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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LXI No. 96 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1959_Per Copy—15*
Eisenhower Will Offer Khrushchev
Firsthand View of Military Bases:
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
GETTYSBURG, Pa., tP — Presi
dent Eisenhower said today that
Soviet FIremier Khrushchev is
being invited to see some military
installations during his visit to
the United States if he wishes.
The Soviet leader will be given
a wide range of choice on the
kind of installations open to him,
the President told a news con
ference. If he does not want to
see any establishments, that’s
okay too.
'Would Not Go'
Khrushchev told a Moscow
news conference last Wednesday
that if he is invited to see an
American military installation “I
would not go.” He added he would
go to America as a peaceful man
and would not have any rocket
sticking out of his pocket.
Discussing the Khrushchev visit
beginning i n mid - September,
Eisenhower said he intends to tell
the Soviet leader that U. S. bases
abroad are purely defensive and
threaten no one.
He also plans, Eisenhower said,
to ask why Khrushchev does not
permit progress in improvement
of East-West relations which Eis
enhower considers necessary for
a summit conference.
Eisenhower said he is most an
xious for Khrushchev to see the
fine, small, modest homes in
which Americans live.
Eisenhower said he would like
to take Khrushchev on a flying
. trip around Washington, D. C., in
his “chopper” — his helicopter —
so Khrushchev could see the fine
homes which have developed in
the areas around Washington.
Should See Fdee Farms
Khrushchev should also go into
the great farming regions of this
country and see farms that are
run by individual free men, Eisen
hower said. He added that he
would like the Soviet Premier also
to go into the little town where
he was born — Denison, Tex. —
I and hear from the people there
how Eisenhower worked in the
early days of his life.
In response to a series of
questions about the Khrushchev
visit here next month and his
visit to the U.S.S.R. later, Eisen
: hwer also said:
1. He hopes his talks with
Khrushchev will produce a better
atmosphere between the Soviet
; Union and the Western powers.
But he does not intend to engage
in negotiations or act as a spokes
man for the West.
2. Eisenhower does not plan tb
accompany Khrushchev on his
tour around the United States.
They may visit Gettysburg or
nearby Camp David, Md., together
but so far that is only a pos
sibility.
3. His decision to invite Khrush
| chev to the United States and to
1 go to the Soviet Union is not by
any means a reversal of the poli
j cies of the late Secretary of State
John Foster Dulles.
4. On his trip to the U.S.S.R.
! Eisenhower would like to see
people and find out what they
are like. He said that as a state
visitor he will be surrounded by
great crowds all the time and will
not be able to see many sights,
but he will have a chance to get
acquainted with people and that
is his main interest.
Alaska Airlines Stock
Bought Up By Willis
SEATTLE, UP) — Charles F.
Willis, Jr., president and general
manager of Alaska Airlines, an
nounced today he and associates
have completed purchase of all
the remaining shares of stock
held by Raymond W. Marshall,
Mrs. Marshall and the Utilities
Equipment of New York.
He said they totaled 148,795
shares. They are valued at the
current market at about a mil
lion dollars.
Wilson also said Marshall and
Frank C. La Grange of New York,
have resigned as members of the
line’s board of directors as a re
sult of the transaction.
“We have a fine group of new
investors and the company can
now go ahead with plans to make
it the finest in the industry,”
Willis said.
Marshall started the line in
1941 by merging eight air carriers.
He sold 100,000 of his original
250,000 shares to another invest
ment syndicate a year ago.
U. S. PAPER MILLS
‘ SHOW PEAK PRODUCTION
NEW YORK, UP) — The nation’s
paper mills rolled out 336,991
tons last week, the second record
week in a row, the National Pa
perboard Association said today.
The industry operated at 98
per cent of capacity last week and
now has an order backlog of 578,
875 tons, biggest in more than
three years. Last week’s output
was 6,000 tons above the previous
week and 48.000 more than a
year ago.
TUESDAY BASEBALL RESULTS
(By The Associated Press)
American League
New York 8, Boston 5.
Detroit 8, Chicago 1.
Kansas City 7, Cleveland 3.
National League
San Francisco 5, St. Louis 4.
Chicago 5, Los Angeles 4.
Cincinnati 4-3, Milwaukee 3-7.
Philadelphia 6, Pittsburgh 4.
Pacific Coast League
San Diego 5, Vancouver 3.
Seattle 3-5. Phoenix 0-0.
Portland 10, Sacramento 5. \
Salt Lake 10, Spokane 8.
Alaska, Hawaii Ask
Additional Money
For Jet Airports
WASHINGTON, (A*) — A House
subcommittee was asked today to
approve a bill that would allow
Alaska and Hawaii to ask for more
money for airport construction.
The House Transportation Sub
committee heard testimony on a
Senate -passed bill that would
permit such requests to the Fed
eral Aviation Agency.
When the Federal Airport Act
was extended recently, Alaska
and Hawaii were apportioned
shares as territories. Alaska’s
share'was set at $1,350,000 and
Hawaii’s at $750,000 for each of
the next two years.
Senator Bartlett and Represen
tative Rivers, Alaska Democrats,
and Delegate John Burns and Rep
resentative-elect Daniel Inouye,
Hawaii Democrats, appeared in
support of the bill.
They said airports must be im
proved because of plans for in
creased use of jet aircraft.
Burns said Hawaii’s plans call
'for improvements costing some
20 million dollars over the next
four years and Bartlett said Alas
ka needs around nine million
during that period.
The bill would not increase
Alaska’s and Hawaii’s share un
der the airport aid act, but would
allow them to apply for aid from
the FAA discretionary fund.
Formosa Flood Toll
Greatest Island Disaster
TAIPEI, Formosa, UP)—One out
of every 40 Formosans was home
less yesterday, victim of the Na
tionalist Chinese island’s greatest
disaster in living memory.
Weekend floods in the wake of
torrential rains drove 246,807 of
Formosa’s 10 million people from
their homes.
Police said 619 are known to
have perished, 459 are still miss
ing, and 963 are injured.
CLIMBER DEATHS MOUNTING
ON SNOWY ALPINE PEAKS
ROME, (4>i — Deaths in the icy
peaks and crags of the Alps are
mounting at a tragic pace.
Barely 10 weeks after the an
nual rush to climb Europe’s most
challenging mountains got under
way, an Associated Press survey
of five countries showed at least
148 climbers killed.
FISH, WILDLIFE SERVCE REPORTS POLAR BEAR
BECOMING EASIER MARK FOR HUNTERS’ GUNS
JUNEAU, UP) — Polar bears are
j becoming easier to find, if you
don’t mind flying as far as 160
miles out over the Arctic Ocean
or the Bering Sea.
Even though the big white ani
mals are not the problem they
used to be for hunters, says Si
gurd T. Olson, it’s too, early to
say the number of polar bears
has increased.
A preliminary report by Olson,
a member of the U. S. Fish and
Wildlife Service staff here, on the
1959 polar bear season, gave the
known kill as 225 animals, with
perhaps 10 per cent more unre
ported.
Hunters seeking skins for tro
phies took 182 of the known kill,
with native Eskimos accounting
for 43 more.
Olson’s report said 92 of the
bears were killed by hunters op
erating out of Kotzebue. Another
44 were killed off of Point Bar
row, and 46 othes kills were made
along other sections of the coast
line.
The kills were made at distances
ranging from 10 to 100 miles off
shore — an average of 56 miles
at Kotzebue, and 55 miles at JBar
row. The known Eskimo kills
came at an average distance of
about 7V£ miles off the coast.
Most hunters and guides seek
out their trophy kills from air
planes, and" land on the ice to do
the actual shooting. Kills from
the air are prohibited by law.
Two-thirds of this year’s kill
came between March 1 and April
14, Olson’s report said. Most of the
rest came between April 5 and
May 15.
Of the known kill, 161 of the
animals were adult males. “If
this trend continues,” Olson re
ported, “it appears there is little
danger of depleting the bear pop
ulation.”
Integration Resumes Peacefully Amid
Little Roek Segregation Demonstration
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., [ft —
Three Negro girls walked quietly
by themselves into Hall High
School today and limited integra
tion returned to Little Rock after
two years of turmoil. >
There was no demonstration.
Some 20 spectators watched them
from lawns of homes across the
street.
The Negros entered the school
only four minutes before the
opening. Most of the 736 white
students had already streamed
into the building.
The girls are Elsie Robinson, 16;
Estelle Thompson, 16, and Effie
Jones, 17. Integration was new to
them. They were not among the
nine who integrated Central
High School in 1957-58.
When they walked into the mod
ernistic building in fashionable
Pulaski Heights they restored in
tegration to a public school sys
tem whose high schools had been
closed against it by Governor
Orval Faubus last year.
They came in a private car
without police escort. They had
been told by Police Chief Gene
Smith they would have to report
to school just like everyone else.
Streets around the school were
barricaded. Smith deployed 50
policemen in the , immediate area
to keep order. Most of the offi
cers carried billy clubs and black
jacks in addition to pistols.
Central High School, scene of
mob violence in the fall of 1957,
was scheduled for integration by
one Negro boy today. It was there
Faubus tried unsuccessfully to
stop integration with National
Guardsmen. Later violence
brought out federal troops to en
force it.
Even as Hall was opening to
token integration, segregationists
gathered on the state capitol lawn
in protest.
With a portable phonograph
playing “Dixie,” some 1,000 as
sembled. They waved both Amer
ican and Confederate flags. Some
one read parts of the Federal Con
stitution dealing with civil and.
states, rights.
There were placards and slo
gans. One said, “Race mixing is
Communism.” Another read,
“Save the Constitution, follow
Faubus.”
State Police Exams
Scheduled Next Week
JUNEAU, UP) — Annual exami
nations to qualify for openings
on the State Police force begin
next week at Ketchikan and are
scheduled later this month at
three other Alaska cities.
If you’re under 5-feet, 11-inches
in height, don’t 'bother to apply.
That’s one of the physical re
quirements for officers on the
force. In addition, applicants must
be between the age of 23 and 36,
inclusive; citizens; high school
graduates; in good physical con
dition, and of good moral char
acter.
The first of the oral and writ
ten examinations are scheduled
Monday, August 17, at Ketchikan.
The tests will be given at Juneau
August 20; Fairbanks August 24,
and at Anchorage August 27.
There are now 52 uniformed of
ficers on the State Police force.
Three new officers, who were
among those who qualified at last
year’s examinations, are sched
uled to join the force in Sep
tember.
About five of the qualifiers from
this year’s examinations will be
appointed as officers later this
year, the department said. Other
successful applicants will be eli
gible for appointment after Jan
uary 1.
Informal Meeting of AGC
And Carpenters Set for
Today at Nation’s Capitol
WASHINGTON, UP) — An infor
mal meeting to iron out a dispute
that has kept Alaska carpenters
on strike since June 27 has been
tentatively set for today.
Representatiaes of Associated
General Contractors of Alaska,
the Alaska Council of Carpenters
and the United Brotherhood of
Carpenters will attend the meet
ing along with Lew Dischner,
Alaska Commissioner of Labor.
No federal representatives are
scheduled to take part in the
meeting.
The dispute is over a demand
hour raise plus room and board.
The carpenter hourly scale in
Alaska is currently $4.25.
Eskimo Scout Battalion
Will Train In California
JUNEAU, UPI — A group of 150
members of the Alaska National
Guard’s Eskimo Scout Battalions
will report at Ft. Ord, Calif., in
November for a six-month active
training program.
Some 300 of the 1,055 members
of the two battalions located at
Arctic and Bering Sea coast com
munities already have received
the active duty training.
The high ratio, of Eskimo Scouts
participating in the program has
created a problem for state mili
tary leaders, according to Brig.
Gen. Thomas Carroll, Alaska Ad
jutant General.
“The Eskimos have been so pro
ficient,” Carroll says, “that the
original training program set up
for them is no longer advanced
enough to present a challenge.”
The Guard commander plans
corrective action.
General Carroll said an ad
vanced training program for
Scout battalions is being mapped
out, in cooperation with U. S.
Army advisors to the National
Guard.
Japan Grants Approval
For Pan American
Pacific Jet Flights
TOKYO, UP) — The Japanese
government has granted official
approval for Pan American Air
lines to begin flying jet passen
ger planes between Tokyo and San
Francisco September 5.
The government imposed a
mandatory surcharge of $30 and
$20 respectively on all first and
tourist class fares.
This presumably is because the
jet service will be competing with
conventional service across the
Pacific, including Japan Air Lines.
No official explanation was given.
Pan American’s Boeing 707 jets
are scheduled to make the Tokyo
San Francisco run in less than 13
hours, including a one-hour lay
over in Honolulu. Conventional
planes take 23 hours or more.
The jets will make five flights
a week, carrying a maximum of
250 passengers.