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VOL, LIX NO. 4,4NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1957 Per Copy—15^
GOOD WEATHER PREDICTED
FOR DOG TEAM RACES SUNDAY
Fair weather is forecast for the<
dog race on Sunday, stated the
US. Weather Bureau.
It is announced that the races
will start from the Fire Station at
1:00 Sunday afternoon with Bob
by Lewis and Joe Kroninger as
time keepers. Judges for the race
are Bob Carpenter, Bill Barber,
Jim Blanning, Bob Lewis, and
Joe Kroninger.
Drivers of teams will meet with
the above committee at the Fire
Station at 1:00 a.m. Sunday morn
ing and draw for place and be
instructed in the rules.
Already registered are Sam
Ahwinona, Chester Topkok, and
Isaac Okleasik.
Ed Punguk and Tom Brown
have arrived from White Moun
tain.
Also reported to toe in town for
the race are:
Two teams from Teller belong
ing respectively to Ernest Wey
anna and Edward Keelik, and
two teams from Golovin.
It is requested that all persons
refrain from parking cars on
Front Street Sunday afternoon.
Prizes will be awarded shortly
after the last team finishes the
Nome-Hastings course.
Nome’s Annual
Easter Parade at
Theater Tomorrow
Tomorrow is the date for the
annual Easter Parade, spearhead
ed through the efforts of Virgin a
Brown, who sponsored Nome’s
first Easter Parade last year for
the Cancer Fund.
This year the show will turn
its proceeds over to the MMM
Hospital, and to the best of our
knowledge is the first local ac
knowledgement, in funds, that has
been made here since the Wom
en’s Division of the Methodist
Church opened the new hospital.
Roberta Ross and Norris Finch
have been busy designing and
making the Easter stage sets, and
William Brown, manager of the
Theater, who has made this show
possible, has done some painting
himself so everything will be
fresh for the big show.
Several stores are participating
in the show with much new and
interesting merchandise being
shown.
Commentator for the event,
which starts at 1:00 Saturday af
ternoon, will be Judy Morris.
The morning show will also be
the dress rehearsal.
Tickets will be available at the
door.
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Republicans Hold
First Regional
Conference
OMAHA, UP>—Midwest Republi
can leaders were told today to
“get down to specifics” in the 1958
congressional campaign.
“We won’t want fancy words or
fanciful hopes; we want election
victories,” National GOP Chair
man Meade Alcorn said in a pre
pared speech opening the first
general session of a planning con
ference.
Represented are Minnesota, the
Dakotas, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas,
Oklahoma and Colorado—states
in which the GOP lost three con
gressional seats and one senator
ship last year.
Omaha was picked for the first
of the regional conferences be
cause it lies in the heart of the
“battleground of 1958,” Alcorn
said on his arrival. Other meet
ings will be held at Providence,
R.I., Salt Lake City. Louisville,
Ky., Cincinnati and Trenton.
President Eisenhower called on
the planners to carry their mes
sage to “every Republican worker
and every political friends.”
In a brief telephoned message,
the President said the district
fact-finding conferences should
be carried down to the district
and precinct level, “where our
greatest strength will always live
and grow.”
House Requests
Congressional Approval
Of Land Withdrawals
WASHINGTON, Ifl—'The House
yesterday passed a bill to require
congressional approval of public
land withdrawals in excess of
5,000 acres for military purposes.
The bill now goes to the Senate.
The legislation was introduced
by Chairman Engle (D-Calif) as a
result of Defense Department ap
plications to the Interior Depart
ment for the military use of six
million acres of public land in six
western states and 2 Vz million
acres in Alaska.
Interior Department officials
testified at hearings; that they are
not equipped to evaluate defense
needs for the property requested
as related to other public uses of i
the areas for grazing, mineral ex
ploration, recreation and other
purposes.
The bill also would require ob
servance of state hunting and
fishing license requirements for
military personnel and others on
military reservations.
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Sir Anthony Eden
Will Undergo Surgery
In Boston Tomorrow
BOSTON, U!\-—A hospital bulle
tin said today an operation will
be performed tomorrow on Sir
Anthony Eden to remove a tube
placed in the bile duct in 1953 for
relief of a duct obstruction.
Eden’s personal physician, Sir
Horace Evans, is flying from Lon
don to be present at the surgery.
The 59-year-old diplomat’s con
dition is gocKi, today’s bulletin
said.
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P 0 MAY GET $41 MILLION MORE;
LOCAL P.O. CLOSED TOMORROW
WASHINGTON, W—'The House
Appropriations Committee today
voted to give the Post Office De
parmtent an extra $41 million in
a move to prevent prolonged cur
tailment of mail services.
The committee’s action taken
behind closed doors was by a vote
reported as 37-10.
The amount approved is $6 mil
lion less than the Post Office De
partment requested and is for use
during the next 2Vi months.
It is $24 million dollars more
than a subcommittee had recom
mended after Postmaster General
Summerfield said it would be nec
essary to stop Saturday mail de
livery and cut back other postal
services if he didn’t get more
money immediately.
The House will consider the
Appropriation Committee’s rec
ommendation Monday and is ex
pected to approve them speedily
so the Senate can act at once and
get the bill to the President.
The new allotment would boost
to $2,165,000,000 the funds given
to the Post Office Department for
the fiscal year ending June 30.
Summerfield told newsmen yes
terday he would not be able to re
store any of the scheduled mail
service cuts until a bill giving
him sufficient funds has passed
both House and Senate and has
been signed by President Eisen
hower.
Under orders already issued,
starting tomorrow all post offices
will be closed on Saturdays and
Sundays and all dity and rural
mail delivery will be stopped on
Saturdays, except for special de
livery items.
On Monday, Post Office win
dow service will be reduced and
deliveries to city business districts
will be cut to two a day.
ACS’s Col. Hatch j
And Pentagon
Rep. Here
Top officers of the Alaska Com
munications System and a repre
sentative of the Bureau of Budget
arrived here yesterday as part of
a three-week survey in the terri
tory. ,
Col. Carl Hatch, commanding
officer of the ACS, is accompan
ied by Gerry Pettibone, who is
in the executive office of the
president. Other members of the
party are Lt. Col. Gordon Gray,
chief of ACS traffic department;
Lt. Col. Harry Schneider, comp
troller of ACS; Lt. Joe Buel,
U.S.A.F. communication officer.
Millard West, of the U.S. Signal
Corps from Washington, D.C., is
expected to join the party today.
In addition to looking over the
present installation, plans are
under wya for the construction of
a fireproof building for ACS to
be situated east of the M & M
Bank.
Tokyo Contaminated
By Russian Blasts
TOKYO, Uft—Russian nuclear
bomb tests have charged the air
over Tokyo with about 150 times
the normal amount of radioactive
contamination, Japan’s Central
Meteorological Agency said today.
The agency said it detected
1,540 geiger counts per minute
from air measured April 9-10. Av
erage count for air measured in
the month of March was 9.8 count,
the agency said. Britain and the
U.S. reported detecting evidence
of Russian blasts on April 3, 6
and 10.
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Prison Term of Turncoat
Reduced to 10 Years
SAN ANTONIO, Texas Iff)—The
prison term given former Army
Cpl. Claude Batchelor for collab
orating with the Chinese Commu
nists while a prisoner of war in
Korea has been reduced to 10
years, his attorney’s office dis
closed yesterday.
Batchelor, 25, a native of Ker
mit, Tex., originally was sen
tenced to life imprisonment, but
the term later was reduced to 20
years. He was one of 23 American
soldiers who refused repatriation
and stayed with the Chinese Com
munists and the second later to
change his mind.
He is serving the sentence at
the federal penitentiarj’- at Leav
enworth, Kansas.
DENMARK WILL
REJECT SOVIET
WARNING
COPENHAGEN (ff)—Denmark is
going to reject a Soviet note warn
ing it against permitting atomic
weapon bases on its soil.
Premier H. C. Hansen told the
Folketing (Parliament) last night
that the government will send the
rejection to Moscow after the
Parliamentary Foreign Relations
Committee considers the matter
further.
Hansen denied any suggestion
that Danish territory would be
used for aggression ajsainst the
Soviet Union. He said Denmark
wants peaceful relations between
East and West but never will give
up its democratic ideals or its
views on dictatorships.
EASTER PARADE
Tommorow, April 13, 1:00 P.M. at the Theater Admission $1 Benefit MMM Hospital
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