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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LXI No. 4 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1959_Per Copy—IS
Maintain Peace; Hold Inflation, Is
President’s Pledge For 1959
WASHINGTON, lff> — President
Eisenhower today keyed the com
ing year of his administration to
holding the line against inflation
and maintaining peace in the
world.
Asking cooperation from the
Democratic-controlled Congress,
the Republican President said in
his State of the Union message:
“One basic purpose unites us:
to promote strength and security,
side by side with liberty and op
portunity.”
Linking these goals inseparable
with fiscal integrity. Eisenhower
in effect challenged the Demo
crats — some of whom he has la
beled “spenders” — to stand with
him on the 77-billion-dollar bal
anced budget he proposes to offer
10 days from now.
He held out the hope of even
tual tax relief if federal finances
are kept in order. Such prospects,
he said, “will be brightened if
1960 expenditures do not exceed
the levels recommended.”
In expansion on this, a White
House official said he thought the
President’s view was that condi
tions won’t be right for tax cuts
before the fiscal year starting
July 1, 1960. That would throw
them largely into the administra
tion of whoever succeeds Eisen
hower in the White House.
Eisenhower’s 5,000-word mes
sage was delivered personally to a
joint session of the Senate and
House. Major radio and TV net
works broadcast it nationwide.
In the immediate audience, in
the House chamber, were diplo
mats of foreign nations, members
of the Supreme Court and high
government dignitaries as well as
the Congress members.
Eisenhower’s message went little
beyond sketching broad goals.
But among specific desires he
said he wants new civil rights
legislation, new laws to combat
corruption in unions and their re
lations with business and new
farm laws that will reduce fed
eral costs.
Entire Alaska
Highway To Be
Surfaced In 1959
SEATTLE, UP) — “Before the
end of this year, all the Alaska
Highway will be black-topped,” R.
A. “Dutch” Derr, managing direc
tor of the Alaska Visitors Asso
ciation, said today.
“The Green Construction Co.,
which has been awarded the con
tract to pave the last remaining
70.5 miles from Midway Lake to
the Alaska-Canada border, as
sures us the work will be carried
on with as little inconvenience as
possible to motorists,” he went on.
The Bureau of Public Roads in
Alaska let the contract for $777,
564 last November, and the asphalt
for it has already been purchased
and is in storage at Valdez. Com
pletion date is set for December
1, 1959.
Efforts are being made by the
AVA, other organizations, and
various officials of both Canadian
and U. S. governments to hard
surface the remaining 1,200 miles
of the Alaska Highway on the
Canadian side writhin the coming
five years.
Gruening Declares Tax
Ruling Work Hardship
On Many Alaskans
WASHINGTON, UP) — Senator
Ernest Gruening today joined in
protesting a recent Internal Rev
enue Service ruling that cost-of
living allowances paid federal em
ployes in Alaska became taxable
with statehood.
He said he complained “in the
strongest terms” in a letter to
Dana Latham, IRS commissioner,
and joined with Senator Bob Bart
lett in seeking an early confer
ence to discuss the matter.
He said he complained ETA S
Gruening said should IRS stick
by its ruling it would work a great
hardship on many Alaskans.
C.A.P. Will Make
Another Search For
Missing Fairbanks Fliers
FAIRBANKS, UPi — One more
search attempt will be made soon
to locate two fliers missing since
Christmas Day if the weather
warms up sufficiently, the Civil
Air Patrol said today.
The two are Paul Tovey and
Phil Pentacost, who disappeared
on a wolf hunting trip on a flight
out of Minto, a native village 45
miles west of here. They planned
to fly in the vicinity of Minchu
mina.
The Air Force and as many as
11 small private planes flew over
the snow-covered area in the days
immediately after the men failed
to return but found no trace of
plane wreckage or flare signals
or fires.
Fish Trap Operators Appeal To
Secty. Seaton In Bid to Defeat Ban
By FRANK W. VAILLE
WASHINGTON, {JV-Operators
of Alaskan fish traps plan a per
sonal appeal to Secretary of the
Interior Seaton in their bid to de
feat a proposed ban on their op
erations.
Such a ban, they contend, would
“deprive thousands of residents
of the State of Washington of their
means of livelihood and . . . ren
der worthless many millions of
dollars of capital lawfully invested
in the Alaska salmon industry by
residents of the state.”
Although the Statehood Bill en
acted last year contained an
amendment offered by Represen
tative Jack Westland (R-Wash) to
continue temporarily the admin
istration of Alaska’s fish and wild
life resources by the federal gov-j
eminent, Alaska’s Governor Wil
liam Egan already has announced ,
the new state will not license fish I
traps.
Seaton’s intention to prohibit i
fish trap operations in Alaskan
waters was announced while the
Secretary stumped for Republican
candidates during the closing
weeks of Alaska’s fall election
campaign.
The trap operators’ memo con
tinued:
“The situation is highly aggra
vated by the fact that the Secre
tary’s pronouncement with re
spect to his heretofore unsuspected
power to eliminate fish traps was
expressed in'the heat of a political
campaign in which the Secretary
actively sought to exert his influ
ence on behalf of the Republican
ticket in Alaska.
“This aspect of the matter ag
gravates the situation as to Demo
cratic members of the (Washing
ton) delegation and fails to please
the Republican members since the
Republican ticket in Alaska suf
fered the most serious defeat that
the Republican Party has encoun
tered anywhere in the United
States since its inception.”
Fire Destroys
Aleutian Gardens
At Anchorage
ANCHORAGE, UPl — The Aleu
tian Gardens, one of Alaska’s fin
est and best-known nightclubs,
was destroyed yesterday in a
$200,000 blaze that whipped
through the old, two-story Lido
Hotel building, a'frame structure.
All of Anchorage’s fire equip
ment and military fire control
teams from nearby bases were
called out in an unsuccessful ef
fort' to halt the flames. They were
hampered by zero temperatures.
Also destroyed in the blaze were
a bar and a restaurant also in the
Lido building, which is located
in the downtown area. The only
casualty was a fireman, who suf
fered a cut hand.
Fire Chief George Burns, who
estimated damage, said the fire
apparently started near the -fur
nace room of the nightclub.
Anchorage Invites
Russians To Enter
Rendezvous Races
ANCHORAGE, UP) — The Rus
sians have been invited to partici
pate in the 1959 Anchorage Fur
Rendezvous dog sled races here.
George Shadrock, president of
Greater Anchorage, Inc., which
sponsors the annual winter event,
sent a telegram to Soviet Pre
mier Khrushchev in Moscow.
The telegram read:
“Cordially invite Soviet Union’s
participation in Fur Rendezvous
championship dog team daces,
Anchorage, Feb. 17 through 22.
Would like your championship dog
teams to race with Alaskan
teams.”
The idea for Soviet participa
tion in Alaskan dog races devel
oped here several weeks ago, be
fore Alaska graduated to State
hod. The plan has been endorsed
by civjc officials.
Inauguration Ceremony Postponed To
Allow Egan More Recovery Time
JUNEAU, — A day-long
celebration of the inauguration of
Governor William A. Egan was
postponed today until the first
Saturday of February. It had been
scheduled for Juneau on January
17.
The new date was announced
by Felix Toner, chairman of the
committee planning the event.
The postponement resulted from
the Governor’s confinement at St.
Ann’s Hospital here, following
major surgery Tuesday.
Toner said the new date would
allow the Governor, after his re
lease from the hospital, to con
centrate on the opening of the
Legislature.
The February 7 date was se
lected. Toner said, so there would
be no conflict with the opening
of the Legislature. The lawmakers
are scheduled to convene January
26 and Egan is expected to de
liver his first legislative message
to a joint session about January
29.
There will be no change in the
scheduled celebration, Toner said.
More than 8,000 invitations,
bearing the January 17 date, have
been mailed for the celebration.
Toner said invitations mail- d
outside of Alaska asked for re
plies from those who planned to
attend. He said letters announcing
the new date would be mailed to
those who indicate they will be
in Juneau for the festival.
Mikoyan Appeal
Asks To End Cold
War for ‘Hot Peace’
DETROIT, — “A salesman
sometimes names a higher price
than he expects to get for his
goods,” Soviet Deputy Premier
Premier Mikoyan said today re
garding the Soviet proposal that
all troops be pulled out of Berlin.
But he quickly added that the
U.S.S.R. had no such thought in
mind and regards its proposals for
a settlement of the Berlin prob
lem as “good and reasonable.”
Mikoyan, currently on a tour
of U. S. cities, made a brief speech
urging cooperation for an endur
ing peace and said there is a
“great deal of mistrust between
us and we cannot do away with
it all at once.”
His remarks today followed a
session of blunt talk on war and
peace last night to a group of cap
tains of American industry at one
of the Midwest’s most exclusive
clubs.
Inside the Detroit club Mikoyan
attended a private dinner given
in his honor. Some 60 leaders of
business and finance of this auto
motive capital of the world lis
tened attentively to an appeal by
Mikoyan for an end to the cold
war and the beginning of a “hot
peace” between the Soviet Union
and the United States.
Outside the club, a crowd of
some 300 screaming refugees from
Hungary and other Iron Curtain
countries disregarded President
Eisenhower’s plea for courtesy to
the Soviet visitor and tossed eggs
and snowballs in his direction.
They hOllered insults and paraded
with a coffin and anti-Communist
placards.
ERLE STANLEY GARDNER
BLAMES TV FOR RATE OF
JUVENILE DELINQUENCY
SUN VALLEY, Idaho, UP) —
Those tough guy television pro
grams probably contribute to ju
venile delinquency, says mystery
writer Erie Stanley Gardner. He
told the National Association of
County and Prosecuting Attor
neys that parents should protest
against such programs. But he
said the real solution is for TV
networks to substitute something
else.
$3,000 Salary
Proposed For
Alaska Solons
JUNEAU, UP — The Legislative
Council has recommended an an
nual salary of $3,000 for Alaska’s
lawmakers, plus $40 a day ex
pense allowances.
Each member in the last terri
torial legislature received a total
of $35 a day—including $15 in
salary from the federal govern
ment and $20 per diem paid by
the territory.
The territorial legislature met
every two years for a 60-day ses
sion. The new 60-member state
legislature, with 20 more mem
bers than before, will meet an
nually without a constitutional
limit on the length of the session.
It- will be up to the first legis
lature, convening here Jan. 26, to
fix the salary and per diem rates
of its members.
Another recommendation by the
Council was that the legislature
change Alaska’s general election
from October to November, and
that each legislature be consid
ered to run for two years—with
a first and second regular session.
Such a plan would conform with
congressional procedures.
President Makes Plea
For Hawaii Statehood
WASHINGTON, UP — President
Eisenhower started off his State
of the Union address to Congress
today with an informal plea for
statehood for Hawaii.
Before turning his attention to
his formal speech, Eisenhower
voiced an extemporaneous wel
come to Alaska as the 49th State.
He then added that before his
second term as President is over
he hopes to see a 50th star in the
flag. He obviously referred to Ha
waii, statehood for which he has
advocated in the past.
DOESN'T LIKE TO BE 'EVE'
LOS ANGELES, UP - Bare
facts won a divorce for 40-year
old Mrs. Nadine Morris. She tes
tified her husband, Mitchell Mor
ris, 45, wanted her -to become a
nudist, and that his fellow nu
dists walked around “like Adam
and Eve” when they came to din
ner. “I don’t like that sort of
thing,” she said.