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VOLUME XVI
Monday, August 29, 1955
NUMBER 183
Statehood-mental health
face congress in 2nd session
Prospects brightest
for mental health
biti in 1956
by Frank W. Vaille
WASHINGTON (/P) Two Al
aska controversies — state
hood and mental health —
will carry over to the second
session of the 84th congress.
Legislation on these issues
toips a dozen hills of Alaska
interest Which have geen acted
upon by either the house, the
senate or their committees.
Prospects are brightest for
the mental health act, chair
man Erjglle (D-Calif) of the
house insular affairs commit
tee expects to go 'before the
house rules committee soon af
ter congress meets in January
to ask an early floor consid
eration of the bill which has
been approved by his commit
tee.
Chairman Murray (D-Mont)
of the senate insular affairs
committee has indicated his
group will take up the ques
tion early in the session.
There is little, if any. oppo
sition to that ‘phase of the pro
posal which would modernize
Alaska’s committment proced
ures for its mentally ill. Ver
bal pictures of adults and chil
dren being held in jail while
awaiting Sanity trial by their
neighbors have caused more
than one member of congress
to assail Alaska’s present pro
gram as “barbaric.”
The stumbling block has
been a proposal for outright
grants to permit Alaska to
V eatchcombing j
• It was a nice winter we
hiad this suimimer — but ait that
we haven’t been as bald off as
Fairbanks wlhii'dh had snow to
day after a miserable season.
-H
• The Bureau of Reclama
tion chief is going to look over
the Sitka “dam-site.” Let's
hope he has a good chance to
see in from the air when he
arrives Friday.
—1 |
• Wonder what odds the lo
cal bookies are quoting on the
two horse race. You can belt
either one to win, I'm going to
ask for a show ticket.
• It’s about' this time of year
that I get all hot and bothered
for some football — last year
was a lousy year for THE game
hut I still have hopes to see
sqruiads eventually at the three
schools.
• Ah, the mystery has been
solved. It storms at the start
of hunting season — and the
Storms of the past few days
should be charged to the FWS
for openinjg the season early.
take over the program. This
would include funds for con
struction of hospitals and care
centers in Alias'ka. Hep. Miller
(R-Neh) has been the principal
spokesman for those who
would like to see the territory
required to nuateh any federal
money it gets.
Wneiner mere win oe any
attempt to revive statehood
for Alaska — or Hawaii — is
questionable. A bill to admit
both territories was sent back
to committee by a vote of 218
170 when brouight to, the house
floor early this year under pro
cedures barring amendment.
Sen. Jackson (D-Wash),
chairman of the senate terri
tories subcommittee, is con
vinced the senate would insist
on a bill comlbining hopes of
'both territories. He has de
clined so far, on grounds it
would be a waste of time in
view of the house action, to
bring the statehood matter to
a vote of his subcommittee.
Pending in the senate with
• house approval is a bill to el
! iminate the 10 per cent tax on
I ti anyportiation between the U
i nited States mainland and Al
aska.
i Another proposal, by Sen.
Magnuson (D-Wiash), to set up
a commission to study high
way and rail routes to the ter
ritory is before the house com
mittee. It has senate approval.
Although it involves no leg
islation, another major Alas
ka item which will carry over
, to the next session is the re
quest by secretary of interior
McKay for approval by affect
ed committees of his proposal
to open to private develop
ment some 20 million acres on
the arctic Slope.
The area, adjacent to naval
petroleum reserve No. 4, is
considered potentially valuable
as a source of oil and gas.
A . senate subcommittee held
hearings on the question last
session but reached no decis
ion.
(Other bills, in addition to
various proposals affecting in
dividuals, have been passed by
iconunueu on page four?
Baseball today
BROOKLYN (/P) Home runs
by Duke Snider, Roy Caimpen
ell'a and Carl Furilla paced the
league leading Brooklyn Dod
gers to a 10-4 triumph over the
St. Louis Cardinals today.
NEW YORK (/P) The Chica
go Cubs clouted four home runs
two by catcher Harry Ohiti, to
hand the New York Giants their
> fifth straight defeat today, 6-3
, The victory assured the Cubs
, of at least a tie in their season
, series with the fading cham
pions.
DETROIT CP) Erv Palica
hurled his first shutout of the
season today, scattering five
: hits as the Baltimore Orioles
;' whipped the Detroit Tigers
1 6-0, in the first half of a dou
i bleheader.
1
First snow today
at Fairbanks
! KAlltHANKS (^P) During the
past three months weather con
j ditions here have been mostly
* rain and overcast skies. Resid
ents have been hoping for bet
: ter weather later in the season.
Today they are ready to sell
' this suimmr short,
i This morning snow was fall
ing throulghou't the Greater
Fairbanks area. Furthermore,
blizzard conditions were report
■ ed on the Richardson highway |
in the area around its inter
section with the Glenn high
' way.
Ketchikan man
missing from
[hunting trip
Geoage Gunyah, cold storage
worker at Ketchikan, was re
ported missing Sunday while
on a hunting trip to George In
let, south of tihe First City. His
speedboat was later found
floating in the water but to date
not trace of Mr. Gunyah has
been found.
A search party, along with
the Coast Guard, went out to
day to comb the- beaches in the
area. Mr Gunyah is the son- in
law of Mrs. Martha Carle of
Sitka and his ten year old son.
Edward, has been visiting Mrs.
Carle here.
His wife, Phyllis, and four
other children are in Ketchikan
Mrs. Carle and her grandson
are leaving on the Tuesday
morning flight for Ketchikan.
DEW line warning
program beinq
! rushed by defense
| LAKE STEVENS. Wash. UP)
' A gap in the nation’s far north
radar warning line is serious
enough to place mid-continent
al United States in jeopardy
should an enemy attack U. S.
Sen. Jackson (D-Wash) said
here Saturday.
The senator is a member of
a three-man senate committee
which authorizes military con
struction. He has just return
ed from a flight over the Dis
tant Early Warning (DEW)
line in the far north.
He said the defense depart
ment is taking rapid steps to
plug the gap in the line. He
did not specify Where the gap
had been found.
Jackson reported that the
warning system is being ex
panded on a speeded up basis*
with new installations in op
eration by 1957.
The “senator spoke before an
estimated crowd cf 6.000 per
sons attending a big rallv of
western Washington Demo
crats.
WALLA WALLA. Wash. (TP)
, Charges of kidnaoinig con
spiracy to kidnap and prison
rioting — writh death a possi
ble penalty — have been filed
i (continued or. page four)
Truman fires first blast at
GOP in coming campaign
Accuses GOP of
domination by
biq business
MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich.
</P) Harry S. Truman fired the |
first salvo of a three-d'ay Mich |
igan Democratic conference
yesterday by accusing the Re
puJblican administration of
falling “100 per cent under the
"domination of b.g business.”
Tmiman, scheduled for a spe-1
eoh here topight, told a news |
conference this domination!
r “started in Michigan.” j
The former president said heI
did not want to discuss person
alties. and he did not mention
by name secretary of defense
Wilson, former General Motors
president, and other Michigan .
businessmen in the Eisenhower
administration.
Commenting on Democratic
chances in 1956, Truman said ti
was not inevitable Republicans
would win if President Eisen- j
hower is nominated.
“I think the man who will
win the election is the. one
who has the best platform,”
Ekfutna project
dedicated today by
W. A, Dexheimer
ANCORAGE (JP) The 34 mil
lion dollar Ekluitna power and
reclamation project near here
was dedicated today by Wilbur
A. Dexheimer, commissioner of
reclamation.
Dexheimer told the groutp at
the dedication ceremonies that
when Alaska is able to harness .
its roatrinig' rivers, “you will
have the basis for sustaining a
population of upwards of five
million people.”
The commissioner said Alas
ka has 386,000 square miles of
land which are as habitable
and fertile, and with as many
natural resources as Norway,
bin-land and Sweden.
He commented that too
mSa-ny people think of Alaska
as an Arctic nation which is
locked in ice and -snow the year
around, forgetting the terrtiory
is in the same latitude as Nor
way, Finland and Sweden.
“These nations,” he said, “boa
st a population density two and
a half times greater than Al
aska would have with five
million people.”
Ekluitnia, the Reclamation
Bureau’s first major develop
ment in Alaska, went on the
line early this year with a 30,
000 kilowatt capacity. It sup
plies power to the city of An
chorage, Matanuska Electric As
sociation, and Chugaeh Electric
Association.
Dexheimer noted that the
Ekluitna plan is a product of a
water resources investigation
program which the Bureau of
^continued on page four;
he said1.
- The former president reaf
firmed his support of Adlai
Stevenson and at the same
time made it dear he himset'f
would not he a candidate.
Truman denied that he was
emibarking on another “give
’em-hell” campaign.
“I never gave anybody hell,”
he said. “1 tell the truth and
if they think that’s hei'l, that’s
too bad.”
Vice president Nixon said
in New York last night:
“There is no issue we would
like better for 1956 than to let
the American people choose
between the Truman record
on domestic and foreign pol
icies and the Eisenhower rec
ord.”
Meanwhile iin Washington
Hapulblican national chairman
Leonard W. Hall declared in a
statement that Truman's cur
rent speech making “sounded
like a bitter, frustrated mian.”
Halt criticized both Trujnan
and Democratic national chair
man Paul Butler for what he
called their “intemperate re
marks” at a meeting of the In
dianan Democratic Editorial
Assn. Saturday in French Lick
Ind.
“With no real issue to take
to the people, it’s obvious they
are going to rely on smears
and personal attacks on Presi
dent Eisenhower and Vice
president Nixon,” Hall said.
Good weather over
most of nation
by The Associated Press
Generally pleasant weather,
ranging from nippy tempera
tures in the northeast to early
morning heat in the southwest
prevailed today.
The early readings Monday
ranged from the 40s in the
northern and central New Eng
land and parts of the north
ern Rockies, to the 80s in the
Rio Grande Valiev and desert
southwest. Readings in the 70s
were common from Green Bay
Was.. to Washington, D. C.
southward to the gulf and
west through the plains region
On the west coast 50s and
60s prevailed from Washington
through Nevada and in coastal
California.
Marine forecast from Mon
day to Tuesday.
Outside waters Yakuiat to
Sitka south to southwest winds
10 to 15 mph today becoming
south to southwest 15 to 25
! mph with gusts tonight.
Cloudy with rain. Fog tonight
I Outside waters Sitka to
Dixon Entrance variable winds
less than 15 mph today becom
ing south to southwest 15 to
25 Mph tonight.
Cloudy with showers, » *