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Not Just a ‘Vacation Jaunt’
We believe that the visit of Glenn Emmons, com
missioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, to Alaska
from his Washington, D.C., headquarters is not just
another “vacation jaunt,” as many of these Washing
ton survey trips have proven to be in the past.
The commissioner appears to be earnestly inter
ested in the stepchild of the Bureau of Indian Affairs
known as the Alaska Native Service, which directs
the education and health and welfare of the Indians
and Eskimos of Alaska. He will gather first hand the
information showing wherein the Department of the
Interior has failed in its program, and on the brighter
side, will see what good the lords of Alaska have done.
It should not be hard for him to grasp the fact
that Mt. Edgecumbe is much too far from home for
young Eskimos of this area, as it breaks complete!v the
home ties and environment at an age when the home
is very important.
As has been recommended as far back as 30 years
age, before the White Mountain school was built, and
long before Mt. Edgecumbe was dreamed up, Nome
is the logical site for training the youth who com
plete their elementary schooling to the sixth grade in
their villages. Vocational training should be integrated
with the established Nome High School. Seventy-seven
percent of the students in Nome school now are of
Eskimo extraction and transportation costs to Nome
from outlying villages are comparatively reasonable.
The children would have much less adjustment to make
and those who are capable will then be prepared for
higher learning on an equal footing with other Ameri
can school children.
We could give many more reasons why this change
should be considered and the Chamber of Commerce
would be most willing to cooperate and prepare the
material if called upon to do so.
We take this opportunity to praise the good spade
work done by Area Director William Olson, in his
attempt to reorganize the Alaska Native Service
and its important activities in the territory ... to
make the end results what they should be — the
development of normal, well-adjusted citizens.
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Welcome to Gen. T. Alan Bennett
Nome welcomes General T. Alan Bennett, 11th Air
Division commander, and the military band to help
us celebration our Fourth of July observance. Probably
no other part of these United States appreciates free
dom more than Alaskans in this part of the territory
because of the proximity to unfriendly neighbors.
For the same reason we appreciate the strength
of the U.S. Air Force and the integrity of its officers
who keep a close vigilance in order that this freedom
may continue to exist.
The Declaration of Independence says that “all
men are endowed with certain inalienable rights” and
that “among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness.”
The world of 1955 is far removed from that of
1776 but, there is really little difference. Then, as now,
the liberty of man requires constant, courageous action
on the part of liberty-loving people, within and with
out our country.
Let us remember this July 4th to support the
ideals of freedom and pledge each other “our lives,
our fortunes and our sacred honor.”
Senate Group Chairman Believes
Times Writer Did Not Violate
Security in Story on Jets in Korea
WASHINGTON, (M— Sen. East-'j
land (D-Miss) says he accepts the
New York Times’ word no secur
ity violation was involved in its
publication of a story during the
Korean War that the U.S. Air
Force was using F-86 Sabre jets.
Sen. Eastland, chairman of the
Senate Internal Security subcom
mittee, said late Friday the group
never has made “any such charge”
| but that “I am glad to make this
statement in the interest of com
plete fairness.”
The story was written in 1950
by Charles Grutzner, a Times re
porter, who acknowledged at a
subcommittee public hearing on
Thursday that he had been a
Communist Party member from
1937 to 1940.
Grutzner was among a dozen
former employes of the now de
funct Brooklyn Eagle who were
named by CBS Newsman Winston
M. Burdetta as people he knew as
fellow Communists in 1937-1940.
Grutzner testified he became fed
up with Communism and quit just
before joining the Times staff.
Eastland indicated in his ques
tioning of Gurtzner he felt that
the story disclosing U.S. Sabre jet
planes were in action in Korea
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had been helpful to the Commu
nists, but the newsman and the
Times said the Pentagon had
cleared it for publication.
Eastland’s statement Friday said
the subcommittee has been in
formed by the Defense Depart
ment that it is “unable as yet to
state from its own records” wheth
er Grutzner’s story was cleared
for publication at the Pentagon.
However, Eastland said, the New
York Times has stated publicly its
records indicate that Austin Ste
vens of its Washington staff ob
tained clearance for the story
from Jack Shea, then a civilian
member of the Air Force press
desk.
The Times, in a dispatch from
its Washington bureau, said the
late Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg,
then Air Force chief of staff, had
been identified as the Pentagon
official who authorized publica
tion. The Times said Shea recalled
the chief of Air Force information
felt the clearance should come
from the highest level.
Norfolk, Portsmouth, Newport
News and Hampton are cities
grouped about the same harbor.
14-Year-Old Boy Falls 700
Feet In Yosemite Park
YOSEMITE, Calif., WV—Donald
Hugh Generoaux, 14, Stockton,
fell 700 feet to his death from
Lambert Dome in Yosemite Na
tional Park Friday.
Donald and his brother, James,
15, were climbing the tall granite
dome.
Donald slipped.
In the Roadstead
Four ships are in the roadstead
today. They include the U.S.N.
Requisite, U.S.C.G. Northwind,
U.S.C.G. Clover, and the North
Star of the ANS.
TWO ST. LOUIS TECHNICIANS
ARE AMONG TEN KILLED IN
CRASH ON SITKINAK ISLAND
ANCHORAGE, —T wo St.
Louis men were among the three
Western Electric Co. technicians
killed when an Air Force trans
port hit a peak on Sitkinak Island,
south of Kodiak Island, last Wed
nesday, killing the 10 aboard, a
Western Electric Co. spokesman
announced Friday night.
Also on the plane were four Air
Force personnel and three Army
men.
CENTENARIAN'S SNOOZE
THUNDERSLEY, England, (4*—
Mrs. Albina Campbell, who is 101
years old, fell into a ditch while
taking a shortcut through the
woods and lay helpless for 20
hours.
Found unhurt Saturday by a
police search party which hurried
her home to bed, she said:
“I just tipped my hat over my
eyes and took an afternoon nap.
Then I lost count of time.”
Middle age is when you’d rather
not have a good time than have
to get over it.
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