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VOL. LXI No. 24 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1959_Per Copy—15<t
Soviet Attitude Offers Little Promise
Of Establishing Just Peace In Berlin
By MARVIN L. ARRQWSMITH
WASHINGTON, (TPt — President
Eisenhower said today the Soviet
Union’s attitude regarding Ber
lin is so illogical it offers little
promise for establishment oi» a
just peace.
With much emphasis, Eisenhow
er told a news conference the
United States will not give one
single inch in its determination
to preserve the rights and respon
sibilities of the Western Allies
with respect to Berlin.
The President expressed his
views in commenting on Soviet
Premier Khrushchev’s cold atti
tude toward the proposal by the
Western powers for a foreign min
isters’ conference on Germany.
A reporter asked Eisenhower for
his views on what the newsman
termed the Soviet Premier’s in
formal rejection of the Western
proposal. The reporter noted it
came without prior notice to Brit
ish Prime Minister MacMillan at
the very time MacMillan was in
Moscow for discussion of such
matters.
The President said the Kremlin
leader’s position has been well
known all along, but that he now
seems to be emphasizing it.
As for Khrushchev’s blast at
the West’s proposal for a confer
ence on the Berlin problem, Eis
enhower described it as a devel
opment which certainly cannot be
called a hopeful one.
Then he went on to say that the
Soviet Premier’s attitude is so
illogical that it doesn’t promise
much for establishment of a just
peace.
Judiciary Comm.
Offers Slower Flan
For Alaska Courts
JUNEAU, UP> — A three-step
plan to set up Alaska’s new court
system, a much slower procedure
than proposed by the Alaska Bar
Association Board of Governors
was proposed by the Senate Judi
ciary Committee yesterday.
Each would end up with three
supreme court judges and eight
superior court judges. But the bar
association would have the courts
fully set up and operating by next
July 1, while the committee plan
would only require that they be in
operation by January 3, 1962.
The latter date is the end of
the three-year transitional period
outlined in the federal act that
admitted Alaska to the union.
Under terms of the Senate sub
stitute bill, the State Judicial
Council, a seven-member group
still to be activated, would have
much of the responsibility of
creating the court system.
By the committee plan the top
pay would be $23,500 annually
for Alaska’s chief justice. The bar
association proposed $27,500. The
other two supreme court judges
would receive $22,500 a year, or
$2,500 less than the bar associa
tion recommendations.
Both plans would provide for
eight superior court judges in
Alaska, two sitting in the south
eastern district, one with jurisdic
tion in the northwestern area,
three in the south central district,
and, two in the central district.
The Senate committee, however,
would only pay the superior court
judges $19,000 annually, while the
bar association recommended
$22,500.
BRITISH DON'T LIKE
TV AD INTERRUPTIONS
LONDON, IfP) — The TV com
mercial has become an issue be
fore Britain’s Parliament.
Laborite Christopher Mayhew,
pushing a bill to ban interruption
of programs for sales talk, told
the House of Commons the pitch
men are even breaking in on
westerns at crucial moments.
Campanella’s \\ ife
Opines ‘Big Name*
Adverse Publicity
NEW YORK, WPI — Roy Campan
ella’s wife protested today that
delinquency charges against their
15-year-old son have “been blown
up all out of proportion because
of his name.”
Ruth Campanella made the com
ments to a reporter as she arrived
at Queens County Children’s
Court with the boy, David, for
a hearing on a charge that he
and another youth bi^oke into a
drugstore.
The case was adjourned to
March 11, and the boy was or
dered to post $1,000 cash bail or
$3,500 in security bonds.
At a hearing Tuesday David
was found guilty of participating
in a street fight and released in
custody of his mother.
Police said that the boy later
admitted taking $9 and some cig
arettes 11 days ago from the drug
store, in the company of a friend,
George Demos, 16. The shop pro
prietor, Daniel Statesman, said
$500 was taken.
Campanella is Negro. Demos,
who is still being sought, is white.
The father, partially paralyzed
in an auto accident a year ago,
was shocked by the arrest.
"The boy’s my boy,” he said. “I
got to try to help him when he
gets messed up. I tried to help as
much as I could with juvenile
delinquency and here’s my boy
that jumped off the track.”
As David’s mother took the boy
home after the second arrest she
said: “This is going to break his
father's heart.” -
WASHINGTON HOUSE URGES
ALASKA CONTROL OF
WILDLIFE RESOURCES
OLYMPIA, CD — Transfer of
control of Alaskan fish and wild
life resources to the new state was
urged by the Washington House
of Representatives yesterday.
Lower chamber members passed
87-0 and sent to the Senate a
memorial calling for Alaska to
administer its own fish and wild
life programs.
New Terminal To
Be Occupied On
Mon. by Airlines
Alaska Airlines is moving this
weekend to its new location at
Nome Field, and will l?e open for
business Monday at the new ted
minal.
Wien Airlines will also oper
ate out of the new terminal, and
has announced that the present
old PAA terminal will be closed
on Monday.
The renovation of the old Marks
Air Force Ease hangar, began sev
eral months ago by Glenn Snyder
Construction Co.
The vast waiting room, over
75 feet long, has thermopane pic
ture windows completely across
the runway, or north side, of the
building.
The town entrance is being com
pleted on the east side of the
building.
Overlooking the airport on the
; second level, an airport lunch
: room is planned, however, no one
has applied as yet for a lease on
; that concession.
A hotel is also in the planning
i for the second floor of the build
ing, and plans are now in the
j hands of the architects.
The Terminal is finished in soft
| yellow and brown, with acoustical
I tile ceilings, cork walls and wood
' grain inlaid tile floors and wains
! coating. Counter tops are of Phil
; ippine mahogany grained For
j mica.
Late this month there will be a
| grand opening with a delegation
j of officials from the states, news
; men and photographers as well
| as representatives from other air
Sines. At that time the new DC6C
| “Golden Nugget” will arrive here
I on its initial flight to Nome.
A big celebration is being
i planned.
! Shah of Iran Will Sign
Defense Pact with U. S.
TEHRAN, UP) — The Shah was
i quoted Tuesday as saying Iran
j definitely will sign a defensive1
! military t agreement with the
j United States soon and that a Rus
! sian attack on this nation would
j mean the beginning of World
i War III.
There was talk here the agree
ment would be signed Wednesday
or Thursday in Ankara, Turkey,
I an ally of Iran in the Baghdad
j Pact.
i Against a background of Rus
j sian threats, the Shah talked over
' the military situation with his
senators and deputies in their
monthly meeting at his marble
palace.
MOSCOW, UP) — Premier Nikita
Khrushchev boasted today that the
Russians have a copy of the se
cret military agreement being ne
gotiated between Iran and the
j United States.
The Soviet leader addressed a
local Communist Party group at!
the Kremlin.
“We know everything and can
tell the Shah a great deal if he j
wants information,” he said.
President Defends His Military
Budget As Giving The Nation
Requirement of Balanced Defense
WASHINGTON. UP) — President
Eisenhower said today he knows
more about defense needs than
the individual military service
leaders.
The President, at a news con
ference, struck back at what he
called demagogicritics of his de
fense program.
Eisenhower referred in a sar
castic voice to talk about some
missiles, submarines and radar.
He did not name specifically
these critics of his defense pro
gram, but it was clear he was
aiming this shaft at Senator Stu
art Symington and others who
have contended the Administra
tion’s defense program will per
mit the United States to fall be
hind Russia in the production of
intercontinental missiles.
A reporter touched off a vig
orous response from Eisenhower
when she noted that some of the
service chiefs have indicated
view differing from the Presi
dent’s in their testimony before
Congressional committees.
The reporter asked if some way
could be found to eliminate these
differences of opinion.
Eisenhower replied that he was
astounded at the question. He said
he has spent all his life on this
military program and for six years
has had the final responsibility
for defense decisions.
It is very natural, the President
said, that there should be a con
flict of views on any proposals
that humans make. He said he
doubted any three reporters in
the conference room would agree
on how to run a newspaper.
Eisenhower said the heads of
the three military services nat
urally do not have identical views
since each believes his service is
the most important to national de
fense. Because of this,, the Pres
ident said somebody has to make
the decisions.
He thinks, the President said
firmly, that he is more able than
any individual military leader to
judge the necessities of over-all
defense. -
Then, he struck at those like
Symington who have been calling
for an increase in the $41,800,000,
000 defense budget. Just spending
money doesn’t mean that you’re
going to make the nation strong,
Eisenhower said.
What is required, the President
continued, is a nicety of judg
ment which will insure that the
country has balanced defenses.
Public Hearings
In Juneau For
Fisheries, Atoms
JUNEAU, Wl — Views on two
important questions, Alaska’s use
of atomic energy and the taking
over of its offshore fisheries, will
be aired at public hearings here
Wednesday and Thursday nights.
Dr. Elison C. Shute, San Fran
cisco operations manager of the
i Atomic Energy Commission, and
1 Drs. G. W. Johnson and Duane
j Sewell of the Livermore Radiation
! Laboratories of the University of
California, have been invited to
.appear at tonight’s session.
The hearing follows by only a
short time the AEC announce
ment at Washington that the Cape
Thompson project, in which a
nuclear blast would create a nat
ural harbor northeast of Kotzebue
on the Arctic Ocean, has been
abandoned.
However, other proposed Alas
ka projects involving the use of
atomic energy will be taken up.
Tomorrow night members of
the fish packing industry and cer
tain fishermen have been invited
to appear at a public hearing on
! fishery problems held by the
I House and Senate Natural Re
! sources Committees.
Reports have circulated that
! fish trap operators may see a de
! lay, perhaps of a year, in the ban
! on fish traps. The House and Sen
i ate have both passed and sent to
| acting Governor Wade a bill to
! outlaw the traps.
AVA Will Not Support
Southeast Ferry Bill
JUNEAU, UP) — R. E. Ellis of
Ketchikan, vice president of the
Alaska Visitors’ Association, is
sued a statement yesterday say
ing his group is not sponsoring
the bill to set up a ferry opera
tion in Sutheastern Alaka.
The association does, however,
he added, favor the' “general
principle of auto ferries in
Alasko.”
The Senate Rules Committee in
troduced a bill two weeks ago to
provide such a system.
The committee said it acted on
a request from R. A. Derr of Ju
neau, managing director of the
Visitors’ Association.
Sister of Ernest Gruening
Dies At San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO, UP> — Mrs.
Clara Stillman, 76, sister of Sen
ator Ernest Gruening of Alaska,
died in St. Francis Memorial Hos
pital yesterday.
She was a longtime San Fran
cisco resident.
Besides her brother, who -was
Alaska’s Territorial Governor
from 1939 to 1953, she leaves a
sister, Mary Gruening, Berkeley,
Calif.
BERLIN, UP> — The East Ger
man Communists advised their
future paratroopers today not to
pray before jumping.
The official magazine of the
Communist sports organizations
told young jumpers to rely on'
skill and equipment rather than
what it called an “unknown God.”
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