m NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LIX No. 120 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1957 ~ Per Copy—15^
NWA Chamber Gets Ready for
Meeting of All-Alaska Chamber
By RUTH McLEAN
The importance of representa
tion and active participation in
the annual meeting of the All
Alaska Chamber of Commerce in
Juneau this month was discussed
at the regular weekly luncheon
Monday of the Northwestern
Alaska Chamber of Commerce.
A letter from Alvin Polet, pres
ident of the All-Alaska Chamber,
advised that the meeting will be
held Oct. 24-26. Dewey Goodrich
said he plans to attend and also
will attend the meeting of the
Alaska Road Commissioners im
mediately following the All-Alas
ka Chamber convention.
Vice President Jerry Manning
has called together the board
members of the Nome Chamber
to outline a resolution endorsing
Highway 97 to be taken to the
All-Alaska Chamber. Since High
way 97 is now officially a part of
the international highway “from
South America to the Bering Sea,”
it is felt by the Nome Chamber
that territorial recognition is de
serving.
The theme of the All-Alaska
Chamber convention this year
will be “Mining,” and the Nome
Chamber hopes that at least one
other delegate will be able to rep
resent this area at the meeting
because of the vital interest the
Second Division has in mining.
New officers for the All-Alaska
Chamber will be elected at the
Juneau meeting, and, in line with
the Nome Chamber’s effort to be
active in the organization, a mem
ber from here will be nominated
for one of the offices.
A request has been received for
representative pictures of Nome
to be used by the Compton Ency
clopedia company in their next,
edition. Wilbur Arnold was asked
to send any available pictures of
present-day Nome. It is under
stood that clear black and white
pictures or negatives of the city
and activities of persons here are
requested.
Word was received from Mr.
Allen D. Hulen expressing regret
that national CAA administrator
James T. Pyle and his party from
Washington, D.C., had to cancel
their proposed trip to Nome last
^ week.
Mechanical Brain at MIT
Rejects Alaskan Sighting
Of Russian Satellite
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. LPt—Scien
tists at the Smithsonian Astro
physical Observatory yesterday
resumed their task of computing
• the orbit of the Russian earth
. satellite.
They said Monday night one of
two sightings made in Alaska was
in error and thus prevented fixing
the exact orbit in a giant elec
tronic brain at Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
Dr Giampiere Rossoni said the
computer kept rejecting one of
the Alaskan sightings as not suf
ficiently accurate.
The third-stage rocket and the
satellite are traveling in the same
orbit, more than 600 miles apart.
Premier Predicts
B.C. Development
On Huge Scale
VANCOUVER, B. C., UPC-1The
people of British Columbia were
told yesterday they can expect a
nine-figure hydro development to
flow from surveys conducted in
the remote Rocky Mountain
Trench area of the north.
Premier Bennett said findings
of an engineering firm retained
by the Wenner-Gren organization
indicate a 4,000,000-horsepower
development would be feasible.
The project would cost $400,
000,000 to $600,000,000 and should
begin supplying power in 1964.
It would be the biggest hydro
project in the world from the
standpoint of energy, generating
four times the number of h.p.
turned out by Boulder Dam in
Colorado, presently the biggest.
If proved feasible, the Wenner
Gren firm would build an indus
trial empire in the area costing
perhaps one billion dollars.
Premier Bennet left no doubt
that he believes the mammoth de
velopment will take place, revolu
tionizing the economic develop
ment of central and northern
B.C., drawing new industries to
the area, and solving the prov
ince’s power problems.
Development of the Peace River
'would create the longest man
made lake in the world, 260 miles
long. The longest now is the 150
mile lake of Grand Coulee Dam.
In answer to a question, the
Premier said hydro engineering
techniques “that aren’t even in
the books yet” make it possible
to deliver power more than 500
miles from the north to Vancou
ver at cheap rates.
McElroy Sworn In as New U.S.
Defense Chief; Wilson Gets Medal
WASHINGTON, UFt—Neil H. i
McElroy new Secretary of De
fense, said today serious consider
ation is being given to speeding
up this country’s ballistic missile
program.
The soap company executive
was sworn in today as the nation’s
sixth Secretary of Defense. He
took the oath of office at an early
morning White House ceremony
attended by
President Eisenhower.
In a news conference later Mc
Elroy said such a speedup, espe
cially in testing, would be “se
lective.”
He indicated indirectly that
particular attention would be
given to the intermediate missiles,
Thor and Jupiter.
McElroy said the aim is to
“iron out bottlenecks,” especially
in the matter of overtime pay
ments at some of the big missile
centers like Patrick Air Force
Base in Florida and the Redstone
arsenal at Huntsville, Ala.
The President, welcoming Mc
Elroy into the Cabinetv took the
occasion to make a surprise pres
entation of the Medal of Freedom
to Charles E. Wilson, the retiring
defense chief.
When McElroy had been sworn
in, Eisenhower shook his hand,
said “Welcome to the Cabinet.
You are now a bureaucrat.”
Wilson and his wife Jessie also
congratulated McElroy.
McElroy, 53, and a resident of
Cincinnati, is moving out of a
$285,000 a year job as president
of Proctor & Gamble to take the
$25,000 a year Pentagon post.
The citation which accompanied
Wilson’s Medal of Honor said that
for nearly five years “the positive
leadership, sound judgment and
unceasing efforts” of Wilson have
been major factors “in strength
ening the security of the United
States and its allies against ag
gression.”
Eisenhower Willing for
Multi-Nation Study of
Space Missile Control
WASHINGTON, (^—President
Eisenhower today rebuffed a So
viet bid for direct American-Rus
sian talks to settle major issues.
But he held the door open for a
multi-nation study of internation
al space missile control.
Eisenhower said the United
States has many allies in the
world and hence has tried to
avoid anything that appears bi
lateral—that is, as if Russia and
the United States were getting
together to settle things.
President Invites
Rebuffed Glianan
For Breakfast
WASHINGTON, OP)—President
Eisenhower today invited K. A'.
Gbedemah, Ghana’s finance min
ister, to have breakfast at the
White House tomorrow.
The invitation was prompted by
an incident in Dover, Del., where
a restaurant refused to serve
Gbedemah because of his color.
Gbedemah was told by a wait
ress at the restaurant that “col
ored people are not allowed to
eat in here.”
Eisenhower had read about the
incident in the newspapers and
was also told about it by State
Department officials.
Gbedemah had Vice President
Nixon in for lunch at his home in
Africa last March. Last month the
Ghanan finance minister was a
guest (along with former N.Y.
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey) at Nix
on’s home here in Washington.
Gbedemah, a highly educated
man \ftho speaks flawless English,
told of the Dover incident in New
York. The operator of the How
ard Johnson restaurant said he
was away at the time, regretted
it occurred, said it happened as a
result of “an unwhritten communi
ty custom.”
EISENHOWER SEES NO MORE
REASON FOR CONCERN OVER
SECURITY WITH RED MOON
Many Watchers,
Sitka, Anchorage,
See New Satellite
(By The Associated Press)
The Russian earth satellite
Sputnik appeared on schedule in
Alaska skies yesterday and was
watched by observers at such
widely separated points as An
chorage and Sitka.
E. Poumelle and Merrill Mael
of the staff of KBYR, Anchorage,
reported Sputnik appeared as
a bright star which arose from
the northwest at 5:03 a.m.
“It was unmistakable,” they
said. “It held a positive course at
a, constant rate of speed.
“It was brightest as it passed
directly overhead. As it began to
travel to the horizon it faded very
fast and disappeared. The sun was
just beginning to throw a little
light over the Chugach mountains
and apparently it was lost in the
glare.”
Pournelle and Mael said the ra
dio station had several phone calls
immediately afterward from oth
ers at Anchorage who gave the
same description.
Faubus Wants
Withdrawal of
9 Negro Students
LITTLE ROCK, iff)—Gov. Orval
Faubus said today he sees no so
lution in the Little Rock integra
tion crisis save the complete with
drawal of the nine Negro students
attending Central High School. . •
Faubus was asked at a news
conference to explain the “cooling
off” period he has said is needed
in the integration deadlock.
He replied:
“We need a chance for tense
ness to be allayed, time for litiga
tion, and time for the people to
accept peacefully what is being
crammed down their throats at
bayonet point.”
Faubus said he was not “closing
the door to the possibility of a
compromise because I don’t want
to appear adamant or arbitarary.”
In Washington, Eisenhower told
a news conference he certainly is
very hopeful the time may be
drawing near when federal troops
can be withdrawn from Little
Rock. But he offered no specific
information or elaboration.
At the school, the scene re
mained quiet. Half a dozen sol
diers fescorted the six Negro girls
and three Negro boys into the
building without incident.
POTLIKKER WEEK ^
MONTGOMERY, Ala., UPt—Pot
likker Week begins today in Ala
bama. Gov. James E. Folsom
proclaimed the event yesterday
and had a meal of potlikker, corn
breat and buttermilk to mark the
occasion.
> WASHINGTON, UP>—President
Eisenhower assured the nation to*
day he sees not one more iota of
reason for concern over national
security as a result of Russia’#
successful launching of an eartik
satellite.
Eisenhower also said in a for
mal news conference that the
United States could have beateik
Russia to the punch and put up m
satellite before now, by merging
the satellite and missile programs.
But he said this would have
been “to the detriment of scien
tific goals and military progress.”
All that Eisenhower said added
up to the idea that in both held*
the United States is going ahead
just as it has planned all along,
\yith nQ special speed-up now in
the light of the Russian satellite
achievement.
Eisenhower said the United
States plans to launch a first test
vehicle, a small satellite with in
complete instrumentation, in De
cember. He mentioned March of
next year as the goal for firing
the first UjS. “fully-instrumented
satellite vehicle.”
As for the missile program, Ei
senhower said it still has top
priority.
He said it is a great achieve
ment—if done—if the Russians
have fired an intercontinental
ballistic missile with pinpoint ac
curacy. But unless there is such
accuracy, he said, such a missile
has little military value.
The Russians claim they have
tested an I CBM and hit their tar
get area with it. Eisenhower noted
that a target area can be any size.
- Our own missile program, Ei
senhower pointed out, still is go
ing ahead with top priority—a
priority never accorded the satel
lite program.
Eisenhower denied that this
country ever got into any race to
be first up with a satellite. And
he said scientists he has talked
with have expressed pleasure
rather than chagrin at Russia’s
success, because it has shown that
a satellite can be put into space.
Little Moon Sputnik
Still Circling Earth at
Same Speed and Altitude
WASHINGTON, (flC-U.S. gov
ernment scientists reported this
morning that the Soviet moonlet
Sputnik is still circling the earth
on its original orbit and apparent
ly at about its original speed and
altitude.
Some foreign observers had
reported the satellite apparently
dropping toward the denser low
er atmosphere where its life
would be short.
But Dr. John P. Hagen, director
of Operation Vanguard, the U.S.
satellite project, said:
“Our observations do not lead
us to believe the U.S.S.R. satellite
is falling into the lower Atmo
sphere.”