22S NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LIX NO. 61 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 1957 _’ Per Copy—15^
CHAMBER GOES ALL-OUT
ON NOME CLEAN-UP DRIVE
At the regular luncheon
meeting of the Northwestern
Alaska Chamber of Commerce,
President Jim Walsh yesterday
led a discussion of the annual
clean-up program planned by the
City Council.
Walsh stated that “clean-up is
a continuing process in Nome and
the Chamber should back the city
in its efforts.”
Don Hungerford reported that
the City Council plans an all-out
effort which will include an in
spection of various neighborhoods
and recommendations to the oc
cupants for improving the ap
pearance of their properties.
It was noted that a yard lit
tered with refuse can endanger
health.
Jerry Manning commented on
the M & M Bank’s home improve
ment loan which ties in with the
clean-up program. He said that
the bank is most happy to assist
the people in the community who
have the ability to borrow money.
“This loan,” said Manning, “can
be used for any purpose that
makes a man’s home more livable.
The city assessor advises that
there will be no increase in taxes
on a house that has been im
proved by outside painting.
New Airfield Terminal
Reporting on the present status
of the proposed new terminal at
the airfield, Wilbur Arnold stated
that the city is waiting for word
from Mr. Hulen of the Anchorage
CAA office on obtaining property
for the terminal.
Glavinovich for ESC
A committee of three Chamber
members recommended Carl Gla
vinovich for appointment by the
governor to the . Employment Se
curity Commission as a represen
tative of industry and manage
ment.
Letter From Eisenhower
President Walsh read a letter
from President Eisenhower thank
ing the Nome Chamber for the
carved ivory memento delivered
to him by the Alaska delegates to
Washington.
New Lutheran Church
Rev. Thomas Knudson dis
played the plans of the Lutheran
Ghurch which will be built on B
Street. Some of the materials will
come on the first ship to Nome
and work will begin as soon as
they are received, he said.
The church building itself will
be in the form of a cross and will
have a high roof. Preliminary
preparation included the 52 piles
which were set 20 feet into the
ground two years ago.
Rev. Knudson stated that the
total cost of the building program
will be $150,000. Of this, the
church will contribute $120,000
and it is hoped that the remaining
$30,000 will come from the local
community.
Mrs. William Brown was a
guest at the weekly luncheon.
New Poem By
ROBERT W. SERVICE
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Gen. Twining Says Cut
In Nation’s Defenses
Could Lead to Disaster
NEW YORK, {&—Gen. Nathan
F. Twining, Air Force chief of
staff, says any cut now in the na
tion’s defenses “could lead to the
ultimate in disaster.”
Calling the current mainte
nance of U.S. military might a
great bargain,” he added:
“Te« percent of our gross na
tional product does not seem an
excessive price for the security of
the other 90 percent, not to men
tion American lives.”
Twining, recently designated by
President Eisenhower to be the
new chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff, made the statements last
night in addressing a dinner given
in his honor by the Lotos Club.
BIRDIE ON THE 18th HOLE
TUCSON, Ariz.. t/Pi—A novice
golfer, Air Force T. Sgt. Richard
M. Clerkin, of Louisville, Ky.,
scored a real “birdie” on the 18th
hole of the Randolph Municipal
Golf Course.
Playing a twosome with his
buddy. T. Sgt. Lou Shearer of
Mannington, W. Va., Clerkin
lined off the 18th tee and killed a
woodpecker in a tree alongside
the fairway.
Despite the “birdie,” Clerkin,
who’s been golfing only a month,
finished with a 103.
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Tornadoes in Midwest States Leave
51 Dead, 300 Hurt, Damage in Millions
I By The Associated Press)
A new tornado alert went out
for parts of Missouri today where
two days of violent weather have
killed at least 51, injured nearly
300 and caused property damage
in the millions.
The latest outbreak of tornadic
activity killed 14 persons and in
jured more than 70 others yester
day in southeastern Missouri. Six
were killed at Fremont, seven
perished in the Desloge area, and
one died at Van Buren.
The killer winds, twisting
around on both sides of the Mis
sissippi River south of St. Louis,
struck less than 24 hours after
Blackbird Snitches $5
From Milk Bottle
CENTEREACH, N. Y., UP —A
blackbird dipped his beak into a
milk bottle yesterday and flew
off with a $5 bill to feather his
nest.
That touched off an argument
later between Mrs. John Walsh
and her milkman.
She knew she had left the mon
ey in the bottle. He knew the
bottle was empty when he ar
rived.
While they were arguing, the
bill floated to earth. It had slipped
out of the bird’s beak when he
tried to add it to his nest on Mrs.
Walsh’s roof.
the season’s deadliest tornadoes
killed 37 persons and injured
some 200 others in the Kansas
City suburban areas Monday eve
ning.
The Kansas City weather bu
reau issued a new warning for a
possible “tornado or two” today
in east and central Oklahoma, ex
treme southwest Missouri, ex
treme southeast Kansas, extreme
western Arkansas, and extreme
north central Texas.
Tornadic winds also lashed oth
er areas in the Midwest last night
in southern Illinois, Iowa, Minne
sota, Wisconsin, and Indiana. The
severe weather extended into Ar
kansas. Gusty winds of 76 mph.
were clocked at Little Rock but no
deaths were reported. Some per
sons were injured and property
damage was heavy.
The twister leveled or damaged
most of the little town of Fre
mont, about 160 miles south of
St. Louis. Forty homes were flat
tened and only seven other es
caped the storm’s fury. Six busi
ness buildings were destroyed.
Other twisters struck in the
Desloge area, 60 miles south of
St. Louis, and at Van Buren,
about 70 miles north of Fremont.
Winds knocked down telephone
poles in Memphis, Term., today
where a thunderstorm dumped %
inch of rain in one hour.
Walrus Pup Stops
Here Enroute To
New York Zoo
“Chubby” the little walrus who
created much interest yesterday
in front of the Alaska Airlines
office is only three weeks old. He
is enroute to a New York zoo,
but is resting here until Friday.
Chubby has to be fed three
times a day from a milK bottle
and bathed frequently with cold
water. No plain milk for Chubby
—his is a special walrus formula!
He is a very lonesome little wal
rus and misses the warmth and
protection of his mother so he
cries long and loud.
It is reported that he will soon
have company, as a little Beluga
whale from Bristol Bay will be
his traveling companion.
These Alaska animals were cap
tured by Wyman Carroll who
travels all over the world col
lecting live animals. It is also
reported that Dr. Paul Dudley
White, Boston heart specialist
who is doing special research on
the heart beat of many animals,
will accompany these animals to
New York.
STACK COMING DOWN
AND PRICES GOING UP
MOBERLY, Mo., (j?>—The Mis
souri Pow'er & Light Co. built a
smoke stack at its plant here in
1921, but the stack no longer is in
use and the company decided to
dismantle it.
Cost of building the stack was
$8,740. The cost of tearing it down
is $13,470.
Eisenhower Makes Strong Appeal
For Mutual Security Program,
Says Letters Now Support Him
WASHINGTON, UP>—President
Eisenhower reported today there
has been a* gradual switch from
opposition to support in the cor
respondence flowing into the
White House with respect to his
budget and foreign aid program.
Eisenhower was asked about
the messages at his news confer
ence, in a followup to his broad
cast speech on foreign aid last
night.
In that address to the nation
Eisenhower stripped off the vel
vet gloves and threw some stiff
verbal jabs at forces which want
to make deep cuts in his $3,865,
000,000 mutual security program.
He told the radio-TV audience
that advocates of sharp economies
in that field are gambling blindly
and recklessly along a road to free
world “disaster.”
He spoke of “those blindly
striving to save the money that
must be spent as the price of
peace,” and said he doesn’t pro
pose to “take that gamble.”
Despite Eisenhower’s stiffer
stand, however, demands for big
foreign aid cuts persisted at the
Stevenson Says He
Could Have Done
Better in Mid-East
LONDON, [fa—Adlai Stevenson
said today that if he had been
President of the United States last
fall “it would not have been nec
essary for Britain to attack
Egypt.”
But the Democratic Party lead
er declined to tell a news confer
ence what his policy would have
been if he had occupied the White
House at the time of the Suez
crisis.
“That’s a hypothetical question
about a hypothetical situation,”
Stevenson said. But, he added,
“the U.S.A. would always have
opposed the use of force.”
Stevenson did not elaborate but
left the implication he felt the
Eisenhower Administration’s Mid
dle East policy had been faulty
and helped to contribute to the
situation which culminated in the
British-French invasion.
“I think the loss of confidence
between Britain and the United
States is the most grievous conse
quence of Suez,” Stevenson said.
“It has been a misfortune for
both of us and I think it has been
mishandled by both of us.”
Stevenson arrived in Britain
last night for a 10-day visit, his
first since 1953. He will receive
an honorary doctorate from Ox
ford University Friday.
Stevenson is accompanied by
former UJ5. Sen. William Benton
of Connecticut. He is scheduled to
go next to West and South Africa
on a combined legal business and
i pleasure trip.
j He said during his tour he
would visit Dr. Albert Schweitzer,
| “an old friend of mine,” at his
jungle hospital in Lamberene,
French Equatorial Africa.
Capitol.
Today Eisenhower said that af
ter the budget first was formulat
ed his correspondence was pre
dominantly questioning or in op
position to a spending program
which is the largest in peacetime.
As time went on and explana
tions were made at his news con
ferences and in speeches, Eisen
hower said there was a gradual
turn. He said he finds today the
correspondence is very much in
favor of the administration’s
stand.
He said he can’t tell how much
of this could be attributed to his
speeches. But he said he has
cleared his conscience in an effort
to make America see what he
said is so necessary for its wel
fare.
In his talk to the nation, Eisen
hower came up with the fighting
est appeal of his second term af
ter, saying anew that the cost of
piece is high.
Yet the price of war,” he add
ed, “is higher and is paid in dif
ferent coin—with the lives of our
j youth and the devastation of our
cities . . .
“To cripple our programs for
mutual security in the false name
of ‘economy’ can mean nothing
less than a weakening of our na
tion. To try to save money at the
risk of such damage is neither
conservative nor constructive. It
is reckless.
“It could mean the loss of
peace. It could mean the loss of
freedom. It could mean the loss
of both.
Defense Fund Cut
Would Threaten
Missile Program
WASHINGTON, UP*—President
Eisenhower said today about half
of the $2V£ billion cut in defense
funds voted by a House commit
tee would cut directly into the na
tion’s guided missile and aircraft
programs.
The country is going to suffer
if the reduction approved by the
House Appropriations Committee
is allowed to stand with respect
to those fields, Eisenhower told a
news conference.
He also said he never will agree
to a tax cut while the budget is
in what he called its current pre
carious state of balance.
Discussing the %2Vz billion de
fense reduction approved by the
House committee, the President
said about $1,300,000,000 of it is
not a budget cut at all but a book
keeping tactic.
He went on to say that $1,200,
000,000 of the proposed reduction
would, however, cut directly into
the defense program in such fields
as aircraft and guided missiles.
At that point, Eisenhower said,
we are going to have to suffer if
that portion of the cut stands. He
expressed hope the Senate will
restore every cent of the $1,200,
000,000.