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Vote, Alaskans, Vote
— BOB ATWOOD — •
Guest Editor
The prospects for winning statehood for Alaska
in the next session of Congress are good, and are con
stantly getting better. The so-called Tennessee Plan
appears to be appropriate. It is winning strong support
and approval in high places.
Both political parties have taken a strong stand
in favor of immediate statehood. There is reason to
predict that the Adminstration will take a similar
strong stand.
It could be that Alaska will approach the next
Congress in a stronger position than ever before in
seeking its place in the federal union.
This tremendous build-up is largely the result of
the determination and courage of Alaskans themselves.
It was started last winter when the territory wrote its
state constitution. It grew stronger when Alaskans
voted last spring to ratify the constitution and also to
go ahead wth the Tennessee Plan for seeking admission.
These two developments have already drawn the
interest and approval of friends throughout the nation.
Secretary of the Interior Seaton, long a statehood advo
cate, has shown his willingness to throw the full weight
of his office behind it.
Perhaps the most courageous thing Alaskans have
done is to vote for the Tennessee Plan. It is simply a
plan to seek statehood by acting like a state without
delay. Alaskans will elect their two Senators and one
Representative to go to Washington next January.
Those men will,, in effect, knock on the doors of Con
gress and ask to be seated. Seven states have been ad
mitted by doing exactly this. There is no known reason
why Alaska should not have the same success.
The presence of these “elected officials” in Wash
ington should do much to draw this nation’s attention
to the plight of Alaska. This will be helpful because
Alaska has many friends who will rally to her support
when it is needed. These friends include virtually all
the press of the nation. And it includes 82 percent of
the people of the United States, according to the latest
Gallup poll on that subject.
It is important that Alaskans should pick a power
ful team of salesmen to go babk to Washington as their
representatives. They must be able to coordinate all
this favorable sentiment outside of Congress—in the
press, among the people, and in the Administration.
They must also be able to present their story, with
this powerful backing, to the Congress itself so that
favorable legislative action will be forthcoming.
The selections will be made in the general election
October 9. I will be one of the candidates. Although I
have never aspired to public office and am not a career
politician, I will be happy and proud to do what I can
to win statehood if Alaskans see fit to elect me.
Eisenhower Designates
September 17 to 23
Constitution Week
WASHINGTON, UV--President
Eisenhower yesterday designated
Sept. 17-23 as Constitution Week,
to commemorate the signing of
the Constitution in Philadelphia
Sept. 17, 1787.
The White House proclamation
urged Americans to observe the
week with “appropriate ceremo
nies and activities in their schools
and churches and in other suit
able places.”
Joan Bennet Welcomes
Her Second Grandchild
HOLLYWOOD, W>—Actress Joan
Bennet welcomed her second
grandchild Wednesday, a seven
pound 12 ounce son bom to her
daughter, Melinda Markey Hay
den. ,
Miss Bennet’s first grandchild
was bom to another daughter,
Diana, two years ago.
Diana is a daughter by Miss
Bennett’s first husband, John Fox.
Melinda’s father is Gene arkey.
REINDEER AT THE U-R. MERC
Egypt Suffering Shortage of Pilots
To Guide Ships Through Suez Canal
Ads in New York
Papers Offer Over
$1,000 a Month
NEW YORK, (iT)—The Egyptian
government advertised here today
for pilots to guide ships thru the
Suez Canal at wages up to more
than $1,000 a month.
But the union to which Ameri
can pilots belong put its foot down
on any of its 12,000 members ac
cepting the jobs.
“Our position is nix,” said Capt.
C. T. Atkins, president of the In
ternational Organization of Mas
ters, Mates and Pilots.
“Our men aren’t going to work
under any dictatorship.
“If the tioys in Washington (the
federal government) say OK,
that’s different. But in our opin
ion acceptance of such jobs would
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be contrary to the best interests
of the United States.”
Egypt took over ownership of
the canal July 26. It had been run
by the Suez Canal Co., a private
business organization dominated
by British and French interests.
Most of the canal pilots had
been British or French. After
Egypt nationalized the canal,
many failed to return from home
from leaves and vacations. Egypt
was said to need 200 more pilots
to keep traffic normal thru the
canal, and has been advertising
abroad in an effort to get them.
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NO COURTEOUS DRIVERS
CHILLICOTHE, Mo, UP)—'The
Chillicothe Kiwanis Club his just
about given up its plan to honor a
careful', courteous driver each
week.
President Sam Long reported
to members the committee could
n’t find one.
Long said he watched 45 min
utes at a downtown corner apd
didn’t see one driver yield the
right of-way to a pedestrian.
15 Die in Crash of
Canadian Airliner
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ters of CAP’s manager there, Ted
Edelstein.
Chow Sing York, 25, Vancouver.
Dolores Jordan, 26, a stewardess
of Calgary, Alberta.
Robert Love, 28, of Victoria,
B.C., second officer of the plane.
And Robert Short, Vancouver,
the navigator.
Short and Love were taken
from the plane on stretchers and
rushed to a Vancouver hospital.
Miss Jordan walked from the
plane and was taken to a hospi
tal. The others were uninjured.
Newsmen were not permitted
to question the six on details of
the crash.
■ Still missing in the crash were
Mrs. Margaret Lem, Toronto, and
her baby daughter. Searchers be
lieved their bodies would be
found in the wreckage of the
plane or in the frigid waters
which lap the tidelands around
the emergency landing strip at
Cold Bay.
Rescuers who went to the crash
scene from Kodiak said wreckage
was scattered along the Cold Bay
beach for a quarter of a mile. It
was described as a beach which'
is covered with 4 to 5 feet of wat
er at high tide.
Capt. Thornton A. Tweed, the
32-year-old captain of the ill
fated plane, was taken to a hos
pital at Kodiak. He had a skull
| fracture and was in serious con
dition.
None of the dead passengers
were burned.
Stewardess Raymonde Ouelette,
of Vancouver, who flew back
with the survivors, said they told
her some of the crew and passen
gers were thrown clear; others
I crawled from the wreckage.
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