Daily Sitka Sentinel
Home-Owned Newspaper
VOLUME XVII
and The ARROWHEAD PRESS
Member of The Associated Press
Tuesday, December 13, 1955
10c o Copy
NUMBER 2
19 set os voting age in new
state by constitution group
Move to set aae at
38 lost by only
.seven votes
FAIRBANKS {IP) Deletes
Oo the Alaska constitutional
©omvenitiiian voted: in plenary
session yesterday to lower the
voting age for Alaskans to 19.
The volte, after a diay of heatt
ed debate®, was 28-24.
A previous move to set the
voting age aft 18 loot 'by seven
votes, 23-30.
The issoie, lurking in the
background for many days,
came to the front when (the ar
ticle on suffrage and elections
to ibe incorporated in the con
sftj/tfurtkwi Was presented by die
committee assigned to those
subjects.
The committee recommend-1
ed a voting age Of 20. Ban.;
When the recommendation!
came to the floor, Victor Fish-.
er and Victor Rivers of An
dhorage, and George Sundborg |
of Juneau. lelaped tfo their feet;
to move it be amended . o 18. |
(More than 20 deletglates air
ed itheiir views in the debate
that f allowed.
And with defeat of the 18
year, Mimiitt, delegates Jack Cog
ihillil of Nehamia, Douglas Gray
of Douglais and J ohn MdNees
of Nome offered an amend
ment setting the age at 19.
Amendments must be writ
ten and handed to the chief
cledk. In the rush of amend
ments, the order of their sub
mission was inadvertently con
fused.
j V eatchcombing j
• Tee Cole aaime back from ;
Wiais4hin®toon, D. C. favoring (or
mayibe he always believed in)
Uhe 5 “Rs”. The traditional 3
<*f Reiadiiing, ’Riiting and 'Rith
imaftic — and (two others whiidh
are very important — Reiiia
toiflity and Respect.
(Wijlih the trend toward “pro
gressive” schooling nuany peo
ple don’t instruct their child
fin hhese two new “Rs” — bun
they are very, very essential
to a well rounded person and
aiter all the kidis are people.
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9 When you make oult your
Christmas cards — why not in
clude one for a friend who is
in the hospital wanting to know
what 2s going on. A few words
now and then make a great
detail otf difference in the speed
of ‘ getting well.”
And don’ii. wait for Dec. 24th
9 A great many people will
now say— “What good is the
United Nations.” It is a sound
ing board which actually tells
us what the communist leaders
are prepared to do.
• Walk carefully — and you
wonlt fall down on the ice. It
has appeared in places where
the Walks have been cleared.
After the aige of 19 was estab
lished, Dorta Sweeney of Jun
eau moved to rescind the action
because amendments putting
tihe voting age at 21 had been
submitted first, and, she said
sboullid have been considered
first.
When the word “rescind”
was spoken, a moan ran thro
ugh the delegation. It was af
ter 4 p. m. and the delegal.es
had belgun the plenary session
at 9 a. m.
The action to rescind failed,
to get the required two-thirds j
majority, losing 20-30, and del
egates then defeated 19-30 tihe
amendment by Barrie White of
Andhonalge and R. E. Robert
son of Juneau to allow voting j
at 21.
The arguments for suffrage
at 18 had these main points: j
The person who is allowed to
work, marry and fight for his
nai (ion at 18 also should be al
lowed to vote; the 18-year-olds
of today are well educated and
should learn early the respon- i
siibilifcies of citizenship; an ear-1
ly right to vote will lessen po
litical apathy; the age 21 vot- ;
vconunued on page four] 1
Half-time record
of constitutional
j
convention viewed
by Florence Douthilt
FAIRBANKS (/P) Sometime
lai e last week, when ail was
quiet in Constitution Hall,
someone pasted a sign to the
wall facing the bank of seats in j
which the 55 delegates eondud;
their business .
The sign reads: “It’s later j
than you think.” I
And this the delegates well
know.
With half their time gone, j
the constitution framers are
running, not walking between
plenary sessions and the com
mittee rooms.
Since the convention’s op
ening day Nov. 8 this much has
bgen accomplished.
Forty! wo proposals have
been introduced to the body as
a whole and referred to com
mittee: the full article repre
senting aflfl recommendations
of the judiciary commit tee has
been approved, with changes.
ami sent out for engrossment:
the article on elections and
suffrage is halfway through
second readinig.
By week’s end, it is expect
ed lihe committees on legisla
tive branch, executive and bill
of rights wffill complete their
documents and put them into
the calendar. The comrnil itees
on government and resources
are close on their heels.
| When committee reports are
completed, they are placed on
the calendar for presentation
| t-o ‘the convention body for ap
proval on second reading. The
calendar, though not yet post
ed. is filling up. This means
committee work will have to be1
i 'continued on page four? 1
Famed priest ill
NEWARK, N .J. (JP) The Rev.
Bernard R. Hubbard, famed
‘‘glacier priiest” oif Alaska, wials
reported in serious condition
today after suffering a cerebrall
hemorrhage.
Father Hubbard was stricken
Saturday wihiile viisdltiinlg friends
in this western New York vdil
i iialge. He was enroute to Hart
ford, Conn., for a lecture en
gagement.
Defense budget
in excess of 35
billions reported
WASHINGTON (JP) Presi
dent Eisenhower was reported
to have laid before eongression
al leaders today a defense bud
get in excess otf 35 billion dol
lars with nearly half to go for
the air force and guided missile
functions.
One report set the rodtlitary
budget total <att about $35,200,
000,000 bub secretary of defense
Wilson said “that doesn’t sound
like the right figure to me.” He ;
wals asked about iit at the air
port jush before his takeoff for
a North Atlantic Treaty Organ- |
ization meeting in Europe.
Wilson suggested the report
might relal e to some different
military item such as oaslh
spending plans or new authori
zations but said: “I don’t rem
ember any figure like that.”
In a three-hour White House
conference wdi ih leaders of both
parties, the president was said
to have emphasized the neces
sity of shaping American mild-!
tary forces toward averting dis
aster at home in case otf war
and providing immediate heavy
retaliation' against an enemy.
Some of those who attended i
the conference said the sum
mary of world conditions given
by the president and secretary
of state Dulles generally was
optimistic despite their obvious
disappointment at Russian act
ion's since the Geneva summit
conference.
It was emphasized that neith
er the president nor Dulles felt ’
•.here was any immediate dang1- !
er of war.
The military budget discuss
ed at the White House meeting
would be for the 12 months be
vcontinued on page four)
NURSES LICENSING
EXAMINATIONS SET
The slate hoard test pool
licensing examination for the ■
professional and practical nurse
will! be given January 21 & 22,
1956 at Andhoralge.
The professional and prac
tical nurse is required to sub
mit a diploma of graduation
from an accredited and/or ap
proved school of nursing, re
cord of scholastic ralting and
1'etl er of endorsement in rela
tion to character and ability in
regard to nursing.
Holders of certificates from
correspondence schools of nur
sing are not eligible for the ex
amination.
Arapilii'cations are iio be made j
to Mrs. LiaPreal F. Bie, R. N., I
ADasko nurses’ exaiming board,
P. 0. Box 714, Seward, on or
jefore January l^t.
Russia joins Free China today
vetoing new members to UN
Whole use of veto
surpasses ail
previous records
UNITED NATIONS (JP) Rus
sia and Nationalist China to
day used their veto power to
kill the proposed package deal
under which 18 new members
would have been admitted to
the United Nations.
The wholesale use of the veto
surpassed ail previous records
for the 11-nations security conn
cal. All hopes of breaking the
membership deadlock in the
near future vanished.
The council caime to grips
with the problem after the gen
eral assembly had appealed for
favorable action on all appli
Dozen Alaskan
hospitals profit
by Ford gift
NEW YORK (/P) The Ford |
Foundation samed a dozen hos
pfljats 'to Ailosikia as 'institutions
which acre 'beloved to be elig
ible tor almost $310,000 to
grants.
The largest would be to Sew
ard Sanatorium ait Bartlett. |
The foundation said compu
tation of grants is based on re
ports from each hospital to the!
American Hospital! Assn. Final
determination of eligible hospi
tals and the exact lamount of
each igtfainlu w#l ibe made by the
foundlaltaon.
The aid to the hospitals is
part of the biggest givawtay t
to the history of philanthropy. ,
Ford Foundaltion announced
it is giving a l.otal otf 500 mil
lion dollars to privately financ
ed colleges and hospitals.
A total otf 3,500 hospitals in
the stal es and territories are list
ed to share to- 200 million in
grants.
The foundation explained
bat the hospital grab s are for
use by the decision of each bos
pilbal for any improvement or
extension of hospital services,
but not if or operting expenses
for services t he hospital cur
rently ate performing.
The amount of each gram
was computed on the basis of
the patient days of service pro
vid'ed Iby’ each hospital and the
number of births tin (the hospital
The Aiaska tliist and the a
mount offered to each institu
tion are:
Seward Sanatorium, Bart
let, $82,500; Providence hospi
tal, Anchorage, $48,000; St.
Ann’s, Juneau, $38,000; St. Jos
eph. Fairbanks, $36,700; Ketchi
kan General, $32,700; Maynard
MacDougall Memorial, Nome,
$11,300.
$10,000 eoeh to Cordova Com
m unity hospital; Hudson Struck
Memorial!, Fort Yukon: Grif
fin Memorial, Kodiak; Valley
Presbvteriiain', Palmer; Seward
General; White Pass and Yu
kon, Skaigway.
cants on wlhidh no problem of
unification was invollived.
But in addition to vortSnig'
down the applications of the 18
iihi <the package deal, the council
also saw Soviet vetoes reject
South Korea and Viet Nam.
Nationalist China vetoed Sov
iet-supported Outer Mongolia,
wibile Russia vetoed 13 non-com
munis ■ countries in addition to
South Korea and Viet Naan.
Four other Soviet satellites—
Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary and
Romania — were tentatively ap
proved by the council on para
graph by paragraph voting. But
they finally were rejected
when none of them received the
required seven votes.
Abandon residence
requirements for *
justices, judges
FAIRBANKS </P) After a
long debate, delegates to the
Alaska constitutional conven
tion decided Monday to cut out
the (five year residence require
ment for the three justices of
the supreme Court and the five
judges of I (he superior court oif
the future state of Alaska. Fin
al vote on the measure was 32
to 21.
The delegates had debated
this issue (from Friday noon to
Monday.
As it now si lands, the judges
and justices need only to have
been admitted to practice in
law in Alaska. There is one
other 'qualification. The eight
members of Che two courts
must “possess such additional
qualifications as may be pre
scribed by law.”
This last qualification was
inserted by delegates to (give
1 he legislature flexibility to
meet chaulging times. But er&t
iics contended that it doesn’t
guarantee that the judges and
justices be men who know some
thing about Alaska.
The original section in the
judiciary article required that
judges and justices of the sup
erior and supreme courts be at
least five yeiars in Alaska and
have been admitted to practice
la)w for that period of 1‘tirne be
for talking a bench ih either
court.
fcontinnert on oace four) *!
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Marine forecast from Tues
day to Wednesday.
Outside waiters Dixon En
trance to Siiitka northeasterly
winds 5 to 15 mph today becom
ing easterly 10 <lo 20 mph to
night.
Clear today. Increasing cloud
iness tonight.
Outside waiters Sitka to Ya
kuitait east northeasterly winds
10 to 20 mph today becoming
southeasterly 15 to 25 mph to
night.
Cloudy wiith jntermdMfceni;
snow.
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