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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LXI No. 125 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1959_Per Copy—15^
Presence of Gov.
Egan Sparks Lively
Interest In Nome
Since going to press the in
creased number of Pioneers arriv
ing for the convention as well as
the local interest expressed in
hearing that Governor William
Egan will be at the opening ses
sion, has made it necessary to
make some changes in the Pioneer
Convention program.
The opening program Friday
morning at 10 o’clock will be held
in the school auditorium, so that
the entire high school and all in
terested local persons may be pres
ent, stated the president of the
Pioneers Russ Hermann. At this
time the Governor will make his
address. Registration of Pioneers
is not required for this event.
The other event open to the
public will be the Grand Ball on
Saturday evening, starting at 9
p.m. The Ketchikan Rag Time
Band will play, and an interest
ing program is planned.
Because there will be more than
200 guests for the Smorgasbord on
Friday evening, the Eskimo dances
planned for 10 o’clock on that
evening will be held twice during
the evening at the multi-purpose
roo mof Nome School, at 9:30 and
at 10:30. The documentary film
by the author of Klondike Fever
will be shown at 9 and 10, pre
ceding the dances.
The first guests to arrive will
be a plane load from Cordova and
Valdez, scheduled to arrive some
time today. Also scheduled to ar
rive are Governor and Mrs. Wil
liam Egan, Grand President of
Pioneers Otto Koppen, Grand Sec
retary Theo McKenna, and Grand
Recorder Linda Shafer, who will
complete some pre-convention
work here.
Two charter flights are expected
on Thursday from Fairbanks, and
two charter flights by Reeve Air
lines, as well as Pioneers arriving
on regular flights from Anchorage.
, For the arrivals from Cordova
and Valdez, the Pioneers have
planned a special showing of a
Canadian documentary film at the
Pioneer Igloo Wednesday evening
at 9 o’clock. The picture will be
shown by Pioneer Rev. John
Maakestad.
ONLY MAYOR DIES
BEREA, Ky., OP — John L. Gay,
the only mayor this town of 3500
ever had until he retired in 1958,
died Sunday in a Lexington hos
pital. He was 94. Gay became
mayor in 1910 when the local
form of government was changed.
PIONEER EVENTS
FOR WEDNESDAY
Cordova and Valdez delegation to
Pioneer Hall for special Can
adian film.
THURSDAY
Pioneers to meet arriving planes.
Registration at Pioneer Igloo,
starting at 2 p.m.
Mug-Up for delegation at Igloo
starling 8 p.m.
FRIDAY
Grand Opening, School Auditor
ium, 10 a.m. Open to public.
Business Session, 2 p.m.. Multi
purpose Room.
Smorgasbord, starting 6:30 p.m.,
Seaview Room, North Star
^ Restaurant.
Documentary Film and Eskimo
Dances in the evening at Multi
Purpose Room of Nome School.
Eisenhower Golfing at
Georgia Resort to Shake
Persistent Head Cold
AUGUSTA, Ga., UPi — President
Eisenhower arrived here this
morning in a heavy rain, for a
five-day vacation that is hope'd
to provide sunshine to help him
shake a lingering cold.
The temperature was about 54
degrees as the President’s plane,
Columbine II, touched down at
the Augusta Airport. He flew in
the four-engine propeller plane he
used when he first took office be
cause the airport is too small for
his new jet transport.
Accompanying the President on
the trip were two of his golfing
companions, Cliff Roberts, presi
dent of the Augusta National Golf
Club, and Ellis Slater, a member
of the club and chairman of the
Board of National Distillers.
Eisenhower plans to return to
Washington Sunday evening or
early Monday morning.
While Eisenhower still has ling
ering traces of the cold he caught
last month, Press Secretary Hag
erty said this was not a major
factor in the decision to go to
Augusta. He also said the Presi
dent’s general health is excellent.
French Go-Slow Summit
Attitude Mulled Over at
White House Conference
By JOHN SCALI
WASHINGTON, (ff) — President
Eisenhower met with Secretary
of State Herter today apparently
to consider France’s go-slow ap
proach to an East-West summit
meeting.
In a 40-minute conference at
the White House the two were
believed to have talked over ways
to settle the backstage Allied dis
pute on the timing of a meeting
with Soviet Premier Khrushchev.
Afterward, Herter declined to
say anything about their talk,
leaving all that to the President.,
While the two were in confer
ence, the French government an
nounced its approval in principle
for an East-West summit meeting,
but approached it as business for
next spring.
Eisenhower is understood to
have proposed a summit session
of the Western powers early next
month in Paris, preliminary to a
possible session with Khrushchev
in the first 10 days of December.
British Prime Minister MacMil
land and West German Chancellor
Adenauer were reported ready to
accept Eisenhower’s plan but the
Paris announcement in effect re
affirmed French President De
Gaulle’s reluctance to hurry the
matter.
Hawaiian Senator Says
U. S. Cannot Afford to
Abandon Formosa Islands
TAIPEI, Formosa, (ff) — The
only U. S. Senator of Asian des
cent yesterday said the United
States must defend Nationalist
China’s offshore islands.
“We must stand firm,” said Sen
ator Hiram L. Fong (R-Hawaii),
“on the lines now drawn — the
38th Parallel in Korea and the
offshore islands in the Formosa
Strait.
“We cannot afford to let the off
shore islands fall into the hands
of the Communists.”
Fong is making a tour of Asian
and Pacific countries. He left yes
terday for Manila after a four
day stay.
T-H Injunction
Stalled As Court
Ponders Steel Case
PITTSBURGH, OR — A federal
judge’s decision on whether to
use a Taft-Hartley injunction to
halt the 99-day steel strike was
delayed today. The delay resulted
from a three-hour conference
among company and union attor
neys over retroactive pay.
Judge Herbert P. Sorg origin
ally was scheduled to reconvene
court at 10 a.m. Following the
breakup of the conference shortly
after 1 p.m., Judge Sorg resched
uled the court session for 2 p.m.
Union attorneys told the judge
that, if the men returned to work
under an injunction, any econom
ic settlement made in the mean
time should be retroactive for the
length of tht back-to-work order.
During the delay, steel company
counsel filed a legal brief with the
court stating opposition to the
union’s retroactive pay request.
The brief said:
“If retroactivity should be or
dered, the court would be settling
in favor of the union one of the
most important terms of collec
tive bargaining.”
Doll-Like Quints
Die in First Day
SAN ANTONIO, Tex., UP) —
Baby D, last survivor of the five
toylike girls born to the wife of
an Air Force lieutenant yesterday,
died at 6:40 a.m. today.
The grieving father said he and
his wife “are confident that all
is for the best and God has a
better place for them.”
The parents, Lt. and Mrs.
Charles G. Hannan, were asleep
when Baby D succumbed. Both
had been in near shock during the
night after the deaths of the other
four quints within 9Vfe hours after
their birth.
“Oh, my God. They were just
like baby dolls,” sobbed a techni
cian when the word spread rapid
ly through the hospital.
A Lackland Air Force Base
spokesman said neither of the
parents was physically able to be
interviewed or have their pictures
taken immediately, but Hannan
authorized a statement.
“We know the hospital and the
staff here at Lackland did every
thing they could to save our ba
bies. They were just too imma
ture. The best medical facilities
were available.
“We hope we can get a little
peace and quiet now.”
Baby D was the fourth born.
She weighed 1 pound 13 ounces.
Pretty, blonde Mrs. Hannan, 27,
turned to her crewcut husband,
29, shortly after the babies were
born, and said, “You wanted a
girl. Now you have five.” The
Hannans are the parents of two
boys.
Fairbanks Cabin Blaze
Traps Three Occupants
FAIRBANKS, (tf) — Two men
died and a third was seriously
burned in a fire in a three-room
log cabin yesterday.
One of the dead was Fred La
casse and the other was not im
mediately identified. Harold Pier
cy, 40, a body shop operator, was
hospitalized.
They were believed trapped
when an overheated kitchen
stove exploded.
Army Secretary Confers With President
On Disposition of Missile Firing Group
By BEN PRICE
WASHINGTON, UP) — Secretary
of the Army Wilber M. Brucker
hinted today that the fate of the
Army Ballistic Missile Agency,
deeply involved in the space race
with the Soviet Union, was settled
at a White House conference to
day.
Brucker was a late — and not
previously announced — partici
pant in a meeting between Presi
dent Eisenhower and his top space
advisers. The session was set up to
solve the problem of how to push
the United States into stronger
competition' with the Soviets in
the outer reaches.
Emerging from the talks some
time after the others had left,
Brucker was asked if there had
been a decision on the missile
agency and its crack team of space
experts headed by Wernher von
Braun.
He replied that was a matter
in the province of the President.
The White House said Eisen
hower probably will make a state
ment about the meeting after he
arrives in Augusta, Ga.
Specific questions before the
White House conferees included
the disposition of the agency and
specifically what to do about the
Huntsville, Ala., project for de
velopment of the Saturn booster,
a huge cluster of eight rockets
with IVi million pounds of thrust.
That is half again as much
thrust as anything the Soviet
■Union is known to have, and
would hurl bigger payloads far
ther into space.
But the Pentagon does not need
that much push for military
rockets, and has been pulling back
on supporting the program.
There has been talk that Sat
urn support might be shifted to
the civilian National Aeronautics
and Space Administration, and
NASA at one time made a direct
bid for the whole Huntsville op
eration.
Castro Lays Siege
To Refuge Hiding
Former Supporter
HAVANA, (£> — Havana radio
station VOZ said today Prime Min
ister Fidel Castro’s forces have
arrested Maj. Hubert Matos, his
military commander in Camaguey
Province.
Matos had taken refuge at his
headquarters in Camaguey, the
provincial capital, after two of
Castro’s other commanders ac
cused him of treason against the
Cuban revolution.
Castro himself flew from Ha
vana to Camaguey for an assault
on the headquarters. He paced up
and down the main street there
while his radios appealed to
workers and farmers to join him
in the assault.
Matos, who had been one of
Castro’s most respected field com
manders, had resigned as provin
cial military commander in pro
test, apparently against the ap
pointment of Castro’s brother,
Raul, 29, as the new minister of
the Cuban armed forces. The ap
pointment abolished the defense
ministry and gave the young man
complete control over all the
armed forces.
Matos and several of his sup
porters were inside the military
headquarters but Camaguey
friends of the provincial com
mander said he was unarmed and
had not carried a weapon since
sending his resignation to Castro
two days ago.
Castro himself was unarmed as
he strode up and down Cama
guey’s main street conferring with
officials.
Matos was described by resi
dents as “an able and honest
leader who refused to go as far
to the left as some of his asso
ciates.”
WEATHER FORECAST
Partly cloudy tonight and to
morrow with northeasterly winds
15-20 mph. Lowest temperature
expected tonight 25, the high to
morrow 34.
A year ago today: highest tem
perature 34, lowest 10. Extremes
on this date since 1907: highest
46 in 1926, lowest 2 in 1956.
Cripple Rescues
Lake Erie Victim
CLEVELAND, Ohio, UP) — In
spite of two broken legs, Alphonso
Woodall swam into Lake Erie’s
rough waters to save a drowning
man last night.
Woodall’s legs were broken last
March while he was in California
stunting for motion pictures with
a man-carrying kite. He was
hobbling along on crutches at
Gordon Park Beach last night
when out of the darkness came
cries for help.
“God, somebody help me! I’m
going under!”
The cries came from a man
clinging to an overturned motor
boat about 20 yards offshore.
Woodall, 36, a Negro, grabbed
a rope'at a boathouse and took a
j life jacket from his car. He fas
tened the rope about his waist,
gave the end to a passerby, then
dived into the lake.
Swimming to the capsized craft,
he tied the rope around the boat
man. Men on shore pulled them
to safety.
Wodall reinjured his left leg
when waves threw him against
the seawall. The rescued man,
Louis Fabri, 30, was in fair con
dition, suffering from shock and
exposure.
Fabri’s companion on a duck
hunting trip, Eugene Marsh, 29,
was swept away when the boat
overturned. The body was not
found.
‘Joe — Are You There? ..
YONKERS, N. Y., UP) — Mat
thew Sampieri found a stranger
in his bathrom yesterday.
“Who are you?” he asked.
“Plumber,” replied the man,
pressing his ear against the wall.
“Is it still leaking, Joe?” the
man shouted down the bath drain.
No answer.
“Tell you what,” the man said
to Sampieri. “You turn on the
shower and I’ll check the apart
ment below.”
Sampieri turned on the shower
and listened quite a while to the
running water.
When the man didn’t come back,
Sampieri discovered that $450 in
jewelry was missing from his
1 apartment.