HE NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LVII No, 77 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1955Per Copy—15^
Local Men Supply
Equipment For
Nome-Teller Road
Construction is beginning on
the Nome-Teller Road, an exten
sion of the present Sunset Road.
All work from Nome is being
performed by contract equipment,
the Territory furnishing the funds
and the Alaska Road Commission
the supervision.
Territorial Highway Engineer Ir
ving Reed was in town last week
end to execute the necessary con
tracts with C.M. Reader, Axel
Edman, Allan G. Doyle and P.L.
Reader for furnishing equipment.
Through the efforts of our legis
lators and the Territory Highway
Engineer, funds have also been
provided to extend the Dexter
Road toward the Kougarok min
ing district. ARC equipment start
ed construction about two weeks
and have built aproximately one
mile of new road up Nome River
Valley. Wet weather has slowed
the work somewhat.
Frank Morris, ARC district en
gineer, has asked that the travel
ing public use caution when driv
ing on newly constructed fills
over the weekend when the con
struction crews are away from the
work. Morris said that last Sun
day one motorist got stuck, “bor
rowed” a piece of ARC equipment
to pull themselves out, and plug
ged the ditch. As a result, the
runoff from the heavy rain of
Sunday night, unable to go down
the ditch, flowed over the new
fill and caused a washout. Con
struction was delayed for the next
two days repairing the damage.
Morris said:
“We do not wish to interfere
with the enjoyment of motoring
nor to prosecute anyone, so it is
requested that all please cooper
ate.”
Nome-Council Road
The maintenance crews have
this road in fair condition to the
East Fork where further travel is
halted by ice covering the road
to a depth of five feet.
Osborne Road
All fishing enthusiasts can tra
vel over this road to Nome River
without difficulty, provided they
be careful of the soft shoulders.
Snake River. Road
This road is open to a point
about a mile past Silver Creek.
Two British Newspapers
100 Years Old Today
LONDON, UP) — Two leading
British newspapers, the London
Daily Telegraph and the Edin
burgh Scotsman, were 100 years
old today.
Both started daily publication
on the day the tax on newspapers
was abolished.
The Telegraph carried on its
anniversary front page a message
of congratulation from a former
staff member — Sir Winston
Churchill.
He was its correspondent in
military campaigns on India’s
northwest frontier in 1897. Later
he reported the South African
war for the Morning Post, which
since has merged with the Tele
graph.
Indian Affairs Officials '
To Be In Nome For
July 4th Celebration
Nome will be honored with sev
eral distinguished guests on the
Fourth of July and preparations
are underway to entertain the
group.
Glen Emmons, Commissioner of
Indian Affairs from Washington
D.C., accompanied by his wife, is
scheduled to arrive July 3rd and
remain over for the Fourth of
July. He is accompanied by Carl
Beck, field representative from
the Washington D.C. office with
his wife and William Olsen, head
of the Alaska Native Service with
offices in Juneau.
On July 5 and 6 the party will
visit Gambell and other villages
where ANS schools are located,
and on July 7 will be entertained
with a no-host dinner at the Ber
ing Sea Club.
Democrats Shelve
Controversial Mineral
Stockpiling Legislation
WASHINGTON, UR—Democrats
apparently have shelved a con
troversial mining bill for this
session of Congress.
Sen. Johnson (D-Tex), Senate
majority leader, told reporters
yesterday he doubted the Senate
would take up the bill to extend
the domestic mineral stockpiling
program.
The bill was attacked this week
on the Senate floor as being “one
of the boldest raids on the federal
treasury that has been proposed
in recent years.”
Under the bill the government’s
purchase and stockpiling program
for certain defense minerals
would be extended until 1968.
Sen. Williams (R-Del) said the
bill would “commit the United
States government for the next
12 years to purchase the entire
production of several minerals at
a . . . price . . . far above the
prevailing domestic or world mar
ket.”
An escalator clause, he declared,
“suggests that these prices in the
future can be raised but under no
circumstances can they be low
ered.”
U of W Gets Research
Contracts To Revive
Alaska Salmon Fisheries
WASHINGTON, UP>—Award of
a second Fish and Wildlife Serv
ice contract to the Uniersity of
Washington “will provide for
much of the needed research” to
revive Alaska’s depleted salmon
runs, Sen. Saltonstall (R^Mass)
said yesterday.
The new $55,400 contract will
permit the University to study
physical and chemical conditions
affecting survival of young sal
mon. It also provides for further
development of photographic
counting methods to replace wires
and attendants now used to check
fish escapement.
It is in addition to a $64,000
contract awarded the school ear
lier to provide a tagging pro
gram to determine where Alaska
salmon go when at sea.
Alaska Sen. Gerrit
Snider Visits Old
Home In Holland
MONNIKENDAM, Netherlands,
UR—Former Alaskan Senator Ger
rit (Heinie) Snider was given a
rousing welcome yesterday on his
return to his boyhood home for
the first time in 47 years.
Snider, 69, arrived last night
to see his 90-year-old mother. He
was welcomed at the outskirts of
town by Burgomaster Willem M.
Kelder. Yesterday Snider and his
wife were cheered by residents as
they were taken on an official
tour. Drummers and pipers fur
nished a musical lead for the
procession.
The open carriage carrying the
visitors stopped at Zuidereinde
12, the house where Snider lived
as a child, and he was presented
with a bouquet of flowers by a
little girl. Snider thanked the
little girl with a hearty kiss. An
official reception at the town hall
followed.
The visit by the ex-lav/maker
provided an enthusiastic preview
to the 600th anniversary of this
former Zuiderzee town, starting
July 17-23.
As he mingled with residents,
old women sobbed and Snider
kissed little children, shook
hands, clapped shoulders and told
everybody: “I’ll come and see you
all.”
Snider arrived in the Nether
lands June 18 aboard the Nieuw
Amsterdam.
Servicemen May Come
Under Social Security
WASHINGTON, UR — A special
House committee has unveiled its
final draft of sweeping proposals
aimed at bringing more order to
the present hodgepodge of fed
eral payments to the survivors of
servicemen.
Two of the major changes
would bring servicemen under
the regular Social Security system
and eliminate their present
$10,000 free life insurance.
Other benefits would be re
shuffled and, for the most part,
increased. Those now receiving
benefits could elect to receive
payments based either on the
present or the proposed scales.
PAA Completes 50,000th
Ocean Crossing Today
PARIS, — A four - engined
Clipper landed at Orley Airport
at 9:13 a.m. today marking Pan
American Airways’ 50,000th ocean
crossing. The first crossing took
place exactly 16 years ago.
-American Airways’ 50,000th
ocean crossing. The first crossing
took place exactly 16 years ago.
TUESDAY BASEBALL SCORES
American League
Cleveland 7, Kansas City 5
Boston 4-8, Washington 0-2
Detroit 5, Chicago 4
National League
Brooklyn 6, New York 5
Philadelphia 3-5, Pittsburgh 0-7
Chicago 7, Milwaukee 3
Cincinnati 9, St. Louis 1
Pacific Coast League
Seattle 2, Oakland 1
Los Angeles 7, Portland 4
Hollywood 8, Sacramento 0
San Diego 7, San Francisco 5
Ike Says Downing of Navy Plane
By Reds Was Local Occurrence
And Not A Matter Of Policy
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Senate Democrats
Kill Ike’s Atomic
Ship of Peace Tour
WASHINGTON, UP> —President
Eisenhower said with obvious an
noyance today that his atomic
peace ship project, torpedoed yes
terday by Senate Democrats, was
a sure means of easing world
tensions.
Less than two hours later the
House, okaying minor Senate
changes, sent him a 269 million
dollar atomic projects bill minus
funds for the ship. The House
vote was by voice and without
debate.
Eisenhower told his news con
ference his plan was to convince
the world that nuclear science, if
put to peaceful uses, could double
living standards.
He said an atomic ship visit
ing the ports of the world would
soon generate a moral force which
would direct the use of uranium
toward peaceful channels. Any
way you look at it, he said, the
cost would be cheap.
The one-vote margin yesterday
rallied all Republican senators
voting to the chief executive.
Sen. Anderson (D-NM) said to
day the 42-41 vote meant the plan
was dead. He added “there will
be prompt development” of an
economically feasible atomic en
gine for large ships.
Republicans had tried to put
into an atomic energy construc
tion bill 21 million dollars to
build an atomic reactor for the
demonstration vessel proposed by
Eisenhower.
The President had urged his
congressional leaders to fight for
his proposal, and they put up a
stout argument for it. Democrats
called it a “smokestackless won
der” and “the floating museum.”
King Haakon Of Norway
Falls And Breaks Thigh
OSLO, Norway, (fl) — Norway’s
King Haakon VII fell today and
broke a thigh bone.
The 82-year-old monarch was
moved immediately to a hospital
which said his condition is satis
factory and no complications have
arisen.
Crown Prince Olav, 51, will
rule during the hospitalization of
his father, the world’s oldest
reigning monarch.
Palace sources said the king
slipped on the bathroom floor.
"DO*IT-YOUR-SELF" DUD
VANCOUVER, B.C., (AV^Paddy
Sherman, Vancouver Province re
porter, has resigned from the
“do-it-yourself” cult.
He was told by an automobile
mechanic he needed a new trans
mission in his English car. He
bought the parts and installed
them himself.
But he got them in wrong, he
says. Now he has four speeds in
reverse and one forward.
WASHINGTON, M— President
Eisenhower said today he was
sure the Russians’ shooting down
of a U.S. Navy plane off Alaska
was a local occurrence and not
a matter of policy.
The President’s statement was
made at a news conference at
which he 3lso chided the Demo
cratic - controlled Congress for
leaving undone, as he put it, a
long list of his legislative pro
posals—some of them, he declar
ed, vital to the nation.
In discussing the plane inci
dent, Eisenhower went somewhat,
further than did Secretary of
State Dulles who had said yes
terday he believed no deliberate
Soviet policy was involved.
Eisenhower said it is very en
couraging to note the attitude
taken by the Soviet government
which has expressed regret for
the incident and offered to pay
half the damage.
The United States has not ac
cepted the Soviet offer.
The President’s remarks about
the way the Democrats in Con
gress have treated his legislative
program were, in effect, a reply
to Democratic Senate Leader Lyn
don Johnson, who cited Congress’
record yesterday as disproving
the President’s 1954 campaign
declaration that election of a
Democratic Congress could lead
to a political cold war.
Eisenhower reeled off a list of
legislative proposals on which he
said the Democratic controlled
Congress has failed to act.
The President’s meeting with
newsmen was dominated by ques
tions about next month’s Big
Four summit meeting.
He said he will take along very
few member of his own staff, that
the delegation will be largely
from the State Department.
Asked if he feels Soviet Pre
mier Bulganin really is the head
of his government, or if Com
munist party boss Nikita Khrush
chev and others ought to attend
the conference, Eisenhower said
that is a puzzle; that no one really
knows who is the dominating in
fluence in the Soviet government.
The President said there does
seem to have been a definite
change in the Soviet govern
ment’s attitude of late, and that
it may be possible to set up at
Geneva new channels for easing
world tensions.
Congress May Permit
Legislators To Serve At
Constitutional Convention
WASHINGTON, UP)—'The House
Rules Committee today cleared
for House consideration a bill to
permit members of the Alaska
Legislature to serve in the terri
tory’s Constitutional Convention
this fall. Appearing for the bill,
Delegate Bartlett told the com
mittee the present law prevents
legislators from filling any post
which they created.