin welcomed Dulles’ state
ment. The Ernst German gov
ernment refused to comment on
Dulles’ remarks.
WASHINGTON, UPl — Senate
consideration - of Alaska state
hood late next week appeared
likely today.
The House-passed bill was
scheduled for consideration by
Sen. Lyndon Johnson, Senate
Democratic leader, despite what
he described to newsmen as “sub
stantial opposition” within the
Democratic Policy Committee.
Johnson set no specific date
but said the Alaska bill would
follow three other proposals be
fore the Senate.
The announcement carried no
provision giving Sen. William F.
Knowland (R-Calif). the assur
ance he had asked that the Sen
ate would consider the Hawaii
statehood legislation immediately
after that for Alaska.
Johnson said the Senate would
follow the same procedure on
Hawaii that it did on Alaska—
await action in the House.
Knowland has said he fears
there will be a move to tie the
Hawaii bill to Alaska if Hawaii’
supporters cannot be given as
surance of separate consideration.
Johnson declined to predict
how long it might require * the
Senate to act on the Alaska bill
but Democratic lieutenants in
the Senate indicated action might
come within three days after the
bill is taken up.
Although most Southern Demo
crats oppose Alaska statehood,
primarily on grounds it would be
a precedent for Hawaii which
they find ^racially unacceptable,
it was understood there would
be no organized southern opposi
tion which might result in a
move to talk the Alaska bill to
death.
Senate Passes
House Version
Of ESC Measure
WASHINGTON, UR — The Sen
ate today quickly passed without
objection a bill appropriating
$665,700,000 to finance emer
gency extension of unemploy
ment compensation payments.
The measuoe was passed by
the House two days ago but now
goes back there because of an un
related amendment tacked on by
the Senate.;
The amendment, requested by
the administration provides an
extra 20 million dollars for the
revolving loan fund of the small
business administration. It re
ported it was running out of
money.
The appropriation for unem
ployment benefits is the full
amount asked by President Eisen
hower. It finances recent legis
lation authorizing advances to
the states to extend the duration
of payments by 50 per cent.
State participation in the emer
gency program is optional. The
appropriation is based on the
assumption that all of the states
will take part.
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