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Alaska Health Board Approves
Plan for Hospital Admission of
Mentally 111, Voluntary & Committed
JUNEAU, Oct. 18—Alaska’s
mental health program was one
of the first items to come before
the annual meeting of the Alaska
Board of Health which convened
here Oct. 17 for a three-day con
ference.
The board approved a plan for
hospital admission of mentally ill
patients which provides for both
voluntary admission as well as by
commitment procedures.
Draft of the plan was prepared
by the Alaska Dept, of Health on’
request of Gov. Heintzleman in
accordance with the recent con
gressional Alaska Mental Health
Enabling Act, which requires that
Alaska establish its own hospitali
zation procedures.
The plan now will go to the
Territorial Legislature for ap
proval, according to Mrs. Andrew
H. Nerland, vice chairman and
Second Division representative Of
the health board who presided at
opening sessions of its annual
UNALAKLEET MAN
IS OWNER. OF BOAT
THAT DRIFTED HERE
The boat with outboard motor
which drifted ashore here Friday
has been identified as that of
Lincoln Milligruk of Unalakleet.
According to a report from
Unalakleet, the boat drifted away
during a storm in that area about
a week ago.
Court Upholds
Death Sentence
For Graham
DENVER, Wl—Colorado’s Su
preme Court today upheld the
first-degree murder conviction of
John Gilbert Graham, 24, who is
charged with dynamiting an air
liner which caused the death of
44 persons last year.
The high court ordered Graham
to 'be executed at the Colorado
penitentiary where he is now
confined in death row during the
week ending Jan. 12.
The high court, in an opinion
by Chief Justice Wil'bur M. Alter,
said that “no other verdict than
guilty of murder in the first de
gree could have been returned”
by the jury which heard his case
in Denver District Court last
_ April.
The high court ruling said Gra
ham was “accorded every consti
tutional guaranty."
“Nowhere in the reports of
criminal cases have we found a
counterpart to this case,” Justice
Alter wrote, “and we ’doubt if
anything approaching it can be
found in fiction.”
When Graham was sentenced to
death by Judge Joseph M. Mc
Donald in district court last May
Graham said he wished no further
action be taken in the case and
wanted the sentence carried out
as speedily as possible.
meeting.
The board also approved a
$110,000 budget request to the
legislature for Alaska’s part of its
mental health progrom costs dur
ing the next biennium.
Meeting in a special session
with the Alaska Hospital Advis
ory Council, health board menu
bers discussed drafts for the ter
ritory’s entire mental health pro
gram which included three alter
native plans for construction of
mental hospitals in Alaska.
The three alternatives are:
1. A central 450-bed hospital;
2. a central 400-bed hospital with
25-bed hospital units for acute
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Many Alaska
Gold Miners
Compensated
Compensation totalling $14,661,
881 is being paid to gold miners
including Alaskans as an outcome
of the U.S. Court of Appeals de
cision of last February that west
ern gold miners are entitled to be
paid compensation for taking
their gold mining properties un
der World War II WPB limitation
order L-208.
Alaskan claimants and amounts
of compensation, according to the
Mining Record, are:
Alaska - Pacific Consolidated
Mining Co., $209,719.61; Hirst
Chichagof Mining Co., $412,300;
Brinker - Johnson Co., $246,000;
Nabesna Mining Corp., $274,348;
Cl) Glenn Carrington, (2) L. C.
Thomson, (3) E. B. Klukholn, <4>
W.E. Dunkle, (5) A. F. Erickson
and '6) L. R. Roehke, co-partners
under the firm name and style of
Caribou Mines, $140,000; Gold
Bullion, Inc., $289,949; U. S.
Smelting, Refining and Mining
Co., Inc., $109,775.62; Gold Pla
cers, Inc., $94,072.89; Hattie Es
ter Quigley individually, and as
special administratrix of the es
tate of Edwin Walter Quigley, de
ceased, $50,000; Harvey L. Soren
son, $535,952.72; Dan Creek Pla
cer Mines, Inc., $42,500; Cleary
Hill Mines Company, $286,463.28;
Archie W. Pringle, $70,000.
3,000-Year-Old Archeological Discovery on Seward
Peninsula Contradicts Russian Migration Theory
PROVIDENCE, R. I„ Wt—A
Brown University anthropologist
last summer unearthed the re
mains of a dwelling more than
3,000 years old—the oldest human
habitation yet found in the Amer
ican arctic.
The find was made by Dr. J.
Louis Giddings Jr., director of
Brown's Haffenreffer Museum of
the American Indian. First an
nouncement of the discovery was
made by the university Saturday.
Dr. Giddings dug into a suspi
t
cious-looking depression high on
a lonely Alaskan beach on Esch
scholtz Bay, about 100 miles
northeast of Bering Straits. He
had learned from previous Alas
kan experience that traces of an
cient habitation were to be looked
for in such depressed areas, rath
er than only in mounds.
In the depression he found an
artifact-studded oval area where
traces of timbers remained. He
said his discovery apparently fills
in a missing link in the chronolo
gy of the arctic between the old
est known Eskimo cultures and a
far more ancient people identified
only by a few artifacts that have
been found.
Dr. Giddings said the discovery
also bolsters a theory which he
holds with other scientists that
the frozen regions of the far north
were once sparsely settled by a
migratory people. The theory
contradicts the more popular
view that the North American
continent was settled by mass
migrations from Siberia.
Eisenhower Denounces Bulganin as a Meddler
For Endorsing Plan to End Testing of H-Bomb
(St tm Associated Feces'
Russian Premier Bulganin yes
terday landed in the middle of
the UJS. political campaign with
a loud thump as President Eisen
hower denounced him as a med
dler in the current controversy
over ending H-bomb tests.
Bulganin’s latest note—endors
ing the views of “Certain promi
nent public figures in the United
States” who want H-bomb tests
halted—drew a stinging reply
from Eisenhower and added fuel
to the current campaign debate.
Adlai Stevenson, who first
raised the issue, was expected
to ipake his own comment on the
Eisenhower-Bulganin exchange.
Even before Eisenhower’s re
jection of the Bulganin letter yes
terday, Stevenson put out a state
ment saying “the White House
seems to have dismissed the Rus
sian offer out of hand . . .”
'Propaganda Exercise'
Stevenson referred to an earlier
statement by presidential Press
Gomulka Is New
Independent Red
Leader of Poland .
By COLIN FROST
WARSAW, Poland, (At—Leaders
pledged to guide Poland on a new
course independent of Moscow
have taken the reins of the ruling
Communist Party and swept the
Stalinists from the policy-making
posts.
Wladyslaw Gomulka, a tough
and taciturn 51-year-old Commu
nist who became a national hero
by defying Stalin, emerged at the
top after a shakeup of the power
ful Politburo last night.
Surrounding Gomulka in the
streamlined, nine - member ruling
group were other men said to fa
vor' his demand for disentangle
ment from Soviet controls. All re
mained pledged to continue Com
munist government.
Among the Stalinists tossed out
of the Politburo was Marshal
Konstantin Rokossovsky, the Po
lish-born Soviet army hero in
stalled by\Stalin as head of Po
land’s military forces in 1949 to
hold the country in the Soviet
orbit.
Secretary James Hagerty, whoi
had called the letter “a propa
ganda exercise rather than a seri
ous attempt to achieve under
standing between heads of state.”
Stevenson said the Bulganin
letter appeared to contain "noth
ing new,” but “it is encouraging
Russia appears to be still disposed
to curb these dreadful weapons."
Stevenson’s own proposal—that
the U.S. take the lead in negotia
tions toward ending H-bomb tests
—has been condemned by Eisen
hower and other GOP leaders as
a threat to national security un
less there are foolproof mutual in
spection agreements.
Knowland Asks Stevenson
Sen. Knowland <R-Calif) called
on Stevenson Sunday to “repudi
ate the unwarranted interference
of Premier Bulganin ... in our
free American elections.” Know
land said Stevenson should do so
“because you have helped create
this situation by your unfortunate
position on H-bomb tests.”
Sen. Estes Kefauver, in a state
ment issued in California yester
day, also before Eisenhower’s re
action to the Bulganin note was
made public, said the U.S. has
“everything to gain and nothing
to lose” by negotiating with Rus
sia on a test ban.
Testing 'Means Suicide'
Kefauver repeated earlier as
sertions that a halt to the tests
would not damage U.S. security.
He said Saturday that stepped up
testing “means suicide” for the
world thru cumulative radioac
tive poisoning of the atmosphere.
Sen. Gore (D-Tenn) said yester
HOLY CROSS MISSION
BOARDING STUDENTS
MOVE TO NEW SCHOOL
Holy Cross Mission as a board
ing school is no more. However,
this historic Catholic mission,
opened in 1887, will remain open
at Holy Cross as a day school.
Last week, the boarding stu
dents were flown to the new
Catholic school between Tazlina
and Copper River. The new school
is partly finished, with eight
buildings of the big new project
completed.
Father John Hess, who has
been at Holy Cross Mission since
1914, was among those transferred
to the Copper River school.
day he agreed the Bulganin letter
was an “improper intrusion” into
the American campaign. Gore
said Eisenhower was “entirely
correct in resenting” It.
Eisenhower’s letter to Bulganin
repeated his earlier stand that in
spection and control agreements
are the first step in any disarma
ment program, “both of which
your government has steadfastly
refused to accept.”
Radiation a ‘Minor Angle'
Secretary of State Dulles, in a
TV interview yesterday, mini
mized the radiation danger con
nected with H-bomb explosions.
Dulles said such radiation is “rel
atively a very minor angle of the
problem” which has been “built
up into an effort to create a great
scare.”
Scientists meanwhile continued
to range themselves on both sides
of the controversy. Some argued
that a halt is necessary now; oth
ers that it is impractical and un
safe to do so at this time.
Altho the H-bomb stole the
headlines, other political angles
were not neglected as the Nov. 6
showdown neared.
GOP for Small Business
The White House made public a
telegram from Eisenhower saying
his administration “has done more
for small business than any prior
administration.” He cited statis
tics and accomplishments de
signed to counteract Democratic
charges that small businesmen
are suffering under the GOP.
In Chicago, Stevenson cam
paign strategists claimed a Demo
cratic lead over Eisenhower in 21
states with 235 electoral votes.
They said a driving finish aimed
at the big city vote in some of the
larger states can clinch a victory.
Stevenson speaks tomorrow in
New York, and was expected to
hit again at administration for
eign policy. Eisenhower, who
wound up a five-state western
tour Saturday, speaks Thursday
night in New York, also on for
eign policy.
Sgt. McKeon Released
From Brig for Duty
As Chaplain’s Assistant
PARRIS ISLAND, S. C., (* —
Former S/Sgt. Matthew C. Mc
Keon ended his term in the brig
Saturday for leading a night
training march on which six re
cruits drowned.
The 31-year-old drill instructor,
resuming his Marine career as a
private, went into immediate se
clusion and could not be located
for comment.
The brig doors opened for him
at 7:30 a.m., ending a three-month
sentence in punishment for the
April night disciplinary march in
a marshland area where the men
drowned.
The 31 year-old drill instructor,
resuming his marine career as a
private, will be assigned to duty
as a chaplain’s assistant.
A marine spokesman said Mc
Keon will be transferred about
Nov. 15 to the 2nd Marine Air
craft wing at Cherry Point, N.C.