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VOL. LXI No. 151 , NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1959 _Per Copy—154
Christmas Play,
Music Highlights
School Program
The annual Community Christ
mas Program, by the Nome School,
will ba held tomorrow evening at
7:30 in 'the School Auditorium.
The program opens with a wel
come by Mary Ann Bayer, who
is Mistress of Ceremonies.
There will be choral readings
and band selections by the grade
and high school classes, directed
by Mr. Barber, and assisted by
Constance Erickson.
The Rhythm Band will be led
by Karen Coons and Kathy Fon
dell.
Three grade school soloists
are Kevin Flanagan, Suzanne
Woodcock and Ted Arnold.
The High School has a mixed
quartet, of Edna and Harry John
sen, Ray Arnold and Ruth
Towner.
Steffen Andersen and Susie
Saito will present whistling duets.
The Christmas Play, “A Strike
In Santa Land,” has the following
cast: John Amundsen, Linda
Doyle, Donnie Young, Danny Fon
dell, Johnny Walsh, Diana O’Con
nor, Dolores Johnson, Linda Hun
gerford, Carrie Ann Ullrich, Sa
rah Oksoktaruk, James Kelliher,
Michael Thompson, Debbie Seals,
John Towner, Linda White and
Joy Woodcock.
Student leaders for the program
are Kathleen Melver, Margaret
Dunlap, Sarah Esenituck, Ellen
Steele, and Alice Atuk. Assisting
•Mr. Denny with tlje stage are Lee
Herman and Andy Miller. Betty
Rose Woodcock is assistant direc
tor.
School directors advise to come
early and get a godd seat. Parents
are now needed to fill the auditor
ium to make the entertainmnt a
success, states the director Mrs.
Pauline Witner.
Bob Hope Brings Massive
Troupe of Stars to
Entertain Alaska Troops
BURBANK Calif., UP — Bob
Hope left by plane yesterday to
entertain U. S. servicemen at
Christmas shows in Alaska.
Accompanying the comedian
are 60 entertainers, including
Jayne Mansfield, Frances Lang
ford, Jerry Colonna, Mickey Har
gitay, actor Steve McQueen, dan
cer Nelle Adams, and Skinnay En
nis and his band.
This is Hope’s eighth Christmas
trip to entertain GIs since 1941.
Christmas School ‘Payola’
WESTBURY, N. Y., UP—'Teach
ers here have been warned against
students who try to curry favor
with “Christmas payola.”
Superintendent of Schools Cecil
I. Rice sent teachers a memoran
dum indicating they may accept
gifts which represent love and re
spect. “But, he added, “if a kid
gives you a $50 gift you’re going
to think a long time before you
flunk that kid.”
He left it to the teachers to de
cide which gifts are sincere and
which are “payola.”
BIG WIND IN BRITAIN
LONDON, UP — Strong gales
which ripped across Britain Sun
day blew two autos off the new
high-speed superhighway linking
London and Birmingham.
One auto was blown over a 50
foot embankment, and the driver
was killed.
Western Chiefs Ask
Soviets to Summit
Meet in April
By GEORGE MacARTHUR
PARIS, — President Eisen
hower sent a letter to Soviet Pre
mier Khrushchev today inviting
him to the first of a series of sum
mit meetings, to “consider interna
tional questions of mutual con
cern.”
Similar letters are going from
the British and French chiefs of
government, as a follow-up to
their Western summit conference
over the weekend.
Eisenhower said this meeting
agreed it is desirable that the
East-West .summit session “con
vene from time to time in each
other’s countries to discuss the
main problem affecting the at
tainment of peace and stability in
the world.”
The first meeting will convene
in Paris April 27 if Khrushchev
accepts .the arrangements.
The Big Four, in their invita
tions to the Soviet leader, ruled
out the participation of divided
Germany, Red China and India.
Eisenhower said goodbye to
Paris after a brief meeting today
with British Prime Minister Mac
Millan, French President De
Gaulle and West German Chan
cellor Adenauer. He flew to
Madrid.
The ceremonies of his depar
i ture from Paris were unusually
brief. Mounting the steps of his
orange-nosed jetliner, after the
playing of the Star Spangled
Banner and the Marseillaise, he
turned and said “Goodbye.”
White House Press Secretary
James C. Hagerty said the “Pres
ident thinks the accomplishments
were fine,” at the four-power
Western summit. In his private
talks with De Gaulle, however,
the President apparently failed to
win De Gaulle over to the Amer
ican view that French air forces
should be integrated into the
NATO command.
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Nome Colleen Will
Vie for Jr. Miss
Title in Alabama
A Junior Miss to represent Al
aska in the third annual Ameri
ca’s Junior Miss Pageant will be
selected January 29-30, 1960 at
Nome.
The Junior Miss Pageant is to
be held March 20-26 in Mobile,
Alabama, during the height of the
famed Azalea Trail, and will offer
$10,000 in scholarship awards to
any accredited college or univer
sity in the nation.
The first two America’s Junior
Misses for 1958 and 1959 were
Phyllis Ann Whitenack, Bluefield,
West Va., and Judi Humphrey,
Lewistown, Pa.
Organized under the sponsor
ship of the Mobile Junior Cham
ber of Commerce, the pageant the
first year attracted entrants from
18 states, the second year 36 state
Junior Misses including Alaska,
and the 1960 pageant is expected
to have contestants from all the
50 states.
Purpose of the contest is to
select “the fairest high school
senior in the land” and to pro
vide her with a $5,000 scholarship
to any accredited college or uni
versity of her choice. The first
runner-up will be awarded a
S3,000 scholarship, the second
runner-up a $1,000 scholarship;
and the third and fourth runners
| up will receive $500 scholarships
each. Contestants will be judged
on personality, character, beauty
and talent.
The Alaska Junior Miss contest
to be held Jan 29-30 is sponsored
by the N.W.A Chamber of Com
merce of Nome. Each of the four
districts of the state will select
one contestant who will in turn
enter the finals here.
The winner of the title of Al
aska’s Junior Miss will then rep
resent Alaska at the pageant in
Mobile in March.
For further information regard
ing the contest contact Don
Hoover, chairman of Alaska’s
Junior Miss contest.
SOVIET PLAN PROPOSES TO BANISH SNOW
FOREVER’ FROM JAPAN, WITH STRAITS DAM
MOSCOW, W) — A Soviet en
gineer has proposed building a
tidal pump and dam which he
said would warm of thousands of
miles of the Pacific coastline of
Asia and banish snow from Japan
forever.
Tass said yesterday his idea is
to throw a dam across Sevelsky
Strait — the five-mile stretch of
water dividing the mainland of the
Soviet Union from the island of
Sakhalin. Its effect would be to
close off cold waters from the
north and a tidal pump would be
used to introduce a warm current
from the south to the area.
The Soviet news agency attrib
uted the idea to a Soviet engineer,
N. Ramonov, and claimed the Pa
cific coast of the Soviet Union,
north China and Hokkaido Island
of Japan all stood to benefit.
Tass said Romanov intended to
work on the /“Kurosiwo,” a warm
current from the south which
fizzles out now in the Sea of
Japan. It explained that because
there was nothing to stop the icy
waters in the Sea of Okhotsk
from the north, harsh cold weath
er now hits the Asian coastline all
the way down to Korea.
“Romanov believes that the
tides in the Nevelsky Strait, which
occur once every six hours, should
be made to actuate a pump, op
erating in conjunction with a dam
to be built in the strait with its
gates opening only northward,”
Tass said.
“At tidal time, the warm waters
from the south will burst into the
bottleneck of the Nevelsky Strait
and on through the gates into the
Okhotsk Sea.
“Once high tide is reached and
the cold stream rushes south along
the shores of Sakhalin and the
Asian mainland, the dam gates
will be shut tight under its pres
sure. They will be operating like
a valve with cycles recurring
once every six hours.”
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KIDNAPED SANTA !
NEW YORK, — During re
cent Christmas seasons, an elec
tric Santa Clause who waves from
his sleigh atop the marquee of-a
hotel on lower Fifth Avenue has
become a landmark. The sleigh is
empty today. Police said two men
early Sunday mounted the mar
quee with a stepladder and kid
naped Santa. They also took a
reindeer.
Cheering Madrid Multitude Greets U. S.
President Riding with Dictator Franco
MADRID, uP) — Hundreds of
thousands of cheering Spaniards
today gave President Eisenhower
the biggest welcome this country
has roared out to a foreign visitor
in modern times.
Flag-waving crowds lined the
streets and hung from trees and
jammed balconies as the Presi
dent rode into Mraidd with Fran
cisco Franco at his side. Eisen
hower is the first top Western
leader to visit the Spanish dic
tator, who wore his generalis
simo’s uniform.
Disregarding a biting wind,
spectators let loose one roar of
cheers after another as Eisenhow
er, standing upright with out
stretched arms, rode by in a
bubble-top limousine.
Nexi-To-Lasl Slop
Eisenhower is making the next
to last stop of his 11-nation tour.
Franco considers this presiden
tial visit a tribute to his support
of the Western Allies against Com
munism. It is a far cry from the
atmosphere of a few years ago,
when the United Nations held the
Franco regime to be a menace to
peace. Today the United States
has some of its best forward
bombing bases in Spain.
In fact, Eisenhower landed at
one of these bases near Madrid,
and Franco, in his welcome, com
mented on that, saying:
“This base of Torrejon, built
with the formidable assistance of
the United States, and sheltering
both Spanish and American wings
in close companionship, is a sym
bol of our friendship.”
Franco exressed hope Eisen
hower’s “epoch-making tour”
would lead to a just and durable
international order.
Lifetime Ambition
Eisenhower said his visit ful
fills the ambition of almost a life
time. He recalled that Spanish
men and women had carried
Spanish culture into America. He
recalled that he was born in Tex
as, where Spanish explorers had
passed centuries ago, and added:
“I have come here with a mes
sage from the American nation
and people for the people of
Spain, a message of wishes for a
brilliant future and a cooperative
effort for liberty and peace.
“'I say to Spain and the Span
ish people that we are working
together for a world free of war N
and hunger and for peace, liberty
and justice.”
A cold wind of nearly 30 miles
an hour had spectators shivering.
On reaching the outskirts of the
capitol, and the start of a six-lane
highway, the President passed
through the brand new Plaza Del
Presidente Eisenhower, named in
honor of his visit. A monument is
to be erected there.
From this circle to Madrid the
highway was a mass of Spanish
and American flags. One overpass
had two gigantic portraits of
Franco and Eisenhower.
Commoner Weds
Shah to Become
3rd Queen of Iran
By JOSEPH E. DYNAN
TEHRAN, Iran, UB — With an
exchange of two plain gold rings,
pretty young Farah Diba today
became the bride of Shah Moham
med Reza Pahlevi, and Queen of
Iran.
Crowds outside the Shah’s
marble palace went wild with joy,
hopeful that his third marriage
will provide a son for the throne
of this ancient kingdom
The 21-year-old brunette com
moner — in diamond tiara and a
costly bluish gray gown from
Paris — was radiant as the Shah
placed a gold ring on her finger.
Farah then took a second ring
from a gold tray and put it on
the monarch’s finger.
She thus became Queen Farah
Pahlevi.
It was the first marriage for
the young Iranian commoner, who
until recently was a student of
architecture in Paris. It was the
third marriage for the Shah, who
at 40 still hopes for a son to suc
ceed him.
The bride wore a flowing blu
ish, pearl gray wedding gown.
Farah foresook the traditional
white in favor of a shade espe
cially designed for her by Yves
Saint Laurent, head of the Paris
House of Dior.
The Shah wore a full ceremo
nial dress of dark imperial blue
trousers and a navy blue coat
.covered with medals.
>J?e Shah divorced his first two
wives because they failed to bear
him ar1 heir to the throne. The
first wife, an Egyptian princess,
bore him a daughter, Princess
Shanaz.
‘House by Side of Road’
For Sale to Satisfy Lien
CANDIA, N. H., WP> — The sta
tutes are written in more severe
meter than that employed by the
late poet Samuel Walter Foss, who
penned:
“Let me live in a house by the
side of the road
And be a friend of man.”
That house, Foss’ birthplace,
and inspiration of the often quoted
lines, faces sale — to satisfy
claims of the State Welfare De
partment.
The last occupant-owner, a
widow of 90, died a year ago.
Foss died about 50 years ago.
The welfare department had
met taxes and repairs, but the
property ;— a two-story farmhouse
and extensive farm buildings on
some 20 acres — has deteriorated
extensively. The department seeks
$2,000.
No heir has put in a claim for
the property, which has a far
higher estimated value than the
amount of the lien.
Interstate Bus, Cattle
Truck Crash, Nine Killed
TUCSON, Ariz., UPi — A grey
hound bus and a cattle truck trav
eling on the wrong side of the
road collided about eight miles
east of here Sunday, killing nine
persons.
The bus driver and six passen
gers were killed along with the
truck driver and his relief man.
Also killed were thirty head of
cattle. The Highway Patrol said
the truck driver apparently
missed a “keep right” sign where
the road divided for repairs. The
truck was on the wrong side when
it struck the bus.
The double-decked truck was
hauling 67 steers.