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Framing Alaska’s Constitution
An excellent representation left here over the
weekend to be delegates from Second Division for the
framing of Alaska’s constitution, an event which is
being recognized from all over the States as it may be
the last constitution so framed as Hawaii has already
prepared theirs.
We know those who were elected to this all-impor
tant and history-making body have the interest of the
part of the vast territory they represent.
The fact that the election convention itself was
handled entirely from Juneau will prove to the dele
gates that elections must take place and be recorded
and counted in each part of the territory as has been
done in the past during elections for legislative offices.
There are four hubs in the territory, population
centers around which the economy of the territory de
veloped and will continue to grow. To plan the future
state with less than*this would be unwieldly and ad
verse to the natural resources and physical structure.
The University has been thorough in its planning
for this event and • we will watch with interest the
forming of this all important document.
Veterans Will Split
$219 Million in Gov’t
Life Insurance Dividends
WASHINGTON, (A>>— Nearly
million World War I and World
War II veterans will split about
$219 million in government life
insurance dividends next year.
The Veterans Administration
announced about five million vet
erans of World War II will re
ceive a total of $190 million in
regular annual dividends on Na
tional Service Life Insurance. VA
said also about 370,000 holders of
World War I U.S. Government life
insurance will collect a total of
about $24 million.
Thief Takes One Spud From Store
BOISE, Idaho, Iff)—There was a
weekend burglary attempt at a
local grocery. Total loss: one po
tato.
Police said someone forced open
a sliding door, cut open a sack of
potatoes just inside and tossed a
spud across the alley. But they
4iidn’t try to enter the store.
! Sitka Youths Returned
Home After Attempted
Canoe Trip to Seattle
SITKA, lPft—Two 16-year-old
Sitka lads who set out Thursday
morning on a great adventure, a
trip to Seattle in a ‘borrowed”
canoe, were back home Saturday,
showing little effects of a night in
the wilds.
The two boys, Richard Crueger
and Donald Noreen, were found
yesterday hiding on nearby little
Gavenski Island by a U.S. deputy
marshal and the father of one of
the boys.
The youngsters, who had fre
quently voiced threats to run
away from home and journey to
Seattle, left here in the wee hours
Thursday. They got as far as the
island and decided to call it quits.
Searchers spotted their camp
fire on the island Thursday night.
The boys, trying to elude search
ers, were located Friday afternoon
and banished to the warm con
fines of their homes.
Communication j
Kotzebue
Oct. 29, 1955 !
To the Nome Nugget:
I was interested to see a re
print in the Juneau Independent
of Lester Baonson’s letter of con
demnation to Governor Heintzle
j man over his failure to replace j
Ben Young, Second Division rep
resentative to the Board of Road
Commissioners, in which he stat
ed the governor was not acting in
accordance with the expressed
wishes of the Second Division
legislators.
To put the record right I would
appreciate having this letter print
ed: Mr. -Bronson is speaking for
the Democratic legislators of the
Second Division only when he
makes such a statement. The fail
ure of the Democratic controlled
legislature of 1955 to confirm the
appointment of Ben Young to the
Board of Road Commissioners de
spite his eminent qualifications
and excellent record was an out
right violation of assurance by
Second Division Democrats, in
cluding Mr. Bronson, to Senator
Charles Jones and myself, Repub
licans, that Mr. Young would be
confirmed.
When I asked Mr. Bronson why
Mr. Young’s appointment had not
been confirmed as we had been
assured it would be, he said there
were too many Republicans serv- (
ing on boards.
Yours very truly,
Edith R. Bullock
Representative
Second Division
Police Seek Hoodlum
Killer of Racketeer
Slain by Bomb in Truck
PHOENIX, Ariz., lA5^—A nation
wide quiz of hoodlums was under
way Saturday in the search for
the bomb slayer of pudgy Willie
Bioff, a retired filmland racketeer
credited with talking a few of his j
pals into ail.
Bioff, 55, was killed when his
pickup truck was blown apart as
hd was starting it at his home irv
northeast Phoenix Friday. He had
been living here about six years
under an assumed name with his
wife, who said after the explosion:
“He didn’t have an enemy in
the world.”
The blast mutilated Bioff’s body
and threw wreckage over a radius
of several hundred feet. It tore a
hole in the roof of the garage, shot
two chunks of metal into the wall
of a home about 100 feet away,
and shattered windows in several
houses.
Bioff’s body was blown about
15 feet from the garage. His right
leg and right hand were tom off.
Sheriff’s officers thought at first
Bioff was just plain William Nel
son. About an hour after the blast
a reporter for the Phoenix Ga
zette, acting on a tip from an un
disclosed source, told officers he
believed Nelson was actually Bi
off. He and an officer questioned
Mrs. Bioff, who admitted her hus
band’s true identity.
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Railroad Man Runs
Alaska Railroad Now,
Says Douglas McKay
PORTLAND, Ore., GP)—Interior
Secretary McKay told the Western
Republican Conference here Fri
day that the Alaska Railroad used
to lose money regularly, but last
year made more than $2 million
and improved its service as well.
“We have a railroad man, not a
politician, running it,” he said.
McKay credited the Eisenhower
Administration with “trying to
spend as little of the people’s
money as we can and as wisely as
we know how.”
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NORTHWEST HIT BY
STORMS AND FLOODS
By the Associated Press
Floodfighters throughout west
ern Washington and British Col
umbia were keeping a close watch
Saturday on cloudy skies, reced
ing rivers and weakened dikes.
The threat of a major flood in
the rich Skagit Valley of western
Washington appeared to have
passed, although dikes holding the
swirling river within its banks
were weakened by the pounding
river and two days of heavy rain.
At least 100 homes in British
Columbia were reported damaged
as Seymour River and Mosquito
Creek raged out their channels.
The storm caused damage in the
province estimated at “several
hundred thousand dollars.”
The Olympic Peninsula of
Washington took a terrific beating
from the storm. Waters from the
Quillayute and Pysht Rivers still
covered farmlands.
Dungeness, Wash., was cut off
when two bridges washed out, and
high winds which accompanied
the storm stangled communica
tions.
Rioting Japanese
Protest Survey
Of U.S. Air Base
SUN AKA WA, Japan —About
100 persons were injured Satur
day, some seriously, in a wild
melee between Japanese police
and screaming villagers and labor
unionists trying to halt surveying
for a U.S. air base expansion.
Twelve hundred steel-helmeted
police pushed through about the
,same numbfr of rock-throwing, |
mop-waving demonstrators and \
advanced into fields the farmers I
had smeared with human waste to j
block the survey.
Behind them came 28 surveyors
who then completed all but about
one week’s remaining work on
plotting runway extensions to per
mit U.S. jets to land at nearby
Tackikawa Air Base. The Japan
ese government promised the U.S.
it would make the extensions.
Incomplete reports said about
60 police and 40 demonstrators
were hurt and some will need al
most a month to recover from ser
ious blows received in the push
ing, tugging and rock-throwing.
The police did.not use their arms.
Woman demonstrators stood by
with with straw mops dripping
human waste in an effort to make
the police turn back.
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Ike’s Assistant
Warns GOP of Big
Campaign Fight
WASHINGTON, Uh— President
Eisenhower’s administrative as
sistant warned Republicans Fri
day night that “we’re in for the
fight of a lifetime” in next year’s
presidential campaign.
Howard Pyle told a banquet
session of the Western Republican
Conference here that the success
of Eisenhower’s program has
moved the Democrats to despera
tion.
There are groups, he added at a
news conference, working to de
liver huge blocs of votes that pose
a threat to Republican prospects.
He did not identify those groups
but spoke of “growing regimenta
tion of voters” as a threat to “our
basic political freedom.”
Pyle urged fellow party mem
bers to “get out in the streets and
preach” Republicanism and what
he referred to as the accomplish
ments of the Eisenhower Admin
istration.
But California’s Gov. Goodwin
J. Knight, in a speech prepared
for delivery at the conference on
Saturday, hewed closer to the
we’re-going-to-win theme of other
speakers.
All other campaign issues, as
serted Knight, are subordinate to
those embracing Constitutional
rights, peace plus prosperity, in
tegrity in leadership and capital
ism. “With those four issues as the
cornerstone of our next presiden
tial campaign,” he said, “we are
assured of support from our Am
erican people and victory at the
polls in November of next year.”
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