First "Congressmen"
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Elected In U.S.
Trust Territory
The High Commissioner of the United States Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, Mr. M. W. Coding, has announced the names of the successful candidates in the general election on January 19 for the first Congress of Micronesia.
THE election was the first ever held in the territory for a territory-wide legislative body.
Elected candidates to the House of Delegates are: Olympic T. Borja and Jose R. Cruz (Mariana Islands District), Amata Kabua and Isaac Lanvi (Marshall Islands District), Roman Tmetuchl and John O.
Ngiraked (Palau District), Bailey Olter and Eliuel Pretrick (Ponape District), Tosiwo Nakayama and Andon Amaraich (Truk District), and Francis Nunnan and Joseph Tamag (Yap District).
Winners of the 21 seats in the General Assembly are: Benjamin T.
Manglona, Manuel D. Muna, and Juan A. Sablan (Marianas); Namo Hermios, Henry Samuel, Dwight Heine, and Atlan Anien (Marshalls); Lazarus Salii, Sadang Ngiraeherang, and Jacob Sawaichi (Palau); Elias Robert. Bethwel Henry, Max Iriarte, and Olter Poll (Ponape); Smart Lampson, Petrus Mailo, Soukichi Fritz, Mitaro Danis, and Chutomu Nimues (Truk); and Luke M. Tman, and John Rugulmar (Yap).
First Session The first session of the new Congress will be held in July.
A Secretarial Order issued last year by the US Secretary of the Interior, Mr. Stewart L. Udall, provides that regular sessions of the Congress are to be held annually on the second Monday of July at the provisional capital of Micronesia in Saipan, Marianas District.
Special sessions may be called by the High Commissioner as necessary.
Mr. Coding has described the creation of the Congress of Micro nesia as the culmination of the growing sense of unity in the Ter ritory, and the most significant achievement in the political history of Micronesia.
“Through their respective ‘con gressman’, the people of the Territory will exercise more internal self government,” he says.