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| McKay Defends Interior Policy,
Protests Opponents’ ‘Propaganda’
AEC Announces Six*h
Atom Explosion by Reds
WASHINGTON, </F — The
Atomic Energy Commission an
nounced last night a sixth atomic
explosion by Soviet Russia in the
last eight months.
A Russian test series, which in
cluded one large hydrogen blast,
got under way last summer. Three
smaller explosions were detected
in August and two more have
been reported by the AEC this
spring.
There was no word from the
AEC on the size of the latest blast.
BRIDE BITTEN BY BEE
OUNDLE, England, UPV—Pretty
Margaret Collins hit a new high
in nervousness for brides, and
small wonder. All through the
ceremony at St. Wilfred s Church
a bee buzzed beneath her bridal
bolero.
Just at the end of the nuptial
Mass the bee sank his stinger into
Margaret’s shoulder.
The smarting bride and Patrick
Cunningham, the groom, dashed
out of the church and into a near
by drug store—where a pharma
cist applied a soothing lotion.
‘Wildfire’ Wins ‘Patsy’.
For His Acting Role In
‘It’s A Dog’s Life’
HOLLYWOOD, WV—A bull ter
ried named “Wildfire” is the win
ner of the 6th annual Patsy
award, the animal equivalent of
the movie Oscar.
The awards were announced by
Dr. W. A. Young, western region
director of the American Humane
Association.
“Wildfire,” owned by Claudia
Slack and Lillian Ritchell and
trained by William Koehler, ap
peared in the movie “It’s A Dog’s
Life.” Runners up in 1955 films
were Francis, the mule, and Faro,
a St. Bernard dog.
President Authorizes Memorial
For Late Gen. John J. Pershing
WASHINGTON, UPt— President
Eisenhower signed a bill Monday
directing the American Battle
Monuments Commission to plan a
memorial to the late Gen. John J.
Pershing.
CHANDLER, Ariz., UP)—Secre
tary of the Interior McKay last
night told the National Press Pho
tographers Assn, he is surprised
by “the increasing use of the slick
propaganda technique I like to
call the ‘big doubt’.”
“There have been numerous in
stances recently,” the secretary
said at the association’s conven
tion here, “of the use of the big
doubt in an effort to create public
suspicion of the new regulations
I approved governing oil and gas
leases on wildlife refuges.”
McKay has resigned from his
Cabinet post to seek the U.S. Sen
ate seat from Oregon in the fall
elections.
“It is charged, for instance, that
I have ‘thrown the 17 million ]
acres of national wildlife refuges
wide open to exploitation,’ and
thus have ‘doomed’ the refuges,”
he said. “The facts which are not
mentioned in this big doubt
charge include such salient mat
ters as this:
“1. The refuges were not opened
to oil leasing by me, but by a pre
vious administration.
“2. The new regulations are ad
mitted by many sincere conserva
tionists to offer greater protection
to wildlife values than ever be
fore.
“3. Far from throwing the ref
uges ‘wide open to exploitation,’
the new regulations make invio
late those refuges which are a
prime importance to rare or en
dangered species and provide the
most careful safeguards in all
other areas.
“The use of half truths, distor
tions and isolated and ^mrelated
facts to reach sweeping and un
founded conclusions are all part
of the big doubt trickery. As a
government official, it is my job
to see that the public gets all the
truth, not the half truths of politi
cal propagandists. As members of
the press, you have the same re
sponsibility to make available the
whole story—the wide-lens shots,
if you will ..."
The secretary complimented the
photographers on the advances
made in pictorial journalism in
the last two decades.
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HALF ACRE CASTLE
Substitutes for
Mental Health Bill
(Continued trom Page One)
gaily Insane Act, the Malone pro
posal would tighten sharply the
proposed procedures for commit
ment of Alaska s mentally ill.
For involuntary commitment, it
would make mandatory a finding
by a 12-man jury that the pro
posed patient is legally insane.
The authority to take a mentally
ill person into custody would be
limited to police officers.
No Cash and Land Grants
The principal objection to the
Malone substitute from the Alas
kan standpoint, however, is the
elimination of cash and land
grants to aid the territory in tak
ing over the program now handled
by’ the federal government.
Except for the unspent portion
of the annual federal appropria
tion at the time the administrative
transfer is made, the Nevada sen
ator would have Alaska finance
the program by appropriating
“such sums from the public mon
ey of Alaska” as it deems appro
priate.
At the same time, it would, in
effect, require Alaska to under
take a hospital construction pro
gram by stating that “nothing in
this act shall be deemed to auth
orize the hospitalization of any
resident of Alaska outside the ter
ritory of Alaska, by contract or
otherwise.”
Alaska now contracts for care
of its mentally ill at hospitals out
side the territory.’
Goldwaier Retains Grants
The Gold^vater proposal would
retain wttat Bartlet describes as
the “important part” of the pend
ing bill--the $12Vt million in cash
grants and the million acre land
grant designed to ease Alaska s
assumption of the program fi
nancing.
The Arizona senator would
eliminate, however, the controver
sial commitment provisions, leav
ing the drafting of such proced
ures to the Alaska legislature. He
also tighten the bill’s definition
of mental illness to limit it to per
sons found “harmful to self or
others.”
Bartlett told a newsman he felt
the Goldwater substitute would
make a “good bill—one we can
live with” because, in addition to
retaining the financing provisions,
it would avoid the problems that
would almost certainly result in
seeking to obtain Senate approval
of the protested commitment lan
guage.
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