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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LX No. 65 ~ NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1958 Per Copy—15<
Eskimos Report Best
Walrus Hunting
Season In Years
This has been the best walrus :
hunting year for the Eskimos in ;
many seasons, it is reported by
the hunters who have been com
ing in with many boatloads of
walrus meat.
One boat alone headed by Paul
Tuilana has caught 50 walrus.
He stated that the walrus herds
are all around King Island this
year and the natural cold stor
age on the island is being filled
with many tons of meat. He
arrived Thursday bringing “old
chief” Olaranna.
Tuilana says that this means
the carvers will have plenty of
ivory this year and can do plen
ty of carving.
Chief Olaranna said this morn
ing “I have seen thousands and
thousands of walrus this spring.
People say that the walrus are
getting less, tout to tell the truth,
what I have seen when we went
out hunting this spring is un
believable. There are thousands
of walrus on the floating ice for
miles and miles.”
“The walrus meat is our main
food at King Island. When we
get back to Nome for the summer
we carve the ivory from the
walrus. What has happened this
spring is a wonderful thing in our
lives.”
Chief Olaranna stated that he
would not be going back to hunt
because his eyes are so poor.
BE SURE TO
GET YOUR POLIO
SHOT ON MONDAY
Adult polio inoculation will be
gin on Monday June 2. Everyone j
19 years of age and over is urged
to get his shot. The place will
be Miss Eunice Bergland’s office
in the Federal Building and they
will be given from 2-4 in the af
ternoon and 7-10 in the evening.
Maximum cost will be $1.00.
Free to those who are unable to
pay. Shots will be given by Dr.
Woodcock, Margaret Swanberg
and Eunice Bergland.
Everyone that can is urged to
get their shot in the afternoon j
to make it less crowded in the
evening for those who have to |
work or for some other reason |
can’t get there. The main thing
is to get your slfot whether it be
in the afternoon or in the even
ing.
Widower Who Lived
Like Pauper Left
$450,000 Estate
BELMONT, Mass., UP> — For
many years William F. Plumb,
72, a widower without children,
lived modestly in a furnished
room
He had neither a television or
a radio set.
Plumb’s will filed for probate
Wednesday disclosed he had
amassed a $450,000 estate, all of
which he left to the Shriners’
Hospital for Crippled Children
in Springfield.
Plumb, who died last April 6,
had studied the stock market and
property values so successfully
he left $300,000 in real estate
holdings and $150,000 in secur
ities.
Girls Scouts To Meet Monday
To Help With Polio Innoculalion
All Girl Scouts meet at the City
Hall Morning at 10 a.m. Wear
your uniform if you have one.
You have an important job to
do helping to publicize the Polio
Inoculations.
Clean Up Week
Appears To Be
Already Started
i
Clean-up Week is officially
here and housecleaning is in evi
dence all over the community
although the official starting
date is June 2.
Block Captains are busy sizing
up the potential of their indi
vidual areas and each will be out
to have the cleanest part of town
by the end of next week.
Anyone having heavy oil
drums, parts of old cars, old
pieces of airplanes, mining equip
ment etc. that need heavy equip
ment to get it out of the way are
asked to tell their block captain
or phone the Fire Department
and the proper equipment will be
sent out to remove the item.
The slogan is “Nome is your
home, let’s clean house.”
House Subcommittee
Approves Ban of
Japanese Salmon Import
WASHINGTON, UR — The
House Fisheries Subcommittee
Wednesday approved a bill aimed
at curtailing Japanese fishing
activity in the North Pacific.
The bill, by Rep. Thomas M.
Pelly (R-Wash), would make
unlawful the importation into
the United States or its posses
sions of North Pacific salmon
caught in a manner unlawful
under U. S. law.
It is aimed at what domestic
industry spokesmen contend is a
Japanese practice of using gill
nets to catch immature salmon
spawned in Alaskan waters.
Auto Workers
May Not Ask
| Raise In Pay
DETROIT, UP) — Walter P.
Reuther faced a tough decision
I Thursday.
I The United Auto Workers
| Union president re-entered con
tract talks with General Motors
for the first time since tthey got
under way more than two months
ago.
Reuther had to decide before
midnight Thursday whether to
accept GM’s proposal to extend
the 1955 contract another two
years or comply with GM’s terms
for operating without a contract.
GM, the world’s largest man
ufacturing firm, Wednesday night
spelled out its own terms for
keeping its plants in the United
States open if there is no set
tlement when the contract runs
out.
The terms include abandon
ment of the union shop and
checkoff -of union dues—the life
blood of the powerful industrial
union.
GM a month ago set Thurs
day night’s showdown by can
celing its cdntract with the union
instead of as in the past, waiting
for the union to set the date.
Ford and Chrysler are expected
to set the same terms in event
the union fails to reach an agree
ment with them by contract
termination time Sunday mid
night.
Reuther has sheathed his strike
weapon because he says it would
be insane to strike the car
makers in a recession year when
there is a huge inventory of un
sold cars.
Tribute Paid To
The Unknowns Of
World War II and Korea
WASHINGTON, Iff) — Gold
Star mothers, foreign ambassa
dors and a hushed stream of
plain Americans paid silent trib
ute Thursday to The Unknowns
of World War II and Korea.
None know who they were, for
they lost both their identities
and their lives in the nation’s two
most recent wars. Today they
will be interred alongside The
Unknown Soldier of World War
I at Arlington National Cemetery.
Thursday they lay in identi
cal flag-draped bronze caskets
on twin black catafalques in
their place of honor in their
nation’s capitol. Every half hour
a new wreath was laid before
them and every hour the honor
guard of all five services was
changed, and constantly the peo
ple single-filed past them in
mute homage at the rate of 1,200
an hour.
The people came into the vast,
darkened rotunda with smiles
reflecting the bright spring sun
shine of the outdoor. But they
quickly fell into the mood of
mourning, blinked, looked around
and shuffled past. .
Huddled quietly to one side
were three Gold Star mothers
from Rhode Island—Mrs. Regi
nald Godfrey of Providence, Mrs.
Charles Rittman of Warwick and
Mrs. Luke Moskalyk of West
Warwick.
Their pristine white, gold
trimmed uniforms contrasted
with their drawn faces, turned to
the cataflaque which had been
built to hold the remains of the
martyred Abraham Lincoln. The
body of the World War II Un
known rested there Thursday.
“The three of‘ us had boys who
went away to World War II and
were never found,” Mrs. God
frey said. “We are trying to
think that maybe that is our boy.”
Stepovich To Hear
Senate Debate On
Statehood Bill
WASHINGTON, UP) — Alaska’s
Gov. Mike Stepovich said Thurs
day he plans to be back in the
nation’s capital for Senate con
sideration of the Alaska state
hood bill ’“even if I have to
hitchhike.”
Along with his wife, Matilda,
the governor was a spectator in
the House gallery during this
week’s debate on the Alaska bill.
Stepovich and his wife left
for Chicago to spend several
days with her brothers there,
and then plan to leave for Sara
toga, Calif., where they, will be
joined by their eigth children.
The governor said he plans
tentatively to return to Alaska
June 30, subject to the Senate’s
decision on when it will take
up the Alaska bill.
Several Seats Available
For Citizenship Flight
To Gambell Tuesday
A few seats still remain open
on the charter flight to Gambell
on the 3rd of June for the Citi
zenship Ceremonies. The price
of the flight is $30.00 and includes
your lunch at Gambell. Depart
ure from Nome field at 8:00 a.m.
on the 3rd of June, and will de
part Gambell for the Nome re
turn at 5:00 p.m. Anyone inter
ested is asked to call either Main
8 or Red 128 immediately. Miss
Virginia Ellen Doyle, who was
selected by her graduating class
mates, will accompany the flight.
Statehood Bill Faces Fight In
Senate By Southern Democrats
WASHINGTON, (JV-1The drive
for Alaska statehood shifted to
the Senate where Southern Dem
ocrats appeared ready to fight it.
Sources close to Senate Demo
1 cratic leader Sen. Lyndon B. John
son of Texas said they were con
fident the bill—which passed the
House 208-166—would come to
the Senate floor by mid-June.
But Sen. James O. Eastland
(D-'Miss), an avowed opponent
of statehood for Alaska or Ha
waii, said that if an attempt is
made to consider either bill in
the Senate he will offer%as an
amendment an equally contro
versial bill to limit review powers
of the Supreme Court. Oppon
ents of the Supreme Court mea
sure have indicated they would
talk at length against it.
Senate Republican leader Wil
liam F. Knowland of California
expressed belief there are enough
votes in the Senate to pass both
an Alaska and a Hawaii bill.
A supporter of both, Knowland
said he would be willing to see
the Senate^-fake up a separate
Alaska bill if there were an iron
clad agreement from Democratic
leaders that Hawaii would be
considered at this session.
He said he would not like to
see the Senate on record as dis
criminating against Hawaii sole
ly because of the racial issue
and threats of southern filibuster.
The 208-166 vote by which the
bill was passed found 117 Demo
crats and 91 Republicans voting
to make Alaska the 49th state.
In opposition were 81 Democrats
and 85 Republicans, including
House Republican leader Joseph
W. Martin Jr. of Massachusetts
and other veteran Republicans.
Adopted by the House, but
not in the Senate bill, are pro
visions to (I.) require a separate
vote by Alaskans on whether
they favor immediate statehood
and (2.) to retain federal control
over Alaska’s fish and wildlife
until the proposed state enacts
legislation which tfye Secretary of
the Interior believes would guar
antee management of the re
sources in the interests of con
servation.
Opposition in the Senate is ex
pected to hinge on the same
points raised by opponents in the
House—that Alaska’s admission
would be a precedent for similar
action toward Hawaii and other
offshore areas, that its two sen
ators would dilute the Senate
representation of more populous
states, and that land grants un
der the bill would constitute a
“giveaway” of natural resources
now belonging to all the United
States.
National Guard and
Reserves May Operate
Bomarc Missile Sites
FORT WORTH, Tex., — The
Air Force disclosed tentative
plans Thursday to operate Bo
marc guided missile sites with
Air National Guard or Air Force
Reserve units.
Lt. Gen. William E. Hall, chief
of the Continental Air Command
which supervises reserve activ
ities, said the character of in
terceptor missiles may be such
that the sites could best be
manned by reservists and re
ulars.
Hall said, in a report prepared
for delivery to the Aviation
Writers ^\ssn. annual meeting,
that interceptor missiles such as
the new 400-mile Bomarc actually
may never have to be fired.
Thus he said, the essential part of
manning the sites may become
one of maintenance—for periods
of months or years.
“It is entirely possible that
there will be psychological fac
tors concerning such operation
that can better be met by re
servists than by members of the
active force,” Hall said.
Jimmy Bryan Wins
Indianapolis Memorial
Day 500-Mile Classic
INDIANAPOLIS — Jimmy
Bryan of Phoenix, Ariz., 'today
won one of the richest Memorial
Day raoes with an average speed
of 133.791 mph., about two miles
an hour slower than the record
of 135.6 set last year.
He was driving the Belond AP
Special, the same car in which
Sam Hanks won in 1957.
The race was marred by the
death of Pat O’Connor, in a
crash in the first lap. Fourteen
cars were involved, and eight
were knocked out of the race.
Business Leaders
To Turn Back
Clocks To 1900
Monday will be th£ official day
of the opening of the 1958 sum
mer tourist season.
As an inaugural feature sever
al of Nome’s business leaders will
turn back the clock to the days
of the gold rush of 1900 which
made Nome and ke^ps Nome the
number one tourist attraction in
Alaska today.
Celebrating the inauguration of
the 1958 Tourist Season and its
Gay 90’s theme the Chamber of
Commerce has invited Christie
Waldheim and Charles Jones to
be guest at the Monday luncheon,
wearing the clothes they came
to Nome in 58 years ago. The
Tourist Committee will also toe in
similar costume. Representatives
of the younger generation Ann
Zwigle and Ed Carter will appear
in Ivy league clothes and ultra
modern sack dress to show the
modern trend leads back to the
styles of the turn of the century.
Four Baby Walrus
Enroute To New York Zoo
Four baby walrus are enroute
from Gambell, Alaska headed
for the zoo in New York, and will
be the only ones in captivity if
they survive.
Last year an attempt was made
by the same zoo to obtain speci
mens but the husky little mam
mals were unable to take the
trip although they were fed with
bottles and specially prepared
formulas. Profiting by the ex
perience of last year’s attempt
by Weyman Carroll, Carleton Ray
hopes to take the walrus suc
cessfully to their new home.
Russ Kinne, has taken wide var
iety of pictures during the two
weeks expedition and Stan Way
man has covered it for Life Mag
azine.