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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-29
An Old Custom Revived :
Voting in Washington
By BRIAN BELL

pendent voters of Washington are
exercising their constitutional previ-
lege of showing their fidelity to vari-
Gus candidates by great vigor of lungs
and capacity of stomach. 1t is re-
ported that early today one of the
citizens of the LIST ward had both
of his optics put into a full and
elegant suit of mourning, but as see
ing double is not unfrequent on cleo
ton days, we are inclined only to
believe half of this dark transaction"
The Star said runners were report
ing regularly to the paper from each
ward, but unfortunately were not
impartial and any accurate reports
would have to wait until the next day.
The paper said it had heard an eSti-
mate of the total vote placed as high
as $500, the largest ever polled here.
The next day its front page read:
THE Municipal election was
more exciting than any which has
transpired in the Federal City for a
great many years. The aggregate vote
aStOniShed everybody among US, yet
everything passed of in the best
temper and peaceably, not single
fight, or even a squabble occurring at
either of the seven polls. We mention
this fact only because it conveys a
strong rebuke, indeed, to those who
are in the habit of publishing Wash
ington as a sort of God-forSaken
place"
John T. Powers beat J. w. Maury,
5000 votes to 1851, and the total vote
exceeded anything seen before. The
weather seems to have been just as
hot then as now, with The Star re-
porting more than 5000 glasses of
soda water sold at Eleventh street and
the Avenue.
Election strategy of getting out the
vote was apparent even in those days.
The Star reported in 1859:
THE adherentS of the Republican
Party seemed to be working actively,
having numbers of hacks and vehicles
of all kinds bringing up to the polls
those who were unable to walk"
During the late 1865 and COS,
Washington elections and their after
maths we're anything but tranquil.
In 1857 the plug Uglies," Baltimore
toughs who belonged to the Know
Nothing Party, invaded Washington
in an attempt to brighten naturalized
citizens away from the polls. They
rioted at a precinct. and the police
CONTINUED
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nISTRICT citizens can vote Tuesday
- after waiting 80 years for the
opportunity
But what of the II years when
Washington was a voting city?
From 1902 to 1873, WaShingtonians
voted for Mayor, Councilmen or
Aldermen and briefly for non-voting
delegate to Congress. They never
voted for President and, except for
four years, were not represented in
Congress.
Tuesday, District citizens vote only
for delegates to the Democratic and
Republican National Conventions and
for other party offices. However, it
is an election that many hope will
pave the way for national representa-
ton for the DiStrict-voteS in presi-
Dental elections and voice in
Congress.
Even when Washington had a vote,
its elected officials had little power.
Congress, as today, ran the Districts
affairs, and many then, as today, were
unhappy about the way it was done.
All OLdCOA Al AotV OCoNAADAAS bAC
difficulties of getting charter to hold
a World Fair in Washington, delighted
his crowd with these stirring words:
1T is my considered opinion that
had Noah resided in the District of
Columbia and it had been necessary
to procure a charter from the Con-
greSS before building the ark, the
human race would have been extin-
guiShed in the deluge"
He went on to complain about visit
ing Congress twice in attempts to get
Pennsylvania avenue paved, only to be
met with deaf ears.
The real fact, patent to all, why
our requests are not properly consid-
cred in Congress" the orator con-
cluded, lis that we have no political
power and no legislator is dependent
upon our suffrage for his succession
in office"
Despite these determined words the
charter was not granted for the Fair
However, late in 1870, Mayor Matthew
G. Emery did have Pennsylvania ave-
nue. paved with wood blocks from First
street NV to Fifteenth street NV.
Even though their officials were
impotent, District citizens took the
elections seriously They were exciting
times.
The Star of June S, 1854, reported:
AT the present writing, the indie
The Nome nugget., 1956-12-26
Top Soviet Economic Planning Staff Gets Shaken Up; Original Plans
 Called for Too Much Production

five-day meeting and emphasized that top priority in the Kremlin's planning still rests on heavy in dustry. It disclosed that the sixth Five-Year Plan had been sent back to the Supreme Soviet (Par- liamenD for revision.
 The committee said the plan in certain categories had not been fulfilled in 1856, its first year, but added that heavy industry as a whole was Il percent above quota and light consumer indus tries were 9 percent above.
 The committee criticized the economic planners, particularly for outlining projects without ref erence to such practical limita- tions as raw materials and sup plies.
The Nome nugget., 1956-12-26
85 Persons Killed in French-MOslem Strife Over Christmas Holiday

ALGIERSLR-Christmas brought no letup to the war in Algeria between the French and Moslem nationalists.
 A total of 85 persons were re- ported killed and 56 wounded over the weekend and the Christ mas holiday. The casualties in- cluded six Europeans and IA oth- CTS killed in nationalist attacks, 56 wounded. by the rebels, and 65 rebels the French said their pa trols killed.
The Nome nugget., 1956-12-26
Florida Records Colder Weather Than Montana
By the Associated Press

Florida's winter vacationland recorded colder temperatures to- day than Montana.
 Temperatures dipped below the freezing point in crowded winter resort areas. The mercury sagged to 31 at Daytona Beach. It was 28 at Cross City, Fla, early this morning.
 At the same time, in Great Falls, Mont, it was AZ.
 In the southern part of the Sunshine State, Miami reported a low of 52 and Fort Meyers 43.
 The weathed bureau said a thrust of cold, dry air sweeping across the eastern half of the na- ton caused temperatures to tum- ble thruout the southeast.
 Temperatures in the sos con- tinued in the dry areas of south- ern California.
 A pattern of generally fair weather fell over the rest of the nation.
 A few snow flurries in scat tered areas of the Midwest and northeast and fog in the north west were the only precipitation reported.
The Nome nugget., 1956-12-26
Red Leaders Will Try New Program
 In Hungary
By RICHARD KAsIScHKE


 BUDAPEST, R-The Hungar- ian people prolonged their Christ has celebration today, but mem bers of Premier Janos Kadar's Communist government were re- ported hard at work.
 The Communists are trying to find program to get the still rebellious country out of its polit- ical and economic chaos.
 An informed Hungarian source said this "new program" probab- ly will be proclaimed before New Years.
 He forecast, however, it will not be anything spectacular. He said the most that could be hoped for would be that it might serve as the basis for inter-party talks to seek to bring non-Communist parties into the present unpopular regime.
 If other parties, notably the popular Smallholders P ty, agree to join in a new govern ment which could command some popular support, it would give the Russians an opportunity to drop Kadar as premier.
 The two-day Christmas holiday ends tonight. The expanded ob- servance, a return to an old cus- tom in many European nations, was sanctioned by the Commit nists this year as part of policy of seeking wider public backing.
 Workers return tomorrow to their jobs in factories, mines and shops-that is, if their plants have coal and power to produce and if their mines are operating.
The Nome nugget., 1956-12-26
Church Leader
 Sees Progress in Christian Unity

FAIRBANKS, R-Great prog ress has been made in leading the nations churches back into kind of Christian unity, Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, president of the National Council of Churches, said Sunday.
 Speaking at a Protestant union service, Dr. Blake said this spirit of unity is reflected in councils of churches on the world, nation al, state and community levels.
 "Only a hundred years ago, Dr. Blake said, "our forefathers were quoting the same Bible to prove that the benigbted members of the others church were going to hell for heresy."
 Cooperative unity, he said, gained its impetus when a few leaders of the missionary move ment recognized that "in other folds the same Shepherd was gathering His sheep"
 Dr. Blake Christmas in the Alaska Command as the spiritual ambassador of 144,000 United States churches to servicemen stationed in this northern terri tory.
The Nome nugget., 1956-12-26
Scientist Tells of Experiments Supporting Theory That Life on Earth Was Sparked by Lightning

clans and Surgeons, exposed just such a mixture of gases to a series of electric discharges for week.
 The man-made lightning" ere ated some amino acids, the build ing blocks that make up proteins such as flesh, nerve and hair. Nine amino acids were formed from the gases.
 The electric discharges pro duced a mixture of aldehydes and hydrogenicyanide, Dr. Miller said in his speech. These react to form the amino acids.
 He said it appeared the reactive organic compounds were formed by lightning and by ultraviolet light in the atmosphere. Rains carried them down into the oceans, where they reacted to form amino acids and other com plex organic compounds.
The Nome nugget., 1956-12-26
By HAROLD K. MILKs

MOSCOW, M-The Soviet gov ernment has shaken up its top economic planning staff after call from the Communist Party Central Committee for revisions in the nations new five-year plan. The committee said the or iginal plan called for more pro duction than is possible with available resources.
 The committee also declared the Soviet people must eliminate inefficiency and bureaucracy if they want better living condi- tions.
 In the high level changes, First Deputy Premier M. G. Pervukhin was named chief economic plan ner. He replaces Maxim C. Sabu- dov, another first deputy pre- mier and, like Pervukhin, a mem Der of the Central Committee Presidium.
 (Yugoslav Communists said last September that Pervukhin was among the Kremlin faction op- posed to Party Boss Khrushchev's policy of relaxing control of the satellites.)
 There was no indication that Saburov, who has directed Soviet economic planning for 20 years, was being dropped from his oth- CT posts in the Soviet leadership.
 Six experts in agriculture and industry-four of them deputy premiers-were named to help Pervukhin with the economic guidance. They will make up a super-committee as deputy chair men of the State Economic Com mission.
 The six are Deputy Premiers A. N. Kosygin, V. A. Malyshev, M. V. Khrunichev, V. A. Kucer- enko, Minister of Agriculture V. V. Matskevich, and Minister of State Farms I. A. Benediktov.
 The report from the Central Committee came at the end of a
The Nome nugget., 1956-12-26
Christmas Weekend Traffic Deaths
 Number 69S---Highest Total for Any Holiday Period in American History
By the Associated Press

Traffic deaths zoomed to the highest total for any holiday per iod in American history during the long Christmas weekend.
 Tabulations today also showed that deaths in accidents of all kinds also shattered previous rec ords.
 Fatalities added up to 698 in traffic, 49 in fires, and 120 in ac- cidents of other types for total of 867.
 The motor vehicle death toll surpassed the old record for any holiday period-609, set during the three-day celebration of Christmas last year. It also ex- ceeded the National Safety Coun- cils advance prediction of 660.
 The all-accident total topped the old mark of 805 established during a three-day observation of Independence Day last year.
 The deaths tabulated today were caused by accidents that oc- cured during a 102-hour period from 6 pm. Friday to midnight Tuesday. It was a four-day peri cd, one day longer than the 1855 holiday periods in which the for mer records were set.
 OTTOWA. Ont R-The Christ mas holiday death count on Can adian highways reached 39 today.
 A Canadian press survey which started at 6 pm. Friday gave the total of accidental deaths as 58.
 Nine persons died in fires, four were drowned, and another six were killed in miscellaneous acci- dents.
 The Canadian Safety Council had predicted that 50 persons would die in traffic accidents during the five-day holiday which ends at midnight tonight. A total of 69 were killed in the four-day holiday last year.
The Nome nugget., 1956-12-26

began-were presented at con- ference held by the Association and the New York Academy of Science.
 Scientists generally think life began in the salty oceans. Some how, organic or living chemicals were formed out of inorganic or nonliving chemicals.
 Some scientists, among them Nobel Prize winner Dr. Harold Urey, Chicago, have suggested that our primitive earth had an atmosphere of poisonous gases such as methane and ammonia, plus water and hydrogen. Light ming might have created the re- action which produced the chemi- calls for life to begin.
 Testing ahis, Dr. Stanley l.. Miller, biochemist of Columbia University's College of Physi-
The Nome nugget., 1956-12-26
Squirrel Tries to Play Santa Claus, Gets Tail Singed

CHICAGO, RLA squirrel, it's tail singed, scampered from fireplace and scooted to the top of a gaily decorated Christmas tree in the home of MT. and Mrs. Lee Brill in suburban River For est yesterday.
 The squirrel made its nasty exit from the fireplace after Mrs. Brill had tossed some wrappings from presents into the fireplace where a big log fire had blazed Christmas Eve.
 The squirrel sat on top of the eight-foot tree and looked at the astonished onlookers-the Brills and the family of Brill's nephew, MT. and Mrs. Dayton Gillingwa- ter and their 4-year-old daugh- ter.
 Luckily for the squirrel, it's burning tail had hit the metal mesh screen on the fireplace as it dashed out and the impact put out the fire.
 The Drills couldn't get the squirrel down from the tree, so they called police. Two police men used broom handle to coax the little animal to the floor.
 It was last seen running out the front door, its brief attempt to play Santa Claus only a pain ful memory.
The Nome nugget., 1956-12-26
Eight Men Leave The South Pole For Trip Home
By DON GUY

McMURDO SOUND, Antarctica Eisat of the 24 men stationed at the bleak South Pole were flown to this air base yesterday as the first step on the long way home
 The men had celebrated Christ mas at their lonely post day early, in anticipation of their de- parture.
 One bachelor in the party, Yeo- man Robert L. Chaudoin of Long Beach, Miss, volunteered to stay through the winter, but the Navy turned down his offer because all billets for South Pole personnel had been filled long ago. Chau- doin said life at the Pole was "real luxurious"
 Six prefabricated buildings have been erected and the tempera- atures were 30 to. 49 below for weeks at a time.
 Fifteen of the l6 men still at the Pole will be flown out in fu- lure flights. Dr. Paul Siple of Washington, DC, will stay there this winter.
The Nome nugget., 1956-12-26
IT Russian "Gangsters' Returned to Siberia for Stealing 264 Lbs. Gold

MOSCOW, RASeventeen Rus sians who were little too free in their enterprise in eastern Siber- ia's gold fields are presumably on their way back to Siberia today but not to the goldfields.
 The newspaper Trud said IT "gangsters" who ventured into the Irkutsk region and came away with 264 pounds of state-owned gold from the Bodaibo fields have been sentenced to prison.
The Nome nugget., 1956-12-26
By ALTON L. BLAKESLEE Associated Press Science Reporter


 NEW YORK, R = Lightning flashing through deadly gases of an eerie world could have sparked the beginning of life on earth, scientist said today.
 The dazzling electric bolts could have created complex chemicals from the gases. From these newborn chemicals came living matter.
 This theory and experiments to support it were described in a speech prepared for an opening session of the American Assn. for the Advancement of Science, the worlds largest annual scien- tific congress.
 Some of the latest scientific guesses about one of mans most expressing mystery how life
Kodiak mirror., 1956-04-14
LOANS MADE FOR
 HOME IMPROVEMENT

The First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Anchorage. the first institution of its kind in the big part" of Alaska, is now open for business, Ross Kinnamon. oersident announced. The First Federal is located at 223 East Fifth Avenue in Anchorage.
 We have received federal char ter from the Federal Home Loan Bank system, and our certification from the Federal Savings & Loan Insurance Corporation which in- sures all savings accounts up to $10,000 each" Kinnamon stated. We already have over $500, ,OO0 in advance savings deposits from Alaskan residents, and have made our first loans to home owners"
 Principal business will be mak- ing long-term loans for home con struction. repairs, purchase or re- financing.
 We want to stress that we are non-competitiye with local banks"
Kodiak mirror., 1956-04-14
INVITATION TO BID

The Department of Education, Territory of Alaska, Juneau, Alas ka, announces the invitation to bid on "A ton stake body truck-f.o.b b. Kodiak, Alaska.
 Interested bidders may obtain specifications and bid forms at room 318, Alaska Office Building or by writing to Box 1841, Juneau, Alaska.
 Sealed bids will be received un- til 10:30 A. M. April 30, 1856 and then publicly opened.
 The right is reserved to reject any and all bids.
 Commissioner of Education Don M. Dafoe Pub. Apr. 1472l-28f
Kodiak mirror., 1956-04-14
Two School Gjsls Gead GGh Grade Honor Iisf

Sandra .Jesser and Bonnie Tan ner lead the Eighth grade pupils as honor roll students for the past six weeks. They each scored 40. The standing of the others are as follows:
 Milton Souter, 3.8; Mary Lee Lindsey, 38; Norman Saxton, 3.5, Rolanna Vickery, 3.5; Haron Schoming, 3.5; Zelanna Stone, 3.4; Dennis Elan, 34; Dolores Galla gher, 3.4; Christine Neseth, 3.3, Charlene Preston, 3.3; Pat Nye, Stanley Austerman, 3.2; Billy Cum mings, 3.2; Tommy Shugak, 3.2; Sandra Luque, 3.1; Dawn MacDon- aid, 3.1; Rhonda Shupp, 30; Janet Torgramsen, 30; Ronald Spencer, 30 and Catherine Ewell, 30.
Kodiak mirror., 1956-04-14
OVER TWO HUNDRED MEN TO RECEIVE. ARRANGEMENTS

Over 200 happy Navy men as- signed to the Naval Station and the tenant activities will receive advancements in rating next Mon day morning. All units at the Sta tion report over 50 per cent of their personnel will be advanced who competed in the Navy-wide ex- aminations held last February.
 The promotion list covers all pet ty officer grades below the Chief Petty Officer level. Announcement of the Chief Petty Officer promo tion list is expected later this month or early in May.
 An estimated overall average of 65 per cent of personnel at the Sta tion who competed in the examina- tionS last February will receive their crows" Monday morning. Leading the activities at the Sta tion in percentage of personnel to be promoted is FasRon IA, close ly followed by the 17th Naval Dis trict staff personnel and the Fleet Weather Central.
Kodiak mirror., 1956-04-14
PAGE ls

CT, tower foundations, equipment building, water and sewage irieiud- ing pumphouse and well, area grad ing and access road. The installa- tion is to be ready for occupancy by September and is to be complet- ed by November.
 Tacans Tactical Air Navigation facilities, include construction Of a type-3 Navaid building with road. parking area and turnaround, L. be completed by the end of Octo- ber
Kodiak mirror., 1956-04-14
HOMER TO BE SCENE OF WHITE ALICE CONSTRUCTION

White Alice and Tacan will be moving into Homer this summer at cost of about $5O0,OO0.
 The Alaska District Corps of En- gineers has notified contractors that bids for construction of facili- ties for both will be opened May 10, at II a. m. in the Anchorage of- flee.
 White Alice, the nickname given to backbone circuits supporting the Alaska Air Defense System, will require construction of tow
Kodiak mirror., 1956-04-14
CARD OF THANKS

We wish to extend our grateful thanks to the many kind friends who have helped us during our time of trouble. We hope to be able to thank everyone personally very soon.
 Rev. and Mrs. Roman Sumner
Kodiak mirror., 1956-04-14

Kinnamon pointed out. We do not handle checking accounts or se- curities. and are, by federal chart CT, geared to the home mortgage market and home improvement loans"
Kodiak mirror., 1956-04-14

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