GENERAL ELECTION
TUESDAY. OCTOBER 12. 1954
THE FOLLOWING DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES
Solicit Your Support and Vote
Delegate to Congress Territorial Senators
E. L. (Bob) Bartlett William E. Beltz
Neal W. (Willie) Foster
Territorial Treasurer
Hu<r]i J Wade Territorial Representatives
Lester Bronson
Commissioner of Labor Charles E. Fagerstrom
H. J. Lannen Carrie M. McLain
We Stand On This Platform:
DELEGATE TO CONGRESS
We highly commend Delegate E. L. "Bob"
Bartlett for his able and diligent representation
of Alaska as Delegate to Congress.
DEFENSE
In view of the strategic importance of Alaska
in the national defense, we urge that the defense
program in Alaska be intensified, in contrast with
its curtailment by the Republican administration.
WELFARE
We favor the appropriation of money sufficient
to carry out old age assistance and aid to depend
ent children programs, to implement other welfare,
health and social security programs and to support
the Alaska Pioneer's Home. We deplore the failure
of the 1953 Legislature to appropriate sufficient
money for these purposes.
Recognizing the problem of juvenile delin
quency which exists in Alaska, and in order that
our juvenile code may be more effectively enforced,
we favor the establishment of a juvenile correc
tional institution within the Territory and the
setting up of suitable detention facilities within
each division.
EQUAL RIGHTS
We reafirm our belief in the American prin
ciple of equality of opportunity for all people, with
fair and equal treatment regardless of race, creed
or color, and pledge our full support of all efforts
to eliminate discrimination.
DEVELOPMENT
We pledge our ■ utmost efforts to review the
federal development program for Alaska which
has been so drastically crippled by reduced appro
priations for Alaska Public Works, community
facilities under Housing and Home Finance Agency,
Alaska Road Commission, Rivers and Harbors,
Bureau of Reclamation, Rural Electrification Ad
ministration and other necessary programs.
We recommend the immediate return to the
public domain of all land heretofore withdrawn
from entry and which is not being utilized by the
withdrawing agencies. We urge revision of the
land laws to expedite settlement and development.
VETERANS
We support continuance of the Territorial
Veterans' loan program. We will fight for restor
ation of the overseas pay differential to Alaska
servicemen stationed with the armed forces in
Alaska.
HEALTH
We advocate complete revision of laws per
taining to apprehension and detention of the
mentally ill, to the end that such persons be
treated in a more humane manner.
LABOR
We urge that priority in job placement be
afforded to local residents.
ABORIGINAL CLAIMS
We urge the speedy enactment by Congress
of legislation to effectuate an honorable settlement
of aboriginal claims, through court action or other
wise, insuring just and adequate compensation
therefore to the Alaska Native people, and oppose
any action to extinguish such rights without fair
hearings and settlements.
MINING
We urge the formation of a minerals develop
ment board to encourage prospecting, to study
Canadian legislation with reference to industrial
and other incentives so that our mines can become
productive, our miners employed and further min
erals discovered.
We urge Congress to increase the depletion
allowance on Alaska mining and to enact legis
lation permitting the sale of gold on the open
world market.
TRANSPORTATION
We recommend that the Territorial Police be
♦inanced from the general fund and that motor
fuel tax money be used exclusively for construc
tion and maintenance of roads, bridges, airfields
and airplane float facilities, small boat harbors and
waterfront facilities.
EDUCATION
We recommend the continued support and
expansion of the public schools of the Territory,
including the University of Alaska, and urge ade
quate appropriation for educational programs in
cluding vocational education. We also urge federal
aid for school construction where needed in small
unincorporated communities.
EMPLOYMENT SECURITY
We depore the repeal by the Republican Leg
islature of provisions on "seasonality" in the>
Employment Security Act and oppose the new
enactment which would seasonalize individual
businesses instead of basic industries. We pledge
our utmost efforts to restore the previous law and
policy which allowed classifying of particular
industries as seasonal within their longest operat
ing period each year. This would prevent depriv
ing residential unemployed persons of the full
benefits always contemplated by the Employment
Security program and which are about to be
curtailed under the present industry - sponsored
Republican change.
LAND REGISTRATION
We favor the abolishment of the Land Regis
tration Act of 1953.
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I
ToSend Expedition
To Antarctic Event
Of War with Russia
DENVER, (41—President Eisen
hower’s headquarters announced
Friday the United States will send
a small Navy-directed expedition
to the Antarctic, an area of great
potential strategic importance in
the event of war.
The brief announcement at the
Denver White House said the de
cision to dispatch an icebreaker
to the southern polar area “is in
line with continuing United
States interest in the region.’’
The United States so far has
refrained from staking any claim
to territory in the South Pole
area, but the importance of the
region in the evene of a war with
Russia long has been under study
by military experts. U.S. bases
there would be of great value.
The Soviet Union, too, has re
cognized the strategic value of the
Antarctic and has sent one ex
pedition there without making a
claim to territory.
The White House announce
ment did not say who will lead
the Navy expedition and officials
on hand were unable to provide
that information.
Retired Adm. Richard E. Byrd,
a veteran Antarctic explorer, has
announced he plans to return and
there was speculation he will lead
the expedition..
The last previous U.S. expedi
tions to the Antarctic were in
1946-47-48.
Four Soldiers On Furlough Die
In Crash of Their Light Plane
HOLLAND, Mich., (4>l — Four
young Michigan soldiers were
killed Saturday in the pre-dawn
crash of a rented plane in which
they were flying home on fur
lough.
Apparently lost and out of
gas, the four died in the wreck
age of their single engine plane.
Sheriff’s deputies said papers
found at the scene indicated the
four were on furlough from Camp
Leonard Wood, Mo.
A hornet "bomb"—a hornets’
nest with the insects inside—was
used by the ancient Mayas in war.
Japanese Interests Said
To Be Investigating Tfie
Chickaloon Coal Field
ANCHORAGE, UPi — The An
chorage Times says Japanese in
terests have resumed investigation
of the Chicaloon coal field as a
potential source of coking coal
export to Japan.
The paper said Friday that it
had learned the Japanese had re
vived an interest which was drop
ped a year ago'. At that time it
was learned the most favorable
areas were in the government re
serve but they since have been
restored to the public domain.
The Times reported research is i;
being conducted on prospects!
brought to the attention of the 1
Japanese by Palmer prospectors. !
If coking coal is found in com
mercial quantity, the Times re
ported, plans call for shipment of
several hundred thousand tons
annually by rail to Seward for
loading aboard Japanese ships.
WSCS HELD INTERESTING
MEETING FRIDAY NIGHT
An interesting meeting of the
WSCS was held Friday at the
home of Stella Cooley with Mrs.
Clyde Sterling presiding. Other
officers are Mrs. A1 Enix, vice
president; Esther McCoy, secre
tary, and Omie McCarthy, trea
surer.
A program on India was pre
sented by Isabella Miller.
A collection of sewing materials
for Nome women in the ANS
TB hospital at Anchorage was col
lected and will be forwarded
soon.
A revised Nome cook book is
being planned by the organization
as the previous printing has been
sold out.
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Watch
to the
Nome Drug Store
for
Expert Repairs
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