Eisenhower in Economic Message Says
Credit Controls Should Be Restored
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Barde” Recommends Tennessee Plan:
Alaska Would Elect, Send to Congress
Two Senators and One Representative
By E. L. (Bob) BARTLETT *
WASHINGTON, Jan 20—Many
times during the last several
months I have been asked to give
my opinion as to whether Alaska
should adopt the so-called Ten
nessee Plan in an effort to pro
mote the cause of statehood.
My reluctance to state that
opinion until this time has been
based upon a number of reasons.
Chiefly, perhaps, I desired to
make at least a preliminary esti- '
mate of statehood attitudes in the
Second Session of the 84th Con
gress in conjunction with the
President’s 1656 State of the Un
ion message.
Further, I wanted additional
time to make a reasonable evalu
ation of the Tennessee Plan’s
chances of success in the mid-20th
century, remembering that many,
many years have gone by since it
was last used. Whether or not it
can be translated to these times
with equal effectiveness is of
course that which only the future
will definitively disclose.
A more positive statement can |
be made as to the probabilities of
attaining statehood now by the
traditional approaches. Those
prospects are bleak. No hopeful
‘ sign has presented itself from
any source since this session of
Congress began earlier in the
month and he would be an opti
mist indeed who would predict
favorable action soon.
So the cause of statehood is not
advancing now. Indeed, there are
those who suggest that interest is
tending to decrease rather than
increase and that unless a stimu
lating factor is added Alaskans
may have to wait long before
coming into the day when state
hood is attained.
The Tennessee Plan could pro
vide that stimulating factor.
Its impact could jar the nation
and the Congress from lethargy.
The election and sending to Wash
ington of two United States sena
tors and a representative in the
House might provide the fulcrum
needed to jar statehood from dead
center or, to use another meta
phor, might be the instrument to
remove the key log creating the
jam.
After talking with many mem
bers of Congress, after making a
very careful analysis of the situa
tion in general, I am convinced
that if Alaska were to adopt the
Tennessee Plan practically all
statehood supporters in Washing
ton would welcome this active
demonstration of Alaska's deter
mination to win a rightful place
in the Union of States; and what
ever resen'ment at this bold but
certainly not unique approach
which might be felt, or expressed,
would be far more than out
weighed by the benefits.
In summation, I am bound in
oandor to state that without the
Tennessee Plan a combination of
circumstances, not at this time to
be readily foreseen, will be need
ed to bring statehood soon.
If the Tennessee Plan is adopt
ed it might well shorten the long
mad to statehood. I can see dis
tinct possibility of gain; I see only
remote possibilities of loss.
The Tennessee Plan has ele
ments of the daring and the imag
inative attractive to the people of
a frontier land as has been made
apparent to me be the many ex
pressions of support from Alas
kans for the proposal.
It is my understanding that the
Tennessee Plan is before the Con
stitutional Convention now in
session at the University of Alas
ka. If adopted there, it will be
presented to Alaska voters for
final determination in April.
As one who through the years
has had an abiding conviction that
statehood more than any other
one thing is essential for Alaska
for its own sake and for the sake
of the nation, I am bound to sup
port any just and reasonable and
American way to hasten state
hood’s coming. The Tennessee
Plan is such a way.
With the above statement of my
own position, I desire to add that
if the Constitutional Convention
and the voters in April decide to
try the Tennessee Plan it will
have my continuing support.
HIS FIRST THOUGHT IN TIME OF CRISIS
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Kefauver Asks
Thoro Review
Of U.S. Defense
WASHINGTON, UFI— Sen. Ke
fauver (D-Tenn) called Tuesday
for a “thorough review of the en
tire defense establishment” in the
light of new charges by General
Matthew B. Ridgway.
Ridgway wrote in a second Sat- j
urday Evening Post article just
released that thei'e was a tenden
cy during his tour as Army chief
of staff “of civilian secretaries
making military decisions on a
basis of political expediency . . .”
The retired officer said this “con
stitutes a danger to this country.”
In his first article last week,
Ridgway touched off controversy
by writing he had opposed plans
to cut Army manpower in 1954-55
and had been pressured to trim
his views to what he termed a
“politico-military” line.
But Secretary of Defense Wil
son and Adm. Arthur W. Radford,
chairman of the joint chiefs, said
that as they recalled it, members
of the nation’s top military group
were unanimous on the question
of planned Army cuts. Wilson al
so denied ever having tried to
pressure Ridgway.
A House appropriations sub
committee started yesterday a
three-month study of the “new
look” defense program. Wilson
was summoned for opening testi
mony behind closed doors.
Speaking out in advance of the
secret hearings on the new $35V£
billion military budget, subcom
mittee Chairman Mahon <D-Tex>
said Monday he was “disturbed
about the over-all direction of the
entire defense program.”
Mahon voiced concern over
whether the U. S. is “keeping
ahead of the Soviets" in such
fields as development of the
“deadly” intercontinental ballis
tics missile. He said he wanted to
know why the Defense Depart
ment asked for 800 fewer planes
next year than Congress approved
for this bookkeeping year which
ends June 30.
Sky Pilot News
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A new squadron of Sky Pilots
was installed at the Covenant
Church last Saturday morning at
10:30 a.m. Job Kokochuruk is the
captain of Squadron 2, and Don
Bruckner, the chaplain.
Four flights have already been
organized in this new squadron.
Major Glenn Dean looks forward
to more squadrons being formed
in other parts of this division this
spring.
Squadron 1 meets at the Nome
Gospel Home on Monday nights,
and some of the boys are already
working on their large gas mod
els. Some of these boys are al
ready going up for the sergeant
rank of bombardier. Require
ments for this rank include faith
ful attendance at church services,
and reading, understanding and
memorizing portions of scripture.
Boot camp, private and corporal
ranks also have many interesting
and varied activities for the boys.
Beware Noisy Popcorn Munchers
PASADENA, Calif., liP—A jury
deliberated three hours and failed
to agree on a verdict in the case
of a nearby San Gabriel man
charged with using a gun to
threaten three noisy popcorn
munchers in a theater Dec. 11.
Judge Sprankle dismissed the
charge after Davie M. Gordon, 42,
agreed to surrender his gun per
mit and not apply for a new one
for the next three years.
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By STERLING F. GREEN «
WASHINGTON, (tf>—President
Eisenhower Tuesday proposed a
restoration of standby controls
over consumer credit, although he
told Congress the country’s boom
ing economy now is advancing at
a “tamer” gait.
The President’s annual eco
nomic report said the United
States stands “at the threshold of
a $400 billion economy” after a
year of spectacular growth.
“The underlying trend still ap
pears to be upward,” he reported.
The message asserted anew, in
stronger terms than previously,
Eisenhower’s contention that “an
early reduction of taxes cannot be
justified.” Economic self disci
pline, he said, requires national
debt reduction first. The debt now
stands at nearly $280 billion.
The message also contained a
long list of recommended legisla
tion, starting with what Eisen
hower called the “first and most
pressing” job—enactment of a
farm relief bill along lines of his
soil bank proposal.
The President also called for:
1. More liberal home repair and
improvement loans. Five-year re
pair loans could be federally in
sured. The limit is now three
years.
2. Loans, grants and technical
help to bring industry into chron
ically depressed areas. The loans
would be made on a partnership
basis with state and local govern
ments.
3. A six-point anti-trust pro
gram to give new teeth to laws
curbing corporation and bank
mergers considered likely to stifle
competition.
4. Fresh appeals for quick pas
sage of such proposals as the 10
year highway improvement pro
gram; the five-year school con
struction plan; federal reinsur
ance and direct federal-state in
demnities for flood victims; and
U.S. adherence to the multi-nation
Organization for Trade Coopera
tion (OTC>.
But the big surprise in a 238
page printed message was Eisen
hower’s suggestion that Congress
consider re-enacting the federal
reserve board’s authority to regu
late down payments and repay
ment terms on purchases of autos,
appliances and other consumer
items.
Eisenhower said “experience of
the recent past” indicates that
authority “would be a useful ad
junct” to other anti-inflationary
weapons. By recent experience,
Eisenhower presumably meant
the $6 billion increase in consum
er debt last year—a 10-fold rise
over 1954.
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Red China Asks Meeting
Of Foreign Ministers
To Settle Formosa Dispute
GENEVA, W—Communist Chi
na said Tuesday the dispute over
Formosa could be settled only at
a meeting between Secretary of
State John Foster Dulles and
Chinese Foreign Minister Chou
En-lai.
Red Chinese Ambassador Wang
Ping-nan, in another press state
ment concerning his five-month
old negotiations with U.S. Ambas
sador Alexis U. Johnson, charged
the U.S. with deliberately drag
ging out the talks. He declared:
"The Chinese-American ambas
sadorial talks have proved to be
incapable of settling such a major
substantive question as the relax
ation and elimination of tension
in the Taiwan (Formosa) area.
The Chinese side holds that a
Chinese-American conference of
the foreign ministers must be
held, as this is the practical and
feasible means for settling this
question.”
Wang repeated his claim that
Formosa is a part of China, that
the mutual assistance treaty be
tween the U.S. and Nationalist
China was illegal, and relations
between Communist and Nation
alist China were entirely China’s
internal affair.
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