22 Killed In
Northeast Airline
Crash Friday
NANTUCKET, Mass., UP\ — A
Northeast Airline plane from
New York crashed and disinte
grated near Nantucket Airport
late Friday night taking the lives
of 22 of its 34 occupants.
" Among the victims was Gor
don Dean, 52, former chairman
of the Atomic Energy Commis
sion. After leaving the AEC he
became board chairman of the
Nuclear Science and Engineering
Corp. and in 1955 was named
senior vice president in charge
of nuclear energy for General
Dynamics Corp. General Dynam
ics builds atomic submarines.
The three crew members of the
two-engine Convair — pilot, co
pilot and stewardess—perished.
Also ' killed was Harvey
Schwamm, prominent New York
City banker. His wife, Lillian,
was listed among the seriously
injured.
A 2-year-old baby, riding in
her mother’s lap, lived through
the crash. The mother, Mrs.
Jacqueline Young, 18, of Nan
tucket, was killed.
Airport officials said the plane
was coming in about 11:30 p.m.
Friday night on an instrument
landing through a heavy fog
when it crashed 300 yards north
east of the airport.
Most of those aboard appar
ently were headed for vacations
or weekend stays on this famous
island resort, 15 mijps off Cape
Cod. >
Two airport employees re
ported “a big ball of fire” as the
plane plunged through the fog.
They sped to the scene in a fire
truck and later reported ‘‘there
was fire all around us. We saw
people crawling away.”
Another rescuer, William Low
den, ferry boat purser and one. of
the first on the scene, said:
“I figured most of the people
would be found close to the first
point of impact. I was right.
We found about 12 of them
huddled together in a pile where
they had been thrown out when
the plane first hit. Their clothes
were dll burned. The pilot and1
co-pilot were dead outside the
front end of the fuselage.”
The tragedy brought every
available doctor in Nantucket and
the adjoining island of Martha’s
Vineyard to Nantucket’s trim
40-bed hospital.
It was the second major air
tragedy in two days. A Dutch
KLM Super Constellation crashed
in the Atlantic off Shannon, Ire
land, i Thursday, with the loss of
99 lives.
Friday night’s crash was in a
boggy woodland. A Coast Guard
team of 16 men served as litter
bearers carrying the injured and
the dead. 1
Richard Greuel Favors
Repeal Of Gross
Business License Tax
Richard J. (Dick) Greuel, Dem
ocratic candidate for secretary
of state, recently advocated out
right repeal of the gross business
license tax.
“The unemployment problem
which exists in Alaska has
worked a severe hardship on
many small businessmen here in
Anchorage and elsewhere in
Alaska. Something must be
done.
“During the 1957 legislature I
conducted a thorough examina
tion of the gross business li
cense act. This act is very un
fair in that it taxes gross rather
than net. A business that is oper
ating at_ a loss still has to pay
the tax. I have also discovered
that the business license tax hits
especially hard at consumer vol
ume businesses, such as grocery
stores. This means higher prices
to the consumer.
“After careful consideration, I
now favor outright repeal of this
unfair tax. Certainly if revenue
is needed to replace this tax, a
more equitable program can be
devised.”
High Cost of Driving
GASTONIA, N.C., ‘UR — Homer
Cabe bought a used car, in run
ning condition for $30.
When he applied for an auto
license, he was told that the
state’s liability insurance laws re
quire him to have insurance
coverage. That cost $34 and the
cost of the license for six months
was $6.50.
“It’s not right,” Cabe lamented.
Army October Draft Call
Set For 11,000 Men
WASHINGTON, UR—'The Army
today issued a draft " call for
11,000 men in October. This is
the same quota previously am
nounced for September.
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Bill Before Congress
Would Create A 13th
Federal Reserve District
WASHINGTON, UP> — A bill to
create a 13th Federal Reserve
District with headquarters in
Seattle was introduced Friday
by Sens. Warren G. Magnuson
and Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash).
Creation of the district would
coincide with entry of Alaska
into the union. The senators said
the new district is needed to
serve the economic growth of
the northwest and Alaska.
Magnuson and Jackson had
urged William McChesney Martin
Jr., head of the Federal Reserve
System, to set up the new dis
trict by ^administrative action,
but he replied it would have to
be done by Congress.
Martin pointed out that the
Federal Reserve Act limits the
number of districts to 12.
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Egan Report Ridiculous
Rumors Spread Among
Northern Alaska Natives
ANCHORAGE — William A.
Egan, Democratic candidate for
Governor, returned here from a
trip through Fairbanks, Nome,
Kotzebue, and Unalakleet. Said
Egan, “I found Statehood senti
ment gathering strength through
out the area which I visited.
Some of the rumors which have
.been deliberately spread are
ridiculous. In Kotzebue, the
Eskimo people have been told that
the increase in .Postal rates was
the result of Statehood.”
Egan commented that the edu
cational campaign being waged
by the Statehood Committee is
having great effect in the Arctic
area.
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and Republican that I cast my
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that so voting, I, George R. Go
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all time bring you, each of you,
great wonderful returns.
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