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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LX No. 9 _ NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JANUARY 20, 1958 Per Copy—15*
Ike’s Economic Report to Congress
Says We Can Meet Russia’s Challerige
Without Distorting Our Economy
By STERLING F. GREEN
WASHINGTON, Lft—President
Eisenhower said today the coun
try can lick the recession this
year, pay in full the cost of meet
ing Russia’s new challenge, and
go forward to “real economic
growth without inflation.”
His economic report, third and
last of the annual White House
messages to Congress, carried a
42-point program of home-front
legislation. Most of the requests
were familiar, but Eisenhower
said they are now “urgent.”
He pledged his policies will be
shaped to foster the earliest pos
sible business recovery.
But he gave no hint the admin
istration is considering any such
strong medicine as tax cuts, pub
lic works or deliberate deficits,
and avoided even the words “re
cession” or “depression.”
Eisenhower disclosed the slump
began sooner and hit harder than
officials had expected. In the past
three months national production
dropped six billion dollars, or 1%
per cent, he said, from the record
rate of 439 billion a year achieved
in the previous quarter.
And he underscored this warn
ing: If “unwarranted” wage and
price increases emerge from this
spring’s bargaining, the prospec
tive recovery could be delayed.
“The latest challenge of inter
national Communism will require
a further increase in the econ
omic claims of national security,
which are already heavy,” Eisen
hower said.
‘‘If we follow suitable private
and public policies, this challenge
can be met without distorting our
economy, or dest^bying the free
doms that we cherish.
“Whatever our national secur
ity requires, our economy can
provide and” we can afford to
pay.”
The business-stimulating effect
of enlarged defense spending al
ready is being felt, Eisenhower
reported, and the October rever
sal of the government’s anti-in
flation policy has noticeably lib
eralized credit and cut costs, qf
borrowing.
Other official sources, more ex
plicit than the President, said the
downtrend is expected to con
tinue until a turnaround point is
reached in the April-June quarter
or the July-Steptember period.
Faint SOS Signals
Presumed From
Weather Plane
GUAM, UP)—SOS signals caused
the Air Force to widen the search
area to 50,000 square miles today
in a hunt for a weather plane
that vanished while tracking a
typhoon.
The signals were monitored
yesterday from the area»600 miles
west of Guam where the plane
with 10 crewmen aboard disap
peared Tuesday.
The faint signals were heard in
Guam, Hawaii, Anchorage and
Adak.
Missing is a B-50 bomber which
had been heading into the center
of Typhoon Ophelia, which was
then raging west of Guam with
winds in excess of 140 miles an
hour. The typhoon has since died
down.
Repairman Finds Cache
Of Prohibition Era Guns
PHILADELPHIA, UP)— Benja
min Halicki, 39, broke through a
secret compartment yesterday
while repairing a staircase in his
mother’s North Philadelphia
home.
Inside the compartment was an
arsenal of 60 pistols and hun
dreds of round of ammunition
which police said may have been
placed there by gangsters during
prohibition era. Along with the
guns and ammunition were six
deep sea fishing rods wrapped in
a Philadelphia newspaper dated
May 24, 1932.
Police said the cache was not
the collection of an ordinary gun
fancier. The bullets were of var
ious caliber and included wooden
“dum dum” types.
Ward ‘Piggy’ Lambert
Father of ‘The Fast Break’
In Basketball Dead at 69
LAFAYETTE, Ind., OP) — Ward
(Piggy) Lambert, who brought the
fast break to basketball in a half
century of association with the
j game, died this morning of an
embolism. The former Purdue
University coach was 69
His career as player and coach
I extended from a time when bas
ketball was a gym group game,
through every rules change that
produced the modern high-scor
ing game.
Lambert, head coach at Purdue
29 years, won or shared 11 Big
Ten championships with teams
that abandoned the deliberate
; patterns of the early game and
| played “fire wagon” ball. His
1933 champions awed the basket
ball world by scoring a point a
minute.
Middleweight Contenders
Calhoun and Webb Fight
Tonight In San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO, (^—Middle
weight boxing contenders Rory
Calhoun and Spider Webb settle
their differences tonight in a 10
round Cow Palace fight that
could determine which will chal
lenge for the title.
Odds favor Calhoun, the mus
cular New Yorker from White
Plains, N. Y., despite that fact
Webb outpointed him when they
met in Chicago Aug. 29, 1956.
The winner of tonight’s fight
will be in a position to challenge
the winner of the bout between ■
Champion Carmen Basilio and j
ex-champ Sugar Ray Robinson, j
The National Boxing Assn, j
ranks Calhoun as the No. 4 con
tender in the 160-pound division
with Webb in the No. 6 spot.
Dr. Fuchs and Party ->
Greeted At South Pole
By Hillary and Dufek
WELLINGTON, New Zealand,
; L?) — Dr. Vivian Fuchs and his
| British ground team reached the
I South Pole today and announced
' they firmly intended to press on
to the other side of Antarctica.
Tough and fit despite their
grueling 57-day trek across more
than 900 miles of snow and ice,
the British explorer said he
would go on as planned to Scott
base, on McMurdo Sound, for the
first overland crossing of the con
tinent.
Rear Adm. George Dufek, U.S.
chief of Operation Deep Freeze,
and Sir Edmund Hillary, who
reached the pole overland 16 days
earlier, were on hand to greet the
12 Britons who had brought their
tractor train over 940 miles of
i terrain no man had set foot on
before.
Hillary and Dufek went out to
meet the Britons a mile from the
polar base. As the tractor train
pulled up with flags flying, Hil
lary advanced to greet Fuchs.
‘‘Hello, Bunny,” said the con
queror of Mt. Everest, and the
two men shook hands warmly.
Fuchs appeared surprised by
the welcoming party and battery
of cameras.
“I say—this is rather unex
pected,” the veteran, 49-year-old
| explorer commented.
| Also with Fuchs were the dog
teams which he has always in
sisted on having on his polar
trips.
The hearty exchange of greet
ings appeared to discount reports
of coolness between Hillary and
Fuchs.
Senate Preparedness Committee Looks
Into Submarine and Missile Programs
WASHINGTON, UR—The Sen
ate Preparedness Subcommittee
looks into the adequacy of the
Navy's submarine and missile
programs today as it opens the
final week of its current phase
of hearings.
Adm. Arleigh A. Burke, chief
of Naval Operations, and Rear
Adm. W.F. Raborn, who is super
vising development of the Navy’s
Polaris missile, were among wit
l nesses called for closed-door tes
timony.
While Congress members ar
gued variously that more money,
more clearly defined authority
and more creative thinking are
needed to spur United States de
fenses against Russian scientific
gains, the weekend brought these
developments:
1. Sen. Jackson CD-Wash) said
Senate Democrats are considering
a two billion dollar package pro
posal to increase appropriations
| for long-range jet bombers, both
intermediate and medium range
ballistic missiles, and missile-fir
ing submarines.
2. Sens. Humphrey (D-Minn)
and McClellan fD-Ark) prepared
a bill to establish a cabinet-level
department of science and tech
nology to include the Atomic En
ergy Commission, the • National
Science Foundation, Bureau of
Standards, Patent Office and
other agencies- The bill also
would authorize 580 million dol
lars of direct government loans
for scientific scholarships and
government insurance of another
billion dollars of private loans
for college and graduate students.
3. Pending establishment of its
advanced research projects agen
cy, the Defense Dept, ordered its
missiles director, William Hola
day, to coordinate the develop
ment oi devices to detect and de
stroy enemy missiles.
4. The magazine Aviation Week
predicted that the Air Force will
attempt “within the next few
months” to send a payload rock
et to the moon, and said the Army
will test nuclear explosions up to
50 miles above the earth in ex
periments this summer in the
mid-Pacific testing grounds.
5. Censored testimony of de
fense contractors, released by the
Senate Subcommittee, reported
that the Air Force has ordered
development on “a limited basis”'
of “large scale satellite vehicles”
for reconnaissance.
6. Dr. Ralph Swann, an Army
rocket fuel expert at Huntsville,
Ala., disclosed in an interview
that in laboratory tests, solid
fuels for rockets are showing al
most of much thrust as liquid
fuels, opening the way to even
tual factory production of ballis
tic missiles which can be shipped
ready to fire.
Appropriation Requests For Alaskan
Programs Totalling $114,959,424 Are
Contained In Budget For Next Year'
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Carrie McLain Reaches
Washington, D.C., After
Visiting Daugher in Texas
Nome’s roving correspondent,
Carrie McLain, is on her way to
Wahsington, D. C., where she
hopes to remain until the state
hood bill comes before Congress,
at which time she will be present
for the hearings.
Mrs. McLain spent the holidays
wth her daughter Marjorie Smith
in Texas, and enroute to Wash
ington stopped in Birmingham,
Alabama, to visit with Julia
Brown Ryan, formerly of Nome.
She says Julia now has three
children, all boys, and ‘‘makes a
devoted mother.”
Mrs. McLain was featured in
the Birmingham newspaper in
a feature story entitled “Woman
Magistrate Backs Alaska State
hood.” She was greatly impressed
with the tense racial feeling in
the south.
In Washington she plans to
visit with Mrs. Carl Yager.
LOS ANGELES, UP) — Interna
tional Airport was the hottest
place in the nation Friday, re
cording 87 degrees, an all-time
January record there. The pre
vious high was 86 in 1951-3-4.
Downtown the temperature
reached 80 for the second straight
day.
J> WASHINGTON, (JV-Appropri
ation requests of $114,959,424 for
Alaskan programs were totaled
today by Del. Bartlett on the
basis of information supplied by
government agencies.
The figure includes programs
to be financed from lump sum re
quests contained in the budget
I submitted last Monday by Presi- -
dent Eisenhower for the year be
ginning July 1. It does not in
clude proposed expenditures for
military public works or opera
tions of the Justice, Treasury and
Post Office departments.
In order of magnitude the de
partmental Alaskan requests in
clude:
Commerce Dept., $47,994,689:
Agriculture Dept., $21,645,560;
Health, Education and Welfare,
$19,535,898; Interior, $18,936,411
(exclusive of Bureau of Land
Management; Defense, $6,448,300
(exclusive of military public
works); Judiciary $404,566, and
Small Business Administration,
$34,000.
$16 MILLION FOR BPR
Major items in the Commerce
Dept.’s contemplated program are
$28,981,988 for operations of the
Civil Aeronautics Administration,
$16,100,001 to the Bureau of Pub
! lie Roads for construction, $2,
J 102,000 for the Weather Bureau
| and $768,100 for Coast and Geo
detic Survey activities.
Bureau of Indian Affairs funds
include $591,000 for school con
struction and $126,000 for general
major rehabilitation.
$4 MILLION FOR APW
A $4,000,000 request for Alaska
Public Works includes a gym
nasium-auditorium and repairs to
the Juneau-Douglas high school,,
$1,416,375; Fairbanks water sys
tem extensions, $588,345; Moun
tain View water project, $482,860;
Ketchikan sewer extension, $443,
170; Bethel school, $458,550; and
Douglas breakwater $57,100.
Other Interior agency requests
include $3,753,417 for Fish and
Wildlife Service, $492,800 for the
Bureau of Reclamation, $2,300,
000 for Geological Survey, $905,
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Gov. Mike Stepovich
Almost Stumps Panel
On “What’s My Line”
NEW YORK, UP)—Alaska Gov.
Mike Stepovich almost stumped
panelists last night on CBS-TV’s
“What’s My Line?” program.
Stepovich signed his name on
a blackboard and answered “yes”1
or “no” to questions put to him
by a panel of celebrities trying
to guess his occupation.
All the panelists—actress Ar
lene Francis, actor Ricardo Mont
altoan, publisher Bennett Cerf,
and columnist Dorothy Kilgallen
—appeared to be stumped until'
moderator John Daly allowed
them a quick conference.
‘‘Could you be governor of
Alaska?” Miss Kilgallen finally
asked.
Stepovich said that is his job.