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VOL. LIX No. 26 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1957 Per Copy—15*
Alaska $1,531,076.71 Budget Leaves
House with Biggest Boost for Welfare
JUNEAU, W — The Territorial ,
budget for three months topped
a million and a half dollars as it
came out of the Alaska House
0 f Representatives yesterday
stamped “approved.”
The total: $1,531,076.71.
The money covers a three
month interim period of April,
May aind June, designed to carry
the Territory through to the July
1 beginning of the fiscal year.
The biggest increase on the ap
proved budget went to the Depart
ment of Welfare. The welfare bud
get was boosted from $490,300 to
$546,604.59—with most of the in
creased funds earmarked for the i
aid of dependent children and for i
hospital care of indigents. The De- |
partmeint of Health also got a fat j
boost—up from the original allo
cation of $179,625 to a new, figure 1
of $192,125.
A special mental health appro- !
priation also was increased to \
$20,000. Anchorage Democrat Ken !
Johnson, Ways and Means Com-1
mittee chairman, said this was J
proposed as ain aid to getting the j
Territory’s mental health pro- j
gram under way and to make it j
possible to hire mental health j
officials.
The bill — as it now gogs to i
the Senate — provides that $1,-1
500,702.91 of the budget would i
come from the Alaska General
Fund. The remaining $30,373.80
would come from special funds
in the Highway Department.
Aden Kat Imports Banned
ADEN, Uf) — The Legislative
Council of this British Crown
Colony approved unanimously a
motion to ban imports of kat
leaves.
Most natives of Aden, the Aden
Protectorate and neighboring Ye
men chew the green kat leaves
for their mildly narcotic effect.
Kat parties usually are held daily
by the addicts, from noon until
midinight. The men have special
kat rooms, while the women chew
the leaves in seclusion.
Aden residents annually chew
- Ethiopian and Yemeni kat valued
at about $6,720,000. By compari
son, the colony’s total government
expenditures last year were j
$6,944,025.
Seaton En Route to U. S.
After 11 Days in Honolulu,
10 Days Spent in Hospital
HONOLULU, (#) — Interior Sec
retary Fred A. Seaton left Hono
lulu en-route to San Francisco
and Washington last night after
11 days ki Hawaii.
Before his Pan American plane
left Honolulu, Seaton said that
granting of statehood to Hawaii
and Alaska would be “just simple
justice” and should not be a par
tisan issue.”
Seaton said he expected to re
turn within the year to make his
projected inspection of the islands.
He couldn’t make the inspection
on thjs trip because an old back
ailment kept him in Tripler Army
i Hospital 10 of the 11 days.
| President Proclaims Red
Cross Month for March
WASHINGTON, UT) — Presi
dent Eisenhower yesterday des
ignated March as Red Cross
Month. He urged all Americans
to support the organization to “as
sure the continuing effectiveness
of its programs and services.” ... .
Im. a - proclomation, the Presi
dent noted: that the American
Red Cross in recent months has
extended assistance to the strick
en people of Hungary, in addition
to carrying on its usual relief
work in this country.
Asking generous support of the
organization, Eisenhower said it
serves “as an agent of the Amer
ican people in mitigating the suf
fering caused by disaster in this
country or abroad.”
‘Drunk and Reckless’ Flyer
Lacks Night Practice
SAN JOSE, Calif., UP) — For
drunk and reckless flying, Lester
E. Trapeur was fined $500, put
on probation, and forbidden to
pilot a plane for two years.
Municipal Judge Percy O’Con
nor pronounced sentence after
Trapeur pleaded guilty.
Trapeur buzzed the Internation
al airport so low witnesses said
he nearly crashed into a loaded
passenger plane awaiting clear
ance for departure.
He said he was lost and lacked
night flying experience.
Trujillo ‘Network of Terror’ in U. S.
Stirs Oregon Rep. to Seek House Action
Amid Dramatic Capitol Police Alert
WASHINGTON, UP) — Rep. Por
ter (D-Ore.) said today he plans
to ask the House Foreign Affairs
Committee to investigate his
charges that Generalissimo Tru
jillo of the Dominican Republic
“operates a network of terror”
in the United States.
Porter, who denounced Tru
jillo in a House speech yesterday,
said in an interview that if the
foreign affairs group does not act
“there are other committees
which can. . . .”
The first-term Oregon legisla
tor made his speech against a dra
matic background. Police, alerted
that rival groups of Dominicans
were in the city for demonstra
tions, patrolled the capitol corri
dors and the area around the
building.
They wanted no repetition of
an incident — three years ago to
day — in which a band of Puerto
Rican Nationalists shot up the
House chamber, wounding five
congressmen.
In his speech, Porter asked
Congress to investigate the dis
appearing last Dec. 3 of Gerald
Lester Murphy, 23, a pilot who
had lived in Eugene, Ore. porter
spoke of “much evidence” which
he said indicates “willful compli
city of the Dominican govern
ment” in the disappearance of
both Murphy and Jesus Galindez,
a Columbia University lecturer
opposed to Trujillo. Galindez
dropped from sight in New York
last March.
Annual World Day
Of Prayer Planned
For March 8
The Seventy First World Day
of Prayer on March 8, is being
planned under the sponsorship of
the Nome Ministerial Assn., with
Rev. Knudson as chairman.
The day will start at sunrise an
Tonga Island, just west of the In
ternational Date Line, with Queen
Salote leading her subjects in
prayer, and close at sunset on the
St. Lawrence Island in Bering
Sea.
The annual day of prayer is
sponsored internationally by the
United Christian Women of the
National Council of Churches of
Christ in the U. S. A.
It is scheduled to be held at the
Nazarene Church, it has been an
nounced, on next Friday. Further
details will be announced later.
Seaton Expresses Pleasure
Of Nome Visit in Letter
To Chamber Chairman
In a letter to Judge Walter
Hodge who was chairman of the
Chamber of Commerce committee
for the entertainment of Secre
tary of the Interior Fred A. Sea
ton, the Secretary expressed his
pleasure and appreciation for the
hospitality extended him and his
party while in Nome.
He said: “Let me say again that
it was a real pleasure to have a
part in such a well planned pro
gram. My entire staff is still com
menting on that wonderful rein
deer luncheon. You and your as
sociates are to be complemented
for the excellent arrangements
which made my visit with you
people a most pleasant exper
ience.”
Nixon Wins Cheers
Of Arab Throngs
With Handshakes
RABAT, Morocco, UPi — Vice
President Nixon won a rousing
welcome from 200,000 cheering
Moroccans today at the outset of
his good will visit to eight Afri
can nations.
Nixon, -standing upright with
his arms outstretched iin a white
open limousine, aroused cheer
after cheer from crowds packed
two and three deep during much
of the 10 mile parade route from
the Sale-Rabat Airport.
“Nixon, Nixon,” “Long Live
America,” the crowds shouted in
Arabic, French and English.
The Vice President immediate
ly began an American style hand
shaking campaign. He delighted
the crowds by twice stopping the
limousine to get out and shake
hands with persons lining the
route. On each occasion he walked
into a crowd of some 500 per
sons, shaking hands vigorously
with men and veiled women alike
and sometimes pausing to pat
children on the head.
In Morocco, the United States
is facing delicate negotiations over
rights to fie multi-million-dollar
air bases which could play a de
cisive role in any military show
down with Communist nations.
Rights to the bases, capable of
handling the biggest bombers,
were obtained when the French
ruled Morocco. The Moroccans
now insist on reviewing the
agreements.
Senate Defeat of Middle East Plan
Would Embarrass President, Says Sen.
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Nanooks Take First Game!
iFrom Eielson Base High j
The Nome Nanooks won over i
I Eielson High in the opening game ,
! of the Class B tournament by a j
i score of 63 to 45. High scorers for j
i the Nome team were Korky Kost
26, C. W. Fagerstrom 14 and Jake
Titus 12. At 2:15 p. m. Friday
the Nanooks will play Greeley.
Boom Northwest
Dollar Volume Set
For Construction
SEATTLE, tP) — Moving at a
boom pace, awards for heavy en
gineered construction in the far!
northwest and Alaska chalked up 1
a record dollar volume of $203,
211,807 during- the first two
months of 1957, according to a
summary compiled by Pacific
Builder and Engineer.
The total is nearly $140 million j
more than the volume of January
and February last year.
Portland Pinball Operator
Tells Senate that Assn.
Minutes Were Altered
WASHINGTON, UP) — Stanley:
' G. Terry testified today that the
| minutes of a meeting of the Ore
| gon State pinball operators organ
i ization were altered to “make
j them more factual” before a j
j grand jury saw them.
Terry, an indicted Portland pin
ball machine operator, said he
had questioned the accuracy of
j the account in the minutes of one
i of his conversations.
| He told the Senate Rackets in
vestigating Committee the min
utes were altered by Alvin Brown,
secretary of the pin ball opera
tors organization.
Sgt. August Leaves for
States with His Family
Sgt. and Mrs. Richard August
and their two sons Alan and Brian
left yesterday with Alaska Air
lines. Sgt. August, who has been
stationed here with the Alaska
National Guard, has been trans
ferred to the States. While here
he was active with the CAP Ca
dets, teen-age group, and with
the Parent-Teacher Assn.
WASHINGTON, UR — Sen. Ken
nedy (D-Mass.) cautioned today
that either defeat of the Middle
East resolution or stripping out
its provisions for arms and eco
nomic aid would “embarrass
President Eisenhower at a time of
crisis and dismay friendly na
tions.”
Kennedy’s address, prepared
for delivery at an unusual 10
a. m. session of the Senate, pointed
up a sharp split in Democratic
ranks.
He called the whole proposal
“an unnecessary error” but con
tended that sirfce it had been ad
vanced and the world knows of
it, the Senate dare not do any
thing but pass it intact.
Kennedy’s speech was aimed
immediately at blocking a pro
posal advanced by four Senate
Democrats — Russell (La.), Byrd
(Va.), Stennis (Miss.) and Ander
son (N. M.). That quartet sought
to cut out the atuhorization of
Presidential power for emergency
military and economic aid in the
Middle East, and leave only the
declaration of American readiness
to use troops to assist nations ask
ing help to restrict Communist
aggression.
Joining Kennedy in opposition,
to that plan were four more Dem
ocratic Senators, all equally cri
tical of the Administration. Those
four were Sens. Church (Idaho),
Carroll (Colo.), Sparkman (Ala.)
and Symington (Mo.)
Kennedy spoke out as Demo
cratic leader Johnson (Tex.) told
reporters he “hoped the Senate
would reach a vote tonight” on
the cutdown substitute which
Kennedy opposed.
In another prepared address,
Sen. McCarthy of Wisconsin op
posed the resolution as a whole
in its present form. He called it
“perhaps the most blatant attempt
yet by the Administration to
usurp Congressional prerogative.”
SOLON'S 'STOLEN' SHOE
PRESENTS PARTING POINT
SANTA FE, N. M., UR — Sen.
Elbert Wallace stopped adjourn
ment of the State Senate yester
day with an unusual point.
“Mr. President, point of order,”
he declared. “Someone has stolen
my shoe.”
The shoe was found and the
Senate adjourned.
Israel Seeks Favorable Support in U. N.
Today for Opening of Disputed Region
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., UD
—Israel goes before the General
Assembly today to spell out plans
for withdrawing, her troops from
the Gulf of Aqaba coast and the
Gaza Strip. Strong Arab opposi
tion was expected if qualifica
tions were included.
A high diplomatic source said
the Israelis would inform the 80
nation Assembly they would pull
back all troops from the Sharm
El Sheikh area of Aqaba and the
Gaza Strip in line with Assembly
resolutions of Feb. 2.
Representatives of tTie United
States, France and other nations
who support Israel’s demand for
shipping rights in the Gulf of
Aqaba were scheduled to speak
following the announcement. They
were expected to call for sta
tioning of troops of the U. N.
Emergency Force CUNEF) in the
disputed areas until there is nt>
further danger of belligerent
action.
The Western plan was said to
include support for a U. N. mili
tary administration of Gaza until
some new status for the strip can
be worked out.
Washington informants said
the United States and Israel have
contacted a large number of gov
ernments in the last few days in
an effort to obtain wide backing
for such a program. Advocates of
the plan were said to feel if
agreement could be obtained from
enough countries beforehand, Is
rael could be reasonably certain
of achieving its major objectives
even though no formal guaran
tees were obtained from the
United Nations on Egypt in ad
vance of a troop withdrawal.