Defense Secretary McElrov Resignation
Accepted by Eisenhower 4With Regret’
WASHINGTON, UPl — Neil H.
McElroy resigned yesterday as
Secretary of Defense and Presi
dent Eisenhomer chose Thomas S.
Gates Jr., now Deputy Secretary,
to succeed him.
The resignation, long expected
and effective immediately, was
announced by the White House
while McElroy was attending a
meeting of the National Security
Council with Eisenhower pre
siding.
At that session the President
awarded the Medal of Freedom to
McElroy for “outstanding service
to his country and his dedication
to his task.”
In a letter to Eisenhower dated
November 27, McElroy said he
was resigning for personal reas
ons of an urgent nature.
McElroy is expected .to become
chairman of the board of Proctor
& Gamble, Cincinnati soap manu
facturing firm.
McElroy was president of P&G
when he was appointed Secretary
of Defense.
Eisenhower, in a “Dear Neil”
letter, accepted McElroy’s resig
nation with regret and expressed
“deep appreciation of your dis
tinguished s e r v i c e.” McElroy
served as defense chief for 26
INVITATION TO BID
Sealed bids, in writing, will be
accepted at the Office of the City
Clerk of the City of Nome until
5 p.m., December 14, 1959, for
furnishing the following:
One Daveno for Police Chief's
apartment
Information on requirement will
be furnished at Police Station.
The City reserves the right to
refuse and reject any or all bids.
NOME COMMON COUNCIL
By ROBERT F. SCOTT,
City Clerk.
Publish Nov. 25, Dec. 2, 9.
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months, starting in the fall of
1957.
Gates, 53, has been Deputy
Secretary of Defense since last
June. He took the job at Eisen
hower’s request after having re
I signed as Secretary of the Navy
to return to private business. He
is a Philadelphia investment
banner.
McElroy had been intending to
step down earlier but his plans
were revised because of the death
May 8 of Deputy Secretary Donald
A. Quarles who had been groomed
to take his place.
Convicted Underworld
, Matchmaker Taken to
jFace Los Angeles Charge
NEW YORK, UR —- Frankie
! Carbo, sentenced Monday to two
years in jail as an undercover
boxing manager and matchmaker,
was taken into custody by fed
eral authorities yesterday to face
an attempted extortion charge in
California.
Carbo is one of five defendants
charged in California with trying
to cut in on the earnings of Don
j Jordan, welterweight boxing
J champion.
The 55-year-old Carbo, known
as the “underworld boxing com
missioner,” was taken to Idlewild
Airport and placed aboard an
American Airlines Boeing Jet 707
bound nonstop for Los Angeles.
Carbo was accompanied on the
flight by two deputy marshals.
There were 99 passengers aboard
the plane.
Carbo had pleaded guilty Oc
j tober 30 in the New York case
to three misdemeanors — con
spiracy, undercover managing
and undercover matchmaking.
General Sessions Judge John A.
Mullen could have sentenced him
to three years, but said he was
ordering a two-year sentence be
cause of Carbo’s poor physical
condition.
Carbo reportedly suffers from
a cardiac condition, diabetes and
ailments involving the liver and
kidneys.
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Committee to Help
Alaska Aged Holds
Juneau Conference
JUNEAU — Members of the
Alaska Committee on Aging as
sembled in Juneau Tuesday for a
two day working conference.
The 22 conferees, headed by
Commissioner Paul L. Winsor of
the Department of Health and
Welfare and Mrs. Felix Hakkinen
of Haines, will formulate plans for
the preparation of a State report
to be submitted to the White
House Conference on Aging to
be held in January, 1961.
Expenses of the Alaska Com
mittee are financed by a $15,000
grant made to the State from a
federal appropriation for the
the program.
Secretary of State Wade wel
comed the delegates to Juneau
on behalf of Governor Egan.
The national program, set up
by Congress in 1958, is aimed at
| development^ of recommendations
and plans to serve the purposes of:
1. Assuring middle-aged and
older persons equal opportunity
with others to engage in gainful
employment which they are ca
pable of performing, thereby gain
ing for our economy the benefits
of their skills, experience, and
productive capacities: and
2. Enabling retired persons to
enjoy incomes sufficient for
health and for participation in
family and community life as self
respecting citizens; and
3. Providing housing suited to
the needs of older persons and at
prices they can afford to pay; and
4. Assisting middle-aged and
older persons to make the prep
aration, develop skills and in
terests, and find social contacts
which will make the gift of added
years of life a period of reward
and satisfaction and avoid unnec
essary social costs of premature
deterioration and disability; and
5. Stepping up research de
to relieve old age of its burdens of
sickness, mental breakdown, and
social ostracism.
Dance Festival Ends
^Oth State’s Admission
Day Celebration
HONOLULU, Wt — Hawaii
ended a lengthy Admission Day
celebration Monday night with a
mammoth Japanese lantern pa
rade and folk dance festival at
Waikiki Beach.
An estimated 7,000 kimono
clad women and children marched
in the parade, most of them mem
bers of the United Japanese So
ciety which sponsored it.
The celebration began Thanks
giving Day with a tribute to war
dead at the National Memorial
Cemetery of the Pacific at Dia
mond Head.
Here to help celebrate the Pa
cific island chain’s admission as
the 50th State were Secretary of
the Interior Fred Seaton, plus 19
U. S. Representatives and Sen
ators.
Kilauea Volcano erupted twice
during the celebration.
CHICAGO, (.71 — Former Gov
ernor Joe Foss of South Dakota,
ace Marine flyer of World War
II, today was named commissioner
by the new American Football
League.
HONOLULU, UFi — A military
transport plane with two of four
engines out landed safely at Hon
olulu Airport today. There were
87 persons aboard. Both disabled
engines were on the same wing.
Nome-U-Wash
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Slip of the Check
GOLDEN, Colo., UP) — Court
action has been started by Jef
ferson County School District to
recover a $9,999.99 check mistak
enly sent to a teacher who quit
October 9.
Forest Hiller, the teacher, says
he wants to hold the check as a
souvenir.
The check was issued by an in
experienced business machine
operator. The board said to clear
Hiller’s account it was necessary
to put through a voucher for zero
dollars and zero cents. The ma
chine balked. It isn’t set to issue
such a check. The result was a
check for $9,999.99.
The regular operator discovered
the mistake after the check had
been signed and mailed.
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SECOND DIVISION,
STATE OF ALASKA
No. 1102
NOTICE OF HEARING OF FINAL RE
PORT AND ACCOUNT AND THE DE
TERMINATION OF INHERITANCE
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF
WALTER E. MERRILL, Deceased.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Bert
Merrill, Administrator of the above
named estate, has filed his final report
and account with the above named Court,
and that the 20th day of January, 1960,
at the office of that court then desig
nated to hear probate matters, in Nome,
Alaska, has by court order been fixed
as the time and place for a hearing on
said report and account, and also at such
time and place the Court will determine
and adjudicate the heir of this estate.
Objections, if any there be, to said
report and account will be heard at
such time and place.
Dated this 20th day of November,
1959.
BERT MERRILL, Administrator.
Publish Nov. 25, Dec. 2, 9, 16, 1959.
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