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VOL. LXII No. 42 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1960Per Copy 154
618 Voters Cast
Largest City Ballot
One of the most spirited elec
tions in many years yesterday re
sulted in almost a tie for mayor
with Steffen Andersen getting 300
votes and Roscoe Wilke 299. Due
to the closeness of the result and
the fact that one ballot was not
counted, it is possible that Wilke
will ask for a recount, it was
stated at press time.
The biggest single vote in the
City Election went to the City
Clerk Robert Scott, who received
353 votes out of 618 cast Tuesday.
Councilmen elected were Dick
Galleher, Don Perkins and Bob
Herman.
James Oksoktaruk was elected
to the School Board; Albert John
son for the 2-yr. term on the Utility
Board, and Thomas Johnson to the
5-year term on the Utility Board.
Six hundred and eighteen votes
were cast; 33 more than last year.
The vote:
For City Council — Bauska,
143, Carter 54, Dimmitt 47, Fra
zier 170, Galleher 270, Herman
204, M. Johnson 177, Kitchin 51,
Lewis 159, Perkins 269, Sund
strom 170.
For City Clerk — Hubbs 16,
Hudson 71, Longley 172, Scott 353.
For Member School Board (5
year term) — Mandeville 286,
Oksoktaruk 314.
For Member Utility Board (2
year term) — A. Johnson 193,
Martin 169, Schick 143. Towner
103.
For Member Utility Board 5
year term — T. Johnson 264,
Morse 84, West 245.
Western Conferees Urge
Reds to Quit Stalling
At Geneva Talks
By MICHAEL GOLDSMITH
GENEVA, UP — The Western
powers urged Soviet Deputy For
eign Minister Valerian Zorin to
day to seek new instructions
from Moscow to get the dead
locked 10-nation disarmament con
ference moving.
French Delegate Jules Moch said
the West expects some sign of
Soviet willingness to discuss con
crete disarmament measures and
corresponding controls.
He reiterated that the Soviet
•plan for total world disarmament
within four years is completely
unrealistic and unacceptable to
the West in any form as a basis
for the discussions.
Zorin, wiho has turned down the
West’s plan, gave no indication
he intended to ask for new in
structions. He repeated his de
mand for Western approval of the
Soviet plan.
A Western source told newsmen
there was no hope of emerging
from the present stalemate with
out a change of the Soviet posi
tion. He said the conference prob
ably will have to be adjourned at
the end of the month, leaving it
up to the Big Four summit con
ference opening in Paris May 16
to break the ice.
TOO NANY COOKS . . .
MIAMI, Fla., UP-Miami’s
new city manager has ordered the
portraits of his 16 predecessors
removed from his reception room.
“It gives the impressidn of lack
of stability in Miami’s govern
ment,” said Melvin L. Reese.
The succession of city man
agers started in 1921.
Nash Rambler Leads In
Mobilgas Economy Run
DES MOINES, Iowa, UP) — More
than 200 participants in the Mo
bilgas Economy Run left here to
day on the final leg of the Los
Angeles to Minneapolis run.
They had arrived in 56 cars
here last evening on the fourth
day of the five-day trip and had
driven 1,800 miles at an average
of 10 hours a day.
There are five classes of cars
competing. A Rambler American
led the compact class during the
first four days, recording 29.003
miles per gallon of gas.
In the low-price, six-cylinder
class, a Plymouth Savoy led with
25.35 miles per gallon. In the
low-medium price class, a Stude
baker Hawk was first with 23.38
miles a gallon.
The upper-medium price car
in first place was a Chrysler New
Yorker with 21.31 miles per gal
lon. A Chrysler Imperial led the
high price class with 20.94 miles
a gallon.
Suspected Plane Suicide’s
Widow Goes Back to Job
NEW YORK, UP) — The widow
of attorney Julian Frank, who
died in a plane crash with a mil
lion dollars of life insurance, has
gone back to work as a model.
“I have the little ones to take
care of.” Janet Frank said
Tuesday.
Mrs. Frank, 28, reported to the
model agency where she earned
$40 an hour before she became a
wife and mother of two.
She said she has moved out of
her $40,000 home at Westport,
Conn., and rented a smaller house.
A maid cares for the children
while she works.
Frank’s insurance has not been
paid. The Civil Aeronautics Board
reported that the Jan. 6 crash of
an airliner near Bolivia, N. C.,
was caused by a dynamite bomb
that went off near Frank’s seat.
KOREAN STUDENTS
DEMONSTRATE IN PROTEST
OVER ELECTION RESULTS
SEOUL, South Korea, UPl — A
rally and parade protesting Presi
dent Syngman Rhee’s re-election
ended in disorder and arrests to
day although police at first re
frained from interfering.
The angry demonstrations by
opposition Democrats reached a
climax when 200 Korean youths
clashed with police in a futile at
tempt to force their way into the
Presidential mansion.
EXONERATED
LOS ANGELES, UP) — A man
meets a woman at a downtown
bar. After a few drinks they go
to his apartment to listen to 'hi-fi.
He hands her a .45-caliber auto
matic and laughingly says:
“Shoot me. It’s got blanks
in it.”
A shot. He falls dead. Is the
woman responsible for the death?
No, a coroner’s jury ruled
Tuesday in the Saturday killing
of 'Donald R. Arthurs. It exon
erated Mrs. Joan Crawford Mor
eno, an unwitting dupe to a
suicide.
Kansas City Trades to Cleveland
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., <*»
— The Kansas City Athletics yes
terday traded pitcher Bob Grim
to the Cleveland Indians for Leo
Kiely, a left-handed relief pitcher.
Both players are 30 years old.
The A’s got Grim from the New
York Yankees in 1958.
Kennedy’s Midwest
Triumph Doesn’t
Phase Opponents
By JACK BELL
WASHINGTON, t/P>—Sen. John
Kennedy took a measured — but
not decisive — step toward the
Democratic Presidential nomina
tion by winning Tuesday’s Wis
consin Democratic primary.
Vice President Nixon favorably
surprised some of his closest sup
porters by his ability to draw a
party vote in an unexciting, un
opposed Republican primary in
which he refused to camaign.
Sen. Hubert Humphrey kept
himself politically alive in the
Democratic contest. He pointed his
future campaign toward a bone
crushing showdown in the May 10
West Virginia primary. The poli
tical ingredients that go into the
crucible there may be far differ
ent from those in Wisconsin.
For Kennedy, his capture of 20
of Wisconsin’s convention votes
furnished satisfactory evidence
I he coulcj command party support
| in the crucial Midwest as well as
in his home New England stamp
ing ground.
But it was not the sweep that
Kennedy would have liked. Hum
phrey ran behind, but respec
tably so. Humphrey proved he is
the champion of the kind of farm
ers who inhabit the western areas
of Wisconsin which adjoin his
home state of Minnesota.
Kennedy got the industrial First
Wisconsin District, a tribute to his
apparently superior pull with or
ganized labor. He took the eastern
side of Wisconsin where the Ro
man Catholic vote is strong. He
ran well , in normally Republican
areas.
| This division of the spoils did
Kennedy no good in his attempts
to mute the issue raised by his
Catholicism. Instead, it empha
sized that he was strongest
where the Catholics were most
numerous.
It generated the suspicion that
Republicans ignored their own
primary and crossed over to vote
for him as the man they regard
as the easiest Democrat to beat
in November.
President Okays
Defense Dept.
Missile Plans
WASHINGTON, OR — President
Eisenhower today formally ap
proved Defense ‘Department plans
for speeding the Atlas Interconti
nental Missile and Polaris sub
marine programs.
The approval was announced at
the White House by Secretary of
Defense Thomas Gates Jr. after
a conference with Eisenhower.
Gates has just returned from
an overseas inspection tour. He
told newsmen this was the first
opportunity he had to discuss the
general defense picture with
Eisenhower since returning.
On March 28, the Navy dis
closed plans to use about 52 mil
lion dollars of previously appro
priated funds to speed work on
seven Polaris-firing submarines
already under construction.
The Air Force earlier had made
known plans to cut back produc
tion of Bomarc air defense mis
siles and expand the Atlas pro
gram.
I Canadian Skywatchers
Say Sputnik III Is Down
! OTTAWA, UB — Canadian de
fense officials said they believe
the Russians’ Sputnik III plum
| meted to earth today.
| A radar unit in Saskachewan
spotted the Soviet space vehicle
just after midnight only 90 miles
above the earth. The 3,000-pound
satellite, shot into orbit May 15,
! 1958, was picked up on an 86-foot
radar dish at Prince Albert.
Officials of Canada’s Defense
Research Board said the equip
ment should have recorded the
satellite again at about 7 a.m. -but
Sputnik III was not spotted again
and officials said the satellite
either entered the earth’s atmos
phere and burned up or it crashed.
The Boston Space Tracking cen
ter of the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology predicted earlier
this week that the life of Sputnik
III would end some time Wed
nesday morning. When the satel
lite was launched, Russian scien
tists said it would probably re
main in orbit indefinitely.
So. African Govt.
Will Retain Tough
Policy for Blacks
By LYNN HEINZERLING
JOHANNESBURG, ■ South Af
rica, UP) — Government officials
served notice today they will
press their police drive against
Negro “inciters and intimidators”
j until South Africa's work boycott
is crushed.
Brig. C. J. Els, assistant national
police commissioner, warned in a
newspaper statement:
“We will not rest until we have
rooted them all out.”
Police moved into an African
hostel at Lamontville this morn
ing and confiscated clubs, axes,
picks, sharpened pieces of steel
and three guns. Negroes — the
police called them “agitators and
intimidators” — had held the hos
tel near Durban on the east coast
since Monday night. The take
over was accomplished without
violence.
Last night in Lamontville one
African was shot dead and four
wounded as police battled a crowd
of 1,000 who were trying to take
reprisals against Negroes return
ing from work.
Appeals for the government to
negotiate with responsible Negro
leaders and to moderate its strict
racial policies came from leaders
of business, church and the oppo
sition United Party. M. D. De Wet
Nel, National Administrator of
Bantu (Negro) Administration,
said in a speech that “South Af
rica’s present racial policy is the
right one and it will continue to be
followed by the government.”
Underlying its determination to
give no ground, the government
won overwhelming Senate approv
al of a bill to outlaw the two
leading Negro political organiza
tions, the Pan-Africanist Con
gress and the more moderate Af
rican National Congress.
WEATHER FORECAST
Increasing cloudiness with lit
tle change in temperature.
In the past 24 hours: highest
temperature 4, lowest -14. Sunrise
at 5:01 a.m., sunset at 7:09 p.m.
A year ago today: highest tem
perature 18, lowest -6. Extremes
on this date since 1907: highest
51 in 1940, lowest -24 in 1943.
It was 42 above at Nenana at
noon today.
Kennedy Captures
Crucial Wisconsin
Primary Vote
MILWAUKEE, UP* — Victory
over a formidable opponent in the
Wisconsin primary election put
new punch and power today be
hind Sen. John Kennedy’s bid for
the Democratic Presidential nom
ination.
The result was clear-cut, but
not as big as his aides had hoped.
The election demonstrated, Ken
nedy claimed, that he can attract
votes among the farmers, labor
unions and non-Catholics.
Kennedy, a Massachusetts Cath
olic, defeated Sen. Hubert Hum
phrey of Minnesota, a Protestant.
For years, Humphrey has cham
pioned the midwest farmers. In
Tuesday’s election, he was sup
ported by top leadership of the
Wisconsin AFL-CIO.
Vice President Nixon, un
opposed in the Republican pri
mary, did not come into the hard
fought campaign. He ran third.
With 3,428 of 3,456 precincts
reported, unofficial tabulations
showed: Kennedy 474,023; Hum
phrey 369,442; Nixon 342,851.
This gave Kennedy slightly
more than 56 per cent of the Dem
ocratic vote.
It also allocated 20 Wisconsin
delegate votes in the Democratic
National Convention to Kennedy
and 10 to Humphrey.
Coming on the heels of his spec
tacular sweep in New Hampshire
last month, this was Kennedy’s
second straight victory in an im
portant Presidential primary.
Kennedy said he was delighted
with the result.
Humphrey said the election
caused him no pain.
“I suppose numerically I’m the
defeated candidate,” he said,
“but if I’m defeated I certainly
don’t hurt. In light of the predic
tions made, we have every reason
to believe we did well.”
The vote for Nixon also was
open to interpretation. He had no
opposition to stir GDP interest
and he did not campaign in Wis
consin.
FIREWORKS •
KANSAS CITY, OP) — Judith
Ann Scott, 20, was cleaning a cab
inet when out tumbled a box of
.22 caliber cartridges onto the
floor, down the ducts and into
the furnace. Fifty chartridges in
all.
She quickly turned down the
heat but she didn’t know how to
put out the pilot light.
The fire department was sym
pathetic but said it could ido
nothing. The dispatcher said she
should call a furnace repairman.
Mrs. Scott tried and failed.
She called police, A squad car
came. The policeman didn't know
how to turn off the pilot, but he
located a repairman.
The repairman gingerly turned
off the pilot and retrieved the
quite warm shells.
There is a new rule in the Scott
home. Husband Leroy can’t keep
any more ammunition around the
house.
Michigan Eases Worries of
Runaway Slaves
LANSING, Mich.,(A— Fugitive
slaves can sleep easier in Michi
gan.
The House of Representatives
finally has removed from the
books an 1861 law dealing with
the detention of any person
claimed as a fugitive slave.