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Entered as second-class matter October 14, 1943, at the
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IT’S THAT BOOM SEASON AGAIN
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The Leftovers
INDIGNATION, DISBELIEF, and protests of un
fairness were expressed by residents of Nome
yesterday as the figures on road appropriations for
xne next year were disclosed and published. The Ad
ministration and the Bureau of Public Roads both
came in for severe criticism.
The 1960 allocations include about $32,000,000
for actual construction and another six million dollars
' for survey and design, and 3V2 million in reserve of
the first year’s road building program.
Out of the $41V2 millions, Northwestern Alaska
will receive $1,200,000 as its share. Barrow, Kotzebue,
Nome, Unalakleet and everything between, according
to a statement made by Richard Downing, Commis
sioner of Public Works, to Representative Robert
Blodgett yesterday. Blodgett called Downing when
he found unbelievable what he read in the news.
“We don’t want to be a welfare district of the
new State because we have no roads to encourage de
velopment and investment,” said Blodgett. “We want
no less than our share of the road money, which
should be about $10,000,000, and half of this amount
should be earmarked for Highway 97. This highway
is not even included in plans, although it is endorsed
% the State Chamber of Commerce.”
Blodgett, who is now at Northeast Cape, said in a
phone message that he had a bill in the Legislature for
increased gas tax for both automotive and aviation
gasoline consumption, to help finance the improving of
roads, but if Northwestern Alaska is just to get the
leftovers, he will withdraw his support to this
legislation.
Federal road moneys are granted on an area basis,
and this part of Alaska has about one-quarter of the
total state area. Roads are needed, not as paved con
veniences, but as life lines to Barrow, Kotzebue,
Unalakleet, Teller, Kougarok, just as much as any -
place in the State, and a fair share of the road money
would go a long way toward making Northwestern
Alaska better able to support itself.
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Load Backlog Increases In
State’s District Courts
WASHINGTON, Iff) — The
number of cases pending in U. S.
district courts in Alaska’s four di
visions increased in th^ year
ended June 30.
The annual report of the Ad
ministrative Office of U. S.
Courts shows that on July 1,
1958, there were 2,648 civil cases
pending, 1,951 were terminated
during the year and by June 30,
a total of 2,096 cases were on the
dockets.
Criminal cases increased dur
ing the year from 219 to 311.
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Red China Shows Muscles For Mr. K.
President Scheduled to
Break Ground for
Hometown Library
ABILENE, Kan., UP) — Presi
dent Eisenhower will stay over
night in Abilene October 13 when
he returns to his home town to
help break ground for the Eisen
hower Presidential Library Buil
ding. The President originally in
tended to fly to Abilene that
morning and return to Washington
that afternoon, Eisenhower now
plans to fly back to Washington
the morning of October 14., his
69th birthday, the Eisenhower
Library Commission said yes
terday.
Nation’s Polio Victim
Count Reaches Year’s Peak
WASHINGTON, OP) — Paralytic
polio cases totaled 304 last week,
the third highest 1959 weekly fig
ure but 28 less than in the pre
ceding week.
Reporting this today, the Public
Health Service said revised fig
ures now show 332 paralytic cases
in the preceding week, ended
Sept. 19, to make it the 1959 peak
week so far.
For the year through September
26 there have been 3,728 paralytic
cases, compared with 1,798 for the
corresponding 1958 period. In
1955, the first year Salk polio vac
cine became available, there had
been 7,405 paralytic cases re
ported by this time.
‘No Moaning at The Bar’
LOS ANGELES, UP) — Actor
Wayne Morris left $300 in his will
to “buy booze and canapes for my
friends.”
Morris, 46, died of a heart at
tack September 14.
His will, filed for probate, said:
“One hundred dollars shall be
expended at the discretion of my
closest survivng relative for the
purpose of buying booze and can
apes for my friends.
“On second thought, make it
$300 ’cause I don’t want my
friends to go away sober or
serious.”
Morris left the bulk of his es
tate, valued in excess of $10,000,
to his wife, Patricia Ann.
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? By JOHN RODERICK
TOKYO, un — Mao Tze-Tung
flexed his military and civilian
muscles yesterday for Soviet
Premier Nikita Khrushchev with
a vast parade celebrating Red
China’s first decade. More than
700,000 Chinese took part.
The 65-year-old Chinese Com
munist leader put on his big show
of force in Peiping less than 24
hours after his guest of honor, in
two important speeches, had in
effect urged Mao to keep the
peace of Asia.
Standing on the high red walls
of the forbidden city’s magnifi
cent Gate of Heavenly Peace, Mao,
Khrushchev and the big men of
the Communist world took the
salute as 144 big guns, 155 jet
fighters and bombers and 99 tanks
roared past.
Peiping Radio, which gave a
running account of the ceremon
ies, said it was the biggest mili
tary display ever made by China’s
Communist rulers.
Troops of the Red army, Navy
and Air Force marched by under
the eye of their new chief, De
fense Minister Lin Piao, the man
whose Chinese “volunteers”
drove General Douglas MacAr
t.hur’s forces back from the Yalu
River in Korea.
Lin talked tough about Nation
alist-held Formosa. In an order
of the day to his troops, he said
the Red regime would take For
mosa “by one means or another.”
In an obvious reference to the
United States, he asserted that “no
foreign country can interfere in
this.”
MSTS Ships Put in Layup
For New Airlift Program
“SEATTLE, UP) — The Military
Sea Transport Service was 10
years old yesterday but there was
no celebration among Seattle
employes.
A recent decision by the joint
chiefs of staff to move military
personnel and civilian dependents
by air means that two of the four
transports operating out of Seattle .
will be taken out of service.
The transports James O’Hara
and Frederick Funston, both op
erated by civilian crews, will be
put in layup at Olympia after
completing voyages November 30
and January 3, respectively.
The only civilian-manned MSTS
ship to continue operation here
will be the Harris County, a land
ing vessel which carries cargo be
tween Seattle and Alaska.
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