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__ OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL, LIX NO. 46_NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1957 per Copy—15<!
FHA to Assist
Nome in New
Home Construct’n
By RUTH McLEAN
Community affairs occupied the
attention of the NWA Chamber of
Commerce at their regular weekly
luncheon meeting yesterday.
President Jim Walsh read a
copy of a letter sent by the Nome
City Council to Allen D. Hulen,
regional administrator of the
CAA, concerning a new terminal
building at Nome Field. The
Chamber members were advised
that such a building and a control
tower are acutely needed and also
can be a source of good revenue
to the city. In the letter to Mr.
Hulen, the various airlines and
government agencies interested in
space in the proposed terminal
(building were asked to submit an
estimate of their needs to the city.
As chairman of the Tourist
Committee, Wilbur Arnold sug
gested that a souvenir certificate
be prepared for sale to visitors to
Nome, and asked that ideas for j
such a ertifiate be passed along to
his committee.
Jerry Manning announced that
the FHA has agreed to accept ap
plications for loans in Nome and
that the M & M Bank has plans
available for prefabricated homes.
On behalf of the MMM Hospi
tal, Dr. Langsam accepted a check
in the amount of $121.15 from
Mrs. Virginia Brown. This repre
sented the proceeds from the
Easter style show held at The
Theater.
Nome merchants are asked to
work with their wholesale houses
to ship their orders in cribs. Boyd
Harwood advised that the Alaska
Steamship Co. will use cribs again
this summer.
A guest at the Chamber lunch
eon was Mrs. Everett Bachelder.
PNA Made
Record Earnings
Last Year
SEATTLE, April 16—Pacific
Northern Airlines, Inc., celebrat
ed its 25th year of service to Alas
ka with record earnings and rev
enues in 1956, it was disclosed
today by Arthur G. Woodley,
president and general manager, in
the Annual Report mailed to
shareholders.
’ During the year, the company
provided more service to Alaska
than any other air carrier, and
gross revenues rose better than
27 percent over 1955. Mr. Wood
ley expressed confidence that 1957
will show further improvement
and enhance Pacific Northern
Airlines’ position as the dominant
airline serving Alaska.
Gross operating revenues for
1956 totalled $9,607,854, an in
crease of more than 27 percent
over the revenues reported during
the preceding year. New traffic
records were established in all
departments last year, the report
disclosed. Total ton-miles of rev
enues increased more than 12 per
cent during 1956, amounting to
14,218,000 tone-miles compared
with 12,671,000 in 1955.
Federal Conciliator
To Aid in Wage
Negotiations in Anchorage
SEATTLE, U?i—Federal concili
ator Albin Peterson flew to An
chorage yesterday for meetings
that may break the stalemate on
1957 labor negotiations for 10,000
men in the Alaska construction
industry.
The Associated General Con
tractors will meet in Anchorage
today with Peterson and repre
sentatives of the operating engi
neers, teamsters, iron workers,
bricklayers, laborers, cement ma
sons, plasterers and lathers union.
Unions prepared to take strike
votes after negotiations on wages,
travel pay and other issues broke
down in Seattle March 20.
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P.O. BACK ON
SCHEDULE
WASHINGTON, UPV—President
Eisenhower said today Postmaster
General Summerfield acted with
his complete approval in curtail
ing mail service last week.
Summerfield ordered most post
offices closed and mail delivery
stopped last Saturday because
Congress had not acted on his re
quest for $47 million to carry his
department during the remaining
2Vz months of the bookkeeping
year. ,
Last night Summerfield called
off most of the cutbacks. He acted
within minutes after Eisenhower
had signed a bill, sent to him by
Congress late yesterday, giving
the Post Office $41 million.
Eisenhower was asked at his
news conference if Summerfield’s
cutbacks were ordered to drama
tize administration opposition to
congressional budget cuts and
whether he approved his Cabinet
member’s position.
Eisenhower said it was clear
Summerfield didn’t have the
money to carry on.
Summerfield said last night
that “within 24 hours mail service
will be back to nearly the same
basis” as before his April 5 re
trenchment order.
That means post office windows
will be open as usual next Satur
day, April 20.
Summerfield noted that Congress
gave him $6 million less, than he
had asked for. Hence, he said, his
department “is still faced with a
difficult job to maintain service
within the funds available for the
balance of this fiscal year.”
He therefore directed continued
limitation of downtown business
area mail deliveries, a limit of
8V& hours window service, and
postponement of a $3 million pur
! chase of postal supply items.
QUIZ WHIZ MARRIES
FAN MAIL SECRETARY
CHARLOTTE AMALIE, Virgin
Islands, —Charles Van Doren
of television quiz fame, today
married the girl who became his
secretary to handle his fan mail,
Geraldine Ann Bernstein.
The bride is the niece of Mr.
and Mrs. Sidney Kessler, owner
of the Virgin Isle Hotel.
‘Cost of Governm’t
Out of Line,’ Says
Edgar Eisenhower
WASHINGTON,, UP5—President
Eisenhower said today that ever
since he was five years old his
brother Edgar has been criticizing
him.
He gave that reply—with a
broad smile—-when asked at his
news conference about criticism
of his budget voiced by Edgar
Eisenhower, an attorney whose
home is in Tacoma, Wash.
A reporter told the President
Edgar Eisenhower had said he
thought, perhaps Milton Eisen
hower, another brother, and Sher
man Adams, White House chief of
staff, were exerting undue “liber
al” influence on the President.
Edgar Eisenhower had said that
while he does not “see eye to eye”
with Sherman Adams, he is not
concerned about the White House
influence of Adams and automo
bile magnate Paul G. Hoffman.
In today’s interview Edgar Ei
senhower was asked about his
views on federal aid to education,
a field in which the President is
asking for U.S. money to build
classrooms.
“Personally I don’t think there
is any power in the federal gov
ernment to grant aid to the
schools,” Edgar Eisenhower re
plied. “I think the states have the
ability to look after themselves.
I think it is a state problem.”
In yesterday’s interview, Edgar
Eisenhower said he can’t under
stand why the administration’s
budget—$71.8 billion—is so big.
“I certainly feel the cost of gov
ernment is getting way out of
line,” Edgar said. “Everybody is
asking for economy in govern
ment because it is taking a large
portion of our income as it is, and
I’m very conscious of that.”
Seaman Pleads
Guilty of Murder
At Kodiak
\
ANCHORAGE, UP—A witness
flown from Washington, D.C., tes
tified yesterday Gerald L. Linam,
20, New Orleans Navy seaman,
was in his bunk asleep while two
other seamen engaged in a fight
which resulted in one’s death.
The testimony was at a pre
sentence hearing for Michael B.
Jenulis, 24, Rockaway Park, N.Y.
Jenulis pleaded guilty last week
to second degree murder for the
beating death of Olaf Jensen on
the Navy vessel Mission Soledad
at Kodiak on March 17.
The new witness testified that
as he entered Linam’s cabin with
a drink for Linam he found him
asleep and Jensen and Jenulis
wrestling on the floor.
“Jenulis picked up a cbt stick
and hit Jensen,” Mahoney testi
fied. “The stick broke on the first
or second blow. Then he (Jenulis)
stood over him and beat him some
more.”
Linam has also been charged
with murder for the death of
Jensen. His trial is to follow the
hearing.
MORE STATEHOOD
HEARINGS
APRIL 29
WASHINGTON, UP)—The chair
man of the House Territories sub
committee said today further con
sideration will be given the Alas
ka statehood bill at subcommittee
hearings April 29 and 30.
Rep. O’Brien (D-NY) said ne
hopes the two days will permit
the committee to complete study
of the bill for possible amend
ments. He said he plans to go be
fore the House Rules Committee
shortly after the Interior Commit
tee acts in an effort to bring the
Alaska bill to the House floor.
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Eisenhower
Hopes to Solve
Suez Problem
By Marvin L. Arrowsmiih
WASHINGTON, UP)—President
Eisenhower said today the United
States still has some hope of solv
ing the Suez Canal problem with
out resort to the U.N. Security
Council.
The President told a news con
ference it is not necessarily so
that this country already has de
cided to put the disagreement
with Egypt before the Council.
The United States, Eisenhower
added, has not completely given
up hope for an equitable solution.
(At U.N. headquarters Western
diplomatic quarters said today
they are encouraged at private
negotiations over Suez, and the
Western powers have decided not
to bring the issue before the Se
curity Council this week.)
On a related matter, Eisenhow
er said the U.S. still regards both
the Gulf of Aqaba and the Suez
Canal as international waterways
available to ships of all countries.
He was asked how long the U.S.
plans to continue asking Ameri
can ships to refrain from use of
the canal. Eisenhower said he
does not believe we have made
any such request. Then he went
on to say it is up to each firm to
decide for itself.
The shipping companies have
been told to be prudent, however,
Eisenhower said.
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AFL Leader Will
Not Support Beck
WASHINGTON, UP)—Teamster
union moves to delay or talk their
way out of a showdown on AFL
CIO corruption charges seeme’d
likely today to run into a solid re
buff from the federation.
Sources in the parent federa
tion said trial procedures already
set for Dave Beck, president of
the teamsters union, and the huge
trucking union itself are fair and
“leave no room for negotiation.”
The teamsters’ executive board
contended the charges against
Beck were not specific, said it
would attend no hearings until
“fundamentals of fair adjudica
tion” are assured.
The AFL-CIO charges are
based on Beck’s invoking the 5th
Amendment in refusing to tel]
Senate rackets investigators of his
admitted personal use of union
funds, and court indictments
against other high officers of the
union. •
Boiled down, the attitude of
AFL-CIO President Meany and
other chiefs of the big labor com
bine seems to be this: either the
teamsters rid themselves of Beck
and other leaders whose actions
have been criticized, or the union
is going to be kicked out of the
federation.
That has been the rule for the
smaller AFL-CIO affiliates facing
similar charges. And Meany said
recently the rule will be the same
for all.
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Union Good Friday Service
APRIL 19th 1:00 - 2:00 P.M.
AT THE COVENANT CHURCH
“Surely He hath borne our griefs, and carried our
sorrows . . . He was wounded for our transgressions,
He was bruised for our iniquities . . From Isaiah 53
PROGRAM
INVOCATION . Everett Bachelder
HYMN, “Man of Sorrows” . Congregation
SCRIPTURE and PRAYER . Willard Mecklenburg
TRIO, “Thirty Pieces of Silver” . Nome Gospel Home
POEM, “The God of the Jew” . Edgar Bibb
SPECIAL NUMBER . Community Methodist
GOOD FRIDAY SERMON . Thomas Knudson
“The People Stood Beholding” —Luke 23:27-38
CHOIR, “My Crucified Saviour” . Covenant Church
| HYMN “When I Survey the Wondrous Cross” Congregation
BENEDICTION
Accompanist.Harriet Brown