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Navy Secretary Reduces Sentence
Of Sgt. McKeon to Three Months,
Sets Aside Bad Conduct Discharge
PARRIS ISLAND, S.C., i*t—*
S. Sgt. Matthew McKeon greeted
his court-martial sentence review
with the declaration that “I’ll try
to be the very best private in the
Marine Corps.”
The 31-year-old drill instructor
who marched six marine recruits
to their death in a tidal creek
here last April 8 enters the Parris
Island brig today. His nine-month
prison sentenee was cut to three
months Friday by Navy Secretary
Charles Thomas.
However, McKeon will only
have to serve until Nov. 4 because
two months already have elapsed
since he was sentenced by a gen
eral court-martial here.
But the “big load taken off my
back,” according to McKeon, is
the bad conduct discharge which
Secretary Thomas set aside.
Said McKeon:
“I’d hate to have to carry that
around in my hip pocket for the
rest of my life.”
McKeon’s sentence, as approved
by the Navy secretary, is the
prison term and reduction to pri
vate. Of this, McKeon said:
“I believe it is a very just sen
tence and a very fair sentence. I
believed from the beginning I’d
be down to private and I will try
to be the very best private in the
Marine Corps.
Asked if he thought he would
ever get his sergeant stripes back,
McKeon replied:
“I like to command troops—
and I’ll never get to command
troops again.”
SIGN OF WINTER
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., W)—First
sign of winter: two cases of anti
freeze were reported stolen from
a truck here last night.
Careless smoking, misuse of
flammable liquids and defective
heating equipment are the three
most common causes of fatal resi
dential fires. X
ARCTIC SANITARY
SERVICE
PHONE RED 181
TO THE NATIVE VOTERS
OF THE SECOND DIVISION—
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS WORK
ING HARD TO GET YOUR VOTE, HAVING
WM. L. PAUL WRITE AND ASK FOR YOUR
VOTE, SENDING A.N.S. DIRECTOR W. H.
OLSON, PROMISING HIGH SCHOOLS JUST
BEFORE ELECTION.
NOW, YOU VOTERS, BE WISE AND
VOTE YOUR DEMOCRATS IN AT fHIS ELEC
TION SO WE MAY ALL HAVE A SQUARE
t DEAL.
YOURS TRULY,
FRANK A. DEGNAN
— ELECT —
WILLIAM
A.
EGAN
— Democrat —
to the
I
I United Stales
SENATE
EXPERIENCED:
if President. Alaska Constitutional Convention
if Lifetime Resident, Veteran
if Former Mayor of Valdes a
if Five Times Elected to Territorial Legislature ■?
it Speaker of the House of Representatives
if Twice Elected to Territorial Senate “•
Stevenson and Kefauver
Wire Alaska Demos
On Eve Of Election
The following telegram was re
ceived this morning by Helen
Fischer of Anchorage, Democratic
National Committeewoman for
Alaska, from Presidential and
Vice Presidential candidates
Adlai Stevenson and Estes Ke
fauver. The wire was phoned by
Mrs. Fischer to Jim von der
Heydt, president of the local
Democratic club:
“Sen. Kefauver and 1 know
that people of Alaska are going
to take next big step toward
statehood and self government
by a clean Democratic sweep
Oct. 9. We join in renewing our
pledge to do everything in our
power to bring Alaska into the
union with full statehood if we
are given the opportunity. We
favor action now, not in un
certain future. We are confi
dent that Alaska will follow
Maine in forecasting a Demo
cratic victory in November
Good luck and thanks to all pur
good friends.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Estes Kefauver”
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Teayou
meak are the parents of a daugh
ter born yesterday at the MMM
Hospital and weighing 6 pounds
and eight ounces.
Mr. and Mrs. Ira Ahnangna
toguk are the parents of a daugh
ter born this morning and weigh
ing nine pounds and four ounces.
Knowledge is not knowledge
until someone else knows that one
knows. —Lucilius, 125 B.C.
John A. (Mac)
McNEES
DEMOCRAT
To the Senate
XXX
VOTE NOW
by Absentee Ballot
OR
AT THE POLLS
October 9. 1956
XXX
Vote
As You Wish
BUT VOTE
Paid Adv.
VOTE FOR
James A.
von der Heydt
DEMOCRAT
A Qualified Candidate
House of
Representatives
★
VOTE DEMOCRATIC
Paid Adu.
A Notice To All Voters In Alaska
who received a mimeographed letter dated Sept.
19, 1956 from the of fee of the Grand Camp of the
Alaska Native Brotherhood in Juneau, signed by
William Paul, Sr. Mr. Paul who is Grand Presi
dent of the ANB IS HAVING WORDS PUT INTO
HIS MOUTH AND INTO HIS LETTERS THAT
ARE NOT THOSE OF THE PEOPLE HE
PRETENDS to represent!
He is not speaking for the native people of
Alaska when he says the things he does in his
letter of Sept. 19 to the native voters of Alaska!
He is speaking for some selfish interests and does
not have the Alaska native people’s best interests
at heart. He certainly is not thinking of us or of
you WHEN HE ORDERS YOU to vote as he does,
on page two of this letter.
What Mr. Paul has in mind WE DO NOT
KNOW, BUT WE DO KNOW he is not speaking
for US or for YOU in that letter.
On October 9 we urge you all to go and vote
and vote AS YOU FEEL YOU SHOULD and
NOT AS MR. PAUL HAS TRIED TO DICTATE
TO YOU.
Signed:
Charles E. Fagerstrom
Pres.. Arctic Native Brotherhood
Joe Amarok
Lester Bronson
Paid Adv.