Daily Sitka Sentinel
Home-Owned Newspaper
volume xvn '
and The ARROWHEAD PRESS
Member of The Associated Press
Friday, December 30, 1955
10c a Copy
NUMBER 14
Anchorage buried under 41
inches of snow this week
Worst snow storm
in two decodes
jstifl in progress
,by The Associated Press
Two Alaska ciliies were in a
“state of emergency” today
as snow inched upwards in the
territory’s worst winter storm
in two decades.
The storm snarled traffic,
blocked roads and highways,
hammered rail I, ravel and clos
ed airports at Cordova. The In
ternational airport at Anchor
age also was closed, but Eimen
dorf air force base airport was
kept open.
And no reief was in sight.
The weather bureau predicted
more snow accompanied by a
cold wave which could send
temperatures to 50 below zero
in same areas.
With 40 inches on the
ground and more snow falling
mayor Ken Hinchey of Anchor
age, Alasika’s largest c3iy, call
ed on its 50,000 residents to
shut down their businesses and
remain in their homes.
A brief respite in the snow
fall came to Anchorage adiier
midnight but a heavy snow fall
started again during the early
morning. Just about all of the
city’s downtown stores were
closed.
The snow was 41 inches deep
wilth 28V2 inches of it havinjg
fallen, since Monday night. The
temperature dropped to 10 de
grees above zero during the
V eotchcombing
annri.nni---.***.».**%>-*+*>*'*'''**•
• *Now that the Big Boy has
his knife back — the boss is
•worried that he will try ill out
on the furniture. But being a
Big Boy, he knows he should
not attack the furniture be
cause Dad would get in the
dog house.
-H
• All we can say is that the
Xxjrd help Anchorage if theii
snow turns to icy rain the way
it did in Sitka. Think of a lay
er of ice 40 inches thick ovei
all the streets and on tap oi
the house roofs!
• We like Vera’s idea of call
mg 1956 a Good Year instead
of the trite New Year — for we
all confidently expect that 195*
will be a Good Year for every
one in Sitka.
-++
• Gee, it’s time to make i
few resolutions!!!
But aside from the fact tha
we will try to do our best ii
1956. we know that no maitte:
what we resolve, we'll eventu
ally fail to keep.
HH
• Happy Good Year in 195<
from the Veatchcomer, the bos;
and all the rest of the Daib
Sitka Sentinel staff (Ace in
eluded).
night. Winds of 10 to 20 miles
an hour added a bone-chilling
element to the situation.
Police described i|; as Anchor
age’s most paralyzing snow
storm within their memory.
Abandoned cars blocked
streets and alleyways, roads
and highways were piled hiigh
with drifts. The only airfield
in the Anchorage area open to
use late Thursday night was
nearby Eimendorif air force
base where crews worked
round-the-clock to keep a run
way clear.
Emergency conditions also
existed at Cordova, where rain
followed days otf heavy snow.
In proclaiming a state of em
ergency, mayor Harold Nord
nan said roads were impass
able, power lines were down
and there was some flooding.
Central Alaska also was
j vcontinued on page two)
New disclosures
made in state
i
department papers
WASHINGTON (TP) The late
secretary of state Cordell Hull
once angrily told fellow mem
bers of the FranMin D. Roose
velt calbinet his former No. 1
aide, Suimner Welles, “seemed
to be operating a second state
department” without interfer
ence from Roosevelt.
The late Joseph Stalin
plainly told Roosevelt soon af
ter the 1945 Yalta conference
that he intended Ito have in
Poland a Igovernment which
would establish “friendly re
lations” with the Soviet Un
ion.
Moscow advised the United
States in advance of Yalta
that it wanted to break up
Germany into smaller nations,
“demilitarize German indus- j
try”, and collect reparations j
in machinery over a 10-year
period. 1
These and other fragments
of history are disclosed in the
I publication of more than 40
! previously secret documents
j bearing on the Yalta confer
ence.
The state department prinii
1 ed the documents together
with a Vast accumulation of
other papers in a 1,032-page
volume put on sale by the gov-!
ernment printing office late
' yesterday.
Only these 40 or so items
are new, and most of them deal
with minor developments of
i the 1944-45 period. The great
bulk of (the Yalta papers were
; made public last March. Now
i the whole collection has be
* come available in book form
■ at $5.b0 a copy.
Joseph Reap, state depart
ment press officer, said the
i new papers came from “scrap
; ing the barrel” in the Roose
r velt Library in Hvde Park, N.
- Y:. and from vario- s govern
imeni: sources.
Monday, January 2, being
a legal holiday newspapers
throughout the nation will ;not
publish. The Daily fSitka Sen
tinel will follow this custom;
and the next issue will be on
Tuesday, January 3.
$1,000 in A.P.W.
funds allotted for
relief projects
JUNEAU (IP) The depart
ment of Interior has allotted
$100,000 from Alaska Pdiblic
Works funds for projects in Al
aska this winter and next spr
ing.
Notice of the allotment was
received . by Gov. B. Frank
Hemtzleman. He said plans are
to carry a nuirriber of works
projects as a part of the gener
al effort in outlying villages.
The $100,000 will have to be
matched with a similar amount
of territorial or other local
funds, the governor said. Indi
vidual projects under this pro
gram are limited to a total ex
pends ure of $25,000.
Preliminary planning of the
projects is now being made by
the APW office here and the
office of the highway engineer,
the governor and the rural de
velopment board.
The program will call for
road, dock and float projects
which may be partially financ
ed by motor fuel tax revenues.
Other projects might include
water supply and sanitation pro
jects.
Would ban salmon
traps over 10
year period
WASHINGTON </P) Elimin
ation of salmon traps in Alas
ka waters over a 10-year per
iod was recommended today
by the interior deiprtment and
the budget bureau.
They proposed amendment
of a bill introduced by dele
geii Bartlett (D-Aiaska) a year
ago which would provide for
gradual elimination of the
traps at the rate of 20 per cent
a year over a 5-year period.
The interior department in
October advised the house
fisheries committee it favored
legislation of the type propos
ed and had no particular ob
jection to the 5-year formula.
The budget bureau told the
committee today, however,
that interior has reviewed the
subpect: further and will re
| commend a 10-year elimina
jtion program and other amend
; ments designed to safeguard
i rap owners against inequit
ies. '
The budget bureau said it
would recommend enactment
of the Bartlett bill if the de
partment’s amendments are
accepted. '
The budjget bureau letter,
signed by assistant director
Percy Rappaport. recalled that
Alaska voters, in an advisory
referendum in 1948. over
whelmingly favored eliminat
ing the traps over a 10-vear
period.
. (continued on page four)
Eisenhower strikes bock at
Khrushchev's speech charge
U. $. will continue
to seek liberation
of captive peoples
KEY WEST, Fla. (/P) The
White House, hittinlg back at
So via;, criticism of President
Eisenhower, said today the Un
ited States will continue to
seek peaceful liberation of cap
tive European peoples “until
success is achieved.”
The reiteration of the Amer
ican goal was set forth in a
statement by press secretary
James C. Hagerty after it had
been approved by Eisenhower
and secretary of a.ate Dulles.
The statement was in reply
to criticism yesterday by Ni
kita S. Khrushchev, Russia’s
communist party boss, accusing
Eisenhower and Dulles of
“crude interference” in eastern
European affairs .through Christ
mas broadcasts to those areas.
Khrushchev also accused the
president of having violated
the spirit of the summit meet
ing held at Geneva last July.
In his statement, Haigerty in !
effect denied that. I
“The peaceful liberation of
the captive peoples,” Haigerty
said, “has been, is and — until
success is achieved — will con:
tinue to be a major goal of Uni
ited States foreign policy.”
Only yesterday Hagerty told
newsmen at Eisenhower’s va
cation headquarters here thait
neither the president nor he
would have any comment of the
Khrushchev attack.
Hagerty’s statement revers
ing that position came after Ei
senhower had spent three and
a half hours working on his
Jan 5 Si: ate of the Union mes
sage and other government bus
New cold air sweep
extends widely
across nation
by The Associated Press
A new cold air sweep ex
tended today from Ithe plains
to New England, eastern Tenn
essee and the Texas gulf
coast.
Drizzle, sleet, freezing rain
and snow fell in light amounts
alonlg much of the cold front
behind which temperatures
were 20 to 30 degrees lower
than Thursday.
It was 26 below zero at West
Yellowstone, Mont., and -17 at
International Falls, Minn.
Some warming occurred in
the northern plains as Pacific
air flowed down the east slopes
of the Rockies.
Arctic air centered in, north
ern Wisconsin this morning.
In the far west temperatures
were a little below nomal in
most areas, ranging from be
low freezing in northern in
terior and upland sections to
mostly in the 30s and low 40s
along the coast.
iness. The session presumably
dealt also with the statement
Hagerty issued,
Hagerfty said he talked by
telephone with Dulles, who is
in Washington, to get his ap
proval of the Statement.
Here is the text of the state
ment given out:
“Mr. Khrushchev is report
ed to have said that the Christ
mas messages of President Ei
senhower and secretary of
state Dulles to the peoples of
Europe in no way accord with
the spirit of Geneva.
“It was made abundantly
clear at Geneva to the Soviet
rulers that the “Spirit of Gen
eva’ could not and did not in
volve any relaxing of /t he peace
ful purpose of the United States
to achieve liberty and justices
for the oppressed peoples of the:
world.
“In-his opening statement ait
Geneva President Eisenhower
said: ‘There is the problem of
respecting the right of peoples
to choose the form of govern
ment under which they will
live: and of rea oring sovereign
rights and self-government gto
those who have been deprived
of them. The American people
feel strangly that certain peo
ples of Eastern Europe, many
with a long and proud record
of national exig ence, have not
yet been given the benefit of
this pledge of our United Na
ted Nations wartime declara
tion, reinforced by other war
time agreements.
“In his radio-television re
port to the American people
ifmediately following the Gen
eva conference, President Ei
senhower said: ‘The secretary
of state and I specifically bro
ught up, more than once. Am
erican convictions and Ameri
can beliefs and American con
cern about such questions as
the satellites of Eastern Europe
and the activities of interna
tional communism. We made
crystal clear what were Ameri
can beliefs about such matters
as these.’
“The peaceful liberation of
the captive peoples has been,
is and, until success is achiev
ed. will continue to be a major
goal of United States foreign
policy.’*
iMarine forecast from Friday
to Saturday.
STORM WARNING
An increasing pressure grad
iest will cause winds of 25 to
45 mph with strong gusts north
of Wrangell and Port Alexand
er today increasing to 30 to 50
with very strong gusts tonight
End of warning.
Outside wai.ers from Yaku
tat to Port Alexander south to
southeast winds 25 to 40 mph
with strong gusts today increas
ing to 30 to 50 mph with very
strong gusts tonight.
Occasional rain or snow to
day becoming coninuouis and
heavier tonight. »