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VOL. LXII No. 11 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 1960_» Per Copy 151
Nome School to
Get $30,000 a Year
In Federal Funds
In an exclusive to the Nugget,
Boh Grant, local Bureau of In
dian Affairs field representative,
advises that supplemental finan
cial aid to the Nome Public
Schools has been approved by
Roger Ernst, Assistant Secre
tary of the Interior, and will be
provided on a three-year emer
gency basis. $12,000 will be avail
able for the balance of the pre
sent school year.
Funds equal to the deficit bud
get needed for fiscal 1961 and
1962 will be considered subject to
funds available. Department per
sonnel have estimated the deficit
at approximately $30,000 a year.
After fiscal 1962, the BIA will
review the need for continued aid.
The money required for this
aid will be appropriated under
the Johnson - O’Malley Act pro
gram and has-been approved in
view of the exceptional circum
stances involved and the inability
of the City of Nome at present to
finance an adequate education
program for all children, includ
ing Eskimo children.
Assist. Secretary Ernst wished
to express his sincere appreciation
for assistance rendered by Nome
School officials and the Chamber
of Commerce in securing this
aid to the school.
Eisenhower Labels
Foreign Aid Critics
‘Ignorant’ of Facts
WASHINGTON, Un — President
Eisenhower said today that criti
cism of the Administration’s for
eign aid program as a give-away
plan indicates abysmal ignorance.
In an informal talk at a
breakfast meeting of the National
Association of Real Estate Boards,
the President also spoke out in
defense of his plans for a bal
anced budget in the fical year
starting July 1.
Eisenhower told his audience of
about 1,000 at a downtown hotel
they have an obligation to fa
miliarize themselves with the
issues which face the United
States.
He spoke- of the need to curb
inflation and avoid debasement
of the dollar.
Some individuals, the President
went on, are “going along in a
sort of cloud believing that one
political party or another party
has all the virtues and the others
none.”
He added that such people are
“completely uninterested, partic
ularly if registering or taking part
in political action interferes with
their golf or their shooting or
any other recreation.”
That rem&rk from Eisenhower,
who both golfs and hunts, drew
a laugh.
As for the Administration’s con
troversial foreign aid program,
the President noted that it often
is criticized as a give-away plan.
“Nothing is more indicative of
abysmal Ignorance,” Eisenhower
said.
If the United States abandons
the people of free nations which
need help, Eisenhower said, “we
are going to have to pay the bill
in currency costing much more
than dollars.”
South African Rioters
Massacre 9 Policemen
DURBAN, South Africa, UPI —
Nine policemen were herded into
a native hut and beaten to death
by an enraged African mob Sun
day night. Four of those killed
were white, the others black.
Police reinforcements, rushed
to the clash scene in suburban
Cato Manor, managed to restore
an uneasy peace. Armed patrols
roamed the area.
First word of the trouble came
when a radio operator at Cato
Manor Police Station received a
messagd saying: “Oh God, they
are stoning us. Come and help us.”
A strong police detachment
was rushed to the area as thous
ands of residents in the town
barricaded themselves in their
homes.
An unofficial account said po
lice had gone into the suburb to
investigate the murder of an
African.
Wife of Crash Victim
Frank Suffers Miscarriage
From Great Strain
CHARLESTON, S. C., UP) —
Mrs. Julian A. Frank, beautiful
widow of a lawyer killed in a
puzzling airplane crash, is recu
perating after surgery for a mis
carriage.
Mrs. Frank, 32, former model,
was brought here Friday after
suffering the miscarriage aboard
a southbound New York-Florida
train. She underwent surgery
Saturday.
Federal authorities are investi
gating a theory that her husband,
insured for nearly a million dol
lars, may have taken a suicide
bomb aboard a National Airlines
DC6-B which crashed near Boli
via, N. C., January 6. All 34 per
sons aboard were killed.
Mrs. Frank, whose two small
children are with relatives in
Florida, apparently underwent
great strain in her Westport,
Conn., home after the death of
her 32-year-old lawyer husband.
Algiers Barricaded by French Troops
In Stemming Bloody Settlers’ Revolt
By ANDREW BOROWIEC
ALGIERS, UF)—Armed die-hard
French rightists held out grimly
behind makeshift barricades in
the heart of Algiers today after a
night of bloody clashes that left
21 persons dead and 153 wounded.
The army seemed firmly in
control.
The uprising against President
Charles De Gaulle’s self-determi
nation policy pitted Frenchmen
against Frenchmen in Algeria, al
ready bleeding from a five-year
revolt of nationalists.
A stiff military censorship was
imposed on outgoing news dis
patches, but there was no objec
tion to calling Sunday’s uprising
a fight to keep Algeria French.
Leaders of the rebellious
Frenchmen, who had counted on
army sympathy and support, ad
mitted they were fighting a losing
battle.
The diehards defied an appeal
from De Gaulle to lay down their
arms.
The simmering resentment of
European settlers against De
Gaulle’s Algerian policy was
sparked into revolt by his firing
of General Jacques Massu as mili
tary and civilian commander of
the Algiers area.
Massu was the hero of the mil
lion French settlers who are de
termined to keep Algeria French
and one of the leaders of the 1958
revolt here that led to the over
throw of the Fourth French Re
public and paved the way for
De Gaulle to assume power.
The mutineers this time lacked
a leader of Massu’s stature and
were hesitant against the pros
pect of open fighting with French
troops. •
-Philippe Marais, a deputy in the
Algerian Parliament, told a re
porter: “This situation has not
-been provoked by a desire to
riot, but by despair. The popula
tion cannot retreat unless the gov
ernment guarantees a French
Algeria.”
-De Gaulle has refused to budge
from his offer to the Algerians
of the chance to vote on three
alterhatives once the nationalists’
revolt is ended — Affiliation with
France, home rule under France,
or independence.
The French settlers fear they
will be outvoted by the nine mil
lion Moslems.
Bartlett, Gruening Urge
Prompt Senate Action On
Judge Hodge Nomination
WASHINGTON, UP) — A Senate
committee was urged today by
Alaska’s two senators to approve
President Eisenhower’s nomina
tion of Walter H. Hodge as the
new state’s first Eederal District
Judge.
Senators Bartlett and Gruen
ing, Alaska Democrats, endorsed
Hodge, a Republican, at a Senate
Judiciary Subcommittee hearing.
They said time is important
since Alaska has to have a fed
eral district judge before the
state courts can operate.
The committee said it would
not have time to act on the nom
ination today.
According to information re
ceived in Nome today the presi
dential executive order activating
the Alaska Federal District Court
is expected to have an effective
date of February 15. This order
will say, in substance, that the
Alaska District Court is staffed
and ready to operate and will
signal the official functioning of
Alaska’s state court system.
Economic ‘Pockets of
Despair’ Pointed Out By
Minnesota Senator
CHARLESTON, W. Va., UP) —
Senator Hubert Humphrey (D
Minn) said today there are too
many pockets of depression and
despair” in the United States for
any American “to feel complacent
about our national strength.”
Humphrey, who is seeking the
Democratic Presidential nomina
tion, expressed this point of view
in a speech to the West Virginia
House of Delegates.
“The fact that the West Vir
ginia 'Legislature is grappling
with questions of supplying food
for the hungry and other welfare
measures points up the bitter
fact that the prosperity we hear
so much about is certainly not
a general prosperity,” he said.
Alaska Legislature Convenes at Juneau
With Democrats In Complete Control
JUNEAU, UT) — Blanche Mc
Smith, first Negro ever to serve
in Alaska’s Legislature, was
seated today as one of four new
members sworn in as the 49th
State’s lawmakers opened their
second annual session.
Mrs. McSmith, wife of an An
chorage television shop operator,
and Edmund Orbeck, 54, former
football line coach and now labor
leader at Fairbanks, joined the
state’s 40-member House of Rep
resentatives in minutes after the
session formally was called to
order.
In the Senate, former State
Representative Robert Giersdorf,
of Fairbanks, at 26 is the young
est member of the Legislature.
He was sworn in along with Sea
born J. Buckalew Jr., of Anchor
age, a former member of the Ter
ritorial House of Representatives.
Their seating filled the Senate
membership at the constitutional
limit of 20.
The four, all Democrats, had
been nominated for the legislative
posts last year by Governor Egan,
to fill vacancies created since the
first session adjourned last April.
Called to Order with
Traditional Ivory Gavel
House Speaker Warren Taylor
called the Legislature's lower
chamber to order with the rapping
of an ivory gavel. The gavel, with
a head fashioned from mammoth
tusk and a handle carved from
walrus ivory, has been used to
assemble the Legislature since the
first Territorial lawmakers first
met at Juneau in 1913.
j Navy’s Biggest Balloon
Sent Aloft As Prelude To
Main Event on Tuesday
ABOARD THE U. S. CARRIER
VALLEY FORGE, W — The Navy
today launched the biggest bal
loon ever sent aloft from a ship.
This carrier released a sheer,
thin skinned plastic bag bouyant
with more than 2,500 pounds of
helium, at 5:32 a.m. The balloon,
inflated to two million cubic feet,
stood more than 200 feet tall and
had an inflated diameter of 173
feet.
It was an awesome sight as the
balloon rose grandly, silently,
smoothly, straight upward into
placid blue sky.
Ships personnel jammed cat
walks and other safe deck spaces
to watch for the launching over
a warm Atlantic 2,000 miles east
of Puerto Rico.
Impressive as it was, the
launching was only a preliminary
test run for the main show, pos
sibly Tuesday. Then two balloons
five times as big —• 10 million
cubic footers — will be sent up
to 22 miles.
They will carry 2,500 pounds
each, the heaviest scientific pay
load ever carried so high.
N. Y. WOMAN FOUND DEAD
IN PLASTIC BAG
NEW YORK, UP) — Mrs. Matilda
Piatt, 40, a recent divorcee, was
found dead Sunday with a plastic
bag over her head. Mrs. Piatt’s
body was found by her daughter,
Leslie, 9, in their apartment in
Rego Park, Queens. Police listed
the death as an apparent suicide.
Mrs. McSmith, successor to
John Rader, who resigned to be
come the State Attorney General,
and Orbeck, replacement in the
House for Giersdorf, were sworn
in by Mrs. Ester Reed, Clerk
of the House.
Senate President William Beltz,
an Eskimo lawmaker from Una
lakleet, administered the oath of
office* to Giersdorf and Buckalew
40 minutes after ®he Senate first
convened.
Giersdorf succeeded Hugh Gil
bert of Fairbanks, and Buckalew
replaced J. Earl Cooper of An
chorage, both of whom resigned
to accept appointments as State
Superior Court Judges.
The new members left the poli
tical alignment in the Legislature
unchanged.
Democrats command an over
whelming majority, controlling 35
of the .House seats and all but
two of the Senate posts.
Organization of the two houses
was accomplished quickly, with
most of the detailed work as
signments carried over from last
year.
Many Transition Problems
Still Remain
Ahead of the lawmakers
awaited work toward a solution
of still-existing problems con
nected with transition from a
territorial status. No. 1 task on
the agenda was state financing.
Governor Egan will make his
State of Alaska report to a joint
session of the Legislature in mid
afternon tomorrow, and will re
turn before the lawmakers on
Wednesday to summarize the pro
posed budget for the 1961 fiscal
year.
Apart from the Legislature, the
burning issue of where Alaska’s
capitol should be located appeared
certain today to be put before the
voters in the August primary or
November general election.
Initiative petitions containing
12,000 signatures were filed with
Secretary of State Hugh Wade
during the weekend, or were en
route from the Anchorage area.
Only a few more' than 5,000
valid signatures are needed to
put the proposition of switching
the capitol from Juneau to the
Cook Inlet-railbelt area on the
ballot.
In addition to finances, the leg
islators must find a solution to
the debt-ridden state employment
security problem, develop a new
election code and set up laws cov
ering Alaska’s borough system of
local government.
Fifty-three Senate and 97 House
bills carried over from last year
also must be disposed of.
Bill Introduced to Legalise
Nenana Ice Classic
One of the first bills introduced
as the Legislature reconvened
would legalize Alaska’s 47-year
old Nenana Ice Classic and other
types of non-profit raffles and
lotteries.
The bill, introduced by Sen.
George McNabb, would exclude
from penalties any such types of
guessing games operated by ’dhar
itable, religious and fraternal or
ganizations, or by the state or any
of its political subdivisions.
Later in the week a number of
the Governor’s interim appoint
ments to executive departments
will be up for confirmation.
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