The Wrangell sentinel., 1945-06-22
President Puts OK. On Road To Alaska
 Alter Gruening Chat

OLYMPIA. Wash. President Truman, stopping here en route fo the San Francisco conference. praised the work of the confer ence, promised the meat situation would be straightened out and den fed a report that he contemplated T--lreport dtmandn plee scarf ta. removing Secretary of the Interior Harold l.. Ickes.
 Al a press conference. the Presi- dent said the administration was working toward a plan of single control over prices of food in re- sponse to one question. but he did not disclose how il would function. The President expressed gratifica- pion over the Senate approval of legislation extending the reciprocal trade agreement program with fur ther tariff lowering authority.
 He announced he would stop over, in Portland Monday en route To San Francisco.
 FavOrs Highway
 President Truman came out flat ly iu favor of post war completion of an Alaskan highway in coopera- tion with British Columbia. He said there was about 500 miles of road up the trench in B. C. 10 be com pleted. The President said he had talked over the Alaskan highway with Gov Ernest Gruening of AL aska and Senator Warren c. Mag nuson of Washington and had dis cussed its extension through the trench. He said it was absolutely essential that the 600-mile gap be considered as a part of the post war program in which Canada and Bril- ish Columbia would participate. He said he would try to find way Co complete it in cooperation with the Canadian government and the B. C. provincial government. He added t vas a good project and that he would support it.
 One reporter queried: Stories appeared in eastern papers that you were getting rid of MT. Ickes and replacing hlm with Capt Krug," J. A, Krug, Chairman of the War Pro duetion Board, and asked if the President planned such action.
 No Successor To Ickes
 The President said no. he did not. He said it was the first he had heard of it. He said it was news 10 him. He hasn't discussed it with Ickes at all, he concluded.
 Pres. Truman appeared attired in a woolen pulloyer sweater. bor- rowed from Gov. Mons Wallgren of Washington. It was knitted by In dians on Vancouver Island. the President explained, but as to the nature of the design he reminded a reporter, he had better ask the Chief of the Siwashes, asserting 1t was a Siwash sweater.
 Best For Eisenhower
 Mr. Truman sad ten Ike Eisen- hover was entitled to anything he wants and he would see that the General gets it. The President did not elaborate on this remark, made after reporters inquired a bout his plans for Eisenhower. who was guest at a White House stag dinner Monday. Eisenhower's first job is to get back to Germany and finish his work there, tbe President said.
 The nations Chief Executive said he had no plans concerning the pro posals for lowering the age of dis charge for soldiers, asserting 1t was strictly a military affair.
 The President flew west on Tues day for a few days rest as the guesu Of Coy. Wallgren, with whom he had served in the U. S. Senate. Af- ter attending the conference in San Francisco he is scheduled to meet with Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Josef Stalin for a con- ference in the vicinity of Berlin.
 Gov. Ernest Gruening of Alaska flew down from Juneau for con- ference with the President relative