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VOL LXI No. 119 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1959_Per Copy—15*
Court Okays
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Alaska Indian
Land Claims
WASHINGTON, l/P> — The U. S.
Court of Claims decided today
that a small group of Alaskan
Indians are entitled to be paid for
more than 24 million acres of land
taken from their ancestors by
the white man. *
Millions of dollars could be
involved.
The Indians — about 7,000 of
the Tlingit and Haida groups —
had sued for compensation for
ifishing and hunting rights and for
the value of the land their ante
cedents lost. •
The five-judge court unani
mously agreed with their claim.
The amount of money will be
determined within the next year
or two by a court commissioner.
A court attache said there is no
way of estimating how much this
will be, since there is no precedent
in Alaska. This is the first fav
orable judgment. In the other
states, the court has agreed to
payments of between 40 cents and
$2.50 an acre.
TV Quiz Show Was
Rigged, Says ‘21’ Exec
WASHINGTON, Of) — A public
relations consultant for producers
of the TV quiz program “Twenty
One” testified today that the
show was rigged.
At the same time, the witness,
Alfred Davis, said an attorney ad
vised his public relations firm not
to tell the truth to New York
authorities investigating charges
that contestants were given ques
tions and answers in advance.
In effect, Davis said his firm
and Barry and Enright Inc., own
ers of the quiz program, had de
ceived the National Broadcasting
Co. by not telling them the
truth. NBC was the network that
carried “Twenty-One,” one of the
biggest quiz shows until it col
lapsed last year after charges it
was rigged. , *
Davis was the leadoff witness
on the second day of an inquiry
by the House Legislative Over
sight Subcommittee into quiz
show scandals.
Under questioning, Davis said
attorney Edwin Slote of New
York had advised him to get out
of town after authorities began
looking into the charges against
the program.
“Where did he avise you to
go?” aske Robert W. Lishman,
subcommittee counsel.
“As far away as possible,”
Davis replie.
PNA’s 1,000,000th Rider
Gets Unexpected Bonus
SEATTLEY, W) — For being Pa
cific Northern Airline’s one-mil
lionth passenger Harold A. Daub
enspeck, Seattle, received a pret
ty girl’s kiss, 10 share of PNA
common stock, a silver plaque and
a handshake from PNA’s presi
dent.
Daubenspeck got the unexpected
windfall yesterday as he boarded
a PNA plane for Anchorage. He
is with the Kenai Packers firm
here.
The kiss came from stewardess
Fran Olsen, the stock, plaque and
handshake from Arthur G. Wood
ley, PNA president. Daubenspeck
was also made a member of the
line’s “Flagliner Club.”
i Sewage System
Dream May W ork
Under New Law
Nome’s plans for a water and
sewage disposal system, which
went aglimmering at the last ses
sion of Congress, got a shot in the
arm this week. It was learned that
Congress passed Public Law 86
121, which provides that the Sur
geon General of the United States
will assist Indian communities in
.securing water and sanitation fa
cilties.
Mr. Alter of the State Depart
ment of Health, from Juneau, was
in Nome this week, and he said
his department would do every
thing possible to help Nome quali
fy for aid under the law.
It is understood that under pro
visions of the law, the federal
government will provide the ma
terial for water and sanitation
facilities, and the communities
themselves are to provide the la
bor to make the installations.
Since Nome’s population is pre
dominantly Eskimo — about 80
per cent — there is a chance that
Nome may yet get the water and
sewage systems which are such a
crying need.
i West Looks for
Catch in Red Space
Parley Plan
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., UP)
— Western diplomats speculated
today that yesterday’s Soviet pro
posal for an international space
conference may be a companion
gimmick to Premier Khrushchev’s
total disarmament plan.
As in the case of the Soviet
Premier’s sweeping call for a
world without arms or armies,
Western reaction was guarded.
Delegates made clear they want
to give the plan close study before
commenting publicly on it. But
some voiced privately the suspi
cion it might contain a hidden
joker.
* It appears virtually impossible
for the West to turn down the
latest Soviet proposal, which calls
on the U.N. to sponsor an inter
national parley of scientists to
exchange experiences in explor
ing outer space.
It was feared, however, that
the West at such a conference
might be confronted with a Soviet
bid to set up a key space study
group outside the U.N. on which
the Communists would demand as
many seats as the West.
‘Mayor, Mayor, Who’s
Got the Job?’
WEST RICHLAND, Wash., UR
— This quiet town of 1,000 has a
puzzling problem on its hands •—
Does it or does it not have a
mayor?
It seems Mayor Robert Marlow
up and moved to Sitka, about
three weeks ago, but forgot an
important detail. He failed to
resign.
Now the town council is in a
tizzy. It wants to appoint a new
mayor but legally it still has its
old one.
“It has placed the council in a
somewhat confusing situation,”
Councilman H. J. Barott said
Tuesday.
The wheels of government won’t
grind to a standstill, however.
Barott has been appointed mayor
pro-tem until a decision i s
reached.
Stevedore Strikers
Insist Taft-Hartley
Offers No Answer
WASHINGTON, (41 — President
Eisenhower’s emergency fact-find
ing board completed a fast public
hearing today on the strike of
East and Gulf Coast stevedores
with an appeal to the parties to
resume bargaining at once and
hammer out a solution.
Chairman Guy Farmer told
newsmen he expects that “barring
something we cannot foresee, we
will file a report tomorrow.”
This could — if Eisenhower
chooses — set in motion the pro
cedures under Taft-Hartley labor
act which would lead to a federal
court order enjoining the seven
day-old strike for 80 days of cool
ing off and bargaining.
The hearing was finished in one
hour and 45 minutes.
As it ended, Farmer reminded
spokesmen of the strikng Inter
national Longshoremen’s Associa
tion and the waterfront employers
that Taft-Hartley “will not bring
about any solution of this dis
pute.”
He urged the parties to “make
every effort to get together to
bring about a peaceful settle
ment.”
Spokesmen for both sides agreed'
— but their positions, as outlined
in sharp and hostile terms to the
three-man panel, gave little prom
ise of early agreement.
Northwind Returns to
Seattle After ‘Routine
Bering Sea Patrol
SEATTLE, UR — Just a day
short of 12 weeks since she had
set out on her annual Bering Sea
patrol, the Coast Guard icebreak
er Northwind returned to Seattle
Tuesday.
The Northwind sailed July 15 to
take medical and dental care to
Alaskan natives in the isolated
communities along the Bering Sea.
Capt. Thomas R. Midtling, com
manding the Northwind, said the
voyage was pretty much routine.
The Northwind’s physican, Dr.
F. K. Goodill, and Lt. Gmdr. E.
Duane Oakes, U. S. Public Health
Service officer, were flown to
villages by helicopter.
They visited 23 villages and
treated 780 medical cases and
1,537 dental patients. '
Cmdr. Oakes, whose home is
Houston, Tex., had an unusual
souvenir of the voyage. It is a
plaque presented to him by the
crew. On the plaque is mounted
a molar that carries a prime case
of dental caries.
“It’s the 2,000th tooth of the
2,831 that I extracted on this trip,”
he explained.
Lord Louie Beams on
British Missile Training
VANDENB^RG AIR FORCE
BASE, Calif., UP’i — The United
Kingdom’s Lord and Lady Mount
batten were watching when Brit
ish crews successfully fired a
Thor, sixth of their training mis
sile launches at this base.
The missile was one of three
which streaked away from Amer
ican bases Tuesday. Another Thor
and an Atlas were fired at Cape
Canaveral.
British crews are trained here
to operate Thor launching sites
in Great Britain. The Air Force
said the firing, by a four-man
Royal Air Force crew, was com
pletely successful.
Steelworkers President Says Further
Strike Settlement Attempts Are Futile
PITTSBURGH, (£) — United
Steelworkers President David J.
McDonald sent his wage policy
committee home today. He said
steel strike settlement prospects
appeared hopeless.
McDonald indicated he felt the
next step will be for President
Eisenhower to invoke the Taft
Hartley act to end the strike for
an 80-day period. But McDonald
said the union will fight any such
court injunction in the courts.
But he pledged the union, fail
ing to upset an injunction, would
“obey the law of the land.”
The union chief said there was
nothing in the steel negotiations
picture to “indicate hope for
settlement in the near future.”
In strongly opposing use of the
Taft-Hartley, McDonald again
called for appointment by Eisen
hower of a public fact-finding
board to sift the strike issues and,
recommend a settlement solution.
Eisenhower has expressed dis
taste for such a board but has
said he would name one if the
industry joined the union in en
dorsing the idea. The industry has
indicated any White House inter
vention should be the Taft-Hartley
procedure.
Under Taft-Hartley a board of
inquiry would be confined to
making a factual report on the
situation and would be barred
from making any settlement pro
posals.
Dispersal of the union’s 170
man wage policy committee un
derlined the union’s disbelief in
a negotiated strike solution.
Neither was there any ray of op
timism on the industry side.
Six top industry executives, led
by Chairmn Roger M. Blough of
U. S. Steel Corp., met with Mc
Donald in a fruitless session Tues
day night.
Mario Lanza Dies in Rome
ROME, UP\ — American tenor
Mario Lanza died today in a Rome
hospital.
Lanza had been in the hospital
about a week, reportedly for
treatment of a minor illness.
A friend said he had suffered
a heart attack and died shortly
after noon. He was 38.
Lanza two years ago under
took a new movie career in Eur
ope after several years of contro
versial activity in the United
States.
A Philadelphia boy, Lanza
vaulted to fame with the film
“The Great Caruso.” He earned
$1,100,000 in one year, more than
half of it in phonograph records.
In 1952 he was about the hottest
thing in U. S. show business.
Two years later he was in debt
to the United States government
and having a hard time finding
bookings.
11 Alaska High Schoolers
Vie for Top Scholarships
EVANSTON, 111., UP — Alaska
placed 11 of its high school stu
dents among the 10,000 semifinal
ists in the competition for the
1960 National Merit Scholarships.
The semifinalists, announced
today, were selected from among
some 550,000 juniors and seniors
in 14,500 high schols, who took
the National Merit Scholarship
qualifying test last spring.
Finalists will be selected from
the results of another test to be
given December 5 in testing cen
ters throughout the United States.
They will be eligible for four
year merit scholarships, which
average about $730 a year.
Grants are given upon the basis
of need of each indivdual student
and may reach a maximum of
$1,500 yearly.
The Alaska semifnalists and
their high schools were:
Anchorage — Roy B. Evans,
Janet A. Martin and Pauline J.
Reed.
Fairbanks — Jimmy L. Jones.
Juneau — Larry L. Langdon,
John J. Lewallen, George C. Mc
Curry and Matchell A. Poling.
Kodiak — Norman E. Smith.
Sitka — Linda M. Delaney and
Patrick R. Pearl.
Distressed Woman
Bank Bandit Is
6Glad It’s Over'
CLEVELAND, in — “Thank
God it’s over. I’m so tired of
waiting.” ,
That summed up the feeling of
Alma Helen Stevens, 26, object of
a nationwide search as the woman
accomplice of a man who killed
himself in a bizarre but futile
bank holdup here two weeks ago.
She was arrested by two pa
trolmen Tuesday night in an East
sidte rooming house on a tip that
a man and a woman were having
a loud argument and disturbing
other occupants.
Mrs. Stevens told detectives
she was forced to remain in Cleve
land since the day of the robbery
attempt because she was broke.
The first two days she slept under
a bridge, not more than a mile
from where the getaway car was
abandoned. Mrs. Stevens said she
lived in the rooming house with
a 39-year-old man since the third
day of her flight.
“I saw my picture on TV once
and I was afraid to go out of the
house,” she told detectives.
Mrs. Stevens had sped from a
Cleveland Trust Co. branch Sep
tember 23 in a getaway car. She
had been waiting for William Ans
ley, 30, who was trapped inside
the bank by 200 law enforcement
officers who poured tear gas into
the building through windows.
Ansley killed himself during the
one-hour siege.
Ansley and Mrs. Stevens had
driven to the bank after an early
morning stop at the home of the
bank manager, Herbert Fox. There
they tied up Fox’s wife and two
daughters. A phony bomb was left
ticking in the house. The family
was able to escape from their
bonds and alert police.
'I'M A MOMMY!'
SOUTH CHARLESTON, W. Va.,
ID — Seventeen-year-old Betty
Sue Eplin gave birth to a
daughter, Brenda Sue, last De
cember 28.
Now, 11 months later, Mrs.
Eplin is the mother of four chil
dren. The wife of a golf course
caddy gave birth to triplets, six
weeks premature, Monday.