Knowland Enters
Race for Governor
Of California
SACRAMENTO, Calif. 15V-Sen.
William F. Knowland officially
entered the race for the California
governorship yesterday.
The Senate majority leader told
a crowded news conference of his
decision—long expected—to op
pose Gov. Goodwin J. Knight for
the Republican nomination in the
state’s primary next June 3.
Knowland, his usually booming
voice subdued, read a statement
which replied to Knight’s previ
ous assertions that the California
senator sought the governorship
as a buildup for the 1960 presi
dential race.
Referring to his entry in the
state contest, Knowland said:
“I have made my decision to
run for this high office with no
purpose other than, if nominated
and elected, to devote myself
faithfully to the administration of
the duties of the office for the
term or terms to which I might
be elected.
“Should the people of Califor
nia intrust me with the responsi
bility of being their chief execu
tive they have my pledge I shall
enter into that great office with
no commitments other than the
ones I make publicly to them.”
PROCLAMATION
Fire Prevention
Week, 1957
WHEREAS many lives can be
saved and property valued in
millions of dollars conserved thru
effective fire-prevention programs
in communities thruout the na
tion, and
WHEREAS the increase in
losses caused by fire during the
past year accentuate the need for
increased care and greater em
phasis on fire-prvention practices
by all our people:
NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT
D. EISENHOWER, President of
the United States of America, do
hereby designate the week begin
ning Octobr 6, 1957, as Fire Pre
vention Week.
I call upon our people to pro
mote programs for the prevention
and control of fire; and I urge
state and local governments, the
American National Red Cross, the
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States, and business, labor,
and farm organizations, as well
as schools, civic groups, and pub
lic-information agencies, to share
actively in observing Fire Pre
vention Week. I also direct the
appropriate agencies of the fed
eral government to assist in this
national effort to reduce the loss
of life and property resulting
from fires.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I
have hereunto set my hand and
caused the Seal of the United
States of America to be affixed.
DONE at the City of Washing
ton this second day of August in
the year of our Lord 1957, and of
the independence of the United
States of America the 182nd.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Cleopatra beheaded the bear
ers of bad tidings, not because
their words were false, but be
cause they weren’t.
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Retiring Surveyor Has Walked Over
Alaska More Than Any Other Man
WASHINGTON, UPV—A survey
or who says he probably has
walked over more of Alaska than
any other man retired from gov
ernment service this week.
Gerald FitzGerald, 59, who was
bom in Burns, Ore., joined the
U.S. Geological Survey in 1917
and, from 1947 until this week,
was chief of its map-making divi
sion.
A genial, gray-haired man, Fitz
gerald bases his claim—“I don’t
think anyone will challenge it”—
on his service with mapping par
ties in Alaska from 1920 until
1942. He spent a part of each year
in that period in Alaska.
“That’d be during the sum
mer?” he wa^ asked.
“No, it was winter—November,
December, January,” he replied.
“We found we could travel better
by dogsled after the ground was
frozen.”
Before taking to dogsled and,
later, around 1928, to small
planes, Fitzgerald said mapping
parties tried to get into the arctic
area above the Brooks Range by
small boat, only to be blocked by
ice.
It was in 1923 during one of
these attempts that Fitzgerald un
derwent one of the many experi
ences that stand out in his mem
ories. “I’ll never forget the time
we came out of Barrow, the six
of us on a 60-foot sloop,” he re
called.
“The wind blew out our main
sail and we tried to make it on a
little engine we had. That conked
out. We put out a sea-anchor and
drifted for 11 days, almost down
to St. Lawrence Island.
“We patched up the boat and it
started to blow again and we
were blown right back up to
Kotzebue Bay, among other plac
es, and it was another 16 days
before we made land. I went in
weighing 195 and came out 122.”
After all that time in Alaska,
what does he think about state
hood?
“Well, I’d like to see it if they
can support it,” he said after some
thought. “But I’ve got friends on
both sides of that argument, so
don’t get me involved.”
FitzGerald, who was last in
Alaska several years ago, would
like to go back again and revisit
many of his old friends. “Back in
the early days when there weren’t
so many people there, I used to
know everyone in Alaska—whites
and native both,” he said.
Right now, however, his plans
call for returning with Mrs. Fitz
Gerald to Salt Lake City, her
home, where they are building a
house.
Plan Hits Snag for
World Flight Over
North and South Poles
WASHINGTON UPV—Plans were
announced today for a round-the
world flight over both the North
and South Poles, but the project
quickly hit a snag over fuel sup
plies in the antarctic.
The privately financed project,
to be named in honor of the late
explorer Adm. Richard E. Byrd,
called for refueling at McMurdo,
site of the U.S. air base support
ing American scientific studies in
the South Polar region.
The Navy, which is running the
Deep Freeze operation there, said
it could not supply the non-essen
tial flight over the poles.
It would be the first such cross
ing of the bottom and top of the
world in a continuous series of
hops. Byrd had flown over both
poles in separate expeditions.
The flight, financed by a group
of businessmen, was scheduled to
leave Boston about Nov. 10.
This itinerary was planned:
Boston to Trinidad, to Buenos
Aires, to Punta Arenas and Mc
Murdo Sound. Then to Christ
church, N.Z., Melbourne and Dar
win, Manila, Tokyo, Anchorage,
and then over the North Pole to
Thule, Greenland. From there to
London, ! Frankfurt, Paris, and
back to Boston.
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Boy Lives Two Months
With Bullet in Head
Without Knowing It
OKLAHOMA CITY, After
two months of being a “sorehead”
Gale Dean Singleton now knows
why—he was shot.
The 10-year-old Oklahoma City
boy felt something “like a wasp
sting” while playing in his front
yard about Aug. 1. He fell to the
ground and struck his head on
the family pickup truck.
When the wound failed to heal
properly the boy’s parents took
him to a physician, and were told
to watch it closely. Weeks passed
and the bump over his right eye
still didn’t go away, so the boy
was taken to a doctor again yes
terday.
The wound was probed, and out
popped a .22 caliber slug. The
boy’s mother said she had no idea
who fired the shot, adding that it
apparently caused no serious
damage.
Free Mining Courses
To Be Offered in
11 Alaskan Cities
COLLEGE—The University of
Alaska’s mining extension pro
gram will offer prospecting cours
es in 11 Alaskan cities and two
military bases this winter, ac
cording to Eiarl H. Beistline, dean
of the school of mines.
Four-week evening courses in
prospecting will be offered at
Unalakleet, McGrath, Palmer, Ei
elson AFB, Nenana and Big Delta.
This is a tuition free course in
the fundamentals of geology, min
eralogy, and mining. It includes
instruction in gold panning, use
of the geiger counter, and mineral
identification.
Hugh Matheson will instruct
the four-week course; Prof. Leo
Mark Anthony will conduct the
five week course.
Letter-size and legal file folders
available at The Nome Nugget
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