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VOL. LYII No. 24_ NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1955__Per Copy—15^
Sen. Lvng's Million
Dollar Road Bill
*
Passes the Senate
jtfNEAU, U!)—A bill calling for
a million dollar road and high
way’ building program in the ter
ritory passed the Senate unani
mously yesterday.
The road bill approved by Sen
ate and sent to the House was
amended to provide for a two
year loan from the general fund
to the highway fund to finance
a big construction program. The
general fund would be repaid
from the revenues which are ex
pected to flow in, starting after
• roid-year, from the proposed in
crease in motor fuels taxes. The
tax increase bill has passed the
House already and is expected to
pass the Senate.
The loan proposal was made to
speed Up the program. The bill,
introduced by Sen. Howard Lyng
would provide for expenditure of
the monies under the direction of
the Board of Road Commission
ers ‘‘in those sections of the ter
ritory where the need therefore
is most pressing.”
It would go for highways, roads
and access roads.
Nationalists Accomplish
Pullout From Nanchisan
*
Without Red Interference
TAIPEH, Formosa, UP> — The
Nationalists completed today
without Red interference a mili
tary pullout from Nanchishan and
reports persisted tonight that the
garrison was taken straight to off
shore outposts in the Matsu
group.
The Matsus, 100 miles north
west of Formosa, are 20 miles off
the Chinese -mainland and guard
the approaches to Foochow.
The pullout, made without the
U.S. assistance which marked
evacuation of the Tachens, would
amount to a 60 - mile transfer
south, if the garrison did go to
the Matsus.
Nanchisan, 140 miles north of
Formosa and 23 miles off the Red
mainland, was the northern an
chor of Chiang Kai-Shek’s chain
of offshore island outposts.
The evacuation of Nanchisan
rolled the civil war front south
ward to the Matsu complex, 100
miles northwest of Formosa. Be
sides the Matsus, the Nationalists
now hold only. Quemoy Island
outside the U.S.-protected For
mosa defense zone, which in
cludes Formosa and thd nearby
Pescadores.
Lannen's Recount Cost $35
. Apiece For 7 Votes Gained
JUNEAU, Wi — An official re
port on the recount of the election
results for Territorial Labor Com
missioner was submitted to Gov
ernor Heintzleman yesterday and,
as reported unofficially earlier,
Henry Benson was the winner.
Benson picked up an extra
seven votes over H. J. Lannen, of
Cordova, Democratic candidate.
It makes Benson’s final lead 34
votes.
The cost of the recount was
S240, which means Lannen paid
about $35 for each of the seven
votes Benson gained. Lannen'had
posted $2,000 to cover the recount
costs.
Lannen commented that the of
ficial report ends the contest but
—in his own words—“you can
say we will be back to run ’em
out four years from now.”
Today Is “World
Day of Prayer’"
J V
By GEORGE W. CORNELL
NEW YORK, UP) — Today may
seem no different than the rest.
The same sounds and movements
in the streets, the same routines
in offices, homes and workshops.
But something special will be
going on.
It may be unseen, soundless
and hidden in men’s thoughts. Or
it may be whispered, or spoken
aloud before crowds. But what
ever the form, millions of people
around the earth today are mak
ing a great, concerted prayer.
“ ... In this troubled world,
may we not be frightened or dis
mayed, but have greater courage
and greater faith in Thy love and
power ...”
This is the “World Day of
Prayer” and Christians in nearly
every country—130 of them—and
in most towns and cities in the
United States—more than 20,000
of them—are joining in. .
At various hours of the day, in
various settings — in churches,
hospitals, colleges and factories—
groups will gather to bow their
heads, to kneel, to give voice to
the wordless, universal language.
The praying began at daybreak
in the Fiji and Tonga Islands,
just beyond the International
Dateline.
Started in 1887 by a small
group of Brooklyn women, the
movement has spread gradually
until now interdenominational
bodies in nearly every nation ob
serve the occasion on the same
date—the first Friday in Lent.
Just this year, church groups
in several additional areas—Is
rael, Czechoslovakia, Bali, Gib
raltar, New Britain, Okinawa,
Timor, Gambia, Papua and Togo
land—took up the custom.
Youth Rescued From
Airshaft 12 Hours After
12-Story Plunge
NEW YORK, (#>—Screaming in
pain, a 20-year-old youth was"
rescued today from a narrow air
shaft down which he had plunged
almost 12 stories 12 hours earlier.
The youth, who identified him
self as James Anderson, wedged
behind pipes in the tiny airshaft
—18 inches by five feet—follow
ing his plunge about 9 o’clock last
night.
He said a companion bent on
burglarizing the office and stor
age building had forced him at
gunpoint to jump through a sky
light atop the building, which
they had reached by way of fire
escapes.
But instead of landing on floor
underneath the skylight, he said,
he hurtled downward in black
space. Near the bottom he stuck
between some pipes and the air
shaft wall.
For hours no one heard his
cries.
Finally at dawn today a build
ing worker, heard Anderson’s
muffled plea for aid.
Emergency squadsmen went to
work with sledgehammers, axes
and chisels.
They broke through a wall near
enough for a doctor to give the
youth an injection to ease his
pain, before they worked him
free.
The found him wedged in a “U”
position. He apparently suffered
a broken arm, broken leg and
back injuries.
Constitutional
Amendment
For Statehood
WASHINGTON, (JB — Rep.
James C. Davis 'D-Gai has intro
duced a bill to provide that a
new state may be admitted only
by an amendment to the Consti
tution.
The legislation would require
that three-fourths of the states
ratify a proposal to add a new
state to the union.
“Under present law,” Davis
said in a statement, “it is possible
for a statehood bill, such as the
pending statehood bills for Ha
waii and Alaska, to come up for
action and be enacted into law
through a simple majority of
those present and voting . . . ”
The question of admitting new
states now involves some ques
tions which were not present in
the past, Davis said. He explained:
“Up to the present time, each
proposed new state has not only
been on the continent of North
America, but it has been adja
cent to the United States and
upon admission became a com
ponent part of the land area of
the United States, which up to
this time has been an entire, un
broken land area.
“It is extremely improbable
that we will have the opportun
ity to admit any new state which
would fill this description.”
When the present method of
admitting new state was adopted,
Davis said, “I think it can be said
with certainty that the framers
of the Constitution did not con
template the admission to state
hood of far distant land areas not
continguous to the main body, or
island areas far removed from
our continent.”
Davis said that the admission of
a new state would lessen the
voting power of the existing
states, and might well chart the
future course of the nation and
government.
j H-Bomb Scientist Says
The Bomb May Not Be
Ultimate In Achievement
BERKELEY, Calif., i£> — The
atomic scientist credited with
ramrodding development of the
H-bomb says it may not be the
ultimate in atomic energy
achievement—that there might be
a surprise in store.
Dr. Edward Teller, professor of
physics at the University of Cali
fornia, made the prediction in an
article written for the magazine
Science.
He wrote that the scientific
skill and teamwork which devel
oped the hydrogen “super” wea
pon should continue working in
new directions.
“The very size of our progress
has opened up other dangers,” he
said.
“Where the next steps will lead
I do not know. It is not likely that
it will be just bigger bombs again.
The world is full of surprises, and
great developments rarely go in
straight lines.”
He added “we shall fail if we
rest upon our accomplishments.”
NOVELIST EDNA FERBER
TO VISIT NOME NEXT WEEK
It has been repoi'ted that Edna
Ferber, well known author and
novelist is to visit Nome Monday,
coming from Fairbanks by way of
Kotzebue, and will remain for a
few days. Miss Ferber is making
a leisurely tour of the terrritory.
Highway Bill, Wolverine Bounties
And x4 Juvenile Delinquency Bill
Come Before The Alaska Legislature
V
H< >use Passes Bill
Boosting Congress
Salaries To
WASHINGTON, (#>—'The House
today approved without de
bate a compromise bill boosting
the pay of members of Congress
to $23,750 a year.
The House passed the bill by
unanimous consent after a clerk
had read the adjustments, worked
out by a Senate-Hoi^se committee,
between differing Senate and
House bills.
The committee split the differ
ence between $25,000 voted by
the House and $22,500. voted by
the Senate. The present pay is
$15,000.
The measure also carries pay
raises of $7,500 to $10,000 for fed
eral judges.
The increases are to take effect
next Tuesday.
The $23,750 finally agreed upon
actually will amount to somewhat
more than that for members o‘
Congress.
It is split into a $22,500 basic
salary and a $1,250 tax-free ex
pense fund. The tax exemption
feature means this allowance
actually is worth more than
$1,250. But this money may be
used only to meet “excess” office
expenses of the members, and
will be paid on itemized voucher.
The bill does not disturb a
$3,000 deduction for income tax
purposes which members now
claim for the extra cost of living
expenses in Washington.
Rocket Specialist Predicts
Passenger-Carrying
Missiles In 15 Years
AKRON, Ohio, (fl—'The Ger
man general who commanded the
Nazis’ rocket development center
at Peenemunde in World War II
last night predicted passenger
carrying rockets within the next
15 years.
Dr. Walter R. Dronberger, ad
dressing the Cleveland - Akron
section of the American Rocket
Society and Institute of Aero
nautical Sciences, said these
guided missiles would:
Travel as speeds up to 13,000
miles an hour.
Reach altitudes of up to 150,000
feet.
Transport passengers from San
Francsico to Sidney, Australia in
an hour and a half.
Dronberger is now a missile
specialist for the Bell Aircraft
Corp. of Buffalo.
He showed slides of plans for
a 90-foot-long rocket weighing
300 tons with a passenger-carry
ing pod mounted piggy-back. He
said one section would disengage
after its fuel was exhausted at
about 80,000 feet. The passenger
pod then would tap its own power
to ascend to 150,000 feet.
JOHN HOLTZMAN ASSIGNED
ANCHORAGE FBI CHIEF
SAN FRANCISCO, UPI — John
Holtzman, who came here from
Seattle last September, has been
assigned as special agent in
charge of the FBI office in An
chorage.
Joseph P. McMahon, now in the
Omaha FBI office, will replace
Holtzman as assistant agent in
charge of San Francisco.
;> By JIM HUTCHESON
JUNEAU, (#>—Rollcalls were
taken one after another in on<j of
the busiest days of the legislative
session yesterday and at the end,
this is how the scoreboard repd:
Senate: bills passed 12; killed 1.
House: bills passed 5, killed 2.
The legislation of greatest in
terest acted on was a million dol
lar road and highway bill, passed
in the Senate, and a bill approved
by the lower branch to crack
down on drivers who have had
more than one drunken driving
conviction. Both measures were
sent to the other branch.
In other actions, the House, by
one vote, killed a measure -to
create special legislative districts
in all parts of each judicial divi
sion, and refused to put an end
to the S15 bounty on wolverines.
The" bill to create the special
legislative districts came up for
the second straight day, on a
move for reconsideration, and the
motion to^ postpone it indefinite
ly carried by a 12-11 vote. It
was sponsored by Anchorage
members and was aimed, they
said, to put an end to all the
House members in a division *
coming from its big cities.
Wolverine Bounties
The bill to end the wolverine
bounties was killed in the House,
without reaching the floor for a
vote, after a committee recom
mended against it.
Rep. Charles Fagerstrom <D
Nome» argued the bounties are
very important to the Eskimo
people.
In reply, Rep. Ken Johnson (D
Anchorage), chairman of the
I House Ways and Means Commit
j tee, said they totaled only $5,000
and it would have to' be paid out
1 in relief to the Eskimos if they
could not earn the bounties.
“At least,” Johnson said, “They
have to put on snowshoes and go
out after it this way.”
Speaker Wendell Kay <D- An
fContinued on Page Two)
Cost of Living Index
Same As In December
WASHINGTON, Ut) — The gov
ernment reported today that liv
ing costs were unchanged in Jan
uary from December.
There were slight increases in
the cost of food and some other
items but these rises were bal
anced by drops in prices of cloth
and house furnishings during
January sales.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics
said its January index remained
at the December level of 114.3.
This is a fraction of one per cent
below January, 1954, a/id one per
cent under the October, 1953 liv
ing cost peak.
Dog Team Will Be
Available At USO For
Rides Next Sunday
Tourist rides by dog team will
be available Sunday afternoon if
the weather is favorabe.
Margaret Heller of the USO
Committee has arranged with
Milton Adams, well known dog
musher and winner of several
marathon races, to have his team
in front of the USO on Sunday
afternoon at 3:30 at which time
short rides will be given to those
persons who have never had the
opportunity and also for those
who want pictures takerr on a dog
i team.