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What's Going On At the Back Door ...
EVEN IF THAT RUSSIAN fellow, Khrushchev, IS
sticking his tongue out at us from across the
street, maybe we ought to look to see what’s going on
at the back door. Pennsylvania’s Representative
Daniel Flood, for many years a “one-man watchdog
committee” over the Panama Canal Treaty, blames
the Reds for the Panamanian effort to extend the inter
nationally recognized three-mile limit to twelve, thus
“Berlinizing the Panama Canal.”
“Those in charge of the Communist movement in
Latin America,” Representative Flood told the House,
“and especially in the Caribbean area, have undoubt
edy focused their conspiratorial activities on the
Panama Canal with the purpose of . . . complete liqui
dation of U. S. control over the canal itself.”
Even in this age of atoms and intercontinental
missiles and man-on-the-moon speculation-, our ships
and those of the free world must ply the seven seas if
this nation is to survive. As Mr. Flood has said:
“Panama could well be the Achilles’ Heel of our
defense system.”
Congress and our State Department should act
decisively — before we have a Suez mess of our very
own on the back stoop.
GOVERNOR FINISHING HIS
REVIEW OF ALASKA
REORGANIATION BILL
JUNEAU, IF — Acting Gover
• nor Hugh Wade said Monday he
lias just about completed his re
view of House Bill 114, the meas
ure organizing the state govern
ment into 12 executive depart
ments.
Wade has until Saturday to sign
the measure. He indicated he
might sign it Friday, the day be
fore the deadline.
YOUNGSTER HANGS SELF.
PLAYING 'PETER PAN'
DETROIT, (F — Roy Wond
land, 12, accidentally hanged him
self Monday, apparently while try
ing to imitate actress Mary
Martin’s flight through the air |
while suspended from a cable in
a television presentation of “Peter
Pan” Sunday.
Police said Roy had said he
could do the same thing with his
brother Raymond. 7.
EISENHOWER CANCELS
WEEKLY NEWS CONFERENCE
WASHINGTON, (J> — President
Eisenhower does not plan a news
conference this week because of
a busy schedule which includes a
speech Thursday to the opening
of the NATO ministers conference
and a foreign policy address Sat
urday at Gettysburg College.
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House Examines
30-Year, $50 Million
Bonding Program
JUNEAU, UR — A long-range
plan to obtain money to pay for
Alaska’s urgently-needed public
Improvements was before the
House for action yesterday.
The proposal, in a bill intro
duced by Representatives Helen
Fischer of Anchorage, and Rob
ert Giersdorf of Fairbanks, would
ask the voters in a special elec
tion next October to approve a 50
million-dollar, 30-year bonding
program, to finance such public
construction.
Under its terms, the Legislature
would be given the power to ob
ligate the state for major improve
ments, once the voters give their
approval.
The program would cover capi
tal improvements for 30 to 35
years, Mrs. Fischer said, and
would lift a burden from present
taxpayers. ,
Such a step is needed to take
advantage of federal funds of
fered this year, Giersdorf argued.
He said:
“We could develop a 12 million
dollar airport program and a 43V&
million dollar highway program
from matching federal funds this
year alone. The state would have
to put up 10 million of the com
bined 55million dollars. If we:
don’t take advantage of these
funds now, they will be lost for
ever.’’
Money raised by the bonding
program would finance schools,
university and state office build
ings, airport facilities, highways,
ferries and other capital improve
ments. Two years ago the Legis
lature approved Alaska's first
bonding programs.
Too Much Local Color . .
BALTIMORE, OP — The Post
Office display of three big colored
postage stamps turned out to be
too colorful.
The art department proudly
exhibited them in the main lobby.
They commemorated events in
Alaska, the Arctic and Oregon.
But the spotlight display Mon
day caught the eye of John H.
Hanly, head of the Secret Service
office here. He reminded postal
officials that federal regulations
prohibit colored illustrations of
postage stamps.
That cancelled the stamps,
which will be redone in black
and white.
HIGH BRIDGE PAINTER
RETIRES AT AGE 70
S/\N FRANCISCO, (jP — Peter
Bann, who worked 22 years on the
endless job of painting the Gol
den Gate Bridge, retires this week.
Crews of two dozen painters
swab all year to preserve the
bridge from wind, salt spray and
other weather wear.
Bann, still surefooted and men
tally sharp, has reached the re
tirement age, 70.
He painted on the George Wash
ington and Bear Mountain bridges
in New York and the Delaware
span-in Philadelphia before com
ing here.
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Eisenhower Signs Bill To j
Extend Jobless Pay
WASHINGTON, 1*1 — President j
Eisenhower signed into law yester-!
day the bill extending the tern- ■
porary federal unemployment |
compensation program to June 30. j
Congress sent the bill to the i
White House last week before:
taking off for an Easter vacation. ,
It is estimated to benefit about'
405,000 persons at a cost of 73 mil
lion dollars. •
The old law was due to expire
April 1.
Under the program, unemployed
workers may get as much as 13
extra weeks of unemployment
compensation.
The law provides for federal
loans to the states to increase the
duration of their payments by as
much as 50 per cent.
The length of payments vary
with individual states but some
pay 26 -weeks.
CONVERTED TRUCK • HOUSE
WILL CARRY N. Y. FAMILY
TO HOME IN NEW STATE
GOSHEN, N. Y., UH — The Sid
ney Wollcot family will leave
their home here May 15 for Alaska
in a house-on-wheels converted
from a one-ton truck.
They will establish a home in
Palmer, and the father plans to j
work at his machinist’s trade.
Wollcot will take along his wife
and their two children, Barbara,
6, and Frederick, 3.
None of the family has ever
been in Alaska.
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Alaska Civil Defense
Director Resigns
JUNEAU, UFi — Ed Fortier of
Anchorage, acting head of Alas*
ka’s civil defense agency, sub
mitted his resignation yesterday
apparently because of a dispute
over location of the agency’s
headquarters.
Fortier previously had declined
to move here to operate the pro
gram and the program has been
directed from Anchorage on an
acting basis.
Acting Governor Hugh Wade
said pending appointment of a
successor Fortier has agreed to
remain on the job until May 1.
The resignation came during an
investigation of the agency by the
Legislative Audit Committee, but
state officials said there was no
connection.
There has been no formal word
as to the nature of the investiga
tion, but Sen. John Coghill, chair
man of the committee, said they
involve only the procedures used
in assigning and accounting for
surplus property.
Coghill said there has been no
evidence of wrongdoing and that
the objectionable procedures be
gan long before Fortier took over
as head.
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