News - Letter
By Mary Lee Council
Secretary to Senator Bartlett
49-Star Flag
Possible threats to the official
recognition of a 49-star flag have
been off\ and on again during the
past few weeks, and efforts to
deprive Alaska of its “hour of
glory” by substitution of a 50-star
flag have been opposed by Sen
ator Bartlett.
On the day that he proclaimed
Alaska a state last January 3,
President Eisenhower issued an
executive order setting forth the
design of the 49-star American
flag which could be flown on and
after July 4 of this year. How
ever, that order stated that pres
ent 48-star flags would be utilized
until unserviceable by govem
agencies subject “to such limited
exemptions as the Secretary of
Defense and the Administrator of
General Services may approve.”
Subsequently, the General Serv
ices Administration, issued a rul
ing making exceptions where fed
eral agencies could purchase the
49-star flag, namely, in foreign
countries, in the state of Alaska
and in personal offices of Depart
ment Secretaries, Under Secre
taries and Assistant Secretaries
and heads of independent agen
cies. The Defense Department has
informed Senator Bartlett that
authorization has been given to the
military establishments in Alaska
to purchase 49-star flags and sim
ilar permission has been extended
to the Military District of the Dis
trict of Columbia.
William E. Beltz
By now the name of William E.
Beltz is known all over the world.
People who have no knowledge
at all of the English language have
read about him and have seen his
picture, for the Voice of America
has sent out a special feature ar
ticle on the President of the first
Alaska State Senate.
Emphasis was placed on the fact
that there are no racial barriers in
Alaska and that the first man to
hold this high office is of Eskimo
blood. It was pointed out that
Frank Peratrovich, a member of
the Indian race from Southeastern
Alaska, was a President of the
Alaska Territorial Senate, and that
it was he who put the name of
Bill Beltz in nomination for the
presidency of the first State Sen
ate. The Voice of America trans
lated the article into many lan
guages and sent it throughout the
world for publication.
Swiss Villagers No Longer
Fear Mountain Slide
HERBRIGGEN, Switzerland, UP)
— Life is returning to normal in
this Alpine hamlet. The 400 vil
lagers are getting accustomed to
living under the shadow of a mil
lion-ton rock slide.
They were evacuated early this
year when the slide rolled to the
edge of the precipice above the
village — but then came to a
halt.
The government decided a week
ago that the slide has settled per
manently and lifted the evacua
tion order. All but 40 of the vil
lagers are now "back home. The
skeptical are still living in tem
porary barracks a mile away.
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WASHINGTON, UP) — Oil pro
duced at the Swanson River No. 1
well in Alaska resembles the light
er California petroleums, the
Bureau of Mines reported last
week.
Making public an analysis of oil
from Alaska’s newest producing
area, the bureau said there now
are two producing wells in the
Swanson River area, about 40
miles south of Anchorage on the
Kenai Peninsula. Other wells are
being drilled.
The No. 1 well, discovered by
the Richfield Oil Co., was brought
in September 29, 1957 with a flow
of 900 barrels per day of 33 de
gree gravity (an oil term and not
specific gravity) oil and 122,000
cubic feet of gas.
Since October, 1958, it has been
producing about 500 barrels of 30
degree oil daily from a depth of
more than 11,000 feet.
The bureau said the Alaskan oil
yields a cut of 27 per cent gaso
line, which is low in proportion to
the yield of many continental oils,
and apparently is good for produc
tion of asphalt and road oil, but
poor for lubricating oil.
Oil also was found at Umiat, in
the Naval Petroleum Reserve
north of the Arctic Circle, but
there has been no commercial pro
duction there.
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Texas Merchant ‘Forgives’
$80,000 Customer Debts
BEAUMONT, Texas, — Jack
Tinkle has cleared the books of
more than $80,000 in unpaid ac
counts at his hardware and furni
ture store.
Tossing the bills into an incin
erator, Tinkle said:
“I’m forgiving these people
their debts to me, and I hope I’ll
be forgiven too. I figure a lot of
people who have been staying
away from my stores because of
being delinquent in their accounts
.jyill come in when they know
they’ve been forgiven.”
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Tibet God-King Accuses Communist
Invaders of Killing, Enslaving Monks
By HENRY BRADSHER
TEZPUR, India, UH — The Dalai
Lama Saturday accused the Chi
nese Communists of destroying Ti
betan monasteries, killing lamas
and sending monks into labor
gangs.
The fugitive 23-year-old God
King disclosed that the seeds of
the revolt that spread over the
little Himalayan country were
sown as far back as 1955.
The Dalai Lama issued a state
ment denouncing the Communists
on arriving in this tree-growing
town and declared he came to In
dia of his “own free will.” He
slipped out of his palace in Lhasa
a month ago to seek refuge in
India.
Breaking traditional silence, the
Dalai Lama' charged in a 1,200
word statement that the Chinese
Communists had broken their
1951 promise to respect Tibetan
autonomy.
“By the end of 1955,” he said,
“a struggle had started in the
Kham Province, and this assumed
serious proportions in 1956. In
the subsequent struggle the Chi
nese armed forces destroyed a
large number of monasteries.
Many lamas were killed and a
large number of monks and offi
cials were taken and employed
on the construction of roads in
China, and the interference in the
exercise of religious freedom in
creased.”
The Dalai Lama disclosed that
he had accepted an invitation to
attend a cultural show in the
Chinese headquarters in Lhasa
March 10. But, the statement said,
a crowd of 10,000 Tibetans, fear
ful for his safety, physically pre
vented him from going.
“Thereafter the people them
selves decided to raise a body
guard for the protection of the
Dalai Lama,” the statement said.
“Large crowds of Tibetans went
about the streets demonstrating
against the Chinese rule in Tibet.”
The Dalai Lama said he still
tried to maintain friendly rela
tions with the Communists but
they began moving in reinforce
ments and on March 17 fired two
or three mortar shells in the direc
tion of this palace. The God-King
decided to flee.
While the Dalai Lama was
speaking publicly for the first
time since fleeing Lhasa a month
ago, Red China’s Premier Chou
En-Lai expressed a hope in Pei
ping that the “Living Buddha”
would return to his capitol.
Chou spoke before the Red
China Parliament and apparently
was unaware of the Dalai Lama’s
! statement for he charged again
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