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CHAMBER INVITES
U. OF ALASKA
PRESIDENT TO NOME_
The Nome Chamber of Com
merce has invited Dr. William R.
Wood, president of the Univer
sity of Alaska, to visit Nome on
December 12 at which time an
appropriate welcome will be pre
pared for him and his wife.
The visit will give parents of
college students as well as poten
tial students now in high school
an opportunity to meet this newly
appointed official as well as give
Dr. Wood an opportunity to sur
vey Nome in connection with the
vocational school in the planning
as well as an oceanography loca
tion in connection with the new
school planned at the University.
The committee appointed to
head the welcome for Dr.
Wood’s visit is Don Hoover. M. J.
Walsh, Boyd Harwood, Robert
Grant and Pearse Walsh.
On Monday he will be a truest
at the Chamber luncheon follow
ed by a tour of the school when
he will address an assembly.
Regent Boyd Harwood with
past Regent M. J. Walsh will per
sonally see that Dr. Woods meets
all business people during the
afternoon and a no-host dinner is
planned that evening. Parents of
students at the University are
particularly invited to attend.
On Tuesday he will be given a
bush tour of the villages and that
evening will meet with the teach
ers at the school.
If possible he will be taken to
St. Lawrence Island on the Wed
nesday morning flight before re
turning to Fairbanks.
Britain Promises To
Help Combat Drain
On U.S. Gold Reserves
LONDON, UP) — The United
States today won Britain’s sup
port for a concerted Allied effort
to check the drain on U.S. gold
reserves.
British officials said the U. S.
economic mission did not ask for
any direct aid from Britain. But
it was agreed both nations would
use their influence within the 15
nation Atlantic alliance for action
to relieve the U.S. foreign defense
burden.
Nixon Calls On Eisenhower For
Firs! Time Since Eleclion
WASHINGTON, GW—-Vice Pre
sident Richard Nixon called at
the White House today and talked
with President Eisenhower for
an hour and five minutes. It was
the first time they have gotten
together since the presidential
election.
There was no word on what
they talked about. Nixon left
without seeing newsmen.
Northwind Is First Ship
To Spend Thanksgiving
In Nome Roadstead
For the first time in the his
tory of the community a ship
was anchored in the roadstead for
Thanksgiving. The U. S. C. G.
Northwind arrived as scheduled
yesterday and will remain until
later in the week. Although it
uses ’copters for transportation
to and from the ship, oomiaks
were out to the ship yesterday.
Capt. Russell Waesche was
scheduled to speak informally
this afternoon at a coffee break
about 2:30 at the Seaview Room
on his late trips in the Arctic,
taken for scientific purposes with
a group of oceanographers on
board.
Local Civil Air
Patrol Officers
Are Promoted
The National Headquarters of
the Civil Air Patrol have announ
ced several promotions in Alaska
j including the following:
| Group Commander F. S. Rhode
has been promoted to Lieut. Col.
! and he stated a complete reor
1 ganization is being made with
Nome the headquarters for the
area east to Galena and north
to the Brooks Range. The new
group, stated Rhode, will have an
attached flight section and a sep
arate cadet squadron.
Lester Bronson was promoted
from Major to Lieut. Col. and
assistant to the Wing Commander
for legislative work. Fritz Cham
bers and Martin Olson both re
ceived pilot ratings to the Nome
i Squadron.
In charge of the cadets is Jess
Jones as commandant, assisted by
his wife and with 1st Lt. Grant
I Doyle heading the cadets.
Specially honored is Capt.
Scotty Rhode who received a
Meritorious Award for seven
year’s service. Del Kampman has
been appointed deputy group
commander, and Gurney Warn
berg, who will be arriving for the
j FAA here, is destined to be chief
of the flight operations for the
group.
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Touring Governors Meet
j First Anti-Americanism
In South America
SAO PAULO, Brazil, i/P) — New
pro - Castro demonstrations met
touring U.S. governors today in
Brazil’s largest and most indus
trialized city.
“Cuba si, Yankee No,” shouted
: a dozen college-age students out
side a restaurant where the 28
' governors lunched as guests of
' the American Chamber of Com
merce.
Across the street, placards car
ried other messages supporting
Prime Minister Fidel Castro’s
government in Cuba. Students
also carried painted signs.
“God save the American peo
ple. We don’t want a third world
war,” the students shouted. “Cuba
is for Cubans. Get out of Cuba.”
The governors are nearing the
end of a two-week tour of Ar
gentina and Brazil as guests of
the two governments. There were
no demonstrations in Argentina,
but last night the governors ran
into their first visible and verbal
anti-Americanism in Brazil’s new
capital, Brasilia.
Air Force Announces
$4,210,000 Construction
In Northern Alaska
WASHINGTON, (jT> — The Air
Force has announced release of
$4,210,000 for construction in Al
aska.
The Alaskan congressional
delegation was told the money
will toe used in constructing
these facilities:
Bethel Air Force Station:
$830,000 for radar towers and pri
mary electric power.
Kotzebue Air Force Station:
$370,000 for a radar tower.
Northeast Cape: $1,230,000 for
an 80-man dormitory and primary
electric power.
Sparrevohn Air Force Station:
$1,360,000 for water supply, pow
er facilities and a radar tower.
Unalakleet Air Force Station:
$520,000 for a radar tower.
193 Persons Die
On Thanksgiving
• tty The Associated Press)
Traffic . 137 |
Fires . 22
■Miscellaneous . 34
Total . 193
Accident fatalities made the
Thanksgiving holiday a tragic
time in many American homes.
The traffic toll reached 137 as
the extended weekend’s second
day wore on. Fires took 22 lives
since Thanksgiving eve. Other
types of accidents left 34 dead.
The total reached 193.
Traffic was not notably heavy,
but it mingled perilously the
hurrying and the unhurried, the
impatient and the inattentive.
Some crashes took several lives
at once. This was true, also, of
fires.
In last year’s four-day Thanks
giving holiday weekend, the count
was 445 traffic fatalities, 70 dead
in fires and 135 killed in miscel
laneous accidents, a total of 650.
The 1958 holiday traffic toll was
454, fires claimed 54 lives and
118 died in miscellaneous mis
haps. The over-all total was 626.
Diefenbaker Urges
Realistic Review of West’s
Policy Toward Red China
OTTAWA, UPl — Prime Minister
John G. Diefenbaker urges that
the West make a “realistic re
view” of its policies toward Red
China and recognize the import
ance of bringing that country into
any major political settlement.
“So vast and almost number
less a people cannot be ignored,”
Diefenbaker said in a speech on
Canada’s foreign policy before the
Canadian Club of Ottawa last
night.
The United States has been a
leader in the fight to keep Red
China out of the United Nations.
Washington has never officially
recognized the Peiping govern
ment.
The Canadian Prime Minister
said a policy review is mandatory
because of “the frightening sha
dow of fear” that Peiping’s ag
gressive declarations have cast
over all mankind.
“The world is too interlocked
with its common dangers to ex
clude almost one quarter of the
human race from the areas of
major political settlement,” Dief
enbaker told the gathering.
Tourism Meeting In
Juneau Starts Monday
JUNEAU, UP)—State Commerce
Commissioner A. H. Romick said
today that 44 persons have in
dicated they will be in Juneau
Monday for a two-day conference
on tourism in Alaska.
Romick said the conference will
go over several phases of the
tourist indusry, including trans
portation,. housing, eating estab
lishments, advertising and pro
motion, points of tourist interest,
sports and recreation, tourist item
merchandising and hospitality.
Small Bombs Explode In Havana
HAVANA, UP) — Ten small
bombs exploded in widely sep
arated areas of Havana during
the night and the crew of a
police patrol car found another
bomb that had not exploded. One
man was injured by the blasts.
The bombings, which occur
nightly, usually are attributed to
the anti-Castro underground.
CHAMBER COMMITTEE
NAMED TO WORK ON
VOCATIONAL SCHOOL
Nome’s active Chamber of
Commerce has wasted no time in
setting up a permanent committee
to promote the building of the all
important vocational school here
as soon as possible.
The committee is composed of
a cross section of the commun
ity and includes Conrad Potter,
Robert Grant, Don Perkins, Don
Hoover, Boyd Harwood, Steffen
Andersen, Carl Glavinovich, Art
Johnson, George Bayer, John Mc
Nees, Bob Blodgett and Lester
Bronson. Their first responsibility
will be to study the area for the
best locations available.
Commissioner Theo Norby is
being invited to visit Nome in
connection with this project im
mediately following the meeting
of the State Board of Education
which is being held in Anchorage
on December 5, and at which the
vocational school will be discus
sed. Also to be invited is Jim
Hawkins, area director of the Bu
reau of Indian Affairs.
Inquiry Concludes
Work Stoppages
Are On Way Out
NEW YORK, W> — A church
sponsored inquiry concluded to
day that last winter’s 116-day
steel strike foreshadowed an end
of the usefulness of work stop
pages in America.
“It seems clear enough,” said
the report, “that our society,
though still maintaining the basic
right to strike, has advanced to
the point where work stoppages
will increasingly be felt to have
outlived their usefulness.”
The report was drawn up by a
special 17 - member committee,
headed by Charles P. Taft, of
Cincinnatti, chairman of the De
partment of the Church and Ec
onomic Life of the National Coun
cil of Churches.
The study group, first of its
kind sponsored by a major church
organization, spent several
months investigating the ethical
issues posed by the drawn-out,
costly steel strike of late 1959 and
early 1960.
Kennedy’s Popular Vote
Margin over Nixon 213,502
With 800 Precinct Still Out
WASHINGTON, UP) —Democrat
John F. Kennedy’s popular vote
margin in the Nov. 8 election re
mained at 213,502 today as Illin
ois Republican leaders considered
carrying a ballot controversy to
court.
Latest totals were Kennedy
34,019,970 and Vice President
Richard Nixon 33,806,458 with
more than 800 of the nation’s
166,064 precincts still to report.
Kennedy’s electoral vote count
held at 300—31 more than the
total needed for election.
In Illinois, which has 27 elec
toral votes, Cook County (Chic
ago) Republican chairman Fran
cis X. Connell said his party will
file petitions seeking a recheek
of paper ballots in many heavily
Democratic precincts.
The Chicago election board on
Wednesday declared its canvass
to be complete. But Republicans
promptly asked a further investi
gation of alleged vote frauds and
charged the canvass proclamation
was issued illegally.
According to canvasses, Ken
nedy carried Illinois by 8,220
votes.
John Jr. Born to
President-Elect
And Mrs. Kennedy
WASHINGTON, UP! — A son,
John Fitzgerald Jr., was born to
day to President - elect Kennedy
and his wife Jacqueline in cir
cumstances that brought the fa
ther speeding back from a Florida
vacation in an emergency after
midnight flight.
Both mother and child were re
ported doing well after the speed
up delivery by Caesarean section.
The father was a man full of
obvious pride and delight after
a grim hour of worry.
“Excellent” was the report of
Dr. John A. Walsh, the attending
physician, on the condition of
both mother and child some 11
hours after delivery. The doc
tor said both parents are de
lighted that the baby is a boy.
Events came in rapid fire or
der last night after Kennedy set
out by plane to resume the post
election vacation he had broken
to spend Thanksgiving with his
wife and their 3-year-old daugh
ter.
At 10:15, while Kennedy was
airborne, Mrs. Kennedy called
the doctor.
The physician summoned an
ambulance, visited his patient and
beat the ambulance to the hos
pital.
Caesarian delivery had been
planned long in advance for Dec.
12 but events “occurred a little
sooner than we had expected,”
Dr. Walsh said.
By 12:22 the baby was de
livered.
But a minute later when Ken
nedy landed at Palm Beach the
only word over a telephone line
held open for him was that the
operation was going on.
Kennedy was airborne again,
grim of face, in less than half
an hour on a bigger and faster
plane.
At 1:05 word was radioed to
him that “it’s a boy” and the
President-elect relaxed.
Landing at Washington at 4:04
a.m., Kennedy was at the hospital
at 4:16.
He visited briefly with his wife,
still groggy from medication, re
ceived the doctor’s reassuring re
ports and went home to bed an
obviously happy man.
The baby is the first son for
the President-elect and his wife.
Their daughter, Caroline, will be
3 on Sunday.
Flood Waters Sweep
Western Oregon
PORTLAND, Ore., UP) — Flood
waters coursed from ankle to
waist deep through scores of west
ern Oregon communities today.
Heavy rains put one entire town,
of 1,000 population under water.
U.S. 101 along the coast, U.S.
22 across the Cascade Range and
many secondary routes were
blocked by rampaging streams
and slides touchd off by a
Thanksgiving Day downpour that
continued today.
Most residents sat it out as
the water swirled into stores and
homes, but an estimated 50 fam
ilies were evacuated in scattered
areas. No casualties were re
ported.
Warm winds from the Pacific
Ocean brought the heavy rains,
but later the weather turned
cold. A chill rain continued along
the coast and in the Willamette
Valley, but snow began falling in
the Cascade and Coast ranges.