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‘tome-Owned Newspaper
VOLUME XVI
• and The ARROWHEAD PRESS
Member of The Associated Press
Monday, September 12, 1955
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1 NUMBER 192
Alaska to elect delegates to
constiutional convention
48 names will be
on Sitka ballots;
15 to be chosen
'.by The Associated Press
Alaskans go to the polls to
morrow to eleet delegates to
tlhei constitutional convention
scheduled' to open at the Uni
versity of Alaska Nov. 8.
One hundred and seventy
one candidates are on the bal
lot, 55 of whom will be elected
to participate in the 75-day con
vention authorized by the 1955
legislature. The legislature ap
propriated $300,000 to cover
the cost§ of the convention and
election.
Out of the knowledge, exper
ienee and judgement of the con
vention delegates will come a
permanent document which
will determine the nature and
course of self-government in
Alaska after it transfers from
territorial to statehood status.
But to be valid, the constitu
tion will require the approval
of the U. S. congress, which has
the power to grant or deny
statehood.
The constitution also must
be ratified by the people of
Alaska.
Much of the interest in the
election tomorrow is in the per
sonalities of the candidates.
Fourteen are members of the
legislature which authorized
the convention, a fact which
ignited a fued between two can
didates which eventually reach
ed the third division district
court and was not settled until
action Iby congress.
The controversy stemmed j
from restrictions in the Alaska!
V eafchcombing
• Well, well tomorrow we
are goinig to Vote for 15 men to
draw up a constitution for the
“'State of Alaska” if and when
Statehood if granted. Neither
the Democrats (who had 20
years to grant it) nor the Re
publican i(who have had three
years to do it) seem inclined to
miake Alaska a state. So ten,
fifteen or twenty years from
now we can do the job all over
• Scheele got to see our hos
pital (Comlmunity) and was
pleased with the work we have
done in making possible the
care of our sick and injured.
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• The results of the election
tomorrow will be late in com
ing in. It seems certain instruc
tions were sent one set of of
ficials and another set to the
others — balling everything
u,p — so no one knows what to
do with their returns.
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• Went hiking yesterday
with a “Davy Crockett” bear
hunter and we found a fisher
man trying to get a strike with
(was it four or five, Charley)
making comments on his ability
as an exponent of The C-om
pleat Antgler.”
organic act which specifically
prohibits members of a legisla
ture from serving, or drawing
salary from, poistions created
by that legislature.
Bob Kederick, Juneau news
paperman and candidate in the
first division at-large contest,
challenged the right of Haines _
attorney Burke Riley, a mem
ber of the 22nd legislature, to
seek a seat in the convention.
The case went to Judge J. L.
McCarrey of the third division
court at Anchorage. He ruled
in favor of Kederick.
Judge MeCarrey's ruling wou
Id have eliminated 14 members
of the legislature from the bal
lot but Congress passed a bill
which lifted the restrictions of
the organic act against legisla
tors participating in the con
vention.
The 14 legislators seeking
election are:
Senate president James No
lan of Wranigell; Sens. Howard
Lyng, Nome: William Egan,
Valdez: Frank Barr, Fairbanks
William Beltz. Nome; and Ral
ph J. Rivers. Fairbanks. House
members, in addition to Riley,
are: Reps. Dora M. Sweeney, |
Juneau: Dearborn J. Bucka
lew Jr., Anchorage; George Me
Nablb. Robert McNealy. Richard
Greuel and Warren Taylor, all
of Fairbanks: and E. B. Bailey,
Mountain View.
House speaker Wendell Kay
had announced his candidacy
but later withdrew.
The election tomorrow will
send to the convention 12 dele
gates from the first division, 5
from the second, 20 from the
third and 10 from the fourth.
Each division will elect dele
gates for specific districts and
from the division at-large.
Considerable interest is cen
tered on the 23 candidates seek
ing the seven territory-at-large
seats, most of whom are well
known throughout Alaska. They
are:
Anchorage —* La ward U
Coffey, Steve McCutcheon and
J. H. Van Hausen.
Fairbanks — Jerome L. De
Bruvn. Byron A. Gilliam, Rich
ard Greuel, Alaska Linck, Ral
ph J. Rivers, Robert E. Sheldon
Alice Stuart and Warren E.
Taylor.
I Juneau — R. Holland Arm
[ strong, Mildred Hermann, Ka
• therine Nordale, William L.
Paul, Howard D. Stabler and
George Sundborjg.
Ketchikan — John M. Weir.
| Mountain View — E. B.
i Bailey and Hadley Stephens,
i Spenard — Charles P. Keat
j ing, Jr.
! continued or oage three!
John Pegues dies
SAN RAFAEL. Calif. (JP)
John Edward Pegues, Pacific
region public relations repres
i entative of the New York Life
Insurance Co. and former San
Francisco Chronicle staff mem
brr died todav at Marin gener
| al hperital after suffering a
; cerebral hemrrhage Saturday,
j He was 40, and the stepson of
Mrs. Dorothy Pegues of Juneau
FISHERIES HEARING
REPORT TUESDAY
Due to lack oi‘ space, the re
port of the Fish and Wildlife
Service hearing held here Sat
urday will not be published
today but will be reported in
full in the Tuesday issue of
the Daily Sitka Sentinel.
Ambrosius vested
as new Russian
Orthodox bishop
SAN FRANCISCO (TP) In a
ceremony glittering with gold
and white vestments a new
bishop of the Russian Ortho
dox Church for the territory
of Alaska was consecrated
Sunday in tiny Holy Trinity
Cathedral.
He is Bishop Ambrosius, 66,
who has served in Alaska
since 1950. He succeeds Bishop
John, retired.
Bishop Amlbrosius accepted
the miter and staff of his of
fice after a three and a half
hour celebration of the solemn
pontifical liturgy, dating hack
to the Great Schism of 1054.
Co-celefbrants of the liturgy
were the Most Rev. Archbish
op Metropolitan Leonty of
New York, primate of the
church in North America: Bish
op Nikon of Toronto; and
Bishop John of Detroit and
Cleveland.
After the bearded Bishop
Amibrosius shed his monastic
cassock, Archbishop Leonty
addressed tihe 400 people pres
ent. He stressed the impor
tance of the Alaska diocese,
where he said the church first
reached America 160 years
ago.
Russians, Serbs and Bulgars
from Alaska established the
first Russian Orthodox Church
in the United States in San
Francisco in 1868. It is now
Holy Trinity Cathedral.
Bishop Amibrosius is the
former Dean Amvrossv Mere
jko, archimandrite of St. Mich
ael’s Cathedral at Sitka. He
succeeds Bishop John Zlobin,
who retired a year ago from
this post.
Adenauer and
Soviet premier far
apart on issues
'MOSCOW (/P) Chancellor
Konrad Adenauer of West Ger
| many and Soviet premier Bul
ganin met again today and
found themselves so far apart
on issues dividing the two na
tions that they were unable
even to agree on a statement
for reporters.
A German informant said
; they were as far apart as when
j the German-Russian consulta
tions began last Friday.
They met to hear reports
from their foreign minister,
who conferred for an hour and
a half earlier in the day. A
German spokesman — Felix
von Eckardt — said foreign
minister Heinrick Von Brent
ano and V. M. Molotov also
were unable to agree.
One German source said Ad
enauer and Bulganin were con
tinuing their talks at an elab
orate Kremlin reception. There
miay be another meeting tomor
I (continued on page four)
Longshore strike order along
entire Atlantic coast today
Will support New
York port tie up to
"preserve I.L.A "
by The Associated Press
The International Longshore
men’s Assn. (Ind) today order
ed all Atlantic coast ports
struck in support of the New
York waterfront tieup.
ILA president William V.
Bradley ordered 400 locals a
long the coast from Canada to
Puerto Rico to start immediate
ly a general strike “in order to
preserve the ILA.” ,
Earlier, some 43,000 union
members struck 28 Westing
house Electric Corp. plants thr
ouighout the country.
The crippling waterfront
strike, costing the city an esti
mated one million dollars daily
had been called off breiflv last
night, 'but the International
Longshoremen’s Assn. with
drew early today a recommen
dation that its members return
to work.
The LiA s long standing ais-|
pute with the waterfront com
mission of New York harbor;
brought on the strike six days
ago. A reported promise that
the union’s claimed grievances
against the commission would j
receive a hearinfg before the j
joint legislative committee on
industrial and labor conditions i
prompted union action.
On the basis of that report,
Dr Scheele very
impressed with
Medical Center
Praising the medical and
hospital staiff of Mt. Edge
cumfbe Medical Center as giv
ing the impression they en
joyed their work a great deal,
Dr. Leonard A. Scheele, sur
geon general of the U. S. Pub
lic Health Service stressed dur
ing his visit here Saturday and
Sunday these installations are
a center of a varied program
He singled out the dental de
partment, where prosthesis are
made and sent all over Alaska;
the Practical Nursing School;
the training of sanitary aides
who will go back ‘“to their own
villages.”
“I am greatly impressed With
the work being done at Mt. Ed
gecumibe as well as at Anchor
age and Bethel,” he said in
winding up his trip through
Alaska inspecting hospitals now
under the jurisdiction of the
U.S.P.H.S.
At a dinner arranged in his
honor Saturday evening Dr.
Scheele told medical workers
and other island employees a
better health program is re
quired. This in turn requires
more manpower and more
money. He expressed his appre
ciation to the employees for the
i manner in which they aided
| the transfer of the hospital fac
ilities from the A.N.S. to P.
H.S. and stated he would have
a better understanding of pro
blems in Alaska as a result of
his visit.
said Patrick J. Connolly. ILA
vice president, a iback to work
order was issued. It lasted five
hours. Hopes of ending the
strike fell hrough when the com
mission chairman, assemblyman
John Ostrander, said in Schen
ectady he had made no such a
greement. _
Connolly charged the union
has been “dcuiblecrossed” and
rescinded his back-to-work re
commendation. Even so, union
officials said dockworkers may
return to their jobs anyway.
At Pittsburgh, the CIO In
ternational Union of Electrical
Workers ordered the walkout
of Westinghouse workers to be
gin on schedule. The walkout
came only a few hours after the
company announced James B.
Carey, union president, had
“initialed an agreement” to end
a five week strike at the East
Pittsburgh plant “and cancel a
threatenel national Strike.”
There was no indication
whether Westington’s 30 other
plants, employing about 70,000
workers, would be affected,
These employes are affiliated:
With other unions.
The East Pittsburgh strike be
gan Aug. 7 when the union
charged Westinghouse violated
the contract in a time study.
668 enrolled in
Sitka public schools
at end of week
With 537 in the grades and
131 in hgh school, Sitka Pub
lic Schools ended their first
week of the new year with a
total enrollment of 668.
Enrollment by grades is as
follows: kindergarten, 60;
grade one. 86; grade two, 64;
grade three, 61; grade four,
45; Igrade five, 51; grade six,
60: grade seven, 54; grade
eight, 56; High school — fresh
men, 36; sophomore, 45; jun
ior, 27; senior, 23.
The total enrollment figure
of 668 compares with the to
tal at the close of school last
spring of 607 superintendent
of schools T. J. Cole reported.
AP Briefs
MAIMI, Fla. (/Pi Hurricane
warnings were hoisted along
the north shore of the Domini
can Rerouhlic today as the 8th
tropical storm oif the year, nam
ed Hilda, was spawned' 840
miles southeast of Miami.
CAIRO. Egypt. UP) An earth
quake shook the Nile Delta to
day. At least 16 persons perish
ed, including 8 children crush
ed to death in a quake-induced
panic at a girls’ school in Cairo
Marine forecast from Mon
day to Tuesday.
Outside waters Dixon En
; trance to Yakutat southeastrty
, winds 20 to 25 mph with str
; ortg gusts today decreasing to
15 to 20 mph tonight.
I RAIN — (strange)