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Nome Hearing
Nov. 1 on Bill
To Encourage Tin
Special to the Nome Nugget
Senator W. Kerr Scott, member
of the Senate Interior and Insular
Affairs Committee, will hold a
hearing in Nome Tuesday, Nov. 1,
on S. 2648, the bill to encourage
the discovery, development and
production of tin in the United
States.
This information was received
yesterday in a wire from Gov. B.
Frank Heintzleman which said
that Sen. Scott had advised him
of the hearing yesterday.
Gov. Heintzleman’s communica
tion to the Nugget continued:
“Sen. Scott will also hold a
hearing on the same subject in
Juneau on Nov. 4.
“The senator will be accompan
ied to Alaska by Ben E. Roney
and Howard N. Browning of his
personal staff, and Robert W. Red
wind, mineral consultant to the
committee.
‘Sen. Scott introduced S. 2648
on July 27, 1955, shortly before
Congress adjourned. The bill, with
a proposed amendment, would
provide a base price of $1.35 a
pound for metallic tin in concen
trates from lode operations and
$1.20 a pound for tin in concen
trates from placer operations.”
Utah Governor
Will Refuse to Pay
Some Income Tax
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, <*>—
Utah’s Gov. S. Bracken Lee an
nounced yesterday he will refuse
to pay at least part of his income
tax this year.
Republican Lee, now in the
third year of his second term as
governor, says he’s taking the
stand because he thinks “it is un
constitutional for this nation to
tax its citizens for the support of
foreign nations.
And for the fourth straight year
he refused to proclaim Oct. 24 as
United Nations Day in Utah. In
stead, he said, he will proclaim
Oct. 23 as United States Day.
Lee said he will refuse to pay
income taxes on personal income
over and above his gubernatorial
salary, from which the tax al
ready has been withheld so far
this year.
Lee elaborated on his tax-fight
ing plan in an interview after he
announced it at a meeting of the
American Institute of Mining and
Metallurgical Engineers.
Lee said he is taking his tax ac
tion to “awaken the American
people.”
“If I should decide that we
should appreciate a couple of mil
lion dollars for the people of Ne
vada, I’d be run out of office be
cause the Utah constitution says
it’s illegal,” he said.
“Yet the restrictions of theU.S.
Constitution are even greater than
the state constitution . . .
“I’m doing this deliberately be
cause I’m in a position where I
hope the question will attract at
tention and carry some weight.
Air Force to Move 50
Americans Endangered
By Moroccan Rebels
RABAT, Morocco, UP—U.S. Air
Force authorities decided to move
about 50 Americans, including
women and children, from their
radar base at Saidai, it was
learned Thursday, after repeated
raids in the area by rebel bands
fighting in French North Africa.
The radar base is on the Medi
terranean in a corner of French
Morocco lying between Algeria
and the Spanish zone.
U.S. bases in Morocco are under
French protection. About 200 Am
ericans are at Saidai.
Small French units were still bat
tling today with Nationalist guer
rillas along the border of Spanish
Morocco.
Despite Spanish denials, the
French resident general told cor
respondents at the “front” that
tribes from the Spanish Moroccan
side are sharing in raids on the
French frontier posts.
British Foreign Secretary
Offers Russia Protection
Against United Germany
BOURNEMOUTH, England, UP>
—Foreign Secretary Harold Mac
Millan declared today the West
intends to offer Russia “full pro
tection” against any armed threat
from a reunited Germany.
MacMillan said the West would
propose a security pact of this
kind at the Big Four foreign min
isters’ conference opening Oct. 27
in Geneva in an effort to induce
| the Kremlin to approve the unifi
cation of Germany.
He said the Western security
guarantee would be effective
“whether such a united Germany
chooses to join the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization (NATO) or to
remain neutral.”
Alaska Cable
Project Progresses
In $86,000 Contract
SEATTLE, —Another step in
extension of the American Tele
phone & Telegraph Co.’s planned
new Alaska cable circuits to Se
attle and the rest of the nation
was announced Thursday.
An $86,000 contract was award
ed the Sound Construction and
Engineering Co., Seattle, for a
building and tower base near
North Bend, east of here, to house
a high frequency radio relay
point, G. M. Dean, general mana
ger of the Pacific Telephone &
Telegraph Co., announced.
Two other relay points, on Bald
Hill near Everett and Mt. Blynn
in the Olympics, will also be used
as relay points between here and
Port Angeles to tie into the
planned 800-mile submarine cable
which will start there and run to
Ketchikan, Alaska, Dean said.
Construction of a terminal equip
ment building at Port Angeles for
the cable is already under way
and laying of the cable is set to
start next spring, with completion
late in the year. Cost of the entire
project has been set at about 14
million dollars.
63 Die in Worst
U.S. Commercial
Airline Disaster
BULLETIN
LARAMIE, Wyo., UP)—Climbers
battled high winds and deep snow
drifts to retrieve bodies of 66 per
sons killed yesterday on 12,000
foot-high Medicine Bowl Peak in
the nation’s worst commercial air
line crash.
United Air Lines’ DC 14 crashed
Thursday within an hour after
leaving Denver for Salt Lake City.
It carried a crew of three.
Among the dead were five
woman members of the Salt Lake
City Mormon Tabernacle Choir,
which recently concluded a con
cert tour of Europe.
Marine Dies in
Relief Activities at
Flooded Tampico
MEXICO CITY, (£>—1The first
death was reported today among
U.S. relief forces keeping flooded
Tampico alive. Reports from the
Gulf Coast port said »a rescue
launch from the destroyer Bassett
overturned and a Marine was
drowned.
The Marine’s identity was with
held. The only other new death
reported in the city was a suicide,
a merchant apparently despon
dent over his property losses.
By unofficial count, 326 others
have died in the hurricanes and
floods in the Tampico area.
The Panuco River, after a
month of hurricane and rain
spawned flooding, dropped a few
inches. Barring more rains over
the river’s inland watershed, the
fall was expected to accelerate
sharply in a few days.
But new threats of famine and
water shortage developed in Tam
pico. Its above-water blocks are
jammed by the city’s 110,000 pop
ulation and 55,000 to 70,000 refu
gees from the surrounding coastal
plain.
A conference of federal, state
and local officials announced the
city had drinking water for only
another 24 hours, that the city was
without food staples, that medical
supplies were still short.
Gov. Averell Harriman
Will Visit Northwest
States to Help Friends
NEW YORK, Ufr—Gov. Averell
Harriman, often mentioned as a
possible candidate for the Demo
cratic presidential nomination,
will visit Oregon, Washington and
Idaho next month.
Although Harriman has said
that Adlai Stevenson, the unsuc
cessful Democratic candidate in
1952, is his choice for next year, it
appeared probable his western
trip would be accepted as evi
dence of his availability for the
presidential nomination. -
Harriman said yesterday his
trip was intended to help two old
friends, Sens. Wayne Morse of
Oregon and Warren G. Magnuson
of Washington. Both are Demo
crats and are seeking re-election
next week.
Heintzleman Faces Legal Problem
As Absentee Write-In Votes Give
W. W. Laws One More Than Walsh
JUNEAU Of)—Gov. Heintzleman
has moved to fill the Constitution
al Convention vacancy created by
the recent death of delegate-elect
Sen; Howard Lyng of Nome, but
there’s a knotty legal problem in
volved.
The governor said he has been
advised by the attorney general to
certify the person who received
the greatest number of write-in
votes. There’s the complication. It
involves a man who has the high
vote for two seats .
Lyng was elected to a seat as a
delegate at large for the Second
Division (District 9). It was a race
in which there were only four
candidates for the four seats to be
filled.
Until last week it was believed
M. J. Walsh of Nome, wrho got
three write-in votes, was the top
man for the at-large vacancy and
would be certified to Lyrig’s seat.
However, the count of absentee
ballots shows that W. W. (Chief)
Pan American Resumes
Through Service From
Nome to Seattle
Pan American has announced
the resumption of a direct through
service for Nome without a stop
over in Fairbanks and without a
change in plane, which simplifies
flying for people from this area.
The flight which leaves here at
1:30 p.m. Tuesday arrives in Seat
tle at 5:30 a.m. Wednesday mor
ning.
This service is by DC-4 until the
field here is safe for the DC-6.
Passengers, however, may stay
over in Fairbanks and take DC-6
service on Wednesday at 3:45
p.m., advises Jim Walsh, local
agent.
Sodium Fluoride Team
To Give Treatments To
Children Starting Oct. 10
The Alaska Native Health Ser
vice Fluoride Team, consisting of
Misses Bertha George, Mayella
Morrison and Norma Chichenoff,
is here from Juneau.
The team has been working out
of Nome* for several weeks. The
Diomede, King Island, Wales,
Gambell and Shishmaref children
have been given the sodium flubr
ide treatments.
The team will begin the fluor
ide treatments for the_Nome chil
dren October 10. The work will
be done at the ANS clinic in the
Federal Building.
The purpose of the team is to
prevent tooth decay in children,
who are Alaska Native Health
Service beneficiaries, by the topi
cal application of sodium fluoride.
Both the American Dental
Association and the Alaska Den
tal Society recommend the sodium
fluoride treatment as a means of
reducing tooth decay by as much
as forty per cent.
Laws, former Republican legisla
tor from Nome, got four write-in
votes for an at-ilarge seat.
However, Laws had been the
successful candidate for the single
seat for District No. 7 (the Nome
Recording District). He won that
seat without any doubt.
Heintzleman said he has been,
advised by the attorney general to
secure from Laws a waiver of any
claim to the Lyng seat, on the t
basis of his four write-ins, and to
certify the next in line, which
would be Walsh with his three
write-ins. The governor said he is
writing Laws, asking him whether
he will waive his claim to the
second seat.
“The attorney general did not
touch upon the question of wheth
er Laws is legally entitled to hold
his seat, as well as that of the 7th
District, if he does not waive his
claim,” the governor said.
He added that he will wait to
hear from Laws before taking any
further action.
French Minister
Flies to Morocco
To Settle Strife
PARIS UV—Gen. Pierre Billotte,
new minister of defense to Pre
mier Edgar Faure’s cabinet, flew
off to Morocco today to try to sal
vage the government’s reform pro
gram for the strife-ridden North
African protectorate. He might be
able to assure the survival of the
government, if he can get some
quick action.
Billotte was named defense
minister yesterday, to succeed
Gen. Pierre Koenig. This morn
ing, after news of Billotte’s mis^
sion to Morocco was announced,
his party—the social and Repub
lican action group, a De Gaullist
splinter faction—asked him to re
sign under threat of expulsion
from the party. Billotte defied
the request.
The party also has expelled
Pierre July, minister for Tunisian
and Moroccan affairs, who had a
big hand in drawing up the gov
ernment’s policy.
The National Assembly’s debate
on Moroccan policies resumed to
day with a long list of orators on
deck. If Faure is to win the vote
winding up the debate—and he
must win if he is to stay in power
—it is generally believed he must
produce some kind of evidence
that his Moroccan program is be
ing put into effect.
Britain's New Comet
Completes Test Flight
HATFIELD, England, (^—Brit
ain’s latest Comet jet airliner
landed here today after complet
ing its first test flight outside the
country. The new Comet left Brit
ain Sept. 30 and visited Athens,
Khartoum and Rome in trial runs.
The original Comets were pulled
out of service after the two fatal
crashes last year in the Mediter
ranean area.