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Home-Owned Newspaper
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and The ARROWHEAD PRESS
Member of The Associated Press
VOLUME XVI
Wednesday, October 5, 1955
NUMBER 209
Alaskan cities elect officials
yesterday for coming year
Earl Shennett wins
post of mayor
201 to Hanlon's 73
J. E. Shennett took an early
lead in tlhe (counting of yester
dy’s election returns and
wound up as Sitka’s mayor
with 201 of the total votes cast
His opponent', W. R. Hanlon,
polled 73.
Winning seats on the city
council were Wm. W. Knight,
263; Frank Calvin. 241; and
Everitt M. Calhoun, 230. Char
les sM. Peterson won the one
year seat on the SPU Board
and William Sarvela the five
year term. Everitt E. Riggs,
unopposed for school (board,
won that position.
Complete returns were as
fnllnws
FOR MAYOR
J. S. Shennett .
W. R. Hanlon .
M. S. Mitrovit'ch .
Peter Neilsen .
Tam Haley .
Neill Andersen .
FOR CITY COUNCIL
William W. Knight.
Frank Calvin .
Everitt M. Calhoun .
Charles Burlison.
Neill Andersen .
Henry Chapman .
Bob Wyman .
Andrew Hope .
Floyd Slade ..
FOR PUBLIC UTILITIES
(One Year Term)
Charles M. Peterson .
John Salskov .
(Five Year Term)
William Sarvela .
Walter Trent .
FOR SCHOOL BOARD
Everett E. Riggs .
Clem Pace .
Annaibelle Appling .
F.rnie Stewart .
Ben Stewart .
201
73
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263
241
230
75
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230
49
229
60
221
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V eatchcombing
• With one storm following
another — we are sure that
fall is here.
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• Alaskans throughout the
territory went to the polls yes
terday — but we are sure that
none of them had anymore fun
than those at Valdez.
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• This is National Newspap
er Week — so we call upon an
outsider to write about news
papermen. Hope you will care
fully read Hal Boyle’s article.
• Have you invited a friend
to spend Alaska Day in Sitka.
I have and will wear this
blanktey-blank beard until he
puts in an appearance.
• The World Series is over
so now everyone can start
talking about who will be the
next president — and bragging
about how good their football
team is — was — next year.
Ernestine Veiatch . 1
Bolb McMahon. 1
Frank Kuehn . 1
Mrs. Leslie Yaw . 1
Nan Peterson . 1
Juneau
JUNEAU (/P) M. E. (Molly)
McSlpadden was elected new
mayor of Juneau with a clear
cut victory in yesterday’s mu
nipdcail elections here.
McSlpadden piled up an over
whelming majority, 1.150 to
379, over his opponent, A. B.
Phillips.
All three candidates on Mc
Sipadden’s economy ticket were
elected to the city council —
Harold Derous, Robert Stutte
and Howard Simmons. Stutte
and Simmons are members of
the present council.
Valdez
VALDEZ t/P) Write in can
didates had a field day in yes
terday’s municipal elections
here.
Voters chose write-in candi
dates to fill the mayor’s post,
one seat on the council and one
seat on the school board.
Seven municipal offices were
filled at the election.
For mayor, voters chose Wil
liam Growden over Derwood
Hu Is. Growden, a write-in can
didate, is manager of Stith Mo
tors here.
Ketchikan
KETCHIKAN (/P) Joe Goding
was elected mayor here ye star
day in a heavy turnout for the
city election, marked by hot
races for council and utility
board seats.
Goding. a native of Skagway,
is district manager for Pan Am
eri'can Airways. He beat Ed
Winston, present councilman,
by 190 votes with Floyd David
son, former Cordova attorney,
a poor third.
Elected to the council were
Lloyd Rollog, a grocer and Don
Smothers, who operates a ma
chine shop.
Mrs. Goding, who had filled
out an unexjpired term on the
school board, was elected to
the board Sihe defeated Joe
Townsend, a labor-backed can
didate.
Fairbanks
FAIRBANKS (/P) Fairbanks
voters turned out almost one
; thousand strong yesterday to
| elect Dr. Paul B. Haggland and
‘ Byron Gilliam to the city coun
cil. Dr. Haggland in his first
1 attempt at a council seat, pul
. led 736 out of 979 ballots cast
! in the three municipal precin
I cts.
I Gillam, who was edged out
. of the council race by a narrow
margin last October, polled 418
votes in his second try at city
elections to win the other va
cancy.
1 (continued on page four' I
Elks Convention
at Seward
ANCHORAGE <JP) The
eighth annual Alaska Terri
torial Elks Association Con
vention is scheduled to be held
at Seward beginning Wednes
day and ending Saturday. The
new Elks Lodge at Seward,
which had its grand opening
last Saturday, will be the scene
of the convention and will be
dedicated at formal ceremon
ies.
Ted Kirkman in
hospital after
track accident
Kenneth (Ted) Kirkman. lo
cal fisherman and owner of the
troller Lila K., was flown to
Mt. Edgecuimbe hospital just
before noon today with a se
vere head cut and possible frae
ture of the neck.
He was the driver of a pick
up truck which plunged over a
fifty foot embankment on the
Haines cutoff last night, about
30 miles from Haines.
Two other men, Lee Donnel
ly, about 50, a Haines fisher
man. and Paddy Duncan, 90
year old retired fisherman and
pioneer resident, were killed
in the accident. Mr. Kirkman
was reported to have jumped
when the truck went over,
while the other two remained
in the vehicle.
The three were returning
from the Canadian border when
the truck went out of control
and left the highway. Kirkman
hailed a passing motorist and
returned to Haines to report'
the accident.
Donnelly is the brother of
Harold Donnelly of Sitka.
Mr. Kirkman had been gill-,
netting in the Haines area. Ex
act ex cent of his injuries had
not yet been determined.
Gov. Knight ready to fight
Nixon to head GOP ticket
If Ike doesn't run
lie himself will
be candidate
SACRAMENTO {IP) Gov.
Goodwin J. Knight said today
he intends to head California’s
delegation to the 1956 Repub
lican national convention even
if it means an open fight with
/ice president Richard M. Nix
>n.
He reiterated that if Presi
dent Eisenhower, his first
choice, doesn’t rtrn, he will
seek control of the state’s im
Dortant bloc of votes himself
is a favorite son — and only
nominal — candidate.
Knight, in an interview,
narking the start of his third
/ear in office, made no at
;emipt to hide his coolness to
ward Nixon.
He said he has heard rumors
.hat the vice president’s home
state supporters are planning
o enter their own slate of del
egates in the June California
irimary in the event Eisen
iower bows out of the race.
California voters select con
tention delegates of both par
ies in a presidential primary
eltction. The delegates moist
:>e pledged to a candidate who
las given his written consent.
Asked if' a Nixon ticket
would affect his plans for a
Knight-pledged delegation, the
governor replied, “not in the
slightest.”
“We are going all the way
regardless of what Mr. Nixon
foes,” he said firmly.
Knight agreed the Californ
ia delegation — second only,
with 70 votes, to New York’s
96 in 1952 — would be vital
Hal Boyle discusses men who
make newspapers possible
Natl Newspaper
Week rolls around
again unheralded
iby Hal Boyle
NEW YORK {/P) Well, guess
What? Darned if good old Na
tional Newspaper Week hasn’t
roiled around again.
And, as usual, caught us
with our adjectives down,
i The public, as usual, hasn’t
fired off any skyrockets. There
have 'been no mass parades, no
widespread excitement.
This is pretty much the way
we hoped the populace would
take the occasion. If no group
has showed up to shower laur
el wreaths upon us and ferry
us twice around the "Town
Square in triumph, we are con
i soled iby the more positive fact
I that no indignant subsclber, on
the other hand, has marched
upon us with the cry:
“Hang the editor.”
So far as we have been able
to find out from a careful check
of the records, no editor ever
has been hanged during Nation
al Newspaper Week.
One of the purposes of Na
tional Newspaper Week, of
course, is to dhow that no edi
tor really deserves hanging.
The other purpose is to em
phasize the importance of a
newspaper to a community.
There are all kinds of news
papers and they serve many
purposes. At the worst a news
paper is a mirror of community
| smugness; at the (best a news
I paper is a community alarm
clock.
A good newspaper works
from a very simple standard. It
alerts and informs the citizens
about what is going on. If your
daughter is graduated as vale
(continued on page three)
to Nixon’s presidential hopes
but, he said:
i “The Republicans of Cali
fornia will want to he repre
sented by a completely inde
pendent delegation devoted to
the Republican party and not
to the ambitions of any one
man.”
President has
exceHent night and
is making progress
'DENVER (/P) President Ei
senhower’s doctors reported to
day that the chief executive*,
had an “excellent night” and
is (making satisfactory progress
And there was a note of hilar
ity for Eisenhower in some
gifts of bubble 'gum from his
three grandchildren.
From the doctors, the word
in a 10:30 a. m. medical bulle
tin was that the chief executive
“slept soundly and almost con
tinuously for 9Vf> hours” awak
ing refreshed and cheerful. He
was awake only for a couple of
minutes around 2 a. m.
From press secretary James
C. Hagerty the word was that
the chief executive got a “great
kick” going through a bo:-: of
presents (from his grandchild
ren, Susan 3, Anne 6V2, and
David IVi. Each of the kids,
Hagerty said, picked out the
gifts personally and each in
cluded bubble gum.
Arrangement were made for
him to see his top assistant,
Sherman Adams, about lunch
time, so the latter could catch
a 2:34 p. m. plane for Washing
ton. Hagerty said Eisenhower
might sign more official pa
pers during Adams’ visit.
The presidential assistant is
returning to the capital to sit
in on the meetings of the Nt
tional Security Council tomor
i row and the cabinet Frid-av. He
will come back to Denver Satur
day along with Dr. Paul Dud
ley White, the Boston heart
specialist, wiho is in daily con
sultation on the president’s
heart condition.
The 7 a. m. (MOT) bulletin
from Fitzsimons arrnv hospital
came as a cozv air of cautious
optimism continued to prevail
: around the nresid°nt’s bedside.
The latest medical report
said:
“The president had an ex
cellent night.
| Marine forecast from Wednes
'day to Thursday.
STORM WARNING
j A storm centered at 58 N 1&2
( W or near Kodiak at 8 a. m.
‘ Wednesday is moving eastward
’ and will center near Oaipe De
{ oision by 6 a. m. Thursday..
This storm will cause winds
of 25 to 40 mph with strong
gusts over the outside waters
from Dixon Entrance to Yaku*
tat.