Dulles Recinds Order
To Cut Air Force Strength
By 18,000 Employes
WASHINGTON, UPi—The Wash
ington Star says Secretary of De
fense Wilson has agreed to rescind
the order requiring the Air Force
to cut the number of its civilian
employes by 18,000.
Instead of coming out of the
present payroll, the story says, the
18.000 cut is to be applied to an
expansion program under which
the Air Force had planned to add
30.000 civilians in the next six
months as it builds up to 137
wings. That leaves the service
room to take on 12,000 more civil
ians than it now has, for a total of
about 312,000. The original plan
would have barred the whole 30,
000-worker buildup in addition to
cutting off the 18,000 now on the
rolls.
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By FLORENCE DOUTHIT <?
FAIRBANKS,- iff) — Sometime
late last week, when all was quiet
in Constitution Hall, someone
pasted a sign to the wall facing
the bank of seats in which the 55
delegates conduct their business.
The sign reads: “It’s later than
you think.”
And this the delegates well
know.
With half their time gone, the
constitution framers are running,
not walking, between plenary
sessions and the committee rooms.
Since the convention’s opening
day, Nov. 8, this much has been
accomplished:
Forty-two proposals have been
introduced to the body as a whole
and referred to committee; the
full article representing all recom
mendations of the judiciary com
mittee has been approved, with
changes, and sent out for engross
ment; the article on elections and
suffrage is halfway through sec
ond reading.
By week’s end, it is expected
the committees on legislative
branch, executive and bill of
rights will complete their docu
ments and put them into the mill
for distribution. The committees
on local government and resources
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are close on their heels.
The delegates are on the tread
mill now, and they know it. .
During a forthcoming 15 - day
recess—from Dec. 20 through Jan.
3—hearings are tentatively sched
uled in the following communi
ties: Ketchikan, Wrangell, Peters
burg, Sitka, Juneau, Haines, Ne
nana, Klawock, Nome, Unalakleet,
Anchorage, Palmer, Homer, Sew
ard, Kodiak, Cordova, Dillingham,
Valdez and Fairbanks.
When the delegates return from
recess all the subjects to be in
cluded in the constitution will be
ripe for decision. That will put
the convention in its last mile;
that is, if hassles don’t crop up
again in third reading.
The present mood is that, if
everyone keeps running, the con
stitution may become a reality by
the end of the 75th working con
vention day—the deadline.
VICTORIA, B. C., British
Columbia is experiencing the “best
ever year” in its economic devel
opment.
Reports now being complied
by B.C. government researchers
show that only a few gray spots—
notably in fishing and agriculture
—dimmed the prosperous glow.
‘Combat’ Slated For Three
Showings Here This Week
The official Sky Pilots of Am
erica film “Combat” is slated for
showing at three locations this
week: Thursday at the Nome Gos
pel Home; Friday at the Naza
rene Fellowship Hall, and Satur
day at the Covenant Church. The
showings will start each evening
at 7:30.
The picture is an hour long, in
color and has some rare features.
Part of it shows the actual erup
tion of Mauna Loa in Hawaii,
taken from the crater’s rim at
night.
Also shown will be the orginal
Japanese films taken of the de
struction of Pearl Harbor at the
start of the war with Japan. The
commander of the attack, Captain
Mitsua Fuchida, is also in the
film. Another highlight of the
picture is the meeting of Fuchida
with Gen. Jimmy Doolittle, who
directed the Hiroshima and Naga
saki bombings. Fuchida is now
director of The Sky Pilots of
Japan.
Heintzleman Neglects To
Meet With Bartlett On
Highway Plan For Alaska
WASHINGTON, W —Delegate
Bartlett said Tuesday he was
“greatly disappointed” that Alas
ka’s Gov. B. Frank Heintzleman
didn’t keep a tentatively sched
uled meeting to discuss highways
with Bartlett.
The meeting was planned to
talk over a possible formula to
include Alaska in the federal aid
to highways program.
“Therefore, I was greatly dis
appointed and deeply regretful
when I called the governor’s office
and found he had returned to
Alaska,” the delegate said adding?
“I can’t understand it.”
Bartlett said he was advised by
an Interior Department spokes
man Heintzleman had discussed
the highway matter with the Bu-r
reau of Public Roads but had been;
given no support.
“I still don’t believe we should
give up without an effort,” Bart
lett said.
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