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VOL. LV No. 68 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 8, 1953 • Per Copy—15^
Nome City Council
Approves Plans of
School Addition
Last Friday evening the City
Council met in special session
with the Nome School Board and
Lynn Forrest, architect from Ju
neau, also two officials of the
Alaska Public Works, Webb Trim
ble and Ray Swanson. The Coun
cil approved the plans submitted
for the enlargement of the Nome
School to meet the growing needs
of the community.
The plans include eight new
classrooms and one multi-purpose
room with a kitchen. The present
building with the auditorium will
remain unchanged but will under
go rehabilitation and improve
ments. The anex which never has
been satisfactory or up to stand
ard, will be abandoned for class
room purposes.
The council also voted to re
tain Lynn Forrest as architect for
the project.
Mr. Trimble of the APW stated
that the city will probably have
to bond itself in order to get the
necessary building loan through
Congress.
He showed the council, with the
aid of a wall chart, the details of
the financing for the addition. The
total estimated cost was set at
5780,000.
$35,000 ,is being paid by the
ANS, as promised, for new con
struction when the Territorial
Schol assumed the students from
the ANS school when it closed.
The Nome School board has in
its building reserves, $85,000, and
the Territorial Dept, of Education
has $30,000, which leaves a bal
ance of $373,000 to be borrowed
from the Alaska Works Adminis
tration.
Mr. Trimble explained that in
payments over a period of 20
years, as other schools in the
territory are doing, the cost will
not mean an increase in taxes and
is amply covered by the sales tax
now in force.
The new addition will have air
conditioning, so badly needed in
the present building, and other
modern features which will be
enumerated at a later date.
South Korean Troops
Drive On Luke’s Castle
SEOUL, —South Korean in
fantrymen driven from Luke’s
Castle in furious fighting last
week renewed assaults Monday
on the eastern front hill position
despite reports that an armistice
is near. At last reports that ROK
counter - attack was moving for
ward, the Eighth Army said, but
gave no other details.
Air action broke out furiously
Monday. U.S. Sabre jets covering
a Sabre fighter-bomber attack on
a Manchurian frontier dam re
ported shooting down three Red
MIGs, probably destroying a 4th
and damaging three more.
The bombers slashed into the
Suiho power installations with
eight tons of bombs.
An American F - 94 Starfire
night fighter plane shot down a
• Communist night flying jet that
tried to interfere with B-29 bomb
ers plastering a Red supply and
fuel storage are; at Namsi.
Alaska’s Real
Construction Era
Is Yet To Come
CORDOVA, IS*) — Alaska’s real
construction period has not yet
begun, Stanley B. Tatom, Fair
banks delegate to the Alaska
Chamber at Commerce, said Sat
urday.
Tatom’s optimistic note was
voiced on the final day of the
two-day meeting and was thread
ed in with the Chamber’s interest
in bringing tourists, industry,
better transportation and equal
business opportunities for Alaska.
Formal organization of the
Alaska Chamber of Commerce
was completed in harmony and
delegates pledged to avoid sec
tionalism in working toward the
development of all Alaska.
It was agreed unanimously that
McKinley Park be the site for a
special fall meeting to- which rep
resentatives of West Coast cham
bers will be invited.
Tatom pointed out that tech
niques in Arctic construction pio
neered by the military will prove
of value for industrial construc
tion which is bound to follow
when Alaska is given equal busi
ness opportunities.
The Alaska businessman said
Alaska needs industrial develop
ment and equal rights with Am
erican businessmen. He said one
of the inequalities is that the Al
askan pays higher taxes in every
way and is in no position to com
pete with businessmen jn the 48
states, with their 96 senators,
when it comes to' bidding for gov
ernment busines.
Gov. B. Frank Heintzleman at
tended most'of the sessions and
supplied information to the dele
gates.
Miss Margaret McDonald
To Arrive Here June 17
As Public Health Nurse
JUNEAU, June 4 — Miss Mar
garet McDonald is scheduled to
arrive in Nome on June 14 to take
up her duties as public health
nurse in this area.
Miss McDonald worked in Al
aska in 1951 and 1952, when she
was head nurse at the ANS hos
pital at Tanana, and later was in
structor at the Mt. Edgecumbe
practical nurse school.
A northwesterner, she was born
in Tacoma and is a graduate of
the University of Washington,
where she also received her pub
lic health nursing training. She
served with the Army Nurse
Corps during the war and has a
good background of experience in
both hospital and public health
nursing, according to Miss Doro
thy Whitney, Alaska Department
of Health nursing section chief.
Miss Whitney said that the
Nome nursing post has been va
cant since last winter when the
previous nurse left to be married.
Health of Anthony Eden Checked
As He Arrives in United States
BOSTON, UP) — Doctors began
investigating the condition of
British Foreign Secretary An
thony Eden, Saturday, a few
hours after the diplomat arrived
here by plane from London. He is
suffering from gall bladder con
dition.
Miss Alaska To
Make Personal
Appearance Tour
Miss Alaska, Muriel Hagberg,
queen of the Fairbanks Winter
Carnival, will leave the Territory
for- the first time on June 17,
when she flies to Seattle with
Pan American World Airways
after meeting Governor Heintzle
man at Juneau.
Final destination for the state
ly, dark-eyed Alaska-born queen
will be Long Beach, Calif., where
she will represent her native land
as a contestant in the Miss Uni
verse Beauty Pageant starting cm
July 9.
There’ll be little rest for Miss
Alaska enroute to the contest,
however. She’s scheduled to fly
from Seattle to Washington, D.C.,
where she will present an oil por
trait of President Eisenhower by
Alaskan artist Henry Templeton,
to the nation’s chief executive as
a gesture of good will from
Alaska.
From Washington, Miss Alaska
will make a cross country high
way tour to the West Coast with
stops at all major cities enroute.
She will visit 18 states and Can
ada while on tour.
Miss Alaska, in addition to
being born in the Territory, bears
a proud part-Eskimo heritage. She
will demonstrate the dances of
her ancestors and wear traditional
Eskimo parkas and mukluks on
television and personal appear
ances throughout the trip.
She is sponsored in the Miss
Universe Contest by the Fair
banks Daily News Miner and
radio station KFAR. Her tour to
the nation’s capital is sponsored
by the Fairbanks Winter Carnival
Association who stage the North
land version of Mardi Gras each
spring in Fairbanks.
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NORMANDY INVASION
ANNIVERSARY GETS CASUAL
NOTICE BY EISENHOWER
WASHINGTON, 1® — President
Eisenhower, who as supreme Al
lied commander directed the in
vasion of Normandy nine years
ago, took only casual notice of the
anniversary Saturday.
Press Secretary James C. Hag
erty told reporters the President
mentioned to some of his staff
members Friday night that Satur
day would be the anniversary of
the Normandy invasion, but made
no plans for any observance.
The President began the day
with an important conference on
Korea.
SUNDAY SCORES
National League
Milwaukee 6-5, Philadelphia 0-3
Cincinnati 6-11, Pittsburgh 1-6
Chicago 10-5, New York 5-3
Brooklyn 10, St. Louis 1
American League
New York 9-7, Sf. Louis 2-2
Cleveland 8-4, Philadelphia 4-3
Washington 16-1, Chicago 2-5
Boston 4, Detroit 1
, Coast League
San Diego 4-0, Los Angeles 2-6
Seattle 7-2, Hollywood 0-1
Oakland 7-7, Sacramento 2-2
San Francisco 5-4, Portland 3-1
Last Stumbling Block to Korean Truce
Swept Aside With Prisoner Exchange
Agreement But ROKs Vow to Fight On
Alaska’s System of U.S.
Commissioners Gets
Congressional Attention
WASHINGTON, UP) — Alaska’s
system of U.S. Commissioner op
eration has drawn congressional
attention again, but, as in the
past, there seems little chance for
a major revamping.
The subject came up in the
House Territorial subcommittee
during consideration of a bill to
permit appointment of deputy
commissioners in the Territory.
Before approving the bill, the
subcommittee asked a host of
questions of Elmore Whitehurst,
assistant director of the adminis
trative office of U. S. courts.
Whitehurst appeared as chief wit
ness for the bill which was in
troduced by Delegate Bartlett.
Whitehurst agreed that Alaska’s
judicial system was not ideal but
said the deputy bill would permit
greater efficiency.
He went off the record to sketch
some of the problems confronting
judges in theil' selection of com
missioners. It boiled down largely
to a contention that persons train
ed in the legal profession are not
always available and frequently
an otherwise qualified person can
make more money in some other
position than as a commissioner.
He summed it up by recalling
that several years ago his office
had received a letter that the
commissioner in a certain com
munity also acted as a bootlegger
and ran a house of ill fame.
“When we wrote the judge ask
ing if he were aware of this,”
Whitehurst recalled, “He replied:
‘Yes, but he’s the best man I can
get’.”
Tornado Wipes Out Farm
And Kills Ten Persons
ARCADIA, Neb., (£>—A tornado
wiped a farm place near Arcadia
cleanly off the face of the earth
late yesterday and brought instant
death to 10 unsuspecting persons
enjoying a Sunday family re
union on the place. ^
The twister was one of at least
five which hop - scotched widely
scattered sections of Nebraska.
Fortunately, the funnels large
ly by-passed towns and cities
where toll in death and damage
might have been much heavier.
The deaths were on the Mads
Madsen farm five miles east of
Arcadia.
Assembled for their customary
Sunday get - together were the
Madsens, three children and five
grandchildren.
They apparently were in the
house and never knew what hit
them. So vicious was the tornado
that bodies were mangled and
scattered as far as half a mile.
“There wasn’t a stick of any
thing left on the place,” said one
visitor to the scene. Machinery,
animals and buildings were “toss
ed around like feathers,” said an
other.
By ROBERT B. TUCKMAN
PANMUNJOM, OP)—The last big
stumbling block to a Korean truce
was swept aside today with the
signing of a prisoner exchange
agreement, but South Korean op
position shot toward the boiling
point as their leaders vowed to
continue fighting.
Agreement on a full armistice
in the three-year-old war could
come tomorow when Allied and
Communist negotiators meet at
11 a.m. (6 p.m. Monday EST)
However, South Korean Presi
dent Syngman Rhee told the Asso
ciated Press, “The Korean people
will pay no attention” to the im
pending armistice.
Rhee told AP photographer
Fred Waters:
“Our boys are fighting the
Communists at the front, and now
they want to open the back door
and let the Communists in that
way.”
Provides Exchange 138,000 POWs
The prisoner agreement pro
vides that of the 138,000 Allied
and Red captives, those wanting
to return home will be exchanged
within 60 days after a truce is
signed.
Communist prisoners who stead
fastly refuse repatriation will be
released as civilians in South Ko
rea 120 days after a cease-fire.
The agreement—signed in ac
cord with the Allied principle of
voluntary repatriation — reads
that “no force or threat of force
shall be used against” the prison
ers—either Allied or Communist
held.
A total of 14,200 Chinese and
32,180 North Koreans in U. N.
prison camps have indicated they
will refuse repatriation. The fig
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Wilson Says U.S. Will
Have Best Air Force In
Spite of $5 Billion Cut
WASHINGTON, (£) —Secretary
of Defense Wilson said today the
United States will continue to
have the “best air force” in the
world despite controversial cut
backs in the Air Force budget.
Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg, out
going Air Force chief of Staff,
spent three days before Fergu
son’s subcommittee last week as
sailing a five billion dollar cut
the Eisenhower administration
has made in the Air Force budget
recommended last January by
former President Truman. Van
denberg indicated it would pro
duce only a “second-best” air
force.
Wilson testified at a televised
public hearing.
He told the senators he was not
the first secretary of defense “that
has had to hold down the extrava
gant expenditures proposed by a
military department.”
Wilson said there has been
“waste and inefficiency” in the
armed services and promised to
cut this to a minimum.