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    "ocrText": "JAMES C. HAGERTY'S\nNEWS CONFERENCE\nDECEMBER 30, 1958\n3:58 P.M., E.S.T.\nTUESDAY\nGETTYSBURG, PA.\nMR. HAGERTY: The President will sign the Alaska Statehood\nProclamation, and will issue the Executive Order on the designation of the\nnew Flag at ceremonies in the White House, Saturday at Noon.\nHe would expect, weather permitting, to ¹copter down and then come\nback for the rest of the week-end. Now whether that would mean return early\nMonday morning or whether he will go back Sunday night, I just don't know.\nQ: Down and back the same day, though ?\nMR. HAGERTY: Yes.\nThe President has extended invitations to the following to attend the\nceremonies: The Vice President, and the Speaker of the House. As you might\nknow, those are the two constitutional officers fof the Congress. The Secretary\nof the Interior; The Acting Governor of Alaska, Mr. Waino E. Hendrickson;\nthe Chairman of the Alaska Statehood Committee, Mr. Robert B. Atwood; the\nlast Presidentially appointed Governor of Alaska, Michael A. Stepovich; the\ntwo Senators=elect from the new State, Ernest Gruening and E. L. Bartlett.\nMr. Bartlett, as you probably remember, was the Alaskan Delegate at the\nlast Congress; also the Congressman-elect, Mr. Ralph J. Rivers and the\nGovernor-elect Mr. William A. Egan. Those telegrams extending the invita-\ntion to these individuals from the President went out today. I am quite sure\nthey have received them by now.\nQ: Do you have any preliminary indication of whether they will be down\nor whether they may be having some ceremonies up there too ?\nMR. HAGERTY: I would think they would be down.\nQ: They may have something going on at Juneau, I don't know. Burn\nthe state house down.\nMR. HAGERTY: We haven't received any word from them yet because\nthe telegrams just went out today.\nThat's all I have this afternoon, unless you have some questions.\nQ: Jim, what will this ceremony consist of, these people just go in the\nPresident's office or the Cabinet room\nMR. HAGERTY: We haven't decided quite where we will have it. I\nwould think either the President's office or more probably the Cabinet Room\nso that we can get more of you people in, and the photographic services, in\nthe Cabinet Room than you can in the President's office.\nQ: Will the President have a statement ?\nMR. HAGERTY: Well, if he did it would be a very short ceremony. I\ndon't expect that it would be any elaborate ceremony at all.\nQ: Alaska becomes a State the minute the Proclamation becomes legal ---"
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