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BUT ISN’T OUR BIG PROBLEM, NIKITA
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Alaska Strategy Not Understandable
SEVERAL WEEKS AGO Gen. Frank Armstrong,
commander in chief of the Alaskan Command,
made a speech at Anchorage which eventually reached
the Pentagon, through the alertness of Sen. E. L.
Bartlett, that defenses in Alaska were not what they
should be.
Many feathers were ruffled and Defense Secre
tary McElroy, who visited Anchorage yesterday, in
dicated that Alaskans, should not be alarmed as this
state will receive the same degree of importance as
is given other parts of the Union as far as defense
is concerned.
Secretary McElroy will see the fine Air Force
bases placed strategically behind the mountain ranges;
the many planes on constant alert, the fine quarters
and accommodations for the cotnfort of the men who
serve their country.
We wish he had time to sit on St. Lawrence Is
land on Diomede Island and look across the narrow
expanse of water to the coast of Siberia and feel how
close it is and then turn around and see how far away
the air bases really are.
If 12,000 Americans in the coastal area were
afraid for themselves, they woud pack up and move.
Their criticism is'motivated by simple facts. Ameri
can defenses are handicapped by being farther from
the target than the opposing team. A recent Congres
sional Record states that there are 26 bases on the
Siberian coast. In this day of supersonic planes, mis
siles and new developments almost daily in the field
of weapons, the strategy of deliberately being a step
behind is not understandable in any language.
These coastal defenses are no more important
for residents of the area tlhan for the rest of the
nation. Only those on the spot can see and feel the
need of equalizing the condition and meet strength j
with strength as soon as possible, as expressed by
General Armstrong.j
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Higher Interest
Permitted on U.S.
Savings Bonds
WASHINGTON, UP>— President
Eisenhower Tuesday signed a bill
permitting higher interest pay
ments on government savings
bonds. Simultaneously he ap
proved Treasury plans to raise
the rate by one-half per cent.
The limited authority to in
crease the return on the “E” and
“H” issues was as far as Con
gress would go toward meeting
Eisenhower’s insistent request for
complete removal of the ceiling—
now 414 per cent—on all long
term* government issues.
In signing the bill Eisenhower
said:
“In approving the recommend
ations of the Secretary of the
Treasury for a rate of 33A per
cent, I stated:
“ ‘To my mind there is no bet
ter way of saving, no more ef
fective way of strengthening our
power for peace, than to own
United States savings bonds.’
“To buy these bonds is to ex
press faith in America.”
The President has already made
it emphatically clear that he will j
try again when Congress comes j
back in January. Even as he made
ready to sign the bobtailed bill, j
Eisenhower told his news confer
ence Sept. 17 that he hopes the
new session will “feel the heat of
truth” and pass his proposal. He
called the refusal to do it this
year “one of the most serious
things that has happened to the
United States in my time.”
The administration contention
is that the limit on interest rates
puts the government out of com
petition with long term »borrow
ers who will pay more, and forces
the Treasury into inflationary
short-term financing.
Defense Secty. McEroy
Says He May Resign
At End of the Year
ANCHORAGE, CP) — Secretary
of Defense McElroy, off on a 28
day tour of U.S. installations in
the Far East, says he may resign
by the end of the year.
In a planeside interview during
a brief stop here Monday, McEl
roy was asked about his plans to
leave government service. He has
said in the past he would like to
return to private life.
He told newsmen he feels he
can’t Quit until he has submitted
his department’s budget for the
next fiscal year. He added that
it might be possible for him to
step down in Deecember, barring !
a national emergency.
The Defense Secretary also said j
he is “very hopeful something can j
happen” as a result of Soviet j
Premier Khrushchev’s disarma- j
ment proposal. He added, how- :
ever, that he hopes it will not
lead to another “false disarma
ment such as that after the lastr
war.”
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Iowa Farmer to
Talk ‘Turkey”
To Khrushchev
By RELMAN MORIN
COON RAPIDS, Iowa, iA*» —
Iowa fanner Roswell Garst is
I ready to give Nikita Khrushchev
some tips on how to produce more
! food in the Soviet Union.
But his larger purpose, Garst
; said, is to help with the task of
“selling Khrushchev on an arms
inspection plan to get rid of the
burden of armaments.”
Garst is a hybrid corn expert,
livestock raiser, farmer, banker
and proprietor of a general store
in Coon Rapids—population 1,700
—some 65 miles northwest of Des
Moines. He met Khrushchev dur
ing his several trips to the Soviet
Union and he was a guest in
Khrushchev’s home on the Black
Sea last spring.
“You might say I’m constitu
tionally opposed to hunger,”
Garst said. “I think a hungry man
is a dangerous man and a hun
gry nation is a dangerous nation.”
“Khrushchev’s primary inter
est is to find out why 12 per cent
of the people in the United States
can produce enough food for the
100 per cent, and with a diet high
in the meat type of human pro
tein — and why it takes 50 per
cent of the people in the Soviet
Union to produce a diet substan
tially lower in the meat type of
protein.
“He is interested in finding out
how to produce a better and bet
ter diet with less and less people.
This is what I basically intend
to help him discover.”
Garst said a good American
salesman ought to find it rela
tively easy to sell Khrushchev on
an arms inspection plan.
Garst if known in these parts
as a capable salesman. He said
he “has a few ideas” on subjects
other than corn and cattle and
hopes to have the opportunity to
mention them to Khrushchev.
ORDINANCE No. 399
AN ORDINANCE of the City of
Nome, Alaska, to prohibit ve
hicles or objects which shall
have wheels, tires, or tracks
equipped with spikes, cleats or !
lugs or other attachments or
projections, from operating on,
across, or itsing any permanent
ly surfaced, blacktopped, or
concrete street within the City
of Nome, providing a penalty,
and setting an effective dale.
BE IT ORDAINED and enacted
by the Common Council of the
City of Nome, Alaska, as fol-»
lows:
That the Code of Ordinances of
Nome, Alaska, is hereby amended
by adding a section, to be num
bered 18-35, which said section
reads as follows:
Sec. 18 - 35. Projections on
wheels or tracks prohibited upon
permanently surfaced, paved,
blacktopped or concrete streets.
Penalty.
No person shall drive, pull or
propel any vehicle or object upon
any permanently surfaced, paved,
blacktopped or concrete street or
highway in the City of Nome,
which shall have any wheel, tire,
or track equipped with spikes,
cleats or lugs, or other attach
ments or projections, except tire
chains.
Any person violating this sec
tion shall be punished as provided
in Section 1-8 of this Code.
This ordinance shall be in full
force and effect immediately upon
its passage by the Common Coun
cil and approval of the Mayor.
Passed this 15th day of Sep
tember, 1959, by the Common
Council of the City of Nome, Al
aska, at Special session assembled.
s/ Steffen Andersen,
Attest Mayor
s/ Robert F. Scott,
112 City Clerk
Polaris Sub Missile
Fired Successfully
CAPE CANAVERAL, tW — An
i other successful firing of a Pol
i aris missile has moved the United
States nearer it^ goal of nuclear
firepower for submarines.
Monday’s launching came short
ly after Soviet Premier Nikita
Khrushchev said in San Frant
cisco that the Soviet Union is
scrapping most of its cruisers in
favor of /submarines and torpedo
boats.
Some of the submarines being
built presumably are atomic
powered craft capable of firing
ballistic missiles. U. S. officials
believe the Soviets are building
about 12 atomic subs. But most
feel they are behind this coun
try in the development of sub
marine - launched ballistic mis
siles.
The United States has nine
nuclear subs under construction.
Each will carry 16 nuclear-tip
ped Polaris missiles, probably by
late next year. The Polaris will
have a range of 1,200 miles.
Japanese Are Best
Fishermen In the World
VICTORIA, B. C., liP —Former
Canadian Fisheries Minister N.
Sinclair believes Japanese are the
best fishermen in the world.
The head of the British Colum
bia Fisheries Assn, said in an ad
dress last night that while British
Columbia fishermen ply their
trade mainly by instinct and prac
tical experience, the Japanese use
electronic computers to find fish.
Also, in British Columbia, men
become fishermen simply by
going to sea in a boat, but the
Japanese go to a fishing school,
he said.
Success of the Japanese meth
ods is shown, he said, by the fact
that they now catch twice the
tonnage of fish of any other na
tion.
Seattle Tax Office
Collects $134,245
The State Department of Rev
enue reports that its new Seattle
branch office has accounted for
$135,245 in tax collections since
it opened two months ago.
Peter Gatz, commissioner of
revenue, estimated that as much
as $35,000 was collected in assess
ments that might have been lost
without operation of the office.
The $35,000 sum, Ga!z said,
largely represented delinquent in
come tax payments.
Gatz said about 6,000 taxpayers
in Washington State file Alaska
returns — about one-tenth of the
total number of returns handled
by the Alaska department. About
3,500 Seattle residents file returns
on earnings in Alaska.
The state’s Seattle tax office is
managed by Edward A. Patton, a
former deputy territorial tax
commissioner.
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