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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LVI No. 124 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1954 Per Copy—15^
No Agreement Results
From Talks Between
Alaska and PNA Airlines
WASHINGTON, MB—'The presi
dent of Pacific Northern Airlines
left Washington yesterday assert
ing “no agreement has resulted”
from talks with Alaska Airlines
officials concerning a possible
merger of the two Alaska car
riers.
The official, A. G. Woodley,
added, however, Pacific “is will
ing to leave the door open for
further discussions.”
He said he was “convinced that
substantial benefits to the gov
^ernment can be realized by such
^p consolidation.”
W A Civil Aeronautics Bo'ard ex
aminer has found merger of the
two systems would be “in the
public interest” and at a recent
proceeding several members of
the board indicated strong in
terest in the consolidation.
The board is now considering
renewal of the carrier’s author
ity to operate between the Pacific
Northwest and Alaska. The exam
iner recommended that Pacific’s
operation between Seattle and
Anchorage be re - authorized for
seven years but that Alaska’s
flights between Seattle - Portland
and Fairbanks be found not in
the public interest.
Cyclonic Panty Raid By
500 LSU Male Students
Fizzles To A Breeze
BATON ROUGE, La., UP) — A
panty raid by more than 500 Loui
siana State University students
began like a cyclone but fizzled
to a breeze despite coed taunts of
“They’re here, you want ’em?”
Police and sheriff’s deputies,
grabbing handfuls of tear gas gre
nades, just in case, sped to1 the
noisy campus last night to help
calm the uproar.
But no arrests were made.
Coeds draped themselves in
lighted dormitory windows — a
few tossed out flimsy garments.
The milling males chanted the
football battle cry of “Go go go”
—but they let it go at that.
Dean o'X men Arden O. French,
who led defenders, described the
outbreak as “a sad comment on
the mentality of some college stu
dents.”
Government May Never
Release Weyer Report
On Sea-Train Operations
SEATTLE, UP)—The government
is not ready to release the Wyer
Report and its findings on sea
train operations to Alaska and it
may never be made public, Sen.
Magnuson (D-Wash) says.
Reports have circulated here
that an Eastern firm of consulting
engineers recommends, in the re
port, that Seattle be the southern
terminus of an extensive sea-train
operation to the north. The Seat
tle Chamber of Commerce has de
manded release of the report.
Ike Appeals For
Enactment Of His
Health Program
NEW YORK, Im — President
Eisenhower, winding up a two
day visit to New York, sounded
new appeals for enactment of his
hc-alth reinsurance program and
fo'r election of another Republican
Congress.
In the final address of his New
York visit, the chief executive de
clare last night his program for
expansion of the nation’s volun
tary health insurance plans —
pigeon-holed by the Republican
controlled Congress last July 13—
is “the logical .alternative to so
cialized medicine.”
Speaking to 2,000 persons who
paid $100 each to charity at the
annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial
Foundation diner at the Waldorf
Astoria Hotel, Eisenhower said
the program will be re-submitted
to the new Congress convening in
January.
“We know that the American
people will not long be denied
access to adequate medical facil
ities,” the President declared.
“The program for voluntary
health insurance is one further
step in achieving this objective
in the American way.”
Under the Eisenhower program
the government would underwrite
up to 75 per cent of the losses
suffered by private and non-profit
insurance firms as a result of vol
untary expansion of their health
and medical programs.
The President will pick up the
political train again tomorrow at
an outdoor luncheon at his Gettys
burg, Pa., farm to promote the
candidacies of Pennsylvania Re
publicans seeking congressional
seats and state office.
Judge Medley, Old-Time
Cordova Counsel,
Dies In Seattle
SEATTLE, m—Atty. Edward F.
(Judge) Medley, 71, old-time Alas
kan and counsel' for numerous
Alaska business interests, died
here early today. He had been
under treatment at Doctor’s Hos
pital for some time for a heart
ailment.
He represented Austin E. (Cap)
Lathrop, Alaska capitalist, from
the mid-1920’s until Lathrop’s
death four years ago, and has
been active in settling of the
Lathrop estate.
Medley was brought up in Bos
ton and graduated from Boston
University law school. Shortly af
ter he was admitted to practice,
he went to Cordova in the early
1900’s and remained there until
he came to Seattle in 1926.
He was a United States com
missioner in Alaska and won the
nickname “judge” from holding
that position.
A son, Edward Jr., lives in
Boston.
Official Charges Union
Demands Scuttle Proposed
New Service to Hawaii
WASHINGTON, iff) — A travel
agency official said last night a
plan to put an additional steam
ship into the Hawaiian trade has
been blocked by what he called
“excessive union demands.”
N. Sidney Nyhus, vice president
of the U.S. Travel Agency, Inc., a
private concern, said a syndicate
had been negotiating with the
Alaska Steamship Co. for pur
chase of the SS Aleutian, passen
ger-cargo ship now laid up at
Seattle.
He said the syndicate, o‘f which
he is a member, planned to buy
the Aleutian and operate it be
tween San Francisco and Hawaii.
He said the syndicate has no of
ficial connection with the travel
agency although he said some
members of the group, like him
self, are associated with the
agency.
The negotiations were proceed
ing satisfactorily in San Francis
co and Seattle, but were “not
tied down,” he said, when the
syndicate was informed by sea
faring unions what they wanted
included in union contracts to run
the ship.
“They wanted to take over the
ship,” Nyhus said. He added he
could not recall definitely which
unions were involved and gave no
details on their contract pro
posals.
The unions’ position, he said,
halted all negotiations for the
9,500-ton Aleutian. He said the
proposal now is definitely off.
Negotiate To Charter
Ship To Start Cabin-Class
Service To Honolulu
WASHINGTON, U) — A West
Coast shipping man said today he
is negotiating with the Maritime
Administration for charter of a
vessel to operate between San
Francisco and Honolulu.
Elmer Martin of the Girdwood
Shipping Co., Seattle, told a news
man it is hoped to begin cabin
class service “by late spring.”
He said the vessel sought by
the company is the SS LaGuardia,
now in the reserve fleet. It for
merly was used in the Pacific and
Mediterranean as a troop depend
ents’ carrier.
He said as re-designed the ship
would accommodate “about 600”
passengers. It will cost, he added,
nearly two million dollars” to re
activate and ready the ship for
service.
“I might say the unions made
it possible for us to operate,” he
said, “in their recognition that a
cabin-class ship has lower reve
nues than a first-class ship.”
He said his company proposes
steamship service offering “for
the first time cabins for two at less
than aircoach round trip.”
“That’s something novel,” he
declared.
Democrats’ Sweep in Alaska Seen
As a Result of Ike’s Attitude,
McKay’s Remarks, G.O.P. Discord
By JIM HUTCHESON
Associated Press
, Alaska Legislative Correspondent
In a week of weighing the elec
; tion factors that returned Alaska
i to the Democrats—bag and bag
gage—political leaders and news
papers have pointed both to the
Republican record in Alaska and
the national administration’s at
titude toward the territory as the
decisive issues.
Although one of the Republican
appeals was “elect Ike’s team in
Alaska,” the comments of key ob
servers have indicated a belief
that the Eisenhower administra
tion’s attitude toward Alaska
weighed much more heavily than
any record of the administration
in the national or international
field.
Major points often mentioned
were Secretary McKay’s remarks
NATO Members Invite
West Germany To
Join Defense Alliance
PARIS, Iff)—The 14 members of
North Atlantic Treaty Organiza
tion invited West Germany today
to join the defense alliance.
French Premier Mendes - France
joined in the invitation.
Meanwhile, an old dispute be
tween France and Germany . . .
over the industrially rich Saar
area . . . developed as a possible
trouble spot in the Paris talks on
German rearmament. Mendes
France has, in effect, set a 24
hour deadline for France and
West Germany to come to satis
factory terms over the future
status o'f the Saar.
The French Premier said he
will not sign the Western agree
ments on German rearmament un
less there’s a satisfactory settle
ment of the Saar issue.
BEGINNER'S LUCK?
NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif.,
(ffl—A man pointed a pistol at a
liquor store owner early today
and demanded all his money.
“I asked him if he would please
leave me alone as I had just
started in business,” the store
owner, Sidney David, told police.
He said the gunman retorted:
“I’m just starting in business too”
and escaped with $260.
LONDON, Iff)—The Labor party
retained two House of Commons
seats in elections held yesterday
to fill vacancies.
TOKYO, UP) — West Germany
and Japan signed a new one-year
trade agreement today calling for
102 million dollars in trade and
liberalizing Japanese exports to
Germany.
on his Alaska trip; the factional
ism in the Republican party and
the national administration’s at
titude toward statehood.
Some of the Republican leaders
showed bitterness about what
they felt was a by-passing by the
national party of the nominal
GOP leaders in Alaska.
Even the comments of most
Democrats indicated a belief that
it was basically a voters’ deter
mination. to sweep out the “ins.”
Here are cross-section high
lights of some of the post-election
estimates:
Non-Partisans Can't Win
Sen. Elton Engstrom of Juneau,
long-time Alaska Republican
chairman whose position was in
volved in a 1954 party factional
dispute: “An administration can’t
be non-partisan, ignore recogni
tion of party officials and regular
Republicans and expect to win
elections.”
Walter Hickel, Republican Na
tional Committeeman, a leader of
the “dissident 18” at Anchorage
who openly criticized Gov. Heint
zleman last spring: “We attempt
ed to tell the people in power a
year ago that this would happen
unless the people of Alaska had
some say.”
Ray Beach of Juneau, secretary
of the Republican Central Com
mittee: “The debacle of 1954 is
the inevitable result of the faction
alism generated by the adminis
tration’s abysmal ignorance or stu
dious avoidance of the political
realities in its blindly vindicative
pursuit of a policy of emascula
tion and exclusion against a con
siderable segment of the Republi
can party not included among the
‘ardent admirers’ of the first
hour’; that is, prior to the 1952
convention.”
Party Bickering a Cause
Congressional Delegate Bartlett
on election night, attributed the
Republican downfall to bickering
within the party, national admin
istration policies involving the
territory, acts of the 1953 Repub
lican Legislature and a revived
unity in the Democratic party
“healing its wounds after 1952.”
The Alaska Daily Empire of
Juneau: “All through Alaska we
have watched the Republican or
ganization fall apart. The people
in responsible party positions
have been, variously, too proud,
too arrogant, too do-nothing—or,
possibly too kind—to build an or
ganization to take advantage of
the election won two years ago
and to follow through to victory.
The way to win an election, as the
results proved, is to work. The
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