Daily Sitka Sentinel
dfiNBie-Owned Newspaper
and The ARROWHEAD PRESS
Member of The Associated Press
10c a Copy
VOLUME XVI
Monday, September 26, 1955
NUMBER 202
President's condition 'medium' after heart
attack; may be at work in 10 to 14 days
Prospects for his
Recovery are
reasonably good
DENVER (,/P) Dr. Paul Dud
ley White said today that bar
ring unforeseen complications,
President Eisenhower’s pros
pects for recovery from his
heart attack “are reasonably
good.”
Dr. White wtas so satisfied
with the progress of the presi
dent that he left immediately
by plane for Boston, where he
is recognized as one of the coun
try’s leading heart specialists, j
He told a news conference'
immediately after a final ex- j
aminiation otf the president that
jjf Eisenhower’s progress con
tinues at its present rate he
would be “physically able” to
serve a second term.
On the question of whether
the president could recover suf
liciently to assume the burden
ai the White House again, the
noted physician replied, “Oh,
yes, it’s up to him.”
“If he has a good recovery,
as we hope and believe,” Dr.
White said. He added that he
could not go into the presid
ent’s intentions but he “would
be physically able.”
The physician, appearing at
the news conference with Maj
Gen. Howard M. Snyder, Eisen
bower’s personal doctor, and
presidential secretary James C
Hagerty, said the president has
had the normal progress of a
person stricken with coronary
thrombosis.
‘The electrocardiograph this
morning shows the usual
evolution produced by an inter
ior heart .wall infract.”
The 69 year old Boston ex
pert, in answer to a question as
to when Eisenhower would be
able to read documents, “He
V eatchcombing
• With the President ill the |
administration must have a
‘strong” man to lead it. The.
question in most people’s minds
is whether Nixon is the man
for the job. i
-H- .„ ♦ J
• The “Serious will s^-art
at 9 a. m. our time Wednesday. j
So get your bets down now —!
I picked the White Sox to win
but appearently I’ve lost al
ready. So now we’ll pick the
best team — it will be either
the Yanks or the Bums.
—1—I—
• If you want to see what a
real live congressman looks
like — plan to attend one of
the two dinners the C of C is
holding this weekend.
-H
• According to what I ve
heard a lot of deer were saved
by the storm of Saturday and
early Sunday. The boy’s didn’t
want to get waterlogged.
U. S. President stricken Saturday
probably will be able to in 10
days or tiwo weeks.” He also
said possibly by that time he
could conifer with secretary of
state Dulles before the latter
goes to the next foreign minis
ters conference Oct. 27 at Gen
eva.
He said at one point that ev
en today the president, with
whom he talked after the ex
amination, made for the first
time outside the oxygen tent,
probably felt good enough to
play golf today. And he said
there was no reason why he
could not take up golf again
in the event of the hoped-for
recovery.
He said the usual time for
a complete recovery and the
resumption of normal life af
ter an attack no more serious
Uhlan Eisenhower’s was about
two months.
Dr. White said he would
have frequent telephone
checks with the president’s
physician's after he returns to
Boston, and that he would re
turn to Denver in the event of
complications.
The physician pointed out
that Eisenhower will be 65 on
Oct. 14 and that his attack of
[coronary thrombosis came a
bout 15 years later than such
attacks usually afflict the A
merican male.
He emphasized that the pres
ident had a heart ailment of a
kind that was not diagnoso
able. He said Eisenhower was
“very carefully examined” as
late as Auig. 1 by Col. Thomas
W. Mattingly, Walter Reed
army hospial heart specialist,
that he read the electrocardio
graph tracings and they show
ed “no sign whatever” of the
disease. He said the presiden’s
morale is good and that he is
“a wonderful patient.”
Dr. White was asked if other
; heart patients who recovered
»and resumed their normal act
! iv'ties ever went back to any
job as burdensome as thp pre
‘ sidency.
He said he supposed the pre
sident’s job “is one of the hard
est jobs in the world.”
He avoided a direct reply on
whether he would “recom
mend” such a course for the
president, saying he had no
convictions on that one way or
the other.
A 7 a. m. (MST) bulletin an
nounced that the president had
spent14 a comfortable night”
and his condition “remains
stable.” The statement was
signed by Dr. Snyder and Col.
Byron E. Pollock, chief of heart
services at Fitzsimons.
Prayerful wishes for speedy
recovery of the president, who
will be 65 October 14, poured
into the temporary White
House from all over the world
At Fitzsimons army hospital
where Eisenhower was taken
Saturday afternoon, there was
no thought of the tremendous
political impact of the heart
seizure which stunned the na
tion and people all around the
globe.
That concern —» and it is
huge —was left to Republican j
party leaders who until the j
president was stricken had al
most unanimously refused to
entertain tihe idea that he might
not be available for a second
term.
An eminent heart specialist
who flew from the east to care
for the chief excutive said an
other term is “quite conceiv
able” but he added it will be a
week zr two before the full ef
fect of the attack is known.
It seemed to have raised an
overriding likelihood that Ei
senhower would decide again?
j st seeking re-election. He said
himself last Aug. 4 the state
of his health would be an im
portant factor in his decision,
i Just a couple of weeks ago
he told Republican chairman
from the 48 states to dismiss
j from their minds the idea of
.the indispensable man — and
not to “pin your flag -
(continued on page four)
Five file for city
| election today
I Five names were entered in
the municipal office race to
; day — just one day beifore the
deadline for candidates to file,
| wihen it appeared interest in
| running for city office was at
; an all-time low.
| Today’s filings included: for
i mlayor, J. E. Shennett; for
| council: Everitt Calhoun, W.
; W. Knight, Frank Galvin; for
I school board, Everett Riggs;
- for 9PU board, John Salskov
! (1-yr. term), Walter Trent (5-1
j yr. term). ,
Newcombe-Ford
will start out in
Word Series
NEW YORK (JP) Don New
camibe, a huge righthander
who won 20 games for Brook
lyn, and Whiitey Ford, the lit
tle 18-^game winning lefthand
er who helped clinch the A
merican league pennant for
New York last Friday, will be
the opening game pitchers
when the Dodgers and Yan
kees renew their world series
rivalry in Yankee stadium
Wednesday.
(continued on page four'
Will advertise timber bids
in October, says Art Greeley
Regional forester
will come here with
commerce comm.
Advertisement for a timber
sale for the Sitka pulp unit will
be ready for publication by the
end of October it was learned
this morning in a telephone
conversation with Art Greeley,
; regional forester in Juneau.
! “I am sure things will no
doulbt work out to get the ad
vertising started by the end of
October,” Mr. Greeley told a
Sentinel reporter.
Stock market prices
hit new lows with
president's illness
NEW YORK (/P) Stock mar
ket prices cracked ..wide open
today on a deluge of selling
that accompanied news of Pre
sident Eisenhower’s heart at
tack.
One rally in the morning
and another in the afternoon
helped to soften the sell! nig
blows.
Corporate bond prices were
depressed sharply while U. S.
government securities enjoyed
higher prices. In Chicago,
grain prices were higher at
first and then lost much of
their buoyancy. London prices
were down for both dollar &
pound sterling stocks.
On the New York stock ex
change, losses of SI to $7 were
commonplace. Many others
posted declines that went as
high at $19 a share. One stock
U. S. Gypsum, was off $45.75,
at $270 before it began, a recov
ery from its low.
Trading wTsa at the highest
levels in 18 years as an estim
ated 7,720.000 shares. It was
the biggest amount of .business
done since Oct. 19, 1937, when
7,288,000 shares chanlged hands
Friday’s total was 2,540,000
when the market was higher.
Brokers said the president’s
| illness aroused political and
| economic uncertainties of such
complexity that many stock
holders were frightened into
' seling.
This advertisement is in re
sponse to a request by the Jaip
anese-finaniced Alaska Lumber
& Pulp Co. for five and one
quarter million board feet of
timber on a £0-year contract
to support a pulp mill with a
capacity of 300 tons of high
alpha cellulose pulp daily.
Mr. Greeley stated alt the
Sitka pulp unit timber is in
the Tongass National Forest,
located on Chicthalgof and Bar
anof Islands.
The regional forester is leav
ing Juneau tomorrow after
noon for Ketchikan, where he
i will meet the House Commerce
Committee members who are
visiting pulp mill sites in the
territory, and accompany t'he
committee to Sitka on Thurs
day morning.
C. M. Armstrong and How
ard Johnson of the Forest Ser
vice also will be here Thurs
day to accompany the commit
tee on their tour of this area.
Fall season to
dose Tuesday
JUNEAU (/P) The fall sal
mon seining season in south
eastern Alaska will close to
morrow instead olf Saturday as
originally scheduled, the Fish
and Widlife Service announced
Saturday night.
FWS officials said opening
day catches were small and
there was no prospect for im
provement.
Marine forecast from Mon
day to Tuesday.
Outside waters Dixon En
trance to Sitka southwesterly
winds 10 to 15 mph today be
coming southerly 15 to 26 mph
tonight.
Mostly cloudy today with
showers. Cloudy with rain to
night.
Outside waters Sitka to Ya
kut at southwesterly winds 10
to 25 miph this afternoon and
becoming southerly 20 to 30
mph tonight.
Mostly cloudy with showers
I today. Cloudy with rain tonight