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VOLUME XVI
Monday, October 10, 1955
NUMBER 212
Seward hit by big fire during
Terri. Elks' Assn, convention
Three businesses
gutted by flames;
Elks fight blaze
SB WARD (/P) A fire Which
gutted three (business establish
ments in downtown Seward
Saturday afternoon also tempor
arily stopped the final session
%of the Alaska Territorial Elks
Assn, convention.
When the sirens started to
blow Seward Elks, most of
them volunteer firemen, and
their fellow lodge members
from about the territory, hur
ried to the rescue to help fight
the flames.
The fire started shortly after
noon in an apparel shop in the
'heart of the business district
and quickly spread to an ad
jacent laundry and dry clean
ing plant and then into the
municipal telephone exchange
building.
No official report of the ex
tent Of-damage is yet available
Telephone lines were shorted
out and radio -was used as an
emergency means of communi1
cation. While firemen battled
the blaze, scores of volunteers
formed a line across the main
street to pass clothing from the
stare, hand-to-hand, to safety.
A great deal of merchandise
was saved because bf prompt
action by townspeople and vi
sitors, eyewitnesses reported.
Assisting in organizing the
volunteers was Richard B.
V eatchcombing
• They held a convention in
Juneau over the weekend but
the Elks’ Seward convention
was much more exciting.
• Alaska Day celebrating
will ’be done this year at the
National Guard Armory —
formerly known as the C om
munity House, and (before tha
the USO Building.
The dates: Sunday. Monday
and Tuesday, October 16. 17, 18
More about it tomorrow.
T“~r
w Wisih people would quit
kidding me about my beard.
After all I didn't get a prize
last year — and this year I ve
worked mighty hard on it
— and may let it grow until
next year — then nW'^e }
get that (prize I won but didn t
reveive last year.
(Proofreader’s note: 1 hat s
unanimous — Tm tired of that
beard too!)
-H
• Let’s .pick .a “favorite son
from Alaska to run for presi
dent —■ le|’s see .. No>
he’s $.No, so is he.
and that’s the way if goes.
-H
• That (guy I’ve been talking
about is traveling too fast —
he’s in Juneau now — but then
knowing Juneau, he might be
delaped until Sunday.
Smith, exalted ruler of the An
chorage Elks, and a fire con
trol officer at Fort Richardson.
For a time, it was feared the
entire downtown area would go
up in flames because of brisk
winds which (fanned the port
city. Fortunately, the winds
were blowing straight across
the street and did not shift,
“or the damage might have
been much worse,” reported
Osky Weeda of Anchorage.
The fire was brought coder
control within an hour. “They
must have a (good fire depart
ment,” one observer comment
ed, “to get it under control so
fast.”
Many of the Elks had their
tuxedoes at the cleaners to 'be
pressed for the grand ball that
night. Some were lost in the
fire and others were damaged
by smoke and water, Weeda
reported.
Late in the afternoon the
sirens blew again and everyone
turned out to line their cars
up along the airstrip and pro
vide landing lights for a plane
from Anchorage bringing em
ergency cable to restore the
telephone lines.
Dufies calls on Reds
to accept military
blueprint proposal
MIAiMI, 'Fla. (JP) Secretary
of state Dulles called on Russia
today to accept President Eisen
bower's miitary 'blueprint ex
change and aerial inspection1
plan so the world can move to
ward disarmament and ipeace. |
“We hope that the Soviet
rulers will accept it,’’ Dulles
told approximately 6,000 veter
ans at the opening session of
the American Legion's 37th an
nual convention.
“If they do so, in good spirit,
then we can confidently move
on to international measures
to reduce and control instru
ments of death.”
But he warned Americans uo
not (propose to disarm our
selves unless we can 'be sure
that others are doing the same
Dulles outlined the United
| States’ position on disarma
j ment a little more than two
weeks before the opening of his
talks with the Russian, British
and French 'foreign ministers
Oct. 27 alt Geneva.
It was at the recent “sum
mit” conference at Geneva that
Eisenhower made his proposal
to exchange blueprints and to
allow the Soviet Union to fly
planes over the United States
— on a reciprocal (basis.
The Russians have not given
a final “yes” or “no.”
Veterans of World Wars I
and II and the Korean war,
colorfully attired in varied Le
g i o n uniforms or summer
sports clothes, heard Dulles
state <the nation’s hopes for a
world free of further wars.
Dulles said the United States
will go into the Geneva Big
* (continued on page four)
Couple injured in
(attack Sunday by
three youths
Mr. and Mrs. William Mea
chem sustained injuries early
Sunday morning when they
were set upon fby three youths
in (front of the Clyde Hager
home on Lincoln Street.
According to city police, the
couple were on their way home
at 12:35 a. m. in front of the
Bayview Hotel when Frank
Baines, 21, staggered out of
the cafe into Mrs. Meachem.
Young Baines was reported to
have made an obscene remark
to her, whereupon Mr. Mea
chem hit him and thrust him|
out of the way.
The Meachem's continued orJ
up Lincoln Street and just aft
.eonunuea on page tour)
Three Demos in
spotlight lor 1956
presidential race ;
(by The Associated Press
The names of Averell Harri
man, Adlai Stevenson and Stu
art Symington showed up in
the political spotlight as it
focused on the developing race
for the 1956 Democratic presid
ential nomination.
Republican eyes continued
to turn to the recuperating Pre
sident Eisenhower: Will he run
again? How about the GOP
choice if he doesn’t?
Harrim'an, the New York
governor whom his state’s De
mocratic leaders are pushing
for president, caught attention
in a tv interview (CBS). He
has repeatedly said ‘kI’m for
Adlai” Stevenson, the 1952 De
mocratiC presidential nominee.
Harriman said that again yes
terday, but this time* added he
has ‘‘no dblibation” and is “not
not at all morally bound” to
support Stevenson at the Demo
vcontinuec? on page four)
President will not be able to
return to White House soon
President resigned
to long pei j iii
.of convalescence
DENVER </P) President Ei-i
senhower continued to progress j
satisfactorily today as he cheer
fu'lty resigned 'nimseif to a long
period of recovery and conval
escence, which may keep him
out of the White House the
rest of the year.
“The president had a very
good ni/ght’s sleep or more than
eight hours,” a 7 a. m. medical
bulletin said. “His condition
continues to progress satisfac
orily without complications.”
The prospects that he will re
tire at the end of his present
term were heightened, however
by expert medical opinion that
it is impossible to say now whe
ther he will be “physical able”
to run again.
While his progress from his
heart attack Of Sept. 24 has
been satisfactory, and his mor
ale is high, he has agreed to a
decision of his doctors to keep
him at Fitzsimons army hospit
al for as long as the second
week in November.
Three things became clear as
the aftermath of a Sunday
j news conference at Lowry air
j force base. Dr. Haul Dudley
White, noted Boston heart spe
cialist, speaking for himself
and the president’s bedside doc
tors, asserted:
1. The president will not fly
to his farm at Gettysburg, Pa.,
for at least four, and possibly
not until the end of five more
weeks.
I 2., Eisenhower is not “100 per
j cent” out of danger and it still
is “too early to say” whether
j he will have “a complete re
i covery”, but he has passed the
(Nixon will remain
to preside at
cabinet sessions
DENVER {/P) The White
House today announced post
ponement of Vice president
Nixon’s scheduled November
trip to the Near East because
of President Eisenhower’s ill
ness.
James C. Hagerty, president
ial press secretary, said the
trip is being postponed so that
Nixon can continue to be avail
able in Washington to preside
at cabinet and national security
council meetings while Eisen
hower is convalescing. Nixon
also was to have gone to Africa
The postponement announce
ment came just a day after the
president’s physicians disclos
ed he probably would remain
in the hospital here for at least
four more weeks and possibly
five.
They said it may be Jan. 1
before the chief executive gets
back to his White House desk
in Washington.
Hagerfy said Eisenhower and
Niron reached agreement to
postpone the vice president’s
trip to the Near East during
the course of two brief talks
they had 'here over the week
end.
The good will mission which
Nixon had planned at Eisen
hower’s request before the
chief executive was stricken
Sept. 24, would have taken him
j to such countries as Ethiopia,
Egypt. Israel, Saudi Arabia,
Turkey and Greece.
The vice president would
have been away front the Unit
ed States for about a month.
period when complications nor
madly would occur.
3. He thinks it should be
“close to the (first of the year”*
before the president goes (back
to the White House.
4. The president is “happy”
at the hospital and will need a
bit of work — such as his con
ference next Tuesday with se
cretary of state Dulles — to
[ keep him from “bubbling over”
and to “protect his heart from
the effects of his over-active
brain.”
The president, who will ob
serve his 65th birthday next
Friday, met with vice president
Nixon Sunday for the second
day in a row. and they set up
a schedule ifor cabinet memb
ers and other top executives
to begin visiting Eisenhower
during this, the next and suc
ceeding weeks.
George Eliason 3rd
vice president of
Alaska Moose Assn
JUNEAU (IP) Delegate E. L.
Bartlett lauded the Alaska
Moose Association (for its slate
of legislative resolutions Satur
day night at the annual ban
quet.
The resolutions urged estab
lishment of an international
United States-Canada highway
and rairoad commission, state
hood and tax cut measures.
An overflow crowd of Moose
Lodge and Women of the Moose
members gathered for the an
nual banquet which capped a
four day convention here.
Governor Heintzleman prais
ed the Loyal Order otf Moose
for its work in helping the ter
ritory through development
periods and for its work at
Mooseheart in Illinois and Mo
osehaven in Florid^.
New Assoniation officers el
ected and installed Saturday
are: president, Don Ingalls of
Pamer; first vice president, Pat
Welsh df Ketchikan; second
vice president, E. C. Wallace
of Fairbanks; third vice presi
dent, George Eliason of Sitka;
fourth vice president, Eske Es
keson of Anchorage and secre
tary treasurer, Don MoGraw
of Sitka.
Charles Hansen of Ketchikan
was named to head up the Mo
ose Assn, civic affairs commit
tee and Joe Appling of Sitka
(continued on page four;
Marine 'forecast from Mon
day to Tuesday.
A storm centered 150 miles
south of Cold Bay moving east
ward across the Gulf about 40
mpih to 150 miles southwest of
Sitka by 6 a. m. Tuesday will
cause winds of 30 to 40 mph
over outside waters from Di
xon Entrance to Cape Spencer.
Cloudy with occasional rain
becoming heavier tonight.