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Daily Sitka sentinel and the arrowhead press., 1955-11-04
V eatchcombing

m Believe it or not: That stuff which fell at noon was SNOW U and we remember when you made your bets that it would snow by Christmas Russian or Roman dates. -Hl- a If those two kids aren't found by tomorrow, a lot ot men will be out hunting two little "dears."
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 I-E @ The Russians are afraid of fraa elections whats the natter? Hasn't anyone offered to nay their campaign expenses
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 @The supplement in today's Daily sitka Sentinel was fur nished by the Alaska Statehood Committee so that the people Of the territory could be inform d on the problems the dele gates will be discug ing in the coming weeks.
Daily Sitka sentinel and the arrowhead press., 1955-11-04
Red arms may have uIreudy been semi to Egypt

WASHINGTON (P) The State department said today it has information that several shiploads of communist arms have been delivered to Egypt.
 This was the first official word on the highly explosive issue. Bgypt's deal to swap cot ton for Czech arms has touch ed off a new round of Arab Israeli tension threatening to disrupt the uneasy Palestine situation.
 Department press officer Lincoln White told his news conference, in response to ques lions, that the department is informed of the arrival of more than one shipload" of Soviet bloc arms in Egypt.
 He declined to say how many ships. He would say only there were several" Press reports have centered on six as the number of ships already arriv- ed.
Daily Sitka sentinel and the arrowhead press., 1955-11-04
Cl1urnber told of exuct Sitku-
 Juneuu food price difference

These items were not only the basic foodstuffs which go into every cupboard but includ ed a fair amount of luxury floods. MT. Reeds survey in- dicated his local prices were higher on sugar. flour, soap and dairy products, but much lower on cereals, meats and cer tain other foods
 Breakdown of comparative items was as follows:
 Case Lot Reeds 161 grocery items $99.O0 $1O1 30 26 meat items 21.66 2O.22 187 items $12O.66 $121 .52 or a net cost of 86c higher in 'Si. .ha than Juneau
 F'oodland Reeds 128 grocery items $86.45 $88.12 31 meat items 25.26 23.79 159 items $111.71 $111.91 or a net cost of fN20c higher in Sitba Nthan Janeed.
 The University of Alaska Sept. 15 survey of basic food prices IT. in which 39 items are priced and 25 used in their market basket showed costs of $21.11 in Juneau and SPA in Sitka, or difference of $1.33. Of this 58c can be a. counted for by the prices charg ed for fresh local milk, fresh local eggs and ice cream. (Fresh milk, which was not available in Sitka on Sept. Is was still in the price survey at a cost of Soc a quart).
 In Juneau one cash and carry store changes .35c delivery for the first box and 10c for each additional box; also a charge of 59o is added for telephone or charge account service. The oth CT Juneau market makes cha rge of 35c for the first box de- livered, 10c for the second box and SC for third and subsequent boxes. In Sitka no charge is made for delivery by some stores and in others not if the order exceeds $10.O0.,
 This is tn first actual survey of shelf prices ever conducted in an effort to determine where and why the reported differ ,ence between food prices in |Sitka and Juneau exists. The survey demonstrated beyond doubt that no grave differential does exist and that the figures presented on recent cost-of-liv ing report have not been accur- ate at least as they have been applied to Si.ka, for many of the prices on the list checked had not changed for months prior.
Daily Sitka sentinel and the arrowhead press., 1955-11-04
Equn won'trUn

VALDEZ (P) Territorial Sen William Egan announced today thas he will not be candidate for reelection.
Daily Sitka sentinel and the arrowhead press., 1955-11-04
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Marine forecast from Friday to Saturday.
 Outside waters Dixon En- trance 10 Yakutat northeasterlv winds 10 to 20 mph.
 CLEAR ~,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-07

It has brought to Washington tenn
peratures-in the words Of Weather
Bureau officials - much, much
above average" and less rain than
usual. Specifically, the normal"
July has a mean temperature Of
77.3 degrees. against last months
mean Of 82.1. And while the normal
July has nearly Az inches Of rain
fall, last month saw 2.32 inches
hardly more than half that amount.
And what of the future? The
Weather Bureau forecasters say the
high-pressure cell is starting to
move west, shooting the hot air into
the area beyond the Rockies and
gradually bringing cooler weather
to the East.
August, they say. should be above
average" in temperature, but cool
by comparison with July. This
month should have q mean temper
ature about 5 degrees below last
months. And from then on, things
will cool of rapidly. BY the middle
Of September-if you can last that
long--mean temperatures will be In
the COS, and people will be think
ing about topcoats, football and logs
for the family hearth.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-07

atomic weapons tests, according to
American monitors.
Q Positions on German reunifica-
ton were refrozen (if. indeed,
they had ever been thawed). Mar
shall Bulganin. in the same Supreme
Soviet speech that brought the
scornful laugh, indicated he would
be content with a partitioned Ger
many for some time to come if the
united country could not be kept
out of NATO A day earlier the
Kremlin had invited West German
representative to Moscow for a
resumption Of diplomatic, trade
and cultural relations. West Ger
many. at the same time, repeated
its determination to maintain its
anti-C Communist ties and to hold
out for free ALT German elections
before .unification.
Yet 1t would be Misrepresentation
to say that hopes for eventual peace
were not brighter than they have
been since the cold war started.
This is because both sides learned
to their relief at Geneva that they
share q basic conviction: Modern
nuclear war is SO horrible that geo.
graphical or theological aspirations
are mere tribes by comparison.
Dangers Of war nevertheless per-
sist In the profound differences Of
opinion about the proper shape Of
the world.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-07
CONGRESS
Brief, Busy Session
Gives President Port,
Not All He Wanted

At i've minutes after midnight on
Wednesday, August 3. the first ses-
sion of the 84th Congress was
brought to an end by a bang Of
the gavel welded by Vice President
Richard Nixon. The Senate was
90 minutes slower than the House
In winding up its business. the
lower chamber having adjourned
sine die at 1895 pm. Tuesday.
For a non-election year, the law
makers did not do so badly in get
ting away. Except for the second
session of the 82d Congress (1952)
and the second session of the 79th
Congress (1946), this was the short
est in elapsed time since before
World War II. 1t was also the
briefest in terms of days in session
since President Eisenhower entered
the White House. A Congressional
Quarterly study showed the 1855
deliberations to have consumed los
days in the Senate and lis in the
House as compared to 1859 and 1913
last year and 125 and lit in 1858.
kBut despite its brevity, the first
session of the 84th Congress was a
busy one. CO estimated that by
the time the President cleans of his
desk sometime next year, more than
500 public laws will have been en-
acted. This will set a f1ve-year
record.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-07

The weather business-which
keeps almost as many records as
that other great American indus
try, baseball-looked back last week
with some puzzlement on the phe-
nomenon that will go down in his
tory as July, 1885,"
Except for the fact that the
month was the hottest Washington
July in SO years. singularly few rec
ords were broken. The month
racked up neither the hottest day
in history nor the longest hot spell.
nor did it even add up to the worst
month Washington has ever had.
In short. the most that can be
said about July is that 1t was a
corker 1t probably seemed worse
than it was because Washington
was having its misery in large por-
tons. The Capital Transit strike
and the hot spell both had their
beginnings about the same time.
Last month had 10 days in which
the temperature exceeded 80 de-
grees-but this did not come up
to July, 1878, or August, 1943, each
of which had 81 ninety-toppers out
Of 81 days
July's high Of 98. recorded on
the 22d, was scorcher. But it
could not match August 6. 1918,
when the thermometer hit 106.
The month mercifully past had
a nine-day stretch-July Is through
23-when the mercury broke 80
each day. But Washington's longest
90-plus run started June 81 and
ended July IA, l872-18 days with
out q letup.
All things considered. the sum-
mer of 1855 has not even been up
to average. BY the end Of July,
1952-which In itself was not an
overly hot year-there had been ~
days with maximums over 90. BY
tho end Of last month there had
been only al. The average number
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-07

calm zone is relatively dry. AS
pressure builds up. the air is heated.
just as 1t is heated by being COM
pressed in a bicycle pump. The hot,
dry air tends to get hotter and, If
not dryer. at least no more moist.
Clouds have a hard time forming,
SO the sky stays clear. The sun is
not prevented from beating down
on the bare. earth. The earth heats
the air, and so it goes until the cell
starts drifting away.
Since the first of July, the whole
eastern two-thirds Of the United
States has been under such a high
pressure cell. Temperatures in the
East have been above normal and
precipitation below, while west of
the Continental Divide-outside the
cell--the weather has been cooler
and wetter than usual. Wheat in
Washington State is two weeks late
in developing because Of cool
weather, and Iowa corn is about 10
days ahead Of schedule because the
weather has been hot.
The center Of this huge. calm
mass has lowered over Eastern
Tennessee and Western North Caro-
lima for more than Q month now.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-07
The Bill

The measure passed in the clos
ing hours of Congress was not ex-
actly the Draconian seizure bill
urged by the District Commits
sioners, nor was it exactly the
Louis E. Wolfson plan to get the
District to underwrite losses In the
company's final year of operation.
It was little of each-and little
Of neither.
Here are salient features of the
bill:
It would cancel the charter and
franchise given Capital Transit in
the so-called merger act" of 1888.
1t would give the District Com
missioners the eight to authorize
such public transportation g.. I.
within the District . as may be
necessary for the convenience of
the public" 1t also would empower
the District to operate CTC's Mary
land lines, with Maryland's permits
sion.
To furnish the city such trans
portation, 1t provided that the city
heads could contract with an opera
tor to run the transit system. II
that operator happened to be Capt.
tai Transit-as it almost certainly
would be-officers' salaries would be
frozen, but other wage rates could
be adjusted. In connection with
wage adjustments, the Public Utili-
ties Commission could recommend
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-07
Weothermon Tells How Hot
Its Been Lately and Why

of 90-breakers in a Washington
year is 81.
Why So Hot?
But perhaps more interesting
than how hot 1t got is why it got
that way. The Weather Bureau
explains it in global terms.
The whole thing starts with the
"jet stream" the strange upper-air
phenomenon of extremely rapid
west to-east winds. The stream fol-
lows a sinuous path around the
world, coming in some places fairly
far south. in other places much
farther north.
AS summer comes on, the belt of
the jet stream migrates northward.
Beneath the stream-between 1t
lad the ground are prevailing
westerlles," winds that move more
slowly and in general west-to-east
direction.
South Of the westerlies lies the
region Of trade winds, which blow
from the northeast into the south
west ana west.
North of the trades and south Of
the westerlies is zone Of relative
calm. And it is in this zone that
sweltering Washington has found
itself for the past month or more.
Between the places where the Jet
stream dips southwark are high
pressure calm zones-semiperma-
nent features of the weather
Landscape" that persist in one
region for a month or six weeks at
a time These cells" are Of con-
tinent size-about 5000 miles from
east to west, 1000 miles or more
from north to south.
A Vicious Circle
When one Of these high-pressure
cells establishes itself, q vicious
circle b entered. The air In the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-07
TRANSIT REVIEW:
Peace Hopes Persist
In 38-Doy WoIkout

fare increases. And whatever
deficit came out of the operation
would be made UP out Of District
of Columbia funds.
At the end Of one year. when
Capital Transit's franchise would
run out, the dying company would
be required to rip up its streetcar
tracks. repave the streets and get
out of town.
Question of etc Stotus
One big question, implicit in the
bills language, concerned the exact
status Of Transit if the measure is
signed into law. The question was:
Would the company's charter end
Immediately, or would 1t end one
year hence. as the franchise would?
If Immediately, a serious doubt
would arise as to the company S
legal power to do anything in the
ensuing year but liquidate itself.
Rather than face this knotty
problem, all concerned seemed to
be trying to avoid it. The Commits
sioners and their corporation coun-
sci take the attitude that charter
and franchise are co-terminous. If
company and union lawyers agree,
the Commissioners decision will
stick. But if some interested party
decides to dispute this point, the
question might have to be an
swered in a court of law on the
basis of Congress intent. And in
the last moments of the session,
things were so hectic that probably
not even Congress is quite sure
what its intent was.
Senator Gordon Allott, Republic
can of Colorado, had an idea late in
the session. His plan: Put Capital
Transit into receivership. This
might be legal and proper in Colo
RADIO. but lawyers here were won-
dering how one would go about ap-
pointing receiver for a solvent
company in the District.
Like much other talk. discussion
of the Allott plan had pretty well
died out by the week end.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-07
The Negotiations

While the President was deciding
what to do about the bill, negotia-
tions for settlement Of the strike
continued. In fact, they seemed to
be accelerated by the presence of a
Damocles sword in the form of the
pending transit bill. Both manage
ment and union appeared to see in
the measure some danger to their
positions,
If the President chose to wage a
bit of psychological warfare against
both sides, he was in a good position
to do SO. Given voluntary settle
ment. there would be no reason for
forcible settlement. Given the
threat Of forcible settlement, the
climate for a voluntary settlement
might be improved.
Exactly where the dickeripg stood
this week end was not precisely
known. The union originally asked
for its operator classification--a
raise Of rs cents an hour and a pen
sion hike from $40 to SIPS 4 month.
The company's first (and only
officially recognized offer was 10
cents an hour and $75 on pensions.
Both sides originally thought in
terms of a one-year contract. which
would mean new negotiations-and
new trouble-next July. Lately, the
reports have been that a three-year
contract is being discussed.
Fore Boost in Wind
Everyone-company. union and
Governments aware that If a
settlement comes, either voluntarily
or otherwise, a fare boost will follow.
The company already has asked for
elimination of the 75-cent weekly
PASS (Which entities holders to ride
for 10 cents extra) and raise in the
price of tokens from Is cents to ID
cents. Public Utilities Commission
hearings on this resume tomorrow.
But this request did not take into
account a wage increase for opera
tors.
Another item of fare relief came
in the closing hours of Congress.
The legislators passed and sent to
the White House a bill which. in
effect, raised the school fare from
the ridiculously low 3-cent level
to a more realistic 10 cents. Tech
nically what the bill does is author
ize the Public Utilities Commission
to set the school fare at half the
adult rate. Like the death SEN
tence" bill, this one is awaiting the
Presidents signature.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-07
Red China

The II flyers who spent more
than two years unjustly confined In
Communist Chinese jails were TAX
ing it easy on their trip across the
Pacific this week end, trying to re-
gain their strength for the big re-
ceptions In store for them when
they reach the West Coast. Doctors
said they were in good condition.
Meanwhile, American Ambassa-
dor U. Alexis johnson and Red
Chinese Ambassador Wang Ping
nan arranged a two-point agenda
for their talks. The first dealt with
repatriation of civilians. The sec
ond covered "other practical mat
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-07
YugosIovio

Word reached the West last
week that Yugoslavia's independent
Communist Party was reSuming its
relations with its estranged par
ent in Moscow. A close reading of
the communicate following the Bull
ganin-Khrushchev visit to Belgrade
late this spring indicated as much.
Government relations, of course,
were resumed earlier.
During last weeks special Su-
preme Soviet session in Moscow,
the Kremlin took the unusual step
of seating visiting Yugoslav dele
CATION Of party and government Of
ficials on the speakers dais. At
the same time in Belgrade, the Of
fetal newspaper BorbG printed
Marshal Tito's interview with an
American religious group confirm
ing the parties rapprochement.
They will associate on equal terms.
he emphasized, not under any
Cominform formula that would sub
jugate the Yougoslavs once more.
No Uneosiness Here
Official Washington does not
share the uneasiness in some other
circles at Tito's recent drift away
from the West and toward Mos
COW. In recent months he has had
new differences with the United
States about inspecting his use of
our military aid. He has gone
farther than the West in accepting
Kremlin overtures for peace. And
he has even limited that his Balkan
pact with Greece and Turkey can
be relaxed somewhat on the mill
tary side.
But Washington notes that Tito
also has called for a genuine dis
solution of the Cominform. And
so long as Tito maintains strictly
independent position. officials re-
fuse to worry. They point out that
his ties to the West are much
stronger than those with the Krem-
lin.
The tendency here is to accept
philosophically Yugoslavia's shrewd
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-07

the first step toward genuine world
disarmament.
The administration will be guided
by four main principles:
l. Administrators Of an effective
arms inspection system must be in
place and in operation before any
disarmament system can be put
into effect.
2. Inspection of vast territories
like those of the Soviet Union and
the United States can only be car
ried out by aerial survey.
3. No method Of arms inspection
known to the United States would
account for nuclear weapons that
already have been produced.
4. Disarmament plans beyond
the limits of what could be in
spected would not help peace. 1t
would only produce a false sense
of security, as pre-World War II
and ancient history both have
proved.
Principle 2 explains President
Eisenhower's insistence On aerial
reconnaissance as an integral part
Of any inspection system. While he
admits that no aerial photography
known could detect everything
(see Principle 81 it is obvious that
some kind Of inspection eueTy,ohere
is better than none in vast areas.
American Air Force reconnaissance
experts do not share Marshal Bull
ganin's low opinion of its effective
ness.
Surprise Deterrent
They think it could effectively
prevent surprise attack, even in
the fast-approaching days Of
''zero-length" aircraft launchers,
which mean the disappearance of
the conventional airbases.
In a United States News and
World Report article last week. an
Air Force reserve colonel who is an
expert in aerial reconnaissance re-
ported some startling progress in
his field.
With or without Soviet permits
sion, he said, the United States
could now inspect European Russia.
Siberia. Red China and the satel-
lites. He gave three reasons:
Souped-up custom built recon
planes are traditionally able to out
maneuyer defenders, whatever the
level Of technology; Red anti-air-
craft radar can be detected and
evaded; our planes can be made
imperceptible both to radar and
the naked eye.
Losses, he said. could be kept
livery. very small" The United
States News said it would take "a
RB-47s (picture-taking versions Of
the six-jet medium bombers now
being used by the Strategic Air
CommandD one year to cover the
Soviet Union, Red China and the
satellites once. The estimated cost
would be SIS million Constant re-
photographing would be necessary.
Of course. And photo Interpretation
would probably take much longer
than the one-year photographing
job.
The colonel said Soviet knowledge
that there was no way to hide from
United States reconnaissance
planes-except in small numbers
incapable of surprise knockout at
tacks-might be the most import
ant factor in final Kr EN- 1 n
acquiescence in President Eisen-
hower's plan. Obviously, Marshall
Bulganin had not vet read United
States News and World Report.
Moreover, he did not share the
American respect for aerial recon-
naissance. One Of Mr.. Stassen's
Jobs in New York will be to sell
its effectiveness to the Soviet
representatives.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-07
Disarmament

There was every indication that
the President intends to turn the
heat on the Soviet Union when the
United Nations Disarmament Sub
committee resumes its deliberations
in New York August 20. Secretary
for Peace" Harold E. Stassen, the
major domo Of the American team,
was busy co-ordinating the some
times divergent ideas about disarm-
ament in the executive branch.
At his press conference last Wednes-
day, President Eisenhower prom
ised some new proposals for the
Russians to null over.
Mr.. Eisenhower indicated at
Geneva that the stress will be on a
search for some mutually salts
factory arms inspection system as