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Jessen's weekly., 1956-07-19
Mrs. Casser Is
 Made Member Of Pioneer Group

The Pioneer Women of Alaska held their regular monthly dinner meeting last week in the home of Anne Schieks.
 Mrs. Beatrice Gasser. wife of Dr. George Gasser. retired head Of the University of Alaka's Agrieul- tural department, was initiated in- to the group, Lillian Black was re- instated to the membership, as were Dorothy. Loftus and Anna Cream CT. The latter two had been in the States on extended visits and brought back word from many old friends
 Mrs. Clara Rust offered her resig- nation as secretary of the group, due to her plans to make an extend ed visit to the West Coast. She ex- poets to attend the Sourdough re- union in Portland. Ore, August 16- i9. Mrs. Amante Hanson was elect ed to fill the vacancy.
 Eva McGown gave a humorous report of her recent trip to the States and letters were read from Beatrice Stanley, Sue Taylor and Mrs Jack Roberts.
 The Pioneer Women completed their plans for Golden Days. The group will serve coffee and dough- nuts to all who attend the eere- monies Sunday at the Pedro monu- ment on the Steese highway. Chair man is Mrs. Adriana Coyle. assisted by Mrs. Agnes Thomas and Mrs. Genevieve Parker.
 The group will ride in the Gold en Days parade today in the old stage. An invitation from Mrs. Sa- vanah Brown, representing the Pi- oneer Auxiliary, was extended all members to be special guests and sit in body at the mug up" to be held in Eagles Hall winding up Golden Days.
 The next meeting will be held August l3
Jessen's weekly., 1956-07-19
Military News
44sth FIs Wins Meet

Ladd s 449th Fighter Interceptor squadron won the Alaskan Air Com mand jet rocketry contest for 1856. the AAC announced today at con- clusion of the weeklong competi- ton al Elmendorf.
 It Gen. Joseph H. Atkinson. commander of the Alaskan Com mand, presented a four-foot high trophy to the squadron in eere- monies at Elmendorf The group led by Col. Jack w. Williams and representing the 449th, 18th and 433rd Fighter Interceptor squad- rans, returned to Ladd this after noon. and was met by Brig. Gen. T. Alan Bennett and other base digni- taries.
 The 449th took first in the 10000 foot shootoff Members of the win ming team included It. A. E. Rick ow, pilot: It. j. Ferrau, radar ob. server: and It. c. K. Hunt, control Ter.
 The 10th Air Division was win- ner in the overall category The leading pilot was It. D A. Riley. pilot. It. M E.. Ross, radar ebser- yer; and It. K A. Kirkpatrick. controller. all members of the Seth Fighter Intereepter squadron
 There was three-way tie for top position in the 15,ooo foot shootoff. Capt. R. R. Renken, pilot; It D. D. Morgan. radar observer: and It. K. c Light, controller. were high point team for the 433rd Capt. J. W. Gillette, pilot; Capt D. W Deans. fadar observer. and It. c.
Jessen's weekly., 1956-07-19
MMEs. REAR, NERLAND, OSGUTHORPE HONOR MRS. TROY PEWE AT SHOWER

Mrs. Troy Pewe was guest of honor at stork shower, given Thursday evening by Mrs. Joseph Ribar, Mrs.~Garn Osguthorpe, and Mrs. Jerry Nerland.
 About 20 ladies attended the af- fair. given at the Nerland home on the Steese highway. Gifts for the baby were piled in a bassinet, but Mrs. Pewe was sent scurrying for her own gifts, which were hid den throughout the house.
 
 Good printing of all kinds and at reasonable prices at Jessen's Weekly
Jessen's weekly., 1956-07-19
ALIAS SUMMONS

 THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, GREETING: TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEPENDANT: YOU ARE HEREBY REQUIRED TO APPEAR in the District Court for the Dis trict Court for the District of Alaska, Fourth Division, at Fairbanks. Alaska. within thirty days after the last pubH- cation of this summons. namely: within thirty days after the 2nd day Of August, 1856, tn case this summons is published. pr within forty days after the date of it's service upon you, in the event this sum- mons Is served upon you personally, and answer to the complaint of the above named plaintiff on file in said Court in the above entitled action, wherein plain tiff demands the following relief. For a decree of absolute divorce. And in the event that you fail to so appear and answer. the plaintiff will take judgment against you for want thereof. and will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in his complaint hereinabove stated.
 WITNESS THE HONORABLE VERNON D. FORBES. Judge of said Court and the Seal of said Court hereunto affixed this 7th day of June. 1856. fSEAI.l
 JOHN B. HALL
 Clerk of District Court
 Marian Dellage
 Deputy Clerk R. !. McNealy
 Attorney for Plaintiff. First Pub: July 12. 1856. Last Pub. August ?, 1856
Jessen's weekly., 1956-07-19

K. Hunt were leaders for the 4seth Lieutenants Riley and F J. Herel placed for the 66th
 All three units scored 2.000 points each.
 The 449th's first-plaee total was l3.8oo points. according to official records.
Jessen's weekly., 1956-07-19

Eugene McLain of Fairbanks was admitted to St Joseph's hospital Monday for medical attention He will be in the hospital for about week. He is employed at Point Bar row by Puget Sound and Drake
Evening star., 1956-12-30

How we'll did you keep up with the news during
1856? Here are ten questions to help you nnd out.
score of seven right you're probably holding
your own with world events The answers are all
in today's Review Of the Year" and, for q quick
check, are listed on Page A-lS
I As he laid out his 1856 program in January,
IL President Eisenhower asked Congress for all
but one Of these: a Postal rate increases, (b) An
amended Taft-Hartley Act (c) Civil rights legisa-
ton, Id Statehood for Alaska.
= The President vetoed a farm bill passed by
%' Congress in April because 1t did not include
provisions for a soil bank. True or false?
4 A steel union strike in July threw how many
-. steelworkers out of work2 (al $4,000. tbj
10000, (cl ! million. ID $4,000
A President Eisenhower got only half Of what
r. he wished from the senatorial elections in
oregon and Washington. Democrat Wayne Morse
OF oregon was reelected but Washington's Warren
Magnuson, also Democrat. was defeated. True or
false?
The second big strike in the year began in
- November by: (aJ Incorporating trainmen,
(b) National Maritime Union, (el international
Evening star., 1956-12-30
A YEAR-END QUIZ

Longshoremen's Association, ID United Mine
Workers
Z On January 1, 1856. a newly independent
VI nation was born officially, and later in the
year became member nation Of the United Ma
tions. 1t was: ta) Baluchistan, (b) Indonesia,
(c) Gold Coast. Id Sudan.
y The British fought against snipers, bomb
- throwers and ambushers almost without let-up
in q Crown Colony invaluable to Britains military
position in vital part Of the world. The colony
was: (a) Hong Kong, (bJ Cyprus, (c) Honduras,
(d) Guiana.
O Russian leaders exposed the late dictator
Os Josef Stain as power-mad tyrant The
Communist cliche for stalinism was: (aJ Right
deviationism, tbl crypto-fascism, (cJ Cult Of the
individual. Id Titoism.
q Spreading revolt in North Africa during the
=. year engaged the greater part Of Frances
armed forces in an attempt to suppress the rebels.
The French territory was: la Morocco (oJ Algeria,
(cD Tunisia. i'd cameroons.
IN The ferment in the Soviet satellites bubbled
1O' TO a blow-on in June, when rioting shook
Polish industrial city. The name Of the city was:
taI szezecin 1bj Poznan. tc) warsaw. ID wroclav.
Evening star., 1956-12-30
JULY
We Withdraw
Aswon Offer

July was a month Of action and
counteraction In the Middle East.
on the 18th, Secretary Of State
Dulles notified the Egyptians that
the United States. after serious
study. had decided TO withdraw the
offer TO aid in the financing Of the
Aswan Dam project. Egypts most
grandiose scheme 10 improve her
economy.
The first reaction In Cairo was
one OF stunned shock. But then
Egypt's dictator President. Canal
Abdel Nssser, IN nationalistic fury,
retaliated by selling the facilities
of the Suez Canal Company on July
rs and declared the company and
the waterway nationalized The
Mlddle-E East war was in the making.
In Hungary, a change in Com
munist leadership foreshadowed
more momentous events 70 come.
Matyas Rakosi. tough "Stalinist"
Premier. quit his post in disgrace
as the ferment in the Red satellites
bubbled harder.
Here ~ home. . strike by ths
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and foreboding as they had been
a year before.
On New Years Day, the Sudan
Joined the worlds list of fully inde-
pendent nations. Long under Brit
ish domination, the vast desert
reaches south of Egypt had or
ganized national government, free
alike from British and Egyptian
control.
In Paris, the French National AS
sembly just elected gave promise of
being the same sort of splinter
party, indecisive, and pickering
barrier to national stability as was
its predecessor. On the last day of
the month. the Assembly by vote
of 420 to II confirmed the choice of
Socialist Guy Mollet as Premier.
The nature of Mr.. Mollet's politi-
cal support-he was favored by ma
jorities of all the parties repre-
sented in the Assembly except the
tax-baiting Poujadists-led to pre-
dictions that he couldn't last long.
But Mr.. Mollet is still there today.
Evening star., 1956-12-30

United Steelworkers Of America
began the moment July began and
lasted for 81 days. Though some
industries were severely pinched
before the $4,000 steelworkers re-
turned to their jobs with an average
raise of l012 cents more an hour,
most manufacturers had been
stockpiling steel for months In
anticipation of the strike and there
fore weathered it nicely.
In later months. the cost Of the
wage and benefit increases won by
the strike was passed along to the
consumer.
School Bill Dies
One of Mr.. Eisenhower's most
urgent legislative requests of the
year was rejected by Congress when
politically-inspired haggling in the
House defeated $1.6 billion
Federal aid to education bill.
Republicans blamed Democrats
and vice versa, but it was clear to
less partisan observers that neither
had alone killed cock robin. The
guilty party had been election-year
politics that involved historical
Southern apprehensions of Federal
control plus an amendment which
would permit aid only for racially
integrated schools.
Congress passed the Foreign Aid
bill, agreeing on compromise $4
billion figure and beating off at
tempts to slash it further. The Air
Force got a billion in unsought
extra funds, and Defense Secretary
Wilson was subjected to new at
tacks on Americas defense
adequacy.
The 84th Congress called it quits
in the early morning hours of July
% and sent its legislative record to
the hustings.
And on the 25th, the sharp steel
prov Of the Swedish liner Stock
holm ripped into the starboard side
of the beautiful Italian liner Andrea
Doria. Ships ranging in size from
the mighty lie de France to bobbing
Coast Guard tugs raced to the scene
a few miles off Nantucket to help
in rescue work. In few hours the
graceful Andrea Doria had disap-
peared beneath the waves. More
than so persons were dead or
missing.
Evening star., 1956-12-30
JANUARY
A Prosperous Year
Gets Under Woy

The year opened appropriately
with New Years resolution from
the White House when President
Eisenhower said in his state-of-the-
Union message: II expect the budget
to be in balance during the fiscal
year ending June 30. 1856" when
June 80 rolled around. there was
surplus Of $1.754, 1857. .066 available
to be applied to the $270 billion
plus national debit
In this and other messages that
followed during the month, Mr.. Eli
senhower, who had just finished a
three-month period of rest and re-
cuperation following his September
"a. 1855. heart attack, laid out the
program Of an incumbent party in
an election year. 1t began with q
$3.50 billion budget request.
1t was q program that might easily
have been mistaken by an awaken
Ing Rip Van Winkle as one con-
structed for the Fair Deal" Of
Harry Truman. But more than that.
1t was a reflection of the Nations
enormous wealth and its will to ex-
pand. Mr.. Eisenhower asked for
and eventually received these
things:
ga flexible support farm program
with soil bank.
. Expanded Federal assistance TO
public health.
"a housing program more or less
to his liking.
"a program for q vast new high
way system--less to his liking. since
It was the Democratic version that
passed.
. Another extension Of corporate
and excise taxes at the current rate.
He also asked for. but was denied.
these:
. Federal aid for school construc-
ton.
. Civil rights legislation.
. Postal rate increases.
. Amendments to the Taft-Hart-
ley Act.
. Statehood for Hawaii.
Q Federal reinsurance Of private
health insurance companies.
internationally. there appeared
70 be less cause for optimism on
the subject Of world affairs that
had existed six months previously.
on the other hand. the shadows
on the horizon we're not ~ dark
Evening star., 1956-12-30
MAY
President Approves
Agriculture Bill

After four months of bitter
pickering, Congress in May finally
gave President Eisenhower an agri-
cultural act he could sign. 1t was
a complicated, jerry-built struc-
ture that, besides including soil
bank through which farmers were
to be paid for resting surplus CROP
land. retained the Eisenhower prin-
ciple of flexible supports. though
holding to the higher. "old style"
parity price formula for one year
on wheat, corn and peanuts.
Senator Walter George. Demo-
crat of Georgia, decided to yield
the fioor-forever. The veteran
Senator, chairman of the Foreign
Relations Committee, who had
assembled to the rare position of
enjoying bipartisan respect for his
every utterance, said he would not
run again.
The month of flowers began
hopefully ON the international
scene, with the outlook for peace
IN the Middle East Frightening per-
ceptibly. Mr.. Hammarskjold re-
turned wearily from that cockpit
of the world with a pledge from
all concerned to cease shooting.
NATO found its vitality to be at
low ebb as member nations, par
ticularly France, became increas-
ingly begged down in their own
troubles. AS if to emphasize the
NATO weakness, the Soviet Union
announced a slash of ID million
men in its armed forces. The Rus
sian move added to the fears Of
many in the United States that
Red progress with thermonuclear
weapons and guided missiles was, in
truth, outstripping our own.
In the United Nations, the Afro
Asian bloc pressed their demands
that the international body take up
without delay the Algerian crisis.
AS the U. N. considered the prob
lem, the nationalist uprising in Al
geria spread like a prairie fire. with
the major part of the armed forces
Of France being called up for service
there.
Italy, home of the largest Com
munist party in any Western ma
ton, administered a shattering set
back to the Reds in national elec-
tions. In the voting on the 28th
and goth, the Communist candi-
dates lost heavily; the forces of the
democratic center scored a decisive
victory.
Evening star., 1956-12-30

reign as the South is prodded
further down the road to integra-
tion? viii President Eisenhower
accomplish the remodeling of the
Grand Old Party into the new
Republicanism" and will the
Democrats be able to shake of the
confusion that now enmeshes them?
The next act-l957-may tell.
Any attempt to characterize the
year now ending as good" or bad"
would be the widest and most pre-
mature speculation.
internationally, it was a danger
Gus year. The cataclysm of World
War III could have started in the
Middle East-and indeed that
troubled area is still our most dan
gerous tinderbox The Red satel-
lite uprisings, heartening though
they were to anti Communists,
could have prodded Russia into
desperate action involving the
Western World. The Western
alliance could have collapsed COM
pletely under the strain imposed
by the Anglo-French invasion of
Egypt.
None of those things happened.
And while it is much too soon to
say, it is at least possible that
1865 portentous developments have
in fact brought true peace a little
closer.
At home, it has been a pros
porous year. AS the election proved.
the American people are not mad
at anyone-least of all at their
President. The cost of living, while
inching steadily higher, has not
outpaced rising individual incomes.
Perhaps the years worst blemish
domestically was the sporadic vio-
lence in the South as reluctant be-
ginnings toward implementation of
Supreme Court decisions wrote the
doom of a basic social pattern
racial segregation.
So, while there has been tragedy
and bloodshed in discouraging
quantities. the world has survived
1856. And now begins another act.
But before the curtain goes up,
here's a backward look at where
we've been:
Evening star., 1956-12-30
AUGUST
The Condidotes
Are Chosen

The presidential election year
reached the first Of its two climaxes
the selection of presidential and
vice presidential candidates-in
August.
The Democrats chose Adlai Ste
venson and Estes Kefauver in
week Of thrills and typical Demo-
cratic civil warfare.
For more than two weeks, 1t ap-
peared that the hard-working
Democratic candidates had
chance-howeve slim--of doing a
repeat Of l94S. They we're stronger
than at any time during the cam
paign, and II the election could
have been held in late August, they
just might have carried Louisiana,
also.
The Republicans. not so staid as
in days of yore, had a difficult time
stretching out their carefully staged
convention in San Francisco over
four days. There was never a mo-
ment Of doubt-notwithstanding
Harold Stassen and Joe Smith
about who would lead the Grand Old
Party TO another grand victory.
There we're two notable aspects
Of the San Francisco conclaye: the
laundering silence Of the Old
Guard as the nothing succeeds
like-success New Republicanism Of
Eisenhower ran the show. and the
mild, cambric-tea tone Of Mr.. Nlx-
on's acceptance speech. Mr.. Nixon's
speech, totally devoid Of partisan-
ship, was a tipoh 10 his role in the
campaign.
Col Nasser's naturalization Of
the Suez Canal brought roars Of
anger and Illustration from Britain
and France: military preparations
we're rushed AZ the United States
began applying pressure for a
peaceful settlement Of the crisis.
A conference Of the nations Of the
world tboycotted BY Egypt opened
in London and decided 70 offer
Col Easser an Observation-Disclosures
plan.
Evening star., 1956-12-30
APRIL
Time Out Is Called
For a Fairy Tale

Though there were more signifi-
cant events during the month, the
most words were being written
about the American girl who real
ized the age-old dream of all girls
everywhere: to marry a Prince
Charming.
The girl was Philadelphia-bo
movie actress Grace Kelly. Her
affianced was Prince Rainier Of
Monaco (365 acres, who was in
dire need of a male heir, lest his
little country revert to France and
its citizens have to start paying
taxes.
Miss Kelly's sailing from New
York and arrival at Monte Carlo
and the frenzied doings of the
ensuing days when socialites,
royalty and hordes of reporters
swooped on the tiny principality,
nearly crowded other news of the
front pages.
In the Capital, one phase of the
battle-royal for the vote of the
American farmer was ended after
so days of debate in the Senate
with passage of farm bill. The
bill had a soil bank, as the Pres
ident asked, but it also would return
to the Democratic system of high
and rigid price supports.
Mr.. Eisenhower decided that,
despite some of its commendable
features. he just couldn't go along
with the bill and he vetoed it. Then
the tiresome battle was on again.
And Vice President Nixon. to the
surprise of no one. announced that
he would be available as No. man
for another four years. Already,
there were reports-with no names
being mentioned-of widespread
dissatisfaction with Mr.. Nixons
, possible candidacy among highly
placed Republicans.
A Marine Corps drill instructor,
in an attempt to make men out of
boys. led six of his trainees at
Paris Island, S. c., to their deaths
on a night march. The DI was
SergC. MaCCneW L. McheOn, VINO
had spent much of the previous day
in his barracks slipping vodka.
On the evening of the last day Of
the month, lovable Alben Barkley
passed away as he might have
wished-on a political platform
with words Of humility on his lips.
His last words: II would rather be
servant in the house of the Lord
than sit in the seat Of the mighty"
Death occurred at Lexington, Va.
Senator Barkley was 78.
The fuse burned closer to the
powder keg in the Middle East as
the month opened, and United Ma
tions Secretary General Dag Ham
marskiold flew to Jerusalem for
some personal mediation.
President Eisenhower. enjoying q
golf vacation at Augusta. Ga.
issued a personal appeal to both
Egypt and Israel to refrain from
provocative acts in the dangerous
situation.
On the 18th. two well-traveled
Evening star., 1956-12-30

known as ileitis. Before q month
was out. the word, given q variety
of pronunciations, had become
part Of the vocabulary of the man
on the street. Columnists, editori-
alists and commentators had writ
ten and spoken thousands of words
on the subject.
The seriousness of the Presi-
dents new illness was argued
widely. Those identified as Demo-
cratic partisa1s for the most part
wrote of ileitis as they might have
of bubonic plague. Those who de-
sired greatly to see Mr.. Eisenhower
stay in the race came close to
CHASING his illness to a mild case
of tummy y-ache. He was out of the
hospital in three weeks, still a can
didate for reelection.
Poznon Stortles the World
June's most significant develop
ment in the world at large was the
expansion of the uproar inside the
Communist orbit.
The theological confusion stem
ming from the Kremlin "de-deifica-
ton" of Stain threw the Commu-
mist parties of the satellites and
of the democratic nations of the
West into utter chaos. There were
public confessions and public alb
jurations; there were decampers
and die-hards.
In the midst of the Marxist
maelstrom. the workers of Poznan,
Poland, took matters into their
own hands for few hours.
On Thursday, the 28th, a few
quiet meetings of workers in the
machinery plants Of the Polish in
dustrial center suddenly burst into
sort of revolutionary fervor. The
workers began marches to the
downtown section. Someone de-
cided the police station needed a
bit of attention. Before the day
was over. the Communist world
had been rocked by a genuine.
apparently spontaneous, rebellion
in the workers paradise.
Unlike the East German events
of 1858. no Soviet tanks quelled
the rioters. Instead, the "anti-
Stain" elements of the Polish
United Workers Party (Commu-
nist) set to work to appease the
seething unrest.
Soviet Foreign Minister Dmitri
Shepilov was busy in Cairo, mean
while, pursuing the Moscow policy
OF making common cause with ev-
cry irritated nationalist available.
What he promised to Egypt's Col.
Canal Abdel Nasser remained a
matter for conjecture. But that he
fortified the Egyptian Presidents
resolve TO defy the West was amply
proved during the next month.
Billions for Roods
Here at home, America decided
that one-horse roads were not
enough for population that goes
about its daily tasks in 250-horse-
power gas buggies. Congress voted,
and the President signed, bill call
ing for 1894 billion highway pro-
gram which will in decade provide
10000 miles of turnpikes linking al
most every city of $4,000 population.
Or the political front. Democrat
Adlai Stevenson eliminated his most
formidable pre-convention oppo-
nent. the ambitious Senator Ke-
fauver. Mr.. Stevenson. who did not
like the. idea Of running in pri-
maries. had nevertheless picked up
strength bit by bit after the New
Hampshire and Minnesota defeats.
winning delegates In Illinois, New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, Alaska. the
District Of Columbia. Alabama and
Oregon. Then in two direct tests in
June, the 1852 nominee became the
man to beat when he won handily
in Florida and California.
Evening star., 1956-12-30
MARCH
Khrushchev Shokes
The Communist World

An upheaval in the Communist
world. the extent Of which still
cannot be estimated. began at the
goth Party Congress in Moscow.
There Nikita Khrushchev. the bulky
boss OF Russia's Communist Party
and. in effect. car OF the Red
vorld-emotionally. almost hyster-
ically. denounced the late Josef Sta
lin ~ . deprayed egomanise who