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^3U^HEREISHEINNO^lfCriON YiiARSr
Eskimo People Should Help
To Gel Mental Health Bill Passed
The Chamber of Commerce and the Home Arts
Club have taken a very active part in urging the pass
age of the Alaska Mental Health Bill through the lower
house of Congress. This bill will provide a humane
treatment of Alaska’s mentally sick within the territory
and replace an outmoded manner of shipping them
stateside following a jury trial.
This is not enough. Most of the people being sent
to Morningside Sanitarium from this area like criminals
to a penitentiary are Eskimo people. We urge those
of our Eskimo leaders who have or have had members
of their family, brothers, sisters or, sadly enough,
mothers sent out in this manner to write letters to
Senator Henry Jackson, who heads the committee,
showing concern and interest in the welfare of families
and friends, so that the U.S. Senate will know how you,
as American citizens, are concerned in the welfare of
your loved ones.
Restoration of Free
Gold Market Asked
DENVER, UP>—A joint resolu
tion asking Congress to restore a
free market for newly mined gold
has been adopted by the State
House of Represntatives.
The resolution states gold pro
duction controls of the U.S. Treas
ury “have imposed such uneco
nomic and arbitrary restrictions
upon gold' producers that 95 per
cent of the primary gold mines of
the United States have been
forced to close.”
ALASKA AIRLINES
From Anchorage: Fred McGin
nis, Col. LeMee, Maj. Adams, J
T. James, Mary Diede, Harold
Cox, Phyllis Webb, M. C. McIn
tyre, Jack Achilles, Patrick Cur
ran, David Craig, Capt. R. Larson,
Kelley Weiss.
From Unalakleet: Ray Kennedy.
To Anchorage: Lawrence Dor
mann, Don F. Davis, Mrs. Mimi
Davis and infant, Kenneth Froeh
lick. Berda Tate, Esther Brown,
Jack Peck, Mrs. Archer, Mrs.
O’Dell.
F’rofessor Buswell Of
' U of A Tells Of
4-H Activities at Kotzebue
Professor Arthur Buswell, ex
I tension associate director of the
University of Alaska, arrived
from Kotzebue yesterday and
spoke to the high school students
here this morning concerning
higher education and the Univer
sity of Alaska.
Buswell, who also is head of
the university’s department of
agriculture, visited the 4-H groups
in Kotzebue and reports that there
are now four active groups. There
are two groups of girls with 4-H
sewing projects; a group of boys
with a gardening project and an
other group of boys with dog
raising and racing interests. These
boys will receive help in learning
how to make sleds and harnesses,
care for their dogs from puppies.
About 40 young people are par
ticipating in this extension pro
gram from the University of Al
aska.
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SHELLABARGER,
ALASKA BUSH PILOT,
DIES IN ACCIDENT
ANCHORAGE, UP—Maxwell M.
Shellabarger, one of Alaska's
best known big game guides and
bush pilots, was killed Monday by
the whirling propellor of an air
plane he was attempting to repair.
Shellabarger -made an emer
gency landing in his light plane
on the Skwentna River some 60
miles northwest of here Monday
afternoon. While attempting to re
pair the Piper PA-18 Tuesday, he
apparently fell into the whirling
blades of the propellor, suffering
head and shoulder injuries which
claimed his life.
Shellabarger was a long-time
resident of the territory. He had
guided hunting parties into prac
tically every portion of Alaska.
He took to bush flying in the
early 1940s.
He is survived by his wife, a
daughter, Maxime, and a son,
Leon, who operates the Shella
barger Flying Service here.
Polar Bear Suffering
Most in Zoo From
Italy's Cold Wave
MILAN, UP—Of all the animals
in the Milan zoo, it’s the polar
bear who’s suffering most from
Italy’s current cold wave.
The Arctic native has some kind
of rheumatism or arthritis.
“It’s' not the cold so much,” zoo
director Maria Molinar explained.
The temperature is only down to
6 degrees above zero. "But it’s
too damp a cold. The polar bear
needs a dry cold.”
SOBER SECOND THOUGHT
COLUMBIA, Ohio, Delbert
Edwards wants to know if he can
get a refund on his ticket to the
policemen’s ball.
The ball will be held Feb. 21,
and Edwards, 34, won’t leave city
•prison till more than a week later.
He’s serving a 30-day sentence
for intoxication. He said that he
bought the ball ticket only a few
minutes before his arrest-Jan. 28.
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Nixon Claims ‘Magnificent Record’
For Eisenhower Administration
NEW YORK, 0P>—'Vice Presi-'
dent Nixon claims a “magnificent
record” for the first three years
of “what all of us hope will be
eight yerrrs of the Eisenhower
Administration.”
Nixon told the National Repub
lican Club in a Lincoln Day
speech Monday night: “Our Re
publican administration is now
proving, for the first time in near
ly 30 years, that we can have
prosperity without war; full em
ployment outside of uniform, and
security without regimentation
and controls.”
Speaking at the club’s 70th an
nual Lincoln Day dinner, he said
the greatest advances in the na
tion to end racial discrimination
“since the Emancipation Procla
mation itself” have been made
during the Eisenhower adminis
tration.
Nixon’s speech contained barbs
for three Democratic presidential .
nominee possibles—Adlai E. Ste- |
venson, Sen. Estes Kefauver, and
Gov. Averell Harriman.
As he arrived here by plane
from Washington late Monday,
Nixon denied he ever had called
former President Harry Truman j
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Pranksters Made To Pick
Up 100,000 Feathers
LEXINGTON, Kv., UP! — Two
Lexington youths found nothing
ticklish about their two - month
court imposed task.
The reported to juvenile court
j yesterday they had completed
| picking up the last of a 100,000
I feathers they admitted scattering
when they broke into a novelty
firm.
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a “traitor,” as Truman had com
plained.
“I did not call Mr. Truman a
traitor—absolutely not," Nixon
told newsmen. Nor did he call the
Democratic Party “the party of
treason” or question the loyalty
of any of its members, Nixon
added
“I have always said that there
is only one party for treason in
the United States, and that is the
Communist Party," Nixon said.
“In all my public speeches and
private talks I have always said
that the loyalty of Truman, Ste
venson and all the leaders of the
Democratic Party should not be
questioned—only their judgment.
The Alger Hiss case speaks for
itself. Mr. Truman called it a red
herring.”
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