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McElroy Asks That
Appropriation For
Defense Be Cut
WASHINGTON, — Secre
tary of Defense Neil McElroy to
day asked Senators to trim out a
quarter billion dollars voted by
the House to prevent cutbacks in
manpower of the Army and Mar
ines regular and reserve forces.
“As we see the situation to
day, there is no requirement for
numbers of military personnel in
excels of those requested in the
President’s budget for 1959,” he
told fhe Senate Appropriations
Subcommittee.
Tl'c tall, confident Pentagon
civ’T ’ i leader was the opening
witness on the biggest annual
monev bill, carrying about 38V£
billion dollars for operation of the
natic ’s military forces for the
year that begins July 1.
Alt’-cugh the House-passed bill
was only 212V£ millions above the
Eisenhower requests, McElroy
notea that this involved reduc
tions of more than 900 millions |
in budget requests and increases
of over $1,120,000,000 ab®ve Pen
tagon plans.
McElroy accepted part of the
House changes but urged Sena
tors to restore a good share of the
cuts. He said the department
may not spend some of the in
creases.
He objected particularly to
House floor action tacking an
unasked 99 million dollars into
the big bill to avoid a planned
cutback of 30,000 in the Army’s
manpower of 900,000.
Modern weapons enable a man
to increase his military effect
iveness,” the secretary said, and
“it should be possible for us to
contemplate some further re
duction in total numbers in the
years ahead.”
McElroy also questioned House
addition of more than 683 million
to build four additional nuclear
missile Polaris subfnarines. He
said the five now planned were
enough until these new weapons
systems are actually tested.
Herb Jenks Leaving For States
U. S. Commissioner Herb Jenks
is leaving for the states on Monday
and has announced that his of
fice will be open during his ab
sence. Papers for filing may be
left with Mrs. Jenks in the
Selective Service office and the
handling of other business has
also been arranged for.
Leo Murphy Makes
Visit To Native Stores
Leo Murphy, manager of Anica
■ which cares for the native co
• operative stores throughout Alas
ka arrived yesterday on a quick
trip through this part of the ter
ritory to help the native stores
get their orders out for the an
nual trip of the North Star
j scheduled next month.
1 At many of the villages the
North Star will only make one
visit this year instead of the
usual two trips as it has done in
the past.
! The North Star on which Mr.
Murphy has been traveling to
southern co-op stations is now at
Kodiak on its first trip of the sea
son, he stated.
David Clough Dies
At Age Of 82
MONROE, Wash., UP) — David
Ezra Clough, 82, Alaskan Pio
neer trading post and hotel own
er, died here Tuesday.
Clough was born in Mars Hill,
Me. and came west at an early
age. From 1898 to 1943, Mr.
Clough was in business in the
McGrath, Alaska area.
He Was a member of the Alas
kan Yukon Pioneers, and the
territorial guard.
Surviving is his daughter, Mrs.
Margaret Bjorling and three
grandchildren, all of Monroe.
One Hundred Indians
Die From Sunstroke
CALCUTTA, India, UP) — One
hundred Indians have died of
sunstroke in heat wave in Bihar
state during the past two weeks.
CLEAN-UP
WEEK
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Slip Covers
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“Low Rate” — It’s New and Very Popular
also
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Ken Johnson, Representative From
Anchorage, Loses Battle To Cancer
ANCHORAGE, lJf) — Ken C.
Jphnson, who won many a leg- j
islative battle in a short career
as a territorial lawmaker, lost a
long fight for his life Wednesday.
Johnson, 44, died at his home
here. He was the victim of
cancer, an ailment that turned
the last days of the 1957 session
of the Alaska Legislature into a
physical ordeal for him.
Despite his growing illness,
Johnson refused to lessen his
legislative duties. He still was
a Democratic Representative at
the time of his death, although
he did not seek renomination to
another term in last April’s pri
mary election.
Johnson, an insurance agent
and a resident of the territory
for 23 years, served two terms
in the legislature. In both, he
was chairman of the House
Ways and Means Committee—
the group that drafts the terri
tory’s appropriation law.
He virtually was a committee
of one. The 32 million dollar
budget of 1955 and the 36 mil
lion dollar budget of 1957 were
more his creation than that of
any other member of the lower
chamber.
Despite the record size of
the budgets handled by his com
mittee in successive legislative
sessions, Johnson was an ardent
advocate of government economy.
His efforts were largely respon
sible with the trimming of some
11 million dollars from budget
requests submitted by territorial
agencies last year.
Johnson did most of his work
in committee sessions and in long,
after-hour studies ih his hotel
room.
Appearances by him on the
floor of the House always were
brief, and speech by him was
rare. He had no patience with
legislative antics, and was a
sharp critic of any lawmaker he
felt was wasting time.
Johnson specialized in Alaska’s
monetary problems, and was a
particular foe of tax programs
he felt would hinder, rather
than help, the territory’s develop
ment.
One of few floor speeches in
1957 came as the House passed
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He warned his fellow law
makers against extending an
olive branch to industry in one
hand, while packing a big tax
club against it in the other.
Johnson was chairman of the
Legislative Audit Committee, an
interim group made up of both
House and Senate members, and
also was one of four members of
the governor’s Tax Advisory
Committee.
Gov. Stepovich picked Johnson
for the tax study group last Au
gust, only a month after taking
ofijjce as the teritory’s new chief
executive.
Johnson sat as chairman of the
Legislative Audit Committee at a
meeting at Juneau in November.
He worked actively with the* tax
advisory group until a few
months ago, when his illness
finally forced him to slow down.
Survivors include the widow,
Muriel, and an 11-year-old
daughter, Louise. !
Pay Increase For Civil
Service Workers Hits
Snag In House
WASHINGTON, UP — A minor
snag held up final congressional
action Thursday on a bill to give
a 10 per cent pay raise to the
government’s one million white
collar and supervisory Civil
Service employees.
The House rejected a Senate
amendment to increase the num
ber of super-grade Civil Service
posts and sent the bill to a
Senate-House conference commit
tee.
The pay issue itself seemed to
be settled when the Senate ac
cepted Wednesday the 10 per
cent figure approved by the
House. The Senate had pre
viously voted for a 7Vfe per cent
increase.
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Lebanon Blames
Nasser’s U.A.R.
For Disorders
BENGASI, Libya. UP) — Leba
non today rejected an Arab
League compromise aimed at put
ting her charges of interference
by the United Arab Republic on
ice.
A resolution advanced at the
closed-door league 'meeting here
reportedly would have sent a
fact-finding mission to Lebanon
to investigate the charges that
the U. A. R. had fostered the
current attempt to ® overthrow
pro-Western President Camille
Chamoun.
Informants close to the Leb
anese delegation said Lebanon
rejected the resolution because it
did not place blame on U .A. R.
President Nasser’s government.
Failure of the meeting to quiet
the Lebanese - U. A. R. dispute .
presumably will result in the
U. N. Security Council’s opening
debate in New York this afternoon
on the Lebanese charges, which
also have been made to the
council.
The U. A. R. has denied the
charges, contending they are an
attempt to turn an internal sit
uation into an external affair so
that Lebanon can appeal for
foreign help.
New Barge Service
SEATTLE, UP> — A new ser
vice to Alaska was scheduled to
get under way when the tug
Celilo started towing a barge
to Anchorage Thursday.
The service marked the en
trance of the Upper Columbia
River Towing Co., into the Alas
ka trade as a common carrier.
The new service will go into
Anchorage during the summer
and into Valdez and Seward in
tl^e winter, the towing company’s
representative said.
Sailings ifrom Seattle are
planned for every other Wednes
day.
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