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Look’ to be First
Unfurled at Pliila.
WASHINGTON, (JV— President
Eisenhower announced Thursday
that the first 49-star flag will be
raised over Independence Hall in
Philadelphia on July 4 and then
taken to the state capitol in
Alaska.
Eisenhower presented the flag
TlWsday morning to Sen. Hugh
Scott (R-Pa> at the White House
at ceremony attended by Secre
tary of the Interior Fred Seaton.
The flag, made in Philadelphia
at the Army Quartermaster De
pot, was used in the White House
ceremony on Jan. 3 when Eisen
hower signed the proclamation ad
mitting Alaska into the union as
the 49th state.
The White House made public
a letter sent by Eisenhower to
Alaska’s Governor William A.
Egan. He said:
“Sen. Scott will. present this
flag to the Mayor of Philadelphia
on July 4th for display over In
dependence Hall on that day.
“From there I understand It
will be carried to you to be flown
over your state capitol, after
which it will be deposited in the
Alaska State Museum.
“I would like to express my
great pleasure at being able to
convey through you to the people
of Alaska the first. flag of new
design in 47 years.”
The first official raising of a
49-star flag will be held July. 4
at Ft. McHenry in Baltimore,
where Francis Scott Key wrote
the Star-Spangled Banner. It will
be flown there at 12:01 a.m.
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A-F Plan to Make
1
Own Power Up For
Senate Scrutiny
By FRITZ WITTI
(AP Special Washington Service)
WASHINGTON, UR — Alaska’s j
senators have asked an investiga- >
tion of an Air Force decision to
•provide its own power generating j
equipment for its base at Clear,
Alaska.
The Air Force described as |
vague, proposals by two Alaska
utilities groups and said “We can
not find any indication in either
one of the two proposals . . . that
would be in the best interests of
the government to accept.”
Sens. Gruening and Bartlett op
posed the decision and have asked
the Senate Government Opera
tions Committee to investigate.
Chairman John D. McClellan
(D - Ark) has asked his staff to
make a preliminary study to de
termine if the proposed investiga
tion is warranted.
The Alaska firms involved are
the Golden Valley Electric Assn.,
Inc., a REA cooperative at Fair
banks, and Northern Public Ser
vice Co., a private utility at Fair
I banks.
The power plant would be part
of the ballistics missile early"
warning system in Alaska and the
Air Force estimated the initial
cost of its own plant at 16 mil
lion dollars.
In his letter asking an investi
gation. Gruening said the north
ern proposal was about 13% mil
lion dollars and that the addi
tional cost to the government is
“unconscionable and without jus
tification.”
Bartlett endorsed Gruening’s
letter and also asked an investi
gation by the McClellan commit
I tee.
Air Force spokesmen presented
; detailed reasons for rejection of
^ the Alaska power proposals.
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States’ Regulation of
Fireworks Expected to
Produce Safe, Sane Fourth
BOSTON, tP)—This may be the
Fourth of July when the nation
may escape even a single fire
work fatality, Percy Bugbee, gen
eral manager of the National Fire
Protection Assn., said in a state
ment today.
“As far as fireworks are con
cerned, we have almost reached
the ‘safe and sane Fourth’ so long
campagined for,” he said.
In 1939, the record was 5,573
fireworks casualties. There were
13 deaths, 177 eye injuries includ- |
ing blindness, 41 losses of fingers l
and hands, 37 fractures and inter- I
nal injuries, and 5,305 cases of [
burns and lacerations requiring j
hospital treatment.
And this was by no means the
worst year, he emphasized.
Today, Bugbee stated, only
seven states—Louisiana, Mississ
ippi, Missouri, Nevada, Oklahoma,
Texas and Tennessee—along with
Alaska and Hawaii, do not control
the sale and use of fireworks on
a state-wide basis.
Contributors to the 4th of July
Fund: $1 — John Thomas, June
Rotman. Jim McConnell, Ray
Gamble, Don Stephen, Myra Mc
Donald, Laura Johnsen, Elsie
Sanders, Mary Honsberger, Don
Billman, Bernard Katexac, John
Hutney, R.Wj Whittier, Bill Haley,
Mary Jo Swanberg, James Roth,
C. A. Stenback, Sam Ailak, Bar
row Morgan;
$2—John Kiminock, Mike Viv
ieros, Pat Analoak, Don Hoover,
Betty Alexander, Willie and Vir
ginia Brown, Research Boat Nat
chik, John Stolpe, Oscar Wall,
Jim West, Chubby Douglas, J. R.
Unterwagner, Frank Wince, R. A.
Luke, Star Harhut, G. Crou, R.
Pennykamp, Rudy Westley;
$5—Carl Glavinovich, Alex Mc
Innes, R. Hardy, James F. O’Sulli
van, Earl Coulthard, Ice Cream
Center, E. P. McCarron, Les Kel
ler, A1 Van Gries.
Other contributors will be listed
in the Monday issue of the Nug
get.
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Does Not Alarm
U. S. Officials
WASHINGTON, (tfi—1The State
Department said Thursday it was
not aware of any alarm or appre
hension among U.S. officials over
any threats Soviet Premier Khru
shchev may have voiced either
publicly or privately.
It said the Soviet leader has re
cently made a number of public
statements “distinctly menacing
in tone” and “seems at times to
enjoy making dramatic state
ments.”
These assertions came in re
sponse to inquiries about a copy
righted story in the New York
Herald Tribune by Joseph Alsop
which said the inner circle of the
U.S. government has been shaken
and alarmed by a “Hitler-like”
interview given former New York
Gov. Averill Harriman by
Khrushchev.
Alsop’s story reported that
Khurshchev made crude threats
and used unprintable language in
the interview with Harriman in
Moscow recently.
Along the same line, the New
York Times quoted an informed
source as saying that “Khrush
chev was very rough in his talks
with Harriman.”
In response to inquiries, Lin
coln White, State Department
press officer, read a statement at
a news conference which said in
part:
“In his report to the nation on
June 23, Secretary of State Chris
tian Herter made it perfectly
clear that the United States would
not be intimidated by threats.”
California Miss Heads
Into Wimbledon Finals
WIMBLEDON, England, (J"> —
Darlene Hard of Montebello, Cal.,
trounced Sandra Reynolds ol
South Africa Thursday 6-4, 6-4
and went into the women’s final
of the Wimbledon Tennis Cham
pionships Saturday against Maria
Bueno of Brazil. Miss Buenc
ousted Sally Moore of Bakers
field, Calif., 6-2, 6-4.
Thus Miss Hard, a bouncy, 23
year-old former waitress, is as
signed the task of trying to keep
intact a string of U. S. women’s
victories at Wimbledon, unbroken
in 22 years.
The last • non-American to take
the crown was Dorothy Round oi
England, who won in 1937.
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Fire Destroys
Electronic Brain
At Pentagon
WASHINGTON, UP) — At least a
30 million dollar loss was chalked
up today after fire burned through
a windowless ground-level sec
tion of the Pentagon, headquarters
of the nation’s armed services
As workmen and technicians
struggled to clear away wreckage
of Thursday’s fire, officials of the
International Business Machines
Corp., after inspecting equipment
leased to the Air Force, said in
effect.
“Toss it all on the scrap heap.”
That equipment was 30 million
dollars worth of electric brain
machines,-burned into a melted,
charred mass.
The area hit by the four-hour
fire that smouldered through walls
and behind false ceilings re
sembled an explosion-wrecked
coal mine today. „
Water-soaked blackened strips
of wallboard hung * crazily from
the walls. Timbers dangled askew
from high ceilings. Black water
mixed with sooty debris stood
ankle deep on the floors.
In the heart of the Air Force
statistical office were the melted
scraps of three main computing
systems. Tape used in the ma
chines, some of it bearing highly
important data, - was a melted
smelly blob on the floor.
Key personnel remained on
duty in the Pentagon while the
fire burned through the compar
atively small area.
But most of the 30,000 military
and civilian employes were sent
home when the fire cut off elec
trical and water supplies.
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Helen Dunbar
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Meets First and Third Mondays
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HERB JENKS, W.M. ,
Norvin W. Lewis, Sec.
Meets First and Third Thursday
of Each Month
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Ash Craft
President
Herb Jenks
Secretary
Wednesday Luncheor
Parent-Teachers Assn.
Meets last Tuesday of every
month at School.
WERNER BOHRER. President
VESTA SUNDSTROM, Secty.
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