VOL, LIX No. 154 _NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1957Per Copy—15#
Rough Going
Predicted for
Next Congress
WASHINGTON, Uh—Sen. Cha
vez (D-NM) said today President
Eisenhower faces rough going in
the new congressional session if
he asks a record peacetime de
fense budget of $40 billion.
Chavez, chairman of the Senate
Appropriations subcommittee that
handles the annual defense money
bill, said in a statement:
“New funds alone is not the
answer to today’s needs, and no
budget such as suggested by un
named White House persons in
the press will get an OK. There
will be some rough going in the
Congress.”
Instead of asking for additional
funds, Chavez suggested redistri
bution of unspent billions already
voted by Congress would be in
order.
“In this fiscal year the Penta
gon got $1,800,000,000 for missiles
work, and to this can be added
$7 billion in unobligated funds
now available in the Defense De
partment,” Chavez said.
Bandit’s Instructions
Followed Too Closely;
Police Get Confused
SAN FRANCISCO, Of)—A short,
middle-aged man with his hand
deep in the pocket of his heavy
tweed coat sidled up to drug store
manager Michael Schachter, 45,
yesterday and motioned him to
the cash register.
Schachter handed him $30.
“More,” said the bandit softly.
Schachter handed him another
$120, unnoticed by three clerks
and four customers in the store.
“Lie down,” the bandit ordered.
Schachter obeyed.
Police arrived a short time later
but left when other clerks and
customers said there had been no
holdup.
After checking by radio with
headquarters, police returned and
found Schachter still prone on the
floor. He had pulled a telephone
off the counter, and called police
and maintained his position.
Man Descended From Seaweed, Biologist Declares
INDIANAPOLIS Ml—Man is not
an animal but a plant which
evolved from brown seaweed, a
biologist declared today.
Describing a new theory of
evolution,* he said:
“All animals are in reality a
type of highly modified plant life,
derived a billion years or so ago
from a common ancestry with the
brown seaweed.”
From recent new evidence “we
are forced to conclude that all life,
belongs to only one kingdom,
which, in all honesty must be rec
ognized as the kingdom of plants,”
said Lawrence S. Dillon, Ph.D.,
associate professor pf biology at
Texas A. & M. College.
The revolutionary theory is
based on many studies tracing
evolution in a new way. This
method traces the evolutionary
pattern by changes and develop
ments in the internal structures
of living cells. Different types of«
living things are classified accord
ing to their cell structure.
The older theory of evolution is!
that life somehow began spon
taneously. This first form of life
developed into plants on the one
hand and animals on the other.
*William Merrit, former miner
and amateur biologist of Bluff,
Alaska, held a similar theory. In
‘his many years at Bluff he
amassed a collection of over 6,000
books on biology and other sub- j
jects. He moved to the States
about 10 years ago and has since
died. —Editor’s note.
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| Three Bulgarian Officials
I Sentence to Death for
Stealing Surplus Goods
VIENNA, —Three officials of
the Bulgarian state-owned, coop
erative stores at Stara Zagora
were reported today to have been
sentenced to death for stealing
surplus goods from the stores and
selling them on the black market.
The newspaper Septemwri of
Stara Zagora, received here to
day, said 14 officials were tried.
One official was sent to prison
for 12 years, two were given sus
pended sentences and the rest
were acquitted, the paper said.
GOP Retirements
Indicate Stronger
Demo Congress
WASHINGTON, (ff>—'The deci
sions of five Republican senators
j not to run again have tipped the
! odds strongly in favor of strength
ened Democratic control of the
Senate in next year’s elections.
Retirement announcements by
GOP Sens. Jenner of Indiana, H.
Alexander Smith of New Jersey,
Knowland of California, Payne
of Maine and Edward Martin of
Pennsylvania left some gaping
holes for Republican campaigners
to fill.
Outnumbered 50-46 by Demo
crats in the Senate, the Republi
cans faced an uphill battle even
before these five announced they
would not seek re-election.
GOP Gov. Goodwin J. Knight,
crowded out of the race for re
election by Knowland, had ex
pected to get the California Re
publican senatorial nomination
with little or no opposition. But it
now looks as tho he faces a bitter
battle in the primary next June,
despite the withdrawal of at least
one of his prospective opponents.
Republicans were demoralized
in New Jersey last month when
Demcratic Gov. Robert B. Meyner
won re-election overwhelmingly.
The GOP also has been in trou
j ble in Pennsylvania, which elect
| ed a Democratic governor in 1954
I and a Democratic senator in 1956.
OIL PROSPECTING
MADE EASY BY NEW
RUSSIAN DEVICE
LONDON UPl—Russian scientists
have designed an electronic de
vice to take the guesswork out of
oil prospecting, Moscow radio
said today.
The broadcast said the device
creates a model of the oil pool,
determines the quantities of pe
troleum, and indicates how it
may be extracted with the fewest
number of wells.
“The machine uses samples of
oil-bearing strata, taken from
several wells,” the broadcast said.
“It precisely determines the locale
of the oil pool and the best sites
for drilling wells.”
The machine also gives data on
the amount of water which must
he pumped into a pool to main
tain the necessary pressure for
production and determines the
output of each well, Moscow said.
Small Pilotless Plane
Can Take Photographs
Over Enemy Territory
FORT MONMOUTH, N.J., iff)—
The Army today revealed a tiny,
pilotless plane that flies over en
emy terrain taking pictures as it
goes. The drone aircraft even fires
its own flares automatically to
illuminate the pictures at night.
The Army said the device will
give combat commanders accur
ate, low-level photographic recon
naissance of enemy territory with
out endangering the life of a pilot.
The U.S. Army Signal Engi
neering Laboratories here devel
oped the camera in conjunction
with the Fairchild Camera and
Instrument Corp. of Syosset, N.Y.
The 17-pound camera is fitted
into a small drone aircraft. The
camera has no shutter but makes
a series of pictures on a strip of
film.
SELLING WITH SNAKES
TOKYO UPl—Japan has its high
pressure door-to-door salesmen,
too. Police reported today that
one threatened a housewife with
a live snake until she bought his
wares.
U. S. Has Spent Over $17 Billion
On Missiles, New Figures Reveal
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Reds Reorganize
Communist Party
MOSCOW, W)—A recent series
of reshuffles within the Commu
nist Party apparently is designed
to strengthen .the control and
leadership of the central party
organization in Moscow and thru
out the provinces.
The main move in this direction
was taken last week when three
party Presidium members were
appointed secretaries of the cen
tral party organization directly
under party boss Khrushchev.
They are N. A. Mukhitdinov,
Alexei I. Kirichenko and N. G.
Ignatov, all regarded as longtime
Khrushchev supporters. *
Mukhitdinov also was promoted
from candidate member to full
member of the Presidium.
With membership of the Presid
ium expanded to 15, the secretar
iat now provides a more tightly
knit body for direction and con
trol of party affairs.
Fog Plagues
Central Europe
LONDON, UP)—Snow, fog and
rain plagued central Europe to
day, hampering holiday travel in
a dozen nations and causing the
death of at least five persons.
Fog, accompanied by warmer
than normal temperatures and
some rain, lay in great irregular
patches from the Baltic Sea to the
Adriatic and from the English
Channel to the iron curtain. Air
lines were hampered.
Off the coast of Spain, the 120
ton fishing boat Coscojales lost its
way in the fog and crashed against
the rocks near Pasajes. The vessel
sank in less than two minutes,
carrying all five crew members
to their deaths.
Elvis Presley Sends
His Teddy Bear Collection
To Polio Foundation
NEW YORK, WV—Elvis Presley
is giving up his teddy bear col
lection.
The singer, due for induction
into the armed services, has ship
ped the National Foundation for
Infantile Paralysis a trunkful of
stuffed animals from his collec
tion. A March of Dimes spokes
man said the teddy bears would
be sold at an auction on Jan. 20,
with the benefits going to the
foundation.
By ELTON C. FAY
WASHINGTON (*>—The United
States has put more than $17 bil
lion into research, development
and production of missiles of var
ious types since it began explor
ing the feasibility of those weap
ons in World War II days.
All but about $500 million of
the total has been programmed
since the beginning of the Korea*
War in 1950 set off the rearma
ment program.
Congressional committees are
investigating or preparing to in
vestigate the whole missile prob
lem, including the questions of
the past, present and future ade
quacy of funds, and whether the
Pentagon has been diligent in
spending the money provided.
Figures made available at the
Pentagon today show that $17,
178,000,000 has been assigned to»
missile programs since “fiscal year
1956 and prior.”
A Defense Department sum
mary said the figure includes “the
cbst of bringing guided missile
weapon systems to an operational
status, research and development,
production facility expansion and
tooling, procurement, contract and
military overhead to support mis
sile testing and certain construc
tion costs for research. . . .”
It does not include such items
as the cost of running operational
sites, like those for the Nike anti
aircraft missiles.
Altho the tabulation refers to
“guided missiles” the difinition
includes ballistic missiles—IRBMs
and ICBMs upon which the prime
attention of congressional com
mittees is focused.
Court Delays
Integration In
Dallas Schools
NEW ORLEANS, <*)—The Fifth
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to
day reversed a lower court ruling
which had ordered Dallas to inte
grate its schools at mid-term.
The appellate court said Dallas
school authorities should have
more time to proceed with de
segregation.
Previously, the appeals court
here had ruled Dallas schools
must integrate “with all deliber
ate speed.”
The original suit was brought
by parents of 23 Negro children
who were denied admission to
white schools in 1955. The court
twice ruled that the school board
should have more time to work
out the problems; both times it
was overruled by the Fifth Cir
cuit Court of Appeals.