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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LXI No. 112 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1959_Per Copy—15^1
Mr. K. Irked at Security Restraints
The U.S. Provides For His Protection
By ARTHUR EDSON
SAN FRANCISCO, UP>—Nikita
Khrushchev flung off today still
more of the security restraints
and fixed schedules of his Ameri
can tour.
A man who obviously doesn’t
like to be told what he can and
can’t do, the Soviet Premier
: swept into the discard plans for
him to start a tour of the San
Francisco area with a visit to a
supermarket. Instead, he decided
to go to the Longshoremen’s union
hall.
This junked a night of planning
by security officers and left ,a
lot of policemen idly staked out
on a route that Khrushchev did
n’t use.
It also had the security people
jittery. After Khrushchev had
seen the union hall and boarded
a boat for a tour of San Fran
cisco harbor, a security spokes
man was asked by reporters whe
ther the Premier might visit the
supermarket later.
“I don’t know what he is going
to do,” was the reply." He might
turn this boat around and head
hack for shore.”
Irritated With Security
Khrushchev nas been showing
increasing irritation with security
precautions ever since he reached
the West Coast. He was little
short of furious when overruled
in Los Angeles on a desire to visit
the Disneyland amusement park.
Yesterday, he spoke of himself
as finally out of “house arrest.”
He popped off a special train
bringing him to San Francisco
and mingled with people at stops
along the way.
The Premier began today with
a further show of independence
from the planning and restric
tions.
He bounced out of his hotel at
7:30 a.m. and took an unsched
uled two-blocks walk, pausing for
a little sidewalk superintending
of operations of a garbage truck,
and waving at girls riding cable
cars.
The Premier pronounced San
Francisco the most beautiful city
he has seen on his tour but found
a flaw. He wished it had more
■'>- trees.
Khrushchev was disappointed
if he had hoped to find cheers
and applause at the Longshore
men’s hall. There wasn’t anybody
ft there except a gray-shirted union
employe who told him, “We wish
you peace.”
Union leaders had sent the Pre
mier an invitation to come down
and see the day’s crew assign
ment at 6 a.m. but that was all
over long before Khrushchev ar
rived.
With nothing much to see and
nobody to cheer him, the Premier'
left the union hall and boarded
the Coast Guard Cutter Gresham
for a tour of the harbor.
The boat trip took about 40
minutes. Khrushchev wandered
around, chatting animatedly with
the skipper, gesturing and wav
ing. The Premier had a good look
at Alcatraz Island, the federal
maximum security prison.
Sees U.S. Aircraft Carrier
A Navy aircraft" carrier, with
planes bristling on its deck, pre
ceded the Gresham into the bay.
This was Khrushchev’s first look
at one of these mighty U. S., naval
weapons.
From Washington meantime,
came an assist for the be-kind
and be-careful-with Khrushchev
campaign, being pushed by U. S.
officials traveling with the Pre
mier.
White House Press Secretary
James C. Hagerty noted at a news
conference that President Eisen
hower and the Premier will have
talks on East-West tensions at
Camp David, Md., this coming
weekend.
“This purpose of constructive
meetings at Camp David is not
served by any personal discour
tesies extended to Khrushchev
during his visit,” Hagerty said.
In Des Moines, Where Khrush
chev goes Tuesday, word was j?e
is determined to see and talk with
ordinary people. One of his com
plaints has been that he wasn’t
getting to meet enough plain
folks.
Mrs. Henry Cabot Lodge
Describes Mrs. Nina
Khrushchev as ‘Serene’
SAN FRANCISCO, UP—Serene
is the word for Mrs. Nina Khrush
chev in the midst of her husband’s
unpredictable, hectic and free
wheeling tour.
Mrs. Khrushchev is on her first
visit to a country of the West. Is
she relaxed amid America’s top
diplomats, officials and movie
stars?
“I’ve never seen her other
wise,” reports her official hostess,
Mrs. Henry Cabot Lodge, the tall
blonde wife of the U.S. Ambassa
dor to the United Nations.
Boston - born Mrs. Lodge, who
moves with polished grace in dip
lomatic circles, calls the tour “an
experience I will never forget.”
Mrs. Lodge believes the whole
Khrushchev family is enjoying
the visit to America, even if at
times it may seem otherwise. Here
are some of her impressions:
“Almost everything interests
Mrs. Khrushchev,” she says, the
countryside, cattle, even the roof
on a house.”
Mrs. Khrushchev laughed out
loud at the Broadway musical
“The Music Man;” like'd the farm
at Beltzville, Md., best of all. She
seemed to know a lot about trees
and vegetables, spotting them ac
curately.
The Khrushchevs—that is son,
Sergei, and married daughters,
Rada and Julia—and Papa Nikita
—appear to be a very close fam
ily “And I think they have fun
together.”
Alaska Gets Almost
$9 Million in Transition
Funds from Federal Govt.
WASHINGTON, <£> — Alaska
will be almost nine million dol
lars richer this week when it re
ceives another installment of
transitional funds from the Fed
eral government.
Through 1964, the new state
will receive some $28,500,000 in
federal funds to help it make the
transition from a territory to a
state.
An $8,950,000 payment is to be
made this week, bringing the total
for the current fiscal year to
$9,907,000.
AERONAUTICAL
HEARINGS HERE
WEDNESDAY A M.
The Intrastate Aeronautical
hearing is scheduled to be held in
the jury room of the Federal
Building at 11 a.m. Wednesday
morning.
These hearings, being held thru
out the state, are of vital import
ance especially in ateas such as
Nome where transportation is
limited to air travel the greater
part of the year.
In setting up the state routes
many factors involving the rights
of small bush pilots, charter ser
vice in areas served by regular
lines, pilot-owner certificates, are
to be discussed.
CAB will still control the air
safety program but the state will
make its own rules and regula
tions on routes and rights of air
operators.
Several companies are ex
pected to have representation at
the Nome hearing as well as in
dividual pilot operators.
On the Chamber committee par
ticipating in the hearings are: A1
Haferbecker, Jim Blanning, John
Bandy, Bob Harwood, Roy Sny
der, Bill Munz, F. Rhode, Art
Purcell, and Bob Grant.
Carroll Named
Head of Dept, of
Military Affairs
JUNEAU, (Ji—Brig. Gen. Tho
mas P. Carroll, 40, twice-wound
ed Silver Star hero of World War
II, today was renamed Adjutant
General of Alaska.
The appointment by Gov. Egan
placed Carroll at the head of the
State’s Department of Military
Affairs, activated simultaneously
with his reappointment.
Carroll, who became Adjutant
General in November, 1957, with
rank of colonel, heads the state’s
1,700-member National Guard.
He began his military career as
an enlisted man in the South Da
kota National Guard in 1937, and
was appointed Adjutant General
of Alaska originally by former
Gov. Mike Stepovich.
Egan, at a news conference at
which Carroll received his new
oath of office, said the appoint
ment went to a man “very highly
regarded all over Alaska” and one
regarded as “very well qualified.”
The appointment came just two
weeks before the deadline for ac
tivation of the new Military Af
fairs Department under provi
sions of the Reorganization Act
passed by the legislature earlier
this year.
Only -other major department
still unactivated is Education.
Egan has promised quick action
on appointment of Commissioner
of Education after receipt of nom
inations from the Board of Edu
cation, now meeting here.
In some respects the reappoint
ment of Carroll /as a surprise.
The Adjutant General is a Re
publican—the only member of his
party who now is a member of
the governor’s executive cabinet.
Egan said he did not consider
politics in making the appoint
ment, and that politics would be
no consideration in Carroll’s di
rection of the National Guard.
Carroll will receive $12,000 a
year as head of the Military Af
fairs Department, a $2,000 annual
boost over the old salary of Ad
jutant General.
BPR Officials Say Construction Of
Highway 97 Will Be Done Piece Meal
“I think there is economic jus
tification for the continuation of
Highway 97,” stated William J.
Niemi, Regional Engineer for the
BPR, at the meeting held last
Friday in the Federal Building.
The expansion of tourism alone
is an industry worth cultivating
and assisting. He explained fur
ther when questioned on the route
that the road will be built piece
meal and nothing is contemplated
in 1961 for construction on this
end. The road is complete to Eu
reka on the Fairbanks end. It is
estimated that 800 miles of road
must be built to complete High
way 97.
It was revealed that the sur
vey made by the military of a
complete route has -completely
disappeared and cannot be found
in the files of the BPR or U.S.
Engineers.
Testimony supporting the
Nome-Teller road via the route
laid out by Highway Engineer
Irving Reed and reasons for op
posing the proposed shore route
was given by several persons
familiar with the area.
Their testimony showed that
the Reed route not only connected
the two towns but opened a vast
mineral potential. It also was 12
miles shorter than the coast route.
Those giving testimony were Pete
Reader, Charles Reader, Bob Can
non, Bob Blodgett, Charles Jones,
Carl Glavinovich, and a written
statement from Irving Reed.
Although the hearing was pri
marily for the Teller road ques
tions were askeql and problems
presented on other roads.
On the Kuzatrin Bridge con
tract, it was announced that the
contractors were unable to get the
necessary piling due to the steel
strike.
A proposed road from Unala
kleet to Kaltag to the potential
oil field at Kateel was discussed
but Wm. Niemi and Richard A.
Downing, State Commissioner of
Public Works, pointed out that
the present road money was al
ready allocated for thi§ area until
1961 and if "that road were con
sidered more important, then
some other road in the planning
would have to be deleted.
A letter was read from the Arc
tic Circle Chamber of Commerce
at Kotzebue, asking when their
road would be completed, to
which the visiting officials re
sponded that the “project is ready
to go as soon as title or easements
are received from the Bureau of
Indian Affairs.”
An appeal was made for the
Kougarok miners who urgently
need a road from Bunker Hill to
Taylor. District Engineer Evert
Hough stated that it was a legiti
mate request and will be done
pending getting the equipment
into the area. It was recommend
ed that the present road be aban
doned and a new road opened.
When questioned by Joe Kron
inger, head of the Chamber Road
Committee, it was stated that
planned for next year is work on
the Nome-Teller road; Kuzatrin
to Coffee Creek, and Coffee Creek
to Fox Bar.
The State Commissioner pro
mised that bids would be an
nounced very early for this area
so that contractors would have
ample time to be ready in the
spring to start work.
Lavery Building
Burns in Fairbanks
FAIRBANKS, W) — A stubborn
early-Sunday fire destroyed the
old Lavery Building in the heart
of the business district, burning
out several businesses and offices.
Two firemen were injured and
two other buildings damaged.
The loss was estimated by Fire
Chief Frank Jensen at $750,000.
R. K. Lavery, one of the build
ing’s owners, said at Seattle he
could not estimate his loss but
that he was partly covered lay in
surance.
All available firemen and equip
ment here„and from the Ladd Air
Force Base and University of Al
aska were called out after smoke
was discovered billowing from
basement windows of the Thrifty
Variety and Drug Co. shortly be
fore midnight.
Flames soon shot through the
building’s roof. The fire was con
trolled within two hours but the
ruins burned several hours. In the
afternoon cranes pulled down
walls of the two-story structure
as a safety measure.
One of the hospitalized firemen
was injured falling from a ladder,
the other was overcome by smoke.
The second floor of the adjoin
ing Nerland Building, containing
apartments, suffered some fire
damage and water damage was
done to the floor below. The new
Lavery Building, an all-concrete
structure, had water damage to
second floor offices.
SUNDAY BALL SCORES
American League
Detroit 5, Chicago 4
Cleveland 13, Kansas City 7
New York 3, Boston 1
Baltimore 5, Washington 3
National League
Los Angeles 4-5, San Francisco
1-3
Milwaukee 9, Philadelphia 3
Pittsburgh 4, Cincinnati 3
COLLEGE FOOTBALL SCORES
East
Navy 23, Boston College 9
Maryland 27, West Virginia 7
Pittsburgh 21, Marquette 15
Westchester 13, Villanova 7
Carnegie Tech 7, Slippery
Rock 0
Massachusetts 21, Maine 16
Far West Scores
Washington 21, Colorado 12
Oregon 28, Stanford 27
College of Puget Sound 7,
Pacifc Lutheran 6
Utah State 14, Idaho 0
Hawaii 20, Southern Oregon 13
Whitworth 19, Willamette 0
I'VE GOT A SECRET!
EL PASO, Tex., 14’)—A footnote
on U.S. military security:
Everything about the Nike
Zeus, the anti-missile missile, is
classified top secret — especially
its range.
A reporter touring Ft. Bliss
Friday askeo about the missile
and was sho n a manufacturer’s
catalog which listed the missile’s
range as 200 miles.
The catalog is printed by a pri
vate concern and is available to
the public.