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VOL. LX No. 101 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1958 . _ Per Copy—15rf
I Congress Pushes For Adjournment
WASHINGTON, UPb— President
Eisenhower announced today the
United States is ready to suspend
nuclear weapons tests for one
year starting Oct. 31, provided
Russia meets two conditions.
The conditions are if the So
viet Union agrees to maintain its
current ban on nuclear tests, and
further agrees to negotiations
looking toward a permanent ban.
The White House said Great
Britain also stands ready to join
in a one-year suspension of wea
pons tests under the same condi
tions specified by the U. S.
Eisenhower stressed in a state
ment that the United States is not
proposing that nuclear tests for
peaceful purposes be halted.
Referring to technical talks on
policing a ban, concluded at Gen
eva this week, Eisenhower said:
“The Unked States, taking ac
count of the Geneva conclusions,
is prepared to proceed promptly
to negotiate an agreement with |
other nations for the suspension
of nuclear weapons tests and the
actual establishment of an inter
national controls system on the
basis of the .experts’ report.
“If this is accepted in prin
ciple by the other nations which
have tested nuclear weapons,
then in order to facilitate the de
tailed negotiations, the United
States is prepared, unless testing
is resumed by the Soviet Union,
to withhold further testing on its
part of atomic and hydrogen
weapons for a period of one year
from the beginning of negotia
tions.”
The President’s announcement
reflected a major shift in U. S.
nuclear policy.
The implication seemed to be
that the United States is willipg
to renew the proposed initial 12
month suspension on a year-to
year basis while negotiates
looking toward a possible per
manent ban are being conducted.
6Yes’ Votes Needed
On All 3 Statehood
Propositions
By BOB KEDERICK
For Alaska Statehood Committee
Affirmative .votes on all three
propositions of the Alaska State
hood referendum are required in
order for Alaska to fulfill the
provisions of the Statehood Act.
Majority votes are required
on all three propositions.
If only one or two proposi
tions pass and a third" fails to
receive a majority vote, the
Statehood Act is voided and Al
aska has no further opportunity
to vote on Statehood.
The three propositions, while
they are worded differently basic
ally all can be boiled down to
one principal question: "Are You
In Favor of the Present Territory
of Alaska Becoming A Stale?
The three propositions are:
No. 1 — Shall Alaska immedi
ately be admitted into the
Union as a State?
No. 2 — The boundaries of the
State of Alaska shall be as
prescribed in the Act of Con
gress approved July 7, 1958,
and all claims Of this State
to any areas of land or sea
outside the boundaries so
prescribed are hereby irrevo
cably relinquished to the
United States.
No. 3 — All provisions of the
Act of Congress approved
July 7, 1958, reserving rights
or powers to the United
States, as well as those pre
scribing the terms or condi
tions of the grants of lands
or other property therein
made to the State of Alaska,
are consented to fully by said
State and its people.
What do the three propositions
mean?
No. 1 simply asks the voter if
he favors Statehood.
No. 2 sets out that the bound
aries of the State of Alaska shall
be exactly as they 'are now for
the Territory of Alaska with no
changes.
No. 3 merely reaffirms the
right of the President of the
United States to make' certain
military withdrawls in the event
of a national emergency, a right
he already is able to exercise in
all the 48 states.
14 Communists Visit
Stronghold of Capitalism
NEW YORK, IffV—Fourteen So
viet tourists went sightseeing
Thursday in one of the strong
holds of capitalism — the New
York Stock Exchange. x
The first group of just plain
Soviet citizens to visit this coun-,
try since the Bolshevik revolu
tion, then took many pictures
and asked plenty of questions.
Watching the bustle on the ex
change, Alexander V. Rubovev
commented: “How they run
around. I bet they lot a lot of
weight. In Russia we don’t have
to be so nervous because we
workers don’t own any shares.”
Pointing to a group of shirt
sleeved men, another Russian
said, “All of these people do not
look like millionaires.’
Chicago Bids For Both GOP
And Demo Conventions in 1960
CHICAGO, Iff)—This city will
bid for both the Democratic and
Republican national conventions
in-I960, says Mayor Richard E.
Daley.
Both parties held their 1952
cgnventions here and two years
ago the Democrats met here
while the Republicans met in San
Francisco.
THURSDAY BALL SCORES
American League
New York 6, Chicago 3
Kansas City 7, Washington 4
Boston 8, Cleveland 6
Baltimore 7, Detroit 6
National League
Chicago 5, Pittsburgh 3
Cincinnati 8, San Francisco 1
St. Louis 2, Philadelphia 1
Milwaukee 4, Los Angeles 0
Pacific Coast League
Phoenix 8, Spokane 0
Sacrartlento 3, Vancouver 2
Seattle 7, Portland 5
San Diego 6, Salt Lake City 5
Bob Hope Day In Chicago
CHICAGO, Iff! — Today is Bob
Hope day in Chicago.
Hope and his wife, Delores,
will be guests at a $50-a-plate
testimonial dinner for Hope to
night to raise $25,000 for La Ra
bida Sanitarium.
The sanitarium helps young
sters suffering from rheumatic
fever and conducts research on
the disease.
Tomorrow night Hope will be
one of the main attractions at the
Chicago Tribune’s 29th annual
Chicagoland Music Festival at
Soldier’s Field.
SEATON NOT TO
COME TO NOME
SEATTLE, (ff) — A last minute
crush of congressional activity
has delayed for a day, at least,
the planned trip of Secretary of
Interior Fred Seaton to Alaska,
United Airlines reported Tues
day.
A spokesman for the air line
said Seaton had cancelled reser
vations which would have
brought him into Seattle Tues
day, but had made tentative re
servations for Wednesday. The
spokesman said under present
plans—still subject to change—
he would leave for a tour of the
territory Saturday.
The Chamber of Commerce re
ceived a phone call from Acting
Gov. Waino Hendrickson, that
due to the delay, Nome would
not be on Seaton’s itinerary.
Boss Tests
Crown Jewel’s
Burglar Alarm
By EDDIE GILMORE
LONDON, (#)—The boss at the
Tower of London confessed to
Scotland Yard today he set off
the burglar alarm to see how well
England’s crown jewels are being
guarded.
“I’m delighted with the test,”
said Brig. Leslie Frederick Etnel
bert Wieler. “It worked extreme
ly well.’
Brig. Wieler is resident gover
nor of the ancient tower over the
Thames river and the man re
sponsible for safeguarding one of
the world’s most fabulous collec
tion of jewels.
“Why didn’t you warn us, sir,
that it was only a practice?”
asked a Scotland Yard sleuth.
“What’s the use of having a
test,” snapped the Brigadier, “If
it’s not carried out properly?”
It. was carried out properly, all
right.
Shortly after breakfast the re
corded voice of an automatic bur
glar alarm boomed out in Scot
land Yard: “Intruders have en
tered the Tower of London.”
At the Tower, alarm gongs
clanged like engines racing to a
three-alarm fire.
Scots Guards jumped to action
posts, scores of Yeoman Wardens
lumbered to emergency stations,
the flying squad roared out of
Scotland Yard, radio cars dashed
to the Tower, police boats churn
ed down the Thames, Bobbies
cordoned off Tower Hill, a 16
ton steel cage clanged down
around the jewels.
It was the biggest scare since
Capt. Peter Blood stole the royal
ice from the Tower nearly 300
years ago.
Gov. Faubus Puts
Arkansas Legislature
On Stand-By Basis
LITTLE ROCK, UPl^Gov. Fau
bus Thursday placed the Arkan
sas legislature on a standby basis
for a possible call Monday to
deal with the explosive Central
High School integration situation.
Thus it appeared that the Lit
tle Rock school board failed Wed
nesday njght to convince the gov
ernor it was doing all possible to
delay re-entry of seven. Negroes
into the sprawling high- school.
Mob riots broke out last fall
when nine Negroes first entered
the high school, and President
Eisenhower sent paratroopers to
restore order with bayonets.
U.S. Ready to Suspend Nuclear Testing
By PAUL DUKE
WASHINGTON, UP)—The home
stretch rush for adjournment was
on in Congress today.
The Senate worked to clear its
calendar of several prime items, I
including the 3V& billion dollar
foreign aid money bill.
The House, having taken care
of most major matters, considered
a six-billion-dollar appropriation
measure to finance a score of
government agencies.
President Eisenhower vetoed
an earlier bill for these agencies
because it contained half a bil
lion dollars for the Civil Service
"Retirement fund. He said the
payment was unnecessary.
The target date for adjourn
ment remained Saturday night.
But first Congress must dispose
of these major pieces of legisla
tion, among others:
1. Foreign Aid — The House
passed a bill calling for $3,078,
1000,000 in military and econ
omic help to other nations this
year. The Senate Appropriations
Committee, taking up the mea
sure after eruption of the Middle
East crisis, boosted the amount
to $3,518,092,500. But this still is
432 million dollars below the
amount originally requested by
the President.
2. Debt Ceiling—The adminis
tration, faced with mounting red
ink spending, asked Congress to
increase the federal debt limit—
now temporarily 280 billion dol
lars—to 288 billion through June
30, 19560.
The House agreed to the re
quest, but the Senate Finance
Committee voted to allow the 288
billion celing only though next
June 30. The House and the Sen
ate committee also differed on
how much the permanent ceiling
— now 275 billions—should be
boosted.
3. Education—House and Sen
ate conferees agreed Thursday on
a four-year program to provide
900 million dollars to educate the
nation’s young people, with em
phasis on science and mathemat
ics.
The compromise measure does
not contain a college scholarship
provision, which the Senate had
voted but which, the House had
turned down. It does provide 295
million dollars for student loans.
Two bills which touched off
major fights got the ax Thursday.
The Senate, after some parlia
mentary maneuvering, killed a
measure aimed at preventing the
Supreme Court from knocking
down state laws not in direct con
flict with federal laws on the
same subject.
The House, after three days
of debate, ended a hassle over
legislation to subsidize the dom
estic minerals industry by kill
ing the bill 182-159.
Cost of Living Rose To
New Record High In July
WASHINGTON, UP)—The gov
ernment reported today the cost
of living in July set another rec
ord high. Its consumer price in
dex rose two-tenths of one per
cent to 123.9.
The 1947-49 average is 100 in
the index.
At the same time, the take
home pay of factory workers rose
to a record for any July. .This
rise was contrary to the usual
seasonal trend.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics
figured the average take - home
pay of a factory worker with
three dependents was $75.88 a
week, a rise of about 30 cents
from June.
The index has gone up in 21
of the last 23 months. There has
been no decline since August of
1956. -
Ewin Clague, Commissioner of
the Bureau of Labor Statistics,
predicted little change in the
general cost of living for the next
several months.
He said food prices will con
tinue down but the advent of fall
clothing and new model auto
mobiles, both expected to cost
more, will have the effect of off
setting a drop in food prices.
Circuit Court Grants
Stay To Decision
Supporting Integration
ST. LOUIS, UP)—1The 8th Cir
cuit Court of Appeals Thursday
granted a stay Thursday to its
decision which would return
seven Negro students to Central
High School at Little Rock.
Chief Justice Archibald Gard
ner announced that the seven
judge court had agreed to a grant
the stay.
Gardner, who wrote the only
dissent in the 6-1 decision that
overturned U.S. District Court
Judge Harry Lemley’s 2Vi year
breather order, said the stay was
granted so the Little Rock school
board could appeal to the Sup
reme Court.
Hammarsk j old
On Peace Mission
To Middle East
By TOM HOGE
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., UPL
Dag Hammarskjold prepared to
day to embark on an Arab-spon
sored peace mission to the Mid
dle East -which won unanimous
approval from the U.N. General
Assembly.
The Secretary General report
edly will be in the trouble area
in less than two weeks. It will be
his ninth peace-making trip to
the area in 29 months.
The Secretary General told a
news conference he will leave
Monday for the Middle East. He
said he would go first to Amman,
Jordan, for talks with King Hus
sein and later to Cairo and dis
cussions with Egyptian President
Nasser.
The 81-nation assembly wound
up its two-week emergency ses
sion last night by voting 80-0 for
the Arab resolution. It assigns
Hammarskjold the job of making
arrangement to facilitate early
withdrawal of U.S. troops from
Lebanon and British forces from
Jordan.
The plan promised to safeguard
the political and territorial integ
rity of Jordan and Lebanon by
reaffirming the Arab nations’
pledges to refrain from interfer
ing in each others’ domestic af
fairs.
Mother’s Dream That
Her Son Dies Comes True
GALVESTON, Texas, UP> — A
mother’s dream that her boy was
destined to died tragically came
true.
Lightning struck and killed
Kenneth Luker, 15, of nearby
Lamarque, as he rode his bicycle.
Mrs. Allen told of the dream
after being notified of her son’s
death.
Luker’s companions — George
Allen, 7, and his brother, Sonny
10, were uninjured.