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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
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DEBT LIMIT UP
CONGRESS RECENTLY sent President Eisen
hower, at his request, a bill which would increase
the national debt limit to $295 billion. The old debt
limit had been $288 billion.
The new ceiling is temporary, but this has meant
little in past years. For example, the $288 billion
ceiling which was in effect until the new limit was
past, would have expired and the ceiling would have
dropped to $283 billion on July 1st.
Congress, instead of allowing the ceiling to go
back down, was forced to increase it. The new debt
is the highest in the history of the United States in
peacetime, and with interest rates what they are, and
with the government using much short-term financ
ing, means that the American people will be paying
somewhere in the neighborhood of $8 billion interest
annually.
We think every tax-paying citizen should con
sider this huge, interest burden and understand it. It
means that of our approximately $70 billion budget,
more than ten percent of it, or $8 billion, must be
paid out just to carry the interest load on the billions
we have borrowed, and still owe.
We are paying back nothing on the national
debt, most years, and therefore this interest burden
is something which is a steady drain, and for which
there is no hope of termination.
Fellows who drive with one hand are usually
headed for a church aisle. Some will walk down it—
others will be carried.
F.A.A. Emphasizes Ease of Touring
Bv Private Plane Groups In 49tli State
ANCHORAGE — The ease and |
safety with which some 200 people
in 113 planes recently made three
flying tours to and in Alaska has
emphasized the opportunity for
this kind of touring of the 49th
state.
The Flying Physicians, in 58
planes, the 49er Air Cruisers in
22, and the Flying Farmers in 33,
flew up the Alaska Highway dur
ing June, scattered about Alaska ■
in both individual and organized
flights, and all got home again
with no accidents, and only three
minor incidents due. to weather.
These 113 planes flew an esti
mated 651,000 plane miles without
accident and their pilots were men
and women of widely-varied ex
- perience. The Flying Farmers ran
into weather in the Yukon Ter
ritory going both ways, but ex
perienced only a slight delay.
Four of them landed on the high
way. The Physicians had a sim
ilar weather encounter on the
highway, but it did no more than
divide the group into several
smaller ones. The 49ers, flying as
a group, with well-planned itin
erary and safety precautions had
no problems other than excessive
hospitality at Calgary, where they
attended the annual Frontier Days
celebration on their way home.
Alaska flying, the F.A.A. told
all the tourists, is not dangerous.
It requires some extra precautions
•beause map-reading is different
where there are few man-made
landmarks. It also dictates emer
gency equipment in the planes in
the event of landing where the
population is sparse or non-exist
ent. Both Canada and the State of
Alaska require such ' equipment.
The flight up the highway is
simple, with airports at conven
ient day’s flight stages. In Alaska,
as the F.A.A. points out, a pilot
will find an airport within 100
miles along any river. A lost pilot
can fly a “drainage pattern” and
reach civilization easily, and the
F.A.A. furnishes to all visiting
pilots information entitled “Fly
ing To and In Alaska,” which de
scribes this in detail. Briefly, it
consists of flying downstream
along any waterway, a course that
inevitably leads to a settlement.
Arkansas Official Run
Down on Street While
Walking With Faubus
HOT SPRINGS, Ark., UR — A
state official was hit by an auto
mobile Wednesday that narrowly
missed Governor Orval Faubus.
Faubus was crossing a downtown
street with State Welfare Com
missioner Carl Adams and State
Police Sgt. Floyd Waver, Faubus’
escort, when the car hit Adams.
Faubus and Waver jumped out
of the way.
Adams was knocked about six
feet and suffered contusions and
I abrasions on the hand and leg,
police said. He was released after
emergency medical treatment.
Police Lt. Joe Campbell said
W. H. Parks, 55, of Batesville,
Ark., driver of the car, had been
charged with failure to yield
; the right of way to pedestrians.
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Greater Freedom from Fear
NEXT MONTH THERE WILL BE considerable
publicity given to the Alaska Safety Responsi
bility Act which goes into effect on September 1, and
concerns all persons driving cars.
Governor Egan has made it clear that the new
law will be strictly enforced, and that everyone who is
the driver or owner of a car involved in an accident
resulting in death, bodily injury or $200 in property
damage, should be prepared to meet the requirement
of the law.
This new law is tough on careless drivers, and is
intended to protect the many innocent victims of
motor vehicle accidents. It will result in drivers
throughout the state developing greater confidence,
after September 1, from financially irresponsible
drivers.
One of the important benefits to be derived is that
chronic accident-causers will not'be allowed to drive
on the highways.
Pamphlets explaining provisions of the new law
are being distributed so that no one can plead inno
cense through ignorance of their responsibility.
NOTICE OF MARSHAL’S SALE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA I
2nd EJV. DISTRICT OF ALASKA I
Public notice is hereby given, that by
virtue f a writ of Fieri Facias ior exe
cution' c'aied July 21st, A.D. 1959. is
sued c t of the District Court, of the
United S ates for the Second Division
District of Alaska on a judgment ren
dered i said Court, on the 25th day of
February. A.D. 1958. in favor of Burton
M. Smi 'n and Frank A. McManamin,
d/b/a Smith and McManamin, a co
partners!- p, and against Big Hurrah
Mine, Incorporated, a Delaware Cor
poration: I have, on this 7th day of
August, A.D. 1959, levied upon the fol
lowing described real estate, situated in
the Cape Nome Precinct, 2nd Division,
* and State of Alaska, to wit:
The following listed patented mining
claims located on and adjacent to Big
Hurrah Creek, a tributary of the Sol
omon River, approximately 50 miles N.E.
of Nome, Alaska: King Solomon; Oc
tober Fraction; Sour Dough: Quena; July
Fraction; Potazuba Fraction; King
Solomon No. 1: King Solomon
No. 2; King Solomon No. 3; King
Solomon No. 4; King Solomon No. 5;
King Solomon No. 6; Dewey; Josephine,
and Elmer S. Lode Mining Claims, patent
number 298715, recorded January 4. 1913,
Book 191. Page 408, of the Records of
the Cape Nome Precinct, Alaska, and
together with all water rights and
mining rights pertinent to said mining
claims, and that I will, accordingly, offer
said real estate for sale, at public vendue
to the highest and best bidder for cash,
on the 10th day of September, A.D..
1959, at 9:00 o’clock A.M. at the office
of the Ufiited States Marshal — Room
206. Federal Building in Nome, Alaska.
Dated at Nome, Alaska, August 7,
A.D. 1959.
ROBERT W. OLIVER,
U. S. Marshal,
2nd Division, District of Alaska.
JAMES A. VON DER HEYDT,
Nome, Alaska,
Plaintiff’s Attorney.
Bv
GEORGE A. BAYER,
Chief Deputy U. S. Marshal.
Publish Aug: 7, 14, 21, 28, 1959.
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Carrier Pilot Proficiency
Checks Proposed by F.A.A.
WASHINGTON — Notices of :
proposed rule making directed
toward providing greater assur
ance of air carrier pilot poficien
cy, were announced last month by
E. R. Quesada, Administrator,
Federal Aviation Agency.
These would impose age limita
tions on pilot crew members of
air carrier aircraft, and provide
for F.A.A. approved training pro
grams for all crew members of
air carrier aircraft, would require
co-pilots to hold a type rating for
each type of aircraft being flown,
and would additionally provide
for a semi-annual check of the
proficiency of co-pilots of air car
rier aircraft.
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To Ease Tensions
WASHINGTON, iff) — The end
of Vice President Nixon’s histor
ic trip to the Soviet Union
touched off Thursday an intense
appraisal of its impact on the
cold war.
President Eisenhower and Nix
on banked on the Vice Presi
dent’s tour and the forthcoming
swap of visits by Eisenhower and
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrush
chev to help thaw a dangerous
East-West freeze.
The Administration pilicy was
admittedly a gamble, taken
against advice from some U. S.
strategists who favor continued
isolation of the Reds as the surest
way to promote the free world.
The hope was that the exchange
of visits would impress Khrush
chev with America and keep East
West discyssions going in the face
of the collapse of the Geneva talks
on Germany. But Nixon’s trip
brought no expectation of any im
mediate turnabout in Kremlin
policy in the cold war, which the
I Administration figures could last
i another 25 to 50 years.
Nixon, who already had cabled
back lengthy reports during his
two-week tour of the Soviet Union
and Poland, made a personal re
port to Eisenhower during a 75
minute conference at the White
House Wednesday.
He will review the trip again at
a cabinet meeting today.
There was no immediate plan
for a public address to the nation,
but Nixon spoke informally on a
national radio-TV broadcast after
his sleek jetliner had arrived
from Warsaw Wednesday.
He told of friendly receptions
he had received among the people
of the two countries, and said they
want peace. He urged also that
Khrushchev, when he visits this
country, be received courteously
and without hostile demonstra
tions.
Alaska Will Be Well
Represented at Denver
Minerals Convention
WASHINGTON — Plans are
rapidly taking shape for the 1959
Metal Mining and Industrial Min
erals Convention of the / merman
Mining Congress, which will be
held in Denver Septemb • 14-17.
Members of the Program Com
mittee from Alaska are:
Charles Johnston, Chairman,
Goodnews Bay Mining Co., Se
attle; Earl Beistline, School of
Mines, University of Alaska; J. D.
Crawford, U. S. Smelting. Refin
ing & Mining, Fairbanks; Charles •
F. Herbert, Alaska Copper, Se
attle; Donald K. Hill, Evan Jones
I Coal Co., Anchorage; Phil R.
I Holdsworth, Commissioner, De
partment of Mines, Juneau; Carl
Parker, Olive Creek Mining Co.,
Fairbanks, and Harold Strand
berg, Anchorage.
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