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Page News-Miner, Monday, Feb. 3, 1958 "Independent in All Things 7Neutral in None" Daily News "America's Farthest North Daily Newspaper" IIrii in WASHINGTON U.S.-Soviet Agreement No. 1 INDEp NEWSPAPER Published Dally Except Sunday by Fairbanks PubllshlnR Inc. is SNEDDEN GEORGE SUNDBOHG Prcuitnt and Publisher Editor Represented nations II I A bit Inc. fiA v7 JS A dlson Avp ChlCiiRfl.

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sixth: Detroit, 1215 Penobscott It SUBSCRIPTION RATES Per Month bv Carrier AAl Per Month by Motor Route CnrFlcr WASHINGTON. i Don't breath? on it because it might go away. But if you will up. here's something I to look at: The United States and the So! viet Union have reached an agreement. a significant agreement, not going to end the cold war but it bears on its conduct.

It has taken two and a halt it. Any evenly measured, agreement with Moscow is useful. One little agreement could lead to another. It could be moderately habit- forming. should be frankly recognized and this, it seems to me.

Is what makes the agreement exceptionally significant that in the radio and TV exchange the Soviets are making a harder and. in MAIL SUBSCRIPTIONS One Month Three Months Months One Year Kntered as second-class matter March 17. the Post Fairbanks, Alaska, under the Act March 1870. LT.Zm7I.~Z~. years to bring it off, but it is reality, a greater concession jnow done, signed and sealed.

agreement itself will set also in motion a wide-ranging exchange of people and the U. S. ".50 13.75 25.50 24.75 48.25 04.50 SERVICE: Subscribers who fail to receive their papers are requested to dial 6661 before 7 p.m., so that the paper can be delivered by special messenger. For American Prestige Important as it is in the effort to regain prestige for this nation, launching of the United States satellite is not as influential as would be the granting of statehood to Alaska, according to Senator Frank Church. Senator Church, an Idaho Democrat, has addressed Chairman Lyndon Johnson and members of the Democratic Steering Committee asking that the highest priority be given statehood bills for Alaska and Hawaii.

It is the battle for men's minds that this nation must win, Senator Church informed his colleagues. He wrote that this session of Congress has a rare opportunity to "demonstrate" to the world that the right of self-government is still espoused by the United States." The senator, who is a freshman in the upper house, thinks statehood gives the Congress an opening to strike a telling blow for freedom. "Statehood would strengthen confidence everywhere," he wrote, "that our country remains true to its anti-colonial heritage. Its significance would reach through to millions around the world who have but recently struggled, or who still aspire, to be free." This is one race in which the Russians can never best us. We believe with the Idaho senator that it is time that the United States started playing from its heritage of freedom is its greatest the struggle for the good opinion of the world.

Farewell to Fighter Command In England, where rearmament costs are a tremendous burden to the government and where economies are being made in the defense establishment, the announcement comes from the Royal Air Force that Fighter Command is to be disbanded. For all who remember the year 1940, and who admired what so few did for so many in the free world, this is a melancholy note. This does not mean that the Royal Air Force is being disbanded or that jet aircraft are being completely discarded. However, it means that the British are relying, to a surprising degree, on missiles, rockets, and similar weapons, and perhaps the fighter strength of the NATO Command. While single engine jet or rocket aircraft will continue to play a role in future warfare, it seems likely that they may be used on offensive bombing missions in the future, rather than in the traditional role of fighter aircraft.

It may be, then, that the day of individual fighter combat, when the great fighter aces of each nation meet and fight it out in the sky from thirty or forty thousand feet down to the ground sometimes, has come to an end. In modern aircraft, and in missile warfare, there is no such individual element, no such individual duel. It has been said that the war between fighter pilots, in both world wars, was the last relic of the age of chivalry. It was, no doubt, individual combat in the most modern form. And it seems that the great aces of World War II might have been the last of their particular breed.

Office nt nd the U.S.S.R. To bring about a wider con-1 tact among our peoples, arrangements arc being made to exchange some 40 delegations of persons in industry, agriculture, the sciences, teachers, writers, composers, singers, dancers, actors and symphony orchestras. To bring about a wider ex- I change of ideas, arrangements I are being made for a series of Soviet radio and TV programs to be heard in the Unued States with comparable ti.ne on the Soviet radio and TV available for American programs. Is all this just peanuts? Or is it important and meaningful in the whale range of lacerated U. relations? I think it is an exceedingly important piece of East-West business for three reasons: exchange issue was one of the half dozen topics which occupied the summit conference at Geneva.

Something is now being done about Lombard Wins Race In Quebec INSIDE i nations successful. He tried all-along to get Moscow to in-: 1 QUEBEC, Feb. 3, Ml dude an exchange of "com-j Roland Lombard of Aubern- nS daie Mass won the Queb in TV programs. So far the So-'ternational Dog Derby yester- viets hava demurred at permit-; day by a scant two minute 21 ting the broadcasts to be se cond margin, political and as controversial as i such "commentaries" would in- Dr Lombard completed the cvilably become. tlle Fairbanks Winter Carnival The agreed subjects for the race.

radio and TV exchange are lim-j Dr. Lohbard completed the Hed to science, sports, industry, th 33 la ln lwo hours education and health. This is 22 mmutes and 47 good beginning. They time as Art Allan of Ce- opportunity to give to Soviet Mar Rapids, Iowa and Le Pas listeners and viewers a picture I of how life is lived in America 1 and how a free society works. i But nls advantage from Satur- Tliese broadcasts ought not day gave nil.

a total time of to us than we are making to them. In permitting any American programs on the Soviet radio and TV networks, Moscow is giving up a degree of its nearly total censorship over the minds of its people. We, in return, are only called upon to practice more of the freedom of speech and inquiry which we prize so highly. Thus Soviets arc doing something un- Sovict since they are lettinR I the time might come when a little free air into their Kremlin would let the Soviet hj closed society while we are people hear an American com- lolal ume of 7 iU 45 Save doing what, is characteristic jmentary on world 115 lnc third-place money. of democracy; that is, practic- iwe theirs; these commentaries! A special $150 prize was given in-ii-d not be combative, justj tr only woman entry Mrs.

to be pugnacious nor truculent. They ought to be candid and descriptive and convey all they can of the heart and spirit of the people. I would hope that 7:12:46 against Allan's 7:14:25. Lombard picked up 51,500 for his efforts while Allan got $750. Jean-Baptiste Carrier of Quebec was fifth in the final lap but ing freedom.

agreement may help lay the groundwork for further agreement. We shouldn't expect very much very soon. But it can't fail to be helpful in the long view for more Russians and more Americans to know each other's country better. This is the kind of exchange which we should welcome and in which both sides will win. The patience and skill of the the head of the Slate Department's office of East West contacts, Ambassador William Lacy, helped to make the nego- straightforward and honest.

It was in the summer of '55 that Mr. Eisenhower and Mr. Bulganin said they would like to do this. Jt is now being done. Doris Cassady of Williamsport, Pa.

Mrs. Cassady placed next to last in Friday's opening lap and trailed all other entries That's something. It may She did not com- to be more than something. ipete in the finai lap. Drew Pearson's WASHINGTON Merry-go-round.

THE EDITOR (Readers of the Daily News-Miner are welcome to write to the editor, but because of limitations of space, it is requested that letters be kept to 300 words or less. WASHINGTON. Inside fact about dynamic Bob Young, head of the New York Central, who shot the side of his face off in a Palm Beach attic the other day, was that he had been trying for months to sell his house in Palm Beach and had taken mortgage on his home in Newport. R.I. On one other occasion a relative had wrested a revolver from his hands.

Reasons for his depression were: 1. he had hoped to make the New York Central prosper and wasn't succeeding; 2, his Alleghany Corporation held substantial loans for a big real estate firm in New York which is shaky; 3, his assets were locked into the Allegheny Corporation by burn has put the kibosh on the hopes of a Chicago catering firm to start a fancy public restaurant and banquet hall in the west side of the Capitol building. Sen. Dear Editor: Box 1195 banks Chamber of Commerce Kctchikan, Secretary Seaton follows! Jan. 31, 1958 beaten path for wise conser-j vation of our natural resources Whoever' wrote the "On The Inside" column in the January 24th issue of your newspaper had some kind comments to Everett Dirksen of Illinois ma about Ketchikan, which I backing the plan.

Tourist warrant elaboration. visiting firemen, chambers of commerce were to hold banquets in the proposed dining room, then could write home that they ate under the same roof with the Congress of the United States. Mr. Sam said no. Exit Zaroubin It was an ironic twist of diplomatic fate that the Soviet ambassador who arrived in Washington under a cloud stayed to negotiale the first peoplc-to- a three-year-old Supreme people exchange with Russia Court suit brought by one stockholder, Randolph Phillips.

Paradoxically, the Supreme Court held in Young's favor 48 hours after he shot himself. Even at the time he leveled his shotgun at his head in his Palm Georgi Zaroubin had been in charge of the Soviet embassy in Canada when code clerk Igor Gouzenko walked out with cables proving that members of the embassy were stealing atomic secrets. Beach attic the Supreme Court! Zaroubin got to know the had ruled for him, but Young United States, seemed to like didn't know it. American people. Most humiliating to Young I nallri that was thp fact that he bar! tn spll belng Called because lo'oVoO share of tral stock leaving him only 1.200 shares.

He had raised cain with There was was I do not refer to former Mayor George Beck's extemporaneous remarks at the raising of the All-America flag, because it is true he omitted mentioning jSOme of the nationalities now in Ketchikan. It was my understanding, however, that he was talking about the founders of Ketchikan, which dates back to the 1870s. As George's father has been around these parts since the turn of the century, he probably knows the nationality situation pretty well. Your columnist missed the boat when he described the Episcopal Church yard as being weed-infested. It so happens that Spring came early this yea-, in fact about Thanksgiving, and the daffodils are trombone-high down here.

The platform, which is vividly described as being constructed the previous Central management for not owning stock in its own company'. And now he was put in the same position. Eugene Meyer, wife of the chairman of the Washington Post and constant constructive needier of President Eisenhower to supply more money for schools. The reason he was put in the! "Oh, you're from the Washing- same position was because ton Post," exclaimed Zaroubin BENNETT CERF: Try and Stop Me. In the good old vaudeville days of 40 years ago, recalls George Burns, a good joke was weight in gold, because an act could use it for months on end all the way across the country.

Comedians really got angry, therefore, when a story or routine they had developed painstakingly was lifted by a rival. One night, in Jersey City, George tried out a "bit of. new material. He had his wife, Gracie Allen, "Something terrible hap-j pened to my mother in Buf- i falo," Geo'rge's rejoinder was, "I thought you told mei you were born in Cleve-j land." The audience loved it. but a rival comedian, Jesse Block, came storming stage to holler, "I caught your act out front, and you! hooked that Cleveland gag from 1 I "If you must know," retorted Burns haughtily, "I got that gag right out of Madison's Joke Manual." i Block answered weakly, "But I read it in the first' edition!" leghany stock in New York Central was frozen.

It owns 1,000,000 shares of Central but couldn't sell because of the Supreme Court suit. As a result it took a loss of $10,000,000. Central stock was plummeting down from a high of S50 to $16, during which Allegheny couldn't sell but also during which Young had to have money to cover his margins. That was why he mortgaged his Newport house, tried to sell his Palm Beach house, and cashed in 100,000 shares of Central stock. i When Young took over the jNew York Central he promised a dividend of $8 a share.

In December his board passed paying any dividen.d He saw no light ahead. The administration which he had helped to put into office had helped the highways, done nothing for the railroads. He considered his life's work finished. duke and duchess of Windsor were planning to visit him next week. I Washington Pipeline The government i now so obsessed over security that it's even censoring the Morgenthau diary.

FDR's secretary of the treasury gave his diary to the national archives for tlie use of historians, but the State, Defense, and Treasury departments classified it "secret." Secretary of the Navy Gates is chafing at inaction and indecision in the Pentagon, talks about going back to his home town, Philadelphia. He may deny this publicly, but privately he's caught in a raor- ass, can't get anyone to say yes or no on basic decisions, has to work from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., and! hasn't played golf since September. (Ike plays much more frequently.) Speaker Sam Ray- as he was introduced to Mrs. Meyer.

Mrs. Meyer expected a tirade against the Post's frequent criticism of Russia. But the ambassador chuckled. "Your trucks," he said. "They keep us awake all night! All night long the trucks of the Washington Post are loading papers, backing, starting, pulling out.

You have ruined more sleep for us than any notes from Mr. Dulles or any cable sent from Moscow." The rear of the Washington Post abuts the rear of the Soviet embassy, once owned by Mrs. Pullman of Pullman car fame. HST Draws A Crowd The Democrats, who always have to worry about money, are thanking their lucky stars for Harry Truman. "Fire-and- brimstone" Harry is going to be the big speaker at their Washington birthday dinner, and three weeks ahead of time they have $50,000 cash in hand and $72,000 committed.

The Sheraton Park Hotel, where the banquet is to be held, nolds about 1,900 people and they are already planning to put tables in adjoining rooms for 1,200 more. What astounds the Truman dinner organizers is that Civil Service officials in the Eisenhower administration are sending in their money for tickets. They are not being solicited. Maybe they see the handwriting on the wall. laid down by President Theo-i dore Roosevelt, Forester Gifford Pinchot and ethers who fought! so vigorously for national parks and ther wilderness in, the late 19th century and early 20th century.

The value of such parks and reservations never can be measured jn dollars and cents. Their worth should be considered as. intrinsic, like a great painting I or -other artistic works. Yours truly. i John P.

Thomson Box 1507 Anchorage, Alaska Jan. 24, 1958 Dear Editor: We still wish you a good New Year and hope 1958 brings you disguise Or other wise. (I'm sorry it rhymes.) The of Alaska will ad vance. not because of your editorship, but in spite of it. What we are writing may be dust and mosquitos in your eyes, but you have only two eyes the same as all of us; and you might of rain-beaten bare boards, was be surprised what some people built the morning of the flag-ifind beautiful and good: Scrubby raising ceremony, which inci- dentally was held the day after receipt of the award.

If we'd had a pipeline to the jury room we would have painted the grandstand, but Dr. George Gallup and his fellow jurors did not give advance notice of the verdict. All in all, I and about 500 other spectators, enjoyed the unheralded ceremony. The Army, National Guard snd Coast Guard color guards militarily precise, and I guess they overshadowed the unpainted grand stand. The band sounded 'ine, and the kids who were re- Isabel Pass Route Probably Open Rest of Winter leased from the grade school upj An unusually mild winter and street were romping around Might snowfall has made it prac- all over the place, and I guess jticable for the Bureau of Pub- faced children with truth in their eyes, overweight women who bake apple pies, underfed men who grind away lives, supporting (unselfishly) children and wives, and the great searching wish of the common folk through every pr-ts have spoken.

Margaret A. Mielkc some were in the daffodils, too. I'll bet Fairbanks would have done as good a job as our cit" lie Roads to continue to maintain Isabel Pass on the Richardson Highway open for traffic and chamber officials did or beyond the anticipated closing January 9, except for the fences, 'umber and daffodils. Your congratulations to Ketchikan for being named as Alaska's second All-America city are appreciated. Sincerely yours, Bob Jernberg P.S.

Ketchikan was founded 80 years ago. so I can't do much about the buildings not running at right angles to the streets, but I'm going to mention the five fences to the authorities. Either the owners want their spring flowers to get a good start or they want to offend non-fence fanciers. There should be a law Dear Editor: Fairbanks Feb. 1, 1958 You are to be highly complimented for the excellent editorial, "That.

Arctic Wildlife The vision of the Daily News- Miner, Tanana Valley Sportsmen's the Fair- ALL TYPES RADIOS i Records Hi-Fi Systems TV Sets Alaska Electronics New Location 325 Cushman PH. 5302 Cooper's Close Out on Child's Sleds With Back and Pulling Handle Selling Regularly at S8.75 NOW late of mid-December. This! route through the Alaska Range! shortens the run to Fairbanks! from coast ports by 100 miles over the normal winter route by way of the Tok Cutoff and Alaska Highway. For information of truckers and travelers the Bureau of Public Roads now plans to keep Isabel Pass open for the remainder of the winter. Some closures and interruptions may be expected during February and early March, which are usually stormy periods in the mountain passes.

Travelers are encouraged to check on road conditions through BPR offices in principal cities. The last-minute developments in territorial political affairs prior to the closing of flllnc for 1958 election races on Saturday were mystifying to those on the outside. Here is an "on the inside" summary of what happened. COMMISSIONER OF LABOR Henry Benson, the Republican incumbent, came out of his corner several days before the deadline and announced he would not file again for that office. This was undoubtedly a wise decision, in view of the record he has made generally in the past three years and particularly in front of the 40 members of the 1957 Legislature.

Henry had to be subpoenaed last year even to get him to appear and talk to the Ways and Means Committee of the House about his budget request. With so many politically active people down on him people who are going to be stirring all around the territory during the forthcoming campaign Henry decided it would be lost effort to try for reelection. He must have remembered too that he made it by only 37 votes last time. In addition, all segments of organized labor have had their knives out for Henry. So it will be a three-way race, in the primary, among Democrats Tom Moore and Russell K.

Younp, both of Anchorage, and Dale H. Hirt of Juneau. The story we hear is that Moore and other labor leaders went to Young: many months ago and asked his political intentions. As a potent labor figure and chairman of the Labor and Management Committee of the Ilou.se in the last session, Rugs could have had the Democratic nomination practically by acclamation. But we understand he told the boys he was leaving Alaska to go into business in the States and so would not be a candidate.

On this understanding, Moore filed. Then, the day before filing closed, Young stepped off an airplane at Anchorage and announced he was running. The business in California hadn't fared 15 well as he expected it would. There will be hard feelings, as well as hard campaigning, in this struggle. The winner will meet John Van Housen, Anchorage Republican, in October.

TERRITORIAL TREASURER Hugh Wade, the Democratic incumbent, filed early. Hugh has served quietly in the job and his political fences arc a mile high and well tended. In his most important public function, Hugh has sided regularly with Republican Gov. Mike Stepovich on issues before the Liquor Control Board, usually against his freewheeling Democratic brethren. Attorney General J.

Gerald Williams and Highway Commissioner Frank Metcalf. The governor and treasurer have stood, on the whole, for stricter control, against the actions of Williams and Metcalf in voting liquor licenses for just about anybody who has the fee and the nerve to apply. Wade has two Democratic opponents, an Anchorage man named Leonard Peck, who should give him no trouble, and a lady from the same town named Dorothy Tyner. who might. There is also an Alaska Party candidate in this race.

He is Niilo E. Koponen of Fairbanks. Karl F. Dcwcy, former tax commissioner, is the sole Republican filer. Karl, though he served conscientiously in his former job, alienated a large segment of what would normally be his following when he made most ungracious exit as tax commissioner, tongue-lashing "ingrates" within his and criticizing Governor Stepovich for not giving him some other or even the same political for which the Democratic Legislature had refused to confirm him.

DELEGATE IN CONGRESS Bob Bartlett, the Democratic incumbent, filed early. Most people recognize that the only things that could keep him from being reelected by a landslide would be 1) his untimely demise or 2) the arrival of statehood (there won't be another delegate elected in that event). Walter Peirce. College commonwealth advocate, filed in mid-January for the Republican nomination. This forced the GOP organization to scratch around for a respectable candidate.

Benson threw out a few feelers, but when nobody urged him to run, he retired from politics with an angry denunciation of Republicans generally. Paul Robison, Anchorage attorney who filed at the last minute, is young, energetic and has the backing of all segments of his party. He should insure there being plenty of action in the delegate race, though as of now he hardly looks like a serious threat to Bob Bartlett's election to an eighth term. Paul himself recognizes the handicap under which he enters the campaign. At Anchorage he said: "I have announced my candidacy for delegate because I am impressed by the fact that the Republicans have filed the finest ticket of candidates for territorial office in many years, due to urging by many party leaders and friends, at least six.

to accept the challenge of leading the Republican ticket in Alaska. I am under no illusion that the public has any overwhelming desire to vote the present delegate out of office." The candidate added: "Because of the many reports of a strong swing of voter sentiment to the Republican side after four years of Democratic 'successes and excesses' in the territory, I feel that Republicans have a good chance of election to any office including that of delegate to Congress. "Since I do not have the funds or time required to conduct any active campaign for office, I am pleased with the prospect that eariy passage of the statehood bill by Congress may make it unnecessary to complete this contest in the usual October general election." Short of that one, Paul can hardly lose. His filing followed a high power conference of Republican leaders at Anchorage late last week. Republican National Committeeman Wally Hickel took a leading part as did Bob Groseclose of Fairbanks, chairman of the Republican Central Committee for Alaska.

should hove sent it by Pan American Olden Days In Alaska Forth Years Age in the Oldtimer Abe McKinnon and Mrs. McKinnon report back to Fairbanksans that they are enjoying the sights of New York City and that they hav taken an apartment and expect to be there about a month taking in the different sights. Funeral services for Thomas Isaccson of Ester, who died in Nenana. will be held today under direction of Fairbanks Igloo No. 4, Pioneers of Alaska at 2 p.m.

George Parks of the land office receives a package from Honolulu containing a great Hawaiian cocoanut. The outer shell of the cocoanut was in its natural state, except that it was decorated with some hand- painting, done by the natives of the island. Twenty-Five Years Ago In the News-Miner: The Senate passes and sends to the White House a bill to permit the issuance of bonds for replacing the school which burned at Fairbanks. Circle Hot Springs, "The Health Springs of the Northland," advertises winter rates of S2.50 per day covering all expenses while at the springs. "The lowest rates ever offered in the north," the advertisement says.

Stopping in hotels in Fairbanks are, at the Fairview, Peter Jepson, and at the Nordale, Hans Mirow, C. W. Lewis, Alfred J. Lomen, Louis Farvin, Robert Heath, C. E.

Farrell and M. J. Mulooly. Ten Yearg Ago in the News-Miner: Captain C. Pauline Murphy, located in station hospital 206 at Ladd Field, features in a wedding by proxy to Dr.

Charles Aars, now a resident of the Dutch West Indies. Democrats outnumber Republicans by 70 to 56 in the forthcoming territorial primary balloting to nominate candidates for the Alaska Legislature. In the classified ads, this notice appears: "S50 reward for information leading to lease on suitable house or apartment. Local ref. Lt.

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