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Who Shall he Named to the Senate
WHO SHALL TAKE BILL BELTZ’S PLACE in the
State Senate is a problem which confronts the
Governor of Alaska today. It will not be an easy task
to fill the shoes of a senator wiho had devoted much
of his adult life to political activity and whose ex
perience had been gleaned while representing the
people of his part of the state in six sessions of the
Territorial Legislature and as President of the Senate
in the First State Legislature.
The Second Alaska State Legislature is to be a
very important one, with world affairs as they are,
and the gold crisis becoming more serious every day.
On the state side it will call for experience, courage
and common sense to work out the vast building pro
gram approved by the voters which will put the State
in debt to the tune of 25 million dollars.
One solution offered here is to step up Legislator
R. R. Blodgett from the House to the Senate and name
a replacement for him in the lower chamber.
The one chosen for the Senate seat should be from
Nome or immediate vicinity, as the biggest problems
before the Legislature will be concerning road con
struction from Fairbanks to Nome as approved in
Bonding Proposition No. 2, and the building of the
Vocational School, the best site for which is Nome.
Many millions of dollars of state money plus the
Federal matching funds are involved, and a person
from the Nome area would be better qualified to work
out the details of the programs involved, than a person
from any other part of the district.
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Red Summit Will
Set Policy Toward
Kennedy Govt,
By WILLIAM L. RYAN
Associated Press News Analyst
Here is an ominous aspect of
the Soviet-Red China quarrel: It
could result in World War III,
and Moscow seems to be prepar
ing for the possibility.
Soviet propaganda makes much
of the term peace, but at the
same time it seems to be actively
conditioning the minds of people
in Red-ruled lands for the pos
sibility of a preventive war
against the United States.
The suspicion is reinforced by
the statement of Premier Khrush
chev Wednesday to Pravda on the
subject of disarmament. Histor
ically, Communist leaders have
accused others of planning what,
in fact, has been in their own
minds.
Khrushchev accused the West
of duplicity in disarmament talks,
of steadily building up nuclear
weapons stockpiles and of con
stant provocations and spying
against the U.S.S.R. All this, said
Khrushchev, could enable the
United States to “choose the suit
able moment for dealing their
blow and starting an aggression.”
Taken by itself, this might not
appear too menacing. But this
sort of thing has been publicized
time and again by Soviet propa
ganda ever since last May, when
Khrushchev, using the U2 plane
incident as his excuse, was pre
pared to blow up the Paris sum
mit conference.
Since then Khrushchev has
given the impression that the ap
pearance of a single U.S. plane or
submarine in Soviet air or waters
will be considered a military in
vasion—in a word, an aggression
which could be answered with a
big preventive blow.
Some Western experts express
belief the Kremlin is engaged in
a psychological buildup to justify
a preventive attack should that,
to the Kremlin’s way of thinking,
become necessary.
Red China insists upon the let
ter of Leninist dogma: That war
between the two world camps
must come.
Manifestly, this worries Khrush
chev, who has contended that
while Communism would win,
there would be little left after
nuclear war on either side.
Khrushchev could lose the ar
gument and be toppled in favor
of a group more receptive to the
Chinese idea.
Khrushchev has played for
time, and won some time in the
Communist summit which began
Nov. 9 in Moscow. He is still on
a spot. The dissidents — Red
Chinese and those agreeing with
them — will watch carefully as
Khrushchev approaches the new
U.S. administration.
It is possible Khrushchev will
win out, and 1961 will be just
another nerve-wracking cold war
year. It is possible also that he
will lose, and 1961 will be the
most dangerous year of the cold
war era.
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Here's Lineup of 2nd State Legislature
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JUNEAU. (A — Republicans
boosted their holdings in the state
senate from two to six seats and
have a chancei to pick up a
seventh, official state election re
turns show.
Three of the seats newly won
by Republicans were claimed in
the Southcentral district where
Republican Vance Phillips beat
Irene Ryan for the four-year
term as state senator at large.
Brad Phillips outpolled Earl Hill
strand for the Anchorage-Palmer
District G seat, and Howard Pol
lock whipped Helen Fischer for
a two-year term from District E.
The fourth new Republican
seat was taken by the GOP in
District M where Paul Griemann
Sr. beat Democrat E. Johnny
Coonjohn.
Still hanging in the balance was
the District D seat now held by
Democrat Thomas B. Stewart who
had a bare one-vote lead over
Republican Elton E. Engstrom,
who has said he is going to seek
a recount.
Republican John B. Coghill of
Nenana was unopposed in District
L and Jack E. Weise of Bethel,
the second Republican in the First
Legislature, was a holdover in
District K this year.
Democratic incumbent Lester |
Bronson was the victor over Edith I
Bullock for the District N seat, |
with a slim 31 - vote -lead, and j
there is a possibility of a recount
here.
Other results in districts where
there were no party turnovers:
District A: James Nolan, Demo
cratic incumbent.
District B: W. O. Smith, Demo
cratic incumbent.
District I: A1 Owen, Democratic
incumbent.
District J: R.J. McNealy, Demo
cratic incumbent.
District O: Eben Hopson, Demo
cratic incumbent.
Twins Born to Neal Bergls
Mr. and Mrs. Neal Bergt an
nounce the arrival of twins on
Oct. 30 at Fairbanks.
Mrs. Bergt is the former Laura
Mae Beltz, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Bert Beltz. The twins have
been named Michael Alan, who
weighed 5 pounds, 12 ounces, and
Karen Gail, who weighed 5
pounds, 7 ounces.
Gene Jr. and Wife Visit
Mr. and Mrs. Gene While
Mr. and Mrs. Gene White of
the N.C. Store enjoyed a visit
from their son, Gene Jr. and wife
over the Thanksgiving holiday.
The couple came from Yakutat
where they are with the Belling
ham Canning Co.
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JUNEAU. tJF — Democrats will
hold a scant 22-18 majority in
the State House of Representa
tives when the legislature con
venes in January, complete of
ficial state election returns show.
The surprising Republican rallv
in Alaska’s Nov. 8 general elec
tion loosened the heavy 34-6 grip
which the Democrats held in the
lower chamber of the state’s First
Legislature.
Still under the shadow of a
probable recount was the close
race in the Panhandle’s Prince
of Wales District, where Republi
can Alfred Widmark of Klawock
held a scant three-vote lead over
incumbent Democrat Charles M.
Jones of Craig.
The final vote count in the
Ketchikan district showed Repub
licans William Boardman and
Walter Kubley were the victors
over Democrats Oral Freeman
and Gordon Zerbetz.
Freeman was an incumbent.
Zerbetz beat the district’s other
Democratic incumbent, J. Ray
Roady in the primary.
The major Republican rally in
the state was scored in the An
chorage district, where incum
bent John S. Hellenthal was the
only Democrat to pull through.
Elected from that area were
Republicans Bruce Kendall (in
cumbent!, Bennie Leonard, James
Parsons. Henry Fratt, William H.
Sanders, Harold Strandberg, and
R. W. Stratton.
The district had sent eight
Democrats to the House in the
First State Legislature.
Republican Leo Rhode of
Homer claimed the seventh new
Republican seat from the South
central District by defeating
Democrat Quincy Benton, also of
Homer.
Only two of a live-man Dem
cratic bloc which represented
Fairbanks in the First Legisla
ture were returned to office —
Francis X. Chapados and Warren
A. Taylor. Republicans elected
were Edgar I. Baggen, Forbes L.
Baker and C. M. Binkley.
In District 16 (Bethel) the Re
publicans lost a seat when Ray
mond Christiansen ousted incum
bent Republican James Hoffman.
In the 22nd District, Democrat
Jacob Stalker whipped incum
bent Republican John Curtis.
And in the 23rd District, Art
Johnson, a Republican, defeated
Democratic incumbent Charles E.
Fagerstrom for one of the dis
trict's two seats. Democrat Bob
Blodgett, incumbent, lead in the
polling.
Other official returns showed
the following winners in districts
where there were no party shake
ups:
District 3: John E. Longworth,
Republican incumbent.
District 4: Frank E. Cashel and
Andrew Hope, both Democratic
incumbents.
District 5: Do-a M. Sweeney,
Democratic incumbent; and Mark
Jensen, Democrat.
District 6: Morgan Reed, Demo
cratic incumbent.
District 7: Harold Z. Hansen,
Democratic incumbent.
District 8: Robert L. Dittman,
Democrat.
District 9: Jalmar Kerttula,
Democrat.
District 11: William M. Erwin,
Democratic incumbent.
District 13: Peter Deveau, Dem
ocratic incumbent: and Gilbert
Jarvela. Democrat.
District 14: Arthur J. Harris,
Democrat.
District 15: Jav S. Hammond,
Republican incumbent.
District 17: Donald Harris, Re
publican incumbent.
District 18: Grant H. Pearson,
Democratic incumbent.
District 20: Kenneth Garrison
(write-in) Democrat.
District 21: John Nusunginya,
Democratic incumbent.
District 24: Father Segundo
Llorente, (write-in) Democrat.