Steering Committee Applies to Wade
For Vote on Moving Alaskan Capitol
ANCHORAGE, UP) — The cap
itol Site Steering Committee
plans to submit to the Secretary
of State in Juneau early next
week an application seeking the
issuance of petitions calling for
an initiative measure.
The measure would direct that
the state capitol be “relocated in
the Cook Inlet-railbelt area,”
according to State Representative
Earl Hillstrand, chairman of the
committee.
Although only 100 names are
required on the application, Hill
strand has indicated that more
than that number will be affixed.
The applications have been sent
to several areas of western Alas
ka, Hillstrand said.
Upon approval of the Secretary
of State, petitions are issued for
placing the measure on the ballot
at the next general election. Ten
per cent of the voters in two
thirds of the 24 election districts
must sign the petition before the
measure would be placed on the
ballot for a vote next November.
The application asks that the
capitol be relocated,, that a five
man committee to determine the
exact location of the capitol be
appointed by the Governor, and
that, upon approval of the meas
ure, the Deartment of Administra
tion effect the physical transfer.
The transfer of the capitol is
sought for 1965.
“The best way to settle differ
ences between the people is to
put the matter to vote,” Hillstfand
said. “We’ve been getting along
under this Democratic principle
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pretty well.” Only a simple ma
jority is required to pass the meas
ure once the initiative is placed
on the billot. *
There has been some conjec
ture as to whether the reference
in the State Constitution naming
Juneau as the capitol would make
such an initiative unconstitutional.
“We considered this reference
was merely intended during the
transitional period from a terri
torial status to statehood,” Hill
strand said. “We therefore see no
need to amend the constitution.”
Amendments to the state consti
tution can be effected only by a
two-thirds vote of both the House
and the Senate, or by a constitu
tional convention ordered by the
Legislature.
Comprising the committee
which seeks to relocate the state
capitol are Hillstrand. Art Wal
dron, George Janfson, Wendell
Kay, William Stokey, Eugene
Saxton, James Fisher, Austin Si
monds and Ken Hinchey, all of
Anchorage.
Public Works Department
Applies to Withdraw
Kougarock Camp Site
The State of Alaska, Depart
ment of Public Works, has filed
ari application for the withdrawal
of lands from all forms of appro
priation under the public land |
laws. The aplicant desires the j
land for use as a maintenance :
campsite in connection with the i
Nome-Kougarok Road.
The land is situated in the
Pilgrim Springs area, and contains
5.51 acres, more or less.
If circumstances warrant, a
public hearing will be held at a
convenient time and place, which
will be announced, states the BLM
ofice.
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Entrance to the new Research Center, which consists of three large build
ings and two small buildings, housing latest in scientific equipment.
In a quiet, wooded area on the outskirts of Richmond, Virginia, the
new Philip Morris Research Center has opened its doors this Fall to
become a part of American industry's dynamic current program for
scientific advancement in a Science Age.
Within its attractive and efficiently planned buildings more than one
hundred and fifty scientists and «
skilled laboratory technicians work
along with a staff of consultants
that includes such renowned mem
bers as Dr. Archer John Porter
Martin, 1952 Nobel Prize Winner.
Designed by Ulrich Franzen, one of
the nation’s foremost modern archi
tects, the Philip Morris Research
Center’s five buildings house more
than sixty-two thousand square feet
of floor space. Here investigations
in the components of tobacco leaf,
smoke, flavors and filters are going
on continuously, as are develop
ments of new products and refine
ments of existing ones.
In the early dawn of science,
Aristotle wrote the classic dictum,
"All men by nature desire to know."
Here in the unhurried and stimulat
ing atmosphere of the Richmond
countryside, Philip Morris scientists
have the most modern laboratory
equipment and facilities to pursue
the problems of tod ay and to explore
the exciting frontiers of tomorrow.
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Hawaii Steals Show
At Demo. Fete to
Honor New States
SAN FRANCISCO, UP) — Sen
ator Bob Bartlett toasted Cali
! fornia’s Governor Edmund G.
1 Brown Friday night at a $100-a
plate Democratic salute to Alaska
and Hawaii.
Bartlett and Representative Dan
iel Inouye (D-Hawai) were the
featured speakers at a dinner at
tended by 500 leading Democrats.
The salute to the 49th and 50th
States turned into a series of
pitches for Brown.
And each time a speaker im
plied that California’s Governor
was headed for national office, the
California audience applauded
with gusto.
Bartlett said that contrary to
Republican intimations, the Dem
ocrats in Congress hve been
fighting to reduce the national
debt.
“For every once in a while,”
said Bartlett, “the Congress re
ceives a request from the Admin
istration — the businesslike, sav
ing and efficient Eisenhower Ad
ministration — to lift the debt
ceiling.
The grayhaired Bartlett, a
former gold miner, had only one
complaint with his lei-bedecked
audience.
“As I look round tonight/’ he
said “I see plenty of evidence of
Hawaiian influence — but noth
ing from Alaska.
“If I’d have known this was
to be the situation, I’d have
brought something from Alaska
— a glittering array of furs and
gold nuggets.”
The crowd roared .and seemed
willing to meet again, real soon,
if Bartlett meaftt what he said.
Representative Inouye, who
lost his right arm in combat, told
something of the 50th State and
its military record.
“On March 12, 1959, the whole
world learned that the United
States practices what it preaches.”
“We hadn’t even been discov
ered during the revolutionary
war,” he said, “and we were a
kingdom during the Civil War.
“In World War I, we contrib
uted but a token force. But in
World War II, Hawaii, per capita,
had more casualties than any
state, city or town in the United
States.
“We had no deserters, no trai
tors and no turncoats.
“Most of our AWOL troops were
men who left hospitals to return
to front lines — a most unusual
thing.
“Only 15 sons of Hawaii were
captured in World War II. Some
how,” Inouye said, “men of Ha
waii refuse to be captured.”
The solidly-built dark-haired
Congressman declared that in Ha
waii “we have problems, but
we’re happy.
“We feel we have something to
contribute to the United States —
the spirit of understanding and
aloha.”
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Sen. Wm. Langer, North
Dakota GOP Maverick,
Dies at Age 73
WASHINGTON, Iff) — Senator
William (Wild Bill) Langer (R
ND), a colorful political maverick
both as Governor and as Senator,
is dead at 73.
He.spent 45 turbulent years in
; politics, the last 19 of them in the
Senate.
Langer died in his sleep of
heart failure Sunday at his home.
He had been ailing since his wife,
Lydia, died of cancer August 4.
He recently spent three weeks in
a' hospital with pneumonia.
Langer steered a safe course
through many a political whirl
wind. In 1935 he easily won nom
ination for re-election as Gover
nor of North Dakota although he
was under a federal indictment
for conspiracy. Eventually he was
aquitted.
Only last yeay he won re-elec
tion — withoik making a‘ single
campaign speech — in spite of the
opposition of his own state Re
publican organization.
In the Senate, Langer voted
against the Eisenhower Adminis
tration more often than with it.
He opposed Eisenhower’s foreign
policy. Anything proposed by the
Secretary of Agriculture Benson
was almost sure to bring Dang
er’s* opposition.
Since Republican Governor
John Davis of North Dakota is
sure to appoint a Republican to
serve the rest of Langer’s term,
the Senate lineup of 65 Democrats
and 35 Republicans will remain
unchanged. •
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HAMILTON AFB, Calif., Iff) —
A simulated air-sea rescue opera
tion turned into the real thing
Friday after an Army helicopter
capsized as it was extracting a
man from Drakes Bay.
The would-be rescuers were
rescued by a Coast Guard cutter
standing by as part of the man
euver. An amphibian plane re
turned the wet but unhurt men I
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Chou Proposes
India Agree to 25
Mile Border Buffer
LONDON UP) — Communist
China has proposed to India that
the armed forces of both countries
immediately withdraw 12Vfe miles
from their disputed border.
Premier Chou En-Lai made the
proposal in a note delivered to
New Delhi Sunday to Prime Min
ister Nehru. Chou also proposed
that he and Nehru meet in the
immediate future to discuss re
lations between their two gov
ernments.
There was no immediate reac
tion from Nehru.
Peiping’s note was delivered to
the Indian Foreign Office a few
hours after India made public a
sharp message sent Red China six
days ago accusing the Communists
again of aggression.
Chou’s note proposed that the
two sides still maintain civil ad
ministrative personnel and un
armed police there.
But the Chinese Premier
warned that if an appropriate so
lution is not worked out, clashes
on the border may occur again.
The note said Communist China
regrets that India disregards the -
“basic facts” of the boundary
question and “adopts an attitude
extremely harmful’ to the two
countries. Red China contends
that India has been trespassing on
Chinese territory. India claims
Chinese soldiers have -been attack
ing Indian forces on Indian soil.
The note sent to Red China last
week was the sharpest attack
Nehi*u has ever made formally
against the Communist regime. He
accused Peiping of aggressive at
titudes “reminiscent of old im
perialist powers against whom
both India and China struggled in
the past.”
Two Nome Residents
Among 39 Alaskans
At Seattle University
SEATTLE — Two Nome resi
dents are among the 39 students
from the 49th State enrolled for
’59 fall quarter classes at Seattle
University.
They are Elizabeth L. Cavota
and Charles W. Fagerstrom. Miss
Cavota is the daughter of Fred
T. ,Cavota, and a 1959 graduate
of St. Mary’s Academy, Winlock,
Wash She is a freshman business
major at Seattle University.
Fagerstrom is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Charles E. Fagerstrom,
and he is a 1957 graduate of
Nome High School, and a sopho
more majoring in commerce and
finance.