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INVITING THE UNDERTAKER
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SCHOOLS NEXT?
Swiftly following enactment of the 13 year, 25
billion dollar Federal Aid Highway and Highway
Revenue Acts of 1956, have come three bills, all de
signed to establish a new Federal highway authority
directly under the President, with sub-Cabinet rank,
and which would supersede or absorb the Bureau of
Public Roads.
Thus, if it is not already clear who is going to
be in charge of roads in the 48 states from here on,
you might discover in the acts passed with such loud
cheers that the Secretary of Commerce is directed to
study, among other things, the need for Federal assist
ance in enforcement of highway safety and speed re
quirements!
Perhaps it’s too late to prevent the states from
signing over to Washington previous authority over
and control of the roads within their borders. But this
might still be a warning against the temporarily de
feated plan to take over our schools via Federal aid.
IN VODKA THERE IS TRUTH
Congress and the Pentagon are not laughing at
the drunken antics and denunciations of Khrushchev
& Co., which have leaked to the press through closed
committee room doors. To our officials there’s nothing
funny about the antics of men who could “plunge the
world into war at midnight and not remember any
thing about it the next morning.”
Urged to report frankly on his Moscow visit, Air
Force Chief of Staff, General Twining is much dis
mayed that his confidential picture of Soviet gaiety
reached the press—hence the subsequent efforts to
play down the story.
In protecting the nation against such madmen,
however, duty comes before party manners. And cer
tainly the American public—who suffer the conse
quences—should know the truth.
‘Slim’ Rydeen Reports
Former Nomeites Meet
At Hotel in Seattle
“Slim” Rydeen, former clerk
of the U.S. District Court here,
reports on attending a meeting of j
a group of former Nomeites held j
at the Stewart Hotel in Seattle i
recently.
Some of those attending were
Buster Keaton, Miss Wright,
Miss Leak. Mrs. Gaddie—all for- j
mer nurses—Mr. and Mrs. Frank i
Daugherty with their son, wife,
and 7-month-old granddaughter,
Mr. and Mrs. Vic Hill, Mr. and
Mrs. Tjernable, Mr. and Mrs.
Thor Stenson, and Dr. and Mrs.
Thomas Morcome.
Rydeen also states that Andy
Nylin, formerly of Solomon and
in his nineties, is now bedridden.
Andy Nordlind of Bergen, Nor
way, sends greetings to friends
in Nome.
Father Joseph Bernard, now 82
years old, who used to be at
Mary’s Igloo, Council, Candle,
Deering, etc., sends greetings to
all who may remember him.
Commerce Sec. Weeks
Now Sees Prosperity
For U.S. Into 1957
WASHINGTON, Secretary
of Commerce Weeks has changed
his mind about a possible business
slump in this quarter and now
forecasts "healthy prosperity” in
to 1957.
Weeks said yesterday “the out
look is bright for a fresh bounce
in business” and high employ
ment during the rest of this year,
adding:
“The prospect is a top notch
summer and fall. The recent steel
strike did not upset the apple
cart.”
ALASKA AIRLINES
To Kotzebue: E. Norton, C. A.
Wilson.
From Kotzebue: Carrie Greene,
Carrie Greene Jr., Nora Booth,
Johnny Greene, Lyle Nestor, R.
Rogers, C. H. Fiscus.
From Anchorage: Harley Rum
sower, Len Tenland, C. Campbell,
L.F. Rotz, E.S. Brown, H. Water
field, C. Filley, M. McNabb, R.L.
Morgan, W. McLain, N. Boucher,
Mrs. A.B. Story and infant, J.
Story, Dean Keil, F.M. Clements,
Esther Norton,.Jim Bowland.
To Anchorage: Mr. and Mrs.
W.E. Golden, A.R. Gearhardt, Mr.
Lenfesty, Mrs. Wm. Thompson.
From Unalakleet: M.A. Braund.
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CARTOONIST — C. D. Batchelor,
Pulitzer prize-winning cartoonist,
is the author of the widely known
“Inviting the Undertaker” cartoon
series which has for years ap
peared exclusively in the N. Y.
Daily News. This newspaper is
among a select group which has
been chosen by the B. F. Goodrich
Safe Driver League for nationwide
syndication of these famous draw
ings in support of President Eisen
hower's Committee for Traffic
Safety campaign toward highway
accident prevention.
Fairbanks Republicans
Choose Dr. Haagland
To Seek Senate Seat
FAIRBANKS—A long-time Al
aska physician, Dr. Paul B. Haag
land, who recently took over a
seat on the Fairbanks city counj
cil, has been chosen to seek a pos
ition in the Territorial Legisla
ture.
Haagland, who has served as a
city councilman for less than a
year, was the unanimous choice
this week of the Republican divi
sional committee as the GOP can
didate for a two-year territorial
senate seat vacated recently by
Ralph J. Rivers.
Fred J. Randall, president of
the Fourth Division Republican
Club, notified the clerk of the
Fairbanks court, John B. <Dixie>
Hall, of the action taken at the
meeting. In a letter to Hall, Ran
dall stated that the well-known
orthopedic surgeon and city fath
er had the unanimous support of
Fairbanks GOP party leaders.
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Court - Martial
Board Deliberates
McKeon’s Fate
By BEN PRICE
PARRIS ISLAND, S.C., '/?>—
The fate of Marine S. Sgt, Mat
thew C. McKeon was submitted
to a court-martial board of six
marines and a Navy doctor at
12:37 p.m. today.
McKeon is charged with invol
untary manslaughter, oppression
of recruits and drinking on duty
and in the presence of a recruit.
Convicted on all counts, he
could receive a maximum sen
tence of six years at hard labor
and a dishonorable discharge.
Defense Attorney Emile Zola
Berman made his final plea to
the board right after Mhj. Charles
B. Sevier, prosecutor, summed up
the government’s case.
Sevier contended McKeon was
“just mad” when he led 74 re
cruits on a night disciplinary
march into a marsh where six
drowned. He made no effort to
be dramatic. He spoke as one
military man to another:
"Gentlemen,” he said, “those
are six marines who will never
take their place in the fleet ma
rine force, will never go to sea,
will never be artillerymen, nor
tankers.”
Berman contended McKeon
would never have been brought
to trial had it not been for “poli
tics in high places—yes, even the
halls of Congress . . .”
Berman contended that Mc
Keon was “teaching discipline”
in the "highest traditions of the
military service” when he ordered
the recruits out for the march.
Pan Am Ground Crew
Stops Work, Protesting
Non-Union Loaders
MIAMI, Fla., (44—A walkoff of
commissary employes idled 2,400
Pan American World Airways
ground force personnel here yes
terday in a dispute over who
should load food aboard airliners.
The company said its flight
schedules were not disturbed. It
called the walkoff a wildcat work
stoppage over use of mechanical
lifting equipment to put provi
sions on the planes.
The union said the workers
didn't object to the use of ma
chines but did balk at use of non
union employes to load the craft.
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