OIJDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LXI No. j NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 1959 Per Copy— lrv»
President Will
Protect Budget
With The Veto
WASHINGTON, UP) — President
Eisenhower today was reported
ready to make forceful use of his
veto power if necessary to main
tain the scant surplus in the 77
billion-dollar budget he will send
to Congress Monday.
The message for fiscal 1950,
which starts July 1, is expected i
to urge bipartisan support for an j
anti-inflationary squeeze on fed- ,
eral spending and closing of tax
loopholes.
Eisenhower’s target, administra- I
tion sources have hinted, is to cut
outlays to a level slightly above
77 billion dollars. It is hoped that
revenues will qxceed that amount,
although the mhrgin may be only
100 million dollars or less.
There will also be some bad
fiscal news in the message, offi
cials conceded—a slightly higher
deficit than was anticipated for
the current budget year, $12,200,
000,000.
Alaskans In
Hawaii To Help
Map Statehood
HONOLULU, UP) — A promi
nent Alaskan arrived yesterday
for a two-week Hawaii holiday!
and to lend a hand in the cam
paign for Hawaiian statehood.
He is M. R. Marston of An
chorage, who likes to be called
by his Eskimo nickname, Muk
tuk. He planned to contact mem
bers of the Hawaii Statehood Com
mission during his stay here.
Marston, a former Army- col
onel who presently is engaged in
home construction in Anchorage,
arrived with his wife aboard the
Matson liner Lurline from Seattle.
“Be of good cheer,” Marston ad
vised Hawaiians through news
men. “I don’t think you will have
to wait much longer for state
hood.
‘We organized an Alaska-Ha
waii Statehood Committee back
in Alaska just about 10 days' ago
to see what we could do to help.”
“Alaska’s two Senators will sup
port Hawaii right down the line.”
he added.
As the Lurline docked, Mars Lon
rubbed noses Eskimo style with a
grass skirted hula girl who had
boarded the liner as one of the
local greeters of the Hawaii Vis
itors Bureau.
Also on the Lurline was G. H.
Vaara. a retired Alaska busmess
man, who was mayor of Anchor
age in 1940.
Internal Revenue Dept.
Seeks 'Painless’ Tax Forms i
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WASHINGTON, UPl — Taxpav- !
ers may be allowed next year to '
use the punch card form, 1040A, i
on incomes up to $15,000, Internal j
Revenue Commissioner Dana La-1
tham said today.
This year the short form is per
mitted on incomes up to $10,000
on wages, dividends and interest.
It previously was limited to those
w i t h taxable incomes below
$5,000.
The revenue service is inves
tigating the possibility of raising j
the ceiling to $15,000 a year hence,
Latham said, as part of a service-1
wide quest for measures to take |
as much of the pain out of tax- j
paying as possible. I
Castro Warns U.S.
Not to Meddle In
Cuban War Trials
HAVANA, IP) — Cubans hailed
Fidel Castro today for his warn
ing against U.S. meddling in the
revolutionary war crimes trials.
Newspapers gave it front-page
play along with a declaration by
Asst. Secretary of State Roy Bu
bottom that the United States is
not going to intervene.
Both Castro and provisional
President Urrutia said Cuba
wants cordial relations with its
big neighbor to the north, but
not at the price of halting execu
tions because of American criti
cism.
Fresh shootings brought the
death toll of firing squads to 200.
Castro warned against any U.S.
intervention to stop executions
ordered by military courts for
murder and torture during Bat
ista’s dictatorship.
“If the United States comes
here, we will make trenches in
the streets,” the rebel leader told
the Havana Rotary Club.
U. S. Tells Russians
It Still Wants
Surprise Attack Talks
WASHINGTON, OP) — The
United States agreed with the So
viet Union today that new efforts
must be made to reduce the dan
ger of surprise attack in the nu
clear age — but it rejected the
Soviet’s bid for immediate re
sumption of the Geneva conference
which broke down last month.
In a note released by the State
Department, the United States
called on the Soviet Union to join
in trying to figure out a new ap
proach to surprise attack negotia
tions which would avoid the stale
mate that wrecked the Geneva
meeting.
The deadlock developed over
the fact the United States and its
allies wanted to stick to a tech
nical analysis of problems involved
in preventing surprise attack,
whereas the Soviet Union re
peatedly raised broad disarma
ment issues. The Western powers
said such matters had no place in
a technical conference.
FRANCHOT TONE DIVORCED
BY YOUNG WIFE
EL PASO, Tex., IP) — Franchot
Tone, 52, Broadway, film and tele
vision star, was divorced in a
Mexican civil court yesterday by
his wife, Dolores, 23.
G.O.P. Leader Fears
Demo. ‘Spending Orgy’
WASHINGTON, UP> — House
; Republican leader Charles A. Hal
i leek of Indiana said today he will
I oppose the legislative priority pro
gram outlined by Senate Demo
cratic leader Lyndon B. Johnson
of Texas.
Halleck said in an interview he
feared that Johnson’s program in
dicates “that we are in for an
orgy of wild-eyed spending.”
Johnson listed housing, airport
construction and aid to areas of
chronic depression as issues that
will receive first priority tor Sen
ate consideration.
Youth Kills His Parents
Because They Made Him
“Practice On Accordion”
SACRAMENTO, —- A young
man discharged from a mental
hospital 2 Vi> months ago told po
lice he shot and killed his par
! ents “because they made me prac
tice the accordion 8 or 10 hours
a day.”
Slight, sandy - haired David
Sandahl, 20, was booked on two
counts of suspicion of murder.
Sheriff’s Capt. Harold Guerin
said Sandahl admitted shooting
his parents with a .22 revolver.
The father, Edward L. Sandahl,
52, was a production engineer em
ployed at the Aero-Jet rocket
plant. His wife, Elizabeth Mae,
was 55. A traffic accident in
which the son was involved led
to discovery of the bodies.
Asked why he killed them, he
replied, “I just couldn’t take any
more from them. My father made
me practice the accordion 8 or 10
hours a day.”
Gen. Marshall Doing Well
After Heart Attack
FT. BRAGG, N. C., (ft — Gen
eral George C. Marshall, 78, who
suffered a slight stroke yesterday,
is in satisfactory condition in an
Army hospital here, his doctors
reported today.
Col. G. M. Powell, chief surgeon
at the hospital, said that the five
star general was given a com
plete physical examination and
that there was no evidence of any
paralysis.
! Dr. Henry D. McIntosh, a spe
j cialist on heart conditions and
I diseases from the Duke University
) School of Medicine, expressed
complete agreement at the diag
| nosis and treatment which was
I being given, Col. Powell said.
Japanese Ecstatic Over Finding Of
Two Dogs Still Alive In Antarctic
By JAMES CARY
TOKYO, US’) — span’s press,
radio and public erupted with ec
stasies of delight today at the
news that two of 15 sled dogs
abandoned in the Antarctic 11
months ago had been found alive.
“Two Dogs Survive!” head
lined Tokyo’s big dailies in type
normally reserved for the death of
Stalin, the outbreak of war, and
similar events.
Radios blared the news hourly.
Newspapers, radio stations and
news agencies were flooded with
calls for more information. There
was as much rejoicing as there
had been protest when the dogs
were left behind last February.
A six-man advance party was
flown by helicopter Wednesday
night from the Antarctic expedi
tion ship Soysa to reopen the de
serted Japanese base on Ongul
Island. Masamk Murayama, lead
er of the party, radioed back that
the two dogs came bounding up
wagging their tails in greeting. He
said they were in good condition.
Murayama’s first message gave
no word of the other 13 dogs, or
of how the two had managed to
survive.
The 15 sled dogs, members of
the vanishing Japanese Karafuto
breed, were left behind when
heavy ice kept the Soya from
reaching the base to restock it
for the Antarctic winter. Bad
weather halted flying after re
moval of the 11 Japanese scien
tists who had staffed the base and
nine other dogs.
The dogs left behind were tied
up and had food for only a few
weeks.
Mikoyan Meets with Dulles Amid
Hopes For East - West Agreement
WASHINGTON, UP — Anastas
Mikoyan and Secretary of State
Dulles met today for talks on the
East-West deadlock over German
unification and the future of dis
puted Berlin.
Their discussion could lead to
an early, high-level East-West
meeting on the whole range of
German problems.
Today’s session — the second
during Mikoyan’s two-weeks vis
it to this country — was described
by diplomats as strictly a probing
operation with each of the vet
eran antagonists of the cold war
seeking to discover possible weak
nesses or concessions in the poli
cies of the other.
As Mikoyan, No. 2 man in the
Soviet Union, arrived at the State
Department, half-a-dozen Hun
garian pickets displayed their na
tion’s flag with a black ribbon of
mourning. The leader was Flor
ence Nagy, Hungary’s last non
Communist minister, who has been
in exile since 1947.
As the two men met today,
Dulles wanted to know primarily
whether the Soviet government
is prepared to enter into serious
negotiations later this year look
ing toward an eventual German
settlement.
Mikoyan presumably was an
vious to find out whether the
United States has any counter
proposals to make to recent So
viet demands for withdrawal of
Western forces from West Berlin
and for an early start on writing
a German peace treaty.
Mikoyan told a New York news
conference yesterday his country
still wants a summit conference
on world problems. He said the
West cannot sidestep one forever.
He expressed interest in Dulles’
statement Tuesday that free elec
tions were not the only way to
reunify Germany. But he conten
ded that Dulles “did not come up
with a constructive alternative”
to the Soviet plan.
Man Lives to Tell
Of Ejection From
Low Flying Jet
OAKLAND, Calif., UP) — Lt.
Cmdr. Ralph Fielding shot himself
head first through the canopy of
his jet training plane at only 150
feet altitude. He accidentally had
touched the ejection button. He'
escaped with a broken leg; no
headache.
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“It was quite a sensation,” he
said in Oak Knoll Hospital. “They
said I landed only six seconds
after I touched the button. It’s
almost impossible to say how I
really did feel. I was saved by my
nylon elevator.”
The ’chute opened automatically
seconds after Fielding was
shot not more than 50 feet above
the plane - - an altitude of only
200 feet.
Fielding, a flight instructor at
Moffet Field, near San Jose, Calif.,
was taking a refresher instrument
flight with Lt. John McDaniel.
As he turned control over to Mc
Daniel, Fielding accidentally
touched the ejection button.
Up and out he shot, his head
rest crashing through the three
eights-inch plexiglass canopy.
“The next second I was out in
the air stream,” said Fielding.
“There was no airplane under
me.”
“Only two oscillations (side
swings in the chute) and I hit the
ground. I think that’s when I
broke my leg, but the Navy is
investigating to see if it was
broken in the ejection.”
NORTH POLE NAVIGATOR
GETS LOST IN CITY
PROVIDENCE, R. I., UP) —
Commander James F. Calvert had
more trouble navigating in Prov
idence Thursday night than he did
under the North Pole last sum
mer.
Commander Calvert, who gained
fame navigating the atomic
powered submarine Skate under
the North Pole ice, got lost en
route to the Providence Club of
Printing House Craftsmen.
“I found it more difficult nav
igating in Providence than at the
Pole,” he told members on his
arrival.
Two-Way Alaska
Communications
Planned For 1960
WASHINGTON, UP) — Construc
tion on a proposed two-way com
munications network connecting
Alaska with the other states prob
ably won’t get under way before
1960.
This was the Air Force advice
today to Senator Bob Bartlett in
response to queries prompted toy
the military service’s disclosure
of its plans earlier this week.
The two-way system would link
the ballistic missile early warning
station to be built near Fairbanks
with the other states both by way<
of Canada and through Annette
Island and the existing submarine
cable into Washington State.
The Air Force advised Bartlett
that technical studies related to
the proposal still are under way
and have not advanced to the stage
where it would be possible to say
what the installation would mean
to any specific community in
terms of construction or .person
nel. ,
The surveys are being conducted
by Westerrr Electric Company un
der its contract to provide commu
nications support for the Fair
banks installation. Equipment for
the proposed system also will be
provided by Western Electric.
SOVIET ROCKET IS NOW
CLOSE TO SUN
LONDON, UPl — The Soviet cos
mic rocket now has reached the
closest point it will go to the sun
— its perihelien, Moscow radio
said today.
The rocket was reported 90,
968,560^ miles from the sun, 370,
840 miles closer to the sun than
the earth is.
BOMARK HITS JET DRONE
TARGET 87 MILES OUT
ELGIN AIR FORCE BASE,
Fla., UP) — Elgin’s first venture
into the Bomarc guided missile
field was pronounced a success
by the Air Force.
In the first launching from the
new multimillion-dollar test cen
ter, a Bomarc scored a direct hit
on a jet drone flying 87 miles out
over the Gulf of Mexico yester
day, officials said.