'Alaska Will Gel
$44,1117,000 for
Defense in 1957
1 WASHINGTON, UP> — The De
fense Department plans to spend
$44,117,000 in military construc
tion in Alaska in the 1957 fiscal
year.
The Department asked Con
gress to authorize $29,544,000 for
Air Force construction in the ter
ritory; $7,351,000 for one Navy
project—the Adak Naval Station
—'and $7,222,000 for the Army.
Here is the breakdown for the
Air Force:
Eielson AFB $14,984,000; El
anendorf AFB $5,444,000; Galena
airfield $1,772,000; Ladd AFB
l$7,055,000; King Salmon airport,
$289,000.
Army: Ft. Richardson $2,333,
000; Ladd AFB $1,688,000; Whit
itier $2,849,000; Wildwood Station
•Kenai) $352,000.
The funds listed for Alaska in
stallations are almost equal to
the total for the three Pacific
Northwest states nearest the ter
ritory. The total for Washington,
Oregon and Idaho is $46,801,000.
Fine Job Printing at The Nugget
Five Reported Missing
On Plane Flight Found
Stranded on Beach
KODIAK, —Five persons re
ported missing on a flight over
the Alaska Peninsula were found
safe on a beach near Chignik,
250 miles southwest of here
Wednesday.
The fishing vessel Reliance ra
dioed the three men and two
women were removed from the
beach, where they were stranded
when their Kodiak Airways plane
was forced .down Monday, and
were being taken to Chignik.
The five are Dean Henker, a
Chignik school teacher, formerly
of Vancouver, Wash., his wife,
Patricia; Mrs. William Gilbert,
Squaw Harbor; Charles Barnes,
Sand Point, and Ray Albrecht,
the pilot.
Search for the party was start
ed Monday after Albrecht radio
ed an engine had conked out and
he was attempting a landing near
the shore of Hook Bay on the
peninsula.
The Reliance messaged that
Albrecht landed safely but his
plane later was damaged by the
tides.
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8 of 11 Articles in Constitution Have
Passed Second Reading; 17 Days Left
FAIRBANKS, — Alaska’s
constitution - framers are begin
ning to feel the end of their labors
is in sight.
The Constitutional Convention
has but 17 days remaining in
which to draft a constitution for
a state of Alaska. But with only
three major articles left to be
studied and amended on second
reading, the 55 delegates believe
they will meet the deadline.
With this in mind, the admin
istration committee and conven
tion secretary Thomas Stewart
are preparing to meet to consider
how to dress up the final docu
ment.
Stewart said no decision had
been made but the committee is
toying with the idea of having
the document enscribed on the
tanned hide of some Alaskan ani
mal.
Stewart has wired, E. L. Bart
lett, Alaska’s Delegate to Con
gress, asking advice on the type
of paper or parchment, and ink,
that would be best for the origi
nal copy of Alaska’s constitution.
Signing of the document by the
55 delegates who have toiled for
weeks to draw it up is expected
to provide an emotional moment.
One woman observer who has at
tended many sessions commented
“I am sure I will burst into tears.”
The night sessions of the past
10 days have given delegates re
newed faith they will meet the
deadline. The night sessions,
stretching the work day to 13
hours, are continuing through this
week, at least.
Eight major articles have passed
through the second reading and
now can be amended only by a
two-thirds majority. They are the
bill of rights, and legislative,
suffrage, apportionment, execu
tive, judiciary, finance and direct
legislation articles.
The convention began consider
ation of the resources article.
Next will come local government
and then ordinances and transi
tional measures.
Procedures were recently
streamlined to hasten the move
ment of articles through second
reading to the style and drafting
committee.
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Civil Service
Told to Keep
Public Informed
WASHINGTON, OH—The Civil
Service Commission, under prod
ding by a House committee, has
told its employes they have a re
sponsibility “to assist in the task
of keeping the public informed.”
This new directive, disclosed
today, takes the place of one that
advised employes that informa
tion about CSC affairs is “the
property of the government” and
must not be disclosed without
authorization.
Chairman Moss <D-Calif' of a
House government operations
subcommittee hailed the change
as a step toward unclogging the
flow of information as a result of
his group’s inquiry into the way
government agencies are letting
the press and public know about
their activities.
“I hope other federal executive
agencies will review their infor
mation policies,” Moss said in a
statement, adding:
“Officials should adopt a posi
tive attitude and tell the public
everything the government is do
ing unless they can clearly justify
withholding information.”
Actually, the revision is not
such a policy reversal as it might
appear. CSC Chairman Philip
Young told the subcommittee that
the agency’s employes long have
been encouraged to publicize
"legitimate” information about
CSC. Young said the “government
property” warning was intended
to keep within the agency such
internal matters as differences of
opinion that might arise among
officials while final policy deci
sions are being reached.
BIT IT AND SPIT IT
LAWRENCEBURG, Ky., UH —
Sixty-two-year-old Spencer Peav
ler accused James Tyra of adding
insult to injury yesterday.
Police said Peavler told them
Tyra bit a chunk out of his left
cheek and spat it out — into a
liquor store cuspidor.
Tyra, 47, was charged with qs
sault and battery.
OEDIPUS COMPLEX ?
KARASUYAMA, Japan, OH —
Police said farmer Hoboru Su
zuki, jailed on a murder charge,
confessed that he had beaten to
death his 79-year-old father “be
cause he had a girl friend my age
and kept seeing her on the sly.”
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