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x Sen. Kennedy
Making Two-Day
Alaska Foray
SEATTLE, — Senator John
F. Kennedy (D-Mass) paused here
briefly today en route north for
a two-day political foray into
Alaska.
The 41-year-old Senator, often
mentioned as possible Democratic
Presidential timber in 1960, de
clined comment when asked by
newsmen at the Seattle-Tacoma
International Airport if he had
any aspirations for the Presi
dency.
“I have just been re-elected to
the Senate,” he said, “and that’s
my job.”
Kennedy had a 30-minute stop
over here before taking off by
commercial airliner for Ketchi
kan, the first of four Alaska cities
he plans to visit. After a lunch
eon address there, he will fly by
private plane to Juneau, for an
evening rally and dinner.
Unless weather prevents, he will
go on to Anchorage and Fair
banks tomorrow. Subzero temper
atures prevailed today at Fair
banks, wher4 7 below was the
warmest it had been in 24 hours.
Kennedy will campign for
Democratic candidtes in Alaska’s
election November 25.
His Alaska visit follows that of
Vice President Nixon, who spoke
at Juneau, Anchorage and Fair
banks on a three-day swing a
week ago.
Federal Court
Orders Little
Rock to Integrate
ST. LOUIS, UP) — A federal ap
peals court directed today that
the Little Rock School Board take
positive steps to accomplish inte
gration of the Little Rock School
district. The court did not spell
out how this shall be done.
Instead the three-judge divi
sion of the U. S. 8th Circuit Court
of Appeals left this up to Arkansas
District Judge John E. Miller and
the school board itself.
The court assailed Arkansas
Governor Orval E. Faubus and the
Arkansas State Legislature for
their efforts to use public school
buildings for segregated schools
through the Little Rock Private
School Corp.
The Appellate court directed
Judge Miller to issue an injunc
tion against the use of the public
, school buildings for this purpose.
The court said the U. S. Su
preme Court already has made
clear that the constitutional rights
of Negro children cannot be nulli
fied by state executive, legislative
or judicial officers “through eva
sive schemes for segregation.”
It was not clear what effort
the appeals court opinion will
have on a private senior high
school operated in Little Rock in
a building purchased from the
University of Arkansas. This
This school is operated with funds
from private contributions.
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NEWS-MINER WINS
ADVERTISING AWARD
SPOKANE, (J’l — The Fairbanks
News-Miner was among the win
ners of Pacific Northwest
Advertising Executives Associa
tion awards for the best display
of advertising work at the asso
ciation’s meeting here Saturday.
The News-Miner’s award was
for the best promotional idea, 49th
State Edition.
Army to Try
Moon Shot Soon
CAPE CANAVERAL Fla., (*> —
The Army pushed ahead with
plans for its first moon rocket
launching today after the latest
Air Force attempt fell far short of
success.
Maj. Gen. John B. Medaris,
Army missile chief, said so far
the Army is on schedule. Some of
the equipment needed to blast a
satellite around the moon already
has 'been shipped to the Cape.
If all goes well, the Army prob
ably will make the first of its two
attempts about December 5 when
the planes of earth and the moon
again are in the best position.
The Air Force has had three
tries and came closest on October
11 when Pioneer I traveled
an unprecedented 79,000 miles
through space.
Air Force missilemen pored
over flight performance data to
determine what caused a power
failure in the third stage of the
Pioneer II rocket early Saturday
morning.
Instead of firing a satellite
about 220,000 miles to the moon,
the rocket fizzled at an altitude of
1,000 miles and disintegrated in
the earth’s atmosphere.
Dominican Priest
Is Awarded Nobel
Peace Prize
OSLO, UPi — The Rev. Domi
nique Georges Pire, a Dominican
Father who has devoted years to
helping refugees ffrom Eastern
countries, won the Nobel Peace
prize for 1958 today.
Father Pire, 48, heads an or
ganization he calls Europe of the
Heart. He is a Belgian, born in
Dinant, a French-speaking city on
the River Meuse.
The prize, worth $41,227, was
awarded ‘by the five-man Nobel
Committee of the Norwegian Par
liament. As usual, the committee
gave no reason for its choice, nor
did it say which other names had
been proposed.
The announcement winds up
the award of prizes for 1958,
made from a fund left by Swe
den’s Alfred Nobel, inventor of
dynamite.
The awards ceremony is to be
held in Stockholm December 12.
When the award was an
nounced, Father Pire was at the
Sarte Dominican Convent of Huy,
his city of residence.
His secretry, Miss I. Jelling,
said: “Father Pire is doing retreat.
I can’t disturb him now, but will
have to let him know.”
HOLD THAT TIGER!
DALTON, Mass., UFi — The
heart overruled the head during
the Springfield Trade-Dalton High
football game Saturday.
Trade Tackle Emedio Maloni,
squirming on the bench while his
team fell behind 14-0, saw Dal
ton halfback Stan Zaleski inter
cept a pass and weave toward the
sidelines en route to another
touchdown.
Maloni saw his duty. He leaped
from the bench and tackled Za
leski.
The officials allowed the touch
down and Dalton won the game
20-0.
Tomorrow, Veteran's Day, will
be observed by the closing of
most stores in the community,
the Federal and Territorial offi
ces, including the Post Office.
Alaska Senators
Could Achieve
Seniority
By FRANK W. VAILLE
WASHINGTON, <UPi — Alaska’s
two senators, whoever they will
be, could have seniority in com
mittee assignments over other
freshmen members elected last
week. The also could come at the
end of the pack.
It all depends, in the opinion
of Senate officials, when Presi
dent Eisenhower issues his procla
mation declaring Alaska officially
a State.
Actually conditions surround
ing the seating of Alaska’s first
senators still are so uncertain Sen
ate officials won’t discuss the mat
ter for attribution.
Present thinking, however, is
that the terms of the two men
will begin automatically with the
issuance of the President’s pro
clamation.
Should this be before noon of
January 3, it would give an Als
kan Democrat a seniority advan
tage over 12 newly elected Demo
cratic senators. A Republican
senator from Alaska would have
the edge over three of his newly
eleted GGP colleagues.
Should the proclamation be de
layed until after noon on January
3, Alaska’s senators would be
starting from the bottom rung of
the important seniority ladder.
In order to fit Alaska into the
staggered pattern for future Sen
ate elections, the actual length of
terms for its two Senators will be
determined by a drawing, pre
sumably on the opening day of the
session.
Normally, it would be expected
that the box from which the draw
ing is to be made would hold
three slips of paper marked “2,”
“4” and “6” to indicate the num
ber of years the term would ’run.
In the event, however, the ac
tual term begins prior to January
3, this probably would reduce the
drawing to a selection of either
a two or four-year term. Other
wise the member drawing the “6”
would end up serving slightly
more than six years, thereby
exceeding the Constitutional pro
vision that a Senate term shall
be six years.
Ten Alaska
Reindeer Enroute
To Washington
WASHINGTON, UR — Alaska’s
first Christmas gift to her sister
states will arrive in Washington
in early December. The gift: ten
reindeer.
On behalf of the 49th State, the
Bureau of Indian Affairs offered
the reindeer some time ago. But*
there was one condition. The city
of Washington had to find a way
to cart the animals across the con
tinent.
A Board of Trade official an
nounced two firms have donated
their hauling services. Alaska
Steamship Lines will pick up the
reindeer in Seward. November 26
and ship them to Seattle. Trucks
of the Consolidated Freight Co.,
Menlo Park, Calif., will be wait
ing there December 4 to carry
the reindeer to Washington.
The reindeer will take part in
the capital’s annual Christmas pa
gent of peace, which begins De
cember 23. After the pageant,
they will be exhibited at the Na
tional Zoological Park.
Secretary Seaton Discloses Plans
To Abolish Alaska Fish Traps
JUNEAU, Iff) — Plans to abolish
fish traps from Alaska waters
were disclosed last night by In
terior Secretary Fred A. Seaton.
The traps — long a controver
sial issue in Alaska — would be
outlawed effective with next
year’s fishing season.
The surprise announcement
came in a television appearance
here as Seaton opened a two
week campaign in behalf of Re
publican candidates.
The fish trap problem is a
deeply involved issue of the first
State election campaign. Demo
cratic candidates apparently have
been the most outspoken on the
issue, but both sides have prom
ised strong efforts to eliminate
the traps.
Seaton said the 1959 Fishing
Regulations for Alaska, v^hich
again will be federal measures
even though the new State will
begin operations in January, pro
pose elimination of all fish traps
except those owned by Indian
tribes or villages.
There are about eight native
owned traps, the Secretary said,
operated under authority beyond
control of the Interior Depart
ment. -*»*
Seaton made the announcement
by reading from a letter which
he said had been sent Saturday
to Republican Senatorial candi
date Mike Stepovioh and the GOP
gubernatorial choice, John Butro
vich Jr.
Stepovich and Butrovich ap
peared with Seaton on the 30
minute television show climaxed
by the announcement of the pro
posal to ban traps.
Seaton later declined to specu
late on whether a regulation pro
hibiting traps might face a court
battle by trap owners, and opera
tors.
On Saturday, the same day
Seaton said he had addressed the
letters to the two GOP candidates,
Democratic Senatorial nominee
E. L. Bartlett issued a statement
calling on the Secretary to abol
ish traps.
Later on Saturday, former Gov
ernor Ernest Gruening, the other
Democratic Senate nominee, sent
a telegram to the Alaska Native
Brotherhood in which 'he called
on Seaton to announce a ban
against traps.
Seaton said a similar request
came from Stepovich October 8,
and that Butrovich made a simi
lar appeal in a telephone call
from Petersburg October 15.
Seaton called attention in his
letters to overwhelming votes by
Alaskans against fish traps, first
in 1948 and again in 1956 — the
latter on an ordinance adopted
by the Constitutional Convention.
“In view of the imminent ad
mission of Alaska as a State,”
Seaton’s letters to the GOP can
didates said, “It is my belief that
we should as quickly as possible
adjust our actions to the desires
of Alaskans in regard to the dis
position of their natural re
sources.”
There are 412 recognized trap
sites in Alaska fishing waters, but
1958 regulations permitted opera
tion of only 246.
President
Pledges U.S.
Help to Asia
By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH
SEATTLE, tP) — President Eis
enhower today set forth a five
PQint program of international
economic aid for Asian nations.
He pledged full United States co
operation in erecting “barriers
against tyranny and the war
which tyranny breeds.”
The President put no overall
price tag on the program and he
did not estimate this country’s
share of the cost. But he did call
on the heavily Democratic new
Congress to provide adequate —
and additional — financial re
sources to help 700 million people
in free Asia.
In speaking of tyranny he did
not mention in so many words
the threat of Communist aggres
sion and economic penetration but
hip meaning was clear.
^Eisenhower outlined his aid
plan in an address prepared for
delivery at a meeting of top dip
lomats attending the 18-nation
Colombo Plan conference on .co
operative economic assistance for
South nd Southeast Asia.
The President urged the free
world’s better-off nations to join
this country in carrying out his
program for underprivileged
countries. He said it is designed
to “repel the tyranny of hunger
as well as the tyranny of author
ity.” But he also called on the
Asian nations to be aided to de
velop cooperative sound measures
of self-help.
Eisenhower recommended';
1. Expansion of international
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Men Rescued From
Ice Island Arrive
At Fairbanks
FAIRBANKS, Iff) — Eight of the
20 men who were snatched to
safety Thursday night from a
crumbling ice island in the Arctic
Ocean near the North Pole re
turned to their home base and a
rousing welcome Saturday night.
The happy airmen, all members
of the 11th Air Division at Ladd
Air Force Base, were greeted by
their commanding officer, Brig.
Gen. Gordon H. Austin.
All eight were high in their
praise of Father Tom Cunning
ham, widely-known Arctic priest
and Polar expert, and Air Force
Capt. James Smith of Oklahoma
City, commander of the ice is
land, an International Geophysi
cal Year scientific station.
Airman 2c Melvin MacNeel, 23,
a radio operator, said the decision
to abandon the island was made
by Father Cunningham and Capt.
Smith after a tour of the island
following a driving polar storm.
MacNeel said Father Cunning
ham and Capt. Smith found thous
ands of “finger” cracks in the ice
of the 10-foot thick island.
Seattleite Elected Fisheries
Chairman In Tokyo
TOKYO, iff) — The International
Pacific Fisheries Commission to
day elected Edward W. Allen of
Seattle as its new chairman.
The commission also selected Se
attle as the site for the sixth an
nual meeting which will begin
November 2, 1959.
George R. Clark, of Ottawa, was
chosen vice chairman and Iwao ^
Fujita, vice chairman of the, Ja
pan Fisheries Association, secre
tary.