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A RAY OF SPRING SUNSHINE
Publicizing Eisenhower’s Press Conferences
The question of televising the President’s press
conferences is still in the discussion stage, despite the
announced intention of officials of the new Adminis
tration to have at least one press conference, a month
televised. Although the television networks are will
ing to provide the time and sponsor the program as
a public service one, several difficulties have arisen.
One question is said to be the problem raised by
the instantaneous nature of television and radio cov
erage. An unwise word, or an incorrect one, by the
President could not be corrected or clarified before
presented to the public—as is the case today with
strictly newspaper and radio-commentator coverage.
Much is being made over the problem, objectors point
ing out that the President’s words, if off-base, might
reverberate throughout the world and cause untold
damage before a clarification could be issued.
IKE REVAMPS SECURITY COUNCIL
President Dwight D. Eisenhower has moved to
reorganize the make-up and operations of the National
Security Council in an effort to improve the system
of deciding policy issues affecting national security.
It will be recalled the President expressed this inten
tion in his campaign in 1952 and his action supports
this pledge.
The make-up of the National Security Council
hereafter will be the President, Vice President,
Secretaries of State, Defense and Treasury, the Direc
tor of Defense Mobilization (when appointed). In ad
dition, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Director of Central
Intelligence and the special assistant to the President
for cold war planning will attend meetings of the
National Security Council.
The changes made by Eisenhower are practical
ones, which will enable the new National Security
Agency to operate more effeciently. Under the old
setup the National Security Council included a senior
staff and was charged with planning functions. Under
Eisenhower’s plan, an enlarged planning board will be
separated from the council and thus leave council mem
bers free to decide on policy issues involving national
security.
Illiterates-r-There are 2,500,000 persons of more
than 10 years of age in the United States who cannot
read or write and who are therefore classed as illiterate.
ARC Head Says Richardson
Highway Will Be Kept
Open All Next Winter
VALDEZ, GPl — In an appear
ance before the Valdez Chamber
of Commerce, Alaska Road Com
missioner A. F. Ghiglione express
ed confidence that Congress will
not cut road funds sharply enough
to endanger winter maintentance
of the highway through Thomp
son Pass.
Ghiglione also squelched a ru
mor that the Valdez headquarters
of the Alaska Road Commission
are to be moved to Glenallen.
Ghiglione told of difficulties he
has encountered before congres
j sional committees, in seeking
funds for territorial roads, because
of the feeling of congressmen that
Alaska’s motor fuel taxes and
truck license fees are too low. He
said there is' a danger of further
cuts in road funds because the
1953 legislature did not make any
increase in gasoline or truck taxes.
Mayor George Gilson reported
the Valdez city council is consid
ering a two-cent a gallon gasoline
tax, with the proceeds to be turn
ed over to the/Department of In
terior for winter maintenance of
Thompson Pass. Ghiglione said
such action would be an impres
sive gesture and undoubtedly
would be received with favor.
Cordova Hotel Man Tells
Congressmen How To
Properly Hang U.S. Flag
WASHINGTON, UP) — An Alas
kan told congressmen today he
wished they would learn how to
display the U.S. flag properly.
Bruce Kendall, Cordova hotel
operator here for hearings on Al
aska statehood legislation, wound
up the morning session by telling
members of the House Interior
subcommittee the flag in the com
mittee room was hanging incor
rectly.
“The stripes should never run
down unless the flag is supported
by a staff,” he said, “I wish
you’d correct it”
Rep. Saylor iR-Pa>, subcommit
tee chairman, referred the matter
to the committee clerk. He com
mented, “We’ve had representa
tives of the American Legion, Vet
erans of Foreign Wars and other
groups in this room and no one
ever noticed it before.”
“That just shows how patriotic
Alaskans are,” replied Kendall.
MALAN REELECTED
IN S. AFRICA VOTING
PRETORIA, South Africa, UP)—
Prime Minister Daniel Malan’s
“get-tough-with-the-hlacks” Na
tionalist government won renewed
power and possibly a doubled
majority in South Africa’s parlia
mentary elections Wednesday.
The prime minister’s party stood
on its severe policy of racial seg
regation (Apartheid! as opposed
to softer methods of enforcing
white supremacy favored by the
United Party. Both sides pledged
themselves tp uphold the domin
ant position of the two and a half
million whites, who are outnum
berel here four to one.
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Eisenhower Challenges Russia to
Practice Peace They Preach by
Ending Cold War, Disarming
WASHINGTON, UP) —President'1
Eisenhower challenged Russia’s
new leaders Thursday to practice
the peace they preach by agreeing
to end the cold war, disarm the
world and invest the savings in a
global fund to war on “the brute
fprces of poverty and need.”
The alternative, he said, is at
worst atomic war and at best un
ending fear which finds “human
ity hanging from a cross of iron.”
“Is there no other way the world
may live?” Eisenhower asked.
“What is the Soviet Union ready
to do?
“The United States is ready to
assume its just part.”
The Eisenhower plan—sure to
create a sensation at this stage of
East-West relations — was laid
down in the President’s first full
dress speech on foreign policy
since he took office in January.
It was delivered before the Am
erican Society of Newspaper Edi
tors and broadcast by all radio
and television national hookups.
The President said that if Rus
sia is willing to take the prelim
inary steps — including indepen
dence for the East European sat
ellites—this country would agree
to work toward a world disarma
ment plan which would ban atom
ic weapons.
An “era ended with the death
of Joseph Stalin,” he declared,
and the new leadership in Mos
cow like the rest of the world has
opportunity “to. turn the black
tide of events.”
The U.S., he went on, is deter
mined to try to “seize this chance”
and if it fails the world “need be
divided no longer in its clear
knowledge of who has condemned
mankind to this fate.”
No issue which today lies be
tween the Soviet and free worlds,
he said, “is insoluble—given only
the will to respect the rights of
all nations.” •
The President listed these spec
i ific steps:
J Conclusion of an “honorable
armistice” in Korea, followed by
political discussions leading to
j “free elections in a United Korea.”
2 An end to Red agression in
; Indochina and Malaya.
3 Completion of an Austrian
j peace treaty.
4 Unification of Germany.
5 Creation of a European com
munity with “full independence
of the East European nations.”
With progress on these issues,
Eisenhower said the U.S. would
welcome agreements on reduction
of armaments. He then declared:
“This government is ready to
ask its people to join with all na
tions in devoting a substantial per
centage of the savings achieved
by disarmament to a fund for
world aid and reconstruction.
“The purpose of this great work
would be: to help other peoples
to develop the undeveloped areas
of the world; to stimulate profit- j
able and fair world trade; to as- j
sist all peoples to know the bless- |
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ings of productive freedom.”
Repeatedly he hammered the
point that the American govern
ment is interested in deeds, not
“oratory,” from the Kremlin and
that the ideas of proven good faith
and safeguards against the viola
tions underline his five-point dis
armament program.
He stated this program as:
1. Limitation, by fixed ceilings
or by percentages, of the “military
and security forces of all nations.”
2. ‘A pledge by all nations to
limit production of strategic mat
erials for military purposes.
3. International control of atom
ic energy for peaceful purposes
“and to ensure prohibition of at
omic weapons.”
4. Limitation or prohibition of
other weapons of “great destruc
tiveness.”
5. Enforcement of all these
agreements by “adequate safe
guards, including a practical sys
tem of inspection under the Uni
ted Nations.”
Alaska’s Population Up
77% 1940-50, Compared to
14% In U.S. —Sundborg
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as a whole and 53 per cent in
California, the fastest growing
state.
School enrolment increased from
8,552 to 18,048 between 1947 and
1952 while the number of schools
climbed from 78 to 107, he said.
While income tax collections in
creased from $13,680,000 in 1949
to $41,006,579 in 1952, Sundborg
estimated that if all concerns
said tax on business done in the
territory the total would reach
175 million.
Sundborg outlined a vast devel
opment of Alaska resources which
he believes list just ahead.
He also differed with those who
feel Alaska's population is too
small for its admission into the
union or that it should not be
given two U.S. senators until its
population increases to the nation
al average per senator.
The territory is as large as
Nevada at the present time, hq
said, and has a population greater
than did 27 present states at the
time of their admission to the
Union.
Government estimates give Al
aska 65,000 square miles of poten
tial farming land and another
35,000 square miles of * grazing
land, Sundborg said. He predicted
however that agriculture never
would be an important part o'f
the Alaska economy and express
ed belief that this should not be
important in its quest for state
hood.
Each area of the United States,
he said, tends to specialize in what
it can do best.
The Baltic Sea is said to have
frozen over frequently in the
Middle Ages.
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