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VOL. LXI No. 137 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1959 Per Copy—15^
Cold Wave Numbs !
Heart of Dixie
(Bu The Associated Press>
A pre-winter cold wave that j
numbed the Rockies and the mid
continent earlier this week stung
the East and the heart of Dixie
today with the season’s coldest
weather.
It was colder in many parts of
the South — below freezing —
than in the snow-covered sections
of the Northland, which made a
quick recovery after two days of
sub-zero blasts.
Freezing weather penetrated to
the Gulf region. Pensacola, Fla.,
had a low of 31.
Cold records for the date
toppled in many cities.
Five to eight inches of snow
fell along the lake front in north
eastern Ohio. New York State
had up to 12 inches of snow and
temperatures ranged down to 2
below zero.
The freezing weather spread
southward across the Carolinas,'
Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana
and south Texas. Temperatures
were in the 20s. Some southern
cities matched the 25-degree mark
at Anchorage.
State Chief Justice
Names Presiding
Court Judges
JUNEAU — From among the
eight Superior Court judges ap
pointed last week by Governor
Egan, the Supreme Court chief
justice named these presiding
judges:
For the First District, James A.
von der Heydt at Nome.
For the second district, Hugh
Gilbert at Nome.
For the third district, Edward
V. Davis of Anchorage.
For the Fourth District, Harry
O. Arend of Fairbanks.
Nesbett said letters informing
the four of their appointments
went out in advance of their for
mal assumption of judicial duties
so they can begin work on press
ing problems as sodn as possible.
One of the major tasks facing
the presiding judges is the selec
tion of magistrates and deputy
magistrates for each of the judi
cial districts.
The magistrates and the depu
ties will provide lower court ju
dicial services on a local level.
The Superior Court judges will
be sworn in November 27 and will
leave Juneau the next day for
New Jersey and an intensive five
day training program November
30 to December 4.
Arrangements for the clinic,
covering handling of all types of
judicial work, were made by Nes
bett with William Smith, chief
judge of the IT. S. District Court
at Newark.
The assignment of cases within
each district is an added respon
sibility of the presiding judges.
PILOT KILLED IN CRASH
AT ANCHORAGE BASE
ANCHORAGE, UP — The pilot
of an Air Force FI02 jet fighter
plane killed in a crash on take
off Monday was identified as
Captain Donald E. Leiffert, 32.
His widow, Joanne Frances,
and three children, Christopher,
8, Kirkland, 6, and Chad, 4, all
living at the Elmendorf AFB, sur
vive. His father is Everett O.
Leiffert, of Des Moines, Iowa.
Metalworking Magazine
Predicts Type of
Settlement in Steel Issue
NEW YORK, UP) — If secret
meetings now in progress be
tween steel industry and union
negotiators bring about a volun-_
tary agreement, it probably will
be a noninflationary three-year
contract, Iron Age Magazine said
today.
The package may be sweetened
slightly from the last offer made
a few weeks ago of 10 cents an
hour wage cost, the national met
alworking magazine said.
While recent meetings have not
brought the two sides close
enough to cause a surge of opti
mism, the magazine said, they did
clear some of the air between
David J. McDonald, Steelworkers
Union president, and R. Conrad
Cooper, chief industry negotiator.
Pressure on the union and the
companies have prodded both
sides to resume talks.
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Vicksburg, Miss., Pair
Enroute to Alaska via
22-Foot Outboard Cruiser
BERKELEY, Calif., UP) — Two
southerners stopped off here yes
terday on an extended cruise to
Ketchikan, in a 32-foot fiberglass
cruiser.
Andy Thriche, 37, is the’ skip
per. His mate is Bob Cummings,
16.
The pair started off June 6 at
Vicksburg, Miss., sailed through
intercoastal waters to the Gulf of
Mexico, on through the Panama
Canal and up the California
coast.
They stopped in Los Angeles to
change their twin 50-horsepower
outboards to 75 hp. jobs. The 50s
were too slow.
Triohe, sporting a five-month
beard and a Confederate Army
cap, said his biggest problem was
finding gasoline. The boat is
equipped with tanks holding 260
gallons, good for about 300 miles.
But some ports along the deso
olate west coast of Mexico are as
far as 475 miles apart.
“We found little harbors along
there — canneries and little vil
lages — every ilOO miles or so.
They’re hell to find, but we
rooted them out.”
Triche hopes to get to Alaska
and back to Vicksburg by
Christmas.
‘Typical’ American
Family Realizes
Universal Dream
SEATTLE, UP! — At first glance,
Cecil Emery Jr. appears to be a
typical average American.
He is 39, married the sweet
heart he met at the YMCA here
as a G-I from Chicago in World
War II-, has four fine children
. . . earns $100 a week as a tele
phone equipment maintenance
man, has the usual worries of
trying to make his paycheck
stretch.
But let’s look again. He is hot
an ordinary guy.
With the approval of his lovely
wife, Patricia, 36, he sold his
house and all their belongings to
finance a four-month trip around
the world for his doting family.
It cost them $5,500. Only a tiny
nestegg is left.
Yesterday they finished this
dream other tens of thousands
only talk about.
“We wouldn’t trade it for all
the money in the world,” said
Emery and 'his wife, “and that’s
just about what we don’t have
any of.”
There were nods of agreement
from James, 16, John, 13, Linda,
10, and Tommy, 4.
Emery said that with a family
his size and a modest income it
was impossible to save for a world
tour. The only thing they had was
the equity in the home he built
with his own hands over seven
years.
A 30-day voyage by freighter,
starting July 14, took them to
Honolulu, the Fiji Islands, then
Australia. They remained five
weeks in Australia to Ceylon,
India, Arabia, the Suez Canal,
through the Mediterranean to
southern France, Gibraltar, and
London.
The Emerys have moved in
temporarily with his in-laws, but
plan to start building another
house on a lot they own.
UPSET . . .
LOS ANGELES, UP) — “She
ran at me with a knife. It upset
me and made me nervous.”
That testimony won Mayor
Cahzin a divorce fom his wife,
Rose, when he explained that he
isn’t as spry at running around
the house as he once was.
Cahzin, a retired barber, is 90.
Mrs. Cahzin is 76.
Khrushchev Boast Reveals Soviet Plant
Missile Output Enough for Annihilation
MOSCOW, UP) — Premier
Khrushchev says one Soviet fac
tory alone has turned out 250
rockets with hydrogen warheads
in one year — enough to “raze all
our potential enemies off the face
of the earth.”
“You can well imagine that if
this lethal weapon is exploded
over some country there will be
nothing left there at all,” Khrush
chev told a meeting of Soviet
journalists. But the Soviet govern
ment is “ready to sink all this
in the sea in the interests of en
suring peace on earth,” he said,
“if other countries will follow our
example.”
The Soviet leader said he was
making public the rocket pro
duction figure to back up his 1958
announcement that the Soviets
were turning out intercontinental
ballistic missiles. He did not indi
cate whether the plant he referred
to was producing all of the So
viets’ nuclear-headed rockets.
“Some in the West claim that
the Soviet Union has changed its
policy and therefore it has be
come easier to talk with us,”
Khrushrhev said. “This is wrong,
of course. Communists we were
born, Communists we live and will
not die but continue to march on
ward as Communists.”
In Washington, the Defense De
partment had no immediate com
ment on Khrushchev’s report on
Soviet missile production.
It was not clear whether the
Premier was referring to inter
continental missiles with a range
of several thousand miles, or whe
ther he was speaking of medium
range weapons with a range of
about 700' miles.
Connecticut Congressman Urges Ike
Offer Goodwill Seat to Demo. Critics
By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL
AUGUSTA, Ga., UPt — President
Eisenhower is mulling over a pro
posal that he ask Hatry S. Tru
man to go along on next month’s
goodwill visit on three continents,
a White House spokesman says.
Wayne Hawks, acting White
House Press Secretary, told a
news conference questioner yes
terday: “He has it under consid
eration, yes.”
But one obvious obstacle in the
way of turning the President and
former President into traveling
companions is that for seven years
there hasn’t been much goodwill
between them.
And a spokesman for Truman
said in Kansas City that Truman
knew nothing of the idea.
It was Senator Thomas x Dodd
(D-Conn) who suggested that Eis
enhower make his 20,000-mile
tour of 11 nations a bi-partisan
affair. He wrote a letter to the
Chief Executive Friday propos
ing that Eisenhbwer invite one
or more Democrats experienced in
international affairs.
In addition to Truman, the sen
ator mentioned Dean Aoheson,
who was Truman’s Secetary of
State; Adlai E. Stevenson, the
loser to Eisenhower in the 1952
and 1956 Presidential campaigns,
and Representative Chester
Bowles (D-Conn), f former am
bassador to India.
India, with Red China glower
ing across her northern border, is
a high priority point on the tour.
Eisenhower will spend more time
there than in any other couptry.
Producers Assert That
All Tainted Cranberries
Are Off the Market
WASHINGTON, UP)—Cranberry
producers asserted today that
their products now on the market
are safe to eat. They called on
Secretary of Welfare Arthur
Flemming to give that reassur
ance to the American public.
Ambrose E. Stevens, general
manager of a cooperative which
he said represents 75 per cent of
the cranberry crop, said canned
cranberry sauce now on store
shelves was made from berries
harvested in 1958.
Neither the Food and Drug Ad
ministration nor producers, Ste
vens said, have any reason to be
lieve that last year’s crop was
improperly treated in any man
ner with the weed killer amino
triazole.
“The very careful restrictions
made by us on fresh berries also
indicate that 10 million pounds
of fresh cranberries in grocery
stores are also entirely pure,”
Stevens added.
Stevens, at a conference called
by Flemming, presented a five
point industry program designed
to relieve Americans of any
worry.
Flemming’s stated purpose in
setting up today’s meeting was to
hear from the industry a plan
to separate the clean berries from
those which have been contami
nated. So far the only method has
been painstaking and slow chem
ical testing of each batch.
Bartlett Urges Increase
In Allotted Survey Funds
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WASHINGTON, UP) — Senator
Bob Bartlett yesterday urged in
creased federal funds for land
surveys.
Bartlett said in a letter to Sec
retary of the Interior Seaton that
the federal budget for the present
fiscal year which began July 1,
contained only one million dollars
for surveying land to be selected
by the arious states.
He said Alaska, under its state
hood law, will select 103 million
acres of land in the next 20
years, an average of four million
acres annually.
He estimated Jhe cost of survey
ing this land would be four mil
lion dollars a year. He suggested
this should be considered when
the Interior Department makes
up its budget for the next fiscal
year.
Soviet Activities
In N. Atlantic'
Threat to NATO
WASHINGTON, i#>—Operation
of Soviet fishing vessels in the
North Atlantic “is a matter of
great concern to us,” NATO com
mander Admiral Jerauld Wright
said -today.
The fishing craft, he said, os
tensibly are interested only in
commercial fishing but “they are
probably engaged in other activi
ties” such as oceanographic sur
veys and other tasks of military
importance.
Wright also said Soviet ballistic
missile submarines will pose a sig
nificant threat against nations of
the North Atlantic Treaty Or
ganization within a year.
“We have conclusive evidence,”
Wright said, “that they are show
ing an increased interest in the
East Coast of North America, a
key area and an industrial com
plex of the first importance, not
only to America, but to our
NATO alliance.”
Wright also called for increased
contributions by all NATO na
tions to defense of the vital sea
lanes between North America and
Europe.
“The defense of the Atlantic,”
he said, “is not a one or a two
or a three-nation task. It is what
we call an ‘all hands job,’ one
to which all NATO nations can
contribute.”
WCTU Attacks Television
EVANSTON, 111., UP) — The
Women’s Christian Temperance
Union today accused Columbia
Broadcasting System of violating
television’s decency code with
shows depicting murder, delin
quency and drunkenness.
Mrs. Fred J. Tooze, president
of the WCTU, said: “CBS has
long been a headache in Christian
homes, with its array of Westerns
and detective shows featuring
murder, gun fights and violence
at hours when most children
watch.”
GRANDMA IS YOUNG . . .
BURBANK, Calif., UP) — Actress
Loretta Young is a gandmother.
Her daughter, Judy, gave birth
Monday to a daughter, Maria.
Judy is the wife of Joseph Tunney
Jr., executive with Revue Pro
ductions.