House Appropriations Committee
Cuts $15 Million From Funds
Recommended for Alaska, Hawaii
WASHINGTON, UPt—'The econ
omy-minded House Appropria
tions Committee Thursday cut 15
million dollars from the recom
mended Interior Dept, funds for
the territories.
It was part of a nearly 59 mil
lion dollar cut in President Eisen
hower’s budget for the depart
ment for the year beginning on
July 1. The heaviest cuts were on
the requests for reclamation and
the territories.
The committee recommended
appropriation of $25,978,471 for
the territories, compared with a
requested $40,924,000. The appro
priation for the present fiscal year
was $43,236,300.
The biggest cuts in territory
funds are million off the re
quest for the Alaska Railroad,
$2,940,000 off the Alaska road
item, and $5,825,000 off the trust
territory of the Pacific budget.
The committee recommended
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appropriation of 7 million dollars
for Alaska road construction, 3
million for Alaska road mainte
nance, and $7,494,000 for the Al
aska Railroad. The latter figure
includes $2,900,000 for the Seward
dock.
In urging a $5,518,320 reduction
for the Indian Service, the com
mittee sliced 2 million from the
Health, Education and Welfare
Fund and $2,600,000 in construc
tion money.
The committee said “no more
than 28V2 million is to be used
for personal services, but no re
duction is to be made in the num
ber of teachers, doctors, nurses
and other medical personnel re
quired in attendance of the sick.
The Indian Service was asked
to add 20 hospital beds for Alaska
Indians.
Here is a summary of some
reductions:
Committee Cut from Current
Approved Request Year
Indian Service S75,015,910 $5,518,320 $84,122,700
Bureau of Mines $18,424,000 $1,586,000 $22,713,180
Land Management $13,483,000 $1,142,000 $13,483,000
Fish-Wildlife 810,587,000 $1,115,000 $12,670,000
Aleutian Mail Boat
May Be Discontinued
WASHINGTON, i£> — Delegate
Bartlett said Thursday the Post
Office Department plans to con
tinue present mail boat service in
southeast Alaska but has reached
no decision concerning similar
service to' the Aleutian Island
chain.
He said he was so advised Wed
nesday when he renewed his ear
lier protests against the depart
ment's proposed elimination of
both services.
Declaring there’s an “urgent
need for conserving dollars to im
prove the federal government’s
fiscal position,” the committee
recommended appropriations of
$363.360,989 to run the Interior
Department during the year be
ginning July 3.
This amounts to a 14 percent
cut in the 8422,113,530 requested
for the coming fiscal year and a
17 percent reduction under the
$434,604,000 appropriated for In
terior for the current year.
Edward II of England estab
lished the inch as the length of
three barley corns laid end to end.
Merchants’ Basketball
Team Honored At Dinner
For Perfect Season Record
Wednesday evening about 50
townspeople attended a dinner at
the Bering Sea Club honoring the
Nome Merchants basketball team
which completed the recent Base
Town League play with a perfect
score of 18 games won.
Boyd Harwood was master of
ceremonies and he introduced the
team organizer and coach, Lester
Bronson who in turn introduced
the players to the assembled
j nests. Dewey Goodrich, past
president of the Chamber of Com
merce was called on for a few
remarks on how sportsmanship
and team play can be an asset
all through a person’s life.
Following are statistics on the
individual players of the Nome
Merchants basketball team:
10 Sixth Grade Pupils
Perish In School Fire;
Officials Seek Cause
C'HEEKTOWAGA, N. Y., UP—
Three investigations were opened
Thursday into a fire that snuffed
out the lives of 10 sixth grade
pupils and destroyed the frame
annex of an elementary school in
this heavily populated suburb of
Buffalo.
The fire, which flashed through
the 100-foot-long building just be
fore the noon recess Wednesday,
caused injury to 23 other persons,
including four 11-year-olds whose
burns were considered critical.
The dead included six girls and
four boys, all sixth graders. Their
badly-charred bodies were found
pressed against what was left of
a window wall. A few feet away
were a doorway and broken win
dows—avenues of escape that the
youngsters never found.
Player g fgm fta ftm %ft fouls tp ia
George Bell .18 94 66 37 56 28 225 12.5 j
Harold Bell .16 76 41 23 56 25 175 10.9
John Bell . 4 16 9 3 33 3 35 8.9
Louie Kost . 4 13 19 7 37 6 33 8.3
Gary Longley .15 47 50 25 50 14 119 7.9
Aarnout Castel .18 50 34 24 71 30 125 6.9
Alfred Sahlin .15 41 26 10 38 26 92 6.1
Clyde Nershak .18 17 18 7 39 5 41 2.3
Roy Luke .16 11 13 7 54 3 29 1.8
Total .18 365 276 143 52 140 873 12.5
Opposition Total .18 247 252 100 40 169 594 12.5
18 games played—won 18—lost none. Game Average 48.5 points
compared to opposition’s average of 33 points per game,
g—games played fgm—field goals made fta—free throws attempted
ftm—free throws made tp—total points it—individual average
Breakdown of
Senate Vote for
Statehood Bill
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Here is the
57-28 Senate vote today which
passed the bill granting statehood
to Hawaii and Alaska:
FOR THE BILL—57
Republicans— Aiken, Barret,
Beall, Bennet, Butler (Neb>, Cape
hart, Carlson, Case, Cooper, Cor
don, Dirksen, Duff, Dworshak,
Flanders, Goldwater, Griswold,
Hendrickson, Hickenlooper, Jen
ner, Knowland, Kuchel, Langer,
Millikin, Mundt, Payne, Po'tter,
Purtell, Smith (Maine', Smith
<NJ>, Thye, Upton, Watkins, Wil
Williams—(33b
Democrats— Anderson, Burke,
Chavez, Douglas, Fear, Gillette,
Green, Hayden, Hennings, Hol
land, Hunt, Jackson, Kefauver,
Kilgore, Leham, Long, Magnuson,
Mansfield, Murray, Neely, Pas
tore, Symington—< 2 3 >;
INDEPENDENT FOR
Morse—< 1);
AGAINST THE BILL—28
Republicans— Bricker, Bush,
Butler (Md', Ferguson, Ives, Ma
lone, Saltonstall, Schoeppel, Wel
ker—(9>;
Democrats—Byrd, Daniel, East
land, Ellender, Fulbright, Hill,
Hoey, Johnson (Colo', Johnson
(Tex', Johnson (SO, Kerr, May
bank, McCarran, McClellan, MonT
roney, Robertson, Russell, Smoth
ers, Stennis—(19).
Not voting but announced as
paired on the bill:
Humphrey (D-Minn', for, and
George (D-Ga', against; Kennedy
(D-Mass), for, and Lennon (D-NC),
against; Young (R-ND), for, and
Martin (R-Pa), against.
Not voting but announced as
against the bill were Bridges
(R-NH', Gore 'D-Tenn>, McCar
thy (R-Wis).
Senators not recorded by votes,
pairs or announcement were
Wiley (R-Wis) and Sparkman
(D-Ala’b
ROTARY NOTES
Guests of the Rotary were:
Mrs. Barbara Dimock, Anchor
age; Rev. Lowell Campbell, Gam
bell; Maj. Swisher, Nome Field;
and the following members of the
Nome High School Basketball
Team:
Bob Summers, Charles Fager
strom, Vernon Carlson, Sam Atuk,
Geo. Kost, Dave Bell, Sam Mogg
Jr., Jack Muller, Robert Herman,
Gordon Swanberg, Leroy Reader,
and their coach, Herb Williams.
Train Explosion Kills 32
NEW DELHI, India, UP)—'Thirty
one persons were killed and 32
injured in a shattering explosion
Wednesday night on a crowded
passenger train near Gorakhpur,
the Central Railway Board re
ported Thursday.
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SENATE APPROVES
STATEHOOD BILL
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House floor could block such han
dling except by action of the Rules
Committee.
Delegate Farrington (R-Hawaii)
termed the Senate’s action a very
great victory.”
Delegate Bartlett (D-Alaska)
said he hoped the “one sidedness”
of the vote might prompt the
President to request House action
on the bill.
Presaging an all-out fight for a
final victory, he said statehood
supporters plan to use “every
available means ... to bring pres
sure where pressure should be
applied.”
Thirty-three Republicans, 23
Democrats and one independent
joined forces in passing the bill
over the opposition of 9 Republi
cans and 19 Democrats.
The final vote came after the
Senate rejected 60-24 a proposal
that commonwealth status be sub
stituted for statehood, and turned
back 59-26 an amendment which
would have required votfers of
Alaska and Hawaii to choose be
tween state and commonwealth
status.
2 Senators and 1 Representative
Under the bill as passed by the
Senate, Hawaii and Alaska, upon
becoming states, would be en
titled to two senators each. In ad
dition, Hawaii would have two
voting representatives in the
House and Alaska one. The House
bill provided only one representa
tive for Hawaii.
Alaska would be given its
choice of 100 million acres of its
unreserved public lands plus 3,
350,000 acres for various institu
tions, community development,
and other purposes. It would get
control of its fisheries and wild
life resources.
Financially, statehood would
give Alaska a federal grant of 15
.million dollars for harbor im
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provement and land surveys, 4S
million dollars in its first six
years as a state for road construc
tion, and 30 million for road oper
ation and maintenance in its first
15 years.
The Senate bill would give to
Hawaii all its public lands imme
diately.
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