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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
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ALASKA AND HA WAD MEMBERS OF CONGRESS
DIG DEEP TO SPEED MAIL HEADED FOR HOME
WASHINGTON, W — It takes a
good-sized bite out of their pocket
books for members of Congress
from far-off Hawaii and Alaska
to keep in fairly fast touch by
mail with the folk back home.
Aides of the four Senators and
two Representatives said the Con
gressional mail allowances don’t
stretch far enough to cover all
their mailing expenses and the gap
is made up out of their pockets.
This is despite a Post Office De
artment policy started last month
of carrying first class mail to the
two new states by air on a space
available basis*
The “space-availoble” provision
is the catch. When there’s doubt
about time, the Hawaii and Alas
ka members use air mail stamps.
Congress members are entitled to
send mail postage free under a
franking privilege, but this privi
lege applies only to first class —
or lesser — mail, not to air mail.
An aide to Sen. Gruening said
his annual stamp allowance of
$450 lasts about three months.
“After that the senator has had
to pay about $1,500 a year from
his own pocket,” the aide added.
iRep. Ralph Rivers is finding the
new air lift policy helpful, saying
first class mail now takes from
three to four days to get to Alaska.
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The office of Sen. Bob Bartlett |
said he has “always spent a lot
of money of his own for air mail
and we expect this will continue.”
“We've had pretty good results
with space-available air mail,”
said a spokesman for Sen. Oren
Long (D-iHawaii), “but we feel
there’s a risk and if there’s any
doubt at all about time, we use
air mail stamps.”
Rep. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii)
said hes used up his $400 mail
allowance and now is spending
$100 a month out of his own sal
wise my constituents would get
ary for airmail stamps — “other
very poor mail service.”
The franked, or free, mail, a
privilege extended to all members
of Congress, takes 12 to 20 days
to reach Hawaii, he said, and
there is more delay getting it
distributed among the islands.
Birth Control Pill Gets
Approval of Food
And Drug Administration
WASHINGTON, UFi — For the
first time, the Food and Drug Ad
ministration has approved a pill
as safe for contraceptive or birth
control use.
“Approval was based on the
question of safety,” associate
commissioner John L. Harvey said
this week. “We had no choice as
to the morality that might be
involved.”
The pill which has been ap
proved as safe for contraceptive
use is called Envoid. It is made
by G. D. Searle and Co., Chicago.
Under the clearance granted by
FDA, it may be used only on
doctor’s prescription.
The drug has been on the mar
ket for several years but the pre
vious clearance specified it was to
be recommended only for treat
ment of female disorders.
John Troan, science writer for
the Scripps-Howard Newspapers,
wrote in an article that to avoid
pregnancy, a woman must take a
tablet daily for 20 days each
month. He added that at a retail
price of 54 cents each, a month’s
supply of Envoid thus costs $10.80.
Khrushchev May
Be Dodging Russ
Defense Loophole
By JAMES MARLOW
Associated Press News Analyst
WASHINGTON, UR — The State
Department lied about the Amer
ican spy-plane which Premier
Khrushchev says was shot down
over the Soviet Union. But maybe
he was lying when he said it was
shot down at all.
He said the plane was hit by a
Soviet rocket at 63,000 feet but
that the American pilot, Francis
G. Powers, parachuted to safety.
That brings up question No. 1:
How could the pilot have es
caped at all if a rocket hit his
plane?
Khrushchev said the plane car
ried various equipment for aerial
spying, such as cameras, instru
ments for spotting radar networks,
and other special engineering de
vices.
He said the Soviets now have
tht plane’s equipment. He said
they have something else, too: the
film used by Powers to photograph
Soviet territory, such as airfields.
The Soviets, Khrushchev said, de
veloped this film.
And he produced photographs
to prove it. He also produced pho
tographs of what he said was the
wreckage of the spy-plane on the
ground. But that plane — or ra
ther, the wreckage — had been
almost destroyed by fire.
So that produces question No.
2: If that was truly the spy-plane,
how could the Soviets have pulled
out of that burning wreckage not
only the films but. the special
equipment Khrushchev said the
plane had?
In this country the American
designer of the plane, C. L. John
son, spent many hours looking at
copies of the photograph which
Khrushchev said showed the spy
plane wreckage.
Then Johnson said he was con
vinced it was not the spy-plane at
all but some other plane. To back
up his statement he went into
detail about parts of the plane still
visible after the fire and said they
were not parts of the plane he
designed.
And Tuesday in Congress Rep.
Clarence Cannon (D-Mo) said the
spy-plane had not been shot down
but was forced down by “some un
foreseen and unavoidable mechan
ical or physiological defect.”
Just how Cannon knew what he
was talking about isn’t clear,
either. But he is chairman of the
House Appropriations Committee,
which approves money for such
activities as spying.
One thing stands out here: By
Khrushchev’s own admission the
plane had penetrated more than
1,200 miles into Soviet territory
before it wnt down. That doesn’t
make the Soviet defenses look
good.
Khrushchev boasts of Soviet
might. It would have been em
barrassing for him to admit an
American plane got 1,200 miles
into the Soviet Union and was dis
covered only after it came down
by itself because of a mechanical
defect.
Swiss Expel Soviet Spies
BERN, Switzerland, WPI — Neu
tral Switzerland expelled two So
viet diplomats this week as spies.
The two were seized in Zurich
as they went to a rendezvous with
a double agent from whom they
expected to buy top-secret infor
mation on Swiss defense plans and
on missile launching bases in
West Germany. The Soviets
thought the agent was spying for
the Soviets.
The launching sites were be
lieved to include the U. S. Air
Force’s big intermediate range
ballistic missile base at Sembach,
near Kaiser-Slautern, and smaller
U. S. Air Firce bases in the south
ern part of West Germany.
Eisenhower Notes Gains in
Production, Employment
WASHINGTON, UP — President
Eisenhower Wednesday announced
that the nation’s economy has
passed the half-trillion-dollar
mark for the first time in history.
The President also disclosed that
employment last month scored the
biggest April gain since World
War II.
Reading from notes, Eisenhower
took advantage of a question
about housing legislation to dis
cuss the economic picture which
has been causing puzzlement and
concern in many quarters since
the first of the year.
Eisenhower said employment in
creased by 1,900,000 in April to
66,200,000.
Eisenhower’s disclosure of the
favorable employment report, it
was learned on reliable authority,
was pushed up a day to give the
President something good to an
nounce amid all the criticism of
the handling of the American spy
flight over Russia.
SUPERIOR COURT
FOR THE STATE OF ALASKA
SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF
THORE OELSON. Deceased.
NO. 809
NOTICE OF HEARING OF ADMINIS
TRATOR'S FIRST AND FINAL AC
COUNT AND REPORT. AND PETITION
FOR FINAL DISTRIBUTION AND
DISCHARGE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
Raymond H. Tveter, administrator of the
estate of Thore Oelson, deceased, has
this day filed in the Court his First and
Final Account and Report, and Petition
for Final Distribution and Discharge in
the above entitled estate, and that the
Court has designated Monday, the 27th
day of June, 1960, at the hour of 10
o’clock A.M., as the time, and the Court
Room at Nome, Alaska, as the place,
where said acount, report and petition
will be heard; and all persons interested
in said estate are hereby required to
file their objections to said report, ac
count and petition, if any they have, in
writing, on or before said day, in the
court, and to appear at the time and
place aforesaid and present their ob
jections; and at the said hearing, the
Court will determine what persons are
to take the estate under the laws of
the State of Alaska.
DATED at Nome, Alaska, this 27th
day of April, 1960.
HUBERT A. GILBERT,
Superior Court Judge.
Publish April 29, May 6, 13, 20, 1960.
Northwest Orient Plans
Jets on Tokyo Run
S$ATTLE, UP) — Northwest
Orient Airlines will begin DC-8
jet transport service on its runs
from New York and Seattle to
Tokyo July 8, the line announced
this week.
The first service will include
two transpacific flights a week,
with one-stop Tokyo service from
both Seattle and New York. Both
flights will be routed by way of
Anchorage.
Allied Comrriander Suffers
Mild Heart Seizure
PARIS, UP) — Gen. Lauris Nor
stad, Supreme Allied Commander
in Europe, suffered a slight heart
attack while playing golf in Ger
many last Sunday, his headquar
ters announced yesterday.
Norstad was rushed to an Amer
ican Army hospital in Munich.
The announcement from Supreme
Headquarters Allied Powers in
Europe (SHAPE) said Gen. Nor
stad, 53, would remain in the hos
pital about two weeks.
NOTICE
Section 12-4. Code of Ordinances,
City of Nome.
No person shall permit, or suf
fer to accumulate, in or upon any
yard, lot, place or premise, or
upon any street or sidewalk adja
cent to, or abutting upon any lot,
block, place or premises owned
or occupied by him or for which
he may be the agent, within the
City Limits, any stagnant or im
pure water, refuse vegetables, de
cayed or decaying substances,
garbage, swill, offal, fecal matter,
urine or filth of any kind, nor
suffer such yard, lot, place or
premise to be or remain in such
condition as to cause or create a
noisome or offensive smell or at
mosphere, or thereby to be, be
come. cause or create a public
nuisance.
—Health Committee,
Nome Common Council.
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