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0 OF OREGON LIBRARt' ' "cglp JUGEHE. OBE. Alaska Meai? M5fld Price Five Cents 24 Pages In The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS As this is written, the Alaska statehood bill, after all these years of stalling and delay, has just passed the U.S. senate by the de cisive vote of 64 to 20. The house of representatives has already ap proved it, and President Eisenhow er is expected to sign it without delay. The people of Alaska are re ported this morning to be wild with joy, dancing in the streets, march ing in parades and filling the sky with fireworks. Only one Alaskan, the teletypes tell us, is looking a bit ruefully at his hole card. He is Gerald Williams, the terri- lory s attorney general. In a mo ment of unguarded enthusiasm a while back, he vowed that if the statehood bill passed he would push a peanut 120 miles from Big Delta to Tok Junction. He's wondering now, as so many of us have in similar situations, if his enthusiasm didn't maybe run away with his judgment. At any rate, hes congratulating him- self that he didn't vow to push the peanut with his nose. Why all this delay in bringing Alaska into the Union? It's a long story with a short title. The title is POLITICS. It has been generally expected that when Alaska elects the two senators to which under the U.S constitution it will be entitled when it becomes a slate they will be Democrats. The GOP's. in the past, just haven't been able to bring themselves around to the idea of presenting Iheir political opponents with a couple of senators. Why did they finally come through? I wouldn't know but it isn't im possible that in the landslide that at the moment seems to be im pending they are shrugging their shoulders and muttering resigned ly: "Aw, heck; what's a couple more Democrats! On second thought, Alaska's at torney general (who has vowed to push the peanut) may not be the only one to greet Alaska's statehood with a lingering shade oi sadness. There is Texas. When Alaska comes into the Un ion, Texas will h'e to move over, The area of .e new Slate of Alaska is 586.400 square miles. The area of the State of Texas is only 267.239 square miles. That will be a hard pill for Tex ans to take. But . They can fall back on the nopu lation figures. At the 1950 census, Texas had 7,711,194 persons. At the same census period, Alaska had only 128,643. More contrasts: We acquired Texas by annexa tion. When Texas came into the Union, she was an independent republic. We bought Alaska from the Russians, paying $7,200,000 for her. Secretary Seward, who con summated the purchase, nearly lost his political scalp for paying out so much of the taxpayers money for what his political op ponents called an "icebox." We've always had politics, you see. President, Wife Fete Anniversary WASHINGTON (UPIi Presi dent and Mrs. Eisenhower planned to observe the 42nd anni versary of their wedding quietly today with any celebration strict ly private. The President's schedule called for a busy day at his desk. Mrs, Eisenhower had no public appear ances scheduled. As usual, gifts exchanged by the Eisenhowers were kept secret. De Gaulle Back In Algiers For Second Visit In Month ALGIERS (API French Pre mier de Gaulle, arriving in Al giers today for his second visit in less than a month, faced the pos sibility of a showdown with French settlers angered because he hasn't turned out to be a rub ber stamp for them. De Gaulle came last, on June 4. as a conquering hero cheered wildly by Ihe settlers and soldiers whose defiance of the Paris gov ernment hal recalled him to power. Then disenchan'-ment set in. The military-civilian Puklic Safe ty Committees formed after the May 13 insiirieon nmjilatnod De Gaulle had f.Wnd W wipe Ml the influence ef fie coser left-wing parties vev wie rwi postwar France. Although the mnd pw claimer" that "Algeria French." he showed no sign of emg caught up in the settlers' movement to integrate Algeria as a province of metropolitan France. That would submerge the nine million Aleer ian Moslems among the 43 million Frenchmen on both sides of the Mediterranean. . De Gaulle, who claims he had no part in Ihe conspiracy that resulted in the May 13 rebellion, has acted as though, he owes Al geria's right-wing settlers no po litical debts. None of them has len rewarded with a key post in his Cabinet. He has told the Pub lic Safety Committees they have KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Mostly cloudy through Tuesday night, becoming generally fair and warmer Wednesday. Low Tuesday night 48-53; high Wednes day 73-78. High yesterday .. 67 49 0 Low last night Preclp. last 24 hours Since Oct. 1 .. 18.58 Same period last year ... ... 15.04 Normal for period 12.32 Beirut Jets Beat Back Rebel Thrust BEIRUT, Lebanon (API Gov ernment jet fighters beat back a rebel stab at the key Beirut In ternational Airport yesterday, dis lodging insurgent mountaineers from hills overlooking the base on Beirut's coastal plain. The Druze followers of Socialist Kamal Jumblatt approached with in five miles of the airport before they were repulsed. The attack was not considered a major rebel effort to reach Beirut, where oth er rebels under Saeb Salam dom inate the Basta Moslem quarter. The rebels of former Premier Rashid Karami around the north Lebanese part of Tripoli showed definite signs of weakning after government forces cut one of their main supply lines. Jumblatt launched his attack from the mountain area he bars to U.N. observation teams alter a warning that enabled the Brit ish Middle East Center for Arab Studies to move 24 teachers and students out of harm's way. Using only small arms and pack weapons, the rebels took two ranges of hills within sight of Bei rut and the airport. the thrust posed a serious threat because the airport is the only base from which Lebanese jet fighters can operate. Strafing by jets apparently has been the government's trump card in sev eral mountain battles so far. This was the case again. Ma chine-gun and rocket fire from two jets routed the rebels from the first range of hills. The security forces and progovernment irregu lars with mortar fire support moved up, ' ; . By lata afternoon the rebels held only one village in the area around Kayfoun. Security forces said they suffered no casualties but killed many rebels in the at lacking force, whose size was not given. Rebs Ponder Freeing Yanks HAVANA. Cuba (AP)-U.S. dip lomats kept up their efforts today too obtain the release of 41 Amer icans and three Canadians from Fidel Castro's rebels. There was no word on their progress. The rehel high command re portedly was considering whether to give up the servicemen and civilians seized in a series of raids in eastern Cuba beginning last Thursday night. The decision was awaited by two U.S. consuls trying to deal with separate groups of rebels. U.S. Embassy sources in Havana indicated there might be some report today. Park Wollam, consul at Santia go, in rebel-ridden Oriente prov ince, was in contact with forces of Castro's brother Raul northeast of Santiago. Wollam was seeking release of 10 American and two Canadian engineers kidnaped Thursday from a mining develop ment at Moa. The rebels have been quoted as saying these 12 were being well cared for and would be released soon. no governmental role in Algeria As the date of tha Premier's second trip approached, the com mittees suppressed their grum bling. But the war veteran groups who took major roles in the Mav defiance of Paris sounded their discontent loud and clear. They asserted their "revolution must be fully achieved it must grow from a regional to a national movement or else it will remain dangerously incomplete " The implication was that anoth er May 13 could be organized this time against De Gaulle, it the Premier does not clean house in Paris and tie Algeria closer to metropolitan France. There was no indication, how- . Ibet the general had any inresaon of Iwuckling under to the AAierian French. Instead, he was rirjso him to Algiers for mer Fvimtnt Cuy Mollel. now a deputy pti ift tM6 Cabinet am) hated b . A.'wwa i?!C-iia,tfttlj nf -khj lit HmrOjOmi Minn., and provide lndus- The last tiMe TVI! mA) JfcV cena two years eon se aij a rage of tomatoes and aerc Irom French veterans who fearM he was going to give Algeria to the Moslem rebels. De Gaulle's tour this time was descrihed officially as a military inspection, taking him deep into areas where the Moslem rebels have been particularly active. He returns to Paris Thursday. TUESDAY. JULY 1, 1958 City, County Officials Call For Indian Bill Requested Or The city of Klamath Falls, acting through Mayor Lawrence Slater, and Klamath County, acting through County Judge Chariot Mack, called Tuesday morning upon the U.S. Congress to: 1. Enact Senate Bill 3051, as in troduced by Senator Neubergcr of Oregon, or: 2. Repeal Public Law 587. The request to the Congress was contained in a telegram addressed to Senator Neuberger and Senator Morse, Oregon s senators. Repre sentative Al Ullman, member of Congress from the second congres sional district of Oregon, in which the Klamath Reservation is locat ed, and to Representative Haley, of Florida, who is a member of the House of Representatives com mittee that has Senate Bill 30.) 1 under study. The bill has already passed the Senate. The telegram points out that "the time has come for a statement from the city of Klamath Falls and the county of Klamath" . . . which will be called upon to ad minister the aftermath of what ever legislation is enacted and adds that "the premise that the resources in the Klamath forests be harvested on a sustained yield basis is of paramount impor tance." It expresses the opinion of the two local governmental bodies that private or federal pur chase, under a sustained yield pro gram, is the only practical method of liquidating the Klamath Reser vation timber inventory. The telegram reads: "Many statements have been made about Public Law 587. Quite often these remarks, statements or resolutions, have been made by persons or organizations far re moved from the actual area in volved. Unfortunately, the so called experts have not taken into con sideration that the most vitally af fected governmental agencies, viz., the city of Klamath Falls and the Klamath County Court, have had little opportunity to state their po sition in this serious matter. "Whether chaos reigns due to an abortive piece of legislation, or stability of local economy through sound liquidation of re sources: In either event, the agen cies of local government will be charged with the responsibility and the destinies of this immediate area. Volumes have been written or given as testimony regarding the economic and social disaster that will prevail if Public Law 587 is carried out as now in effect. Rape of the timber resources at fire sale prices and the minimum of financial return to the princi pals involved, viz., the Klamath Indians, are but a few of the problems that confront the area. 'The time has come for a state ment from the city of Klamath Falls through its mayor and Klam ath County through its authorized legal body, the Klamath County Court. Although these agencies had no voice in drafting or enacting Public Law No. 587; though they will be responsible lor administer ing the aftermath of its debris, it can be stated that the city of Klamath Falls and the Klamath County Court acting jointly feel that the bill introduced by the Hon. Senator Neuberger IS. 30511. must be passed at this session of Congress. "The premise that the resources in the Klamath forests be harvest ed on a sustained yield program is of paramount importance. Pri vate . or federal purchase, on a sustained yield program is the only practical method of liquidating the inventory. If this session cannot agree on S. 3051. we urge repeal of Public Law No. 587." Cily of Klamath Falls Lawrence E. Slater, Mayor And Klamath County Court Charles H. Mack, Judge Closed-Door Meet Called WASHINGTON (AP) Rep, Orcn Harris (D-Ark) called his House Investigating subcommittee into a closed-door strategy ses-( sion today, and predicted mem bers from both parties would back the present course Public hearings were recessed until tomorrow. Millionaire Bernard Goldfine of Boston ap pears then to reply to charges that, as a friend of presidential aide Sherman Adams, he received preferential treatment from fed eral regulatory agencies. Harris said the subcommittee wanted to talk over charges made in the House yesterday by Rep, Thomas B. Curtis IR-Mo) that the group violated e House rule by allowisg a witness publicly t 4a feme oXwsn fsirtts imiTt rttft ejt 6, sfcnwe iemsvt tKtratf viotontsJ, vet, vk tee ti K w leaned that recoraj veer, poenaed from a Washington el confirm that both Golrtne aee John Fox. print e;,al accuser of Adams and Goldline. were reen tered there on the 1955 day of a conversation about which Fox testified. Fox quoted Goldfine as saying Adams was going to help Goldfine out with the Federal Trade Commission. Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 160.1 Passage As Repeal Of 587 As a further development in the angled Klamath Reservation situ ation. Senator Neuberger says in telegram this morning to the Herald and News: I feel that the situation has now gone so far that the Klamath In dian resolution calling for elimina tion of the withdrawal procedure is impractical from both the legis lative and the legal standpoint." Man Shoots, Kills Two Detectives PAWTUCKET. R. I. (API - A former mental patient shot and killed two police detectives who stormed his house last night when he refused for several hours to surrender peacefully. Police riddled the house with machine-gun and small arms fire and blasted tear gas through win dows after Lt. Thomas H. Trues dale, 58, and Detective Emil New- berg, 56, were slain. When no further gunfire sound ed from the house, police entered and found Robert Genereux. 35, cowering in a bedroom closet. Truesdale and Newbcrg were among four officers who first en tered the house in an attempt to disarm Genereux. He met them with blasts from his .38-caliber pistol. Both officers died a short while later m a hospital. Ihe siege began when neigh bors of Genereux in a tenement section complained that he was liring shots into an unoccupied flat adjoining the house he shared with his mother. Genereux refused to come out of the house on orders of police. Knowing he was armed, the first officers on the scene sent for rein forcements. For seven hours, Genereux held siege in the house until the fatal shooting and his surrender. During the afternoon. Gen ereux's mother persuaded her son' to give up a shotgun, a rifle and two revolvers. She left the house and turned Ihose over to police. She told the officers her son refused to give up a third pistol. Officers surrounded the house and then four of them assaulted Two were felled. The other two were forced to retreat. Police said they would seek to how Genereux until tomorrow be fore bringing charges against him Officials of the Veterans Ad ministration hospital at Brockton, Mass., said Genereux voluntarily submitted to treatment there and was released last year. Last fall he was rocommiled through court action, but failed to return. Fliers To Be Freed Soon PARIS AP) A French For eign Ministry spokesman said Tuesday the nine members of a U.S. military plane forced down in Soviet Armenia Saturday will be freed soon. The spokesman said he had re ceived Ihe information through diplomatic channels. He added no date has been set for turning the men over to U.S. authorities. The fact the United States ad mitted that the plane through a navigational error violated Rus sian airspace was a helpful factor, he said. The Americans were reported safe and well treated. The plane was forced down by Soviet air craft. After it landed it burned Russian reports said. Blast Heralds Beginning Of St. Lawrence Seaway MASSENA. N.Y. (AP) A thunderous blast Tuesday loosed 200 billion gallons of pent-up water and climaxed construction of the massive St. Lawrence Seaway and power projects. While thousands of dignitaries, tourists and residents watched. 30 tons of dynamite were detonated to shatter the walls of a cofferdam and create a huge lake as part of the billion-dollar development. Gov. Averell llarriman and Pre mier Leslie Frost of the preview of Ontario were amesg tkene to hear the mighty re imi ft the dam blown ap. The it. Lnwetrs Seaway and .enuor ewinhvtmwst soon will pro- unft Kivm Mips an inland route m sue America's middle as TOT-ttiMing power to Ontario, N' left end Vermont. A .'-f not-long wall of dirt and WWeris was hurled about 500 feet the air by the blast. The destruction of the coffer eeS, which held back the river Ihile workmen scraped and grazed its bottom, marks the end of t U.S. section of the Cana-dian-Aeyerican venture. The proj ect bsan in November- 1954. By Sis end of the week, there 42 BOB BONNEY. left, Postponed Because of the rain, Tues day's noontime activities spon sored by the Klamath Kurb stone Kowpokes have been post poned to Wednesday. Wednes day noon there will be a burro race along Main Street be tween (he Wlllard Hotel and Eighth Street. This will be fol lowed at 12:30 by a tricycle race on Eighth Street between Main Street and Klamath Ave nue. All kiddies 8 years of age or less are invited to partici pate in the tricycle race. The Kowpokes will furnish the trikes. East-West Talks Begin GENEVA (AP) East-West technical talks on how to guard against violations of a b a n on atomic weapon tests open today with the week-old threat of a Soviet boycott apparently cleared away. Preparations for the conference had been overshadowed by fear that the Soviets would back out because the United States refused to agree in advance that a ban on tests was the goal ol tne meet ing. The United Stales contended that the conference must be de voted only to the technical, scien tific questions of insuring compli ance with a test ban. The Ameri cans said any agreement to ban tests must be worked out in politi cal talks later. The Soviet delegation finally stated yesterday it fully intended to take part in the talks. The out look for the conference became even brighter alter a meeting be tween U. S. chief delegate James B. Fisk and Yevgeni K. Fedorov, head of the Soviet group. Both delegation leaders pre dieted success for the talks, which they said would stay on the technical level. This indicated that the conference might avoid the stumbling block of political prob lems. I believe we will be able to provide our governments with the technical basis they will need for reaching a future agreement, Fisk said. will be a new 35-mile lake on the map of North America, turbines m the Rarnhart Island power; house will be spinning in test runs, and shallow-draft ships will he plying the new locks on the American side. When the final touches are made next year. Ihe .TtiO-milc seaway will be the third great man-made waterway, the others being the Suez and Panama Canals. Next to the Grand Coulee Dam powerhouse in Washington state, the Barnhart operation will be the largest in the world. It will pro duce 2.100.000 horsepower. The seaway will not be ready until next year for ocean-going vessels. By then, it will bo 27 feet deep and open to deep-draft ships. Then ore carriers, grain freight ers, and general cargo ships will have access to an area where 65 per cent of the United States' ex port trade originates. The two projects, estimated to cost a billion dollars, consist of seven new locks, new channels and Ihrec new dams. The power project costs were shared equally by New York Stale and the prov ince of Ontario. For the naviga tion facilities, Canada spent twice that spent by the United States. I JmMi Fight Hindis and HARRY L. WIARD Harry Wiard Wins Award In recognition of his outstanding contribution to the community rec reation movement in Klamath Falls, Harry L. Wiard, benefactor of the well known suburban Wiard Park, was awarded a special cer tificate of appreciation and letter of citation yesterday from the Na tional Recreation Association. Pres entation of the award was made by Bob Bonney, director of the Klam ath Falls Park and Recreation De partment, at an informal ceremony at Wiard Park. The Klamath Falls Park and Rec reation Department, affiliated wiiii the National Recreation Associa tion, concurred with the national group in making the award as part of the June celebration of National Recreation Month. In citing Wiard for the award. F. W. H. Adams, chairman of the National Recreation Association's Board of Directors, wrote, "On be half of the Board of Directors of the National Recreation Association it is my happy privilege to send you this letter and accompanying certificate of appreciation in recog nition of your outstanding service to the recreation movement." Wiard has been a community leader in providing park and rec reation services for the south sub urban area and has worked dili gently to make the park bearing his name the spot of beauty and enjoyment which it has become. Wiard's memoirs have recently been published in book form and trace Ihe highlights of his career as a cook, lawman and park develop er. Thief Runs Bus In Ditch DUBUQUE. Iowa (UPI 01- lic Wilson 19, a recently dis charged sailor from the Bronx. New York, might still be going if he hadn t run his stolon 60-pas-sengcr bus into a ditch near here. Wilson, who has a penchant for taking jaunts in other people's buses, admitted Monday night he stole the bus from New York City s Port Authority Terminal Sunday and drove 1.500 miles without arousing suspicion. The youth told authorities he was discharged from the Navy a week ago and decided on a trip to Uililorma in the empty bus. The fast-talking Wilson almost escaped arrest, but Iowa highway patrolman Jack Moore decided something "didn't look right and took him in for quest, ioning. Moore said he came across Wil son and the bus in a ditch along a country road near fancy, lowa about 2.) miles west of here. riaas iwiy Tl Moat The first renel most en 4 Mm Labor Advisory t'eeenitlet ei r Oregon Centinial e mtl& 4. Klamath Falls as eety 11 The meeting will enm t al o clock in the mnrnu ear er et pected to last a,' M tir) according to Jerry rttOJ fXnti-j ath rails member. This mpptintr Ik Jf JA r regional mcelincsTrtl state prior to ff cc4f annwl 4xft inor to taf cc4f annwl 4xft I kis aw ?' wetmt asttm owwrjr flnose of the gro' is h Tra a ptfotfiit) i WtexliBJn . cv. iid and wjggestion'from TtvllrUMtftt AnJrfbtotwna lAto kc four side :)l to show lev part la Per eilft mm ! jmm t mfnp by ott. r offer aic labor side , nor has played 0 the development ui wrcgon as a siaie. Ike Expected To Sign Bill By Wednesday. Thursday WASHINGTON (AP) Alaskai stood on the edge of statehood to dayits 42-year fight near an end. The Senate, in an overwhelm ing 64-20 vote accompanied by gallery applause, completed con gressional action last night on a bin to admit Alaska as the na tion's 49th state. Only presidential approval, ex pected tomorrow or Thursday, and formal acceptance by Alas kans are now required. Sponsors predicted completion of these preliminaries late this fall, in time for the new state s two senators and one representa tive to be on hand for the opening of a new Congress next January. Tho action portended the first change in boundaries of the United States since 1912 when statehood was extended to Arizona and New Mexico. For Alaskans, statehood will mean that for the first time since the territory's acquisition in 1867 its residents will have voting representation in the House and Senate, cat elect their own gover nor and - state officials, and can vote tor the President and vice president. Statehood also would give Alas ka the right to select 103,350.000 acres of its area, including mineral lands, as a potential tax hase for development purposes. This still would leave more than two thirds of the new state in federal ownership. At present more than 99 per cent of the total area of Alaska is owned by the federal govern ment, lust as public lands such as the national forests are so owned. The new state would take over Us chosen areas "as the ac tual owner, with the right to sell the land, lease It or use it other wise. For the United States, it will ex- lend the limits of the Union with in 55 miles of the Soviet main land. Only three miles separate Soviet-held Big Diomede Island in the Bering Straight from Little Diomede Island, which woeJd be a part of the new state. It will also, advocates say, pro vide the northern area with the stability and impetus needed to spur development of Us economy and attract increased population. Completion of Senate action, aft er six days of debate, signaled the start ol big celebrations In Alas ka's larger cities, and an unoffi cial holiday was in store for many of its residents today. in passing the bill unchanged from that approved by the House May 28, Senate statehood advo cates beat back six efforts to side track or amend the bill. Storms Pound North Plains By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS More rain fell in northern Mid west areas today in the wake of yesterday's storms but fairly pleasant weather prevailed in most other parts of the country. thunderstorms pounded the northern Plains and the upper Mississippi valley yesterday and during tho night. Strong winds, heavy rain and hail swept sec tions of the Dakolas, Nebraska, Minnesota and western Wisconsin. Hailstones the size of golf balls nelted Lcmmon, S. D. Winds were clocked at 50 m.p.h. Duluth. Minn., was doused with 2 inches if rain. Strong winds also whipped areas in the central and southern Plains and the middle Mississippi Valley. Thundershowcrs hit west ern Texas and southern New Mexico and in parts of southern Florida. Probers Told That Luciano May Have Set Crime Party WASHINGTON (AP) Senate rackets probers heard testimony Tuesday that mobster Charles i Lucky i Luciano, operating lrom Italy, may have stage-manned last November's ill-famed "crime convention" at Apalachin, N.Y. Martin F. Pera. undercover agent for 'the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, made the allegation in testimony before the special inves tigating committee headed by Sen. lohn L. McClcllan IU-ArKi. Police long have susiK'cted that the meeting was a gathering of an American "grand council" of the Malia. called to try to carve up peacefully rackets left un- bossed hy the murder last sum mer of racketeer Albert Anastasia, reputed Mafia big shot. Pera Ma teslilied he believes the gun wk ef Anastasia was Mafia Mel-k. Pvrn said the Mafia in Italy is )n by slrile in which there have bxca 14 murders since 1955. He ujd this presumably has caused rrpunnwiinn in the American fmidHrworld. Ha told the committee he sees ureal Hmnitiranta." in a meeting ok Palermo H"l., which he said tIfnmTit riiftDlhi'F JfMenh tJone l &antT- otttovn, Ortnleu qa I kis (Wt ?' Wetmt asttm owwrjr deported frfj-i Da) United States, ts unoer sucn ugiu ponce surven The historic entry of a new slate into the Union the first since that of Arizona and New Mexico in 1912 will come only after months of frenzied political activity. The statehood bill, which Pres ident Eisenhower is expected to certify as enacted by Thursday, requires that Alaska Gov. Mike Stepovich fix the dates of the first state primary and general elections. His proclamation must come before Aug. 1. Before that date. Stepovich II expected to have to call the Ter ritorial Legislature into special session to appropriate funds for the elections and to set up the ; election machinery. The voters must accept state hood on three propositions includ ed in the bill approved by Con gress. The tnrce-way test memoes a referendum on whether immedi ate statehood should be granted, whether Alaskans accept the state boundaries outlined in the blU, and whether they approve the na tional defense land withdrawal rights granted to the President by the bill. The vote is expected to come during the primary, , probably in August. Rejection of any one of the three propositions would can cel the prospect of statehood. If approved, Alaskans then would have to elect new state of ficials at a general election, prob ably in November. Offices to be filled would include a governor, a secretary, two United States senators, a representative, 40 members of the State House of Representatives and 20 members of the new State Senate. Tho. unlikely possibility that statehood might be rejected adds a further complication to the Alaska political picture because a territorial election already is scheduled for Oct. 15. In the final day's drive for pas sage, the Senate turned down 62-22 a point of order raised by Sen. James O. Eastland ID-Miss) that a provision of Alaska's constitution calling for election of a "short term senator violated a consti tutional requirement that senators be elected for six years, 1 It also rejected 55-31 a move by Sen. John Stennis (D-Miss) to send the bill to the Senate Armed Services Committee for study of its defense implications: defeated (17-16 a move by Sen. Strom Thur mond (D-SC) to eliminate the northern and western sections of Alaska from the new state, and rejected by voice vote a second Thurmond proposal to require con gressional concurrence belore the President could make defense with drawals permitted under the bill. On the final vote, 31 Democrats and 33 Republicans lined up to support Alaska's bid for admis sion. Thirteen Democrats and sev en Republicans opposed the bill. still ahead are votes by Alas kans on accepting immediate state hood, approving state boundaries as set out in the bill and on pro visions permitting the President to make national defense withdrawals in the northwest section of the stale. Defeat of any one of these nronositions would reject state hood. Tho main controversy centers on the defense withdrawal provi sion, which has been questioned on constitutional grounds. The bill provides that the Presi dent, at will, may pull out for defense uses such areas as he chooses in Ihe northern and west ern parts of the new stale. Those areas would go under federal jurisdiction, much in the fashion of an Army fort and its attached operating grounds in the conti nental United States. In the areas subject to that action Alaska could not pick lands for state ownership without specific presidential ap proval. lance in Italy he often sends Sorgo to represent him at meetings with American Mafia mobsters. The committee has described Bonanno as a Mafia mobster who was at Ihe Apalachin meeting, but did not at once give further iden tilication of Galentc. Pera said the Palermo meeting was just before the gathering at Apaiachin. "The sequence of events is very significant" in indi cating a relationship between the two, he said. Four men alleged to have at tended the Apalachin meeting were on hand for committee question ing about whether the meeting was linked to a national under world syndicate. The four summoned by the Sen ale Rackets Investigating Cam mittco were described variously as a civic leador, a labor ututa official, a business man mvtlves: in deportatiei areoccetngK, mi a gangster. The new ftunt t Ure HHri tec's prose njrs itexfay. 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