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VOL. LX No. 35 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1958 _Per Copy—15?
Japanese Desire
Meeting to Resolve
Fishing Problems
SEATTLE, UPt—An official of
the International Association of
Machinists said that leaders of
the Japanese Fishermen’s Union
want to meet with representatives
of American unions in the fishing
industry in an attempt to solve
the North Pacific salmon crisis.
Rudolph Faupl, who represents
the Machinists in foreign affairs,
said the Japanese union leaders
believe they can, in a face-to-face
meeting with their American
counterparts, reach an under
standing on the salmon problem.
American fishermen have
blamed fishing by Japan’s high
seas salmon fleet for a serious
decline in American and Alaskan
salmon stocks. They have urged
a drastic cutdown in U.S. imports
of low-cost Japanese tuna and
salmon.
Faupl said such demands have
been interpreted in Japan as evi*
dence of anti - Japanese feeling
and have been exploited by Japa
nese Communists.
“Anything like an arbitrary
tariff could upset the trade bal
ance between the United States
and Japan and throw Japan into
the Communist orbit. And God
help us if Russia ever gets the
know-how and ability of Japan.”
Miss Catlin Sends Tapes
Instead of Letters In
Answer to Queries
There are many ways in telling
the world about Alaska and Opal
Catlin, administrator for the hos
pital has initiated a new method
of spreading the information.
Instead of answering inquiries
from organizations seeking such
information about Nome and the
hospital with a letter, she has
carefully prepared tapes with 15
minutes programs for them which
she sends complete with pictures
of the hospital and its staff.
Communities receiving them
are not only using them for club
programs but in some cases have
had them broadcast over radio
stations as well.
One interesting part of the
broadcast pinpoints the fact that
the MMM Hospital is the farthest
northwestern hospital on the
coast of North America open to
all people, also that on its staff
are not only white nurses, but
Eskimo, Lucie Okpealuk, gradu
ate nurse; Samoan, Faafouina
Velegg, graduate nurse; Philip
pine, Silvario Ruiz, cook, and re
tired U.S. Navy chef.
Harry Morrison of M-K
Is Recipient of Award for
Economic Statesmanship
SEATTLE, UPi—Harry W. Mor
rison, co-founder and president
of the Morrison - Knudsen Co.
Inc., was named today as the
1958 recipient of Seattle Univer
sity’s National Award for Econ
omic Statesmanship.
Morrison, of Boise, Idaho, was
cited “for his striking contribu
tion to the strength of American
* enterprise and to the security of
our nation and for the practice
of statesmanship in the interna
tional operations of his company.”
Missile Expert
Says U.S. Is
Trying Too Hard
LOS ANGELES, UPI — T h e
United States is hog-tied in the
satellite race because it is trying
to produce an elaborate space ve
hicle too soon, says Dr. Werhner
Von Braun.
This country’s leading missile
expert last night criticized the
“idolized weapons system con
cept” — the idea of integrating
the vehicle, its armament, navi
gational aids and supporting
ground equipment before it is
launched.
“Did the Wright Brothers op
erate under the weapons system
concept?” Von Braun asked in
addressing the Wester^i Space
Age 'Conference.
“Let’s get a good, big rocket
engine adequate to power a man
ned orbital rocket, even if the
latter does not qualify as an inte
grated weapons system but is no
thing but a glorified test bed,”
he said.
“We are literally hog-tied be
cause we cannot proceed without
first satisfying all the small print
specifications required under the
idolized weapons system con
cept,” said Von Braun, chief of
the guided missile development
at the Army’s Redstone Arsenal
at Huntsville, Ala.
This concept is thoughtlessly
applied to the United States’
fledgling steps into space, said
Von Braun, adding:
“In fact, I am quite convinced
it has already cost us serious de
lays.”
New Military Pay
Bill Puts Premium
On Special Skills
By EDMOND LEBRETON
WASHINGTON, UP)—A top en
listed man in the U.S. armed ser
vices could make more than"
$10,000 a year if Congress passes
the military pay bill the House
will consider Monday.
An officer could make more
than $31,000.
These woud be rare cases, but
compensation of practically all
career men in the armed services
would be stepped up consider
ably, and the raises would be
heftiest in the top brackets of
both enlisted and officer ranks.
This is deliberate policy, to en
courage men to make their car
eers in uniform.
Moreover, the services would
be authorized to give enlisted
men special promotions, or extra
pay up to $1,800 a year, if they
became proficient in skills need
ed by the services.
Disregarding scattered com
plaints that the bill estimated to
cost more than 600 million dollars
a year was being rushed without
much consideration, the House
Armed Services and Rules Com
mittees highballed the measure
through yesterday.
It was said the bill was ex
pected to produce a “more stable,
more efficient force for national
defense.”
The services have been com
plaining they cannot keep highly,
and expensively, trained techni
cians nor talented young officers,
and that the cost of training new
batches every year is oppressive.
Officers and enlisted men with
less than two years service—most
of whom would be doing obli
gated service — would get no
raises.
Funds Allocated
For 2nd Division
Airport Work
WASHINGTON, UPI — The De- j
partment of Gommerce allocated
$1,350,000 in federal matching
funds for Alaska airports. The
breakdown includes:
Hooper Bay, $187,500 for land,
construction of landing strip,
parking apron and access roads
•and to surface runway and apron
with steel mat.
Teller, $150,000 for land and
construction of landing strip, air
craft parking apron and access
road.
Kivalina, $60,000 for land and
construction of landing strip,
parking area and access road and
for stabilization of the runway
and parking apron.
Kobuk, $37,500 for land, and
construction of a gravel surface
landing strip and parking apron I
and access road.
Marshall, $112,500 for land and I
construction of landing strip and j
parking area.
Noatak, $45,000 for land and
construction of landing strip,
parking apron and access road.
Russian Mission, $75,000 for
land and construction of a gravel
surface landing strip, parking
apron and access road.
Living Costs Still
On Rise Despite
Business Downturn
WASHINGTON, UP — A new
high for food costs sent the na
tion’s living cost level to still
another peak mark in mid-Feb
ruary.
The official index rose two
tenths of 1 per cent between
January and February, reaching
122.5 per cent of the 1947-49 av
erage. This is 3.2 per cent higher
than a year ago.
The reason -living costs are not
responding to the general busi
ness decline, but continuing up
ward on their own, is that most
consumer cost items don’t re
spond quickly to general econ
omy conditions.
Durables, such as autos, appli
ances and so on, and soft goods,
such as gasoline, fuels' and coth
ing, are responding somewhat to
the general downturn.
But food and service costs —
haircuts, medical care, puibic
transportation, rent, repair and
cleaning charges — are still ris
ing.
Charge and Countercharge
In Canadian Campaign
TORONTO, UP>—Liberal leader
Lester Pearson says his party
wants an agreement with the
United States to coordinate pro
duction and marketing of oil, cop
per, nickel, zinc and other strate
| gic minerals and metals.
Campaigning last night at Blind
River near Toronto, Pearson said
if the Liberals win the March 31
parliamentary elections they will
try to establish a high-level U.S.
■Canadian committee for that pur
pose.
Pearson blamed the Conserva
tives for recession and unemploy
ment. He said Canada had 550,000
persons unemployed last month.
Conservative Prime Minister
John Diefenbaker, speaking in
Ontario, said the Liberals did no
thing about rising unemployment
a year ago. He added they now
have become “prophets of gloom
and apostles of doom.”
Northeastern States Hit by Snowstorm
With Hurricane Force, At Least 39 Dead
(By The Associated Press'
A winter’s - end snowstorm
slammed the northeastern sea
board today with a fury which at
times eclipsed the devastating
hurricanes of recent years. Life,
property and services received
shuddering blows.
From Virginia to New England,
gale force winds flung mountain
ous heaps of snow onto the land
scape and sent high tides lashing
at the shorelines as the first
hours of spring arrived.
Transportation was badly snar
led. Hundreds of thousands of
homes, stores and offices were
without electricity and telephone
service. Thousands of persons in
heatless homes were evacuated.
Schools by the hundreds were
closed.
The snow reached a crippling
depth of three feet in southeast
ern Pennsylvania, but stinging
hard winds piled up much higher
drifts at many places.
Even Washington, D.C., had 20
inches; New York City had 11.
Ferocious winds actually reach
ed hurricane velocity of 75 miles -
an hour at times in New England.
The death toll mounted hourly
with at least 39 lives lost up to
midmorning today.
At Morgantown, Pa., more than
800 people were marooned all
night at a small restaurant on the
Pennsylvania turnpike. Food sup
plies had to be rationed to the
giant group of motorists, truck
ers, entertainers, babies and
others.
Hundreds of airline flights
were cancelled or flights termin
ated at different cities than sched
uled. Long distance trains were
creeping along, hours late.
Warm Weather
Noted At Nenana
By DON R. CLARK
Nenana Ice Classic Manager l
NENANA — The ice was mea- j
sured today under the Nenana Ice j
Classic tripod and is still the i
same thickness, 42 inches, so it j
has not changed from the mea-1
surement of last month.
A hole has * opened below the
Nenana river in the Tanana ap-!
proximately one mile below the1
tripod, so this unusually warm j
weather we are having must 'bej
having some effect on the ice in
places.
The wire will be strung from |
the tower on the bank to the tri- j
pod in midstream on Saturday. Itj
will be marked with several dif
ferent colored flags so that planes |
will not fly into it. Fred Mueller i
and William Monroe will do the!
rigging as they have done for j
many years.
The Ice Classic clock is being j
sent to Heinz Orchard, jeweler at,
503 Third Ave., Fairbanks for its [
yearly check up.
Monday Is Last
Day To File For
The City Election
Monday is the deadline for fil
ing of candidates for city office.
Todate there have been three|
candidates filing for the school
board: Willie Foster for the one
year term; Dorothy Grant for the
three-year term, and Roy Snyder
for the five-year term. There are
three openings on the School
Board: Jim Walsh and Bill Bar
ber, who have resigned, and Ben
Young, who has completed his
term of office.
Helen Fagerstrom and George
Bayer are the remaining two
members on the board.
Bill Haley has fled for the i
Utilities Board. Harry Lewis’
term expires this year. Others on
the Utilities Board are Pearse
Walsh, Nels Swanberg, Tom Mar
tin and Stan Morgan.
Bill Tuttle has filed for city
treasurer.
Four members of the City
Council are to be elected this
year. The four whose terms have
expired are Wilbur Arnold, Bob
Lewis, Fred Cavota and Wallace
Melvor. So far only Fred Cavota
[ has filed for re-election.
« No one has filed as yet for City
| Clerk.
Soviet Officials Take
Dim View of Bob Hope
TV Film Wisecracks
MOSCOW, UP)—Bob Hops left
Moscow today as Soviet officials
lifted eyebrows at some of his
wisecracks in a television film he
made in Moscow.
The comedian took a plane for
Copenhagen and will fly to New
York Saturday.
He was the first U.S. enter
tainer to film a television show
here. He brought some camera
men and equipment but had to
supplement both in Moscow,
where the film will be processed.
Some of the film will be shown
on a 'U.S. television show April 5,
but parts of it may be cut out
because of Soviet frowns.
Hope said in one filmed crack
that the Russians are so proud of
their Sputniks “anybody without
a stiff neck is considered a trait
or.” A Soviet official commented:
“Treason is a very serious charge
in the Soviet Union.”
Shah of Iran Sorrowful
Over His Divorce From
Beautiful Queen Soraya
TEHRAN, Iran, UP) —The Shah
of Iran, in a Moslem new year
radio broadcast, told his people
today he could not join in their
celebrations because of his sor
row over his divorce from Queen
Soraya. He called her “my dear
wife who has been my faithful
friend.”
The Shah divorced his beauti
ful 26-year-old queen last week
because she had not given him
an heir. His advisers had urged
that he take another wife who
might give him a son so the
throne could be passed from
father to son.
“This decision is one of the
most difficult I have taken,” the
ruler said “But I have always
forgotten my personal affairs for
the sake of the country since I
succeeded to the throne.”
ECCENTRIC. YES—CRUEL. NO
LONDON, —Suing for a div
orce on cruelty grounds, Mrs.
Glorida Roden cited the replies
her husband gave her on four oc
casions when she asked what he
wanted for his birthday.
The replies: (1) a divorce. (2)
50,000 tons of caustic soda. <3> A
statue of King George III. (4) A
submarine.
Denying Mrs. Roden’s pet'lion,
the court held that Ro'-n’s
humor might have been ec.jnlfic
but it wasn’t cruel.