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The Nome nugget., 1959-01-09
President Makes Plea
 For Hawaii Statehood

WASHINGTON, tR - President Eisenhower started off his State of the Union address to Congress today with an informal plea for statehood for Hawaii.
 Before turning his attention to his formal speech, Eisenhower voiced an extemporaneous vel come to Alaska as the 18th State.
 He then added that before his second term as President is over he hopes to see a 50th star in the flag. He obviously referred to Ha- waii, statehood for which he has advocated in the past
The Nome nugget., 1959-01-09
Entire Alaska
 Highway g To Be Surfaced In 1859

SEATTLE, LR -- Before the end of this year, all the Alaska Highway will be black-topped," R. A. "Dutch" Derr, managing direc- tor of the Alaska Visitors Asso- citation, said today.
 "The Green Construction Co.,, which has been awarded the con- tract to pave the last remaining 7O.5 miles from Midway Lake to the Alaska Canada border, as sures us the work will be carried on with as little inconvenience as possible to motorists" he went on.
 The Bureau of Public Roads in Alaska let the contract for $777,- 564 last November, and the asphalt for it has already been purchased and is in storage at Valdez. Com pletion date is set for December 1, 1859.
 Efforts are being made by the AVA, other organizations, and various officials of both Canadian and U. s. governments to hard surface the remaining 1,200 miles of the Alaska Highway on the Canadian side within the coming five years.
The Nome nugget., 1959-01-09
CAP. Will Make Another Search For Missing Fairbanks Pliers

FAIRBANKS, R - One more search attempt will be made soon to locate two fliers missing since Christmas Day if the weather warns up sufficiently, the Civil Air Patrol said today.
 The two are Paul Tovey and Phil Pentacost, who disappeared on a wolf hunting trip on a flight out of Minto, a native village 45 miles west of here They planned to fly in the vicinity of Minchu- nina.
 The Air Force and as many as II small private planes flew over the snow-covered area in the days immediately after the men failed to return but found no trace of plane wreckage or flare signals or fires.
The Nome nugget., 1959-01-09
Maintain Peace; Hold Initiation, Is
 Presidents Pledge For 1859

WASHINGTON, LR - President Eisenhower today keyed the com ing year of his administration to holding the line against imitation and maintaining peace in the world.
 Asking cooperation from the Democratic-controlled Congress, the Republican President said in his State of the Union message:
 "One basic purpose unites us: to promote strength and security, side by side with liberty and op- portunity."
 Linking these goals inseparable with fiscal integrity. Eisenhower in effect challenged the Demo- crats m some of whom he has la beled "spenders" - to stand with him on the 77-billion-dollar bal anced budget he proposes to offer 10 days from now.
 He held out the hope of even tual tax relief if federal finances are kept in order. Such prospects, he said, twill be frightened if 1860 expenditures do not exceed the levels recommended"
The Nome nugget., 1959-01-09

JUNEAU, R - A day-long celebration of the inauguration of Governor William A. Egan was postponed today until the first Saturday of February. It had been scheduled for Juneau on January IF.
 The new date was announced by Felix Toner, chairman of the committee planning the event.
 The postponement resulted from the Governors confinement at St. Ann's Hospital here, following major surgery Tuesday.
 Toner said the new date would allow the Governor, after his re- lease from the hospital, to con- centrate on the opening of the Legislature.
 The February ' date was se-
The Nome nugget., 1959-01-09
Mikoyan Appeal
 Asks To End Cold War for Hot Peace'

DETROIT, LR m "A salesman sometimes names a higher price than he expects to get for his goods," Soviet Deputy Premier Premier Mikoyan said today re- garding the Soviet proposal that all troops be pulled out of Berlin.
 But he quickly added that the U.S.S.R. had no such thought in mind and regards it's proposals for a settlement of the Berlin prob lem as "good and reasonable"
 Mikoyan, currently on a tour of U. S. cities, made a brief speech urging cooperation for an endur- ing peace and said there is a great deal of mistrust between us and we cannot do away with it all at once"
 His remarks today followed a session of blunt talk on war and peace last night to group of cap tains of American industry at one of the Midwest's most exclusive clubs.
 Inside the Detroit club Mikoyan attended a private dinner given in his honor. Some 60 leaders of business and finance of this auto motive capital of the world lis tened attentively to an appeal by Mikoyan for an end to the cold war and the beginning of a ''hot peace" between the Soviet Union and the United States.
 Outside the club, a crowd of some 300 screaming refugees from Hungary and other Iron Curtain countries disregarded President Eisenhower's plea for courtesy to the Soviet visitor and tossed eggs and snoWballs in his direction. They hollered insults and paraded with a coffin and anti-Communist placards.
The Nome nugget., 1959-01-09
Fire Destroys Aleutian Gardens At Anchorage

ANCHORAGE, LR - The Aleu- tian Gardens, one of Alaska's fin est and best-known nightclubs, was destroyed yesterday in a $2OO,OOO blaze t h at whipped through the old, two-story Lido Hotel building, a-frame structure.
 All of Anchorage's fire equip ment and military fire control teams from nearby bases were called out in an unsuccessful ef- fort to halt the flames. They were hampered by zero temperatures.
 Also destroyed in the blaze were a bar and restaurant also in the Lido building, which is located in the downtown area. The only casualty was a fireman, who suf- fered cut hand
 Fire Chief George Burns, who estimated damage, said the fire apparently started near the fur mace room of the nightclub.
The Nome nugget., 1959-01-09

In expansion on this, a White House official said he thought the Presidents view was that condi- tions won't be right for tax cuts before the fiscal year starting July l, 1860. That would throw them largely into the administra- ton of whoever succeeds Eisen- hover in the White House.
 Eisenhower's 5,000-Word mes sage was delivered personally to a joint session of the Senate and House. Major radio and TV net works broadcast it nationwide.
 In the immediate audience, in the House chamber, were diplo- mats of foreign nations, members of the Supreme Court and high government dignitaries as well as the Congress members.
 Eisenhower's message went little beyond sketching broad goals.
 But among specific desires he said he wants new civil rights legislation, new laws to combat corruption in unions and their re- Iations with business and new farm laws that will reduce fed eral costs.
The Nome nugget., 1959-01-09
5000 Salary
 Proposed For Alaska SOlOns

JUNEAU, LR - The Legislative Council has recommended an an nual salary of $3,OOO for Alaska's lawmakers, plus $40 a day ex- pense allowances.
 Each member in the last terri torial legislature received a total of $35 a day-including $15 in salary from the federal govern ment and $2O per diem paid by the territory.
 The territorial legislature met every two years for 6O-day ses- sion. The new 60-member state legislature, with 20 more mem bers than before, will meet an nually without a constitutional limit on the length of the session.
 It. will be up to the first 1egis- lature, converting here Jan. 26, to fix the salary and per diem rates of it's members.
 Another recommendation by the Council was that the legislature change Alaska's. general election from October to November, and that each legislature be consid- cred to run for two years-with a first and second regular session. Such a plan would conform with congressional procedures.
The Nome nugget., 1959-01-09
Gruening Declares Tax Ruling Work Hardship On Many Alaskans

WASHINGTON, LR - Senator Ernest Gruening today joined in protesting a recent Internal Rev. enue Service ruling that cost-of- living allowances paid federal en- ployes in Alaska became taxable with statehood
 He said he complained "in the strongest terms" in a letter to Dana Latham, IRS commissioner, and joined with Senator Bob Bart lett in seeking an early confer ence to discuss the matter
 He said he complained ETA s
 Gruening said should IRS stick by it's ruling it would work great hardship on many Alaskans.
The Nome nugget., 1959-01-09
Fish Trap Operators Appeal To
 Secty. Seaton In Bid to Defeat Ban

fish trap operations in Alaskan waters was announced while the Secretary stumped for Republican candidates during the closing weeks of Alaska's fall election campaign.
 The trap operators memo con- tinued:
 "The situation is highly aggra- vated by the fact that the -Secre- tary's announcement with re- spect to his heretofore unsuspected power to eliminate fish traps was expressed in the heat of political campaign in which the Secretary actively sought to exert his influ- ence on behalf of the Republican ticket in Alaska.
 "This aspect of the matter ag- graVates the situation as to Demo- cratic members of the CWashing- tom delegation and fails to please the Republican members since the Republican ticket in Alaska suf- fered the most serious defeat that the Republican Party has encoun- tered anywhere in the United States since it's inception"
The Nome nugget., 1959-01-09
Inauguration Ceremony Postponed To Allow Egan More Recovery Time

lected. Toner said, so there would be no conflict with the opening of the Legislature. The lawmakers are scheduled to convene January 26 and Egan is expected to de- liver his first legislative message to a joint session about January 29.
 There will be no change in the scheduled celebration, Toner said.
 More than 5000 invitations, bearing the January IT date, have been mailed for the celebration.
 Toner said invitations mail-d outside of Alaska asked for re- plies from those who planned to attend. He said letters announcing the new date would be mailed to those who indicate they will be in Juneau for the festival.
The Nome nugget., 1959-01-09
Anchorage Invites
 Russians To Enter Rendezvous Races

ANCHORAGE, R - The Rus sians have been invited to partici- pate in the 1859 Anchorage Fur Rendezvous dog sled races here.
 George Shadrock, president of Greater Anchorage, Inc, which sponsors the annual winter event, sent telegram to Soviet Pre- mier Khrushchev in Moscow.
 The telegram read:
 "Cordially invite Soviet Unions participation in Fur Rendezvous championship dog team daces, Anchorage, Feb. IT through 22. Would like your championship dog teams to race with Alaskan teams"
 The idea for Soviet participa- ton in Alaskan dog races devel- oped here several weeks ago, be- fore Alaska graduated to State hod. The plan has been endorsed by civic officials.
The Nome nugget., 1959-01-09
By FRANK w. VAILLE

WASHINGTON, R-Operators of Alaskan fish traps plan a per sonal appeal to Secretary of the Interior Seaton in their bid to de- feat a proposed ban on their op- erationS.
 Such a ban, they contend, would "deprive thousands of residents of the State of Washington of their means of livelihood and ren- der worthless many millions of dollars of capital lawfully invested in the Alaska salmon industry by residents of the state"
 Although the Statehood Bill en- acted last year contained an amendment offered by Represen- tative Jack Westland R-Wash to continue temporarily the admin istration of Alaska's fish and wild life resources by the federal gov ernment, Alaska's Governor Will liam Egan already has announced the new state will not license fish traps.
 Seaton's intention to prohibit
The Nome nugget., 1959-01-09
ERLE STANLEY GARDNER BLAMES TV FOR RATE OF JUVENILE DELINQUENCY

SUN VALLEY, Idaho, LR - Those tough guy television pro- grams probably contribute to ju- venile delinquency, says mystery writer Erie Stanley Gardner. He told the National Association of County and Prosecuting Attor- neys that parents should protest against such programs. But he said the real solution is for TV networks to substitute something else.
The Nome nugget., 1959-01-09
DOESN'T LIKE TO BE EVE

LOS ANGELES, L2 - Bare facts won a divorce for 4O-year- old Mrs. Nadine Morris. She tes- tified her husband, Mitchell Nor ris, 45, wanted her ito become a nudist, and that his fellow nu- dists walked around "like Adam and Eve" when they came to din her. T don't like that sort of thing" she said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-06
ForAIgerio:
New Proposal

France is ready to propose a large
measure Of autonomy in Algeria
when the U. N. General Assembly
meets September Is, Paris reports
indicated last week. President de
Gaulle repeatedly informed Mr..
Eisenhower of the outlines of the
program during their meetings
Wednesday and Thursday in
bid for United States support.
The De Gaulle proposal, many
months in preparation, would
create an Algerian Assembly
elected by universal suffrage with
no MoSlem restrictions. The As
sembly in turn would elect Chief
Executive, who would be empow-
cred to negotiate directly with
Gen. de Gaulle on the details of
Alg erian self determination"
which the French President has
said did not exclude eventual in
dependence.
Unlike previous French pro-
posals offered or considered, the
new program does not require a
cease-fire as prerequisite to Al
gerian elections. 1t apparently
ignores the National Liberation
Front and the Algerian Provi-
sional Government-in-e Gen.
de Gaulle's visit to Algeria over
a week ago was described as
move to insure French Army sup
port for his new program, and to
placate the French "colons" who
have opposed liberalization of
French control of the huge Mos
lem nation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-06
A Restudy Of NATO
Appears Probable

sure on the Soviet empire as to
make Moscow cry uncle" at the
bargaining table.
Soviet Strength
But the strength of the Soviet
Union increased during the Pc
riod l947-59 more than proper
tionately to that of NATO; the
balance of world power shifted in
Moscow's favor, not the Vests.
AS a result, any detente which is
negotiated today is likely to
freeze the geographical status quo,
and MOTTO mention only one
Western desideratum-bring lber-
alton to Eastern Europe.
why then continue to support
NATO?" some skeptics in the
United States are bound to ask.
Especially when one of the bene-
f1ciaries of American support
Francis currently playing the
migrate? What is there in it for
uS?"
This attitude is, of course,
nightly disapproved by an over
whelming majority, who see in it
a kind of latter-day isolationism,
or worse: a Soviet bear trap.
They point out that, for all
RusSia's strength in missiles and
technology, she is still deathly
afraid of atomic weapons in West
German hands. NATO, which has
power to put such weapons in
West German hands, has thus
at least one very significant bar
gaining asset left. There is no
knowing what price Moscow
would pay to denuclearize Ger
many.
Moreover, even when the East
West nuclear stalemate becomes
total, with both sides in posses
sion of intercontinental delivery
systems on full operational
basis, there still will be the prob
lem of the small war, the nib
bling aggresSion-and in the face
Of this threat, NATO is at least
a potential source of deterrent
strength.
NATO is a political and diplo-
matte asset. Together with the
Organization of American States.
it is, for example, the core of
Western strength in the United
Nations. 1t provides useful ma
chinery to ease such disputes ,as
the Cyprus problem, which can
be embarrassing to handle in
the U. N.
Not Selling NATo Short
1t is likely, therefore. that
President Eisenhower has been
telling the alliance this past fort
night that the United States is
by no means selling NATO short;
that if Gen. de Gaulle insists ON
making it unviable. the United
States can get along without IL,
but would vastly prefer not to
have to; and that. in forthcom-
ing contacts with Mr.. Khru-
shchev, the United States will
seek detente, but not one that
will undercut the legitimate in
tereSts of its allies.
1t will then be the Presidents
unenviable task to carry out this
policy-a policy more easily de-
fined than executed. 4.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-06
Trons-Mediterroneon PIPELINE
To Bring Spanish Prosperity
By ALEC de MONTMORENCY
Contributing Writer


The sun-drenched provinces of
Southeastern Spain, now the
poorest section of one of the
poorest countries of Europe. are
on the threshold of sudden
prosperity.
The change will come with the
arrival, a year hence, of a large
diameter $500 million pipeline
carrying cheap natural gas from
the huge Saharan deposits. 1t
will cross the Mediterranean un-
der the l10-mile straits between
Mostaganem. on the western coast
of Algeria, and the Spanish port
Of Cartagena.
Since last spring the oceano-
graphic ship Calypso and it's spe-
cialists have been charting the
marine depths of the Meditefran-
can between Mostaganem and
Cartagena. They have been REIN
forced by the addition of American
and British technicians and have
now mapped route for the big
pipeline amid depths reaching to
1900 feet below the surface of
the sea.
Meanwhile. off the Riviera
coasts. successful trials have been
conducted in the submersion of
metal pipelines, and the results
point to the use of multiple small
gauge pipe for the sea crossing.
Some 10 to IL sets of 8-inch pipe
may be used to transport / billion
cubic feet Of gas daily which the
40-inch pipeline is scheduled to
carry all the way from HASH
R'Mel, across Eastern France to
Essen, in the Ruhr region Of West
Germany. The distance is more
than 1000 miles.
importance of the Line
Although there is a longer gas
pipeline in Canada (the $500 miles
from Edmonton to MontreaD,
this Sahara -Ruhr duct is not only
an engineering undertaking with
out precedent. but is also a vastly
important enterprise in itself. 1t
will carry much greater volume
Of gas and at much lower cost,
but it will be only a beginning.
For more such lines-or perhaps
one extra-large- diameter one-will
be needed to eyacuate towards
Western Europe the amount of
gas which the Sahara fields are
capable Of producing and which
the French. German 4 Dutch. Bel
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-06

privileged cities on the United
States Gulf coast.
Natural gas at this price, by
reducing the power costs to a
mere fraction of the rates current
throughout the major indus
trialized regions of the world,
means, as Texas and Louisiana
have already discovered. a veri-
table mushrooming of new indus
tries-metallurgical. chemical and
mechanical-in the area.
Southeastern Spain, back in
the days of Tartessa-during the
Bronze Age--is believed to have
been the richest metallurgical
province in the world, ahead of
the Caucasus, India and China.
And its mines were again highly
productive during the Cartha-
genian, Roman and Moorish pc
RODS. But since then those
mines-copper, tin, mercury, gold.
silver. pyrites. asbestos, base
metals and a great variety of
rarer elements-have largely pc
tered out. However, rich iron de-
posits are still being worked and
some 100000 tons of high-grade
iron ore are mined yearly for ex-
port. The arrival of the Sahara
gas would permit the installation.
on the basis of the latest tech
biological developments, of a steel
industry whose products would be
highly competitive.
Also. large new deposits of cop
per ore and of pyrites have been
discovered in the neighboring
areas farther west, and great
potash mines have been opened
in Catalonia, farther northeast.
A cellulose industry, based on
the stands of timber in the Sierra
Nevada, Sierra Moreno and the
Guadarrama Mountains, is an
other possibility.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-06

He has openly deplored the
effect of Josef Stain on Russian
literature. In 20 years, he once
pointed out, about a thousand
Soviet authors had turned out
only 10 good books.
In the other hand Mr.. Sholokhoy
has also blasted malicious enc
mics abroad" who claim Soviet
authors write according to the
dictates of the party" He claims
that each Soviet author writes
according to the dictates of his
own heart, but our hearts belong
to the party and to our people.
whom we serve with our art"
Some Western critics have
questioned his integrity. They
point out that his novel "And
Quiet Flows the Don" has under
gone several revisions since it
was first published in 1928. The
later editions were less critical
Of the imposition of communism
on the Cossacks.
Mr.. Sholokhov repeatedly has
been working on his latest novel
since the 1930s. There was specu-
lation that he purposely with
held it during the Stain era.
He lives simply among the Cos
sacks about whom he writes. The
son of cattle trader, he quit
school at the age of 13.
AS a teen-ager, he became a
Communist partisan and joined
groups that collected food from
the peasants in the Don country
side. In the unsettled period after
the Bolshevik Revolution, he was
a machine gunner with a group
that fought anti-Soviet factions
in the CoSsack area.
Beside being a foil for critics
Of the Soviet handling of Mr..
Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago," Mr..
Sholokhov also will symbolic So
Wet Premier Khrushchev's inter-
est in culture and the arts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-06

gian. Swiss. Italian and other in
dustries could prof1tably consume.
known Sahara reserves of nat
ural gas now stand at about 1870
trillion cubic feet, or approx
mately one half of the known
reserves in the whole United
States. The wet gas horizons in
the sands and the quantities. of
Hassi-R'mel contain about half of
that total. That field is situated
only $50 miles from the Mediter-
ranean. and although it is already
known to be at least 80 miles
long and 81 miles wide, its actual
limits have not yet been found.
Who Will Buy 1t
Although the bulk Of the gas
to be carried by this pipeline will
go farther nprth to its French.