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and The ARROWHEAD PRESS
Member of The Associated Frees
Wednesday. October 12, 1955
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VOLUME XVI
NUMBER 214
New city council takes over;
Andersen named councilman
Council okays
purchase of shovel
for city use
First session of the newly
elected city council followed a
brief clean-up meeting of the
retiring council last eveninlg.
All members of the old council
and of the incoming council
were present.
A request from the Sitka
Public Schools for a change or
der for work at the new grade
school involving the hot water
system was tabled until costs
can be determined. Monthly
reports of the magistrate, pub
lie health nurse and super
visor were received.
A year’s leave of absence
was granted Clem Pace, who
is going south so that a mem
ber of his family may receive
medical treatment. An agree
ment was reached with M. O.
Brown regarding the construc
tion of an addition to his pro
perty on Front Street, where
by he will build 6 feet back
from the curb now; should the
city within two years widen
the street, he will remove four
feet of this addition without
cost.
An application from Martha
P. Gushintg to the Bureau of
Land Management, referred to
the ciity by that agency, ask
ing a special use permit for
the bridge at the end of Mak
soutoff street was considered.
Council agreed to reply that
it appeared Charles King was
co-owner of the bridge in ques
tion, according to his deed;
otherwise they had no com
V eatchcombing
• A look on page three will
give you an idea of how ex
tensive the Alaska Day Festi
val will be this year. AND
they tell me the judges will be
appointed far enough in ad
vance so they will be able to
make rapid decisions.
• They pick a new man to
handle Alaskan affairs — from
Nebraska (where’s that) and
an automotive dealer (bet we
can guess what cars he sold)
• Tonight the girls making
the Red Cross drive will be out
ringing doorbells and knocking
on doors. Be ready for them
so it won’t take so long to siign
YOU up. as a member of the
o local chapter.
o # 3 If Milton succeeds Dwight
as president, it will muddle
° the school kids worse than Har
rison and Roosevelt as one
woud follow the other.
—J—I—
# We hear that in anothei
week you will be able to recog
nixe your friends — or that the
judge will have to hold divorce
court in Sitka.
\ ment.
Police report for September
indicated 94 calls, nine arrests
$119.00 in fines assessed and
an equal amount in fines col
lected. Report of the election
board was read and accepted.
Rills totaling $1,500.87 from
the general fund and $120.75
from the hospital fund were
ordered paid.
Earl Shennett, new mayor,
resigned from the council.
At this point W. W. Knight,
Frank Calvin and Everitt Cal
houn were sworn in as council
men, Eulgene Riggs as mem
ber of the school board and
Earl Shennett as mayor. The
mayor then appointed Neill
Andersen to the council for the
unexpired portion of the term
to which Earl Shennett had
been elected; council confirm
ed this appointment and Mr.
Andersen was sworn into of
fice.
The mayor appointed Geo
rge Eliason as acting mayor
I and Frank Calvin as acting
clerk; both to serve in the ab
sence of these officials.
Council approved purchase
of a 1953--model shovel said to
be practically unused at a cost
of $12,900. ilf financing can be
arranged. A two-year payment
plan with interest at 8% is
available through the vendor;
However, it was felt better
arrangemnts could be made
locally.
Red newspapers
blast Dulles speech
as sowing distrust
MOSCOW (/P) Soviet news
papers today described secret
ary of state Dulles’ Miami
speech as “counter to the spirit
of Geneva. They printed a Tass
dispatch from Washington say j
' ing Dulles tried “to sow dis-1
trust on the peaceful policy pur
sued by the USSR.”
This was the only report pub
lished here on Dulles’ address
to the American Ldgion con
vention. This marks a change
in signals. The policy re
in the Soviet press has been to
print extended excepts of such
speeches and give Soviet read
ers an opportunity to judge the
contents.
i Pravda. at the same time, de
' dared the unification of Ger
many can be brought about
only by prior establishment of
the Soviet sponsored system of
collective European security.
, In this both East and West Ger
, many would be members. Pra
• vda denounced the Western
| view that German unification
is a precondition for establish
* ment of a security system.
Dedication
HAINES MP) The 40 million
' dollar Haines to Fairbanks pipe
line was be inis- turned over for
mally to the U. A. army in a
ceremony here this afternoon.
Averftl denies he
will reveal plans
! NEW YORK {/P) Gov. Aver ill
Harriman today denied reports
that plans have been set for
him to announce his candidacy
for the Democratic presidential
nomination in 1956.
Asked aibout a story in the
New York Journal American
saying that it had been decid
ed he would announce his can
didacy at a Democratic dinner
here, Harriman said:
“There is no basis for it.”
Peiping says all
Americans but 19
may leave China
TOKYO (iP) Peiping radio
said today all Americans in Red
China except 19 accused of
crimes are free to leave and
that the cases of the 19 are be
ing examined.
A broadcast quoted Peoples’
Daily, official Chinese comrmtn
1st party newspaper, as saying ■
66 Americans remain on the
mainland — 47 who have not;
applied for exit permits and
one 19 charged with crimes.
Thus the 47 would include
the 17 Korean war prisoners
who refused to go home after
the armis'tice, a handful of A
mericans who went to China
and threw in with the Reds,
some missionaries who have
spent years in China, and six
covered by the Geneva agree
ment.
At Geneva in ambassadorial
talks last month, the commun
ists agreed to release 22 Amer
leans not accused of crimes.
Fourteen of these have been re
leased through Hong Kong. j
Two others. Mr. and Mrs.
Howard L. Ricks of Boscobel,
Wis., left Shanghai by ship to
day for Japan, their son report
ed in Tokyo.
The broadcast said in ac
cordance with its agreement
with the United States at Gen
eva, Red China “is now exam
.coaunued on pa«e four)
Soviets warn Iran
alliance with west
not friendly act
LONDON </P) The Soviet
Union warned Iran today that
her adherence to the Turkey
Fakistan-Iraq defense pact
might endanger relations be
tween the two countries. Mos
cow radio reported.
A broadcast heard here said
Soviet foreign minister Molo
tov called in the Iranian am
bassador in Moscow and told
him Iranian accession to the
pact '‘contradicts the good
neighborly relations between
Persia (sic) and the Soviet
Union and certain treaty obli
I gations of Persia.”
| The Soviet Union is Iran’s
' northern neighbor. She has a
friendship treaty with Iran
which gives the Soviet Union
the right to march into Iran
if she considers the latter has
become a base for an attack
on Russia.
Eisenhower has lunch with
brother; may be candidate
■-■————
Cheerful news of
president's health
continues today
i DENVER (/P) President Ei
i senhower lunched today with
j his brother, Milton, whose name
has been swirling around in a
hatful of Republican president
ial possibilities.
Dr. Miton Eisenhower arriv
ed here by plane and was driv
en immediately to Fitzsimons
army hospital. The chief exeou
tive had just finished 25 min
utes on an eastern sun deck
near his eighth floor hospital
room. He was wearing pajamas,
a blue golf cap and sun glasses
as he did yesterday and the day
before while getting an outing
in the autumn sun.
Mrs. Eisenhower joined the
president and his toother foi
the noon meal.
There were no indicatie
political considerations figured i
in Milton’s trip to Denver — j
his first since President Eisen
hower’s Sept. 24 heart attack.
President Eisenhower took
command anew of the Ameri
can program for world peace
today as medical bulletins re-j
fleeted increasing progress a
long the slow road to complete
West encouraged
by Red attitude on
atoms for peace
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.
(/P) Western sources said to
day they were encouraged by
Russia’s conditional endorse
ment of an international agen
cy to carry out President Eis
enhower’s atoms for peace
plan.
| Soviet first deputy foreign
minister V. M. Kuznetsov of
: fered a resolution to the U. N.
1 general assembly’s key poiiti
cal committee yesterday ex
pressing hope such an agency
could be set up soon within the
: U. N. framework. But he add
ed the provisos the proposed
I body must be subject to the
security council and its big
power veto on major security
questions & also must be open
to all countries, including Red
China and East Germany.
The United States wants
the proposed atomic body to
have the status of a specializ
ed U. N. agency and strongly
opposes any veto authority by
the major powers over me
agency’s normal functions.
However, Washington recog
nizes that any question vital
ly affecting the security of a
state would have to come be
fore the security council.
The western informants em
phasized that although the Sov
iet delegate hammered away
I for the conditions Moscow
wants imposed on any atomic
agency, he did not indulge in
any diatribes aimed at the
west,
recovery. '
A 7 a. m. medical bulletin
carried the familiar cheerful
note.
“The president had another
jgoo night’s sleep otf eight hours
His condition continues to pro
gross satisfactorily without
complications.’ ’
An 11:15 a. m. medical bulle
tin said virtually the same
thing. It reported the presid
ent awoke refreshed and in a
good mood.
His 25 minute bedside con
ference with secretary of state
Dulles yesterday produced a
new letter on disarmament to
to Soviet premier Nikolai Bul
ganin. And it brought another
warning the U. S. will not re
duce its military power with
out guarantees Russia will do
likewise.
The president’s heart stood
the conference so well that his
brother. Dr. Milton Eisenhow
er, was invited to fly in today
for 'his first visit since the pre
sident’s heart attack of Sept.
24.
What Eisenhower wrote Bui- •
ganin, in a page and a half let
ter, will not be disclosed until
the Russian premier has re
ceived it in Moscow. But Dulles
told a Denver White House.
lews conference:
“We do not anticipate any
reduction of our total power
unless we can be sure that there
is a corresponding reduction
elsewhere.”
Soviet bloc may be
making approach
to arm Israel
WASHINGTON {JP> The state
department said today the So
viet bloc ‘‘may be making an
approach to an offer of arms
for Israel.”
i A spokesman disclosed at a
j news conference that the de
partment hias information to
that effect.
The spokesman, press offic
er Henry Suydam. said, “Our
information is recent,” but de
clined any (further elaboration.
Suydam made his comment
in answering questions about a
speech which assistant secret
ary of state George V. Allen
| made last night,
j In this address, not previous
' ly reported by the state depart
{ment. Allen was kuoted as sav
! ing Russia has offered arms to
Israel. He said this was in addi
I tion to the communist bloc’s ar
' ramgement to provide heavtf
weapons to Egypt.
j
Marine forecast from Wed
nesday to Thursday.
Outside waters Dixon En
trance to Yaikiutat west to south
west winds 15 to 25 mph be
coming southwest around 15
mph tonight.
Mostly cloudy with occasion
al light rain. Some fog tonight.