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Nixon, Mitchell
Try Mediation in
Steel Dispute
NEW YORK, Ml — Vice Presi
dent .Richard Nixon said today he
and Secretary of Labor James
Mitchell have met with leaders
on both sides in the steel dispute
but that no agreement had
been reached between the parties.
“As for the prospects of a
settlement, I cannot anticipate at
this time what the outcome will
be,” Nixon said.
Nixon said the last meetings
were held in Washington Wednes
day.
Asked whether he is reporting
to the President on the situation,
Nixon replied: “The President is,
of course, always kept informed
on meetings in which members of
the cabinet participate.”
Nixon was questioned at Idle
wild Airport before he took a
plane for Pasadena, Calif., where
he is to be grand marshal of the
Tournament of Roses Parade on
Friday.
Members of the United Steel
workers Union are back at work
in the nation’s basic steel indus
try under a Taft-Hartley law in
junction. The injunction expires
January 26.
However, the government is
mapping legislative proposals to
deal with the emergency if the
steel strike is resumed at the end
of the injunction period.
As to whether he will partici
pate in any further meetings with
the disputing parties, Nixon said
that will depend on develop
ments.
Wien F-27 Makes Fast
Time To Fairbanks
The Wien Airlines Propjet F-27
set a new record yesterday when
it made the flight from Nome to
Fairbanks in one hour and forty
minutes.
The pilot reported that the
average speed, due to a good tail
wind, was 315 miles per hour and
at one time the plane attained a
speed of 365 mph.
Dominican Republic
Consul Confesses to
Arms Smuggling in Miami
WASHINGTON UPi — The State
Department said today it has
asked the Dominican Republic to
recall its consul general in Miami,
Fla., for trying to smuggle arms
out of the United States to his
country.
The department said Augusto
Maria Ferrando pleaded guilty
December 11 to an indictment
charging conspiracy to export
arms illegally and trying to bribe
a U. S. customs officer. He was
sentenced in Miami to five years
but was put on probation. This
means Ferrando will not go to
jail as long as he is in the United
States, unless he violates the pro
visions of the probation.
Wisconsin Senator Says
Humphrey Welcome, But
Won’t Run Unopposed
WASHINGTON, U) — Senator
Proxmire OD-Wis) today welcomed
the entry of Senator Hubert
Humphrey (D-Minn) into Wis
consin’s Presidential primary, but
said Humphrey will not win by
default.
Unless Humphrey has other op
position, Proxmire said, he him
self will run as a favorite son
candidate to provide a test of
sentiment in the April 5 primary.
Proxmire in effect thus invited
Senator John Kennedy to make
Wisconsin a principal battleground
in his expected bid for the Demo
cratic Presidential nomination.
Humphrey announced his candi
dacy Wednesday, and Kennedy is
expected to do the same on Sat
urday.
“I won’t make the rate as long
as the voters have a choice,”
Proxmire said in an interview.
That seemed to refer to Ken
nedy. Among the others promi
nently mentioned for the nomi
nation, Adlai Stevenson, Senators
Lyndon Johnson of Texas and
Stuart Symington of Missouri, all
have made it clear they will not
willingly let their names go into
any primaries.
Governor Reveals New Application for
Federal Help in Paying ESC Benefits
JUNEAU, W) — The State of
Alaska today applied for another
one-half-million-dollar federal
loan Wednesday to provide addi
tional financing for its ailing job
less insurance program.
The application for the new
loan was made to the Department
of Labor in Washington, and an
nounced by Governor Egan.
The Governor said the state had
available, as of last September
30th, about 2Vt million dollars
for payment of benefits under the
unemployment compensation ben
efit program. Egan said present
expectations were that the state
fund, without a new federal loan,
would have been exhausted by
next April.
Eight Million In Debt
The new loan will come on top
of previous federal advances to
the Alaska fund, which already is
more than eight million dollars
in debt to the Department of
Labor.
Governor Egan said he had
planned on waiting until next
March or April to seek new fed
eral funds, 'but had been advised
by federal officials to apply im
mediately.
He said federal officials sug
gested immediate application' be
cause a pending loan application
from another state would take all
money presently available in the
government loan program.
In his letter of application to
Secretary of Labor Mitchell, Egan
noted that since October of 1958,
Alaska had paid nearly 6Vi mil
lion dollars in benefits under the
jobless insurance program.
Management of Fisheries Goes to State
WASHINGTON, UPl — President
Eisenhower has transferred to
Alaska the management of the
new state’s game fish and com
mercial fisheries resources after
nearly 60 years of federal man
agement.
The executive order, effective
January 1, also delegates to Sec
retary of the Interior Fred Seaton
authority to transfer to Alaska’s
state government a wide variety
of property used by federal offi
cials in carrying out the game and
fisheries laws when the state was
a territory.
The property transfers may be
gin any time after December 31,
the order specified, and continue
until July 1, 1964.
Some time will be required for
orderly determination of the items
to be transferred. The properties
range from equipment for one
man field camps to complete fa
cilities for the control and repair
of aircraft. The items are spread
over a large number of stations
of the Fish and Wildlife Service.
It was indicated that Seaton,
who was empowered to delegate
his authority to subordinates in
the Fish and Wildlife Service, will
make some of the transfers as of
January 1, but the White House
did not issue any list of these
items.
The state has been carrying out
some of the functions under con
tracts which provide that Alaska
takes over certain duties under
federal supervision as rapidly as
the state has been able to provide
staffs.
Alaska has been represented in
conferences preparatory to issu
ance of regulations, and federal
files have been turned over for
their use.
The White House gave assur
ance that these and other meas
ures Would permit the transfer of
functions without any lapse in the
performaitCe of essential duties.
BOWL LINE-UP
(By The Associated Press)
Here’s the line-up for Friday’s
post-season bowl games in col
lege football, including team rec
ords, expected attendance and
radio-TV coverage (Time is East
ern Standard).
Cotton Bowl at Dallas — Syra
cuse (10-0) vs. Texas (9-1), 75,504,
CBS TV, radio, 3:30 p.m.
Rose Bowl at Pasadena Calif.—
Wisconsin (7-2) vs. Washington
(9^1), 100,295, NBC-TV, radio,
5 p.m.
Sugar Bowl at New Orleans —
Louisiana State (9-1) vs. Missis
sippi (9-D 83,000, NBC-TV, radio,
2 p.m.
Orange Bowl at Miami — Mis
souri (6-4) vs. Georgia (9-1), 76,
500, CBS-TV, radio, 1 p.m.
Tangerine Bowl at Orlando,
Fla. — Presbyterian (9-1) vs.
Middle Tennessee State (9-0),
12,000, 8:15 pm.
Brairie View Bowl at Houston
— Prairie View A & M (8-2) vs.
Wiley, Tex. (2-8), 18,000, 3 pm.
End of Fabulous Fifties Marks New
Era in Our Emergence from Drudgery
By GEORGE W. CORNELL
Associated Press Staff Writer
The 1950s, time of technical
triumphs, draw to a close tonight,
and the world embarks on a new
decade, on the edge of a strange
new frontier.
At midnight, men and women
around the world will greet the
dawning Sixties.
And as the eras shift, mankind
had begun a different kind of
struggle to reach the stars — no
longer in spirit alone, but by phys
ical prowess.
This was the challenging, still
unfamiliar horizon of the ne<v
decade, born of a period of un
precedented mechanical advances
— of rockets, satellites, automa
tion and of computers that out
raced the human mind.
But age-old problems, of peace
and decency, still remained, and
these, too, marked the occasional
legacies of the past and respon
sibilities of the futures.
As the church bells and party
goers sound forth in celebration,
there will be prayers and hopes
that the time ahead will bring
solutions. And signs, both for op
timism and anxiety, were in view.
In international relations moves
were afoot to ease tensions.
Other Bright Notes
There were other bright notes,
too. Prosperity abounded, and lei
sure increased. Material comforts
surpassed those of any civilization
that ever existed, and religious
institutions flourished.
Wider distribution of modern
medicine saved and extended
lives until overpopulation loomed
as a problem. Streamlined agri
culture piled up billions of dol
lars worth of American surpluses,
but children starved in the Far
East.
Men traveled by jet faster
than ever, but saw less as they
traveled.
Seeking to perfect the ultimate
weapon, the world discovered it
was contaminating the air even
in peace. And so it has paused in
its testing — uneasy, suspicious
and uncertain about whether to
continue.
All this was part of the out
look, as men faced the new decade,
and looked back on the old one.
To many, it was simply an occa
sion for fun and frivolity. But to
others, it was a time for weighing
prospects, and reflecting on a
passing era, the changes made,
the strides taken, the tasks un
done.
Liars Club Stamps
Champion Title on
Non-Windy Texan
BURLINGTON, Wis., UP)—When
a Texan says Texas hasn’t got the
biggest of everything, it’s bound
to be a lie.
Well, podner, there’s a fellow
named W. C. Cook in Wichita
Falls who fibbed so well about
what he says is a Lone Star short
coming that he’s done himself
and his state mighty proud. Cook
today was named world champion
liar for 1959 by the famed Bur
lington Liars Club.
Cook topped this year’s moun
tain of mendacity with a story
pinned on — of all things —
lack of'wind.
Here’s the lie he submitted to
the club in its annual contest:
“You have heard of big winds.
Well, last summer we had so litle
wind down here and I had to take
down two of the three windmills
on my ranch to get enough wind
to operate the other one. And if
I hadn’t taken down the wire
fences that were obstructing the
wind, that wouldn’t have worked.”
Honorable (???) Mention!
When the club aWards an hon
orabe mention it may be stretch
ing the term a bit. Nevertheless,
the organization saw fit to pin
that doubtful honor on three other
tall tales, including one that
proves the Arctic Circle has a
dizzying influence.
“About the only crop we can’t
raise in Manitoba is sunflowers,”
R. T. McCullough of Winnipeg
wrote. “Being so far north, we
enjoy the midnight sun — and
sunflowers, following the sun
around, twist their heads off.”
Stretching a point further —
even to getting oneself on a limb
— is a common failing that occa
sionally extends itself even to
the clergy.
For instance, the Rev. Ralph W.
Army “Will Blast
Dangerous Snow t
Ledges on Kenai
ANCHORAGE, UF) — The Army
has been called upon to combat
winter hazards caused by alter
nate snow and rain at the Port of
Whittier and dangerous snow
ledges in the Girdwood area
southwest of here.
A detachment. of 100 men and
three officers went to Whittier
yesterday to help the community
dig out from alternate layers of
heavy snow and ice.
Snowfall totaling 108.5 inches,
mingled with rains, have created
a snow removal problem on roof
tops. The problem has been ag
gravated because seasonal winds,
which usually whip snow from
roofs, have been lacking this year.
Another Army group left for
the Girdwood area, betwen here
and Seward, to dislodge heavy
snow ledges with gunfire. They
carried 105 mm. and 75 mm. how
itzers and 100 rounds of ammu
nition.
In another part*of the Kenai
Peninsula motorists reported
moose were bogging down in
snow along the Portage Pass sec
tion of the highway. But game
management officials made an
aerial check and found the moose
apparently were getting along
nicely.
Heller of Transfer, Pa., notched
himself an honorable mention
with this falsehood:
“An ancestor of mine landed in
Ohio in pioneer days, and cut
down a hollow tree for his family
to live in, while they cleared
ground for a farm. It worked all
right for him and his wife, but
the kids were always getting lost, /
chasing squirrels up the hollow
limbs.”