Egan and Wade
Sworn Into Office
Saturday at Juneau
JUNEAU, W) — William A. Egan
became the first Governor of the
newly created 49th state of Alas
ka Saturday.
Egan, 44, a Democrat, took the
oath of office at a brief ceremony
in the capitol building here.
U. S. District Judge Raymond
J. Kelly, a Republican and for
mer National Commander of the
American Legion, administered
the oath of office to Egan at
8:18 a.m.
Dawn was just beginning to
break south of Juneau down the
scenic Gastineau Channel, with
the clear morning sky visible from
the windows of the Governor’s of
fice where the oath was taken.
Hugh J. Wade, 56, Egan’s run
ning mate in Alaska’s pre-state
hood election in November, was
sworn in two minutes later as
Secretary of State. The position
corresponds to that of lieutenant j
governor in other states.
The two Democrats, who face I
the task of guiding the formative
years of the first state admitted
to the nation since 1912, will serve
terms ending in December, 1962.
A constitutional limit in the new
state provides that no governor
can serve more than two consecu
tive terms. But because Egan’s
first term will be less than four
years, he theoretically is eligible
for two additional four year in
cumbencies.
Egan and Wade began their du
ties as heads of the largest state
without salary.
There can be no provision for
salaries for the new Governor and
Secretary until the first State
Legislature fixes the pay rate and
appropriates the funds. The new
state lawmakers convene Jan
uary 26. I
About 24 persons, including the
wives of the two new officials,
witnessed the ceremony in the
Governor’s office Saturday.
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the real gain was by people ev
erywhere.”
Senator-elect Ernest Gruening
described the signing as a “fitting
climax to years of effort by many
persons.” He pledged the Alaska
delegation’s support to Hawaii’s
bid for statehood which he said
he hoped would be successful this
year.
Representative-elect Ralph J.
Rivers said Alaska’s admission
was “a manifestation of democra
cy in action.”
Robert B. Atwood, Anchorage
publisher and chairman of the
Alaska Statehood Commissios,
presided over the conference call.
“Statehood is in our lap . . .
it’s our baby . . . it’s all up to ,
us from now on,” he concluded.
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Deputy Premier Mikoyan to Talk
With Dulles on No-Holds-Barred Basis
By WARREN ROGERS JR.
WASHINGTON, UP) — Soviet
Deputy Premier Mikoyan strode
past shouting anti-Communist
pickets today to a meeting with
Secretary of State Dulles.
Mikoyan and Dulles were ex
pected to discuss the cold war on
a no-holds-barred basis. The Ber
lin crisis was tagged as a chief
topic.
The Russian leader, who arrived
from Moscow Sunday, smiled
broadly as he arrived at the State
Department. Seven Hungarian
freedom fighters, carrying plac
ards reading “Go home Mikoyan,”
shouted insults as he walked up
with Soviet Ambassador Menshe
Alaska Airlines
Willing to Forego
Subsidy on 1st Class Mail
WASHINGTON, UP) — Alaska j
Airlines asked the Civil Aeron-'
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the experimental period for air
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j tween Seattle and Anchorage.
The CAB authorized the line to
carry such mail at a nonsubsidy
rate of 18 cents a mail-ton mile
during the Christmas season. This
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The airline said it would be
willing to carry mail on a nonsub
i sidy basis.
PAA Stratocruiser
Sets Near Record Time
In Fairbanks-Seattle Flight
SEATTLE, UP) — Pushed by tail
winds, a Pan American World Air-1
ways Stratocruiser flew here
from Fairbanks in 4 hours, 10
minutes last Friday, a line spokes
man said. The scheduled flight
time is 5 hours, 50 minutes, and
Friday’s flight was a record for
Stratocruisers, he added.
The commercial record for the
run was set in 1955 by a DC-6B
transport, which took 3 hours, 57
minutes.
kov.
Mikoyan and the ambassador
pressed through a crowd of about
100 reporters and photographers.
Arriving in Dulles’ outer office,
they posed for pictures with
Dulles, seated on a divan.
“Very glad to see you,” Dulles
said, shaking hands with Mikoy
an.
Once seated, Dulles put his arm
behind Mikoyan on the back of
the divan and the two men
launched into a friendly conver
sation — all about the weather.
At New York’s airport, he stu
diously ignored a group of Hun
garian refugees, some of whom
yelled “Murderer,” and “Commu
nist dog,” at him.
For Mikoyan so far the trip has
been “America revisited.” He came
here in 1936, when he was so
impressed with ice cream and the
automat that he introduced both
ideas to Russia. This time he got
excited about cellophane-wrapped
doughnuts, motels, parking me
ters and rental automobiles. *
That much came out during his
drive from New York to Wash
ington and an unscheduled two
hour walk around Washington
streets.
The days ahead also have no,
fixed schedule. Mikoyan says he
will be happy to talk about any- *
thing Dulles wants, including
Berlin. Dulles says “the initiative [
is his.” Mikoyan says he would
be pleased to talk to President
Eisenhower if the President has
time. The White House says it is
up to Mikoyan to ask.
But any attempt to learn details
of his plans draws a Slavic shrug
at the Embassy, and such com
ments from Mikoyan as, “I am on
a holiday and I am a free man.”
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Hawaii Statehood
May Be First
Order of Business
WASHINGTON. — With
Alaska now in the union, a bill to
make Hawaii the 50th state will
be the first major legislation con
sidered by the House Interior
Committee in the new Congress.
That was the word today from
chairman Wayne Aspinall (D
Colo.). He said he could see no
reason why the bill should not
have committee approval by Feb
ruary 1. He set a May 1 goal for
House action.
In the Senate, chairman James
Murray (D-Mont) of the Interior
Committee promised an early
hearing primarily to give oppo
nents an opportunity to express
their views.
“I see no necessity for any new
hearings, except to hear the re
ports of House members who vis
ited the islands recently,” Aspi
nall said in an interview.
He referred to Representatives
Leo O’Brien (D-NY>, B. F. Sis (D
Calif) and E. Y. Berry (R-SD),
who made an inspection in Hawaii
in late November.
Aspinall said it had not been de
termined whether the three com
Oh Mann, Oh Women!
LOS ANGEI.ES, (A) — Do people .
really know what they’re talking
about when polltakers quiz them?
To find out, Los Angeles Mirror
News columnist Paul Coates called
150 people by telephone and asked
this question.
“Do you think the Mann Act de
ters or helps the cause of labor,
and if you feel it deters, would you
vote for its repeal?”
Coates found that 35 per cent
of those polled want to repeal the
Mann Act, which since 1910 has
made it illegal to transport a wo
man across state lines for im
moral purposes.
The columnist said only 12 per
cent realized the question wa8
rigged.
mittee members would make their
report in writing or by testifying
for the benefit of other commit
tee members.
Aspinall noted that the Hawaii
statehood bill has been considered
actively in every session of Con
gress since 1945.
“If there were any new major
problems, I would ask that they
be given thorough study,” he said.
“But, to my knowledge, there
hasn’t been a thing since we last
considered the bill.”
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