Alaskans Busy Promoting
State's Needs at Capitol
WASHINGTON, UP) — Appropri
ations for Rampart dam site stu
dies will get consideratioh in the
1961 budget requests now under
review, according to a letter from
the White House to Senator Ernest
Gruening.
Richard A. Downing, Commis
sioner of Public Works, recom
mended that the Fairbanks-Nome
Highway be considered for inter
state and defense highway system
in a Congressional study on
Alaska roads.
Lawrence Washington a brother
of General George Washington,
was a Marine Corps Officer.
French National Assembly i
Votes to Uphold Leaders
PARIS, l#i — The first attempt
to oust a French government
under the new Fifth Republic fell
flat early Saturday in the Na
tional Assembly.
Premier Michel Debre won
easily against a motion seeking
to censure his government for its
economic policies, especially in
reducing war veterans’ pensions. {
A bloc of Socialists and Radical !
Socialists who sponsored the mo- '
tion could muster only 110 votes,!
far short of the 277 required for j
approval.
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WW II Oregon Isolationist
Congressman Dies at 82
EUGENE, Ore., UP* — Former
U. S. Senator Rufus C. Holman of
Oregon, flamboyant Congressional
isolationist before and during
World War II, died here Friday.
He was 82.
He suffered a fatal heart attack
at the home of a stepson, Ernest
Lundeen, where he had spent the
Thanksgiving holiday.
Holman served in the Senate
from 1939 through 1944, when he
was defeated in a bid for the Re
publican nomination by Senator
Wayne Morse, now a Democrat.
Holman started in state politics as
a liberal, but as a Senator was
an arch-conservative.
President is ‘Entitled to
Respect,’ States Truman
KANSAS CITY, UP> — Former
President Harry S. Truman says
President Eisenhower is entitled
to the respect of the nation and
he sympathizes with Ike.
“I may not agree with him po
litically but that is a different
matter,” Truman said in a speech
before the National Council for
Social Studies Friday night.
“You have never heard me
make an attack on the President,”
he said, “although I may have
thought there were things which
should have been attacked.”
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COUTERFEIT COIN RING
PARIS, UP) — French police
have broken up a smuggling ring
that specialized in counterfeit
coins made of real gold.
Gold Napoleons — about the
size of an American quarter —
were counterfeited in Paris and
smuggled into Algeria where the
coin is popular with those who
like to hoard gold.
Police said the counterfeiters
made only about 11 cents profit
on each coin but their take over
the past year amoutned to
$280,000.
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