Canada Piqued Because IT.S. Restricts
Travel to DEW Line In Canadian Arctic
OTTAWA, UP — The Canadians
have a new gripe against then
neighbor to the south—the United
States is restricting travel in Can
ada’s northern defense areas.
Elvin Hamilton, minister for
northern affairs, told Parliament
last night that U.S. officials have
held up approval for several
months for minor Canadian of
ficials to visit some Arctic areas.
It is a matter of “national
chagrin” that American permis
sion is required to travel around
the U.S.-operated Distant Early
Warning radar line that warns of
planes coming from the Arctic or
Russia, Hafhilton said.
He said he has “taken up the
matter with our U.S. colleagues
and have had a very friendly
and favorable response.”
Lester B. Pearson, leader of
the opposition Liberal Party and
former foreign secretary, said
there had been no difficulty in
visiting any U.S.-controlled sta
tion in Canada when the Liberals
.were in power. Hamilton said
cabinet ministers had no trouble
but lesser officials and prospect
ive workmen in the area did.
Hamilton reported one U.S. of
ficial declared Washington does
not recognized Canadian owner
ship of Arctic islands which Can
ada does not occupy. Many of the
islands north of the Canadian
mainland are not populated.
Canada should occupy and use
this area, Hamilton said. Pearson
added, “we must establish beyond
any doubt our claim to our Arc
tic territory,” because of both
Soviet and U.S. military interest
in the Polar regions.
House Cleary Mineral
Subsidy .Measure
WASHINGTON, IS) — The1
House Rules Committee today
cleared for House action a bill to
authorize a subsidy program for
domestic minerals production.
The committee set no date for
House consideration of the bill,
but agreed to limit debate to
two hours on each side.
Proponents said the measure is
needed to keep domestic mining
industries alive and in lieu of
action by President Eisenhower
to curtail imports.
Legal Blanks at The Nugget office
Station Attendant Shot
By Girl Who Was
“Mad At People” -
SPOKANE, Ufr — An attractive
blonde teenager from Alaska
told detectives Thursday she had
responded to an urge and pulled
a gun on a service station at
tendant because she was “mad
at people.”
Dora Jean Sellens, 18, was held
in jail for investigation after she
was disarmed and subdued by
University of Washington student
Robert O. Anderson and a friend
Wednesday night. They said the
girl pulled a gun when Anderson
opened the cash drawer at the
station to make change for cigar
ettes. She battled “like a wild
cat” against both youths.
Miss Sellens told police she had
worked as a business machine
operator in Spenard, a suburb of
Anchorage—and trouble had just
piled up. Her car was stolen
recently in Alaska, an ex-boy
friend wrote bad checks on her
account and mechanics over
charged her on a repair job, she
said.
These incidents convinced her
people were “out to take her”
and she was angry at the world.
Detectives said Miss Sellens
had driven to Spokane on vaca
tion with about $400 in traveler’s
checks on her person.
—Fairbanks News-Miner—Picture by Wien Airlines—Photo by Frank Whaley
HARVEST FROM THE SEA as this 2,000 pound walrus is taken from floating ice, but
chered and stowed away for winter use.
Elvis Presley’s Mother
Dies Thursday .
MEMPHIS, Ufi—-The mother of
famed rock ‘n’ roll singer Elvis
Presley died in a hospital Thurs
day of an unexpected heart
attack. She was 42.
Presley, home on emergency
leave from the Army, was asleep
at his $100,000 mansion when
she died. His father, Vernon
Presley, 43, was dozing in her
hospital room on a cot.
Vernon Presley said he was
aroused at 3 a.m. by his wife
“suffering from breath.” He
called her physician, but she was
.dead by the time he arrived.
Elvis, called from home, sank
to his knees beside his mother’s
bed and wept.
Mrs. Presley was admitted to
the hospital last Saturday for
treatment of jaundice and a liver
ailment, hepatitis. She was not
considered in dangerous condition.
Her soldier son, drafted into
the Army a few months ago, was
granted emergency leave from
Ft. Hood, Tex., at the request of
Mrs. Presley’s physician.
Elvis was devoted to his mother.
Early in his career, when the
golden flood began, he insisted on
his parents living in luxury and
comfort.
“I like to do what I can for my
folks,” he said. “We didn’t have
nothin’ before, nothin’ but a hard
way to go.”
“I just enjoy having my fam
ily around,” said Elvis. “They
are are I’ve got in the world.”
Elvis is the Presley’s only
child. He was born a twin.
His brother died in infancy.
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take action for collection of all
delinquent property taxes that
are not paid by August 30, 1958.
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By Robert F. Scott
City Clerk
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KLM Airliner
Crashes With 99
Persons Aboard
SHANNON, Ireland, UPl — A
KLM airliner with 99 persons
aboard, including about 50 Amer
icans, crashed off Ireland Thurs
day, the Dutch airline said hope
for survivors was slight.
The Super Constellation was
en route to New York from Am
sterdam via Shannon. (It carried
91 passengers and ^-crewmen)
The deaths of all aboard would
make this the worst disaster in
volving a single plane in the
history of commercial aviation.
Wreckage w&s sighted by the
British Air Force. KLM gave
the scene of the crash as 130
miles west of Ireland.
_ It said 11 of the 91 passengers
were Dutch and the rest Ameri
can, French, German, Israeli,
Polish and British. There were
several children aboard.
It was the worst crash in the
almost 40-year history of the
Royal Dutch Airlines.
“Although nothing is known at
this moment with certainty con
cerning the fate of the passen
gers, we -much to our regret esti
mate there is little hope that
there are any survivors,” a KLM
statement said.
Ships and planes were rushed
to the scene in the hope that
some may have survived the
crash in the stormy Atlantic.
Radio contact' with the plane
was lost several hours before the
KLM spokesman’s statement.
A Pan American cargo plane
reported en route westward
across the Atlantic said it had in
tercepted an SOS. The P&n
American plane was 450 miles
east of Gander, Nfld., at the time.
The British air ministry said
wreckage and a number of ding
hies were sighted by Rqyal Air
Force planes flying over the
stormy Atlantic.
A London airport official said
one wheel of an airplane had
been sighted in the water west
of Ireland.
In Holland, relatives of crew
members received a message
from KLM headquarters “to be
prepared for the worst.”
The plane was piloted by
F. A. E. Roeloffs, 36.
WASHINGTON, M — The
House has completed Congres
sional action on a bill to facili
tate occupancy of Alaskan coal,
oil and gas lands. The bill would
make possible settlement on
lands under provisions of the
homesiie, headquarters and addi
tional soldiers’ homestead act.
The House accepted a Senate
amendment to the bill Wednesday
and sent it to the White House.
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