Heintzleman Says
Better Wait For
Alaska Statehood
JUNEAU, U)—Gov. Heintzleman
said Wednesday that while he is
not opposed to immediate state
hood for Alaska it would be better
to delay such action for two years.
“We could maintain Alaska as
a state even today,” the governor
said in an interview, “>but I be
lieve we would be in a better
position if we used funds which
would be required for statehood
for the next couple of years to
prepare Alaska for statehood.”
Questioned about the possibility
of calling a special session of the
legislature, Heintzleman said he
was leaving today for Washington,
D.C., to discuss various problems
of government and will not make
a decision until he returns.
A special session, he said, prob
ably would be held in late March
or April if called.
Heintzleman was questioned
closely by a score of newsmen who
flew here on Pan American World
Airways’ pre-inaugural DC-6B
flight to Annette, Juneau and
Fairbanks. Asked about his atti
tude on statehood in view of the
action of the Senate Interior Com
mittee in combining Hawaii and
Alaska statehood bills, the gov
ernor said:
“I don’t know anything about
FIVE DIE IN CRASH
OF BIG HELICOPTER
PORT ANGELES, Wash., UP)—A
big 10-passenger helicopter yes
terday plunged from 1,500 feet
into the icy waters of the strait of
Juan de Fuca, carrying five men
to their deaths.
The plane had been up an hour
on a training flight and appeared
to be coming in for a landing
when its power failed, Coast
Guard officials said. It plunged
straight down until 100 feet above
the water when it nosed up slight
ly, then over into a nose dive as
the tail rotor broke under the
strain.
CIVIL DEFENSE MEETING
There will be a Civil Defense
meeting at the City Hall Thurs
day, Jan. 28, at 8:00 p.m.
All officers and former officers
are especially requested to attend
for reorganization of Nome's civil
defense setup.
the bill and I don’t know why it
was done that way.
“I want it understood that I
am not against statehood. We are
fast approaching the place where
we will be ready for statehood.
But I take the position that it
would be the best thing to try
and develop resources to put a
firm economic base under state
hood.”
He said that when he talked of
developing resources he meant in
dustrial resources.
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Eisenhower Budget Asks $45,780,000
For Federal Programs In Alaska
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Vietnamese
Woo Rebels With
Loudspeakers
SAIGON, Indochina, UP)—Viet
namese political teams swarmed
into the Tuy Hao beachhead to
day with loudspeakers and pam
phlets, wooing the populace of
that rich southeast Indochina
coastland, under rebel Vietminh
domination since 1946.
This was the second phase in
the new French Union offensive
to drive the Communist-led rebels
permanently out of the fruitful
Annamese region around the pro
vincial capital and sugar refining
center of Tuy Hoa, 250 miles
northeast of Saigon.
Over the loudspeakers, the Poli
tical Socialists who came to take
over administration of the area
urged the people to come to the
side of Viet Nam’s ex-Emperor
Bao Dai, the pro-French chief of
state.
Two thousand French Union
troops stormed the beaches from
assault craft Wednesday morning
and seized the town and the vital
bridge across the Song Giang
River and swamp, meeting little
or no resistance from the 'Viet
minh forces. Another 2,000 drove
up the Mandarian Highway into
rebel territory from Nha Trang
to join up with the landing forces.
The French claimed the opera
tion was the first large-scale of
fensive of the seven-year war.
The French forces spent today
regrouping as ships landed more
supplies, including 300 tons of
rice.
Only a handful of women and j
children were in Tuy Hoa when \
the French drove in. The rest j
were evacuated along with the
enemy garrison into the moun- :
tains of the- interior. Some 500
families straggled back to Tuy
Hoa today and French authorities i
expressed belief most of the rest
would be back within two weeks. |
Alaska Visitors Assn.
Meets In Juneau Feb. 1
JUNEAU, m—The Alaska Visi- j
tors Association will hold its an
nual meeting here- Feb. 1 to con
sider possibilities for increasing
the tourist traffic. President Ed
Coffey said plans will be drawn
for a wide-scale national adver
tising and promotion. Twelve dir
ectors will be elected.
"4-on” Duplicate Receipt Books
ai the Nugget
' WASHINGTON, UR — President
Eisenhower laid a 6514 billion
dollar budget before Congress
Thursday, slashing 514 billion
from total spending but proposing
record outlays for atomic energy,
continental defense and overseas
military aid.
Despite a 714 percent cut under
estimated spending this year—also
lowered—Eisenhower told Con
gress the government will wind
up the 1955 fiscal year nearly
three billion dollars in the red.
Fiscal 1955 starts July 1.
Although he proposed a broad
program of tax law changes, Eis
enhower told Congress no further
general tax cuts are justified at
present.
New Concept of Security
His message said the budget
was based on a “new concept” of
security planning which places
reliance on “the full exploitation
of modern air power” and on
“new weapons” to justify man
power and dollar defense cuts.
He proposed spending $2,425,
000,000 next year for atomic en
ergy. This increase of 225 millions
over this year would bring atomic
spending to “the highest point in
our history,” Eisenhower said.
Eisenhower set no figure for
continental defense, but said out
lays would be “greater than ever
before in our history” to provide
early warning and reaction to
attack.
Military Aid Boost
Military aid would rise by 75
million dollars, Eisenhower said,
to a new peak of $4,275,000,000
for round-the-world assistance to
friendly nations.
The President told Congress
“there will be no way of operating
within the present debt limit” of
275 billion dollars in the last six
months of this year. Therefore, he
said, he was renewing his request,
stymied in the Senate last sum
mer, for a higher ceiling.
Eisenhower said his tax pro
gram would result in about 600
million dollars tax relief each for
individuals and for businesses, in
addition to changes that took ef
fect Jan. 1: a 10 percent cut in ;
personal tax rates and abolition ;
of the excess profits tax on cor- j
porations.
Eisenhower said the total of i
Army divisions might be reduced, j
but that they would be more dan
gerous, harder hitting and with
more mobility. Military personnel
would sink from the present
3,430,000 to a little over 3,000,000
by June 30, 1955.
He- said this would result in a
GOO million dollar saving in mili
tary pay and allowances in fiscal
1955.
In the message of about 40,000
words, Eisenhower also:
Later Income Tax Deadline
Recommended a 25-point tax re
vision program, calling upon Con
gress to: shift the annual personal
income tax deadline from March
15 to April 15; liberalize deduc
tions for family medical costs;
allow limited deductions for child
care; give farmers a reduction for
soil conservation; extend corpora
tion income and excise tax rates
rather than permit them to decline
April 1 to pre-Korea levels; and
'enact a series of revisions aimed
at lightening and adjusting the
tax load on business.
The coyote, formerly almost
exclusively a western animal, is
now found in many parts of east
ern United S' ates and frequently
mates with dogs.
Astronomy Notes
By OLAF HALVERSON
The two hemispheres of Mars
exhibit a marked difference: the
northern hemisphere is much
brighter. Perhaps the northern
half is land, while the southern is
mainly water.
Land areas appear to predom
inate on Mars. It is also believed
that the water areas on Mars have
little depth. Extensive, continent
like regions which change from
yellow to dark brown are thought
to be marshes. Varying depths of
water may cause the diversity of
color.
The constellation to the east of
Lyra is Cygnus, the swan. This
group of stars is also called the
Northern Cross. The star at the
bottom of the cross is called Beta.
It is really a double star and is
famous for its beauty. One star
is topaz yellow and the other blue.
You have all seen* the Milky
Way, which looks like a band of
white light across the sky. Near
Cygnus the Milky Way is very
brilliant.
Over 100 Killed In
Pakistan Train Crash
KARACHI, Pakistan, U?l—'The
Pakistan Mail, this country’s crack
passenger train, ripped at 60 miles
an hour into a freight train early
Thursday 75 miles north of Jiere.
Foreign Minister Sir Zafrullah
Khan, who escaped unscathed,
said estimates of the total killed or
injured ranged from 100 to 150.
Pan American Flight
Knocks 52 Minutes Off
Seattle-Annette Is. Time
JUNEAU, UR—A pre-inaugural
flight of a Pan American World
Airways DC-6B knocked 52 min
utes off the previous regular flight
time between Seattle and Annette
Island Wednesday.
Flying at 17,000 feet, the four
engine pressurized plane made the
flight in 2 hours 53 minutes. Reg
ular flight time in a DC-4 is
3 hours 45 minutes.
Passengers on the courtesy jaunt
were 40 newspapermen and com
pany and city officials.
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