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Americans Dedicate South Pole Base
Democrats Will Hold
National Conference
In San Francisco
WASHINGTON, UP)—1The first
Democratic National Committee
meeting west of the Mississippi
. will be held in San Francisco
next month for a national con
ference of social and economic
issues.
Statehood for Alaska and Ha
waii will also be discussed at the
conference, which will stress the
“Western viewpoint.”
More than 1,000 Democrats are
expected to attend the conference
Feb. 15-16. National Chairman
Paul M. Butler said the decision
to meet in San Francisco was
made as a “fitting tribute to the
spectacular gains registered by
the Democratic Party in the
Western states and Alaska and
Hawaii in recent years.”
The two-day affair will wind
up with a $50-a-plate fund-rais
ing dinner featuring a speech by
Adlai Stevenson.
Suggested Navy
Base Atom-Sub
On West Coast
WASHINGTON, W— Rep. Pelley
(K-Wash) wants the Navy to sta
tion one of its two atomic pow
ered submarines on the West
Coast.
He made the suggestion during
brief remarks on the House floor
Wednesday and reiterated it yes
terday in a letter to Secretary of
the Navy Thomas.
“The Pacific is not less vulner
able nor important from a de
fense standpoint than the Atlantic
Ocean,” Pelley said.
“Shipping on the West Coast
on .account of Hawaii and Alaska
would need protection as much or
more in a war than water trans
portation and supply on the East
Coast.”
Skilled manpower familiar with
experiments and maintenance and
“the shore facilities to accomplish
this, he said, should be available
on both coasts.
Motorists Advised
To Postpone Travel
On Cold Alaska Hiway
EDMONTON, WV-The Alber
ta Travel Bureau advised motor
ists Wednesday to “postpone
travel unless necessary” along the
Alaska Highway north of Dawson
Creek, B.C., because of the cur
rent spell of extremely cold
weather in the area.
An official of the bureau said
motorists who have to travel the
highway “should carry warm
clothing and extra heating equip
ment in case of a breakdown.”
The temperature at Watson
Lake, Y.T., located on the high
way about 600 miles northwest of
Edmonton, was 55 degrees below
zero Wednesday morning.
8> By JAMES TOMLINSON
McMURDO SOUND, Antarctica
—A fur-hooded band of Ameri
can scientists and Navy men has
dedicated the U.S. station at the
South Pole. They named it after
the Norwegian and British ex
plorers who made the first suc
cessful race to the bottom of the
world.
The ceremony here on a bleak
promontory 800 miles north of
the polar base christened the sta
tion the U.S. Amundsen-Scott
South Pole International Geo
physical Year Station.
Norwegian Roald Amundsen
discovered the Pole in December
19hi. British Navy Capt. Robert
Falcon Scott got there a month
later and perished on his return
trip.
Eighteen U. S. scientists and
| Navy men will gather data for
the Geophysical Year at the Polar
station. Since it is difficult to
reach on a 10,000-foot-high snowy
plateau, the dedication was held
at the main American antarctic
•base here at McMurdo Sound.
A Marine color guard in dress
blues with rifles and swords stood
at attention as Rear Adm. George
J. Dufek, commander of Opera
tion Deep Freeze, declared:
“I am proud to report that the
IGY South Pole base has been
! placed in commission to support
11 h e International Geophysical
Year.”
j Two Crushed to Death
In Rock Fall at Mine
TRAIL, B.C., U!)—Two young
men were killed Tuesday in a
mining accident at the Tulsequah
Chief mine, 60 miles east of Ju
neau. The men were crushed to
death in a rock fall at the mine
of the Consolidated Mining and
Smelting Co. Ltd.
The two are Felix Herof, 24,
and John Ivan Rukli, 26. Heron is
survived by his father in Derry,
Northern Ireland, and Rukli by
his father in Yugoslavia.
Consumer Prices Up
To All-Time High
WASHINGTON, GTi—Consumer
prices climbed 0.2 percent in De- I
cember, the Bureau of Labor Sta-'
tistics reported today.
Prices of food and clothing j
were unchanged in the main and I
transportation costs dipped some,1
but virtually all other elements
of family living costs went up. j
The consumer price index
reached an all-time high at 118 j
percent of the 1947-49 average.
Higher housing costs were
chiefly responsible for the in
crease, the bureau said.
Alaskans Try For
Stamp Honoring
James Wicjiersham
Would Honor Birth
Of First Proponent
Of Alaska Statehood
WASHINGTON, UP)—Alaskans
plan a new effort to get a postage
stamp honoring James Wicker
sham, one of the first proponents
of Alaskan statehood.
Delegate Bartlett said yesterday
he and members of Alaska’s pro
visional congressional delegation
will ask the Post Office Depart
ment to reconsider its earlier re
jection of the proposal.
The proposed stamp would be
issued Aug. 24 to commemorate
the 100th anniversary of Wicker
sham’s birth at Patoka, 111. By
coincidence, the date also would
mark the 5th anniversary of the
1912 Organic Act incorporating
Alaska as a territory which Wick
ersham pushed thru Congress.
Wickersham was the first judge
of Alaska’s Third Judicial Divi
sion in 1900, published the terri
tory’s first newspaper at Fair
banks in 1903 and served as Alas
ka’s delegate to Cojigress from
1908 to 1921 and again between
1931 and 1933.
Prior to going to Alaska, Wick
ersham settled in Pierce County,
Washington Territory, where he
served as Tocoma city attorney,
Pierce County probate judge and
member of the Washington State
legislature.
An earlier proposal by former
Alaska Gov. Heintzleman for is
suance of the stamp, Bartlett, said,
was rejected by the Post Office
Department on grounds it had
some 2,600 requests for similar
stamps and could approve but 12
or 15 each year.
WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by the
U.S. Dept of Commerce Weather Bureau
Freezing drizzle and occasional
light snow with some fog tonight
and tomorrow. East winds 20-25
miles an hour. Temperatures will
remain in the high 20s and the
low 30s.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: High temperature
33, low 14. Max. wind 29 :mph.
from the east. Sunrise at 9:06
a.m., sunset at 3:23 p.m.
Temperatures a year ago today:
high 3, low -6. Extremes this date
since 1907: high 42 in 1946, low
-47 in 1919.
Delegate Burns Wr uM
Increase Compensation
Of Hawaii Legislators
WASHINGTON, UP)—Delegate
Bums (D-Hawaii) Wednesday in
troduced a bill to increase the
compensation of members of the
Hawaii Territorial Legislature.
The bill would provide $2,500
for each general session and $1,
250 for any special session. The
present compensation is $1,000
for general sessions and $500 for
special sessions.
The bill would continue the
present travel expense allowance
of legislators at 20 cents a mile.
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Bells of St. Clement’s Sound Sweet
To Londoners After 16 Years’ Silence
LONDON, —“Oranges and
lemons, say the bells of St. Clem
ents.”
For the first time in 16 years,
the bells of St. Clements Danes
in the Strand rang out that old
nursery tune. And for Londoners
it was a sound as sweet as a bird
song in spring. For this rhyme
tells of the distinguishing sounds
of all the old bells of London.
The church has stood dark and
empty since it was gutted by fire
during a Nazi air raid in 1941. Its
graceful tower by Sir Christopher
Wren still carries the scars of
war. So at today’s dedication of
the re-cast bell, they were not
hoisted aloft but arranged in a
circle in front of the building.
St. Clements, now undergoing
reconstruction, is to become the
church of the Royal Air Force.
Ultimately, the finished struc
ture will contain an organ paid
for by $75,000 contributed by the
U.S. Air Force from all parts of
the world. The organ, a symbol of
comradeship of the USAF and the
RAF, will be dedicated to Ameri
can servicemen who died in Brit
ain in World War II.
With its new designation as the
Airmen’s Church, St. Clement’s
has an older tradition—as the
church of London’s flower girls.
One of them, 80-year-old Miss Di
nah Wilson, decorated the front
of the battered building with or
anges and lemons for yesterday’s
ceremony. After the bells rang
out there was a pause, and then
came the answering sound from
the other end of the strand.
“You owe me five farthings,
say the bells of St. Martin’s.”
NOTICE
Individuals hauling garbage to
ihe City Dump are requested
NOT to dump it ALONG THE
ROAD.
Anyone not complying with
this request shall be arrested and
fined.
By order of the Nome City
Council Committee on
Health & Sanitation.
Publ. Jan. 23, 25, 28, 1957.
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FINAL NOTICE TO VESSEL OWNERS
AND FISHERMEN
The Alaska Employment Security Law covers
(taxes) the earnings of fishermen, provided—such
earnings are subject to Federal Unemployment Tax.
Effective on January 1, 1956, the Federal Unemployment
Tax Act, and therefore, the Alaska Employment Security Act,
cover the earnings of halibut, salmon, crab and shrimp fisher- ■
men, provided the vessel owner or employer has in his employ
4 or more individuals performing services for some part of a day
in each of 20 weeks during the calendar year. In the case of
i crab or shrimp fishermen an additional requirement for cover
’ age is that the vessel on which the services are performed be
I of more than 10 net tons.
Fishing vessel owners who are subject to the Federal
Unemployment Tax for 1956 may take credit against such tax
for a portion of the amount of taxes paid to the Alaska Employ
ment Security Commission. Secure reporting forms—or addi
tional information by writing to the Commission at the address
shown below.
ALASKA EMPLOYMENT SECURITY COMMISSION
Bex 2661 Juneau
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