We Must Expect
Mo^e Sacrifices
In 1950 Says Nixon
MIAMI, Fla., iff!—Vice Presi
dent Richard M. Nixon said Sat
urday he can “see no reason to
approach the new year with fear."
At the same time, he warned
the American people they must
expect increased sacrifices.
“We must remember that as
ihlich as we like lower taxes and
higher living standards, it won’t
make any difference if we are not
here to enjoy them" he said.
In a rare interview while va
cationing in Miami, Nixon de
clared a tax cut is unlikely and
added:
“It would be unwise when it
is most important to maintain
adequate military defenses. We
cannot be thinking of reducing
our income when we have our
allies and problems in the de
fense field.
“The United States must main
tain a basic striking power. Whe
ther it is in the missile or long
range bomber force, that will be
left to our military experts.
“Until we have the missile cap
ability to .do what the Strategic
Air Command can do ' now, we
have to build and maintain the
Strategic Air Command. We must
continue to put maximum effort
into both.
“Although the Soviet Union in
some areas is ahead of us, they
are still building long - range
bombers on a large scale.
“We must see to it that our
overall superiority is maintained.
It’s going to cost money. We must
make a *hard headed’ choice with
in the department as to how the
money can best be spent.”
14 of 25 Miners
Rescued After
Gas Explosion
AMTNAT, Va. iffi—Rescue work
ers Saturday recovered the bodies
of 11 miners killed late Friday
when, a gas explosion trapped 25
men below ground in a mine that
straddles the Virgina-West Vir
ginia border.
Fourteen miners were brought
out of the colliery uninjured soon
after midnight.
The miners were hemmed in
500 feet underground.
This was the second disastrous
explosion in Pocahuntas Fuel Co.
mines in the border coalfields in
11 months. A February gas explo
sion snuffed out 37 lives.
Officials said there was no indi
cation as to how the blast hap
pened. The mine will not be re
opened until a full inspection is
made by federal, state, company
and union officials.
The blast trapped men in two
sections—a “joy loading” area
and a continuous mining area,
both sites of automatic coal load
ing machines. The survivors
were found by rescue workers at
the site of the joy loading section
some 1,000 feet from where the 11
other men met death.
The rescue work was painstak
ing as rescuers were forced to
inch their way along slate-clogged
passages filled with smoke and
deadly gasses. They carried oxy
gen tanks on their backs.
The mine is known as a gaseous
mine. The blast was believed to
be caused by an accumulation of
gas being set off by a spark of
unknown origin.
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Altar Boy Shot
In Face by Bullet
At Graveside Service
BARSTOW, Calif., —A bul
let struck a 12-year-old altar boy
in the face at graveside funeral
services here.
The .22-caliber slug lodged in
John Yslas’ jaw. He put his hand
to his face but neither spoke nor
made any other motion. The rites
were quickly ended.
Physicians said the wound was
not serious. Sheriff’s deputies re
ported the shooting was acci
dental. They said three teen-age
boys heading to the hills with
rifles took a couple of practice
shots. A rock apparently deflected
the nearly spent bullet around a
low Mill into the cemetery.
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Kotzebue To Hold
Hearing For Possible
Incorporation as Village
A formal hearing is to be held
at Kotzebue at the start of the
new year for consideration of the
possibility of incorporation as a
village.
Rev. Dick Miller. of the Kot
zebue Baptist Church said here
today that the hearing will be
held Friday, Jan. 3 before U. S.
Commissioner Alfred G. Francis.
Authority for incorporation of
villages was provided by the 1957
Alaska Legislature when it enact
ed the Village Incorporation Act
(1957 Session Laws, Chapter 150).
The machinery for incorpora
tion has been set in motion and
the formal hearing before the U.S.
Commissioner is one of the pro
visions of the act. The hearing
will determine if the incorpora
tion is desirable and if so, a date
for a special election will be set,
also names of five councilmen
will be placed in nomination.
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WEATHER FORECAST
Continued fair and cold. Low
temperature expected tonight 30
to 40 degrees below zero.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: highest tempera
ture 25, lowest 32. Max. wind 4
mph from the north. Sunrise at
10:03 a.m., sunset at 2:07 p.m.
A year ago today: highest tem
perature -.18, lowest -28. Extremes
on this date since 1907: highest 35 j
in 1941, lowest -33 in 1938.
No Port in a Storm
VAN NUYS,- Calif., (JV-While
Robert Newbold, 31, was paying a
$20 fine for speeding in the court
of Municipal Judge Julian Beck
a policeman was writing a new
ticket on Newbold’s car, parked
in the lot outside.
Charge: Illegally parking in
Judge Beck’s reserved space.
Senior Congressmen Say UJS. Should
Stake Out Its Claims to Antarctic
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By LEWES GULICK
, WASHINGTON, UR — Two
senior congressional Republicans
Saturday called on the U.S. gov
ernment to stake out its claims to
the Antarctic.
One of them, Rep. Tollefson,
of Washington, said he has been
informed the nation’s top strategy
making group—the National Se
curity Council—“approves the ob
jectives” of Tollefson’s Antarctic
claims bill now before the House
Foreign Affairs Committee.
Rep. Judd (Minn), senior com
mittee member, said “our gov
ernment ought to pres? now-far a
settlement <of Antarctic claims)'
that will be just and equitable.”
Otherwise, Judd said, rival
claimants are likely to get into
years of hassling as the claims get
firmer and new values are found'
for the vast subcontinent.
The legislators spoke in inter
views on the heels of fresh re-'
ports of international interest in
South Pole area. Moscow radio
Friday reported two heavily laden
expeditions are heading for the
magnetic pole and the geographic
South Pole. British and New Zea
land groups also are on their way
to the/ geographic center, where a
U.S. scientific expedition is al
ready encamped. The Soviets are
hurrying an icebreaker to survey
along the shore of an unclaimed
area.
Although American expeditions
have explored far more of the
frozen land than has any other
nation, the United States has not
laid claim to any territory there.
It also refuses to recognize claims
of other countries. I
ToUefson said Britain,.
Norway, Australia, New
Argentina and Chile have
claims to large areas of Ant
tica although 75 per cent of
subcontinent has been seen
by Americans.
The Soviets, he sald, have nit
yet issued an official claim but
have indicated they are going t^>
stay in Antarctica a long time. £
“Whoever controls the lands
down there could just play heck
wjfh
were blown «up and U.S. ships hid
to go around Cape Horn, he said.
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