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VOL. LV No. 137 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1953 Per Copy—15<
Summary of Engineer’s Report
On City Purchase of Power Plant
Mr. H. Harstad of the engineer- ,
ing firm which made a survey of
the Northern Light and Power Co.
for the City of Nome, arrived yes
terday and presented the follow
ing summary of the report on the
proposed purchase.
City of Nm/Prpsd pchs of NLPC
1. CITY OPTION — Price of
$200,000 covers entire property
and business of company, includ
ing materials and supplies, and
meter deposits of $5,150.
2. ENGINEERING REPORT —
Prepared by Metcalf & Harstad
Associates, consulting engineers
of Seattle. This independent re
port cost the city $5,500, win, lose
or draw. This engineering firm
has a long and successful record
for competence and integrity in
the financing and construction of
municipal utilities, and their opin
ions are recognized by investment
bankers and municipal bond in
vestors.
3. PROPERTY VALUE—The en
gineers estimate the cost of repro
ducing the property at today’s
prices would he $432,000, and af
ter deducting $124,000 deprecia
tion, the remaining value is esti
mated at $308,000. The engineers
estimate that $25,000 will provide
for all replacements and improve
ments now advisable for good
service.
4. REVENUES—In the last five
years, the company’s gross rev
enues have increased steadily
from $97,000 a year to over $110,
000. This comes from nearly 600
customers.
5. NET PROFIT—to the city
would have been more than $45,
600 in any of the last three years.
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Four Missing Alaska
Fliers Turn Up Safe
ANCHORAGE, UP) — F o u r
Alaska fliers who have been miss
ing in the territory’s interior were
found Tuesday unharmed.
First to be located was Jack
Peck, vice president of operations
for Alaska Airlines, and Thomas
Campobasso, the airline’s director
of operations and maintenance.
They were spotted at Rainy Land
ing, 50 miles northwest of Mc
Grath.
They both were safe and their
plane is near a cabin, CAA of
ficials said. They apparently had
landed Sunday after encountering
bad weather on a flight from Mc
Grath to Unalakleet.
Later, Bob Vanderpool, veteran
bush pilot, and his unidentified
passenger, who have been miss
ing since Monday afternoon, flew
into Skwentna. Vanderpool re
ported he had landed on a 225
mile flight from McGrath to An
chorage when he encountered bad
weather enroute, continuing Tues
day.
Widespread searches had been
conducted for both planes.
Discussion of Power Issue Tonight at School!
DON’T MISS THE MEETING AT THE SCHOOL AUDITORIUM, 8 O’CLOCK TONIGHT. HEAR DISCUSSION ON THE
PROPOSED PURCHASE OF THE NORTHERN LIGH T & _ JWER COMPANY BY THE CITY OF NOME.
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Presklent Doesn’t
Believe Budget Be
Balanced NextYear
WASHINGTON, UP) — President
Eisenhower, shunting aside the
Harry Dexter White case at his
news conference, said today he
does not believe the federal bud
get can be balanced in the fiscal
year beginning next July 1.
Eisenhower told the conference
he had said his last word, for the
present at least, on the biggest
issue in Washington, the contro
versy over former President Tru
man’s letting the appointment of
White to a high monetary post go
through in 1946 in the face of
an FBI report that White was
suspected of being a Communist
spy.
He voiced the hope that the
Communist - ^government issue
will be a matter of history by the
time the 1954 congressional elec
tions come around.
He gave two reasons for his be
lief that a balanced budget can
not be achieved in the fiscal year
beginning next July:
One, he said, was the need of
tax adjustments, to remove in
justices. He indicated this would
necessitate some loss in revenue.
He gave expenses of the farm
program as the other reason.
Eisenhower said these are un
usually high because of the
drought and related problems.
He noted that he will meet
with Republican congressional
leaders Dec. 17, 18 and 19 to dis
cuss the administration’s legisla
tive program for the session of
Congress starting in January.
He said that in addition to his
meeting with GOP congressional
leaders he will make every effort
to get full agreement from the
Democrats on what he regards as
bipartisan legislation, particular
ly in the field of foreign affairs.
Government Concludes
Case Against Kidnapers
KANSAS CITY, UP)—1The gov
ernment concluded its case today
against the kidnap killers of 6
year-old Bobby Greenlease whose
mother climaxed testimony by
confronting them in federal court
with the lie they used to get
$600,000 in ransom after the boy’s
coldblooded slaying.
In an unfaltering voice, Bobby’s
attractive mother told the jury
how Hall repeatedly assured her
that her only son was alive even
though he had been slain soon
after his kidnaping from a private
Catholic school.
Closing testimony was largely
corroborating evidence already
admitted.
The case is expected to go to
the jury late today.
Contributions For
School Hot Lunch
Will Be Solicited
Providing a hot lunch for the
school children of Nome' during
the coldest winter months is being
planned on a community basis
this year. For the past two years
the Beta Sigma Phi Sorority has
sponsored this project but did not
wish to continue with it this year
as a sponsor. A general committee,
representing several different or
ganizations and the community as
an entirety, feel that the hot lunch
program is too vital a project to
be discontinued.
A door-to-door campaign this
Friday and Saturday will be con
ducted by volunteers to raise
funds for the continuance of the
hot lunch program. If the response
is generous, hot lunches will be
served immediately following the
Christmas vacation and will con
tinue as long as the funds last.
There is no space available in
the school for serving. The La
vinia Wallace Young Community
Center has offered the use of one
of their buildings, rent free. This
building recently housed Howard
Green’s store and is opposite the
schoolhouse. Oil, water, and gar
bage disposal have very gener
ously been donated by several
businessmen. A special power rate
has been promised. Several organ
izations have pledged money.
The teachers have submitted the
names of 110 children who live at
a distance from school or who, for
various other reasons, should re
main for lunch.
A lunch of soup, pilot bread and
hot cocoa is planned—each child
will pay ten cents each day for
the soup and pilot bread and ten
cents for the cocoa. They may pur
chase one item or both and are
encouraged to bring sandwiches
or fruit from home to provide a
more complete lunch. That, how
ever, is something for the child
or his parents to plan for each
day.
Following the lunch period the
children will return to the school
for supervised play in the gym.
Please have your contribution
ready for the one who calls on
you Friday or Saturday. Anyone
who is not contacted on those two
days may leave his contribution
at the Nome Drug Store.
• No group or personal recogni
tion is desired or expected. This
is a community project and will
either succeed or fail. As a mem
ber of this community, which do
you prefer?
Embalmed Body of Stalin Placed
On Public View For First Time
MOSCOW, UP) — Thousands of
people marched across snowy Red
Square to file through the Lenin
Slalin tomb and get their first
look at the embalmed body of
Joseph Stalin. It was the first
public opening of the tomb since
the Soviet leader died in March.
Brownell Says Truman Administration
Failed Take “Minimum Precautions”
Of Security Toward Suspected Persons
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World’s Mightiest
Radio Transmitter
Starts Operating
JIM CREEK VALLEY, Wash.,
UP)—The Navy will flash its first
messages today to its ships, planes
and stations around the world
from what it calls the world’s
mightiest radio transmitter, high
in Washington’s Cascade moun
tains.
Operation of the $14,000,0000
station, utilizing 1,200,000 watts
of power, will be started by Adm.
Robert Carney, chief of naval op
erations, while scores of digni
taries and the nation’s newsmen
look on.
The station, located on a 6,000
acre site 55 miles northeast of
Seattle, has been nearly six years
on the draft boards and in con
struction. It will be turned over
to the United States by David
Sarnoff, chairman of the board
of the Radio Corporation of Am
erica, which built it on contract.
Two parallel 3,000-foot moun
tain ridges support the 12 towers
between which the antenna cables
swing—some spanning a distance
of 8,700 feet.
The rated power, the Navy said,
is 22 times greater than the big
gest commercial broadcasting sta
tion in the United States and
twice the power of any military
transmitters.
The station operates on a low
frequency of 23.4 kilocycles which
coupled with its high voltage, is
designed to eliminate atmospheric
conditions which often plague
radio transmission at higher fre
quency and lower power.
A permanent complement of 109
persons, 74 Navy men and 35 civ
ilians, will man the station.
Mossadegh, On Trial For
Treason, Plugs His Ears
Against Record Evidence
TEHRAN, Iran CD—Ex-Premier
Mohammed Mossadegh, who is
being tried for his life on treason
charges, spent his time in court
yesterday plugging his ears
against tape-recorded evidence,
dozing on his desk, and jotting
down a few notes.
When the recorded voice of his
fugitive ex-foreign minister Hos
sein Fatemi was heard in a 10
minute speech denouncing the
Shah, Mossadegh plugged his fin
gers in his ears.
Mossadegh is being tried before
a five-man army court martial oh
charges that he tried to over
throw the dynasty of Shah Mo
hammed Reza Pahlevi, disobeyed
the Shah’s decrees, and dissolved
parliament illegally.
> WASHINGTON, If)—Senate in
vestigators introduced evidence
today that former Secretary of
the Treasury John W. Snyder pro
moted Harold Glasser in 1946
after FBI reports had linked
Glasser with Harry Dexter White
in Soviet espionage.
Documents to this effect were
put into the record of the Senate
Internal Security subcommittee
which yesterday heard FBI Direc
or J. Edgar Hoover testify that
he opposed^—but bowed to—for
mer President Truman’s decision
to keep White in the government.
Hampered FBI Investigation
Hoover declared that moving
White from assistant secretary of
the treasury to U.S. director of
the International Monetary Fund,
as done by Truman hampered the
FBI in its investigation of White.
Truman, who had declared he
took this action to avoid tipping
off the investigation of a suspect
ed Russia spy ring, had no com
ment on Hoover’s testimony be
yond saying: “I’m sure he told the
truth.”
Hoover told the subcommittee:
“At no time was the FBI a
party to an agreement to promote
Harry Dexter White and at no
time did the FBI give its ap
proval to such an arrangement.”
But Hoover confirmed that Tru
man, as the former president had
said, permitted White to transfer
from the treasury to monetary
fund post with the idea of con
tinuing surveillance of him. Tru
man had not contended the FBI
had approved this course.
Atty. Gen. Brownell, who pre
ceded Hoover as a witness, said
any “reasonable man” would have
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Statehood Committee To
Meet In Anchorage on 24th
To Consider Amended Bill
ANCHORAGE, The Alaska
Statehood Committee has sched
uled its next meeting for Nov. 24
in Anchorage. It wil consider the
amended statehood bill now being
drafted for presentation at the
next session of Congress.
Victor Rivers, one of three An
chorage members of the 12-man
group, said Tuesday the meeting
has been called at the request of
senators who held statehood hear
ings in the territory last summer.
The senators made the request
through Delegate Bartlett.
The committee is expected to be
in session two days and may open
the meeting for public comment
and discussion after studying the
bill privately, Rivers said.
The committee member said
he understood the bill now being
drafted contains modifications de
signed to offset opposition of
those who felt the old bill was
not sufficiently liberal in some
respects.