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VOL. LXII No. 45 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 1960 Per Copy 15tf
City Dedicates
$68,188 Real Taxes ,
To The School
At the City Council meeting on
Monday evening it was reported
that the new City Jail, which
started operating in February in
the Federal Building, taking care
of Federal and State prisoners, |
is just about breaking even. This
is according to a report for the
two months of operation submit
ted by Herb Jenks, who is in
charge of the operation.
Total billings for the two
months are $6,651, with total cost
of operation $6,480.06.
Council iMdver brought up the
matter of a relief patrolman so
that the present crew could have
a day off each week. The matter
was deferred for action by the
new council.
Following the council meeting
the Board of Equalization met.
The board denied the request of
the hospital administrator that
the doctor’s residence, purchased
last year by the hospital, be tax
exempt. Valuation of the property
was set at $11,300.
The request of Radio Station
KICY tha^ their station and the
homes of personnel be exempted,
was also denied. Valuation was
set at $4,700 and $3,097 for the
residences and $50,000 on the
studio building and station man
ager’s residence.
Total assessed valuation of the
City of Nome has decreased by
' $87,000 under last year due to the
closing out of the N.C. Cat Shop
and also because stores are carry
ing less stock, depending on air
shipment for supplies.
The tax rate was set at 15 mills.
This will bring in $68,188.78 in
real and personal property taxes
and this amount was dedicated to
the Nome School.
The tentative school budget ex
ceeds this by about $25,000 but
help has been promised by the
Bureau of Indian Affairs in the
amount of $12,500 for this year
and $30,000 each year for the next
two years. The BIA relief to the
school is due to the impact of
students from native villages
which has greatly increased the
school attendance and necessita
ting the hiring of several addi
tional teachers.
Seward City Council
Will Settle Dispute With
Union Electricians
ANCHORAGE, I*—1The Seward
city council meets tonight in what
is expected to be the last round
of the battle between the city and
the International Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers.
The council must act upon a
two-year contract drawn up Mon
day between Seward City Attor
ney Burton C. Biss of Anchorage
and union officials.
Contract terms call for no wage
increases the first year, but a
seven per cent hike for the second
year. It also establishes a union
Shop, which requires employes
hired by the city to join the union
within 30 days.
The issue was touched off Sat
urday when union members walk
ed off work at 8 a.m. and turned
off the electricity. They were pro
testing the hiring of non-union
help by the city.
An emergency council meeting
with union heads led to resump
tion of power four hours later, but
contract terms were not finally
hammered out until the meeting
here Monday. ,
Deadline For Filing For j
State Legislature Is May 2 i
Secretary of State Hugh Wade j
last week called the attention of
prospective candidates for elec
tion to Alaska’s State Legislature
to a requirement for filing of the
declaration of candidacy with the
clerk of the Superior Court in the
major senate district of which the
candidate is a resident.
The revised election code en
acted by the recent Legislature re
quires candidates seeking nomi
nation in the primary election to
file a declaration of candidacy
on or before May 1 of each elec
tion year. Declaration may be
filed in person or by mail or tele
gram, but ntust be received prior
to the 5 p.m.. May 1 deadline. A
telegraphed declaration must be
followed by receipt of a mailed
declaration postmarked prior to
I the deadline.
Because May 1 falls on a Sun
day, candidates will have until
5 p.m., May 2, to file their declar
ations.
Little Chance Seen For
U.S: Proposals At World
Maritime Conference
GENEVA, —The main com
mittee of the World Maritime
Conference today approved a
Canadian - U. S. proposal for ex
tending the world’s territorial
waters from three to six miles.
The vote was far short, how
ever, of the two thirds majority
needed for approval later by the
full conference.
The proposal would give coastal
states exclusive fishing rights up
to 12 miles offshore after 1972.
The committee narrowly re
jected a proposal to extend terri
torial waters to a maximum of 12
miles.
The proposal was sponsored by
18 African-Asian and Latin Am
erican nations and had the full
support of the Soviet bloc.
The rejection bars the proposal
from further discussion at a con
ference plenary session.
Soviet delegate Gregori Tunkin
threw cold water on prospects for
any kind of agreement by insist
ing there can be no compromise
on a limit of territorial waters
below 12 miles.
Tunkin is the main spokesman
for the Communist, Afro - Asian
and Latin American countries fa
voring a 12-mile wide sea border.
He said the Western plan’s
“real motive is to enable their
warships to come closer to coasts
of foreign countries which they
want to put under pressure.”
Grandson of French
Auto Maker Kidnaped
And Held For Ransom
PARIS, t/P)—Police today hunted
a dark-haired man they said
darted into a group of children
at play and snatched up the
grandson of millionaire auto man
ufacturer Jean-Pierre Peugeot for
$100,000 ransom.
The kidnaper dropped a note
as he fled, warning “especially
do not warn the police. In 48
hours I will give you instruc
tions.”
Police said the note also threat
ened death to the child if the
kidnaper’s demands were not met.
The parents of the 4 Vt-year-old
boy, Eric Peugeot, said a man
called them just before midnight
demanding the ransom.
The Peugeot Auto Works is one
of France’s three largest.
U.S. Orbits 265-lb. |
Navigational
System Satellite
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., «Pt—
Tihe forerunner of a U.S. satellite
navigation system planned to give
sailors and airmen a good posi
tion fix any time in any weather
was hurled successfully into or
bit around the earth today.
The experimental space navi
gator, named Transit I-B was
rocketed aloft from this missile
test center in a test with ob
viously heavy bearing on long
range missile operations.
It was a Navy project with air
Force rocketry help. The spon
sorship underscored its special ap
plication to the Polaris missile
firing submarine whose officers
will have tcf know their own po
sition precisely to zero in on a
target hundreds of miles away.
The information from Transit
I-B and its successors, however,
is to be given to all nations.
Some four hours after the satel
lite went up Navy and civilian
scientists said in Washington that
it was in a path a little less than
400 miles up, with an orbit time
of around 94 minutes. They bad
been shooting at a height of 400
500 miles.
On the basis of preliminary
tracking scientists said Transit
I-B was in an orbit reasonably
circular. The nearer they come to
a perfect circle with such a de
vice the closer the navigational
fix that can be made.
The 265-pound spherical pay
load was hoisted on the nose of
a giant Thor-Able-Star rocket
combination just after dawn.
j Chou Sets Out On
Fence-Mending Tour
Of South Asia
TOKYO, UP>—Premier Chou En
Lai set out today on a three
nation south Asian tour designed
to mend fences damaged by Red
China’s actions in Tibet and bor
der disputes with her neighbors.
The 64-year-old Communist pre
mier will need all of his sauve
! charm on his visits to Burma,
India and Nepal.
Communist suppression of the
uprising in Tibet shocked many
Asians who formerly were apolo
gists for the Peiping regime.
Movement of Chinese troops into
territory India considered her own
infuriated the Indians. News that
the Chinese now are claiming Mt.
Everest upset the Nepalese, who
take great pride that their little
kingdom is the home of the
world’s highest mountain.
High point of the tour will be
talks next week in New Delhi be
tween Chou and Indian Prime
Minister Nehru on their dispute
over 51,000 square miles of Hima
layan territory between India and
Tibet.
Nehru already has put a dam
per on the meeting by expressing
doubt that it would lead to any
immediate solution of the dispute.
At stake are 36,000 square miles
in the Ladakh area of Kashmir.
Cuba ‘Sweetening Up' China
TOKYO, Ml—Communist China
has purchased 80,000 more tons
of Cuban sugar, Peiping radio re
ported today. The broadcast said
“another contract has just been
signed” between the China Na
tional Foodstuffs Export Corp.,
and Cuban Trade Concerns. No
details were given.
Eisenhower Has No Plans
To Visit Alaska While
On World Tour
ANCHORAGE, UPi — White
House Press Secretary James C.
Hagerty, making arrangements
for President Eisenhower’s world
tour in June, will visit South
Korea.
Hagerty and his 20 - member
party landed at Elmendorf Air
Force Base yesterday afternoon in
one of the presidential jet air
liners.
They flew here from Moscow
via Copenhagen and Keflavik,
Iceland.
At a news conference, Hagerty
said the group would fly to Seoul,
South Korea, “for a quick look
see.”
Hagerty said the President
probably would land in Honolulu
on his way back from the Far
East. He said there were no plans
for a stop in Alaska, but added
the route has not yet been made
firm.
Young Desperado
Loses Fight With
State Police
By JACK WHITE
PULASKI, Va., UP) — The 30
hour stand of a teen-age desper
ado, who swore he’d “go out in
a blaze of glory in a tie and white
shirt with blood on it,” ended
Tuesday night. Police dragged
him shrieking from the home
where he had held his young
sister-in-law hostage.
The plucky 10-year-old girl, un
harmed, said afterwards, “I was
n’t scared.”
A barrage of tear gas shells
flushed Harless Hardin “Jackie”
Jennings from the trim brick
bungalow of his in-laws at 10:30
p.m. after a day that saw the
siege range from terrifying to al
most ridiculous.
Jennings came out firing wild
ly but ineffectually with a shot
gun. pushing Barbara Butts out
the door ahead of him.
“Duck, Barbara!” officers called
an instant before they snatched
her aside. Then Jennings, an 18
year-old unemployed mill hand,
was overpowered, knocked down
and pulled screaming down the
walk to a state police car that
whisked him to a mental hospital.
Barbara, examined at a local
hospital, showed no signs of in
juries and seemed unruffled by
her ordeal that began at 4:15 p.m.
Monday.
That was when Jennings grab
bed her after escaping from po
lice as he was being taken to jail
for unauthorized use of his father
in-law’s car.
Army Engineers to Spend
$95 Million On 96 Projects
In Alaska This Summer
ANCHORAGE, UPI — The U. S.
Army Engineer District, Alaska,
will spend $95,000,000 in projects
in the state this year, Col. Wm.
Gribble Jr., District Engineer, told
the Greater Anchorage Chamber
of Commerce yesterday.
This figure is up $15,000,000
from the average amount spent by
the district, Gribble said.
The projects are in 96 different
locations within Alaska, from
Annette Island to Shemya and
from Anchorage to Cape Lis
bourne. Contracts are now held
by 42 firms for these jobs.
Democrats Outvote
Republicans In
Illinois Primary
iBy The Associated Press»
Some bitter, Democratic barbs
have come at the Eisenhower ad
ministration one after another.
“Frozen in the ice of its own
indifference” was the description
Sen. John Kennedy tagged on the
administration Tuesday.
The cause of “this period of
leaderless lassitude” was the ac
cusation made Tuesday night by
Adlai Stevenson.
In the Illinois primary, Vice
President Nixon, who stands
largely on the administration re
cord but did not campaign in the
state, received a far smaller vote
than President Eisenhower rolled
up four years ago.
On the whole, Democrats out
voted Republicans in the light
turnout. The Republicans nomin
ated Gov. William G. Stratton for
a third term. The Democrats
named Otto Kerner to oppose
him.
Sen. Paul H. Douglas was un
opposed on the Democratic ballot
for nomination to a third term.
Incomplete returns gave him a
larger complimentary vote than
Nixon received.
Stevenson, who has denied he
is a candidate for the Democratic
presidential nomination, acted
very much like one as he ad
dressed a crowd in the gymna
sium of the University of Vir
ginia at Charlottesville.
“Too often our leadership has
been hesitant and half-hearted,
and had concealed from us the na
ture and dimensions of the crisis,”
he said.
Kennedy made his attack on the
administration in a speech to the
International Union of Operating
Engineers in Miami.
The economy of the Soviet Un
ion is expanding seven times as
fast as that of the United States,
he said, and the Eisenhower ad
ministration does nothing about
it.
Tornado Sweeps
Away Texas Town
AMARILLO, Tex., — A tor
nado swept down on the West
Texas village of Sunnyside Tues
day night and killed three per
sons and injured 32.
Sunrise today showed the twist
er virtually swept the community
off the land.
But for a woman’s warning cry
seconds before the twister struck,
the toll probably would have been
much greater in the crossroads
community of Sunnyside, about
half way between Amarillo and
Lubbock.
Mrs. C. M. Rogers, wife of Sun
nyside’s Baptist pastor, spotted
the dark and threatening cloud
and sounded an alarm.
Nearly 40 men at a meeting in
her husband’s church scrambled
for two storm cellars close by.
“The men had to put up their
arms and hold up the rafters,”
said one person, describing how
they kept the roof of one shelter
from collapsing on 30-odd persons.
Sunnyside residents emerged to
find the farming community shat
tered, the writhing storm level
led their church, store, grain ele
vator, cotton gin and four or five
homes. A half-dozen other houses
lost their roofs.