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VOLUME XVI
Friday, December 9, 1955
NUMBER 254
Worst hossel of convention
breaks loose over recess cost
Long debate cuts
planned expense
ier hearings
FAERiBANKlS i/P) The worst
tussle oi J.he constitutional
convention broke loose in ple
nary session Thursday over the
cost oil a recess and. expenses on
territory-wide hearings.
The three-hour long debate
— a dear and easy record for
the past four and a half weeks
of proceedings — finally re
sulted in a (pairing down on
coats from $10,743 to $6,543.
The ifight to keep from put
ting too much money into their
own pockets was lengthened
by •the view — with Yule Kil
cher ocf Homer as main spokes
man — that delegates should
get travel costs per diem and
salary to and from the recess !
and also travel costs and sal
ary during 'the hearings.
Finally alter a heated recess
it was decided that the dele
gates would receive transpor
ttii'on cos.s pips per diem dur
ing recess travel both ways.
Salary during travel was
slashed away.
\Also lost in the long-wind
ed shuffle was payment of sal
ary, per diem and travel costs ‘
for hearings. This is a novel
V eatchcombing
• What in “thunder’iation
was 'that lightning doing near
here last night?
0 When a man admires a
woman’s dress why does she
haive to say that fit’s something
©Id and almost worn out?
$ The kids are enjoying this
snow fail a greatf deal more than
you and I are. They don’t have
to worry about sidewalk's and
keeping the steps clear.
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• A baild head is no disgrace
— if the baldness is confined
to the,outside.
• This is the time of year
when you get a “card” from
friends whose names you st ring
gle to remember the rest of
the year. But the cards make
you feel a little bit younger —
0 The basketball game to
night (the start of a lohg sea
son) Should be a rip-snorter.
H
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taking you back to-when.
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9 If the Philadelphia Color -
ed Giants dan get to Ketchikan
itondgb: they will take on the
Rockets for two games — then
play in Juneau on Monday
and Tuesday — with Wednes
day iand Thursday scheduled
for a Field House (performance
against Sitka ANiB at Mt. Fd
geoumbe. The Colored Giants
planned io play at Prince Ru
pert last might but no score
has been available.
•.wist from the recommenda
tion of the administration com
muittee that ail three items be
paid .o the delegates.
included in the $6,543 total
expense for the recess is $1,
640 per diem for those out-of
town delegates who stay in
Fairbanks during the holidays
As originally recommended
by he administration commit
tee, with somewhat reluctant
support from the chairmen of
the convention’s 13 other com
miiiJtees, the delegates were to
have been paid the works —
per diem and salary and trav
el costs to and from recess plus
the same for hearings.
Apparently wary of what
the people back home would
say about the whopping fig
ure of $10,743, iJhe delegates
refused to adjourn the plenary
(.continued on page tour)
Four Australian
children send novel
"thank-you"
FAIRBANKS (VP) From
“Down Under” four liiitle citiz
ens of Tailem Bend have said
“thank you” from the bottom
of their hearts — and their
pocketibooks.
The heartwarming expression
caime in the form of an Austral
ian pound note — worth about
$2.25. It was sent to a relief
fund for survivors of a jet
plane crash into a 'group of re
sidences at Eielson air force
base, 26 miles southeast of here
■November 29.
A scrawled message that;
came with it said the donors
were Jane, 5, Gloria, 8, Steve,
9, and Ronald Bannon, 13, of
Tailem Bend, South Australia.
And Steven had scrawled this
explanation:
“A long time ago when Ron
was a lit tie boy we had an aire
dale dog named Rastas who us
ed to go to the American army
camp that was stationed here
and go to the cook house and
borrow meat '.hat was never
returned.
‘‘American troops who used
to stoo at Tailem Bend for a
feed were always kind to Ras
tas and to our dad who had to
work in the railway and could
nor buy cigarettes which were
rationed then. But your troops
;crave htim some, so us children
feel that now vour people are
in trouble we might helto.”
They had read about the tra
ced v which claimed 14 lives ait
Eielson in their home town
newspaper.
The wound note is m the cus
I todv of Col. Gaillard Peck, de
outv commander of the air base
who said:
“We won’t convert this to
American money. We would
r?i her keen this note as it is
*n show a real gi'rt of friendship
W° thank thpm sincerely.”
Then he added with just a
toimh of moisture in his eye:
“Possibly the four young Aus
(continued on page four)
Third request sent
to Reds to identify
U. S, soldiers
BERLIN (A>) For the third
time in two days, (the U. S.
army officially asked the Rus
sians today (to identify two A
merioan soldiers reported ar
rested in East Berlin after a
fight with a Germain actor.
The army sent its latest de
mand ito a higher level, depu
ty oomimandant I. A. Kotsiuba
The two previous requests, to
the liaison and protocol office,
failed to produce a response.
Officers said they have been
umalble to trace .he identity of
the men 'through army rec
ords. There are no AWOL sol
diers listed to Berlin. Army
officers, said however, the
men could have been here on
leave from stations in West
Germany.
Cold holds sway
from Rockies to
Appalachians
oy ine Assocratea rress
It was more cold weather
today irom the Rockies to the
Appalachians with the mid
soui.h getting another touch of
wintry blasts.
The arctic aiir extended ov
er the Gulf of Mexico and
temperatures in the lower Mi$s
issisppi valey and Texas drop
ped some 20 degrees during
the niiglht. Snow furries were
repon.ed as far south as Tenn
essee. It was below freezing
from New Jersey southwest
ward into southern Oklahoma,
into west central Texas and
westward over the Rockies and
he Great Basin area.
But the coldest weather con
: tinned in the Dakotas, Nebras
I ka and Minnesota, with below
zero readings. It was -20 this
morning in Aberdeen, S. D.
Most: of the region between
the Rockies iand the Appalach
ians were 10 to 20 degrees low
er than yesterday.
The aid air had not reach
ed the East coast and generally
mi'ld December weather prevail
ed. Temperatures were 10 tc
20 ddgrees higher along the
East coast and' west of the
Rockies.
Rain fell in sections of the
Pacific Northwest
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Connelly gives self
up to authorities
MEW YORK (JP) Matthew J.
Connelly, former appointments
secretary to former President
Truman, surrendered today to
authorities for a hearing on has
removal to face Charges in (Mis
souri on charges of conspiring
to defraud the government.
Connelly, 48, was indicted
last Dec. 1 in St. Louis with
Theron Lamar Caudle, former
assistant: attorney general, on
charges involving alleged! cor
rupt handing of a criminal tax
case. Other charges included
alleged bribery, perjury and
knowingly making fiailse state
ments,
Accused plane bomber says
not guilty - claims insanitty
Is committed to
mental hospital
for observation
DEllWEiR t/p) John Gilbert
Graham, 23, pleaded innocent
and innocent by reason on in
sanity today to char ges of mur
der in the death of his mother,
one of 44 persons Killed when a
United Aur Lines BC6B explod
ed Nov. 1.
He was ordered by district
j udge Edlward J. Keating to be
commilt'teed to Colorado Psych
apathic hosipdi.al in Denver for
30 days for observation. The
caise was continued until Jan 9
Graham said, when asked his
plea to the charige:
“I am certainly not guilty &
not guilty by reason of insan
ity before, durinJg and alter
the alleged commission of the
crime.”
A lengthy argument develop
ed over the plea with district
atty. Bert Kea.dng, no relation
to the judge, insisting it was
improper.
Judge Keating ruled that he
was accepting the plea as one
of not guilty and not guilty by |
by reason of insanity at tbej
moment the alleged’ offense was j
Location of Alaska
capital too hot for
delegates to handle
FAIRBANKS (A3) The dele-'
Sgial.es to the constitutional con
vention Thursday found the
issue of the location of Alas
ka’s future capital too hot to
handle.
Brewinig for some time, the
mater today hat the floor but
was tabled —• to be faced up
to later.
Thomas Harris, Valdez dele
gate, started it all with a mo
tion proposing tha): the con
vention be silent on the ques
1 tion of the location of the cap
■ ital. The main argumen: fav
oring this was that the issue
was no business of the conven
tion and a directive regarding
it did not belong in i.be consti
tution.
Several proposals ama reso
lutions have previously been
introduced calling for a refer
endum on the matter direct
ing the people of Alaska to de
cide where the capital should
be. These are now in commit
tee. as is the proposal from R.
E. Robertson of Juneau that
the capital be permanent ly lo
cated in that city.
Since the matter was first
brought' utp some 10 days ago,
there have been many hall
way discussions on it. Those
favoring inclusion of the issue
in the constitution were given
i extra time this morning by
| the taibdinlg action, accepted
mainly because the delegates
had been in plenary session
. three hours and were debate
I weary.
committed.
He ordered defense attorneys
and the district attorney to suib
mit written motions covering
whether the plea of insanity be
for and after the alleged of
fense were proper pleas.
Graham’s mother, Mrs. Daiisde
King, 54, was among 44 per
sons carried to their deaths
when the plane burst Unite pie
ces in flight near Longmont,
Colo., only 11 minute after tak
ling off from the Denver air
port Nov. 1.
The information on which
Graham was arraigned charges
hilm specifically only with the
murder of Mrs. King, who board
ed the plane at Denver enroute
to Alaska.
New rocket base?
TAIPEI, Formosa {JP) The
Chinese Nationalist Tatao
news agency said without con
firmation today chat the Chin
ese communists are building a
guided misslile base near the
coast capable of 'bombarding
Formosa.
New farm policy
won't differ much
from Benson's plan
THUiRMONT, Md, (JP) Pre
sident Eisenhower discussed a
possibility of an expanded new
farm program with his cabinet
today hut indications were i‘t
wouldn't differ loo much from
the outline secretary of algmcul
ture Benison has already given:.
Benson told reporters after
an extra-long oaibinet session
at snowy Camp D'avdd that the
progratm he outlined recently
at Denver — inciudinig a 400
million dollar soil bank plan—
“will stand.”
However, he added, in ref
erence to the program which
was threshed out at least in
broad ou line today:
“I hope the program will be
broader.”
Benson, No. 1 target of the
administration’s farm program
critics, again threw down ru
mor he might ensign.
Sipeakinlg through a oar win
dow as he drove away from the
rustic conference room at the
Catootin mountain presidential
retreat near here, he said:
“Once again I am not worry
inisr about tenure.”
Eisenhower himself came by
au. omdbile from his farm home
near Gettysburg to the cabinet
session. He drove back there
later.
cloudy
Marline {forecast from Friday
to Saturday.
Outside waters Dixon En
trance to Yakutat southerly
winds 25 tio 35 miph with ^taronfe
gusts.
Mostly
showers.