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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LVIII No. 67 NOME. ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 1956 Per Copy—15^
First Boat Will
Bring New Barges
For Lomen’s Here
SEATTLE, tP)—Two steel tank
er barges and two huge gasoline
deck tanks built in six weeks at
Seattle for a rush Nome project
will go north this week.
They’ll sail as deck cargo on
the freighter Tonsina.
Ordered by the Lomen Com
mercial Co. to ferry petroleum in
from tankers offshore at Nome,
the barges are 80 feet long, with
a capacity of 85,000 gallons apiece.
The tanks, which are 36 feet long
and 10 feet in diameter have a
capacity of 20,000 gallons apiece.
Barges and tanks are valued at
$85,000.
They were designed by naval
architect H. C. Hanson and were
built in six weeks by the Hydraul
ic Supply Co.
Jack Whaley Testifies
Before CAB At Anchorage
Jack Whaley, general manager
for Munz Airways of Nome, Mon
day testified before the CAB in
its fifth day of the intra-Alaska
certification hearings at Anchor
age.
Whaley testified concerning cer
tification of Munz' operations over
irregularly scheduled routes on
Seward Peninsula. He outlined
Munz’ operation as a carrier in
the area on a demand basis, or
service-when-asked - for proposi
tion, between several points on
Seward Peninsula.
Talented Young
People Urged To
Try Out For TV
Children of Nome who wish to
compete for the trip to New York
to appear on the TV show for
the Youth Center are urged to
register with Chief Carl Webb be
fore Saturday.
CBS has asked for at least two
Eskimo dancers, plus one other
act. This is a chance of a life
time for some Nome children.
Mrs. Virginia Brown has don
ated the use of the theater for
the selection of the talent to
make the trip.
Children who participate do not:
have to be professionals. All that
is wanted is for the children to
put on an act to show the TV
audience in the states what the
people of northern Alaska do for
entertainment.
The committee has announced
that the dance sponsored by the
CAP Cadets last Saturday brought
in $502.81 but out of this must be
paid the rent for gym, sanitation,
tickets and dance floor wax.
Donations by any individual or
business house will be greatly ap
preciated. The donations can be
turned in at the police station at
any time.
Contributions to date are as
follows: Judge and Mrs. Walter
Hodge $25, Mary Diede $3, Bill
Haley $3, George Morin $5, Jim
Kealiher $5, Anonymous $1.
Eisenhower Says Aid to Yugoslavia
Must Be Restudied In The Light of
Tito’s New Friendliness To Moscow
By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH
WASHINGTON, UP) —President
Eisenhower said today the whole
question of whether to continue
United States aid to Communist
Yugoslavia must be restudied in
the light of Marshal Tito’s new
friendliness with Moscow.
His statement came at a news
conference in which he:
1. Plugged hard for enactment
of the administration’s $4,900,000,
000 foreign aid program. The
House Foreign Affairs Committee
has voted a $1,109,000,000 cut.
2. Drew away from taking sides
in primary contests between Re
publicans. Eisenhower said he be
lieves it is not the place of the
President of the United States to
intervene in primaries.
Also on the political front, Ei
senhower declined to shed any
light on whether he may cam
paign more vigorously this fall
than he indicated in February. He
said at that time he would do no
barnstorming or whistle stop
speaking, and would confine his
efforts to mass communication
approaches — that is, through
newspapers, television and radio.
Eisenhower launched his con
ference with a call for support in
Congress for his foreign aid pro
gram.
The President said that unless
this country continues the pro
gram on an earnest, sincere basis,
then it will have to spend many
more billions of dollars — com
pared to the foreign aid total—for
what Eisenhower called this neg
ative, static general defense pro
gram.
Politics came up with a question
as to whether Eisenhower planned
to give Sen. Wiley (R-Wis) any
help in his primary campaign.
The Wisconsin state Republican
convention recently refused to en
dorse Wiley, a strong administra
tion supporter on foreign policy,
for a third term. The convention’s
endosement went instead to Rep.
Glen R. Davis, who is backed by
Sen. McCarthy, among others.
Eisenhower replied Wiley him
self had issued a statement saying
he neither wanted nor expected
administration help in his pri
mary contest.
A reporter said at the time
Douglas McKay resigned as Secre
tary of the Interior to run for the
U.S. Senate from Oregon Eisen
hower had in effect endorsed Mc
Kay’s candidacy even though
there were other GOP candidates
bidding for the nomination.
The President replied he had
misunderstood the situation in
Oregon when he gave McKay his
blessing in advance of the pri
mary. Eisenhower said it had
been his understanding the other
GOP candidates were going to
withdraw.
Seaton Confirmed
Unanimously As
Interior Secretary j
WASHINGTON, UP>—'The Sen
ate today confirmed the nomina
tion of Fred A. Seaton to be Sec
retary of the Interior by unani
mous- vote.
The action followed unanimous
approval of the Nebraska publish
er, cattle raiser and former sen
ator by the Senate Interior Com
mittee yesterday.
Both Democratic leader Lyndon
B. Johnson of Texas and Republi
can leader Knowland of Califor
nia commended the appointment
and said they were happy to see
a former colleague elevated to the
cabinet.
The only other speaker was Sen.
Neuberger (D-Ore) who said he
had voted to confirm Seaton in
the Interior Committee but felt he
must point out that the Nebraskan
was becoming head of the Interior
Department in an administration
“that has done more damage to
true conservation than any in
modern times.”
The Oregon senator said Seaton
is faced with numerous tough
questions including whether to ap
prove a high federal dam at the
Hell’s Canyon site on the Oregon
Idaho border, whether to resist
what Neuberger called encroach
ments on the nation’s park sys
tem, whether to grant mining
claims and oil and gas leases on
public lands, and several others.
How he meets these challenges,
Neuberger said, will determine
whether Seaton goes dowp in his
tory as “another Douglas McKay
or Gifford Pinchot.”
Seaton succeeds McKay in the
interior post.
Management of Alaska
Juneau Mine Unseated
SAN FRANCISCO, UR—A stock
holders committee headed by
Charles J. Ver Halen Jr., of Los
Angeles, yesterday unseated the
management of the Alaska Juneau
Mining Co., by electing four out
of seven directors at the post
poned annual meeting.
The new management, charged
in its proxy solicitation that the
management had failed for 12
years to meet operating expenses,
declare a dividend, and to increase
assets. The committee promised to
revitalize the company.
Ver Halen told reporters a num
ber of situations had been pre
sented to the committee which
seemed interesting on their sur
face but which would have to foe
studied before ’action could be
taken.
He said he could not comment
on reopening the mine at Juneau
until the matter had been dis
cussed with competent authorities.
The mine was shut down April 9,
1944 after the price of gold was
pegged at $35 an ounce.
ANDREW SISTERS PATCH UP
FEUD, WILL SING TOGETHER
HOLLYWOOD (JV—The Andrew
Sisters—Patty, LaVerne and Max
ene—have patched up the’- long
standing feud and will resume
working together as a trio June
28. The sisters had business dif
ferences 30 months ago and broke
up after a Las Vegas, Nev., date.
Stevenson Sweeps to Thunderous
Victory Over Senator Kefauver In
California Primary Election Today
Q Trucking Is
Only Bidder On
Road to Fairbanks
Bid opening for the haulage and
placement of 50,000 cubic yards
of gravel for the Nome-Kougarok,
road was made yesterday at 2
p.m. in the office of the Alaska
Road Commission.
Q Trucking Co. submitted the
only bid at $2.35 per cubic yard.
However, according to Frank
Morris, A.R.C. area engineer, the
bid bond, 10 per cent of the
amount bid, was not in order.
The bid has been forwarded to
Irving Reed, territorial highway
engineer for action, which should
be forthcoming in a day or two.
Approximately $80,000 had been
allocated for local contractors to
supply gravel for the road, which
is eventually to become the high
way to Fairbanks.
According to Morris difficulty
in arranging bid bond prevented
other local contractors from bid
ding on the job.
Del. Farrington of Hawaii
Will Make No Predictions ]
On Outcome of Statehood
WASHINGTON, UF> — Delegate
Farrington OR - Hawaii) declined
today to make an predictions on
the outcome of a new move to
obtain congressional action on the
Hawaii statehood bill.
“I hope it will be successful,”
she said, “but I’m not predicting
anything.”
Yesterday, Rep. Saylor (R-Pa)
interrupted a routine committee
session with a preferential motion
to discharge the Hawaii state
hood' bill from subcommittee and
instruct the full committee chair
man to take all necessary parlia
mentary steps to bring it before
the House for action.
Saylor yielded to protests his
motion came without warning
and withdrew it with the under
standing it would be renewed
next Tuesday.
Acknowledging Saylor’s move
was no surprise to her, the Hawaii
delegate said she has continued to
work for Hawaii statehood ever
since the joint bill failed in the
House last session.
“The only question,” she said, j
“has been one of timing.”
Tuesday Baseball
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Kansas City 7, New York 4
Detroit 14, Boston 11
Cleveland 8, Baltimore 3
Washington 3, Chicago 1
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Brooklyn 6, Milwaukee 1
Chicago 7, Pittsburgh 3
St. Louis 3, New York 1
Cincinnati 9, Philadelphia 4
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Seattle 5, San Francisco 4
Portland 5, San Diego 3
Sacramento 7, Los Angeles 6
Hollywood 6, Vancouver 5
SAN FRANCISCO, Oft—Adlai E.
Stevenson swept to a thunderous
California victory today that all
but knocked Sen. Estes Kefauver
out of the running for the Demo
cratic presiential nomination.
Stevenson took California’s 68
Democratic convention votes away
from Kefauver by what approach
ed a landslide margin and forged
so far ahead of his rivals that he
looked like the man to beat for
his party’s nomination. He was
getting 62 per cent of the Demo
cratic vote in California.
Including yesterday’s Califor
nia, Montana and South Dakota
primaries, Stevenson has 259V6
Democratic convention delegates
and Kefauver 166. Other candi
dates have 226 total and 370Vfe
are uncommitted publicly.
Despite his California showing,
the former Illinois governor ap
parently failed to match in his
own ballot total the count rolled
up by an unopposed 70-vote dele
gate slate backing President Ei
senhower for the GOP nomina
tion.
But in their bitterly-fought pri
mary yesterday the combined vote
Democrats gave Stevenson and
Kefauver topped substanially the
ballots cast in he unexciting GOP
contest. Registered Democrats
outnumber Republicans by 782,000
in the state, which Eisenhower
won from Stevenson by 700,00 in
1952.
With 17,797 of 24,160 precincts
counted, the Democratic contest
stood: Stevenson 710,870. Ke
fauver 436,601.
The Republican count from 15,
880 precincts, fewer than tabu
lated in the Democratic contest—
gave Eisenhower 686,374. On this
basis Eisenhower was certain to
top Stevenson.
Conceding defeat Kefauver said
he will continue campaigning for
the Democratic nomination. He
said he will not accept a vice
presidential place on the ticket—
an offer not likely to come to
him if Stevenson wins the top
spot.
Former Republican Sen.
Hiram Bingham Passes On
WASHINGTON, OP — Hiram
Bingham, former Republican sen
ator from Connecticut and a man
of several other careers, died to
day after a long illness. He was
30.
Bingham’s many careers includ
ed that of scholar, explorer,
author, aviator, politician and
business man.
A man of irrepressible vitality
and enthusiasm, he followed all
those achievements by accepting
at the age of 75 chairmanship of
the Truman administration’s Loy
alty Review' Board in 1951. This
was 18 years after he had stepped
out of public life.
Bingham was a U.S. senator for
nine years during the Coolidge
and Hoover administrations. He
previously had been governor and
lieutenant governor of Connecti
cut.