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B.C. Copper Draws
Many Prospectors
KAMLOOPS, B.C., (/PL-British
Columbia prospectors are making
ready for one of their busiest
summers ever.
Copper, not uranium, seems to
be their main goal.
The Provincial Mines Depart
ment said about 13,000 claims
were staked last year and the ma
jority of them were for copper.
At least a dozen companies, en
couraged by the price of 46 cents
a pound—34 cents higher than 10
years ago—have taken options on
copper claims, prepared for an ini
tensive prospecting season, start
ed drilling, or opened up new
workings.
This south central city, 17 0
miles northeast of Vancouver, is
the center of the biggest activity
at present.
Exact figures aren’t known, but
a Mines Department official said
“an educated guess is that there
now are 3,000 copper claims”
staked in the Highland Valley
area near here.
Eisenhower Postpones
Top-Level Conference
Until Tomorrow
WASHINGTON, MV—President
Eisenhower today postponed until
tomorrow a conference with top
Defense officials, the chief of the
Central Intelligence Agency and
the undersecretary of State.
The White House said, mean
while, that the session will be
“one of a series of routine techni
cal briefings on various phases of
our American security program”
—in no way related to the tense
situation in the Middle East.
The conference originally had
been scheduled for this morning
at the White House.
House Committee Criticizes Defense
For ‘Spending Billions Needlessly'
WASHINGTON, UP>—'The House
Appropriations Committee made
public today a staff report criti
cizing Defense Department pro
curement practices as “unrealis
tic” and as giving contractors “a
tremendous advantage.”
Included in the 397-page docu
ment were formal replies from the
Defense Department, the Army,
the Navy and the Air Force. In
general, they defended the critic
ized practices on grounds the hur
ry up or “crash” nature of the con
tracts involved made norjnal pro
cedure impractical.
Rep. Whitten (D-Miss), a com
mittee member, commented in the
report that there were indications
that “the government is spending
billions needlessly to someone’s
profit.”
The report, on which three
teams of committee probers have
been working since last April,
made no charges of corruption or
wilful wrongdoing.
No specific time period was
covered by the survey, but much
of the material involved was or
dered or delivered during the
Korean War period. The report
made no distinction between Re
publican and Democratic admin
istrations. The wartime period in
cluded parts of both.
Secretary of Defense Wilson re
plied:
“I do not excuse these kinds of
things of they are true. There is
some explanation of it, probably,
because people do not purposely
do such sloppy things. That is,
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Prince Doesn’t Expect
To See U.S. Much After
Marrying Grace Kelly
LE HAVRE, France, UP*—Prince
Rainier III returned to Europe to
day and expressed doubt he and
Grace Kelly would spend much
time in the United States after
they wed.
“She likes Europe very much,”
the Prince told newsmen, on his
arrival here. He is enroute to his
postage stamp principality of Mo
naco to make arrangements for
the wedding scheduled April 18
19 in Monte Carlo.
During the half-hour news con
ference the Prince chatted easily
in both French and English with
some 50 correspondents and then
signed autographs for crew mem
bers of the lie de France, which
brought him from America.
Miss Kelly arrived in New York
by plane from the 4 West Coast
yesterday with busy days ahead
before she joins her husband.
| PTA Will Sell Coffee
And Hot Dogs During
The Dog Race Sunday
The Nome PTA will sell hot
dogs and coffee during the Arctic
Club dog race next Sunday. The
race will start from in front of
the city hall and will end there
also.
The refreshments will be served
in the Wien building unless the
temperature makes it possible to
sell them outdoors in front of
Wien Airlines.
Canadian Gov. General
Samples Eskimo Food
On Trip to North Pole
FROBISHER BAY, Baffin Is
land, Of)—Canadian Gov. General
Vincent Massey sampled life in
the arctic yesterday, eating Eski
mo food and riding behind a team
of sled dogs.
Massey, who is on a 10,000-mile
air tour of the north, left Ottawa
Monday on a trip which is to take
him over the North Pole.
Reports Revealed of Egyptian Troops
Getting Military Training in Poland
LONDON, (iP)—The Foreign Of
fice said today Britain has re
ceived secret reports that “a con
siderable number” of Egyptians
are under military training in
Poland.
A spokesman told reporters the
British government “places reli
ance on these reports,” but he
would not disclose their source.
He said the matter will be taken
into account in determination of
Britain’s Middle Eastern policies.
200 Officers and Men
British informants estimated
about 200 Egyptian officers and
norucommissioned officers are be
ing trained in land, sea and ail
operations and the use of arma
ments at a Soviet base near Po
land’s Baltic Sea port of Gdynia.
It is understood to have started
last December. Their instruction
was reported to include the use of
xadar, submarines and all forms
of artillery.
The training facilities are un
derstood to be an extension of
the 1955 deal under which Com
munist Czechoslavakia sold arms
to Egypt for Egyptian cotton and
rice, the informants said.
Also in Czechoslavakia
The foreign office spokesman
said the British government also
aware that Czech army officers
are training Egyptian air force
men in the use of Soviet bloc air
craft at airfields near Alexandria.
Egypt is the leader of Arab bloc
nations surrounding Israel. Pre
mier Gamal Abdel Nasser de
clared in announcing the deal with
Czechoslavakia that the arms
were needed for defense against a
threat of Israeli aggression. An
Israeli request for United States
arms is pending in Washington.
Plans for Prevention
The spokesman was asked to
comment further on a New York
report that Britain recently com
pleted a plan for effective mili
tary action in case of a second
Arab-Israeli war, with the object
of stopping the spread of fighting.
“We have plans which could be
put into action very rapidly in
such a contingency when it has
been decided to do so,” replied the
spokesman.
He made it clear the British
government does not envisage act
ing on its owrn, however, and he
called attention to the American,
British and French consultations
under way in Washington on the
Middle East situation.
7 Teams Entered For Sunday’s Race
Leader Convicted
In Negro Boycott
Of City Buslines
MONTGOMERY, Ala., (JP>— A
convicted leader in the Negro boy
cott of city buses here has pledged
to continue the fight against seg
regation “no matter how many
times” he is convicted of violating
Alabama’s anti-boycott law.
The Rev. Martin Luther King
Jr. was convicted yesterday of
violating the boycott law and was
fined $500 by Circuit Judge Eu
gene Carter.
Last night the 27-year-old Bap
tist pastor vowed at a mass meet
ing to continue fighting for “jus
tice and equality” and to keep on
in a leading role in the protest
movement “no matter how many
times they convict me.”
King has been prominent in the
17-week-old campaign against the
segregated seating on city buses.
Negroes here generally were
expected to prolong their mass
protest despite King’s conviction.
The fine assessed against King
was suspended after defense at
torneys served notice of an appeal.
The attorneys said they would
take the appeal all the way to the
U.S. Supreme Court if necessary
in another test of the south’s seg-1
regration laws. .
400 Alaska Teachers Get
Significant Pointers
From Texas Educator
FAIRBANKS OP—Four hundred
Alaska teachers received 10 sig
nificant bits of advice from Dr.
Pat Norwood of the Southwest
Texas State Teachers College yes
terday as a two-day conference
opened here.
Norwood said that tachers are
confronted with:
1. A continued increase in en
rolment in the next 15-20 years.
2. A need to recruit a greater
number of qualified teachers each
year and the importance of their
joining professional organizations, j
3. Need for higher pre-service
training requirements, with at
least a bachelors degree required
and possibly a masters degree.
4. Teachers aid will be sought
in planning new buildings and
equipment, such as special rooms
for visual aids and crafts.
5. Work with administrators in
choosing textbooks and other
training materials.
6. Increased use of machines
and gadgets in teaching.
7. Development of the child
must be studied more diligently
than ever.
8. Increased lay interest in the
schools.
9. More special services for the
physically handicapped children.
’0. Higher salaries, earlier re
tirement and more job satisfaction.
v Seven teams have entered the
Arctic Club Dog Race for Sunday
in the 15-mile course now being
staked along the ice today.
The teams entered so far are:
Henry Adams with seven dogs.
Paul Tocktoo with 7 dogs.
Clifford Attatayuk, 7 dogs.
Edwin Punguk of White Moun
tain with 9 dogs.
Arthur Trigg with 8 dogs.
John Komok of Teller, 9 dogs.
Chester Topkok, Teller, 9 dogs.
Other teams planning to enter
may do so until 11 o’clock Sun
day morning at which time the
drivers will draw for place and
be instructed for the race, at the
City Hall.
There are three cash prizes:
1st—$300 ; 2nd—$100; 3rd—$50. A
portable phonograph has been do
nated toy the N.C. Store for the *
4th prize, and a fur cap has been
donated toy Polet’s Store for 5th
prize.
A beautiful perpetual trophy
has been contributed toy the Po
laris Hotel. The winner’s name
will be inscribed on the cup and
the racer who wins three annual
races will toe given the trophy
cup.
Margaret Russell also has con
tributed a lovely trophy for the
winner of Sunday’s race . •
Aarnout Castell will be turn
around judge at Hastings. Bob
Lewis will be time keeper and
Fred Rohn and Pete Olsen will
be judges at the start and finish.
Edwin Punguk, from White
Mountain, is an experienced dog
racer who holds several records
in Nome Kennel Club events such
as the Cape Nome Derby and
the Borden Cup Marathon. Art
Trigg is also an experienced
driver and still has a winner’s
cup for second prize in the Bor
den Marathon.
The Borden Marathon was a
speed race sponsored by John
Borden, Chicago sportsman, who
supplied the purse and winner’s
cups.
Henry Adams is driving the
Dave Russell team, some of which
have raced in Fairbanks events.
The Weather Bureau said to
day the outlook for Sunday in
dicated fair and slightly colder
with perhaps occasional snow
flurries and winds 10-15 mph.
Wien Authority to Serve
Barter Island Extended
WASHINGTON, MWThe Civil
Aeronautics Board extended tem
porarily yesterday the authority
of Wien Alaska Airlines to serve
isolated Barter Island, on the
northern coast of Alaska.
The action will be effective un
til 60 days after a final decision
in the board’s current investiga
tion of air services within Alaska.
Wien said it carried 236 persons,
j 29 tons of mail and 60 tons of ear
I go to and from Barter Island in
the last half of 1955.
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PRESENTATION OF ALASKA STATE CONSTITUTION
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