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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LVII No. 91 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 1955 Per Copy—15^
AT&T Announces
New Submarine
Cable to Alaska
NEW YORK, UP) — A location
near Port Angeles, Wash., has
been selected as the U.S. landing
i
site for the American Telephone
& Telegraph Co.’s underwater
telephone cable to Alaska, the
AT&T long lines dept, announced
today.
The submarine cable will ex
tend from Port Angeles to Ketchi
kan, where it will interconnect
with a submarine cable between
Ketchikan and Skagway. The lat
ter cable is now being constructed
by the Alaska Communications
System. The overall cable system
will link the telephone network
of the ACS' with the U.S. network
of the Bell System.
AT&T said the entire project
is expected to be in service by
late 1956.
The AT&T announcement said:
“When completed, the new cable
system will provide a short, di
rect route between the U.S. and
Alaska. The cable system will
be more reliable than existing
facilities in that it will not be
subject to storms and the ele
ments. With its capacity of 36
message circuits, the new cable
system will be an important sup
plement, for both public and de
fense purposes, to the facilities
now in use.”
The Port Angeles - Ketchikan
cables will have built-in ampli
fiers, spaced hbout 40 miles
apart. These will boost the voice
signals as they pass through the
system. The repeaters are the key
to the cable system, and were
perfected in more than 25 years
of research by telephone labora
tory engineers.
50-Pound Cabbage Head
Would Win $50 at Fair
PALMER Ut)—If you can scrape
up a 50-pound cabbage head in
your garden, it’s worth a dollar a
pound, FOB, in the Matanuska
Valley. *
The Fair Association wants to
find the world’s largest cabbage
for the Sept. 3-5 exhibition here.
And in this valley of huge cab
bage heads,^ a 50-pounder is no
pipe dream. The winner at last
year’s fair was a 40-pound speci
men and Matanuska Valley old
timers testify to the kraut
crunchers up to 48 pounds.
House Passes Bill for
$1,656,000,000 for Military
WASHINGTON, uTV—The House
Saturday passed and sent to the
Senate Saturday a compromise
catch-all supplemental appropri
ation bill totalling $1,656,625,802.
Most of the funds are for mili
tary construction, including 20
million dollars for the new Air
Force Academy at Colorado
Springs, Colo.
The compromise total is nearly
half a billion dollars below the
administration’s request for $2,
123,000,000 for the current year.
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Disputes Over Public
Housing and Pay Raises
Stops Early Adjournment
WASHINGTON, UPl— Congress’
adjournment plans were snarled
today by disputes over public
housing and . pay raises for its
own employes as the session
moved into overtime with other
major legislation also pending.
Leaders in both branches fixed
tonight as their new goal for
quitting, and called for «early
sessions to meet that deadline.
The House kept working Sat
urday night until 7:38 p.m. and
the Senate until 10:45 p.m., but
neither cleared the way for ad
journment in advance of the July
31 deadline set up in the 1946
Reorganization Act.
Some lawmakers said privately
they feared the session might last
two or three more days, now that
it has spilled over into a new
week.
Others, however, expressed the
view it might be hard to round
up a quorum by mid-week. Many
senators and representatives al
ready have left town for home
or on trips; a contingent of sen
ators sails from New York today
for Europe.
Marilyn Bell of Toronto
Becomes Youngest Person
To Swim English Channel
DOVER, England, OP)—Marilyn
Bell, 17-year-old Toronto school
girl, basked in the limelight of
the British Isles today after be
coming the youngest person ever
to swim the English Channel.
Marilyn stumbled out of the
surf yesterday to be greeted by
Florence Chadwick, who already
has swum the Channel three
times.
* “I’m very happy,” Marilyn pro
claimed. None the worse for
wear, she simply seemed tired
and was placed under the care
of a physician for 12 hours to
get some rest.
Marilyn never was in trouble,
although thousands of spectators
moaned in unison when she was
caught by the tricky current a
few miles from Dover. Such cur
rents have taken swimmers right
back to sea.
But she simply ignored it, and
kept right on. When she struggled
ashore, a big wave knocked her
down and she laughed.
Her time was 14 hours, 36 min
utes.
Six-Foot Shark Tows
Spear Fisherman to Sea
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., UPL—
A 6-foot shark, maddened, by a
skin - diver’s spear, pulled the
fisherman two miles out into the
Atlantic yesterday.
The fisherman, James Jones,
24, held on grimly until the spear
pulled out of the shark’s head
and then swam back to his boat
and resumed spearfishing. He
said he didn’t want to turn loose
and lose his expensive speargun.
The long haul and return took
two hours. Jones speared the
shark in an underwater hole,
thinking it was a “small fish.”
He held to a 10-foot line during
the tow through water about 15
feet deep, managing to get to
the top often enough to breathe.
China Releases
11 Imprisoned
U.S. Airmen
GENEVA, — Red China an
nounced today 11 released Ameri
can fliers would arrive at Hong
Kong on Thursday and be turned
over to the United States. They
left Peiping yesterday.
This was the opening word by
Wang Ping-Man, Pieping’s am
bassador to Warsaw, at his first
meeting here today with Alexis
Johnson, the U.S. ambassador to
Czechoslovakia, on the series of
private talks aimed at easing ten
sions in the Far East.
A communique announced that
they had agreed the first order
of business in Geneva was the
repatriation of about 40 Ameri
can civilians, also held by the
Peiping regime.
Wang and Johnson met for 45
minutes in their initial confer
ence. It was held after Peiping
radio disclosed the release of the
11 American fliers.
Wang said of the release of the
airmen:
“I hope that this measure taken
by the Chinese government will
have favorable effects on our
present talks.”
After joint consultation, Wang
and Johnson agreed upon the fol
lowing agenda of talks:
1. The return of civilians of
both sides to their respective
countries.
2. Other practical matters at
issue between the two sides.
It has been agreed that the
next meeting will be held on
Aug. 2 at 10 a.m.
Eisenhower Says Their
Release Cause For
Nationwide Relief
WASHINGTON, OPv— President
Eisenhower said today Red
China’s announcement that 11
American airmen are to be reJ
leased is a cause for nationwide
relief and joy.
The White House issued a
statement by the President less
than an hour after Peiping broad
cast word that the imprisoned
fliers had been ordered freed.
Eisenhower’s statement said:
“The entire country will feel
a sense of relief and hail with joy
the announcement that the 11
United States airmen held in
Communist China since 1953 are
at last to be released.
“Our first thoughts go to the
men and their families who have
been separated for so long. The
government will use every ap
propriate facility to insure the
speedy reunion of these families.
“The United States extends
thanks to all who have contrib
uted to this humanitarian result,
paticulaly to the United Nations
and its Secretary General, who
actively sought this result on be
half of the United Nations Com
mand in which these 11 fliers
served.”
. YUCAIPA, Calif., WV-Poultry
man L. L. Nichols says he has
a most amazing hen.
She didn’t lay an egg for 30
days and then came through with
28 last week. On each of two days
she laid a half dozen.
Gov. Knight of California
Frightens Off Prowler
From His Hotel Cottage
SANTA MONICA, Calif., —
California’s Gov. Goodwin Knight
frightened off a burglar he caught
prowling in the Miramar Hotel
cottage in which the governor and
has wife were sleeping yesterday,
police reported.
Knight told reporters the
prowler fled through an open
door when he shouted, “I’ll get
you.”
Mrs. Knight said she awoke to
see a “round white face about
four feet away.” She called police
while her husband jumped from
the bed. The governor said no
thing was missing. The only dam
age was an overturned chair and
a drinking glass which was
broken by the prowler on his
way out.
Police said the prowler appar
ently was unaware the cottage
was occupied by the governor.
Knight said he left his door open
since it was a warm night.
Aerial Peeping Toms’
Light Plane Crashes
SAN JOSE, Calif., UP> — Two
young fliers sightseeing over a
nudist convention at Lupin Lodge
near here crashed their light
plane but were reported not ser
iously hurt.
Their craft snagged on a steep
ridge just east of the convention
site where 800 nudists were con
gregated Sunday. Vic Barberi, a
San Jose State College student,
was listed as the pilot.
Santa Clara County Sheriff Mel
Hawley said he sent a special
deputy to the convention to keep
away peeping toms on the ground
but hadn’t taken such precau
tions in the air.
Polio Vaccine To
Be Released* To
Private Physicians
WASHINGTON, UP) — Private
physicians and Public Health
agencies will start getting Salk
polio vaccine this month for inoc
ulation of children 5-9 years of
age.
The Public Health Service an
nounced yesterday it has allo
cated enough for 846,000 shots.
That amount will become avail
able as soon as individual states
report how much is tQ go to
health agencies and how much to
physicians.
More vaccine will be appor
tioned as it is manufactured and
cleared for use.
Alaska has been * alloted 540
cubic centimeters to start the
Health Service’s new program.
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Camels King Dies
RICHMOND, Va., (JV-Richard
Samuel Reynolds Sr., whose en
thusiastic ideas led to develop
ment of Camel cigarets and the
globe-encircling Reynolds Metals
Co., died at his home here Friday
at the age of 73.
Members of the family said
death was caused by a heart at
tack. The millionaire industrialist
had been in poor health since
contracting pneumonia while vis
iting in Jamaica last winter.
Barrow Girl Awarded
Geo. Beacom Scholarship
SITKA—The annual $200 schol
arship award given by George
Beacom of Sitka to a graduate of
the Sheldon Jackson Junior Col
lege there went to Molly Ahvak
ana of Barrow this year.
. Elmer Ipalook, son of Percy
Ipalook of Kotzebue, was saluta
torian of the graduating class.
Eisenhower Endorses Plan to Devise •
And Launch Man-Made Moon for
Studying Atmospheric Conditions
WASHINGTON, Ut)—American^
scientists charged with creating a
man-made moon are confident
they can send an earth-circling
satellite into the fringe of space
by 1958.
President Eisenhower Friday
endorsed a plan to devise and
launch a satellite that^ would
check conditions beyond the I
earth’s atmosphere.
About the size of a basketball,
the satellite would sail for a few
days or a few weeks 200 to 300
miles above the earth. Traveling
18,000 miles an hour, it would
circle the globe every 90 minutes.
The United States is known to
have been exploring the possibil
ities of satellites at least since
1947. And Moscow radio said last
April that Russia planned a satel
lite for research purposes.
Word the United States would
undertake such a project came in
a White House announcement.
Officials of the National Acad
emy of Scientists and the Nation
[ al Science Foundation, to whom
»-——
the task was assigned, expressed,
confidence it can be done, al
though they had today only a pile
of mathematical formulas, blue
prints and experience gained by
the Defense Department in a dec
ade of rocket and guided missile
development.
Eisenhower's approval of the
epoch-making proposal was an
nounced at a White House news:
conference Friday by Press Sec
retary James C. Hagerty, who em
phasized it was for “entirely sci
entific purposes.”
All the information gained, he
said, would be made available to
all nations including Russia.
That factor brought sharply
questioning comment from Con
gress members, who wanted to
know whether it wouldn’t be giv
ing the Russians free access to
information useful in the devel
opment of intercontinental ballis
tics missiles. Sen. Bridges R-NH)
said it ought to be reconsidered,
and some Democrats agreed.