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WHO’D HAVE BELIEVED IT!
SHANGRI-LA—SOUTH DAKOTA STYLE
South Dakota is a debt free state. In addition, after
paying about $10 million in veterans’ bonuses it recent
ly was able to reduce taxes.
The Lennox, S.D., Independent, says, “While the
nation and virtually all other states have expanded
their public debts, South Dakota has been reducing its
obligations. An extra tax, such as the sales tax to pay
the bonus, nearly always is retaned. But not in South
Dakota.”
Officials of the other states and the territories
should “go to school” in South Dakota and learn how
this splendid achievement was made possible.
Kefauver Attacks
GOP Team of
“Ike ami Dick”
By the Associatf.d Press
Sen. Estes Kefauver has opened
a frontal attack on what he calls
“the team if Ike and Dick”—just
<a day after Vice President Nixon
announced his willingness to run
again on the Eisenhower ticket.
Campaigning in Washington
State, Kefauver told a Democratic
dinner at Spokane, Friday night:
“I don’t think that a man or
woman in this great Northwest
who really cares for the future
development of this area will risk
voting Republican.”
The Tennessee senator, oppos
ing Adlai Stevenson for the Demo
cratic presidential nomination,
predicted the Republicans will
“try to sell” President Eisenhower
and Nixon with what Kefauver
described as “the most over
whelming mass of propaganda
ever let loose on the American l
people.”
The GOP national ticket was
virtually sealed Thursday when
Nixon made known his second
term intentions. Eisenhower wel
comed Nixon’s d icision.
In Chicago, James A. Finnegan,
Stevenson’s campaign manager,
looked back over the results of
last Tuesday’s primaries in Penn
sylvania, Massachusetts and Al
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Scotland Yard Nips Plot
To Assassinate B and K
During Visit to England
LONDON, GO — A government
source said Saturday two anti
communist underground groups
had plotted to assassinate Nikolai
Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev
during the visit to Soviet leaders
to Britain.
Both Scotland Yard and the
Foreign Office were tipped off,
the source added. He said agents
had identified the plotters as
“emigres.”
Two British newspapers said
the vigilance of Scotland Yard
had blocked the plot. There were
no major incidents during the
visit of the Soviet chiefs.
The infant child of Mr. and
Mrs. Kay Handeland, bom this
morning, passed away shortly
after birth.
aska. Then he declared they
“show that Gov. Stevenson’s sup
port has increased since 1952
while that of both President
Eisenhower and Sen. Kefauver
has declined.”
This was the latest in a series
of conflicting analysis of the var
ious primary outcomes. All the
camps, Eisenhower, Kefauver and
Stevenson — have interpreted the
vote totals and percentages as
favorable to them.
I
Heintzleman Says
Tax Incentives
Could Stimulate
Boom In Mining
SEATTLE, UP)—Gov. B. Frank
Heintzleman said here Friday the
federal government can stimulate
a new mining boom in Alaska by
providing tax incentives to com
panies now’ ready to start explor
ation activities.
Gov. Heintzleman spoke before
the 191st Pacific Northwest Pur
chasing Agents Conference.
“I am confident that most of
the large mining concerns of the
U.S. would immediately start very
intensive mineral investigations
in Alaska if given attractive fed
eral tax incentives on Alaska op
erations for 10 or 15 years,” he
told conference delegates.
The territorial governor also
stressed the need for many fed
eral lands available for commer
cial exploitation, pointing out 99
per cent of Alaska is federally
owned.
Of equal importance to Alaska’s
future, Governor Heintzleman
said, is construction of a new
highway just east of the British
Columbia coast to interior Alaska.
This, and the building of a rail
road north from Prince George,
B.C., to Fairbanks, would provide
a more economical link between
the Pacific Northwest and Alaska,
he said.
Despite transportation diffi
culties, he said, Alaska is show
ing new signs of industrial
growth. Two new pulp mills, rep
resenting an investment of 100
million dollars, are planned for
southeast Alaska. Major oil com
panies have expressed optimism
over possibilities of important oil
and gas discoveries. Equally pro
mising is the development of iron
deposits as well as those of ura
nium, tin, mercury, tungsten and
chrome, he said.
Complete Electric Power
Plant Enroute To The
Galena Air Force Base
SEATTLE, Ofl — A complete
electric-power plant for the Gal
ena Air Force Base in Alaska is
enroute to Seward aboard the
Steamship Nadina.
Two 15-ton 300-kilowat diesel
electric generators were amonf
the 50 tons of equipment loaded
aboard the Alaska Steamship Co,
ship here.
The equipment will be trans
ferred to the Alaska Railroad at
Seward and taken to Nenana.
There it will be taken over by
the Yutana Barge Lines to be
floated down the Nenana and
Yukon rivers to Galena.
Japan Counts Prostitutes
TOKYO, GfV^Japan has 140,800
women relying on prostitution for
a living, the government’s Wom
en’s and Minors Bureau estimated
today. Fifteen thousand live in
Yokohama and vicinity; Tokyo
has 9,500 and Osaka 6,000, the
report said.
Cherry's
Barber Shop
Two Barbers
No Waiting
Shower Bath
Smoke Shop
Everything in
the tobacco line
Arcade - Games
Alaska Excluded
From Federal
Highway Program
WASHINGTON, iJPi—Failure to
include Alaska within the Federal
Aid to Highways program is hold
ing back development of the ter
ritory, in the opinion of Delegate
Bartlett.
“Simple justice demands Alaska
no longer be excluded from laws
which apply elsewhere,” he said
in remarks printed in Saturday’s
Congressional Record.
The Highway Bill, passed by
Congress Friday, extends federal
road-building aid to all 48 states,
Hawaii and Puerto Rico. It does
not include Alaska. Apropriations
are made direct by Congress to
Alaska.
Bartlett described the congres
sional appropriation procedure,
however, as a “hit and miss pol
icy” which makes long range
highway planning impossible be
cause of fluctuations in the size
of appropriations.
Though Alaska will not bene
fit from the highway bill, Bartlett
noted that taxing provisions ap
proved to finance the program
will apply to the territory.
In this connection, he called at
tention to the recent acquittal of
a defendant in Fairbanks court on
charges of wilful failure to file
an income tax report. The prin
cipal defense was a plea against
“taxation without representation.”
He told the House he hoped the
Senate will approve inclusion of
Alaska in the bill.
38-Year-Old Aniak Father
Of Eight Charged With
Peath of Young Daughter
FAIRBANKS, (/PI —A 38-year
old father was charged Saturday
with kicking and beating his re
tarded 11-year-old daughter to
death when she failed to follow
his order.
The father, George E. Hoffman
of Aniak, 425 miles west of Fair
banks, is charged with second de
gree murder. His daughter died
April 6.
The complaint filed by U. S.
District Attorney Ted Stevens
said Hoffman, father of eight chil
dren, beat the youngster with a
heavy stick and kicked her into
a wall, inflicting fatal injuries.
Hoffman is being held in the
federal jail here. The family lived
in a small frame structure at
the junction of the Kuskokwim
and Aniak rivers.
The longest railroad bridge in
the world is the 12-mile trestle
over the Great Salt Lake, Utah.
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