DEW Line and
Operation Sage
Cost $3 Billion
WASHINGTON, UP*—1The Air
Force Friday put a $3 billion cost
tag on its two new warning sys
tems to flash the alarm in event of
enemy air attack across the North
Polar region.
The estimate was disclosed by
Sen. Jackson <D-Wash) after a
closed door meeting between high
Air Force officials and members
of a Senate armed services sub
committee at which Jackson pre
sided.
“It represents a tremendous in
vestment,” Jackson said, “but a
small insurance premium, after
all, for the intelligence informa
tion this detection system would
provide.”
The figure, he said, embraces:
1. An estimated billion dollar
overall expenditure for the radar
Distant Early Warning Line, pop
ularly known as DEW Line.
2. About two billion for Opera
tion Sage, the semiautomatic net
work of communications that will
link all aircraft warning systems
for a speedy defense against any
attack from the north against the
North American continent.
The DEW Line figure was about
twice as high as the top figure
previously mentioned. The Sage
cost had been announced Friday.
Jackson said that dates for the
completion of the companion
projects still are a defense secret,
but that the arctic construction
phases will be complete this year.
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Libby McNeil and Libby
Pays First Unemployment j
Benefits Under New Plan j
HONOLULU, UP—Libby, McNeill
and Libby today said it has paid
the first unemployment insurance
benefits for agricultural workers
under a voluntary industry-wide
plan.
The payments were made over
the weekend among 73 Libby field
workers on its Molokai Island
pineapple plantation. They were
laid off in January because of in
creased mechanization.
The company-financed unem
ployment insurance plan was
worked out in recent contract ne
gotiations with the International
Longshoremen’s and Warehouse
men’s Union.
Agricultural workers are not
eligible for benefits under the ter
ritory’s unemployment compensa
tion law. However, the seven
pineapple companies are granting
equal benefits—a maximum of 35
a week for 20 weeks.
Alfred Maxonna, storekeeper atj
Wales, who is very active in ANG
work in that area, arrived here
for a short visit and plans a trip
to Seattle.
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Democrats Speculate on Governors
As Alternates for Nomination:
Chandler, Harriman. and Lausche
By the Associated Press
Some Democrats casting about
for alternates to the two active
seekers of the party’s presidential
nomination speculated yesterday
about three governors—A. B.
(Happy) Chandler of Kentucky,
Averell Harriman of New York,
and Frank Lausche of Ohio.
The active candidates, Sen. Es
tes Kefauver of Tennessee and
Adlai Stevenson, focussed their
attention on California’s June 5
primary, their last direct clash.
Kefauver is campaigning there;
Stevenson plans to fly there later
in the week to talk with campaign
workers.
National Chairmen Debate
Republicans were generally qui
et on political matters over the
weekend, but GOP National
Chairman Leonard W. Hall took
on his Democratic counterpart,
Paul M. Butler, in a television de
bate before the Philadelphia Eve
ning Bulletin Forum.
When Butler asked whether the
people can hope for successful
guidance of foreign affairs if Pres
ident Eisenhower delegates duties
to others, Hall retorted that “the
President has not asked that any
powers be delegated at all.”
Hall accused the Democrats in
Congress of “stalling” on new
farm legislation, and said this
might cost farmers a billion dol
lars this year.
Butler pointed to a big gain in
the proportion of Democratic to
Republican votes in last week’s
Minnesota primary, and said this
indicated dissatisfaction with ad
ministration policies, including its
farm program.
Republicans Were "Watching"
“Republicans weren’t in the
Minnesota primary,” Hall replied.
“We were on the sidewalk watch
ing.”
Since Kefauver upset Stevenson
in Minnesota, there has been in
creased talk among some party
members about other possible
candidates.
Several have boomed Sen. Lyn
don B. Johnson of Texas, who
says he is not a candidate. A
weekend report from Chicago in
dicated that the Stevenson camp
regards Sen. Stuart Symington of
Missouri as a dark hourse con
; tender of growing strength.
Gov. Shivers for Gov. Lausche
Gov. Allan Shivers of Texas
j declined to say yesterday whether
he would back Johnson for the
nomination. When asked on an
NBC television interview to name
persons he would support. Shivers
mentioned only Lausche.
Shivers bolted the Democratic
ticket in 1952 and supported Eis
enhower, who carried Texas. As
to what he will do this year, Shiv
ers said “that all depends on the
conditions, the nominees and the
platforms.”
Happy Chandler
Sen. Allen Ellender <D-La> said
he welcomes reports Chandler
may seek the nomination. Chan
dler has not commented. “Happy
is a mighty fine fellow,” Ellender
said, “and he certainly would be
more acceptable to most southern
Democrats than either Kefauver
or Harriman.”
Ellender, who previously had
endorsed Johnson, said he thinks
the South would develop a third
part*r if the Democrats nominated
either Kefauver or Harriman.
Harriman's Status Unchanged
Harriman, arriving in West
Palm Beach for a Florida vaca
tion, said Saturday night that
“New York political forces have >
decreed that I should be avail
able” for the presidential nomina
tion. He added he would not ac
cept the vice presidential nomina
tion.
In Albany today, a Harriman
aide said after talking with the
governor by phone that Harriman
insists there is no change in his
previous status as a “not active"
candidate. Harriman felt that any
thing he may have said in Florida
was widely misinterpreted, the
aide reported.
Fuel for diesel engines is in
jected into the cylinders through
holes as small as 1/5000th of an
inch.
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Catholics Observe
Holy Week
More Austerely
VATICAN CITY WV-Pope Pius
XII received an artistic gift of
palm leaves Saturday as the
Christian world prepared to ob
serve the Holy Week anniversary
of Christ’s suffering, death and
resurrection.
The palms, worked into the
shape of a monstrance and decor
ated with a painting of a singing
angel, were brought to the pontiff
by the superior general of the
Camozdosi Religious Order in
Rome.
Since the days of Pope Leo
XIII, who reigned from 1878 until
1903, the nuns of this order have
decorated palms for popes and
cardinals here. About 50 other
palms, fashioned into the form of
crosses, were delivered Saturday
to cardinals and other high pre
lates of the Vatican Curia.
The Roman Catholic observance
of Holy Week throughout the
world will be more austere and
solemn than in the past. The Vat
ican decree, which became effec
tive Sunday, returns some Holy
Week observances to their more
ancient procedure.
The Lenten fast, for example,
will continue until midnight of
Holy Saturday instead of ending
at noon Saturday as it has for
years.
The change is designed to em- 1
phasize the sorrowful aspect of j
Holy Saturday, the day that the
body of the dead Christ lay in the 1
tomb before His resurrection on I
Easter Sunday.
Retail Sales in
[ Alaska Jumped
ft()% in 6 Years
SEATTLE, (jP—Retail sales in
Alaska jumped 80 percent from
[ 1948 to 1954 to hit $174V& million
at the last census of business,
Philip M. Crawford, Seattle
manager for the U.S. Department
of Commerce field service, said
the gain topped all states and con
trasted with a 32 percent increase
for the nation as a whole.
The 1954 business census, Craw
ford reported, showed sales in An
chorage were $58.7 million; Fair
banks $31.6 million; Juneau $12.8
million and Ketchikan $12.2 mil
lion.
Food stores led in total sales in
Alaska in 1954, with $41 million,
up 113.7 percent since 1948. But
automobiles made the biggest per
centage gain, jumping 230 percent,
with sales of nearly $24 million in
1954.
The total number of retail es
tablishments in Alaska in 1954
was 1,509, an increase of 199 since
1948.
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