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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LXI No. 61 ~ NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1959_Per Copy—154
Eisenhower Pleads for Prudence In
Federal Spending, to Insure Security i
By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH
ANNAPOLIS, Md., OR — Pres
ident Eisenhower said today that
without a sound economy at home,
the United States could soon be
come powerless abroad.
In this time of armed interna
tional uneasiness an unstable
home front economy could jeopar
dize “our prosperity, our secur
ity, our freedom,” he said.
Eisenhower sounded a new call |
for prudence in federal spending i
in a speech prepared for cere
monies dedicating a new audi-1
torium at historic St. John’s Col- 1
lege. The auditorium, part of a
$2,100,000 complex of new build
ings on the campus, is named for
Francis Scott Key, composer of
“The Star Spangled Banner,” and
who was a graduate of St. John’s.
Eisenhower flew here from
Washington by helicopter for the
ceremony, taking off from the
White House grounds. He landed
on the campus, a few yards from
the auditorium, after a 20-minute
flight.
Twenty five descendants of Key
were on hand for the ceremonies.
Fitting hiS remarks to the site
on the campus of the third oldest
college in the United States, Eis
enhower spoke of the importance
of education for an understanding
of world affairs.
He made a point of saying the
proper term today is “world af
fairs” — that “there are no longer
foreign affairs and ‘foreign
policy.’
“We have discovered that we
cannot separate what we do
abroad from what we do at home.
We have found that our efforts to
promote a freer flow of world
trade are hurt wherever there
exists an unreasonable demand
for protectionism among our own
people,” he said.
Herter Argues for
Western Plan To
Free Germany
j
GENEVA, UP> — U. S. Secretary
of State Christian Herter told So
viet Foreign Minister Gromyko
today people all over the world
have praised the Western plan
for a German peace settlement and
have been disappointed toy Soviet
rejection of it.
In a new round of debate in
the Big Four conference, Herter
argued in effect that the West is
winning and the Soviet Union los
ing the propagana battle over
their rival German programs.
Herter rebuffed a contention by
Gromyko that Western insistence
of German unification prior to a
peace treaty is a barrier to
achievement of European security.
The fact is, Herter said, that it
is difficult to see how peace and
security can toe attained in Europe
without reunification.
He urged Gromyko to “give
further, and I hope serious, con
sideration” to the Western plan,
which provides for successive, par
allel steps toward unification,
European security and disarma
ment.
He welcomed one declaration by
Gromyko at an earlier stage of
the debate, a statement that Ger
many should have the right to de
cide for itself the right to retain
alliance ties with other countries.
West Gormlny is a member of
NATO. East Germany, less than
half its size, is a member of the
Soviet-led Warsaw pact.
After meeting an hour and 14
minutes the ministers recessed for
the weekend. They met again
Monday afternoon.
After nearly two weeks of for
mal sessions,., the Big Four minis
ters are now moving into a new
phase in which they expect short
ly to get down to hard-boiled bar
gaining in secret over the Berlin
and summit issues.
Herter and British Foreign Sec
retary Selwyn Lloyd, French
Foreign Minister Maurice Couve
De Murville and West German
representative Heinrich von Bre
tano decided today the bargain
ing will have to go on in small
secret gatherings over lutich and
dinner tables. These will parallel
the big meetings gjt the Palace of
Nations — making this a split
level conference developing partly
open and partly secret.
Federal Housing
Aids Bill Rammed
Through House
WASHINGTON, — A walk
away victory by House Democrats
in their battle for large-scale fed
eral housing aids enhanced pros
pects today for other Democratic
programs.
By a lusty 261-160 vote Thurs
day, the House passed a Demo
cratic-backed $2,100,000,000 hous
ing bill after upsetting every Re
publican effort to whittle it down
to Administration size.
The result put Congress squarely
at odds with President Eisenhower
in the politically tinged hassle
over spending versus the balanced
budget.
A more immediate result was to
generate new steam behind pro
posals for a billion dollars of fed
eral aid for local public works
projects, and a quarter billion dol
lars of government loans and
grants to assist depressed areas.
House passage of the housing
bill now sends it to conference
with the Senate to compromise
differences. The Senate earlier
this session voted a $2,690,000,000
program.
Republicans were counting on
a Presidential veto if the bill sticks
to present lines. None of Thurs
day’s major votes gave the Demo
crats the two-thirds majority they
would need to override a veto.
Presidential displeasure ap
pears certain to be centered on
authority for continuing govern
ment-subsidized low-rent public
housing.
President Eisenhower in his
January message to Congress
asked for an end to public hous
ing. But the Senate voted to sub
sidize 45,000 new units, the House
140,000 new units for four years at
the rate of 35,000 a year.
The House ignored cries of “gal
loping socialism,” budget busting
and spending sprees in approving
the bill without major change.
A coalition of Republicans and
southern Democratic conservatives
was outnumbered by the disci
plined Democratic majority on
every key vote.
WEATHER FORECAST
Mostly cloudy with occasional
light rain or drizzle. Lowest tem
perature expected tonight 35 to
40, the high tomorrow 50.
Alaska Airlines’
Golden Nugget ^
Here for Ceremony
The DC-6C “Golden Nugget” of
the Alaska Airlines arrives today
from Seattle, with passengers who
are taking part in the Air Termi
nal dedication celebration to
morrow. .
Courtesy rides will be given by
Alaska Airlines tomorrow mor
ning from 9 o’clock until noon.
At noon refreshments will be
served and the Nome School Band
under the direction of Wm. Bixby
will furnish music.
At 1:30 p.m.,- a squadron of jets
is scheduled to arrive. Immediate
ly afterward, the formal Dedica
tion ceremonies will take place,
with Charles Willis, president of
Alaska Airlines, and Mayor Stef
fen Andersen presiding.
The Civil Air Patrol will have
a plane on display in the hangar;
the Boy Scout Explorer Post 766
will have an interesting exhibit;
the U. S. Weather Bureau will
show its radiosonde equipment
during the day.
Civil Air Patrol Cadets will be
ushers at the airport.
The “Golden Nugget” crew on
this first flight included:
Clark Cole, captain; Wm. Wirtz,
first officer, Wayne Bailey, sec
ond officer, and Marcie Broyles,
stewardess.
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Hoffa Says Labor
Wants 4Advantages’
Also, of New Laws
MINNEAPOLIS. Minn., UPV—Al
though he said he favors system
and industry organizing, Team
sters Union President James Hof
fa says his union never would
call a national walkout.
He denied making the threat of
such a strike in a talk at Browns
ville, Tex., and reiterated an
earlier claim that he had been
misquoted.
But, Hoffa added, he does not
feel to have been “victimized” by
the press because “I can handle
myself.”
Hoffa, here to talk with Min
neapolis and St. Paul Teamsters,
said his union would abide by any
restrictions Congress imposes in
new laws. “But,” he added, “we
reserve the right to have the ad
vantages as well as the disadvan
tages of any new legislation.”
Told that Senator John Ken
nedy had made a speech Thurs
day night in which he accused
Hoffa of a “public-be-damned” at
titude, he said Kennedy would “do
well to examine his’own remarks
to see whether he is talking in
the best interests of the working
man.”
Holding himself to be a respon
sible labor leader, Hoffa told a
news conference that a man is
entitled to any position the people
he represents want to give him.
- He complained that about a
third of the last 18 months he
has spent contending with the
Senate committee studying labor
rackets.
WHALE WHALES HOOVER
SAN FRANCISCO, UPt — Cap
tain Fred E. Angrick of the Pres
ident Hoover, nearing Japan, ra
dioed this brief situation report
to American President Lines Wed
nesday:
“Whale bumps Hoover.
“Hoover unhurt.
“Whale bruised.”
State Chamber Board Meet Advocates
Project Chariot, Imported Fish Boycott
Twelve communities from the
Golden Star State are represented
at the Alaska State Chamber
Board meeting now in progress,
with meetings being held at the
Federal Court Room.
Clara Banks is representing the
Greater Anchorage Chamber of
Commerce, Mabel Johnson,. the
Arctic Circle Chamber of Kotze
bue; Bill Hardisty, Cordova; Don
Pearson, president of the Fair
banks Chamber is here for that
organization, and Bob Scott rep
resents Juneau, as its vice presi
dent, and he also represents
Haines.
John Gibbons, Kodiak Chamber;
Lou Hanks, Matanuska; J. W. Jef
frey, accompanied by his wife,
from Seward; George Beacom,
Sitka, and John Coulter, Valdez.
Two important resolutions were
passed yesterday. <by the board,
of importance not only to the
state, but to the nation as well.
The first matter “encouraged
responsible federal and state agen
cies, members of Congress from
Alaska, the office o^the Governor
of Alaska, and individual Cham
bers of Commerce throughout the
state, to endorse the first experi
ment in peace time atomic work,
namely, Project Chariot, which is
to create a deep water port near
Cape Thompson.” The resolution
states “Endorsement of this pro
ject will contribute to the success
of Operation Plowshare, and will
make it possible for the construc
tion of other projects in Alaska
of more economic need.”
The second official action by
the Chamber board was the reso
lution to place an embargo on
certain fish products presently
being imported from Japan: “Now
therefore be it resolved that Alas
ka State Chamber, through its
affiliation with the United States
Chamber of Commerce, seek the
support of our Representative in \.
Congress, our two United States
Senators and other friends in high
places, in requesting that an em
bargo be placed upon all seafood
imported from any foreign coun
try where seafood found its ori
gin in Alaskan waters, and where
the methods employed in catching
and processing such seafood would
be illegal if used by Alaskan fish
ermen.”
The Chamber was busy this
morning studying the Alaska Vis
itors Association and its future in
the state.
A smorgasbord dinner is to be
held this evening at the Multi
purpose Room of the School.
The board will be in session
again tomorrow morning, and will
participate in the Airport Terminal
dedication ceremonies. They will
complete their work sessions late
Saturday.
Murder Spree Slayer
Avoids Execution In
Two-Week Reprieve
LINCOLN,' Neb., UP) — Charles
Starkweather, 20, slayer of 11, won
a two-weeks stay of execution
today a little more than an hour
before he was to go to the elec
tric chair.
Chief U. S. District Judge Rich
ard Robinson of Omaha stayed
the execution until June 4. He
said that would give Starkweather
time to appeal a district court de
nial of a writ 45f habeas corpus.
Starkweather was scheduled for
execution about 6 a.m. for one of
the slayings during a murder ram
page 16 months ago. The stubby
red-haired youth admitted 11 gun
and knife killings.
Official witnesses and newsmen
were already gathering in a pre
dawn thunderstorm when the pen
itentiary warden notified them the
execution had been stayed.
“He was pretty shaky,” said the
warden. “He was all prepared
to go.”
Before the execution was called
off, Starkweather had spent a ner
vous night drinking a good bit
of coffee, the warden said.
At the women’s state reforma
tory in York, where Carol Fugate,
Starkweather’s murder tour com
panion, is serving a life sentence,
Supt. Hattie Bowley said the girl
had not been told of the stay of
execution, and probably won’t
learn of it from reformatory
officials.
THURSDAY BASEBALL SCORES
American League
Boston 5, Kansas City 0.
National League
Pittsburgh 7, St. Louis 2.
Philadelphia 3, Chicago 0.
Pacific Coast League
Salt Lake City 5-5. San Diego
0-5.
Spokane 1, Vancouver 0.
Phoenix 6, Sacramento 2.
Portland 4, Seattle 1.
N. Consolidated Airlines’
Excursion Fares Fought
By Two Alaska Carriers
WASHINGTON, UR — Two
Seattle based airlines — Alaska
and Pacific Northern — have filed
complaints against new low ex
cursion fares in Alaska which
Northern Consolidated Airlines
proposes to introduce June 5.
In separate filings the two lines
asked the Civil Aeronautics Board
to suspend the proposed excursion
fares and investigate them.
Pacific Northern directed its
complaint at fares proposed be
tween Anchorage and Big Moun
tain, Dillingham, Iliamna and
King Salmon.
The airline said the proposal
would provide, for the first time, —^
round trip fares for a one-day ex
cursion lower than the current
regular oneway fare between the
same towns. On that basis pro
posed fares could only have the
effect of lowering present one
way fares, Pacific Northern said.
Alaska complained about North
ern Consolidated’s proposal to
slash the fare between Anchorage
and Fairbanks by way of McGrath
by 80 per cent.
The Alaska Airlines complaint
said that through the group travel
device, Northern Consolidated ob
viously intended to undercut Alas
ka’s Anchorage-Fairbanks fare.
THE LAST LAUGH—?
BAYONNE, N. J., UP) — The for
tunes ,of wrar are fickle.
The escort carrier Guadalcanal
was towed a few miles upstream
Thursday from the naval base here
to be scrapped. She is listed in
Navy records as the only Amer
ican vessel to capture an enemy
j submarine on the high seas dur
I ing Warld War II.
The submarine she captured —■
a German U-boat — has been pre
served' as a museum attraction in
I Chicago.