THE WHITE HOUSE
Washington, D. C.
ARMED FORCES DAY
Each year during the past decade, the
active and reserve components of our Armed
Forces have joined with civil authorities and
community leaders to give our citizens and the
people of other countries an opportunity to
become better acquainted with the military
aspects of our national strength. This oppor
tunity is offered on Armed Forces Day.
It is America's hope and purpose to work
continually toward peaceful adjustment of
international differences, and it is fitting that
Armed Forces Day again emphasizes the fact
that our strength is dedicated to keeping the
peace.
Here at home the men and women of the
Armed Forces are active members of the com
munities where they are stationed. Overseas
they are ambassadors of good will, helping to
create that climate of international understand
ing in which men can together build a world of
justice, progress and freedom.
s/DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER.
AUGUST BALLOT MAY INCLUDE REFERENDUM
TO APPROVE ALASKA’S NEW ELECTION CODE
JUNEAU, OP) — Three Fair
banks men have moved to bring
Alaska’s 1960 election code be
fore the voters for rejection or ap
proval at a referendum in August.
One of the sponsors of the pro
posal was listed as Lawrence M.
Brayton, a union official who has
filed as a candidate for the Re
publican nomination to the U. S.
'.Senate at the August 9 primary
election.
Brayton, barred by the election
code from filing as a Senatorial
candidate for the Alaska Party,
joined with Sherman A. Noyes
and Niilo E. Kopenen in sponsor
ing the proposed referendum.
Brayton unsuccessfully had
sought a court injunction earlier
to force the state to accept his
candidacy from the Alaska Party,
which is without official standing
under provisions of the hefty
election code.
In his suit, Brayton had con
tended the new code — a compi
lation and revision of all state
election statutes — had been en
acted too late to allow indepen
dent candidates to meet its pro
visions and gain a place on the
election ballot.
Under the State Constitution,
acts of the Legislature may be
brought before the voters on ref
erendum. The acts will be re
pealed if a majority of voters at
the referendum reject the law.
Wade said he nad seven days
in which to certify the application
as being in proper form.
If so, the sponsors then must ob
tain more than 5,000 signatures —
10 per cent of the total vote cast
in the last election — on peti
tions outlining the proposed ref
erendum.
Under the time element re
quirements of the Constitution
and the election code, Wade said,
the signatures on the petition
must be in hand by about June 27
for a vote at the first statewide
election — which would be the
August primary.
ARMED FORCES DAY—1960. Three U.S. Army NIKE
HERCULES missiles, the first to be raised in the FaryEast,
tower toward the sky. The NIKE-HERCULES, designed to
intercept and destroy enemy planes regardless of evasive
action, can engage and destroy either single planes or
formations of aircraft.
NOME DRUG & JEWELRY
Welcomes Armed Forces Day Visitors
Alaska Senators
Call for Search Into
Air Force Move
WASHINGTON, LB — Alaska’s i
senators called for Congressional
investigation today into what they
said are Air Force plans to abolish
the 459th Fighter Interceptor
Squadron at Ladd Air Force Base.
Senators Gruening and Bartlett
asked inquiries by both the Sen
ate and House Armed Services
Committees.
Gruening called it “a shocking
abandonment of a vital sector of
our first line of defense in an
area of maximum strategic impor
tance.”
Bartlett joined in the criticism
that the action would mean the
“abolition of 25 planes and of 500
men — pilots, mechanics and
other personnel.”
They said they were informed
some weeks ago that the squadron
at Ladd Base was to exchange its
F-89 aircraft for DIOl-B’s, a mod
ern, faster model.
Later, on May 10, hearing ru
j mors of a reduction of the base,
they met with officials of the Air
Force. Gruening said they were
told the plans were to “phase out”
the entire 449th Squadron “and
that it would cease to exist by
August of 1960.”
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| Industry Could Work with
Government in Designing
New Fast Jet, Says NASA
WASHINGTON, UP) — The Na
tional Aeronautics and Space
Administration yesterday urged
that government and private in
dustry join in undertaking to de
velop a supersonic commercial
airliner.
The kind of airliner proposed
would travel faster than a bullet
from a high-speed rifle and would
cross the continent in a little over
an hour.
The House Space Committee
opened hearings on the possibility
! of developing such a plane.
I Iran H. Abbott, director of ad
| vanced research projects for
I NASA, said research on a super
sonic transport has now reached
I the stage where a full-scale devel
j opment program can be launched.
ARMED FORCES DAY—
1960. Air Forces interconti
nental ballistic missile ATLAS
ready for launching at Cape
Canaveral, Florida.
Drop In for Coffee at
North Star
Bakery and Grill
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
Washington, D. C.
ARMED FORCES DAY 1960
The President, by proclamation dated
March 5, 1957, directed that the Secretary of
Defense and the Secretary of the Treasury
arrange each year for the appropriate observ
ance of Armed Forces Day.
This annual program imposes a respon
sibility upon the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine
Corps, Coast Guard, and Reserve Components,
to give the public at home and abroad the best
possible opportunity, within the limits neces
sarily imposed for security reasons, to become
well informed on all aspects of our national
strength and its relationship to the security of
the free world.
It is a command responsibility at all levels
to utilize this occasion most effectively, and to
enlist the cooperation of civil authorities and
communitiey leaders so that all our citizens and
those of other countries may, by first-hand ob
servation of Armed Forces personnel, displays
and demonstrations or through the various
media of communications, know how and where
we stand as a formidable power for peace with
freedom and justice for all.
s/THOMAS S. GATES.
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