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NATIONAL CIVIL DEFENSE DAY
OUR PRESIDENT Dwight D. Eisenhower and Our
Governor, William A. Egan have declared today
as National Civil Defense Day. In the words of our
governor; “December 7, 1941 will always live in the
minds of Americans not only as a day of infamy but
also a day when the United States was not prepared
for aggression. It is the earnest hope and prayer of
all Alaskans that we will have peace, it is urgent that
we have ‘Peace Through Preparedness,’ and this can
only be accomplished with effective defense of our
civilian population.”
Civil Defense in Alaska is mainly the efforts of
individual citizens who volunteer to assist their neigh
bors in time of peril through skills learned by many
hours of non-remunerative work. “A true defense of
our citizens can only be obtained by increased public
awareness of the part they must play in their own
survival.”
Nomeites of many years will remember that an
outstanding community effort for communication
needed for civilian defense was a radio station which
was installed and manned by the citizentry during
the early days of the war and taken over by the mili
tary when they arrived. More recently Nome has
shown its alertness to the need of defense by its neigh
bors when the City Council turned over the Civil De
fense pumper jeep to IJnalakleet which had no fire
fighting equipment in the community. _
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Pentagon Leaders
Oppose Proposed
Re-organization
By C. Yates McDaniel
WASHINGTON Iff) — Most of
the present Pentagon leaders al
ready are on record opposing an
other defense reorganization as
far-reaching as that recommended
to President-elect John E. Ken
nedy.
The esssence of their plea: Give
the 1948 organization chance to
work before setting off on still
another shakeup. That law, passed
after the Soviet Union orbited its
first satellite, gave added powers
to the secretary of defense and
consolidated research and develop
ment, among other things.
The new military blueprint,
drawn up by a committee headed
by Sen. Stuart Symington, was
received in official silence at the
Defense Department after it was
made public at Palm Beach, Fla.
But the military chiefs of the
Army, Navy, and Marine Corps,
and the defense secretary him
self, all spoke out before the event
in anticipation of just such a set
of sweeping proposals.
Only the Air Force, incubating
ground for most of the ideas con
tained in the Symington group
study, has remained silent in re
cent months.
The plan given to President
elect Kennedy would eliminate
the separate departments of the
Army, Navy and Air Force to
gether with their secretaries, un
dersecretaries and assistants. It
would leave the military services
with their names, uniforms and
the responsibility of internal
housekeeping.
The Symington group recom
mendations would abolish the
Joint Chiefs of Staff and substi
tue a single chairman who would
deal directly and exclusively with
the Defense Secretary and through
him with the President.
The super-chief would head a
combined planning staff of of
ficers disassociated as much as
possible from the services of their
upbringing. The chief would send
orders direct to commanders of
three functional commands—stra
tegic, tactical and defense.
The existing major commands,
such as the Navy-headed Pacific
and Atlantic headquarters and the
Strategic Air Command of the
Air Force, would be abolished.
The new functional commands
would absorb whatever people or
weapons were best suited for the
assigned tasks without regard to
uniforms, traditions or historic or
ganizations.
Would Force Aid
Countries Spend More
Money With The U.S.
WASHINGTON I If) — Secretary
of State Christian Herter has is
sued an order designed to force
countries receiving U. S. aid to
spend more of that money in the
United States.
The order carries out one of a
number of moves directed by
President Eisenhower last month
to reduce the flow of gold and
dollars from the United States to
other countries.
It does not force the countries
to buy American goods but it for
bids them to spend the money in
most of the other western indus
trialized countries.
The order, issued Monday, put
18 countries and the British col
ony of Hong Kong on the for
bidden list for purchase with U. S.
foreign aid money. The State De
partment said the United States
considers them in strong eco
nomic shape.
The countries on the list are
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Can
ada, Denmark, France, Germany,
Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Mon
aco, the Netherlands, New Zea
land, Norway, South Africa, Swe
den, Switzerland, and the United
Kingdom.
Land Ownership
Statements Must be
Filed by Dec. 31
Roscoe E. Bell. Director of the
Division of Lands has stressed
that all real property outside of
a taxing district and acquired this
year must be registered before
December 31st with the lacol
Magistrate’s office in the record
ing district where the land is
located. Owners of land that has
been registered need not register
it again unless it has changed
hands and complete title has pass
ed to the new owner. Under the
revised Land Registration Law
of 1953 the property can be regis
tered within the same calendar
year that the land is obtained
without a delinquent charge. If
this is not done however, it be
comes delinquent and a late filing
fee is charged for registration
during he following year. At the
end of that calendar year the
state files a lien against unregis
tered land and forecloses on it.
The owner may repurchase it for
the cost of the legal action in
volved. After one year in this
status the State may sell or dis
pose of the foreclosed land.
The following is a list of people
who have not filed the required
Statement of Real Property form,
and whose land will appear on
the List of Delinquent Penalties
on Real Property to be foreclosed
in January if they fail to file be
fore December 31, 1960:
Leon R. Alsworth, Vilette L.
Bianchi, Gordon C. Braun, Ed
ward A. Brennan, Hyrum Gail
Cluff, Glenn C. Crouch, Lynn L/
Crosby, John F. Curry, George G.
Davis, Dan Allyn DeMott, Alfred
A. Dieckmann, Walter Lloyd
Dyment.
Helen Lucille Frank, Alsa F.
Gavin. Joan L. Jacobsen, Law
rence Johnson, William O. John
son, Terry A. Dene & Ann P.
Kingel, Leo L. Little, Anna Eliza
beth Minks, Arnold Morgan, Wil
liam Nels Mork.
Malcolmn McSwain, George P.
Nehrbas, Leonard Norman, John
A. Noyes, Douglas D. Palmer,
Glenn Erwin Perkins, Robert J.
Pivonka, Melvin M. Quakenbush,
Southgate Commercial Co.. Shirley
L. Swift, Edward Leonard Young.
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John F. Kennedy Jr.
To be Baptised Tomorrow
WASHINGTON i.P — The in
fant son of president-elect John
F. Kennedy will be baptized
Thursday in the quiet, white
walled chapel of Georgetown Lhii
versity Hospital.
It may be the chapel’s first use
for that purpose. It was built
13 years ago. and a Catholic sister
assigned to the hospital for the
last ten years said she knew of no
previous baptism there.
Flans for the baptism were an
nounced by Kennedy’s press sec
retary, Pierre Salinger. He said
the sacrament will be adminis
tered by Father Martin Casey,
Pastor of Holy Trinity Church in
Georgetown.
The child will wear the same
christening dress in which his
father was baptized.
Godmother to the infant will be
Mrs. Charles L. Bartlett, wife of
the Washington correspondent of
the Chattanooga (Tenn.l Times.
Bartlett himself will stand in as
proxy for the child’s godfather,
Stanislas Radziwill, a Polish
prince who is married to Mrs.
Kennedy’s sister and lives in Lon
don.
Salinger said the Bartletts arc
good friends of the Kennedys, and
introduced the senator to his
future wife.
Stale Board of Education
To Meet Here In May
Mrs. Maurice Kelliher an
nounced yesterday that the State
Board of Education will hold its
spring meeting here in May. It
will be the first meeting of the
Board to be held in North
western Alaska and a special en
tertainment will be planned for
the three day stay here.
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