LET’S ALL VOTE
™E NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN AIASKA—-MRMRRR ASSOCIATED PRESS __
VOL. LX No. 102 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 1958 Per Copy—15<*
First State of Alaska
Primary Election Tomorrow
Governor, Three Congressmen
And Sixty Legislators To Be Elected
JUNEAU, un—A new fashion
in election ballots will be dis
played at the polls tomorrow as
residents of the Territory vote in
a primary that rates being caled
historic.
On the ballots are the names of
six leading Alaskans seeking
nomination as candidates for gov
ernor and Secretary of State.
In the past, going back as far
as 1884, the President of the
United States has named the
Governor of Alaska. The Secre
tary of Alaska also is a Presiden
tial appointee now.
On the ballots are the names of
four Alaskans who are assured
nomination for two U. S. Senate
contests in a November general
election. Never before has Alaska
had membership in the Senate.
Three Alaskans appear on the
ballots as candidafes for a U. S.
House seat — a voting member
ship in Congress to replace a
non-voting delegate who in the
past has been the Territory’s only
representative.
In all respects, tomorrow’s pri
mary will be Alaska’s first state
election.
How much meaning it will hold
depends on the outcome of a spe
cial election that will be held at
the same time — a special elec
tion at which Alaskans will ac
cept or reject admission into the
Union.
If statehood is approved, candi
dates nominated in the primary
voting will face each other at the
polls in a general election Nov. 25.
The difference between tomor
row’s primary and past Terri
torial elections is startling.
Instead of four ballots — one
for each of the Territorys judicial
divisions — there will be 24 bal
lots, one for each of the election
districts of the proposed new
State.
More than 200 candidates ap
pear on all the ballots seeking
nomination for election to the ex-1
panded Legislature that will be
state’s lawmaking assembly.
As a state, Alaska will have 60
lawmakers — 40 in the House
and 20 in the State. The Terri
torial Legislature was composed
of 16 Senators and 24 Represen
tatives.
The state and national races
on the primary ballots feature
only Democratic contests — and
then only for three of the posi
tions.
Democrats E. L. Bartlett and
Ernest Gruening are assured
nomination for U. S. Senator in
the November election.
Also with opposition for Sena
torial nomination are Repub
licans R. E. Robertson of Juneau
and Mike Stepovich of Fairbanks.
Gruening and Stepovich will
oppose each other in November,
if statehood is approved, in what
appears to be one of the closest
races of the pending fall election.
Also unopposed are Repub
licans Henry Benson of Juneau
for the U. S. House, John Butro
vich Jr. of Fairbanks for Gover
nor, and Karl F. Dewgy of Ju
neau as Secretary of State.
There are contests among Dem
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TERR. AIRLINES HOST
TO WASH. EXECUTIVE
SEATTLE, —Joseph Adams,
former Civil Aeronautics Board
member and now general counsel
and executive director of the
Assn, of Local and Territorial
Airlines, paused here Friday en
route to Fairbanks.
Accompanying the Washington,
D.C., attorney are his wife and
daughter, Janis, 14. They will
visit several Alaskan cities.
Alaska Airlines, Wien Air
lines and Reeves-Aleutian Air
ways are members of the associ
ation. m
Shriners Here to
Present Charter
James Cain, Potentate of Nile
Temple, Shrine Organization
from the State of Washington,
and party, arrived this morning
on their tour of nine Alaskan ci
ties which have Shrine Cubs.
Tonight a charter is to be pre
sented to the Nome Shrine Club,
officially attaching them to Nile
Temple, and a banquet is sched
uled for this evening at the Sea
view Room, for Shriners and 32d
Degree Masons and their ladies.
A ceremonial will be held for
the initiation of several new
members into the organization.
" Also in the party are Lloyd Ko
dar, Chief Rabban; Dr. L. L.
L. Foote, Asst. Raban, and Glen
Carpenter, Recorder.
Clint Gray
Hospitalized
Clinton Gray, shop forman for
the Nugget injured his left hand
shortly after lunch Saturday while
working on the linotype machine
and is recovering satisfactorily at
the hospital. He injured his left
hand, but the-Nugget lost its right
arm temporarily, so if your paper
is late, bear with us, we’ll get one
to you eventually!
Dick “Speedy” Strom, who was
with the Nugget for a short period
a couple of years ago, upon hear
ing of the accident immediately
left Seattle for Nome and is ex
pected to arrive today. In the
meantime Bill and Rod Boucher
are handling the mechanical de
partment for the Nugget. ,
80 ABSENTEE
BALLOTS RECEIVED
Eighty absentee ballots have
been received by the Clerk of the
Court, Joe Kroninger, to date.
Others mailed before the closing
date will be coming* in, Kroninger
stated, for several days, from out
lying precincts.
SEATON PREDICTS
6 TO 1 FOR STATEHOOD
SEATTLE, UP)—Interior Secre
tary Seaton says he expects Al
aska to vote five or six to one
for statehood Tuesday and elect
“at least one Republican senator”
and the new state’s lone Con
gressman in Novepnber.
The GOP will “■put up a stiff
fight” for the other Senate seat,
the Republican administration of
ficial told newsmen during a
brief stop here on a trip to
Alaska.
Seaton flew to Fairbanks Sat
urday to dedicate a monument to
the late James Wickersham, a
longtime Alaska Delegate to Con
gress and former federal judge
who introduced the first Alaska
statehood bill in 1916.
The Interior Secretary was to
go to Anchorage Sunday and be
in Juneau Tuesday, primary day."
Seaton, who has been men
tioned as a possible successor of
Sherman Adams, Presidential
assistant, expressed support of
Adams.
“I Supported Sherman Adams
from the start, Seaton said,
“And I don’t know of a more'
despicable attack ever being
made on a man in public life.”
Home rule for Alaskans will
relieve the Interior Secretary of
some problems, but Seaton said
it would give him at least one
new one.
The Pelly amendment to the
Statehood bill, he added, “will
give two monkeys on my back.”
This proviso, attached to the
statehood bill in the House, re
quires the Interior Secretary to
approve Alaska’s fislj • laws be
fore Alaska, as a state, can as
sume control of its fisheries.
Rep. Thomas Pelly (R-Wash)
urged the amendment. He said it
was needed to protect non
Alaskan fishermen against pos
sible discrimination. Statehood
supporters accepted the amend
ment, although some say they
consider it unconstitutional.
Seaton said he expects Alaska
to flourish under statehood and
added he’s sorry Hawaii didn’t
get statehood tob.
50,000 Shells
Fall on Quemoy
By SPENCER MOOSA
TAIPEI, Formosa, C?) — Red
Chinese guns poured more than
50,000 shells on Quemoy in a
two - hour bombardment Satur
day.
Defense Ministry spokesman
(Liu Hoh-Tu told reporters this
was five times heavier than the
previous biggest bombardment of
the Quemoys, in June 1957.
He gave no estimate of dam
age or casualties suffered by the
Nationalist defenders. He said the
shelling, which was returned by
the Nationalists, came from Amoy
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427 Phones to Ring
For Statehood
The four-hundred and twenty
seven telephones in Nome will
ring on Monday night and Tues
day to remind all voters that
Tuesday is Alaska’s Statehood
Election Day.
A group of volunteer women
will phone all residents and ask
them to vote yes on all three
Statehood propositions. Similar
telephone campaigns are being
held in Anchorage and Fairbanks.
Women who will phone resi
dents in Nome are Mrs. Mike
Walsh, Mrs. Russell Hermann,
Mrs. Carrie McLain, Mrs. Robert
Grant, Mrs John McNeese, and
Miss Ann Walsh
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I wrefor 'VIC’RIVERS
Elected to the Alaska Senate from both the Third
and Fourth Divisions. First elected in 1936
1 1
| Served in the Alaska Senate for a period extending
over 22 years.
| Delegate to the Alaska Constitutional Convention
Member of the Alaska Statehood Committee from
1949 to the present time
Member of the Alaska Legislative Council
Chairman Alaska Legislative Audit Committee
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